Israel and Palestine: Resources (HC)

Moving from the 19th century to present, shows how a region rich with ethnic and religious diversity created a modern culture of coexistence amid Ottoman reformation, European colonialism, and the emergence of nationalism.

This anthology addresses the history and challenges of using "antisemitism" and related terms as tools for historical analysis and public discourse. It draws together essays by prominent scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States, encouraging readers to rethink assumptions regarding the meaning of Jewish history. It includes essays which discuss both Islamophobia and antisemitism.

This novel comes out of the lives of Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian, and Rami Elhanan, an Israeli. They both lost young daughters to violence in the conflict between israel and Palestine. Together they attempted to use their grief as a weapon for peace--and with their one small act, start to permeate what has for generations seemed an impermeable conflict.

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Dowty traces the roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, He demonstrates that existing Arab residents viewed new Jewish settlers as European and, hence, suspect foreigners. He shows that Jewish settlers had tremendous incentive to minimize all obstacles to settlement, including the hostility of the existing population.

Dear Zealots is classic Amos Oz--fluid, rich, masterly, and perfectly timed for a world in which polarization and extremism are rising everywhere. The essays were written, Oz states, "first and foremost" for his grandchildren: they are a patient, learned telling of history, religion, and politics, to be thumbed through and studied.

Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a complex psychological and empirical mix of the colonial and the postcolonial. Specifically, he examines the two seemingly contradictory, yet coexistent, anticolonial and postcolonial modes of politics adopted by Hamas.

The author argues that rather than resulting from the 9/11 attacks, anti-Muslim activity grows out of a fear of difference that has always characterized US public life. Elfenbein examines the effects of this fear on American Muslims, as well as how it shapes and distorts US society. Drawing on over 1,800 news reports of anti-Muslim activity, Elfenbein connects to the broader histories of immigration and race and examines how Muslim communities have responded.

From a noted cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the most vexed of places. Rafah, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip, is today and has always been a notorious flashpoint in this bitterest of conflicts. Buried deep in the archives is one bloody incident, in 1956, that left 111 Palestinians dead, shot by Israeli soldiers. Seemingly a footnote to a long history of killing, that day in Rafah--cold-blooded massacre or dreadful mistake--reveals the competing truths that have come to define an intractable war.

Baconi breaks new ground in questioning the conventional understanding of Hamas. He argues that, under Israel's approach of managing rather than resolving the conflict, Hamas's demand for Palestinian sovereignty has effectively been neutralized by its containment in Gaza. This dynamic has perpetuated a deadlock characterized by brutality.

Traces the history of Palestine from the Ottomans in the nineteenth century, through the British Mandate, the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and the subsequent wars and conflicts which have dominated this troubled region. Pappé explains the reasons for the failure of Oslo and the two-state solution, and reflects upon life thereafter.

Brings together speeches, letters, articles, and reports involving all the major interests pertaining to the conflict and area. Documents the origins of Zionism and Arab nationalism, the struggles surrounding Israel's independence in 1948, the Six-Day War and other wars and hostilities over the decades, the long diplomatic process, and many peace initiatives.

This account of the conflict between Israelis and their forebears, on the one hand, and Palestinians and theirs, on the other, offers an accessible introduction for readers. It interweaves biographical sketches, eyewitness accounts, poetry, fiction, and official documentation into its narrative.

Places the conflict in historical perspective and traces its evolution while providing a framework for understanding transformations over time. Punctures the myths of an "age-old" and irreconcilable conflict with an unbridgeable gap between the two sides. (Link is to 4th edition; 5th edition from 2023 is on order.)

In his unique combination of close reasoning, polemic, personal experience and jokes, Baddiel argues that those who think of themselves as on the right side of history have often ignored the history of anti-Semitism. He outlines why and how, in a time of intensely heightened awareness of minorities, Jews don't count as a real minority: and why they should.

Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, this book is a powerful contribution to understanding Palestinian experience. Gaza, home to two million people, continues to face suffocating conditions imposed by Israel. This anthology imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while reaffirming the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity and history.

The chief Middle East negotiator in both the Clinton and Bush administrations offers an assessment of the peace process from 1988-2001. He explains issues at the heart of the struggle for peace: border disputes, Israeli security, the Palestinian "right of return," and the status of Jerusalem.

Two experts debunk misconceptions about the Middle East and present a concise and far-reaching set of principles. These historic misunderstandings have generated years' worth of failed policies and crippled America's ability to make productive decisions in this volatile part of the world.

This novel of graphic journalism, published in 1996, is based on months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip (where Sacco conducted interviews with Palestinians and Jews). Palestine has been favorably compared to Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus for its ability to brilliantly navigate such socially and politically sensitive subject matter within the confines of the comic book medium.

This book comprises the history of two peoples, in separate narratives, taken from Israeli and Palestinian textbooks. Passages are set literally side by side, so that readers can track each against the other, noting both where they differ as well as where they correspond. This format reveals surprising juxtapositions and allows readers to consider and process the very different viewpoints and logic of each side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Too often, the study of Israel/Palestine has focused on elite actors and major events. "Struggle and Survival in Palestine/Israel "takes advantage of new sources about everyday life and the texture of changes on the ground to put more than two dozen human faces on the past and present of the region.

The Holocaust and the Nakba are foundational traumas in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian societies and form key parts of each respective collective identity. This book offers a parallel analysis of the transmission of these foundational pasts in their respective societies by exploring how they have been narrated since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords.

This book argues that it is only through an act of "political alchemy" that Israel is understood to embody progressive values of tolerance, plurality, inclusivity, and democracy. The book argues that this transformation involves a specific form of denial in which Palestinian presence in, and claim to, Palestine is not simply refused or covered up, but negated in such a way that the act of denial is itself denied.

In 1929, an outbreak of Arab-Jewish-British violence transformed the political landscape of Palestine forever. Instead of tracing the conflict to 1948 or 1967, this book argues that 1929 is the beginning of the conflict that persists today.