he following resources, organized by topic area, are meant to help those wishing to learn more about Palestine. This list is not intended to be exhaustive. TRather, it is a living document that will be used to create smaller, focused resource sheets and pamphlets for future events. If you have any suggestions for additions, please email: [email protected]
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Foundational History and Analysis of the Palestinian Liberation Movement...... 4 Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions Movement (BDS)...... 5 Class Analysis and Leftist Palestinian Movements...... 6 Zionism: A Settler Colonialist and Imperialist Movement...... 8 The Zionist Lobby...... 9 The Palestininian Right Of Return...... 10 Israeli Apartheid: The Second Class-Citizenry of Palestinian-Israelis, the Illegal Occupation of the West Bank, and the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza...... 11 Climate Justice for Palestine...... 13 Black Solidarity...... 14 Jewish Solidarity ...... 15 Indigenous Solidarity ...... 16 Queer Liberation & Pinkwashing...... 17 Deadly Exchange: American-Israeli Police Violence and Weapons Exchange...... 18 Palestine and Prison Abolition: A World Without Walls...... 19 Palestinian Literature, Art, and Cinema...... 20
3 Foundational History and Analysis of the Palestinian Liberation Movement
Books and Academic Resources:
• Orientalism by Edward Said • The Question of Palestine by Edward Said • Justice for Some by Noura Erakat • Palestinian Identity by Rashid Khalidi • The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi • The Palestinian Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory by Nur Masalha • The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries by Rosemary Sayigh • One Country by Ali Abunimah • The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah
Audio/Visual Media:
• Al Nakba Docuseries (Al Jazeera) 1. Episode 1 2. Episode 2 3. Episode 3 4. Episode 4
4 Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions Movement (BDS)
Books and Academic Resources:
• Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Pales- tinian Rights by Omar Barghouti • Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities by Ashley Dawson and Bill V. Mullen, Eds. • “Worker-to-Worker Solidarity: BDS in the Trade Union Movement” (Chapter 18) in Generation Palestine: Voices from the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement by Rafeef Ziadah
Non-Academic Sources:
• Introduction to BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) • DSA BDS Resolution | Labor for Palestine • “BDS: What it is, Why it Matters” by Leila Abdulrazaq • No, You Won’t Smear Our Fight Against Israeli Apartheid as “An- tisemitic” by Selim Nadi • Who’s Afraid of BDS? Meet the Organizations and Mega-Donors Trying to Suppress Pro-Palestine Activism by Mark Mondalek • Engaging Critics of BDS: A Resource for Activists from the Quaker Palestine Israel Network • Trade Union Solidarity with BDS • BDS Toolkit and Videos by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights • The Palestine Exception to Free Speech by Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights
Audio/Visual Media:
• Video: The Truth About Israel, Boycotts, and BDS • Video: Omar Barghouti Keynote Talk at Peace Works Conference 2015 • Omar Barghouti Acceptance Speech, Gandhi Peace Award 2017 • Map: Anti-Boycott Legislation Around the Country by Palestine Legal 5 Class Analysis and Leftist Palestinian Movements
Books and Academic Resources:
• Class and State in the West Bank: Neoliberalism Under Occupa- tion (Chapter 5) in Lineages of Revolt by Adam Hanieh • “Nation and Class: Generations of Palestinian Liberation” by Raja Khalidi • Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine by Sherene Seikaly • The Palestine Communist Party 1919-1948: Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism by Musa Budeiri • In Our Power: U.S. Students Organize for Justice in Palestine by Nora Barrows-Friedman • The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine by Ghassan Kanafani • Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP): Resistance Until Victory (English Translation, 1969) • The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s–1980s by Pamela E. Pennock • The Palestinian Left and Its Decline: Loyal Opposition by Fran- cesco Saverio Leopardi • Zionism and its Discontents: A Century of Radical Dissent in Is- rael/Palestine by Ran Greenstein
Non-Academic Sources:
• From the Heartland of Empire: a Roundtable on Palestinian Soli- darity and Struggle in America
Audio/Visual Media:
• Video: (1970) Interview with Popular Front for the Liberation of Pal- estine spokesman Ghassan Kanafani • Video: Ghassan Kanafani and the era of revolutionary Palestinian media 6 • Video: (1970) Leila Khaled speaks on Marxism-Leninism, PFLP, and Transnational Solidarity • Video: Short Leila Khaled Biography • Video: PLO: History of a Revolution Docuseries
7 Zionism: A Settler Colonialist and Imperialist Movement
Books and Academic Resources:
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe • Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe • The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe • The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories by Ilan Pappe • Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zion- ist Political Thought, 1882-1948 by Nur Masalha • Israel: A Colonial-Settler State by Maxime Rodinson • Why Palestine Matters: The Struggle to End Colonialism by Noushin Darya Framke and Susan Landau • “Settler Colonialism & Elimination of the Native” by Patrick Wolfe • “The Political Economy of Israeli Occupation: What is Colonial about it?” by Leila Farsakh • “Settler Colonialism and Conflict: The Israeli State and its Pales- tinian Subjects” by Magid Shihade • “Settler Colonialism and the State of Exception: The Example of Palestine/Israel” by David Lloyd
Non-Academic Sources:
• Our Approach to Zionism by Jewish Voice for Peace • A critique of JVP’s Approach: Anti-Zionism is a rejection of racism and imperialism, not just criticism of Israel by Eyad Kishawi, Max Ajl, and Liliana Cordova-Kaczerginski • The Nakba Did Not Start or End in 1948 an Al Jazeera Feature
Audio/Visual Media:
• Video: Wrestling with Zionism by Jewish Voice for Peace • Webinar: The Global Impact of Zionism hosted by US Campaign for Palestinian Rights 8 The Zionist Lobby
Books and Academic Resources:
• “Delegitimizing Solidarity: Israel Smears Palestine Advocacy as Anti-Semitic” by Ben White • The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
Non- Academic Sources:
1. Open Letter: The ADL is Not an Ally 2. A Primer on the ADL’s oppressive practices 3. Understanding US Military Aid to Israel by Alia Chughtai, Al Ja- zeera 4. Boycotts, Benjamins, and America’s university leaders, by David Klein 5. The Real Cancel Culture: Pro-Israel Blacklists by Murtaza Hussain
Audio/Visual Media:
• The Lobby Docuseries (Al Jazeera) 1. British Version 2. The American Version Qatar and the Israel Lobby Don’t Want You to See Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 • Podcast: The Case Against AIPAC with Mehdi Hassan • Video: What Really Goes on inside AIPAC and the Pro-Israel Lobby • Documentary: The Occupation of the American Mind, Israel’s PR War in the US 1. Full Length 2. 45 Minute Version 3. 21 Minute Version
9 The Palestininian Right Of Return
Books and Academic Resources:
• “In the Ruins of Nahr al-Barid: Understanding the Meaning of the Camp” by Adam Ramadan
Non- Academic Sources:
• Palestinian right of return: The legal key to undoing the Zionist conquest by Joseph Massad • Seven decades after Resolution 194, why haven’t Palestinian refu- gees returned home? by Ghada Karmi • Quick Facts: The Palestinian Nakba by the Institute for Middle East Understanding • The Nakba, 65 Years of Dispossession and Apartheid by the Insti- tute for Middle East Understanding
Audio/Visual Media:
• 7 Days in Beirut (Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camp) by Pietro Ste- fanini • Video: Life in Balata Refugee Camp, 70 years after al Nakba • Podcast: +972 Magazine interviews Lubnah Shomali on the feasi- bility of a Palestinian Return • Online Database: Palestinian villages destroyed in 1948 by Al Ja- zeera
10 Israeli Apartheid: The Second Class-Citizenry of Palestinian- Israelis, the Illegal Occupation of the West Bank, and the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Books and Academic Resources:
• Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation by Saree Makdisi • The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine by Lori Allen • Inequality Report: The Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel by Ada- lah - The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights • Children in Israeli Military Detention: Observations and Recom- mendations by UNICEF • The wall has feet but so do we: Palestinian workers in Israel and the separation wall by Rachel Busbridge • Suspected Citizens: Racial Profiling Against Arab Passengers by Israeli Airports and Airlines by The Arab Association for Human Rights • Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestin- ians by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe • The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Ar- endt to Gaza by Eyal Weizman • These Chains Will be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle In- side Israeli Prisons by Ramzy Baroud • Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories in 2019 by Amnesty International
Non-Academic Sources:
• The Structural Roots of Israeli Apartheid by Noura Erakat • Israel’s Mask Slips Off by David Palumbo-Liu • Israel: Discriminatory Land Policies Hem in Palestinians by Human Rights Watch • Israel: Water as a Tool to Dominate Palestinians by Camilla Cor- radin • Fact Sheet: Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip by United 11 Nations OCHA • 24 Hours in Gaza by Al Jazeera
Audio/Visual Media:
• Hafrada/Apartheid by Visualizing Palestine • Video: Israel’s Illegal Separation Wall “Imprisons” Palestinians • Documentary, Israeli Checkpoints: Hard Crossings • Documentary, The Palestinian Kids Fighting Israel’s Occupation 1. Part I 2. Part II • Video: Janna Jihad interviewed by Amy Goodman • Video: Brief Explainer on Illegal Israeli Settlements
12 Climate Justice for Palestine
Books and Academic Resources:
• Chapter 4 in What is Critical Environmental Justice? By David Na- guib Pellow • Environmental Nakba by Friends of the Earth • Climate Change, the Occupation, and a Vulnerable Palestine by Zena Agha
Non- Academic Sources:
• Forensic Architecture Investigation: Herbicidal Warfare in Gaza • Palestine is a Climate Justice Issue by Abeer Butmeh • Quick Facts Sheet • If You’re For Justice for Palestinians, You’re for Climate Justice: Zena Agha on Climate Change and the Future of Palestine. • Palestine and the Climate Crisis by David Klein
Audio/Visual Media:
• Documentary: The Struggle for Self-Determination in the Face of Climate Change by Al Haq • Video: Palestinian Farmers Struggle to Deal with E-Waste
13 Black Solidarity
Books and Academic Resources:
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Davis • Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color by Michael Fischbach • Black-Palestinian Solidarity in the Ferguson-Gaza Era by Kristian Davis Bailey • Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary by Alex Lubin • A Shadow Over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America by Keith Feldman
Non- Academic Sources:
• Palestinians Express Solidarity with the People of Ferguson in Mike Brown Statement • Meet the Arab Americans Taking to the Streets to Support Black Lives Matter by Ali Harb et al. • A Historical Framework for Continued Black-Palestinian solidarity by Devyn Springer
Audio/Visual Media:
• USACBI Webinar: Palestinian Liberation & Black Freedom Struggle with Ghada Karmi and Kristian Davis Bailey • Video: Why Black People Should Care About Palestinian Libera- tion by The Root ft. Marc Lamont Hill • Video: When I See Them I See Us by Black Palestinian Solidarity • Video: Angela Davis on Black Liberation and Palestine Solidarity • Video: Nelson Mandela on Palestine
14 Jewish Solidarity
Books and Academic Resources:
• When Anti-Zionism Was Jewish: Jewish Racial Subjectivity and the Anti-Imperialist Literary Left from the Great Depression to the Cold War by Benjamin Balthaser • On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice by Jew- ish Voice for Peace • Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel by Adam Shatz
Non- Academic Sources:
• The Forgotten History of the Jewish Anti-Zionist Left by Sarah Laz- are. • Personal Narrative: I Became an Anti-Zionist the Same Way I Be- came a Jew
Audio/Visual Media:
• Video: “Occupation Will End in Your Lifetime” by Jewish Voice for Peace
15 Indigenous Solidarity
Books and Academic Resources:
• Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine by Steven Salaita • “Solidarity with Palestine from Diné Bikéyah” by Melanie K. Yazzie
Non- Academic Sources:
• The Native American model of Palestine’s future by Steven Salaita • “The Liberation of Palestine Represents an Alternative Path for Native Nations” by Nick Estes • “Solidarity between Palestinians and Indigenous Activists has Deep Roots” by Marion Kawas • “Reclaiming Native History, from New Mexico to Palestine” an interview with Nick Estes and Melanie K. Yazzie
Audio/Visual Media:
• From Palestine to the Pipeline hosted by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
16 Queer Liberation & Pinkwashing
Books and Academic Resources:
• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa’ed Atshan • “The Road From Antipinkwashing Activism to the Decolonization of Palestine” by Lynn Darwich and Haneen Maikey
Non- Academic Sources:
• Israel and Pinkwashing: Israel’s Use of Gay Rights as a Branding Tool by Sarah Schulman • “Israel’s Gay Propaganda War” by Jasbir Puar • Gay Rights as Human Rights: Pinkwashing Homonationalism by Maya Mikdashi • A Documentary Guide [and timeline] to Pinkwashing by Sarah Schulman • From Pinkwashing to Pinkwatching: Palestinian Queer Resistance, an interview with Haneen Maikey • Israel Surveils and Blackmails Gay Palestinians to Make Them Informants by Philip Weiss
Audio/Visual Media:
• Webinar: Palestine as a Queer Struggle hosted by the US Cam- paign for Palestinian Rights • Panel: Queer/Anti-colonial Struggle from the US to Palestine by alQaws • Panel: Liberation in Palestine, A Queer Issue by alQaws
17 Deadly Exchange: American-Israeli Police Violence and Weapons Exchange
Academic Resources:
• Deadly Exchange: The Dangerous Consequences of American Law Enforcement Trainings in Israel by Researching the Ameri- can-Israeli Alliance and Jewish Voice for Peace
Non-academic Sources:
• How Israeli Military Officials Trained ICE
Audio/Visual Media:
• Database: Track US-Israeli State Violence from Palestine to Your City • Video: How Israel Trains US Police
18 Palestine and Prison Abolition: A World Without Walls
Non-academic Sources:
• A Timeline of Palestinian Mass Hunger Strikes in Israel by Zena Tahhan • Why are Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike? by Ramzy Baroud
Audio/Visual Media:
• Video: Thousands of Palestinians and hundreds of children in Is- raeli jails • Webinar: The Struggle for Abolition from the US to Palestine with Zaina Alsous, Nyle Fort, Derecka Purnell, Randa Wahbe, and San- dra Tamari • Documentary: Beyond the Walls by Al Jazeera
19 Palestinian Literature, Art, and Cinema
Novels:
• Men in the Sun by Ghassan Kanafani • All That’s Left for You: A Novella & Short Stories by Ghassan Kanafani • Palestine’s Children: Returning to Haifa and Other Stories by Ghassan Kanafani • Umm Sa’ad by Ghassan Kanafani • Mornings in Jenin: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa • Against the Loveless World: A Novel by Susan Abulhawa • In Search of Fatima by Ghada Karmi
Poetry:
• Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish • Before the Next Bomb Drops: Rising Up from Brooklyn to Pales- tine by Remi Kanazi • A Map of Absence: An Anthology of Palestinian Writing on the Nakba edited by Atef Alshaer
Audio/Visual Media:
• 3000 Nights (film) • Five Broken Cameras (film) • Salt of this Sea (film) • Paradise Now (film) • Divine Intervention (film) • The Time that Remains (film) • Palestine Museum in Woodbridge, CT
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