Recommended Books
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Abunimah, Ali. One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. Picador, 2007.
Abunimah, Ali. The Battle for Justice in Palestine. Haymarket Books, 2014.
Adelfang, Osie Gabriel, ed. Shifting Sands: Jewish Women Confront the Israeli Occupation. Whole World Press, 2010.
Ateek, Naim Stifan. Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. New York: Orbis Books, 1999.
Ateek, Naim Stifan. A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008.
Baltzer, Anna. Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2007.
Beinart, Peter. The Crisis of Zionism [Paperback]. Picador, 2013.
Bennis, Phyllis. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2012.
Blumenthal, Max. Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. NY, NY: Nation Books, 2013.
Braverman, Mark. Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land. Austin,TX: Synergy Books, 2010.
Burge, Gary. Whose Land? Whose Promise?: What Christians Are Not Being Told about Israel and the Palestinians. Pilgrim Press, 2004.
Carter, Jimmy. Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid [Paperback]. Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Chacour, Elias (with David Hazard). Blood Brothers. Eastbourne, UK: Kingsway, 1984.
Chacour, Elias (with Mary E. Jensen). We Belong to the Land: The Story of a Palestinian Israeli Who Lives for Peace and Reconciliation. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
Chomsky, Noam. Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians. Rev. ed. South End Press, 1999.
Christison, Kathleen, and Bill Christison. Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation. London: Pluto Press, 2009.
Cook, Jonathan. Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. Pluto Press, 2006.
Cook, Jonathan. Disappearing Palestine: Israel's Experiments in Human Despair. Zed Books, 2008.
Cook, Jonathan. Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iran, Iraq, and the Plan to Remake the Middle East. Pluto Press, 2008.
Davis, Uri. Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within. London: Zed Books, 2003.
Davis, Uri. Israel: An Apartheid State. London: Zed Books, 1987.
Ellis, Marc. Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation: The Challenge of the 21st Century. 3rd ed. Baylor University Press, 2004.
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 [Paberback]. 2nd ed. Verso, 2003.
Halper, Jeff. An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel. London, New York: Verso, 1995. (Order from www.icahdusa.org.)
Halper, Jeff. Obstacles to Peace: A Re-framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). (Order from www.icahdusa.org.)
Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.
Khalid, Rashid. Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East. Beacon Press: 2013.
Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. Columbia University Press, 2009.
Lerner, Rabbi Michael. Embracing Israel/Palestine: A Strategy to Heal and Transform the Middle East. North Atlantic Books, 2011.
Makdisi, Saree. Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation. Revised edition. W.W. Norton & Company, 2010.
Mearsheimer, John J, Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Mulhall, John W. America and the Founding of Israel: An Investigation of the Morality of America’s Role. Los Angeles, CA: Deshon Press, 1995.
Neff, Donald. Fifty Years of Israel. Washington, DC: American Educational Trust, 1998. (A collection of 54 articles published in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.)
Olson, Pamela J. Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland. Seal Press, 2013.
Pappé, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford, UK: Reprint. Oneworld Publications, 2007.
Peled-Elhanan, Nurit. Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education. I. B.Tauris & Co Ltd., 2012.
Peled, Miko. The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. Just World Books, 2012.
Qumsiyeh, Mazin B. Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment. Pluto Press, 2011.
Qumsiyeh, Mazin B. Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle. London: Pluto Press, 2004.
Reinhart, Tanya. Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948. 2nd ed. Seven Stories Press, 2004.
Reinhart, Tanya. The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine since 2003. Verso, 2006.
Ring, Kenneth, and Ghassan Abdullah. Letters from Palestine: Palestinians Speak Out about Their Lives, Their Country, and the Power of NonViolence. Wheatmark, 2010.
Rosen, Rabbi Brant. Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity. Just World Books, 2012. (Also see his blog: www.rabbibrant.com.)
Ruebner, Josh. Shattered Hopes: Obama's Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace, Verso, New York.
Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine. Vintage, 1992.
Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. W. W. Norton & Company, 1991.
Tolan, Sandy. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. Reprint. Bloomsbury USA, 2007.
Wagner, Donald E. Anxious for Armageddon: A Call to Partnership for Middle Eastern and Western Christians. Herald Press (PA), 1995.
Wagner, Donald E. Dying in the Land of Promise: Palestine and Palestinian Christianity from Pentacost to 2000. Melisende, 2001.
Weizman, Eyal. Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. Verso, 2012.
Zertal, Idith, and Akiva Eldar. Lords of the Land: The War over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007. Reprint. Nation Books, 2009.
Zaru, Jean. Occupied with Nonviolence: A Palestinian Woman Speaks. Fortress Press, 2008.
Zionism Unsettled-A Congregational Study. See review below