A Brief History of Palestine by Ismail Adam Patel. Charts the history of Palestine from the earliest time. Ideal book as an introduction and for young adults.

A Child in Palestine  by Naji al-Ali, who grew up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain al-Hilweh in the south Lebanese city of Sidon, where his gift for drawing was discovered by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Kanafani in the l...

A Doctor in Galilee; The Life and Struggle of a Palestinian in Israel by Hatim Kanaaneh. Inspiring biography from a doctor working against the odds in Palestine.

A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Ian J. Bickerton and Carla L. Klausner is a textbook on the history of the conflict

A Time to Speak Out by Anne Karpf, Brian Klug, Jacqueline Rose and Barbara Rosenbaum. In A Time to Speak Out, a collection of strong Jewish voices come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspora Jews. With articles on such topics as international law, th...

An Army Like No Other by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner. The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, who believed that ‘the whole nation is the army’.

An Israeli in Palestine; Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel by Jeff Halper. An Israeli's passionate argument for a solution in Palestine based on respect for human rights and tolerance.

Beyond Chutzpah by Norman G. Finkelstein. In Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel–Palestine...

Beyond Occupation; Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories by Virginia Tilley. A damning analysis of Israel's evasion of international law.

Blaming the Victims  by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W.Said. Since the 1948 war which drove them from their heartland, the Palestinian people have consistently been denied the most basic democratic rights. Blaming the Victims shows how the historical fate of Palestine of…

Blood and Religion; The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State by Jonathan Cook. What does Israel hope to achieve with its withdrawal from Gaza and the building of a wall around the West Bank?

Captive Revolution; Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System by Nahla Abdo. Drawing on oral history of female Palestinian political detainees, this book analyses their anti-colonial struggles in this overlooked subject.

Civil Imagination by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Understanding photography is more than a matter of assessing photographs, writes Ariella Azoulay. The photograph is merely one event in a sequence that constitutes photography and which always invo...

Cracks in the Wall; Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel by Ben White. A sharp analysis of the widening cracks in Israel's traditional pillars of support.

Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine; Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State by Jeff Halper. What if our understanding of Israel/Palestine has been wrong all along?

Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass

Environmental Warfare in Gaza; Colonial Violence and New Landscapes of Resistance by Shourideh C.Molavi. Israel is destroying both lives and livelihoods as it decimates the fertile lands of Palestine.

Erasing Palestine by Rebecca Ruth Gould. The widespread adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-semitism and the internalisation of its norms has set in motion a simplistic definitional logic for dealing with social problems that has impo...

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick

Failing Peace; Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by Sara Roy. A chronicle of 20 years of conflict.

Fateful Triangle; The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky. A devastating indictment of American and Israeli foreign policy which covers a sustained period of Middle East history.

Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco is a graphic novel that distills the conflict to one day in a town at the bottom-most tip of the Gaza Strip, a refreshingly human and granular representation

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis, preface by Cornel West

Friends of Israel  by Hil Aked. Friends of Israel provides a forensically researched account of the activities of Israel's advocates in Britain, showing how they contribute to maintaining Israeli apartheid. The book traces the hi…

From Palestine to Israel; A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950 by Ariella Azoulay. Beautifully presented photobook, featuring 200 rarely seen photographs from the Palestinian Nakba

Generation Palestine; Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement by Rich Wiles brings together Palestinian and international activists in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation by Raja Shehadeh

Greater than the Sum of Our Parts; Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine by Nada Elia. An inspiring and intersectional re-imagining of the path to liberation in Palestine.

Hamas; A Beginner's Guide by Khaled Hroub. Acclaimed introduction to the Palestinian Islamist organisation in a simple Q&A format, fully revised and updated.

Hidden Histories; Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean by Basem L. Ra'ad. A history of colonial interference in Palestine and the East Mediterranean that constructs a valuable and original historical and cultural narrative

Hollow Land by Eyal Weizman. From the tunnels of Gaza to the militarised airspace of the Occupied Territories, Eyal Weizman unravels Israel’s mechanisms of control and its transformation of Palestinian towns, villages and roads...

Hostile Homelands; The New Alliance Between India and Israel by Azad Essa and Linah Alsaafin. Exposes the political and ideological links and dovetailing ethnonationalist projects of India and Israel.

How I Stopped Being a Jew by Shlomo Sand. Shlomo Sand was born in 1946, in a displaced person’s camp in Austria, to Jewish parents; the family later migrated to Palestine. As a young man, Sand came to question his Jewish identity, even t...

If I Am Not for Myself by Mike Marqusee. If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author’s upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia,...

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein. First published in 1995, this acclaimed study challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new edition critically reexam...

Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson.What are the imagined communities that compel men to kill or to die for an idea of a nation? This notion of nationhood had its origins in the founding of the Americas, but was then adopted and tran…

In Search of Fatima by Ghada Karmi. Ghada Karmi’s acclaimed memoir relates her childhood in Palestine, flight to Britain after the catastrophe, and coming of age in Golders Green, the north London Jewish suburb. A powerful biographic...

Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five by Miko Peled

Interviews with Radical Palestinian Women by Shoal Collective

Israel and Palestine by Avi Shlaim. With characteristic rigour and readability, Avi Shlaim reflects on a range of key issues, transformations and personalities in the Israel–Palestine conflict. From the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the...

Israel and Palestine; Competing Histories by Mike Berry and Greg Philo. A short introduction to the conflict that presents the arguments on both sides and summarises key thinkers from Said to Netanyahu.

Israel and Settler Society by Lorenzo Veracini examines Israel as a colonial society, making comparisons with South Africa, French Algeria and Australia.

Israel and the Clash of Civilisations; Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East by Jonathan Cook argues that the current chaos in the Middle East was always the intention of the Bush administration and Israel.

Israel; Politics, Myths and Identity Crises by Akiva Orr. An illuminating and unique anti-Zionist's perspective on Israel.

Israeli Apartheid; A Beginner's Guide by Ben White. Updated and expanded edition of best-selling introduction to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

Israeli Rejectionism; A Hidden Agenda in the Middle East Peace Process by Zalman Amit and Daphna Levit. An analysis of the Middle East 'peace process' showing that peace has never been in the interest of the state of Israel.

Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel New edition of bestseller that critiques Jewish fundamentalism and shows its negative impact on Israeli policy.

Jewish History, Jewish Religion; The Weight of Three Thousand Years New edition of Shahak's controversial critique of Israel.

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine by Noura Erakat

Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor by Yossi Klein Halevi is a moving collection of essays by an American immigrant to Israel, explaining his decision and the conflict through Israeli eyes

Letters to Palestine edited by Vijay Prashad. Operation Protective Edge, Israel’s seven-week bombing campaign and ground invasion of Gaza in the summer of 2014, resulted in half a million displaced Gazans, tens of thousands of destroyed home...

Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire edited by Jennifer Bing, Mike Merryman-Lotze, and Jehad Abusalim

Madina to Jerusalem: by Ismail Adam Patel. Charts the journey of first Muslims in liberating Jerusalem from the Byzantium Empire.

More Bad News From Israel by Greg Philo, Mike Berry. Examination of media coverage of the current conflict in the Middle East.

Mural by Mahmoud Darwish, who was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last half-century,his work evokes the loss of his homeland and is suffused with the pain of dispossession, exile ...

Not by Omission by Amnon Kapeliouk. In this book, first published in Hebrew in 1975 and now available in English for the first time with an introduction by Noam Chomsky, Amnon Kapeliouk traces the policies and attitudes that led to t...

Occupied Minds; A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche by Arthur Neslen is an insight into the diversity and contradictions of Israeli identity.

On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements; Selected Writings of Ella Shohat by Ella Shohat. A vivid, intellectual journey through the works of the renowned writer.

Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh with Anthony David

One State; The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel by Ghada Karmi. A radical case for a one-state solution from the renowned Palestinian writer and Nakba survivor.

Open Secrets: Israeli Foreign and Nuclear Policies by Israel Shahak unmasks the expansionist reality of Israeli foreign and nuclear policy and analyses its effect on the future of Middle Eastern politics.

Out of the Frame; The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel by Ilan Pappe. Bestselling author and historian Ilan Pappe tells the story of his struggle against the Israeli academy to reveal truths about the 1948 Nakbah.

Overcoming Zionism; Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine by Joel Kovel. A sensitive and insightful critique of the contradictions of Zionism.

Palestine by Joe Sacco with an introduction by Edward Said is a landmark book on life as a Palestinian in Israeli’s occupied territories, in an approachable graphic novel format

Palestine Speaks edited by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek. For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the center of one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises. In Palestine Speaks men and women from the ...

Palestine: The Reality: The Inside Story of the Balfour Declaration 1917-1938 by J. M. N. Jeffries

Palestine's Horizon; Toward a Just Peace by Richard Falk. The former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine brings his life's work together to discuss how the region can find peace

Palestinians in Israel; Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy by Ben White and Haneen Zoabi. Israel's insistence on declaring itself a Jewish state leads to discrimination, segregation and a guarantee of continued conflict.

Partitioning Palestine; Legal Fundamentalism in the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict by John Strawson argues that the plight of Palestine remains a colonial issue, and that legal tools are used to undermine Palestinian self-determination.

Peace Under Fire edited by Ghassan Andoni, Huwaida Arraf, Nicholas Blincoe, Hussein Khalili, Marissa McLaughlin, Radhika Sainath and Josie Sandercock. The last two years have been the most brutal in the entire thirty-six year history of Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; indeed the most violent since the creation of Isr…

Plowshares into Swords  by Arno Mayer. In this authoritative text, Arno J. Mayer traces the thinkers, leaders and shifting geopolitical contexts that shaped the founding and onward development of the Israeli state. He recovers for…

Popular Protest in Palestine; The Uncertain Future of Unarmed Resistance by Marwan Darweish and Andrew Rigby shines a light on the often under-emphasised unarmed and peaceful protest movements in Palestine

Popular Resistance in Palestine; A History of Hope and Empowerment by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh. A detailed yet engaging study showing that the vast majority of Palestinian resistance over the last 100 years has been peaceful and creative.

Potential History by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. In this theoretical tour-de-force, renowned scholar Ariella Aïsha Azoulay calls on us to recognize the imperial foundations of knowledge and to refuse its strictures and its many violences ...

Race, Place, Trace edited by Susan Slyomovics and Lorenzo Veracini. This edited collection celebrates Patrick Wolfe’s contribution to the study and critique of settler colonialism as a distinct mode of domination. The chapters collected here focus on the settler-co...

Reflections on Anti-Semitism by Alain Badiou, Eric Hazan and Ivan Segré. Since the beginning of the War on Terror, Israel has become increasingly salient to imperial strategy and ever more aggressive in its policies toward the Palestinians. In this context, a key ideolo...

Return by Ghada Karmi. “The journey filled me with bitterness and grief. I remember looking down on a nighttime Tel Aviv from the windows of a place taking me back to London and thinking hopelessly, ‘flotsam and jetsam...

Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home edited by Penny Johnson and Raja Shehadeh

Settler Colonialism; An Introduction by Sai Englert is an accessible introduction to the history and characteristics of settler colonialism.

Sharing the Land of Canaan; Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh examines human rights issues in the Occupied Territories and lays out plans for a lasting peace.

Shattered Hopes by Josh Ruebner. President Barack Obama’s first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondently admitted to those waiting for words of encouragement, “It is ...

Stone Men by Andrew Ross. “They demolish our houses while we build theirs.” This is how a Palestinian stonemason, in line at a checkpoint outside a Jerusalem suburb, described his life to Andrew Ross. Palestinian “stone m...

Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe. In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins...

The Balfour Declaration by Bernard Regan. On November 2, 1917, the British government, represented by Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour, declared that they were in favour of 'the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish ...

The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah

The Case for Sanctions Against Israel edited by Audrea Lim. In July 2011, Israel passed legislation outlawing the public support of boycott activities against the state, corporations, and settlements, adding a crackdown on free speech to its continuing bloc...

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

The Idea of Israel  by Ilan Pappe. In this groundbreaking work, Ilan Pappe looks at the continued role of Zionist ideology. The Idea of Israel considers the way Zionism operates outside of the government and military, in areas such as …

The Invention of the Jewish People by Shlomo Sand. A historical tour de force, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a groundbreaking account of Jewish and Israeli history. Exploding the myth that there was a forced Jewish exile in the first ce…

The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand. What is a homeland? When does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? What is the essence of the Promised Land?...

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, based on a bombshell article of the same name, is an overview of the effect of Israeli lobbying on American foreign policy, and extremely timely

The Last Earth; A Palestinian Story by Ramzy Baroud. An evocative history of Palestine, told through the stories of the people who have survived the conflict.

The Last Resistance by Jacqueline Rose. In The Last Resistance, Jacqueline Rose explores the power of writing to create and transform our political lives. In particular, she examines the role of literature in the Zionist imagination: her…

The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist; A Personal and Political Journey by Antony Lerman. Powerful memoir of the personal and political journey of a leading British Jew, from idealistic Zionist to critic of Israel.

The Myths of Liberal Zionism by Yitzhak Laor. He is one of Israel’s most prominent dissidents and poets, a latter-day Spinoza who helps keep alive the critical tradition within Jewish culture. In this work he fearlessly dissects the…

The Myths of Zionism  Analyses the myths -- religious and cultural -- that are used to justify the aggressive expansionist policies of Israel.

The New Intifada edited by Roane Carey. Frustrated by the failure of the peace process to end the Israeli occupation, and outraged by Ariel Sharon’s invasion, with one thousand armed guards, of the Al-Aqsa holy site in East Jerusalem, th...

The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein. Shortlisted for the 2023 Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing.

The Palestine-Israel Conflict; A Basic Introduction by Gregory Harms, Todd M. Ferry. A balanced and accessible introduction to the Palestine-Israel conflict

The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation; Repression Beyond Exploitation by Shir Hever is a careful and illuminating analysis of the economic dimensions of the Palestine-Israel conflict. Invaluable for students, journalists and activists.

The Politics of Denial; Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Nur Masalha talks about the largest and most enduring refugee problem in the world.

The Politics of Teaching Palestine to Americans: Addressing Pedagogical Strategies by M. Knopf-Newman

The Privatization of Israeli Security by Shir Hever charts the rise of neoliberal Israel to show how Israeli security elites turn violence into a commodity.

The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy. Israel’s 2009 invasion of Gaza was an act of aggression that killed over a thousand Palestinians and devastated the infrastructure of an already impoverished enclave. The Punishment of Gaza shows h…

The Unchosen; The Lives of Israel's New Others by Mya Guarnieri Jaradat. An intimate look at the lives of asylum seekers and migrant workers in Israel

The Wall Between: What Jews and Palestinians Don't Want to Know about Each Other by Raja Khouri and Jeffrey Wilkinson

The West Bank Wall; Unmaking Palestine by Ray Dolphin. What is the purpose of the West Bank Wall?

Threat; Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel by Abeer Baker and Anat Matar. This is the plight of the thousands of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

Traces of History by Patrick Wolfe. Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on ...

Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging by Linda Dittmar

Twilight of History by Shlomo Sand. On its publication in 2009, Shlomo Sand’s book The Invention of the Jewish People met with a storm of controversy. His demystifying approach to nationalist and Zionist historiography provoked much…

Unsilencing Gaza; Reflections on Resistance by Sara Roy. Palestinians refuse to be silenced and their struggle must not be ignored.

Virtues of Masjid Al-Aqsa: An Islamic Perspective. By Ismail Adam Patel. Looks at the importance of Jerusalem through Muslim related text.

Voices of the Nakba; A Living History of Palestine by Diana Allan and Rosemary Sayigh. First-generation Palestinian refugees recall life before and after the Nakba.

War Against the People; Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification by Jeff Halper is a disturbing insight into the new phenomenon of the 'securocratic' war in the modern policed world, with a focus on the Israeli state.

What is Modern Israel?  Shows that Zionism was conceived as a sharp break with Judaism and Jewish continuity.

Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?; Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew' by  Antony Lerman. A clear-sighted exploration of how antisemitism has been politicised, and the damaging consequences of its redefinition.

When I was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti is a memoir about the author’s experience in the Israeli Defense Forces

Zionism and its Discontents; A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine by Ran Greenstein. Challenges the nationalist and Zionist hegemony by discussing the hidden history of Communist and bi-national movements in Israel.