History - Middle East - Israel & Palestine

How terror was used by Zionist militias to transform Palestine into an apartheid settler state. The Israel-Palestine "conflict" is typically understood to be a clash between two ethnic groups--Arabs and Jews--inhabiting the same land. Thomas Suárez digs deep below these preconceptions and their supporting...

A lavishly illustrated and meticulously guided excursion through the mapping of historic Palestine from the earliest record through to the twenty-first century. Palestine is as much a place in the psyche of those who mapped it as it is a region of the earth....

"A rare historical insight into the tragic changes taking place in Palestine." --Jimmy Carter From one of Palestine's leading writers, a lyrical, elegiac account of one man's wanderings through the landscape he loves--once pristine, now forever changed by settlements and walls--updated with a new...

A heart-wrenching personal account of the ongoing devastation in Gaza by an ordinary citizen who bears witness to the undoing of his community and homelandThe human tragedy unfolding in Gaza has been made all the more tragic by the widespread denial and apathy expressed...

From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement. Solidarity with Palestinians has become a salient domain of global queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestinians, even as they fight patriarchy and imperialism,...

From one of the world's most beloved and respected public intellectuals comes a collection of essays examining culture, the literary canon, and the ever-shifting terrain of history "This is surely a major work, among the most provocative and cogent accounts of culture and the...

In the spring of 2025 the cartoonist Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Footnotes in Gaza, and Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, traveled to Cairo where they interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had recently left Gaza....

A materialist analysis of the links between global capitalism, energy politics, and racial oppression in Palestine Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics? Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisting Erasure places...

In this riveting account, Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz reveals the extraordinary story of Christian ranchers who quietly bred red heifers for years-unknown to Israel or the Jewish world-until their efforts yielded remarkable results during the COVID-19 pandemic. He takes readers behind the scenes as leading...

Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd's grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa-she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian resilience. With razor-sharp wit and glistening moral clarity, El-Kurd lays...

A New York Times Notable Book At a time when the Middle East has come closer to achieving peace than ever before, eminent Israeli historian Benny Morris explodes the myths cherished by both sides to present an epic history of Zionist-Arab relations over the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first definitive history of Israel's targeted killing programs, which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger world--from the man hailed by David Remnick as "arguably [Israel's] best investigative reporter." "An exceptional work, a humane...

An urgent and necessary deep dive into how Israel's masterful use of propaganda has shaped global perceptions, justified Israel's policies, and masked its violations of human rights and international law. Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara is a revelatory examination of...

A groundbreaking "dual narrative" history of Israel and Palestine which offers a new paradigm for the teaching of history in conflict and post-conflict situations "The battle lines of the Israel-Palestinian conflict extend to the classroom, where the two sides' versions of their shared history...

A collection of journalist Christopher Bollyn's original research articles about the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Solving 9-11: The Original Articles is the second volume in the Solving 9-11 set. Dating from September 2001 to 2012, the articles contain the factual information upon...

This second volume of Solving 9-11: The Original Articles contains Christopher Bollyn's research articles about 9-11 and the cover-up written after the publication of the first volume of articles in 2012. These articles focus on various aspects of the crime, including the foreign origin...

"Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." --The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale of Israel's first spies has all the tropes of an espionage novel, including duplicity, betrayal, disguise, clandestine meetings, the bluff, and the double bluff--but...

Discover the Classic Coming-of-Age Memoir that Captures the Palestinian Experience for Members of every Generation since the 1948 Nakba "Unusually honest, beautifully written." -- New York Times Book Review ** With a New Afterword by the Author ** In this new edition of his...

The brutality on both sides-Hamas's terrorist attack and Israel's retaliatory actions-has sparked fierce debate in the United States and across the world. Can one support Israel's right to self-defense while also advocating for the rights of the Palestinian people? As many hesitate to discuss...

In the aftermath of October 7, 2023, a 74-year-old Canadian surgeon makes a life-altering decision: to leave home and volunteer in Israel during one of its darkest moments. Trading the familiarity of the operating room for the uncertainty of a war zone, he seeks...