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Books

non-fiction

  • The Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction
    Gregory Harms & Todd M. Ferry
    A consolidated history dating back from biblical times to contemporary events. 
  • The Question of Palestine
    Edward W. Said
    A critical piece for understanding the history of and context behind the Palestne-Israel conflict.
  • The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
    Ilan Pappe
    Discussion of the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel during al-Nakba (or "the Catastrophe").
  • Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness
    Rashid Khalidi
    Khalidi critically assesses the narratives that make up Palestinian history and identity and examines the ways in which the Palestinian national consciousness has come full circle.
  • Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine
    William Parry
    A book of photographs detailing the graffiti and art that have transformed Israel's Wall of Separation into a canvas of symbolic resistance and solidarity.
  • Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories
    Anna Baltzer
    Jewish-American Anna Baltzer details her travel to Palestine and the realities of daily life for Palestinians under occupation.
  • Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East
    Rashid Khalidi
    In this book, acclaimed historian Rashid Khalidi zeroes in on the United States’s role as the purported impartial broker in this failed peace process. 
  • Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
    Max Blumenthal
    Beginning with the national elections carried out during Israel's war on Gaza in 2008-09, which brought into power the country's most right-wing government to date, Blumenthal tells the story of Israel in the wake of the collapse of the Oslo peace process.
  • Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
    Ben White
    A concentrated look at Israeli apartheid, beginning with the roots of Zionism ranging to the current structure of the Israeli apartheid system.

fiction

  • Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
    Mahmoud Darwish
    A selection of translated poems by Mahmoud Darwish, the renowned Palestinian poet.
  • Palestine
    Joe Sacco
    A graphic novel depicting the experiences of Joe Sacco, an American journalist, as he travels through the Occupied Territories.
  • Wild Thorns
    Sahar Khalifeh
    A novel which dramatizes the reactions of Palestinian nationalists to Israeli occupation of the West Bank, an action that has turned many of their countrymen into nomads dutifully commuting to alien territory for work.
  • Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories
    Ghassan Kanafani
    A novella on the suffering of Palestinians across generations after the catastrophic events of 1948.
  • Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature
    Salma Khadra Jayyusi
    A seminal collection of translated Palestinian literature (prose, poetry, and others).
  • The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist
    Emile Habibi
    This novels revolves around the protagonist (of sorts), Saeed. Saeed is the comic hero, the luckless fool, whose tale tells of aggression and resistance, terror and heroism, reason and loyalty that typify the hardships and struggles of Arabs in Israel.

If you are unable to get to these books and need help, please contact us and we can help get you in touch with the material you need!

websites

News

  • Electronic Intifada
  • Mondoweiss
  • Al-Jazeera America
  • The Palestine Chronicle
  • Active Stills
  • Ha'aretz
  • Ma'an News Agency
  • Beyond Compromise
  • Sixteen Minutes to Palestine

organizations

  • Amnesty International
  • Jewish Voice for Peace
  • US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
  • The Jerusalem Fund
  • alQaws (for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society) 
  • Human Rights Watch
  • Addameer (Prisoner Support & Support Association)
  • Adalah (The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel)
  • B'tselem (The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories)
  • Al-Awda (The Palestine Right to Return Coalition)
  • Breaking the Silence (Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories)
  • Who Profits? (Delineates which companies profit from the occupation)
  • Room No. 4 (a photography exhibit illustrating violations of Palestinian children's rights)
  • Global Exchange

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