The bibliography on Israel/Palestine is vast. These materials feature primarily writings by speakers at our programs, texts they have discussed, books read by the book group, and films we have shown in classes.

Short Takes

If you are just starting your learning journey on Israel/Palestine… Here are five things you can read.

1. Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar, “Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Primer,” Middle East Research and Information Project, 2014

2. Rabbi Brian Walt, “Nakba Denial and ‘Teshuvah’/Reparations,” Evolve, Apr. 10, 2023

3. The Joint Israel Commission of Reconstructing Judaism and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association, A Short History of Annexation (May 2022).

4. Peter Beinart, “Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return,” Jewish Currents, May 11, 2021

5. B’Tselem “A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid,” Jan. 12, 2021

Articles

1. Shaul Magid, “Zionism’s History Is Also a History of Jewish Anti-Zionism,” interview with Daniel Denvir, Jacobin, Jan. 28, 2024

2. Nathan Thrall, “The Separate Regimes Delusion,” London Review of Books, Jan. 21, 2021

3. Joel Beinin, “The Political Context of the Crisis in Gaza,” interview with Stephen Shalom, New Politics, Jan. 2024

Books  

Nonfiction

1. Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (Metropolitan Books, 2020)

2. Nathan Thrall: A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy (Metropolitan Books 2023)

3. Tareq Baconi, Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press 2018)

4. Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, Michael Merryman Lotze (eds.), Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire (Haymarket Books 2022)

5. Jonathan Kuttab, Beyond the Two-State Solution. Download a free copy Here.

6. Marjorie Feld, The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism (NYU Press, 2025)

7. Geoffrey Levin, Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978 (Yale University Press, 2023)

8. Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Knopf 2025)

9. Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape (Scribner, 2008)

Fiction

1. Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun and Other Palestinian Stories (Lynne Rienner, 1998)

2. Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost (Grove Atlantic, 2024)

3. Adania Shibli, Minor Detail (New Directions, 2020)

4. S. Yizhar, Khirbet Khizeh (Hebrew: Sifriat Po‘alim, 1949; English: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014) 

Videos and Films

1. Zachary Lockman, “A Brief History of Zionism” (1 hr. 17 min.)

2. Project48, educational materials, eyewitness testimonies, images, videos and artifacts that bring to life the Palestinian Nakba (“Catastrophe” in Arabic)

3. “The Wanted 18,” (about the 1st Intifada) Paul Cowan and Amer Shomali, dirs. 2014 (1hr 15 min.)

4. “Arna’s Children” (about the Freedom Theater at Jenin refugee camp) Dirs. Juliano Mer-Khamis, Danniel Danniel (2004; 1 hr. 24 min.) 

5. “The Settlers” dir. Shimon Dotan, 2016 (1 hr. 51 min.)

6. “Tantura,” Alon Schwarz, dir., 2022 (1 hr. 30 min.)