This is a short bibliography on books that should be read by anyone seeking a deeper and clearer understanding of the Palestine struggle. The list includes an extensive reference that treat the subject of Palestine from a variety of concerns and if read over time would provide a solid grounding on the subject. Reading Edward Said’s book is a must as a starting point then one can delve into Walid Khalidi’s work to be followed by other materials based on the reader’s interests. I will be adding more books to the list in the near future.
- The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
- The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinians Self-Determination by Edward Said
- Jerusalem in History by K. J. Asali
- From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem Until 1948 edited by Walid Khalidi
- All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 by Walid Khalidi
- The Transformation of Palestine edited by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod
- Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “transfer in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 by Nur Masalha
- The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology and Post-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine, Nur Masalha
- The Palestinian Nakba: Decolonizing History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory, Nur Masalha
- Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness by Rashid Khalidi
- The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi
- Islam and the Problem of Israel by Isma’il Raji al-Faruqi
- Rediscovering Palestine by Beshara Doumani
- The Palestinians: Eyewitness History of Palestine Under British Mandate by Izzat Tannous
- The Obstruction of Peace: The US., Israel, and the Palestinians by Naseer Aruri
- Occupation: Israel Over Palestine by Naseer Aruri
- The Exile’s Return: The Making of a Palestinian-American by Fawaz Turki
- The Birth of Israel: Myth and Realities by Simha Flapan
- Zionism and the Palestinians by Simha Flapan
- Israel’s Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit, Elia Zureik
- Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman Finkelstein
- Perceptions of Palestine by Kathleen Christison
- The Invention of Ancient Israel by Keith W. Whitelam
- The Mythic Past: Biblical Archeology and the Myth of Israel by Thomas L. Thompson
- Original Sins: Reflections on the History of Zionism and Israel by Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
- Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? Maxime Rodinson
- Cult, Ghetto, and State: The Persistence of the Jewish Question, Maxime Rodinson
- The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why by Benjamin Beit Hallahmi
- King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan by Mary C. Wilson
- Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, The Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine by Avi Shlaim
- The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir by Lenni Brenner
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
- A History of Modern Palestine by Ilan Pappe
- The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Ilan Pappe
- Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman
- The Least of All Possible Evils: Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza, Eyal Weizman
- The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel, Gabriel Piterberg
- Palestine and the Palestinians in the 21st Century, Edited by Rochelle Davis and Mimi Kirk
- The Colonial Present: Afghanistan, Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory
- Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice by John Quigley
- Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Charles Dr. Smith
- Israel and Latin America: The Military Connection by Bishara Bahbah
- The Passionate Attachment: America’s Involvement with Israel, 1947 to the Present by Ball, George W. and Douglas B.
- Peace for Palestine: First Lost Opportunity by Rabbi Elmer Berger
- Zionism: The Dream and the Reality: A Jewish Critique by Gary V. Smith
- Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948 by Thomas A. Kolsky
- Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts about the US-Israeli Relationship by Paul Findley
- They Dare to Speak Out by Paul Findley
- The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
- Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal
- Israeli Foreign Policy: South Africa and Central America by Jane Hunter
- Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Virginia Tilley
- To Be an Arab in Israel by Fouzi El-Asmar
- The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile by Fawaz Turki
- Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema edited by Hamid Dabashi
- Palestine, “…it is something colonial,” by Hatem Bazian