The thesis explores the dilemmas and paradoxes involved in carrying out a political critique that attempts to be structural and yet is always, to some extent, embedded within the discourses, institutions, and practices that it sets out to challenge. It does so by looking into the ‘grey zones’ – identitary, strategic, and intersubjective – that activists navigate in their lived contextual experiences, in the struggle and in their everyday life. While highlighting the problems and failures of these ‘compromised’ political engagements, the thesis also interrogates the possibilities that accepting to be carrying out ‘imperfect struggles’ opens for a decolonial and counter-hegemonic praxis. At the conceptual level, the thesis combines Gramscian theories of hegemony with feminist and decolonial epistemologies. At the methodological level, the thesis relies on extensive fieldwork within Jewish-Israeli activist networks in Israel-Palestine and adopts an ethnographic approach that acknowledges and integrates the involvement of the researcher.