Palestine Reader and Links

A start

Edward Said throwing a stone at an Israeli Guardhouse in South Lebanon in 2000.

Here’s the reaction to what happened after he did.

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A lot of these links were first compiled on Tumblr (a big shoutout to user readokaygo)

I feel compelled to share here, so you can also share.

Recent Pieces:

• Palestine’s head of mental health services says PTSD is a western concept by Quartz

• Israel’s Occupation of the West Bank Extends to the Electromagnetic Spectrum by Failed Architecture 

• CBC Journalists Told They Can’t Cover Israel-Palestine After Demanding Fairer Coverage by CBC

• The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems by The Boston Review

Anti-Blackness in Israel

• Contraceptives without Consent

• Dumped Blood Donations

• A report of illegal testing of Ethiopian Jewish blood

• Military Prison Incarceration Rates are Higher Among Ethiopian Soldiers who once served in the IDF

• Violence from the Police

• Black lives do not matter in Israel

On Theory

• Orientalism by Edward Said

• Orientalism Reconsidered by Edward Said

• The Question of Palestine by Edward Said

• Reading Said in Hebrew by Ella Shohat

• Notes on the “Post-Colonial” by Ella Shohat

On History

• History of Palestine by Dr. Mohsen Mohammed Saleh

• Sabra and Shatila: September 1982 by Bayan Nuwayhed al-Hout

• Peace and its Discontents by Edward Said

On Being Palestinian

• What It Means to be Palestinian by Dina Matar

• A Narrative of Palestinian Dispossession by Samia Costandi

• The Palestinian Exile as Writer by Jabra I. Jabra

• My People Shall Live by Leila Khaled

• Memoirs, 1948 Part I by Fauzi Al-Qawuqji

• Memoirs, 1948 Part II

• Palestinian Identity and the Performance of Catastrophe by Ihab Saloul

On Zionism

• Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims by Edward Said

• Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Victims by Ella Shohat

• Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism by Judith Butler

• The Invention of the Mizrahim by Ella Shohat

• Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel by Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky

• Jewish History, Jewish Religion by Israel Shahak

• The Ends of Zionism by Joseph Massad

• The Persistence of the Palestinian Question by Joseph Massad

• On Imperialism and Settler Colonialism in West Asia by Jamil Hilal

• The Hidden History of Zionism by Ralph Schoenman

• How the Zionists Took Over Palestine by Adel Safty

• Imperial Israel and the Palestinians by Nur Masalha

• After Zionism by Antony Loewenstein and Ahmed Moor

On the Holocaust

• Respecting the Holocaust by Howard Zinn

• The Holocaust: Learning the Wrong Lessons by Boaz Evron

• The Victimhood of the Powerful by Jennifer Peto

On Media

• Propaganda, Perception, and Reality by William A. Cook

• Israeli Cinema an interview with Ella Shohat

• Israeli Cinema by Ella Shohat

• Palestinian Cinema by Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi

On Al Nakba

• The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

• The Saga of Deir Yassin

• The Fall of Lydda by Spiro Munayyer

• Returning to Kafr Bir’im

• How Palestine became Israel by Stephen Hallbrook

• The Palestinian Exodus of 1948 by Simha Flapan

• Why Did the Palestinians Leave by Walid Khalidi

• Selected Documents on 1948

• The Limits of the New Israeli History by Joel Beinin

On Genocide

• Genocide or Erasure of Palestinians by Kathleen and Bill Christison

• Israel’s Slow-Motion Genocide in Occupied Palestine by Steve Lendman

• Ongoing Palestinian Genocide by Gideon Polya

• The Lessons of Violence by Chris Hedges

• The Brutal Siege of Gaza Can Only Breed Violence by Karen Koning AbuZayd

• The Olive Trees of Palestine Weep by Sonja Karkar

• Slouching toward a Palestinian Holocaust by Richard Falk

• Gaza is Dying by Patrick Cockburn

• Israeli Immunity for Genocide by Andrea Howard

• Palestinian Misery in Perspective by Paul De Rooij

• Gaza’s Holocaust by Dr. Elias Akleh

• Genocide Hides Behind Expulsion by Adi Ophir

• The British in Palestine, A Conveniently Forgotten Holocaust by Robert Fisk

• European Collusion in Israel’s Slow Genocide by Omar Barghouti

• Genocide in Gaza by Ilan Pappe

• Genocide Among Us by Curtis F. J. Doebbler

• Bleaching the Atrocities of Genocide by Kim Petersen

• The Rape of Palestine by William A. Cook

• Israel Plots Another Palestinian Exodus by Jonathan Cook

• Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing by Uri Avnery

• Disappearing Palestine by Jonathan Cook

• The Problem With Israel by Jeff Halper

• Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe

• Drying Out the Palestinians

• To Gaza I Did Not Go by Gideon Levy

• Gaza, the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison by Noam Chomsky

• The Most Humane Little Checkpoint by Amira Hass

On BDS

• BDS: Winning Justice for the Palestinian People

• Why Boycott Israeli Universities?

• The Necessity of Cultural Boycott by Ilan Pappe

• Companies Supporting Israeli Occupation

On Solutions:

• Two-State Illusion by Ian S. Lustick

• Relative Humanity: The Essential Obstacle to a One-State Solution by Omar Barghouti

• Where Now For Palestine? by Jamil Hilal

Videos:

Another Screen’s line-up of films by Palestinian Women

John Oliver’s Segment on Palestine

What It’s Like to Grow Up in an Israeli Settlement by Iris Zaki 

Edward Said on Palestine 

Gabor Maté on Palestine

Noam Chomsky on Palestine

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