FFIPP Resources: Books and Films

Recommended Books

History of the Conflict in Israel/Palestine

Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, ed., Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 2nd ed. (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1987).

Salman Abu-Sitta, Palestinian Right to Return: Sacred, Legal, Possible (London: Palestinian Return Center, 1999).

Ian Black and Benny Morris, Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel's Intelligence Services (New York: Grove Press, 1991).

Arie Bober, ed., The Other Israel: The Radical Case Against Zionism (New York: Doubleday, 1972).

Norman G. Finkelstein, Image and Reality of the Israel/Palestine Conflict, 2nd ed. (London and New York: Verso, 2003)

Michael R. Fischbach, Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (New York and Chichester: Columbia University Press, 2003).

Simha Flapan, The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities (New York: Pantheon, 1987).

Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israel's Fateful Hour, trans. Lenn Schramm, rev. ed. (New York: Harper and Row, 1988).

Joseph Heller, The Stern Gang: Ideology, Politics, and Terror, 1940-1949 (London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1995).

David Hirst, The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East, 2nd ed. (New York: Thunders Mouth Press/Nation Books, 2003).

Baruch Kimmerling, Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians (London: Verso, 2003).

Neville J. Mandel, The Arabs and Zionism Before World War I (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976).

Nureldeen Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of Transfer in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).

Greater Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion, 1967-2000, trans. Khailil Nassar (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2001).

Maximum Land and Minimum Arabs: Israel, Transfer, and Palestinians, 1949-1996, 2nd ed. (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2002).

Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians, rev. ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).

Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1998 (New York: Knopf, 1999).

Akiva Orr, Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crisis (London and Boulder, CO: Pluto Press, 1994).

Ilan Pappe, Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-51 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1988).

The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951 (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 1994).

Tanya Reinhart, Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2002).

Maxime Rodinson, Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?, trans. David Thorstad (New York: Monad Press/Pathfinder Press, 1973).

Israel and the Arabs, trans. Michael Perl (London: Harmondsworth; New York: Penguin, 1970).

Jacqueline Rose, The Question of Zion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005).

Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine (New York: Vintage, 1979).

Tom Segev, 1949: The First Israelis (New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan, 1986.

Regina S. Sharif, Non-Jewish Zionism: Its Roots in Western History (London: Zed Books, 1983).

Stephen Sizer, Christian Zionism: Road-map to Armageddon? (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1994).

Zeev Sternhell, The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State, trans. David Maisel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998).

Avi Shlaim, The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists, and Palestine, 1921-1951 rev. ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2001).

Alan R. Taylor, The Zionist Mind: The Origins and Development of Zionist Thought (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1974).

Nathan Weinstock, Zionism: False Messiah, trans. and ed. Alan Adler (London: Ink Links, 1979).

Ebie Weizfeld, ed., The End of Zionism and the Liberation of the Jewish People (Atlanta and Windsor, ON: Clarity Press, 1989).

U.S. and Global Policy Regarding Israel/Palestine

Naseer H. Aruri, Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine (Boston: South End Press, 2003).

The Obstruction of Peace: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995).

Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why (New York: Pantheon Books, 1987).

Bishara Bahbah and Linda Butler, Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection (New York: St. Martin's Press; Washington, D.C.: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1986).

Mohammed Bamyeh, ed., South Atlantic Quarterly 102.4 (2003): Special Issue on Palestine America.

Rabbi Elmer Berger, Memoirs of an Anti-Zionist Jew (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1978).

Francis A. Boyle, Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2003).

Stephen Bronner, Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy (Louisville: University of Kentucky Press, 2005).

Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians, Updated Edition (1983; Boston: South End Press, 1999).

Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israels Lobby, 3rd ed. (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003).

G. H. Jansen, Zionism, Israel and Asian Nationalism (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1971).

Michael E. Jansen, The United States and the Palestinian People (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1970).

Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon, eds., Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (New York: Grove Press, 2003).

Camille Mansour, Beyond Alliance: Israel in U.S. Foreign Policy, trans. Jams A. Cohen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994).

Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, The Global Political Economy of Israel (London and Stirling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002).

Michael P. Saba, ed., The Armageddon Network (Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1984).

Edward W. Said, The Palestine Question and the American Context (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1979).

Fuad Sha'ban, For Zion's Sake: The Judeo-Christian Tradition in American Culture (London and Ann Arbor: Pluto Press, 2005).

Mohammed K. Shadid, The United States and the Palestinians (London: Croom Helm, 1981).

Roselle Tekiner, Samir Abed-Rabbo, Norton Mezvinsky, eds., Anti-Zionism: Analytical Reflections (Brattleboro, VT: Amana Books, 1989).

Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991).

Stephen Zunes, Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism (Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 2003).

Intifada and Resistance

Yassir Akawi, Gabriel Angelone, and Lisa Nessan, From Communal Strife to Global Struggle: Justice for the Palestinian People (Jerusalem: AIC, 2004).

George Antonius, The Arab Awakening: The Story of the Arab National Movement (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1939).

Naseer Aruri, ed., Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (London: Pluto Press, 2001).

Naim Stifan Ateek, Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1997).

Nicholas Blincoe, et al., eds, Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine, and the International Solidarity Movement (London: Verso, 2004).

Nathan J. Brown, Palestinian Politics After the Oslo Accords: Resuming Arab Palestine (Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 2003).

Roane Carey, ed., The New Intifada: Resisting Israels Apartheid (London: Verso, 2001).

Roane Carey et al., eds., The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (New York: The New Press, 2002).

Abraham Granott, The Land System in Palestine: History and Structure, trans. M. Simon (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1952).

Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege, trans. Maxine Nunn (New York: Metropolitan/Owl Books, 2000).

Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land, ed. and trans. Rachel Leah Jones (Boston: MIT Press, 2003).

Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).

Khamsin Collective, Palestine: Profile of an Occupation, Khamsin Series 14/15 (London and Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Zed Books, 1989).

Baruch Kimmerling and Joel S. Migdal, The Palestinian People: A History (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2003).

Zachary Lochman and Joel Beinin, eds., Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation (Boston: South End Press, 1989).

Muhammad Y. Muslih, The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).

Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network, The Wall in Palestine: Facts, Testimonies, Analysis and Call to Action (Jerusalem: PENGON/Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign, 2003).

Rosemary Sayigh, Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon (London: Zed Books, 1994).

Michael Sorkin, Against the Wall: Israeli's Barrier to Peace (New York: The New Press, 2005).

Nancy Stohlman and Laurieann Aladin, eds., Live From Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action Against the Israeli Occupation (Boston: South End Press, 2003).

Michel Warschawski, Toward an Open Tomb: The Crisis of Israeli Society, trans. Peter Drucker (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2004).

Racism and Inequality in Israel/Palestine

Jacques Berlinerblau, Heresy in the University: The Black Athena Controversy and the Responsibilities of American Intellectuals (New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1999).

Lenni Brenner, The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir (London: Zed Books, 1984).

Sami Shalom Chetrit, The Oriental Struggle in Israel 1948-2003 [Hebrew] (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2004).

Simha Flapan, Zionism and the Palestinians (London: Croon Helm; New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1979).

Asad Ghanem, The Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000: A Political Study (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001).

Aziz Haidar, On the Margins: The Arab Population in the Israeli Economy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1995).

Jada°Æ Jiladi, Discord in Zion: Conflict Between Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews in Israel (London: Scorpion Publishing, 1990).

Sabri Jiryis, Arabs in Israel, trans. Inea Bushnaq (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1976).

Amitava Kumar and Michael Ryan, eds., Politics and Culture 1 (2004): Special Issue on Edward Said Tributes.

Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1978).

Said and Christopher Hitchens, Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question (London and New York: Verso, 1988).

Shlomo Swirski, Israels Oriental Majority (London: Zed Books, 1989).

Keith W. Whitelam, The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History (London and New York: Routledge, 1996).

Israeli-Palestinian Culture

Ibraham Abu-Lughod et al, eds., The Landscape of Palestine: Equivocal Poetry (Birzeit: Birzeit University Publications, 1999).

Ammiel Alcalay, After Jews and Arabs: Remaking Levantine Culture (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).

Yerach Gover, Zionism: The Limits of Moral Discourse in Israeli Hebrew Fiction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994).

Salma Khadra Jayyusi, ed., Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1992).

Tasha G. Oren, Demon in the Box: Jews, Arabs, Politics, and Culture in the Making of Israeli Television (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004).

Greg Philo and Mike Berry, Bad News From Israel (London and Stirling, VA: Pluto Press, 2004).

Nissim Rejwan, Israel in Search of Identity (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1999).

Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman, eds., A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture (London: Verso; Tel Aviv: Babel, 2003).

Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1998).

Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, 2nd ed. (London: Pluto Press, 2003).

Ella Shohat, Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989).

Muhammad Siddiq, Man is a Cause: Political Consciousness and the Fiction of Ghassan Kanafani (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984).

Khalid A. Sulaiman, Palestine and Modern Arab Poetry (London: Zed Books, 1984).

Raz Yosef, Beyond Flesh: Queer Masculinities and Nationalism in Israeli Cinema (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004).

Palestinian Memoir

Fawzi El-Asmar, To Be an Arab in Israel, 2nd ed. (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1978).

Hanan Ashrawi, This Side of Peace (New York: Touchstone, 1996).

Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers (Tarrytown, NY: Chosen Books, 1984).

Emile Habiby, The Secret Life of Saeed, the Ill-Fated Pessoptimist, (New York: Vantage, 1982).

Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (London: Verso, 2004).

Jean Said Makdisi, Teta, Mother, and Me (London: Saqi Books, 2004).

Edward Said, Out of Place: A Memoir (New York: Knopf, 1999).

Raja Shehadeh, Strangers in the House (New York: Penguin, 2004).

Raymonda Hawa Tawil, My Home, My Prison (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979).

Fadwa Tuqan, Mountainous Journey - A Poet's Autobiography (Graywolf Press, 1990).

Journals on Israel/Palestine and the Middle East

Holy Land Studies
Israel Studies
Journal of Palestine Studies
Middle East Report
News from Within
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
The Other Israel
Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics, and Culture
Palestine Monitor
PSC News

Films about Israel/Palestine

Arna's Children (Juliano Mer-Khamis/Danniel Danniel,
Israel/Netherlands, 2003)
Balagan (Andres Veiel, Germany/Israel, 1994)
A Boy Called Mohamed (Najwa Najjar, Palestine, 2002)
Checkpoint [Machssomim] (Yaov Shamir, Israel, 2003)
Children of Shatila (Mai Masri, Lebanon, 1998)
Chronicle of a Disappearance (Elia Suleiman, Palestine/
Israel/Germany/US/France, 1997)
Chronique d'un si®®ge®DRamallah, Avril 2002 [Chronicle of a Siege/Ramallah, April 2002] (Samir Abdallah,
France, 2003)
Citizen Bishara (Simone Bitton, France, 2001)
Control Room (Jehane Nujaime, US/Egypt, 2003)
Cover-Up: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair (Barbara Trent/David Kasper, US, 1988)
The Curfew [Hatta ishar akhar] (Rashid Mashawari, Palestine, 1993)
Debris (Abdel Salam Shehada, Palestine, 2002)
Divine Intervention [Yadon ilaheyya] (Elia Suleiman, Palestine/France/Morocco/Germany, (2002)
Don't Touch My Holocaust [Al Tigu li B'Shoah] (Asher Tlalim, Israel, 1994)
The Earth [al-Ard] (Youssef Chahine, Egypt, 1969)
September 11 (Youssef Chahine et al., 2002)
Field Diary (Amos Gitai, Israel, 1982)
500 Dunam on the Moon (Rachel Leah Jones, France/US, 2002)
Ford Transit (Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine, 2002)
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs/The Iraqi Connection (Samir, Germany/Switzerland, 2003)
The Fourth World War (Jacqueline Soohen and Richard
Rowley, US, 2003)
Gaza Strip (James Longley, Palestine/US, 2002)
Haifa (Rashid Masharawi, Palestine, 1995)
Hiding and Seeking (Oren Rudavsky, US, 2004)
The Inner Tour (Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Israel, 2004)
In the Name of Security: The National Lawyers Guild
Delegation to the West Bank (Emily & Sarah Kunstler, US, 2002)
The Jahalin (Talya Ezrahi and Lewie Kerr, UK, 2000)
James' Journey to Jerusalem [Massa'ot James Be'eretz
Hakodesh] (Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, Israel, 2003)
Jenin Jenin (Mohammed Bakri, Israel, 2002)
Jours tranquilles en Palestine (Fouad Elkoury, France,1998)
Kaddim Wind/Moroccan Chronicle (David Benchetrit, Israel, 2002)
Kadosh (Amos Gitai, Israel/France, 1999)
Kedma (Amos Gitai, Israel/France/Italy, 2002)
Dispatches: The Killing Zone (Channel 4, UK, 2003)
Kippur (Amos Gitai, Israel/France, 2000)
Like Twenty Impossibles (Annemarie Jacir, Palestine/USA, 2003)
The Mountain [al-Djabal] (Hanna Elias, Palestine, 1991)
My Home, My Prison (Erica Marcus/Susana Blaustein, US, 1992)
My Land Zion (Yulie Cohen Gersel, Israel, 2004)
My Terrorist (Yulie Cohen Gerstel, Israel, 2002)
Nazareth 2000 (Hany Abu-Assad, Netherlands, 2000)
One Shot (Nurit Kadar, Israel, 2004)
Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, France/Palestine, 2005)
Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land (Bathsheba Ratzkoff/Sut Jhally, 2004)
Private (Saverio Constanzo, Italy, 2004)
Promises (Justine Shapiro/B. Z. Goldberg/Carlos Bolado, US/Israel/Palestine, 2000)
Ramleh (Michal Avia, Israel, 2002)
Rana's Wedding (Hany Abu-Assad, Palestine, 2002)
Ricochets [Shtei Etzbaot Mi'Tzidon] (Eli Cohen, Israel, 1986)
Route 181: Fragments of a Voyage in Palestine-Israel (Michel Khleifi & Eyal Sivan, France/England/Germany/Italy, 2004)
Shadows on the Other Side [Zilal ala al-djanib al-akhar] (Ghaleb Chaath, Egypt, 1971)
Souha: Surviving Hell (Randa Chahal Sabbag, Lebanon,2001)
The Specialist: Portrait of a Modern Criminal (Eyal Sivan, Israel/France/Germany/Belgium/Austria, 1999)
Standing With Palestine (Paper Tiger TV, US, 2003)
A State of Danger (Haim Bresheeth/Jenny Morgan, England, 1989)
Still Life (Cynthia Madansky, USA, 2004)
Terrorists in Retirement (Mosco Boucault, France, 1985)
Treyf (Alisa Lebow/Cynthia Madansky, US, 1998)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Alex Gibney and Eugene Jarecki, US/UK/Chile, 2002)
Wall [Mur] (Simone Bitton, France/Israel, 2004)
Wedding in Galilee [Urs al-Jalil] (Michel Khleifi, Israel/France/Belgium, 1987)
Women in Black (Donna Baillee, Israel/Palestine/UK, 2002)
Women in Struggle (Buthina Canaan Khoury, Palestine, 2005)
Zero Degrees of Separation (Elle Flanders, Canada, 2005)

Thank you to Terri Ginsberg for compiling this list.