Resources
Resources for Conflict in Gaza Event
Conflict in Gaza Event Flyer (pdf)
Background for Palestine and Israel
Readings
Jimmy Carter, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid [2007]
Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance [2021]
Laila Parsons, The Commander: Fawzi Al-Qawuqji and the Fight for Arab Independence 1914-1948 [2016]
U. Makdisi, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World [2019]
Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine [2007]
Tom Segev, 1967 [2008]
Noam Chomsky, The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians [1983]
Mark Tessler, A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [2009]
Video
Podcasts
The Dig February-March 2024 episodes featuring Abdel Razzaq Takriti
The Ezra Klein Show from the New York Times especially episodes from November-December 2023
Literature and Film
Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun [1962/1999, tr. H. Kilpatrick]
Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut 1982 [1987/1995 tr. I. Muhawi]
Edward Said, After the Last Sky [1986]
Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns [1975/1986 tr. T. LeGassick and E. Fernea]
Anton Shammas, Arabesques [1988]
Hussein Barghouti, Among the Almond Trees: A Palestinian Memoir [2022]
Maya Abu Al-Hayat, You Can Be the Last Leaf [2022, tr. I. Muhawi]
Elia Suleiman, dir. The Time that Remains [2009]
Hany Abu-Asad, dir. Paradise Now [2005]
Books
Hillel Cohen, Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929, Brandeis University Press, 2015,
Alan Dowty, Israel / Palestine, 5th Edition, Polity, 2023.
Benjamin Ginsberg, The New American Anti-Semitism: The Left, the Right, and the Jews, 2024.
Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present, 2022.
Benny Morris, 1948: A History of the First Arab–Israeli War, Yale University Press, 2008.
Benny Morris, One State, Two States: Resolving the Israel/Palestine Conflict, Yale University Press, 2009.
Walter Russel Meade, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, Knopf, 2022.
Articles
Arnon Degani, “Zionism's Flipside: A Reconsideration of Settler-Colonialism in Israel/Palestine”
Franklin Foer, “THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN JEWS IS ENDING,” The Atlantic, March 4, 2024:
Nicole Narea and Li Zhou, “Hamas, the militant group that attacked Israel, explained,” Vox, October 10, 2023:
Michael Oren, On the Loneliness of the Jews, March 19, 2024
Yair Rosenberg, “What Did Top Israeli War Officials Really Say About Gaza?,” The Atlantic, January 21, 2024:
Dov Waxman, “Why has Gaza frequently become a battlefield between Hamas and Israel?,” OUP Blong, May 2021.
Videos, Podcasts, and Social Media
Unapologetic: The Third Narrative, Ibrahim and Amira
Military analysis of the war: John Spencer, Chair of Urban Warfare Studies, West Point, twitter: @SpencerGuard. Also in: Times Radio,
Interactive maps, timelines, etc. of the war