A Reading List on Israel/Palestine
Much has been written, debated, and published on questions surrounding Israel and Palestine. The following list contains non-fiction titles speaking to the current moment and discussions on the nature of Israel/Palestine, the conditions enabling Hamas rule over Gaza, and the role of the International community. Please find these titles and more in the Washington University Libraries collections.
Understanding Israel and Palestine
The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine? edited by Michael N. Barnett, Nathan J. Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami
The ABC of the OPT: A Legal Lexicon of the Israeli Control over the Occupied Palestinian Territory by Orna Ben-Naftali, Michael Sfard, and Hedi Viterbo
Tracing Homelands: Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging by Linda Dittmar
Social Justice and Israel/Palestine: Foundational and Contemporary Debates edited by Aaron J. Hahn Tapper and Mira Sucharov
Peacemakers in Israel-Palestine: Dialogues for a Just Peace by Robert Hostetter
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial by Saree Makdisi
Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope by Noa Shaidlinger
Israel under Siege: The Politics of Insecurity and the Rise of the Israeli Neo-Revisionist Right by Raffaella A.Del Sarto
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
Histories Behind Hamas
Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein
Hamas: A Beginner’s Guide by Khaled Hroub
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Michael Lotz, and American Friends Service Committee
Unsilencing Gaza: Reflections on Resistance by Sara Roy
Internationalism
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Erasing Palestine: Free Speech and Palestinian Freedom by Rebecca Ruth Gould
Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick
Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli Relations by Daniel G. Hummel
Whatever Happened to Antisemitism? Redefinition and the Myth of the “Collective Jew“ by Antony Lerman
Boycott Theory and the Struggle for Palestine: Universities, Intellectualism and Liberation by Nick Riemer
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International by Sarah Schulman
For questions about the listed books or other reading recommendations, please contact AJ Robinson, subject librarian at Washington University Libraries.
- Name
- AJ Robinson
- Job Title
- Islamic Studies; South Asian Studies; Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies; and Jewish & Near Eastern Studies (Interim) Subject Librarian