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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 Khalidi, a distinguished historian and professor, weaves together historical documents, personal stories, and political analysis to present a nuanced perspective on Palestinian nationalism, the obstacles to statehood, and the external influences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
  • Ramzy Baroud


History books specifically by or about Jews (by request)

  • Shlomo Sand
  • The Jewish Labor Bund

More books on the Peace Process: 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

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  • ⭐Mahmoud Darwish
  • Mourid Barghouti
  • Lena Khalaf Tuffaha


Cookbooks


Other Palestine Reading Lists

  1. Reading list | Decolonize Palestine 
  2. Books for Students | Teach Palestine 
  3. Free Palestine! A Reading List | HaymarketBooks.org
  4. Scott’s Palestine - Israel Archive
  5. Anya’s Palestine reading list 
  6. Solidarity with Palestine - A Radical Black Feminist Mandate: A Reading List 
  7. Palipunk's Palestine Masterlist 
  8. Our History of Popular Resistance: Palestine Reading List | Palestinian Youth Movement 
  9. Free Palestine: A Verso Reading List 
  10. Palestine-Israel tagged "Peace Process" | Middle East Books
  11. Palestine-Israel history category | Middle East Books 
  12. Free Palestine - A Reading List - Pluto Press
  13. Books & Prints – Shop Palestine 
  14. Books For Palestine | Bookshop 
  15. A Palestine Reading List - Words Without Borders
  16. Reading List: Palestinian Studies – UC Press
  17. A Reading List on Israel/Palestine - Washington University in St. Louis
  18. 40 Books to Understand Palestine ‹ Literary Hub
  19. Palestine Book Awards | All books 
  20. Decolonize Palestine Reading List (100 books) | Goodreads   
  21. 18 Palestinian Writers to Add to Your Reading List | Boston Public Library
  22. The Palestine Reading List - OR Books 
  23. Bliographies of Palestine-focused scholars:
  1. List of books by Rashid Khalidi
  2. List of books by Nur Masalha
  3. List of books by Ilan Pappé
  4. List of books by Norman G. Finkelstein
  5. List of books by Edward W. Said 
  6. List of books by Avi Shlaim 
  7. List of books by Mahmoud Darwish

FILM & VIDEO

Documentaries

  • Watch immediately
  • Watch immediately
  • 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.
  • the Vanessa Redgrave one
  • 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

  • Watch immediately (available on Netflix)
  • “The Tale of Three Jewels.” Arabic audio only, but the auto-translated captions aren’t too bad.
  • Elia Suleiman Trilogy

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

  • Watch immediately

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.

Cool Kids, Allies, BFFs, 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 

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

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 Resources

  • United Nations
  • Amnesty International
  • Human Rights Watch

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

https://sci-hub.se/ 

Ancient / Prehistory

  • https://archive.ph/PgA2S

Nakba

Apartheid

Pinkwashing

Holocaust Exceptionalism

Other


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