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⭐SPOTLIGHT:  Gaza Is Our Home // Documentary by Monear Shaer 

  • Released: Jan 12, 2024
  • Length: 1h06m
  • Where: Free on YouTube 
  • Description: When Monear Shaer first started making a slideshow about his Palestinian family, he thought he was highlighting the beauty of life in Gaza. But when the onslaught of the 2023 invasion developed, it became imperative that the true reality and first hand experience of life in his family’s homeland is shown to the world. Monear’s first feature-length documentary shows just a few of the millions of heartbreaking injustices that have been occurring over the last several decades.

BOOKS

The Big Three (with runners up):

The 100 Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (2020)

  • A seminal work that offers a comprehensive and deeply personal account of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the perspective of a distinguished historian and descendant of Palestinian Arab families. Khalidi frames the conflict as a century-long war against the Palestinian people, initiated by external forces with the aim of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine. This narrative challenges conventional historiography by focusing on the experiences and perspectives of Palestinians, providing insights into the systemic efforts to displace, dispossess, and marginalize them over the course of a century.

  • Runners up by Rashid Khalidi: Palestinian Identity (1997), The Iron Cage (2006), Brokers of Deceit (2013). An unofficial trilogy of works on Palestinian history, politics, and struggle for identity. Khalidi, a distinguished historian and professor, weaves together historical documents, personal stories, and political analysis to present a nuanced perspective on Palestinian nationalism, the obstacles to statehood, and the external influences that have shaped the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From the late Ottoman period to the present day, these works collectively trace the evolution of Palestinian identity, the entrapments of colonial and post-colonial power dynamics, and the role of international diplomacy in the ongoing quest for peace in the Middle East.

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé (2006)

  • A groundbreaking work that offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the events leading up to and following the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, a period that saw the mass displacement of Palestinian Arabs. Pappé, an Israeli historian and a senior lecturer at the University of Haifa at the time of publication, uses a wide array of sources, including newly declassified Israeli military archives and personal diaries, to show how the flight of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs was the result of a deliberate policy of ethnic cleansing orchestrated by Zionist leaders.

  • Runner up by Ilan Pappé: Ten Myths About Israel (2017) addresses the following myths:
            
    1. Palestine was an empty land
            2. The Jews were a people without a land
            3. Zionism is Judaism
            4. Zionism is not colonialism
            5. The Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948
            6. The June 1967 war was a war of ‘No Choice’
            7. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East
            8. The Oslo Mythologies
            9. The Gaza Mythologies
            10. The Two-States Solution is the only way forward

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha (2018)

  • A comprehensive and scholarly exploration of the history of Palestine, stretching from the ancient past to the modern era. Masalha, a Palestinian historian, challenges conventional narratives that often begin the history of Palestine with the Roman Empire or the advent of Zionism, or limit it to the narrow confines of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Instead, he presents a deep historical account that underscores the rich and continuous presence of indigenous cultures, peoples, and civilizations in Palestine over millennia.

  • Runner up by Nur Masalha: The Palestine Nakba Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory (2012). Explores “social history from below”, subaltern narratives of memory and the formation of collective identity. Masalha argues that to write more truthfully about the Nakba is not just to practise a professional historiography but an ethical imperative. The struggles of ordinary refugees to recover and publicly assert the truth about the Nakba is a vital way of protecting their rights and keeping the hope for peace with justice alive.


Non-Fiction

  • Edward Said
  • Norman Finkelstein
  • Thomas Suarez
  • Ramzy Baroud

More books specifically by or about Jews (by request)

  • Avi Shlaim
  • Lenny Brenner
  • Shlomo Sand
  • The Jewish Labor Bund
  • Israel Finkelstein

More books on the “Peace Process” from October War to Intifada

  • Camp David
  • Oslo Accords
  • Intifada


Adult Fiction

  • Men in the Sun (1962)
  • "All That's Left to You" (Novel, 1966)
  • "Umm Saad" (Novel, 1969)
  • "Return to Haifa" (Novella, 1969)
  • "Palestine's Children" (Short Stories, 1970)
  • "The Land of Sad Oranges" (Short Stories, 1970)
  • "The Little Lantern" (Play, 1961)
  • "The Poster" (Play, 1968)

Kids Lit

Elementary

Middle Grade

Young Adult

Poetry

With thanks to Em Berry for help with this section.

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  • ⭐Mahmoud Darwish
  • Mourid Barghouti
  • Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Cookbooks

Other Palestine Reading Lists

FILM & VIDEO

Documentaries

  • narrated by Roger Waters
  • Featuring Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi, and Israeli journalist Amira Hass, and antizionist Holocaust survivor Dr. Gabor Maté.
  • Recently rediscovered followup to The Palestinian
  • Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville
  • A Palestinian doctor works in the UNRWA clinic, and several Palestinian camps in Syria and southern Lebanon, before and after the 1967 Naksa.

Mini-docs

  • ⭐The Holy Land Five (2016)
  • Vox
  • USS Liberty incident

Feature Films

  • FARHA (2021)
  • ⭐Elia Suleiman
  • “The Tale of Three Jewels.” Arabic audio only, but the auto-translated captions aren’t too bad.

Shorts

  • Wild Plants of Palestine by Alaa Abu Asad
  • Closeness to the Land by Mona Gazala
  • Mariam by Dana Durr
  • Under the Lemon Tree by Noor Al-Asswad
  • Something from there by Rana Nazzal Hamadeh

TV

  • The Promise (2011)

Talks, Interviews, Video Essays

  • “Let me preface these remarks with I never, never, ever believe Israeli figures. I've been in the government too long to know that the Israelis are patent liars. In their intelligence community, in their propaganda community, certainly, and in their leadership, they are inveterate liars. Let me say that again. They are liars. So you can't believe anything that comes out of Jerusalem. It's all propaganda if it’s during a conflict time like it is right now, and it's rarely ever true.” ––Col. Larry Wilkerson, US Army (ret.) and former Secretary of State Colin Powell's Chief of Staff (2002-05)

Norman Finkelstein Interviews

With thanks to Leland Wright’s List of Norman Finkelstein Interviews

Norman Finkelstein on Israel's BRUTAL Assault On Gaza

  • Mikhaila Peterson - 20 October 2023

Israel/Palestine: The History and What’s Real? Opposing Views with Norman Finkelstein and David Brog

  • Media Education Foundation - 25 October 2023

Brief History of Israel-Palestine Conflict | Norman Finkelstein Teach-In on Gaza, Israel, and Hamas

  • Live From The Table Podcast (Eli Lake) - 1 November 2023

Live From The Table Podcast: Norman Finkelstein & Eli Lake Debate - Israel Hamas Debate

  • Candace Owens Podcast - 17 November 2023

Israel vs. Palestine with Norman Finkelstein

  • Piers Morgan - 23 November 2023

Piers Morgan vs Norman Finkelstein On Israel and Palestine | The Full Interview

  • Marc Lamont Hill - 4 December 2023

Norman Finkelstein Discusses Israel's War on Gaza and Living Conditions for the People of Palestine

  • Piers Morgan, Alan Dershowitz - 13 December 2023

Norman Finkelstein vs Alan Dershowitz On Israel-Palestine War With Piers Morgan | The Full Debate

  • Eli Hassell - 10 January 2024

Eli Hassell vs Norman Finkelstein on Israel, Hamas and Harvard | The Full & Unedited Interview

  • The Katie Halper Show - Jan 22, 2024

Norm Finkelstein & Mouin Rabbani BREAK DOWN Israeli Genocide Case w/Briahna Joy Gray

  • Islam Channel - 25 January 2024

LIVE: Dr Norman Finkelstein on his comments on ICJ

  • Robinson Erhardt - 28 January 2024

Norman Finkelstein: Hamas, Hezbollah, and Justice in the Israel-Palestine Conflict | RP#192

  • India and Global Left - 10 February 2024

Norman Finkelstein: Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Palestinian Authority,  Hezbollah, Houthis, Iran, US

  • The Adam Friedland Show - 16 February 2024

The Adam Friedland Show - Norman Finkelstein

  • Piers Morgan, Rabbi Shmuley - 20 February 2024

Israel-Hamas War: Norman Finkelstein vs Rabbi Shmuley | Full Debate

  • Lex Fridman, Destiny, Benny Morris, Mouin Rabbani - 14 March 2024

Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny Morris | Lex Fridman Podcast #418

  • Princeton, Chris Hedges - 28 March 2024

Norman Finkelstein and Chris Hedges discuss Israel, Gaza, Oct. 7 at Princeton

  • Marc Lamont Hill - 7 April 2024

Norman Finkelstein & Marc Lamont Hill discuss Gaza, Future of Israel/Palestine, & International Law

  • Piers Morgan, Alan Dershowitz Round Two - 8 April 2024

Israel-Hamas: Norman Finkelstein vs Alan Dershowitz Round 2

  • TRT World - 19 April 2024

Palestine Talks | Norman Finkelstein

  • PoliticsJoe - 26 April 2024

Norman Finkelstein on Israel Palestine

  • Triggernometry - 12 May 2024

Israel/Palestine: Asking The Questions No One Else Will - Norman Finkelstein

  • Piers Morgan, Yishai Fleisher - 14 May 2024

“Expect Mega-Deaths” Norman Finkelstein vs Yishai Fleisher

  • Riz Khan / Al Arabiya - 5 June 2024

Israel-Gaza War: Norman Finkelstein Debates The "Genocide" In Palestine | The Full Interview

  • Afshin Rattansi GU - 7 June 2024

Norman Finkelstein EXPOSES October 7th Propaganda, Says Biden is Pursuing PR as Palestinians STARVE (Youtube video removed; audio available here)

  • India and Global Left - 8 June 2024

Norman Finkelstein: Discussing his book "Gaza: An inquest into its martyrdom."

  • Middle East Eye - 17 June 2024

Israel, the ICC and the global structures of power | Norman Finkelstein | The Big Picture S4E12

Other Palestine Movie Lists

MISCELLANEOUS

Palestine Courses

  • Online
  • Curricula

Podcasts

News Outlets

Telegram Channels

NGOs & Non-Profits

Palestine on Instagram

Antizionist Jewish Socials to Follow & Support

Organizations on Instagram

(Search org name + your city to find a local chapter!)

  • @jewishvoiceforpeace - Jews organizing toward Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism.
  • @ifnotnoworg - American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system and demand equality, justice, and a thriving future for all.
  • @jewishantizionistnetwork - International network of Jews who are uncompromisingly committed to the liberation of Palestine and ending Zionist colonization.
  • @jews4palestine_ - An archive of counter-knowledge → see, hear from, + learn about Jews for a Free Palestine. Highlighting voices for collective liberation.
  • @juedischestimme - (Germany) Jüdische Organisation, die sich für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit im Nahen Osten einsetzt/Jewish org in Germany fighting for justice in middle east
  • @israelismfilm - Award Winning Documentary on the Transformation of American Jews in Relation to Israel/Palestine.
  • @rabbis4ceasefire - Rodfei Shalom. We are Rabbis and Rabbinical students and at this moment of great moral reckoning, we are speaking out with one voice.
  • @judaismooot - Building vibrant, radically inclusive, and liberation aligned independent Jewish communities in college campuses.
  • @radicaljewishcalendar - Jewish calendar with holidays, movement anniversaries, and original art.
  • @jewsagainstwhitesupremacy - Internationalist Jewish anti-zionist organisation dedicated to challenging and defeating Jewish zionist institutions.
  • @thejewishlaborbund - The Jewish Labor Bund is back in town. Reclaim 127 years of Jewish anti-Zionist tradition. Doikayt is Yiddish for Praxis!
  • @breakingthesilenceisrael - Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories.

Super Awesome BFFs, Allies, Cool Kids, Comrades

Name

Instagram

TikTok

Jewitches (she/they)

@rudaleh 

@jewitches 

Isa Segalovich (she/her)

@interstellar_isabellar

@interstellar_isabellar 

Simone Zimmerman (she/her)

@simonerzim 

@simonerzim 

Medea Benjamin

@medea.benjamin 

@medeabenjamin 

Ilan Pappé

@ilan.pappe/ 

@pappe1954 

Becca

@becca.explains.the.occupation 

Miko Peled

@mikopeled 

@mikopeled 

Noa

@noavi

Alison (they/them)

@noneisntoff

@noneisntoff 

Andy (they/them)

@andromeroo 

Rynn (she/they)

@therealrynnstar 

@rynnstar 

Max Miller (he/him)

@maxashermiller 

@m0stlysapien 

Not Kosher Lamb (they/them)

@notkosherlamb 

Hadar Cohen (she/her)

@hadarcohen32 

@hadarcohen_32 

Sim Kern (they/them)

@sim_bookstagrams_badly

@simkern

Erin Axelman (they/them)

@erinaxelman 

Jesse Mechanic

@jessemechanic 

@jessemechanic 

Jonathan M. Katz

@katzonearth 

@katzonearth 

Izzy Lapidus (she/they)

@izzylapidus/ 

@izzylapidus 

Liam O'Mara IV

@liamomaraiv 

@liamomaraivphd 

Gabe Christy

@laborjawn

@laborjawn 

Michael Schirtzer

@michael_schirtzer 

@mikeyb_on 

Ben Silver (he/him)

@thisisbensilver 

@thiswasbensilver 

Noor (they/them/she/her)

@nooraldayeh 

@never.noor 

Ziggy (he/them)

@evelkneidel 

@evelkneidel 

Alex

@dirtyalex666 

@dirtyalex666 

Lauren Westendorf

@laurenwestendorf 

Sabrina (she/they)

@chillingadventuresofsab 

Saguaro

@s4gu4r0 

@s4gu4r0 

Yuval

@yuvaldoubtsit 

@yuvaltheterrible 

Anna Rajagopal (they/she)

@annarajagopal 

Yahav

@yehavit/ 

Jackattack (they/she)

@jackjackwilds

Substack

  • 4 the grandchildren & the girlies [gender neutral] Rand aka officialjakegyllenhalal
  • Noor’s Substack Noor al-Dayeh | queer, arab, artist, proud
  • warmly, renuka Renuka | navigating the balance
  • fabliha’s diary Fabliha Yeaqub | bangladeshi queer writer and community organizer
  • ayandastood Ayanda | a muse-letter on creativity, spirituality, and expanding collective consciousness towards love, pleasure, and liberation  
  • Threadings. Ismatu Gwendolyn | viral essayist. poet in hiding.
  • moonseed Hala Alyan | writing prompts. questions. meditations. letters. musings on liberation and practices of care.
  • Matthew's Notebook Matthew Petti | Assistant editor at Reason Magazine
  • How To Cure A Ghost Fariha Róisín | An exploration of all the ghosts that haunt me.
  • The.Ink Anand Giridharadas | The Persuaders (coming soon), The True American, India Calling. MSNBC.
  • Palestine Will Be Free Everything Palestine and its fight for justice.
  • The Diaspora Journal Hebh Jamal | I write about the Palestinian cause and diaspora, state sanctioned violence, and Islamophobia.
  • Palestine is Still the Issue Asa Winstanley | Investigative journalist and podcaster. Author of “Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.”
  • Antony Loewenstein Independent journalist, best-selling author, film-maker and co-founder of Declassified Australia. His latest book is "The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports. The Technology Of Occupation Around The World."
  • The Racket Jonathan M. Katz | Explore the unseen connections behind world affairs, politics, disaster, and more. (*No longer on Substack, now a newsletter.*)

48 Myths About Israel | Decolonize Palestine

  1. Palestinians sabotaged the “peace process”
  2. The United Nations created Israel
  3. The two-state solution is the only way forward
  4. Had Palestinians accepted the 1947 partition plan, they would have had a state by now
  5. Israel has always sought peace
  6. Israel is a democracy
  7. Israel holds itself responsible for its human rights violations
  8. All Israelis are equal
  9. Israel is not an Apartheid state
  10. Israel was created as penance for the Holocaust
  11. Palestinians used watermelons as symbols during the first Intifada
  12. Netanyahu [or any other Israeli politician] is/was the problem
  13. You can’t be antisemitic if you support Israel
  14. Israel lost its “soul” after the 1967 occupation
  15. Israel is defending itself
  16. The IOF is the most “moral army in the world”
  17. Palestinians fake Israeli atrocities, hire crisis actors (Pallywood)
  18. Palestinians use human shields
  19. Palestinian refugees are unique
  20. The Palestinian Authority subsidizes “terrorism” (pay to slay)
  21. The Mufti helped inspire the Holocaust
  22. There is a media bias against Israel
  23. Israel made the desert bloom
  24. The Gaza Strip is no longer occupied
  25. “From the river to the sea” is a call to genocide
  26. Palestinian Christians are leaving due to Palestinian Muslims and the PA
  27. Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism
  28. There was no ethnic cleansing because the population increased
  29. The war of 1948 was inevitable self-defense for Israel
  30. Palestinians sold their land to the Zionist settlers
  31. Palestinians were economic migrants who moved to Palestine after Zionist induced prosperity
  32. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine was an accident of war
  33. Israel was outnumbered and outgunned in 1948 war
  34. Israel (or any other state) has a right to exist
  35. Palestinians left their communities based on Arab orders during the Nakba
  36. War of 1967 was self-defense
  37. Zionism is not colonialism, just Jewish self-determination
  38. My people were here before your people
  39. Only Zionists were called Palestinians during the mandate period
  40. The name “Palestine” was a Roman invention
  41. The Mandate of Palestine had a star of David on its flag
  42. A land without a people for a people without a land
  43. Falafel, Hummus, Za’tar are Israeli
  44. Palestinians are Arabs that arrived in the 7th century
  45. The “Conflict” is ancient
  46. Palestinian identity is “fake”
  47. The Palestinian question is about religion
  48. It’s just so incredibly complicated

Boycott Resources

Apartheid Sources

  • United Nations
  • Amnesty International
  • Human Rights Watch

Greenwashing & the JNF

  • Factsheets
  • Personal Accounts
  • Books

More Useful Articles, Sites, & Pages

  • A comprehensive anticolonial timeline, another supplemental resource for Start Here.
  • Website dedicated to providing a comprehensive source of information about the villages and cities that were ethnically cleansed, looted, and destroyed by the Israeli army.
  • My Beacons page with many more links and resources such as fundraisers, digital tools, zines, and advocacy guides.

Music

  • Pop / Contemporary / Singer-Songwriter
  • Traditional / Chamber
  • Spotify Playlists


CITATIONS

sci-hub.se

Ancient / Prehistory

  • https://archive.ph/PgA2S

Nakba

Apartheid

Pinkwashing

Holocaust Exceptionalism

1929 Western Wall Uprising

Other


SUPPLEMENTS: Solidarity resources for, by, and with marginalized, indigenous, and otherwise oppressed peoples around the world

Palestine Solidarity

  • Black American

  • South Africa and Pan-Africa

  • Latine/Central/South Americas

  • First Australians

  • Aotearoa

  • Ireland

  • Saami

  • Unsorted

  • Academic Papers on Indigeneity and Solidarity

Global Liberation

  • Syria

  • Idlib
  • Chemical weapons
  • Syria Book List
  • Congo

  • Patrice Lumumba
  • Sudan

  • Tigray

  • Artsakh

  • Haiti

  • Myanmar

  • Turtle Island

  • Uyghurs


“If thou hast Knowledge, let others light their Candle at thine.” ––Thomas Fuller (1726)