This post is another list of things to read, specifically books. Reading is good. Ignorance is bad. I love books.

For each book I provide a relevant link (to a review, an article about the author, etc). I am not providing direct links to the books themselves, which you can easily locate yourself with the author and title.

The books alternate between Zionist authors (odd numbered) and anti-Zionist authors (even numbered). If you are a Zionist, you really should know what the anti-Zionists are saying, and vice-versa.

        1. Adi Schwartz, Einat Wilf  The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream has Obstructed the Path to Peace
          book review by Alex Ryvchin at fathomjournal.org
        2. Ilan Pappé The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
          My Israeli Friends: This is Why I Support Palestinians article by Ilan Pappé at palestinechronicle.com
        3. Susie Linfield The Lions’ Den: Zionism and the Left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky
          The Return of the Progressive Atrocity quillette.com article by Susie Linfield
        4. Maxime Rodinson Israel: A Colonial Settler State?
          Maxime Rodinson Was a Revolutionary Historian of the Muslim World A bio from a leftist anti-Zionist perspective
        5. Benny Morris 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War
          Israeli Historian Benny Morris Addresses the War Against Hamas algemeiner.com Feb 15, 2024
        6. David Cronin Balfour’s Shadow: A Century of British Support for Zionism and Israel
          David Cronin’s Blog hosted at electronicintifada.net
        7. Daniel Gordis Israel: A Concise History
          A review of Gordis’ book by Philip K. Jason at jewishbookcouncil.org

          8. Rashid Khalidi

        8. Ghassan Kanafani Selected Political Writings
          The 1936–39 Revolt in Palestine – Ghassan Kanafani
        9. Anita Shapira Israel: A History
          Indispensable Man Anita Shapira on David Ben-Gurion (at jewishreviewofbooks.com)
        10. Rashid Khalidi  The Hundred Years War on Palestine
          Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies his professional website at (can you guess??) Columbia University
        11. Cary Nelson Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Movement to Boycott Israel
          ‘We can have a debate about whether Hamas did the right thing’: Judith Butler’s Moral Relativism by Cary Nelson at fathomjournal.org
        12. Ben White Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide
          Why Israel is an apartheid state  by Ben White at palestinecampaign.org
        13. Matthias Küntzel Nazis, Islamic Antisemitism and the Middle East
          1967: Nasser’s Antisemitic War Against Israel fathomjournal.org interview with Matthias Küntzel

        14. Anita Shapira

          Edward Said Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
          Edward Said Showed Intellectuals How to Bring Politics to Their Work jacobin.com article by Conor McCarthy

        15. Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson (ed.) A History of the Jewish People
          Shmuel Ettinger at “My Jewish Learning”  four excerpts from Shmuel Ettinger’s contribution to A History of the Jewish People
        16. Albert Hourani A History of the Arab Peoples
          The Case Against a Jewish State: Albert Hourani’s statement to the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry of 1946