DSP has collected books to make an accessible list of resources on Palestine to understand the root causes of the situation in Palestine today. We put our recommendations in different categories for an easy overview. Scroll down for the full list of all the resources DSP has collected. 

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History (Chronological)

·   Said. The Question of Palestine. Vintage. 1979.

·   Hjelm. A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine: Palestine History and Heritage Project. Routledge. 2019.

·   Scott-Baumann. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace. The Experiment. 2023.

·   Masalha. Palestine, A Four Thousand Year History. Zed Books. 1992.

·   Raʻad. Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean. Pluto Press. 2010.

·   Sayigh. The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries. Zed Books. 2013.

·   Dowty. Arabs And Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide. Indiana University Press. 2019.

·   Tamari. The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine. University of California Press. 2017.

·   Englert. Settler Colonialism: An Introduction. Pluto Press. 2022.

·   Sayegh. Zionist Colonialism in Palestine. Research Center Palestine Liberation Organization. 1965.

·   Regan. The Balfour Declaration Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine. Verso. 2017.

·   Shepard. Ploughing Sand, British Rule in Palestine 1917-1948. John Murray Publishers. 1999.

. Khalidi. The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance. Metropolitan Books. 2020.

·   Shlaim. The Politics of Partition, King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine, 1921-1951. Oxford Academic. 1990.

· Kessler. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict. Rowman & Littlefield. 2023.

·   Anziska. Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo. Princeton University Press. 2018.

·   Said. The End of the Peace Process Oslo and After. Vintage. 2000.

·   Aruri. Dishonest broker: The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel. South End Press. 2003.

·   Pappé. The Biggest Prison on Earth: A History of the Occupied Territories. Simon and Schuster. 2017. 

The Nakba in 1948 (The Palestinian Catastrophe)

·   Abdo & Masalha (Eds.). An oral history of the Palestinian Nakba. Zed Books. 2018. 

·   Assad. Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre. Xlibris Corp. 2010.

·   Masalha. The Palestine Nakba, Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory. Zed Books. 2012.

·   Masalha. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem. Pluto Press. 2003.

·   Pappé. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oneworld Publications. 2007.

·   Sa’di & Abu-Lughod. Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory. Columbia University Press. 2007.

Zionism and the Israel Lobby

·   Aked. Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity. Verso Books. 2023.

·   Finkelstein. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. University of California press. 2008.

·   Finkelstein. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Verso Books. 2003.

·   Honig-Parnass. The False Prophets of Peace, Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine. Haymarket Books. 2011.

·   Kanafani. On Zionist Literature. Ebb Books. New ed. 2022 (1967).

·   Suárez. Palestine Hijacked: How Zionism Forged an Apartheid State from River to Sea. Olive Branch Press. 2022.

·   Pappé. Ten Myths about Israel. Verso Books. 2017.

·   Rose. The Myths of Zionism. Pluto Press. 2004.

·   Sand. The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland. Verso Books. 2012.

· Weir. Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the U.S. was used to create Israel. 2014.

Gaza

·   Hoke & Malek (Eds.). Palestine Speaks: Voices from the West Bank and Gaza. Verso Books. 2019.

·   Chomsky & Pappé. Gaza in Crisis, Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians. Haymarket Books. 2010.

·   Levy. The Punishment of Gaza. Verso Books. 2010.

·   Omer. Shell Shocked, On the Ground Under Israel’s Gaza Assault. OR Books. 2015.

·   Roy. The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development. Institute for Palestine Studies. 1995.

·   Roy. Unsilencing Gaza Reflections on Resistance. Pluto Press. 2021.

·   Sen. Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial. Cornell University Press. 2020.

Occupied Society

·   Abunimah. The Battle for Justice in Palestine. Haymarket Books. 2014.

·   Baroud. These Chains will be Broken: Palestinian Stories of Struggle and Defiance in Israeli Prisons. Clarity Press. 2019.

·   Hoke & Malek (Eds.). Palestine Speaks: Voices from the West Bank and Gaza. Verso Books. 2019.

·   Dunsky. Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience. University of Notre Dame Press. 2021.

·   Farsakh. Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation. Routledge. 2005.

·   Haddad. Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2016.

·   Hever. The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation: Repression Beyond Exploitation. Pluto Press. 2010.

·   Huneidi. Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State. Cambridge University Press. 2017.

·   Malek & Hoke (Eds.). Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life under Occupation. Verso Books. 2014.

·   Qumsiyeh. Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment. Pluto Press. 2010.

·   Rouhana (Ed). Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State. Cambridge University Press. 2017. 

·   Ross. Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel. Verso Books. 2019.

·   White. Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. Pluto Press. 2011.

Technology, Surveillance and Militarism

·   Bier. Mapping Israel, Mapping Palestine: How Occupied Landscapes Shape Scientific Knowledge. MIT Press. 2017.

·   Bresheeth-Zabner. An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defense Forces Made a Nation. Verso Books. 2020.

·   Cook. Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair. Zed Books. 2013.

·   Hever. The Privatization of Israeli Security. Pluto Press. 2018.

·   Loewenstein. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. Verso Books. 2023

·   Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear. Cambridge University Press. 2015.

·   Zureik, Lyon, & Abu-Laban. Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power. Routledge. 2011.

Law, Politics and Governance

·   Albanese & Takkenberg, Palestinian Refugees in International Law. Oxford University Press. 2020.

·   Erakat. Justice for Some: Law and The Question of Palestine. Stanford University Press. 2019.

·   Erakat & Rabbani (Eds.). Aborted State? The Un Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures. Asi-Kp. 2013. 

·   Ganim. Palestinian Politics after Arafat: A Failed National Movement. Indiana University Press. 2013.

·   Pace & Sen. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank: The Theatrics of Woeful Statecraft. Routledge. 2018.

·   Quigley. The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective. Duke University Press. 2005.

·   Quigley. The International Diplomacy of Israel's Founders: Deception at the United Nations in the Quest for Palestine. Cambridge University Press. 2016.

·   Quigley. The Legality of a Jewish State: A Century of Debate over Rights in Palestine. Cambridge University Press. 2021.

·   Quigley. The Six-Day War and Israeli Self-Defense: Questioning the Legal Basis for Preventive War. Cambridge University Press. 2013.

·   Quigley. The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict. Cambridge University Press. 2010. 

·   Rouhana (Ed). Israel and its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State. Cambridge University Press. 2017. 

·   Sen. Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial. Cornell University Press. 2020.

·   Sfard. The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights. Metropolitan Books. 2018.

·   Tilley. Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Pluto Press. 2012.

Gender and Sexuality

·   Abdo. Captive Revolution, Palestinian Women's Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System. Pluto Press. 2014.

·   Alqaisiya. Decolonial Queering in Palestine. Routledge 2023.

·   Atshan. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique. Stanford University Press. 2021.

·   Cowper-Coles. Gender and Political Support Women and Hamas in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Routledge. 2023.

·   Elia. Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. Pluto Press. 2023.

·   Kassem. Palestinian Women: Narrative Histories and Gendered Memory. Zed Books. 2011.

·   Sayigh. Resistance, Repression and Gender Politics in Occupied Palestine and Jordan. Syracuse University Press. 2005.

·   Schulman. Israel/Palestine and the Queer International. Duke University Press. 2012.

·   Shalhoub-Kevorkian. Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: A Palestinian Case-Study. Cambridge University Press. 2009.

Intersectionality and Solidarity

·   Bose. Contested Lands: Israel-Palestine, Kashmir, Bosnia, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka. Harvard University Press. 2017.

·   Clearly. Literature, Partition and the Nation-State: Culture and Conflict in Ireland, Israel and Palestine. Cambridge University Press. 2002.

·   Davis. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Haymarket Books. 2016.

·   Elia. Greater than the Sum of Our Parts Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine. Pluto Press. 2023.

·   Englert. Settler Colonialism: An Introduction. Pluto Press. 2022.

·   Essa. Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance between India and Israel. Pluto Press 2023.

·   Fischbach. Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color. Stanford University Press. 2019.

·   Pappé. Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid. Zed Books 2015.

·   Salaita. Inter-Nationalism, Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. University of Minnesota Press. 2016.

Palestinian memoirs, biographies and autobiographies

·   Dabashi. On Edward Said: Remembrance of Things Past. Haymarket Books. 2020.

·   Darwish. The Butterfly’s Burden. Bloodaxe. 2007.

·   Irving. Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation. Pluto Press. 2012.

·   Kanj. Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America. Garnet Publishing. 2010. 

·   Karmi. In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story. Verso Books. 2002.

·   Khaled. My People Shall Live: The Autobiography of a Revolutionary. Hodder & Stoughton. 2008.

·   Said. Out of Place: A Memoir. Vintage. 2012.

·   Wild. Ghassan Kanafani: The Life of a Palestinian. Taylor & Francis. 1977.

Cultural Resources: Fiction, Poetry, Prose and Youth

·   Abulhawa. Against the Loveless World. Washington Square Press. 2019.

·   Abulhawa. Mornings in Jenin. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2010.

·   Abulhawa. The Blue Between Sky and Water. Bloomsbury Publishing. 2015.

·   Al-Ali. A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali. Verso Books. 2009.

·   Alyan. Salt Houses. Harper Perennial Publishing. 2017.

·   Ashur. The Woman from Tantoura. American University of Cairo Press. 2014.

·   Darwish. In the Presence of Absence. Archipelago Books. 2006.

·   Darwish. Unfortunately, It Was Paradise. University Of California Press. 2003. (Poetry)

·   Darwish. Memory for Forgetfulness. University Of California Press. 2013.

·   El-Kurd. Rifqa. Haymarket Books. 2021. (Poetry)

·   Furani. Silencing the Sea: Secular Rhythms in Palestinian Poetry. Stanford University Press. 2012.

·   Ghanameh. These Olive Trees. Viking Books for Young Readers. 2023. (Children)

·   Habibi. The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist. Zed Books. 1985.

·   Hijjaw (Ed.). Poetry of Resistance in Occupied Palestine. Iraq’s Ministry of Culture and Guidance. 1968. 

·   Kanafani. Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories. Lynne Rienner Publishers. 1999.

·   Kanafani. Palestine’s Children, Returning to Haifa & Other Stories. Lynne Rienner. 2000.

·   Kanazi. Before the Next Bomb Drops. Haymarket Books. 2015. (Poetry)

·   Khalifeh. The End of Spring. Interlink Books. 2008.

·   Khalifeh. The Inheritance. The American University in Cairo Press. 2005.

·   Khalifeh. My First and Only Love. The American University in Cairo Press. 2021.

·   Khoury. Gate of the Sun. Random House. 2006.

·   Laird & Nimr. A Little Piece of Ground. Haymarket Books. 2016.

Anti Colonial Theory 

·   Amel. Arab Marxism and National Liberation, Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel. Haymarket Books. 2020. 

·   Césaire. Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review Press. 2001. 

·   Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth. Penguin Books. 2001.

·   Freire. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum International Publishing Group. 2000. 

·   Said. Orientalism. Vintage. 1979. 

Decolonizing Palestine and the One State Proposal

·   Chomsky & Pappé. On Palestine. Haymarket Books. 2015.

·   Halper. Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State. Pluto Press. 2021.

·   Karmi. One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel. Pluto Press. 2023.

·   Kovel. Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine. Pluto Press. 2007.

·   Lustick. Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2019.

·   Tartir, Dana & Seidel. Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, and Decolonial Perspectives. Palgrave MacMillan. 2021.  

·   Turner, Shweiki. Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy: De-Development and Beyond. Palgrave Macmillan. 2014. 

Academic Freedom and Freedom of Speech

·   Barrows-Friedman. In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine. Just World Books. 2014.

·   Hill, Plitnick. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. The New Press. 2021.

·   Landy, Lentin, & McCarthy. Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel. Zed Books. 2020.

·   Pappé. Out of the Frame, The Struggle for Academic Freedom in Israel. Pluto Press. 2010.

·   Riemer. Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.

·   Salaita. Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom. Haymarket Books. 2015.

Boycott and Sanctions

·   Barghouti. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Haymarket Books. 2011.

·   Dawson & Mullen. Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities. Haymarket Books. 2015.

·   Klein. The Case for Sanctions against Israel. Verso Books. 2012.

·   Riemer. Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2022.

·   Takriti. Before BDS: Lineages of Boycott in Palestine. Duke University Press. 2019.

·   Wiles. Generation Palestine, Voices from the Boycott: Divestment and Sanctions Movement. Pluto Press. 2013.

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(A green highlight in the list means that it has been added to one of the categories above).