Resources on Palestine:
(Books, Articles, Documentaries & more resources)
Links to a lot of these books and more linked below
Incredible website to checkout: https://decolonizepalestine.com/introduction-to-palestine/
Reading list:
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
by Angela Y. Davis
Edited by Frank Barat
Preface by Cornel West
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
by Rashid Khalidi
(Linked below)
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean
Culture and Resistance
Conversation with Edward W. Said
Edited by David Barsamian
On Palestine
by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
Edited by Frank Barat
The Pen and the Sword
Conversations with Edward Said
by David Barsamian and Edward W. Said
Introduction by Eqbal Ahmad
Preface by Nubar Hovsepian
Apartheid Israel
Eleven prominent South African scholars reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel.
Edited by Sean Jacobs and Jon Soske
Foreword by Achille Mbembe
Before the Next Bomb Drops
Rising Up from Brooklyn to Palestine
by Remi Kanazi
Shell Shocked
On the Ground Under Israel’s Gaza Assault
by Mohammed Omer
A Little Piece of Ground
An extraordinary book about war and peace through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.
by Elizabeth Laird
With Sonia Nimr
Uncivil Rites
Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom
by Steven Salaita
Israelis and Palestinians
A lifelong activist, Moshé Machover's essays, written as an Israeli socialist in solidarity with the Palestinian people, are collected here.
Conflict and Resolution
by Moshé Machover
Between the Lines
This compilation of essays, edited by a Palestinian writer and an Israeli journalist, constitutes a challenge to critically rethink the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel, the Palestinians, and the U.S. War on Terror
by Toufic Haddad and Tikva Honig-Parnass
The Question of Palestine
by Edward W. Said
Justice for Some
Law and the Question of Palestine
by Noura Erakat
Hollow Land
Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
by Eyal Weizman
The Least of All Possible Evils
A Short History on Humanitarian Violence
by Eyal Weizman
Fateful Triangle
The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)
by Noam Chomsky
Foreword by Edward W. Said
Stone Men
The Palestinians Who Built Israel
By Andrew Ross
Articles, Books and Paper links
- My people shall live - Leila Khaled
- Decolonization is a global project: From Palestine to the Americas
- Zionism From the Standpoint of Its Victims - Edward Said
- The Question of Palestine - Edward Said
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
- Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine- Steven Salaita
- Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Colour- Michael Fisbach
- Palestinian Peasant Resistance to Zionism Before World War 1- Rashid Khalidi
- The Nakba
- An Introduction to Palestine
- The Palestinian Women's Autonomous Movement: Emergence, Dynamics, and Challenges
- Palestinian Women and the Right to Rights
- Deadly Exchange- The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel
- Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine
- On the Exclusion of the Palestinian Nakba from the “Trauma Genre”
- The Iron Cage- Rashid Khalid
- The PLO - Israel Oslo Accords
- Freedom Archives Collection on Palestine
- Permission to Narrate by Edward Said
- Orientalism by Edward Said
- Rethinking the Nakba
- Yafa: The Rise & Fall of the Agrarian City
- A Short History on the Colonization of Palestine (Flyer)
- The Other Shift: Settler Colonialism, Israel and the Occupation
- Palestinian Politcal Prisoners
- The Hundred Years’ war on Palestine
Videos/Documentaries:
- Angela Davis on Palestine, G4S and the Prison Industrial Complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9KxslVHRs8
- Ghassan Kanafani- A Conversation Between the Sword and the Neck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h_drCmG2iM&t=85s
- Censoring Palestine: The Weaponisation Of Anti-Semitism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rql_CfNMDQc&ab_channel=redfish
- Occupation To Annexation: Israel Targets The Jordan Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YV0Piz38tXo&ab_channel=redfish
- Noam Chomsky and Edward Said: On Palestine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4bQtM7q67k
- The Stream - #BlackLivesMatter stands up for Palestine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szfrvzDaPco&t=325s
- Debate: Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1VTt_THL4A
- Gaza: Still Alive (RT Documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87X-I6JInbI&ab_channel=RTUK
- Israeli Soldier's Explosive Tell-All: "Palestinians are Right to Resist": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkxJd88xkBU&ab_channel=EmpireFiles
- Irish Solidarity With Palestine (Documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMAyGiOQbE0&ab_channel=TheArtOfPeacefulRevolution
- Israel extends its high-tech barriers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9fe4m0UAg4&ab_channel=FinancialTimes
- Empire Files: Inside Palestine’s Refugee Camps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxvNZisaB8E&ab_channel=TeleSUREnglish
- Palestinian right of return isn’t antisemitism. It’s UN Resolution 194.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZFqDoExnys
- Rare Video: Nelson Mandela Speaking on Palestine [Extracts]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5TiUhhm7cQ
- Angela Davis on Black liberation and Palestinian solidarity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MEN5E8Oe34&t=92s
- Jerusalem's Afro Palestinians feel more integrated:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnL80yhiko
- Palestinian Artist responds to Black Lives Matter Movement - Al Jazeera:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGOQLBfl1gA
- What does Israeli annexation of the West Bank mean?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nC9D_Twtrs
- Noam Chomsky "The Occupation of Palestine: A Short History":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXhqgsZ7ZRc
- 11 documentaries with links to help understand the conflict: https://stepfeed.com/11-documentaries-you-need-to-see-to-understand-palestine-0640
- Links to incredible and FREE documentaries on the Palestinian/Israeli conflict from Al Jazeera: https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/palestineremix/al-nakba.html#/17
- Activist Akram Salhab on the Palestinian experience of British colonialism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-97MmEumeA&ab_channel=Channel4News
Helpful Links for Research or Information:
- Interactive timeline of Palestine's history: https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/palestineremix/timeline_main.html
- Interactive timeline to understand Al Nakba: https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/palestineremix/al-nakba.html#/17
- Canadians for Peace and Justice in the Middle East: https://www.cjpme.org/
- Indigenous Struggles: https://uscpr.org/indigenousstruggle
- Palestine: The third way forward: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/palestine-200518141158305.html
- If Americans Knew: https://ifamericansknew.org/
- International Solidarity Movement: https://palsolidarity.org/
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign: https://www.palestinecampaign.org/
- A Guide to the Palestinian Struggle: https://learnaboutpalestine.carrd.co/
- Shabaka: https://al-shabaka.org/en/
- https://al-awda.org/
- The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: https://uscpr.org/about-us/
- BDS PACBI statement: https://bdsmovement.net/pacbi
Articles and Reports
General:
- Birzeit University: Institute of Law & Civic Coalition for Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem: "Guidelines: Advocating for Palestinian Rights in conformity with International Law” (2014). English, Arabic, Spanish, and German.
- Amnesty International: Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity.
- Human Rights Watch: A Threshold Crossed - Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution.
- B’Tselem: A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid.
For Beginners:
- Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC): Colonialism and Apartheid
- Ben White: Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide, second edition (2014), Pluto Press (you can watch a short presentation video here)
- Omar Barghouti: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (2011), Haymarket Books.
More Advanced Reading:
- Al Shabaka, Nadia Hijab & Ingrid Jaradat: “Talking Palestine: What Frame of Analysis? Which Goals and Messages?” (2017)
- Al Shabaka, Yara Hawari: “Apartheid from Within? The Palestinian Citzens of Israel” (2017)
- ECCP & Mundubat Fact Sheet: “Will Europe address Israeli Colonialism and Apartheid? The Case of Palestinian Jerusalem” (2017)
- Russell Tribunal on Palestine: A People’s Court, Cape Town Session (2011), summary of findings.
- Diakonia: “Same Game, Different Rules Practices and Policies of Racial Discrimination by the Occupying Power in the Occupied Palestinian Territories; Legal Brief” (2016)
- John Dugard, John Reynolds: “Apartheid, International Law, and the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, in; European Journal of International Law (EJIL), 2013.