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  • Uncivil Rites

    by Steven Salaita
    Salaita’s controversial firing by the University of Illinois provoked a national conversation about academic freedom and the question of Palestine.

  • The Struggle for Palestine

    Edited by Lance Selfa

    Leading international solidarity activists offer insight into the ongoing struggle for Palestinian freedom and justice. Includes Anthony Arnove,...

  • Shell Shocked

    by Mohammed Omer
    Gripping eye-witness account of Operation Protective Edge by only Palestinian reporting in English from Gaza during Israel's 2014 assault.

  • Rifqa

    by Mohammed El-Kurd

    Rifqa is Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd’s ode to his late grandmother, and to the Palestinian struggle for liberation. ‘Jerusalem is ours.’

  • The Pen and the Sword

    by David Barsamian and Edward W. Said
    Interviews with the late Edward Said, world-renowned literary scholar, cultural critic, and advocate for Palestinian rights.

  • Palestine: A Socialist Introduction

    Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

    This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in socialist organizing and of socialism in the struggle to free Palestine.

  • The Palestine Communist Party 1919-1948

    by Musa Budeiri
    This is the definitive account of a secular party that forged links between Arabs and Jews.

  • Oranges in No Man's Land

    by Elizabeth Laird
    A gripping story of a girl risking death to make a lifesaving dash through wartorn Beirut.

  • On Palestine

    by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
    Chomsky and Pappé discuss the past and future of Palestine.

  • On Edward Said

    by Hamid Dabashi

    An intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries' leading public intellectuals.

  • On Antisemitism

    by Jewish Voice for Peace
    The uses and abuses of antisemitism in the 21st Century, collected by Jewish Voice for Peace.

  • Midnight on the Mavi Marmara

    Edited by Moustafa Bayoumi
    The definitive account and overview of the attack on the Mavi Marmara freedom flotilla by the state of Israel.

  • A Little Piece of Ground

    by Elizabeth Laird
    An extraordinary book about war and peace through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.

  • Israelis and Palestinians

    by Moshé Machover
    A lifelong activist, Moshé Machover's essays, written as an Israeli socialist in solidarity with the Palestinian people, are collected here.

  • Gaza in Crisis

    by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
    As Israel continues its barbaric assault on Gaza, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe put the recent campaign against Gaza.

  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle

    by Angela Y. Davis
    Activist, teacher, author and icon of the Black Power movement Angela Davis talks Ferguson, Palestine, and prison abolition.

  • Fateful Triangle

    by Noam Chomsky
    A comprehensive indictment of what Noam Chomsky calls the "disgraceful and extremely dangerous" policy the US has enacted towards Israel.

  • The False Prophets of Peace

    by Tikva Honig-Parnass
    This critique of Left Zionism argues a Jewish-only state cannot offer peace or justice for Palestinians

  • Culture and Resistance

    by David Barsamian and Edward W. Said

    Edward W. Said discusses the importance and centrality of popular resistance in the framework of culture, history, and struggle. He reveals...

  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

    by Omar Barghouti
    As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.

  • Between the Lines

    by Toufic Haddad and Tikva Honig-Parnass
    A challenge to fundamentally rethink the basis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today.

  • Before the Next Bomb Drops

    by Remi Kanazi
    Before the Next Bomb Drops explores the Israeli occupation of Palestine and US militarism through a poetic lens.

  • The Battle for Justice in Palestine

    by Ali Abunimah
    Ali Abunimah provides an effective strategy for advancing the struggle for a just, single-state solution in Palestine.

  • Apartheid Israel

    Edited by Sean Jacobs and Jon Soske
    Eighteen prominent South African scholars reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel.