Subject guide
Palestine and Israel
This subject guide is a work in progress, aimed to provide access to relevant academic works and online resources on Palestine and Israel, as well as, documentaries, films, and literature to familiarize yourself with the complexities of the conflict.
Context
- A basic / accessible primer on Palestine / Israel by Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar
- Palestine in Context
- The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know
Podcasts
- The Doctors of Gaza New York Times The Daily
- Who Represents the Palestinian People?
- A History of Modern Palestine with Rashid Khalidi
- Unpacking Israeli History by Unpacked
Webinars
Sourcebooks
- Bassiouni, M. Cherif, and Shlomo Ben-Ami, eds. A Guide to Documents on the Arab-Palestinian/Israeli Conflict, 1897–2008. Updated edition. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009
- Gordis, Daniel. Israel: A concise history of a nation reborn. HarperCollins, 2016.
- Laqueur, Walter, and Barry Rubin, eds. The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict. Penguin Books, 2001
- Morris, Benny. One State, Two States Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict. Yale University Press, 2009.
- Rabinovich, Itamar, and Jehuda Reinharz, eds. Israel in the Middle East: Documents and Readings on Society, Politics, and Foreign Relations, Pre-1948 to the Present. 2nd edition. Brandeis University Press, 2008
- Smith, Charles D. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. The Duncan Black Macdonald Center, 1994
- Siniver, Asaf, ed. Routledge Companion to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Taylor & Francis, 2022
- Troy, Gil, ed. The Zionist Ideas Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow. University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Political Science and History
- Khalidi, Rashid. The hundred years' war on Palestine: A history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917–2017. Metropolitan Books, 2020.
- Pappe, Ilan. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Simon and Schuster, 2007.
- Pappé, Ilan. The forgotten Palestinians: A history of the Palestinians in Israel. Yale University Press, 2011.
- Barnett, Michael, et al., eds. The One State Reality: What is Israel/Palestine?. Cornell University Press, 2023.
- Bartov, Omer, ed. Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples. Berghahn Books, 2021.
- Baconi, Tareq. Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance. Stanford University Press, 2018
- Allen, Lori. A History of False Hope: Investigative Commissions in Palestine. Stanford University Press, 2020.
- Anziska, Seth. Preventing Palestine : A Political History from Camp David to Oslo. Princeton University Press, 2018.
- Robinson, Shira N. Citizen Strangers : Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State. Stanford University Press, 2020.
- Roy, Sara. Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector. Princeton University Press, 2014.
- Sayigh, Yazid. Armed Struggle and the Search for State : The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993. Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine. Vintage Books, 2015.
- Chamberlin, Paul Thomas. The Global Offensive : The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Lustick, Ian S. Paradigm lost: From two-state solution to one-state reality. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
- Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. W.W. Norton, 2014
- Caplan, Niel. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories. Wiley, 2011
- Cramsey, Sarah A. Uprooting the Diaspora : Jewish Belonging and the Ethnic Revolution in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946. Indiana University Press, 2023.
- Kalisman, Hilary Falb. Teachers as state-builders : education and the making of the modern Middle East. Princeton University Press, 2023.
- Irfan, Anne. Refuge and resistance : Palestinians and the international refugee system. Columbia University Press, 2023.
- Troen, S. Ilan, et al. “‘Jewishness’ in Israel: Israel as a Jewish State.” Essential Israel, Indiana University Press, 2017, pp. 262-.
Cultural History and Cultural Studies
- Khalili, Leila. Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- De Cesari, Chiara. Heritage and the Cultural Struggle for Palestine. Stanford University Press, 2020.
- Bashir, Bashir, and Amos Goldberg, eds. The Holocaust and the Nakba: A new grammar of trauma and history. Columbia University Press, 2018.
Novels
- Salt Houses by Hala Alyan (2017), four generations of the Yakoub family, from Palestine to Kuwait, Beirut, Paris and the US.
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Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (....), weaves together past and present while a Palestinian woman investigates the rape of a Bedouin girl by an Israeli officer in the Negev desert in 1948. Also available in Dutch translation.
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Men in the Sun literary classic by Ghassan Kanafani (1962), literary classic
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Gate of the Sun by the Lebanese author Elias Khoury (2006), experimental and fragmentary epic of the Palestinian exodus (1948)
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Wild thorns by Sahar Khalifeh.
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The Perfect Peace by Amos Oz (1982), life and tensions in a Kibbutz just before the outbreak of the Six-Day-War
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Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa.
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Track changes by Sayed Qashu.
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Tale of love and darkness by Amos Oz.
Graphic Novels and Visual Sources
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Palestine Joe Sacco (2003), gripping report from Joe Sacco’s months in Palestine during the first intifada. He also published Footnotes in Gaza (2009) about the 1956 killings in Rafah and Khan Younis
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Baddawi by Leila Abelrazaq (2015), tells the story of the author’s flight from Palestine and life in a camp in Lebanon
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Tunnels by Rutu Modan (2021), ironic tale of treasure hunters in the politicized field of Bible archaeology across Israeli and Palestinian territories
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The Palestine Poster Project. Collection of political posters
Poetry
- Special Collection on Gaza in the Journal of Palestine Studies
- Page on Palestine on Jadaliyya which includes a collection of all their articles, interviews, book reviews etc on Palestine. It features two sections: articles on recent events, and ‘editors’ picks’ of top articles over time. Includes English and Arabic articles and resources
- “We cannot cross until we carry each other,” by Arielle Angel, editor of Jewish Currents reflecting on the week of 7 October 2023
- The Palestine Poster Project. Collection of political posters
- Nobel Peace Prize Lecture given by Yasser Arafat
- Nobel Peace Prize Lecture given by Shimon Peres
- Nobel Peace Prize Lecture given by Yithzak Rabin
Documentaries
- Three promises, 2023, written and directed by Yousef Shrouji
- Liwan: A story of cultural resistance, 2023, written and directed by Doris Hakim
- Five broken cameras, 2012, written by Guy Davidi and directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi
- I signed the petition, 2018, Mahdi Fleifel. Experimental short video in which two young Palestinians in the diaspora discuss Palestinian solidarity politics.
- Promises, 2001, written by B.Z. Goldberg. follows the life of 7 Jewish and Palestinian children from 1995-1998.
Movies and Television
- Al Ajami, 2009, written and directed by Skandar Copti and Yaron Shani
- Waltz with Bashir, 2008, written and directed by Ari Folman
- Divine Intervention, 2002, Elia Suleiman. Absurdist film about life in and around Nazareth