52 books on Palestine– Jared Kushner couldn’t read

Recommended reading list for Palestine

Compiled by Dr. Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley

This is a short bibliography on books that should be ready by anyone seeking a deeper and clearer understanding of the Palestine struggle. The list includes an extensive list that treat the subject from a variety of areas of concern and if read over time would provide a solid grounding. Reading Edward Said’s book is a must as a starting point then one can delve into Walid Khalidi’s work to be followed by other materials based on the reader’s interests. I will be adding more books to the list in the near future.

• The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
• The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinians Self-Determination by Edward Said
• Jerusalem in History by K. J. Asali
• From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948 edited by Walid Khalidi
• All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 by Walid Khalidi
• The Transformation of Palestine edited by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
• Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “transfer in Zionist Political Thought, 1882–1948 by Nur Masalha
• The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Post-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine, Nur Masalha
• The Palestinian Nakba: Decolonizing History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory, Nur Masalha
• Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness by Rashid Khalidi
• The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi
• Islam and the Problem of Israel by Isma’il Raji al-Faruqi
• Rediscovering Palestine by Beshara Doumani
• The Palestinians: Eyewitness History of Palestine Under British Mandate by Izzat Tannous
• The Obstruction of Peace: The US., Israel, and the Palestinians by Naseer Aruri
• Occupation: Israel Over Palestine by Naseer Aruri
• The Exile’s Return: The Making of a Palestinian-American by Fawaz Turki
• The Birth of Israel: Myth and Realities by Simha Flapan
• Zionism and the Palestinians by Simha Flapan
• Israel’s Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit, by Elia Zureik
• Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman Finkelstein
• Perceptions of Palestine by Kathleen Christison
• The Invention of Ancient Israel by Keith W. Whitelam
• The Mythic Past: Biblical Archeology and the Myth of Israel by Thomas L. Thompson
• Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
• Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? Maxime Rodinson
• Cult, Ghetto, and State: The Persistence of the Jewish Question, Maxime Rodinson
• The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why, by Benjamin Beit Hallahmi
• King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan, by Mary C. Wilson
• Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, The Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine by Avi Shlaim
• The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir by Lenni Brenner
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
• A History of Modern Palestine by Ilan Pappe
• The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Ilan Pappe
• Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman
• The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza, Eyal Weizman
• The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel, Gabriel Piterberg
• Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century, Edited by Rochelle Davis and Mimi Kirk
• The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory
• Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice by John Quigley
• Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Charles Dr. Smith
• Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection by Bishara Bahbah
• The Passionate Attachment: America’s Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present, by Ball, George W. and Douglas B.
• Peace for Palestine: First Lost Opportunity, by Rabbi Elmer Berger
• Zionism: The Dream and the Reality: A Jewish Critique, by Gary V. Smith
• Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942–1948, by Thomas A. Kolsky
• Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the US-Israeli Relationship, by Paul Findley
• They Dare to Speak Out, by Paul Findley
• The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
• Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, by Max Blumenthal
• Israeli Foreign Policy: South Africa and Central America, by Jane Hunter
• Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Virginia Tilley