Are Gaza anti-blockade flotillas futile?

Each time a new flotilla sets sail towards Gaza with the aim of challenging the blockade, the same question is repeated: what is the point if these ships are intercepted before they arrive? From a purely logistical perspective, the pattern appears predictable. The vessels are stopped. The participants are detained. The mission does not reach its physical destination. On that narrow reading, some conclude that these efforts are indeed futile. But this way of framing the issue reduces a complex political and moral action to a single outcome: arrival of the vessels and delivery of the aid on board. It ignores the wider purpose these initiatives serve, and misunderstands how resistance movements operate under conditions of asymmetrical power. As a […]