Palestine

Interviews With Radical Palestinian Women

Shoal Collective (ed)

War Against the People. Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

Jeff Halper

War Against the People focuses on Israel's unique role in international affairs, highlighting how it promotes a global system of militarism and domestic control – a form of "global Palestine." Jeff Halper investigates how Israel exports the weaponry and techniques of occupation. He shows how it uses the West Bank and Gaza as a "laboratory" for the development of these weapons, instruments of population control and models of permanent pacification. These are used not only to armies but internal security agencies and police forces as well. Halper locates Israel's system of pacification within the broader project of global "transcapital pacification." War Against the People provides a valuable window into the workings of pacification on a global level and the latest in military and counter-insurgency doctrine, outlining critical aspects of global politics that activists often miss in their struggle for global justice.

Perfect Victims and the Reality of Appeal

Mohammed El-Kurd

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century." --Robin D. G. Kelley Perfect Victims is an urgent affirmation of the Palestinian condition of resistance and refusal―an ode to the steadfastness of a nation. Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths are deliberately obscured--the perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial. Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation. How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian.

By Theft and Murder: A Beginners Guide to the Occupation of Palestine

Ted Curtis

In December 2001 Ted Curtis traveled to Beit Sahour, a small town near Bethlehem in the West Bank, to participate in non-violent Direct Action against the Israeli occupation of Palestine, then in its 35th year. From there he traveled all over the West Bank with the International Solidarity Movement in little more than a week; joining in demonstrations, helping to dismantle illegal IDF roadblocks, and listening to stories of terror from the occupation. Initially a history buff, he was moved to read around the subject following this experience and he returned to Bethlehem just in time for the mendaciously named 'Operation Defensive Shield'. This is some of his story - a gripping mixture of eyewitness reportage, and analysis.

A Palestine Reader (Incomplete).

Unknown Author

Israel/Palestine. How to End the War of 1948

Tanya Reinhart

In this updated edition of a popular seller, Israeli scholar Reinhart extends her critique to the most recent chapter of this decades-old conflict, exploring the history of the contested region and portraying the barrier as a stark symbol of the conflict itself. She traces the development of the Security Barrier and Israel's new doctrine of |disengagement'|, launched in response to a looming Palestinian-majority population. In this indispensable primer, Reinhart's searing insight illuminates the current conflict and suggests a path toward change.'

Peace Under Fire. Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement

Josie Sandercock et. al. (eds)

The story of this movement reveals the horror of the occupation and the new hope for growing international solidarity.

Unsilencing Gaza. Reflections on Resistance

Sara Roy

Vagabonds 006. To See In the Dark. Palestine and Visual Activism Since October 7

Nicholas Mirzoeff

How social media shaped the new global intifada

The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth

Andreas Malm

Malm unearths the shared roots of colonial adventurism in Palestine and fossil fuelled warfare. Israel’s pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event of its kind, the devastation Israel has inflicted on Palestine since October 2023 has merely ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. In this urgent pamphlet, Andreas Malm argues that a true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine's subjugation to fossil empire. Returning to the British empire’s first use of steam-power in war, in which it destroyed the Palestinian city of Akka, Malm traces the development of Britain’s fossil empire and shows how this enduring commitment to fossil energy continues to drive Western support for the destruction of Palestine today.

The Palestine Laboratory. How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Antony Loewenstein

How Israel makes a killing from the occupation of Palestine **WINNER OF THE 2023 WALKLEY NON FICTION JOURNALISM PRIZE** **Finalist for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied, Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies. For more than 50 years, occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers this largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting. This book shows in-depth, for the first time, how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex: surveillance, home demolitions, indefinite incarceration and brutality to the hi-tech tools that drive the 'Start-up Nation'. From the Pegasus software that hacked Jeff Bezos' and Jamal Khashoggi’s phones, the weapons sold to the Myanmar army that has murdered thousands of Rohingyas and drones used by the European Union to monitor refugees in the Mediterranean who are left to drown. Israel has become a global leader in spying technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe’s most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model.

Leila Khaled. Icon of Palestinian Liberation

Sarah Irving

Dubbed "the poster girl of Palestinian militancy," Leila Khaled's image flashed across the world after she hijacked a passenger jet in 1969. The picture of a young, determined looking woman with a checkered scarf, clutching an AK-47, was as era-defining as that of Che Guevara. In this intimate profile, based on interviews with Khaled and those who know her, Sarah Irving gives us the life-story behind the image. Key moments of Khaled's turbulent life are explored, including the dramatic events of the hijackings, her involvement in the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, her opposition to the Olso peace process, and her activism today. Leila Khaled's example gives unique insights into the Palestinian struggle through one remarkable life – from the tension between armed and political struggle, to the decline of the secular Left and the rise of Hamas, and the role of women in a largely male movement.

Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine. Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State

Jeff Halper

What if our understanding of Israel/Palestine has been wrong all along?

Moral Abdication. How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza

Didier Fassin

Western governments and elites have supported the destruction of Gaza, silencing the Palestinians and those who speak on their behalf. Providing a record of the first six months of the war waged by the Israeli army after the 7 October attacks and drawing on a rich range of international sources, Didier Fassin examines how most Western governments have acquiesced in and often contributed to the destruction, by the Israeli army, of Gaza, its homes, infrastructures, hospitals, institutions of education, and civilian population. To justify their support and prevent criticism, they have provided an official version of the events, adopting the Israeli narrative. It was largely taken up by mainstream media, which ignored the experiences and perspectives of Palestinians. Dissenting voices were silenced. A policing of language and thought was imposed. Censorship and self-censorship became normalized. To call for a ceasefire or to demand the respect of humanitarian law was enough to prompt the ever-ready accusation of antisemitism. Exploring the multiple dimensions of the extreme inequality of lives between the two sides of the conflict and analyzing the complex geopolitical, economic and ideological stakes that underlie it, Fassin intends to constitute an archive of this moral abdication. In his view, the abandonment of the values and principles proclaimed by Western elites to be foundational will leave a deep scar in the history of the world.

Light in Gaza. Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing & Michael Merryman (eds)

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.

Voice of the Nakba. A Living History of Palestine

Diana Allan (ed)

First-generation Palestinian refugees recall life before and after the Nakba