Reading List
BOOKS ABOUT THE ISRAEL/PALESTINE STRUGGLE
**Abulhawa, Susan. The Scar of David. (Historical novel). 2007. Order online.
Bell, J. Bowyer. Terror out of Zion: Irgun Zvai Leumi, LEHI, and the Palestine Underground. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1977.
**Bennis, Phyllis. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer. Olive Branch Press, 2009.
Donna Robinson. Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power. London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994.
Dodd, Peter and Halim Barakat. River without Bridges: A Study of the Exodus of the 1967 Palestinian Arab Refugees. Beirut: Institute of Palestine Studies, 1969.
Farsoun, Samih and Naseer Aruri. Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History. Boulder: West View Press, 2006.
Fisk, Robert. The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East. London: Harper Perennial, 2006.
Fisk, Robert. Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Gerber, Haim. Remembering and Imagining Palestine: Identity and Nationalism from the Crusades to the Present. London: Palgrave, 2008.
Giladi, Naeim. Ben-Gurion’s Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated the Jews. Dandelion Enterprises, 2006.
**Hadawi, Sami. Bitter Harvest: A Modern History of Palestine (4th Edition, 1998)
Hamzeh, Muna and May, Todd. Operation Defensive Shield: Witnesses to Israeli War Crimes. London: Pluto Press, 2003.
Harris, William W. Taking Root: Israeli Settlement in the West Bank, the Golan, and Gaza-Sinai, 1967-1980. New York : Research Studies Press, 1980.
**Hirst, David. The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East. Emeryville, Ca: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003.
Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Khalidi, Walid. All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2006.
Khalidi, Walid. Before their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876–1948. Washingto n D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2004.
Khalidi, Walid. From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948. Washington D.C., 1987.
Kimmerling, Baruch and Joel S. Migdal. The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Lynd, Staughton et al, ed. Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and the Palestinians. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1994.
Mackey, Sandra. Lebanon: A House Divided. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1989.
Milton-Edwards, Beverley. The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A People’s War. London: Routledge, 2009.
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–1999. London: J. Murray, 2000.
Palumbo, Michael. Imperial Israel: The History of the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. London: Bloomsbury, 1990.
Pappe, Ilan. A History of Modern Palestine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford : Oneworld Publications, 2006.
Rogan, Eugene and Shlaim, Avi. The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Rokach, Livia. Israel’s Sacred Terrorism: A Study Based on Moshe Sharetts Personal Diary and other documents. Belmont: AAUG, 1986.
Said, Edward. The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination, 1969–1994. New Y ork: Vintage Books, 1995.
Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Shlaim, Avi. Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988.
Schlaim, Avi. Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations. London: Verso, 2009.
Shiblak, Abbas. Iraqi Jews: A History of Mass Exodus. Al Saqi Books: London, 2005. And The Lure of Zion: the Case of the Iraqi Jews. Al Saqi Books: London, 1986.
Abunimah, Ali. One Country: A Bold Proposal to end the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006.
Amos, John W. Palestinian Resistance: Organization of a Nationalist Movement. New York: Pergamon Press, 1980.
Ben-Ami, Shlomo. Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Chehab, Zaki. Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Group. New York: Nation Books, 2007.
Chomsky, Noam. Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Cambridge, M.A.: South End Press, 1999.
Finkelstein, Norman G. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Finkelstein, Norman G. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. London: Verso, 2003.
Goldberg, David Howard. Foreign Policy and Ethnic Interest Groups: American and Canadian Jews Lobby for Israel. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Kimmerling, Baruch. Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War against the Palestinians. London: Verso, 2003.
Lustick, Ian S. For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel . New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1988.
Lybarger, Loren. Identity and Religion in Palestine: the Struggle between Islamism and Secularism in the Occupied Territories. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Mearsheimer, John J. ,and Stephen Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, 2007.
Mergui, Raphael, and Philippe Simonnot. Israel’s Ayatollahs: Meir Kahane and the Far Right in Israel. London: Saqi Books, 1987.
Milton-Edwards, Beverley. Islamic Politics in Palestine. London: Tauris Academic Studies, 1996.
Shahak, Israel. Open Secrets: Israel Foreign and Nuclear Policies. London: Pluto Press, 1997.
Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999.
Sorkin, Michael. Against the Wall: Israel’s Barrier to Peace. New York: New Press, 2005.
Tamimi, Azzam. Hamas: A History from Within. Northampton: Olive Branch Press, 2007.
Tilley, Virginia. The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.
Aruri, Naseer ed. Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return. London: Pluto Press, 2001.
**Baltzer, Anna. Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories. Paradigm Publishers, 2007. Order online.
**Bayoumi, Mustafa ed. Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine conflict. OR Books, 2010. Order online.
Bowen, Stephen ed. Human Rights, Self-determination and Political Change in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff Publications, 1997.
Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.
Cook, Jonathan. Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. Pluto Press: London, 2006.
Cook, Jonathan. Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Project in Human Despair. Zed Books, 2008.
Davis, Uri. Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within. Zed Books: New York, 2003.
Dolphin, Ray. The West Bank Wall: Unmaking Palestine. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
Dumper, Michael ed. Palestinian Refugee Repatriation: Global Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2006.
Efrat, Elisha. The West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Geography of Occupation and Disengagement . London: Routledge, 2006.
**Finkelstein, Norman G. This Time they Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. OR Books, 2010. Order online.
Gorenberg, Gershom. Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977. New York: Times Books, 2006.
Hamzeh, Muna. Refugees in our Own Land: Chronicles from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem . London: Pluto Press, 2001.
Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.
Hass, Amira. Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in Occupied Land. Los Angeles: Semiotext , 2003.
Jacoby, Tami Amanda. Bridging the Barrier: Israel’s Unilateral Disengagement. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
Jiryis, Sabri. The Arabs in Israel. Monthly Review Press: New York, 1976
Kattan, Victor. The Palestine Question in International Law. London: British Institute for International and Comparative Law, 2008.
Khalidi, Rashid. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Beacon Press, 2007.
Lustick, Ian. Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel’s Control of a National Minority. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1980.
Makdisi, Saree. Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2008.
Masalha, Nur. A Land Without A People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians, 1949–1996. London: Faber and Faber, 1997.
Masalha, Nur. Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: the Politics of Expansion, 1967–2000. Sterling: Pluto Press, 2000.
Masalha, Nur. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem. London: Pluto Press, 2003.
Minns, Amina and Nadia Hijab. Citizens Apart: a Portrait of the Palestinians in Israel. St. Martins Press: New York, 1990.
Nathan, Susan. The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across of the Jewish/Arab Divide. Nan A. Talese, 2005.
Neslen, Arthur. Occupied Minds: A Journey through the Israeli Psyche. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
Quigley, John. Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice. Duke University Press, Durham , 1990.
Quigley, John. The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005.
Qumsiyeh, Mazen B. Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle. London: Pluto Press, 2004.
Rabinowitz, Dan and Khawla Abu-Baker. Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Reinhart, Tanya. Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005.
Reinhart, Tanya. The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine since 2003. London: Verso, 2006.
Roy, Sara. Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
**Sacco, Joe. Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel. Jonathan Cape, 2009.
Sa’di, Ahmad H. and Lila Abu-Lughod eds. Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
Takkenberg, Alex. The Status of Palestinian Refugees in International Law. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1998.
Zertal, Edith. Lords of the Land: the war over Israel’s settlements in the Occupied Territories. New York: Nation Books, 2007.
Zureik, Elia. The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism. London: Routledge, 1979.
Notes
The initial list is from The Veritas Handbook for organizers.
** are additional books added to the Veritas list.
The Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative in Madison has a Middle East title list.
For an excellent annotated bibliography see American Jews for a Just Peace.
Another great source for books on the Middle East is the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
