The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Reading List

This compilation is marked by two conspicuous constraints: largely (i.e., with a few important exceptions) books only, in English. The first constraint is owing to the desire to keep the list manageable, the second because I’m not well acquainted with the bulk of the literature in other languages. I welcome suggestions for further titles.

• Abbas, Mahmoud (Abu Mazin). Through Secret Channels: The Road to Oslo—Senior PLO Leader Abu Mazen’s Revealing Story of the Negotiations with Israel. Reading, UK: Garnet, 1995.
• Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim. The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1971.
• Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim. Palestinian Rights: Affirmation and Denial. Wilmette, IL: Medina Press, 1982.
• Abu-Lughod, Ibrahim, ed. The Arab-Israeli Confrontation of June 1967: An Arab Perspective. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970.
• Abuminah, Ali. One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse. New York: Holt McDougal, 2007.
• Alam, M. Shahid. Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
• Aranson, Geoffrey. Israel, Palestinians and the Intifada: Creating Facts on the West Bank. London: Kegan Paul International, 1990.
• Arnon. Arie, Sara Roy and Leila Farsakh. Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation. London: Routledge, 2005.
• Aruri, Naseer H. The Obstruction of Peace: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press, 1995.
• Aruri, Naseer H. Dishonest Broker: The Role of the United States in Palestine and Israel. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2003.
• Aruri, Naseer H., ed. Occupation: Israel Over Palestine. London: Zed Books, 1984.
• Asali, Kamil J., ed. Jerusalem in History. New York: Olive Branch Press/Interlink, 2000. 
• Auyyad, Abdelaziz A. Arab Nationalism and the Palestinians, 1850-1939. Jerusalem: Passia, 1999.
• Avineri, Shlomo. The Making of Modern Zionism. New York: Basic Books, 1981.
• Awad, Mubarak. Nonviolent Resistance in the Middle East. Philadelphia, PA: New Society            Publishers, 1985.
• Awad, Mubarak E. and R. Scott Kennedy. Nonviolent Struggle in the Middle East. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publ., 1985.
• Barghouti, Omar. BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions—The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2011.
• Baroud, Ramzy. The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
• Baroud, Ramzy. My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza’s Untold Story. London: Pluto Press, 2010.
• Beinin, Joel and Rebecca L. Stein, eds. The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, with the Middle East Research and Information Project, 2006.
• Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why. New York: Pantheon Books, 1987.
• Ben-Ami, Shlomo. Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
• Ben-Eliezer, Uri. The Making of Israeli Militarism, 1936-1956. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998.
• Benvenisti, Eyal. Legal Dualism: The Absorption of the Occupied Territories into Israel. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
• Benvenisti, Eyal. The International Law of Occupation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993.
• Benvenisti, Meron. Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.
• Bernstein, Deborah S. Constructing Boundaries: Jewish and Arab Workers in Mandatory Palestine. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000.
• Bisharat, Geroge. Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule: Law and Disorder in the West Bank. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1989.
• Black, Edwin. The Transfer Agreement: The Dramatic Story of the Pact Between the Third Reich and Jewish Palestine. New York: Basic Books, 2001. ed.
• Black, Ian and Benny Morris. Israel’s Secret Wars: The Untold History of Israeli Intelligence. London: Hamish Manilton, 1991.
• Bowen, Stephen, ed. Human Rights, Self-Determination, and Political Change in the Occupied Territories. The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997.
• Boyle, Francis A. Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law. Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2003.
• Brand, Laurie. Palestinians in the Arab World: Institution Building and the Search for a State. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
• Brenner, Lenni. The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir. London: Zed Books, 1984.
• Bröning, Michael. The Politics of Change in Palestine: State-Building and Nonviolent Resistance. London: Pluto Press, 2011.
• Budeiri, Musa. The Palestine Communist Party, 1919-1948: Arab and Jew in the Struggle for Internationalism. London: Ithaca, 1979.
• Brynen, Rex, ed. Echoes of the Intifada: Regional Repercussions of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.

• Carey, Roane, ed. The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid. London: Verso, 2001.
• Carey, Roane and Jonathan Shanin, eds. The Other Israel. New York: New Press, 2002.
• Caridi, Paola. Hamas: From Resistance to Government. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2012.
• Cheshin, Amir S., Bill Hutman, and Avi Melamed. Separate and Unequal: The Inside Story of Israeli Rule in East Jerusalem. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
• Chomsky, Noam. The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999 ed.
• Chomsky, Noam. Middle East Illusions. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
• Chomsky, Noam and Ilan Pappé. Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War against the Palestinians. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books, 2010.
• Christison, Kathleen. Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1999.
• Cobban, Helena. The Palestinian Liberation Organisation: People, Power and Politics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1984.
• Cohen, Avner. The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
• Cohen, Esther Rosalind. Human Rights in the Israeli-Occupied Territories, 1967-1982. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 1985.
• Cohen, Michael J. Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1982.
• Collins, John. Global Palestine. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
• Cook, Catherine, Adam Hanieh and Adah Kay. Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Children. London: Pluto Press, 2004.
• Cook, Jonathan. Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
• Cook, Jonathan. Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair. London: Zed Books, 2008.
• Cook, Jonathan. Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East. London: Pluto Press, 2008.
• Cypel, Sylvain. Walled: Israeli Society at an Impasse. New York: Other Press, 2006. D
• Dalsheim, Joyce. Unsettling Gaza: Secular Liberalism, Radical Religion, and the Israeli Settlement Project. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
• David, Joseph E. ‘Beyond the Janus Face of Zionist Legalism: The Theo-Political Conditions of the Jewish Law Project,’ Ratio Juris, Vol. 18, No. 2 (June 2005): 206 -235.
• Davis, Uri. Israel: An Apartheid State. London: Zed Press, 1987.
• Dawisha, Adeed. Arab Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: From Triumph to Despair. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
• Dinero, Steven C. Settling for Less: The Planned Resettlement of Israel’s Negev Bedouin. New York: Berghahn Books, 2010.
• Dowty, Alan. The Jewish State: A Century Later. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
• Dowty, Alan and Alvin S. Rubenstein, eds. Arab Israeli Conflict: Perspectives. New York: HarperCollins, 1990.
• Dunsky, Marda. Pens and Swords: How the Mainstream American Media Report the Israeli-            Palestinian Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.
• Efrat, Elisha. The West Bank and Gaza Strip: A Geography of Occupation and Disengagement. London: Routledge, 2006.
• El-Eini, Roza I.M. Mandated Landscape: British Imperial Rule in Palestine, 1929-1948. London: Frank Cass, 2005.
• El-Haj, Nadia Abu. Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
• Ellis, Marc H. Judaism Does Not Equal Israel. New York: The New Press, 2009.
• Elon, Amos. Jerusalem: City of Mirrors. Boston, MA: Little, Brown & Co., 1989.
• Elon, Amos. Jerusalem: Battleground of Memories. New York: Kodansha International, 1995.
• Enderlin, Charles. Shattered Dreams: The Failure of the Peace Process in the Middle East, 1995-2002. New York: Other Press, 2003.
• Falk, Richard and Burns H. Weston. ‘The Relevance of International Law to Palestinian Rights in the West Bank and Gaza: In Legal Defense of the Intifada,’ Harvard International Law Journal 32, No. 1 (1991): 191-204.
• Farsoun, Samih K. (with Christian E. Zacharia). Palestine and the Palestinians. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997.
• Feige, Michael. One Space, Two Places: Gush Emunim, Peace Now, and the Construction of Israeli Space. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2001.
• Finkelstein, Norman G.. Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict. London: Verso, 1995.
• Finkelstein, Norman G. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008 ed.
• Finkelstein, Norman G. “This Time We Went Too Far:” Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. New York: OR Books, 2010.
• Fischbach, Michael R. Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
• Flapan, Simha. The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities. New York: Pantheon, 1987.
• Fleischmann, Ellen I. The Nation and Its ‘New’ Women: The Palestinian Women’s Movement, 1920-1948. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.
• Friedland, Roger and Richard Hecht. To Rule Jerusalem. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Friedman, Robert I. Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel’s West Bank Settler Movement. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.
• Galnoor, Itzhak. The Partition of Palestine: Decision Crossroads in the Zionist Movement. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1995.
• Gans, Chaim. A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
• Gazit, Shlomo. Trapped Fools: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories. London: Frank Cass, 2003.
• Gelvin, James L. The Israel-Palestine Conflict: One Hundred Years of War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2^nd ed., 2007.
• Gerner, Deborah J. One Land, Two Peoples: The Conflict over Palestine. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2^nd ed., 1994.
• Gershoni, Israel and James Jankowski, eds. Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
• Ghanem, As’ad. The Palestinian Regime: A “Partial Democracy.” Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001.
• Glass, Charles. “The Great Lie,” London Review of Books, Vol. 22, No. 23, 30 November 2000.
• Glass, Charles. “Balfour, Weizmann and the Creation of Israel,” London Review of Books, Vol. 23, No. 11, 7 June 2001.
• Gordon, Neve. Israel’s Occupation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
• Gordon, Neve and Ruchama Marton, eds. Torture, Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel. London: Zed Books, 1995.
• Gorenberg, Gershom. The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977. New York: Times Books, 2006.
• Gorny, Yosef. Zionism and the Arabs, 1882-1948: A Study of Ideology. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1987. 
• Grabar, Oleg. The Shape of the Holy: Early Islamic Jerusalem. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
• Graham-Brown, Sarah. Education, Repression, Liberation: Palestinians. London: World             University Service, 1984.
• Gunning, Jeroen. Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
• Hadawi, Sami. Bitter Harvest: A Modern History of Palestine. New York: Olive Branch Press, 1989.
• Hajjar, Lisa. Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza. London: University of California Press, 2005.
• Hart, Alan. Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker? London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1984.
• Hass, Amira. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land under Siege. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1996.
• Hertzberg, Arthur. The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader. Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1997.
• Herzl, Theodor. The Jewish State. New York: Dover, 1989 (original published by the American Zionist Emergency Council, New York, 1946).
• Hilal, Jamil, ed. Where Now for Palestine? The Demise of the Two-State Solution. London: Zed Books, 2007.
• Hiltemann, Joost R. Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women’s Movements in the Occupied Territories. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
• Hirst, David. The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press/Nation Books, 3^rd ed., 2003.
• Horowitz, Adam, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss, eds. The Goldstone Report. New York: Nation Books, 2011.
• Hussein, Hussein Abu and Fiona McKay. Access Denied: Palestinian Land Rights in Israel. London: Zed Books, 2003.
• Karmi, Ghada. Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
• Kattan, Victor. From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1891-1949. London: Pluto Press, 2009.
• Kattan, Victor, ed. The Palestine Question in International Law. London: British Institute of International and Comparative Law, 2008.
• Kaufman-Lacusta, Maxine, ed. Refusing to be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Reading, UK: Ithaca Press/Garnet, 2010. Keddie, Nikki R. Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006 ed. 2007.
• Khalaf, Issa. Politics in Palestine: Arab Factionalism and Social Disintegration. 1939-1948. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1991.
• Khalidi, Rashid. Under Siege: PLO Decision-Making during the 1982 War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.
• Khalidi, Rashid. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
• Khalidi, Rashid. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2006.
• Khalidi, Rashid, et al., eds. The Origins of Arab Nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
• Khalidi, Walid, ed. All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
• Kimmerling, Baruch. Zionism and Territory: The Socio-Territorial Dimensions of Zionist Politics. Berkeley, CA; University of California Press, 1983.
• Kimmerling, Baruch. The Invention and Decline of Israeliness: State, Society and the Military. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
• Kimmerling, Baruch. Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s War Against the Palestinians. London: Verso, 2003.  
• Kimmerling, Baruch, ed. The Israeli State and Society: Boundaries and Frontiers. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989.
• Kimmerling, Baruch and Joel S. Migdal. The Palestinian People: A History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
• King, Mary Elizabeth. A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance. New York: Nation Books, 2007.
• Kovel, Joel. Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
• Krämer, Gudrun. A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.
• Kretzmer, David. The Legal Status of the Arabs in Israel. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990.
• Kretzmer, David. The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002.
• Langer, Felicia. With My Own Eyes: Israel and the Occupied Territories, 1967-1973. London: Ithaca Press, 1975.
• Law, Stephen, ed. Israel, Palestine and Terror. London: Continuum, 2008.
• Lesch, Ann Mosely. Arab Politics in Palestine, 1917-1939: The Frustration of a Nationalist Movement. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979.
• LeVine, Mark. Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
• Levy, Gideon. The Punishment of Gaza. London: Verso, 2010.
• Lockman, Zachary. Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine, 1906-1948. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1996.
• Lockman, Zachary and Joel Beinin, eds. Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation. Boston, MA: South End Press/A MERIP Book, 1989.
• Lustik, Ian. Arabs in the Jewish State: Israel’s Control of a National Minority. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1980.
• Lustik, Ian. Unsettled States, Disputed Lands. New York: Cornell University Press, 1993.
• Makdisi, Saree. Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2008.
• Mandel, Neville J. Arabs and Zionism before World War I. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1976.
• Maoz, Zeev. Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel’s Security and Foreign Policy. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2006.
• Marmor, Andrei, “Entitlement to Land and the Right of Return: An Embarrassing Challenge for Liberal Zionism” (2003), USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 03-17. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=424622
• Masalha, Nur. The Expulsion of Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
• Masalha, Nur. A Land Without People: Israel, Transfer and the Palestinians. London: Faber and Faber, 1997.
• Masalha, Nur. Imperial Israel and the Palestinians: The Politics of Expansion, 1967-2000. London: Pluto Press, 2000.
• Masalha, Nur. The Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem. London: Pluto, 2003.
• Masalha, Nur. The Bible and Zionism: Invented Traditions, Archaeology, and Post-Colonialism in Israel-Palestine. London: Zed Books, 2007.
• Mattar, Philip. The Mufti of Jerusalem: Al-Hajj Amin al-Husayni and the Palestinian National Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
• Mayer, Arno. Plowshares into Swords: From Zionism to Israel. London: Verso, 2008.
• McDowall, David. Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1989.
• McGeough, Paul. Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas. New York: New Press, 2009.
• Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
• Mishal, Shaul and Reuben Aharoni. Speaking Stones: Communiques from the Intifada Underground. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
• Mishal, Shaul and Avraham Sela. The Palestinian Hamas: Vision, Violence, and Coexistence. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
• Morris, Benny. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
• Morris, Benny. Israel’s Border Wars, 1949-1956. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
• Murray, Helen. Barriers to Education: The Israeli Military Obstruction of Access to Schools and Universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Birzeit, West Bank: Birzeit University, 2004.
• Muslih, Muhammad Y. The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
• Nassar, Jamal R. The Palestinian Liberation Organization: From Armed Struggle to the Declaration of Independence. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1991.
• Nassar, Jamal R. and Roger Heacock, eds. Intifada: Palestine at the Crossroads. New York: Praeger, 2007.
• Newman, David. Jewish Settlement in the West Bank: The Role of Gush Emunim. Durham, England: Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, 1982.
• Norton, Augustus Richard. Hezbollah: A Short History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007.
• Norton, Augustus Richard and Martin J. Greenberg, eds. The International Relations of the             Palestine Liberation Organization. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989.
• Nusseibeh, Sari. What is a Palestinian State Worth? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
• Owen, Roger, ed. Studies in the Economic and Social History of Palestine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1982.
• Pappé, Ilan. Britain and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1948-1951. New York: Macmillan, 1988.
• Pappé, Ilan. The Making of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1947-1951. London: I.B. Tauris, 1994.
• Pappé, Ilan. A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003 ed.
• Pappé, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2006.
• Pappé, Ilan, ed. The Israel/Palestine Question: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 2007.
• Peleg, Ilan. Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza: Legacy and Politics. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.
• Peleg, Ilan and Dov Waxman. Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Peteet, Julie. Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.
• Peteet, Julie. Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
• Piterberg, Gabriel. The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel. London: Verso, 2008.
• Polakow-Suransky, Sasha. The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship with South Africa. New York: Pantheon Books, 2010.
• Porath, Yehoshua. The Emergence of the Palestinian-Arab National Movement, 2 Vols. London: Frank Cass, 1974 and 1977.
• Prior, Michael. Zionism and the State of Israel: A Moral Inquiry. London: Routledge, 1999.
• Prior, Michael, ed. Speaking the Truth about Zionism and Israel. London: Melisende, 2004.
• Quandt, William B., Fuad Jabber and Ann Mosley Lesch. The Politics of Palestinian Nationalism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1973.
• Quigley, John. The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Ram, Haggai. Iranophobia: The Logic of an Iranian Obsession. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009.
• Ravitzky, Aviezer (Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman, trans.). Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 
• Reinhart, Tanya. The Road Map to Nowhere: Israel/Palestine since 2003. London: Verso, 2006.
• Robinson, Glen E. Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997.
• Rodinson, Maxime. Israel: A Colonial-Settler State? New York: Anchor Foundation/Pathfinder, 1973.
• Rogan, Eugene L. and Avi Shlaim, eds. The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Romann, Michael and Alex Weingrod. Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
• Rose, Jacqueline. The Question of Zion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007 ed.
• Rose, John. The Myths of Zionism. London: Pluto Press, 2004.
• Ross, Dennis. The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
• Rouhana, Nadim. Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997.
• Roy, Sara. Failing Peace: Gaza and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
• Roy, Sara. Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.
• Rubenberg, Cheryl A. The Palestinians: In Search of a Just Peace. Boulder, CO: Lynn Rienner, 2003.
• Rubenberg, Cheryl A., ed. Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008.
• Saad-Ghorayeb, Amal. Hizbu’llah: Politics and Religion. London: Pluto Press, 2002.
• Said, Edward W. The Question of Palestine. New York: Vintage Books, 1979.
• Said, Edward W. The End of the Peace Process: Oslo and After. New York: Vintage Books, 2001 ed.
• Said, Edward W. and Christopher Hitchens, eds. Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question. London: Verso, 1988.
• Sayigh, Rosemary. Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries. London: Zed Press, 1979.
• Sayigh, Rosemary. Too Many Enemies: The Palestinian Experience in Lebanon. London: Zed, 1994.
• Sayigh, Yezid. Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1997.
• Segal, Rafi and Eyal Weizman. A Civilian Occupation: The Politics of Israeli Architecture. London: Verso, 2003.  
• Segev, Tom. 1949: The First Israelis. New York: Free Press, 1992.
• Segev, Tom. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
• Seikaly, May. Haifa: Transformation of a Palestinian Arab Society, 1918-1939. London: I.B. Tauris, 1995.
• Shafir, Gershon. Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Shafir, Gershon and Yoav Peled. The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001.
• Shalev, Aryeh. The Intifada: Causes and Effects. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.
• Shamir, Ronen. In the Colonies of Law: Colonialism, Zionism, and Law in Early Mandate Palestine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Shapira, Anita. Land and Power: The Zionist Resort to Force. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• Shehadeh, Raja. Occupier’s Law: Israel and the West Bank. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1985.
• Shehadeh, Raja. Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
• Shindler, Colin. The Triumph of Military Zionism: Nationalism and the Origins of the Israeli Right. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.
• Shlaim, Avi. Collusions across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement and the Partition of Palestine. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1988.
• Shlaim, Avi. The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine, 1921-1951. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1990.
• Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.
• Shlaim, Avi. Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations. London: Verso, 2009.
• Shulman, David. Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
• Slater, Jerome. “What Went Wrong? The Collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 116, No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 171-199.
• Smith, Charles D. Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 5^th ed., 2004.
• Sternhell, Zeev. The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.
• Swedenburg, Ted. Memories of Revolt: The 1936-1939 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.
• Swisher, Clayton. The Truth About Camp David. New York: Nation Books, 2004.
• Tal, David. War in Palestine, 1948: The Arab Neighbourhoods and their Fate in the War. Jerusalem: The Institute of Jerusalem Studies, 1999.
• Tamimi, Azzam. Hamas: A History from Within. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press/Interlink, 2007.
• Tarka, Lisa. Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance and Mobility under Occupation. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2007.
• Tessler, Mark. A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2^nd ed., 2009. 
• Tibi, Bassam. Arab Nationalism: Between Islam and the Nation-State. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 3^rd ed., 1997.
• Tilley, Virginia, ed. Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Territories. London: Pluto Press, 2012.
• Usher, Graham. Dispatches from Palestine: The Rise and Fall of the Oslo Peace Process. London: Pluto Press, 1999.
• Wasserstein, Bernard. The British in Palestine: The Mandatory Government and the Arab-Jewish Conflict, 1917-1929. Oxford, UK: Basil Blackwell, 1991.
• Weizman, Eyal. Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. London: Verso, 2007.
• Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. The Controversy of Zion: Jewish Nationalism, the Jewish State, and the Unresolved Jewish Dilemma. New York: Perseus, 1996.
• Whitelam, Keith W. The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History. London: Routledge, 1997.
• Yiftachel, Oren. Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
• Younis, Mona N. Liberation and Democratization: The South African and Palestinian National Movements. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.
• Zertal, Idith and Akiva Eldar. Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007. New York: The Nation Books, 2007.
• Zunes, Stephen. Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism. Monroe. ME: Common Courage Press, 2002.
• Zureik, Elia. The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.

 See too these websites:

• Al-Dameer Association for Human Rights—Gaza: http://www.aldameer.org/
• Al-Haq (An independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation based in Ramallah, West Bank. Established in 1979 to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the organisation has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.): http://www.alhaq.org/etemplate.php?id=3 
• The Arab Association for Human Rights (Association in service of the Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel): http://www.arabhra.org/
• Arab Reform Bulletin (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): http://www.carnegieendowment.org/arb/ 
• B’Tselem—The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territory: http://www.btselem.org/english/About_BTselem/Index.asp
• Gaza Youth Breaks Out: http://gazaybo.wordpress.com/ 
• Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/  
• Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion http://www.juancole.com/ 
• International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative—International Humanitarian Law in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: http://opt.ihlresearch.org/ 
• International Middle East Media Center: http://www.imemc.org/index.php
• Links to Israeli Peace Groups (Peace and Justice Support Network of the Mennonite Church, USA): http://peace.mennolink.org/articles/israelpeacegroups.html
• Middle East Monitor: http://www.middleeastmonitor.org.uk/ 
• Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy: http://www.mendonline.org/aboutus.html
• Middle East Online: http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/
• The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP): http://www.merip.org/ 
• Never Cast Lead Again: http://nevercastleadagain.wordpress.com/ 
• Occupied Palestine: http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/
• Palestinian Centre for Human Rights: http://www.pchrgaza.org/
• The Palestine Chronicle: http://palestinechronicle.com/
• Palestine Media Watch: http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/index.asp

Comments

[Anonity]

If this is the manageable list, I can scarcely imagine how long the unabridged version would be...

[AnonProf]

A litany of anti-Israel writings; congrats on putting that together over the years. In all the years I've been reading the Faculty Lounge, this is the first such post about armed conflict in the world. With all the oppression of minorities, religious groups, and women the only democracy in the Middle East in targeted. Any reason to single out the Jewish state's right to defend itself?

[Ani]

You may have a philosophy as to how this or other lists are compiled, but billing it as a "reading list" seems misconceived. Perhaps it evidences erudition; perhaps it avoids the anxiety of having excluded some work that you read at one point or that someone active in the field (e.g., its author) might have put on the list; perhaps someone will literally read the list, and perhaps others will randomly choose something. But I seriously doubt that anyone will march through these, or that anyone who's read many or most will find an overlooked gem that they then proceed to read. That is, I can't see the value of what you admit is a fatally incomplete stab at comprehensiveness.

Please consider whether you'd serve a greater purpose by culling this kind of list a bit, so as to recommend to those not expert in a field either representative works or the ones you found to be highest quality. I'd think you'd want to use your expertise to help others enhance theirs, and don't think this is a very effective way of doing it.

[David J. Garrow]

This is, rather obviously, *way* too long to be helpful to anyone other than a specialist who'd already be familiar with such a copious literature. Ergo, that does raise the question, as noted by someone above, as to whether there's some oblique purpose underlying this that's not immediately obvious to those of us who aren't very knowledgeable about the topic. If so, that's very disappointing....

[Patrick S. O'Donnell]

David,

If one does not find the compilation useful it can safely be ignored. I thought it might prove helpful, based on favorable comments from earlier drafts (perhaps the comments were not a sufficient sample for drawing such a conclusion) for individuals to get a sense of what is available on the topic (since I did update it a bit since first posting several years ago at Ratio Juris). In part, because people come from so many different backgrounds and are possessed of varying degrees of ignorance, I was not going to select some “top 10” list or some such thing of my favorites. One might look through the list for titles that are possibly intriguing or interesting based on one’s own lights, much like when browsing through a certain subject section in a bookstore. For instance, if your cup of tea is international law, when can certainly find a fair amount of titles bearing on international law and the conflict. Similarly, perhaps one is historically minded, or interested in self-determination and nationalism, or colonialism, or Zionism (for which I do happen to have a separate list), or nonviolence, what have you. I claim no special expertise on any of these subjects and am simply an ardent amateur student of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict who’s endeavored to read as broadly and deeply possible as I can in the area. Of course not all titles may be sufficiently informative, but I’ll leave it to potential readers to explore that on their own. Other lists I’ve composed that were much longer than this one and for which I do possess some formal training I’ve broken up into subject areas: see my compilations for Buddhism and Islam, for example, listed here: http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/2010/10/online-research-bibliographies.html

I hope, however, to soon post a quite short list (no snickering) on nonviolence in the Middle East and in particular as it relates to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. In any case, sorry to disappoint, although I was not aware I had created any particular expectation one way or another.

[Patrick S. O'Donnell]

From this point forward, I'm happy to delete obnoxious, mean-spirited or meaningless comments.

Blog editors and writers should endorse the following from S. Abbas Raza at 3 Quarks Daily: "If you make ad hominem attacks, use nasty language, are disrespectful, call the motives of the authors or editors into question, or stray outside the topic under discussion, your comment will be deleted and you may also be blocked from commenting permanently. And this will be done without any explanation to you."

Cf. Marc DeGirolami at Mirror of Justice: "I have decided to take a more involved role in moderating comments in this and my future posts. I will delete comments which make no effort at all to respond to and engage in an intelligent way with the substance of my post. I will also delete comments which are snide, snarky, or not respectful either of me or of the other people who have commented thoughtfully on my posts. [....] If this is upsetting, I commend you to the plenitude of the Internet, where your thought and its manner of expression will surely find a home."

[Paul Horwitz]

I have no beef with that policy, but I wonder how you see the comments above by that standard. They all seem OK to me. I suppose it depends on how you read "call the motives of the authors or editors into question," but although I think those kinds of comments generally leap to conclusion I would personally be inclined to give a rule in this area a fairly narrow interpretation. Just curious.

[Patrick S. O'Donnell]

Paul, I should have been clearer. I wrote from "this point forward," after deleting a comment I thought was simply mean-spirited (an abusive ad hominem), with nothing to add of relevance to the post. It was not made in reference to any of the existing comments.

[Paul Horwitz]

Good deal. Again, I think these kinds of things are the call of individual bloggers. My own approach these days is to allow all but the most personal and/or repetitively nasty comments, although even those may sometimes make accurate criticisms; it's how they do it that I find an issue. But I don't, for instance, necessarily agree with all the calls made by all my co-bloggers on when to delete messages. And I'm fine as a policy matter with anonymity, although I'm increasingly struck by those who somehow combine anonymity with rudeness; if you're going to take advantage of anonymity, doesn't it almost behoove you to be less rude? But everyone has a different approach and it's a big internet.

[AnonProf]

Here's one that I wonder whether you'll find relevant. Your post purports to be informational, but it is actually propagandistic. I only want to focus on the photos in this post.

The pictorial representation of our message makes clear your antagonism toward Israel. Israeli soldiers are depicted with weapons under the barrier b/w the West Bank. Now there are a couple of propagandistic points you're clearly making here. For one, you've chosen one of the few places where the wall is made of concrete. The barrier is primarily made of fence, only 3 percent is made of concrete, but you choose the exception as the place for your theme photo. Further, you have the soldiers under Gandhi. Another clear message, the Israelis are aggressors and no peace makers. There is nothing to give context to the fact that the barrier was put up after devastating suicide bombings targeting civilians, the enormous offers Barak and Olmert only to be thwarted by Palestinian leaders, nor the fact that Israel left Gaza and received terrorist attacks in response. Furthermore, there is nothing indicating what the IDF is aiming at, why they are there, what the threat is, whether there are any civilians around, just plain nothing to give this photo context.

The photo in your earlier post (Posted by Patrick S. O'Donnell at 10:19 AM in Current Affairs) makes it just as clear that this is not an informational, intellectual post but one put up for the sake of propaganda, which seems completely out of place on this blog. The depiction of targets getting attacked. First do we know that the hits are from the Israel Defense Forces? Lets assume they are. You have nothing indicating what those targets are. Moreover, you've got nothing depicting Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets hitting Israeli cities, making the nature of your post further one sided. You've also failed to give the background context of Israel's response, which only took place after terrorists fired about 800 rockets into Israel this year, prior to the assassination of Jabari

Finally, what is the relevance of these posts to this particular blog? It has for years been devoted to messages about law school faculties, which is where it gets its name, not politics.

[Paul Horwitz]

Hold on a minute. I thought this blog was about Civil War monuments.

[John Kang]

Civil War monuments; funny....

....I partly understand Prof. Garrow's remark but I'm also partly confused by it. He asked "whether there's some oblique purpose underlying this that's not immediately obvious to those of us who aren't very knowledgeable about the topic. If so, that's very disappointing...." I guess I sort of understand it; Prof. Garrow seems to be saying that Patrick is trying, maybe, to hoodwink those of us who "aren't very knowledgeable." But my first question is, who are these blank, dumb, Forrest Gumps among us? I mean, who reads Faculty Lounge and doesn't know that there is a pro-Israeli side and a pro-Palestinian side?

And second, even if the list is one-sided (I can see why prof. Garrow would think that), why would a one-sided list be "disappointing"? It's partisan, it's tendentious, it's already decided that something is wrong (and something is right). But why is such a list "disappointing"? Fox News would have reading suggestions, as would MSNBC, as would Mother Jones, as would the Cato Institute, as would, ummm,...you know...on and on. I don't find these one-sided suggestions to be disappointing, though; they are what they are--people trying to advance their diverse views in the marketplace of ideas, trying to get votaries,....

[Patrick S. O'Donnell]

I picked the photo because I've long been a student of Gandhi's moral and political philosophy and I liked the juxtaposition of the soldiers, graffiti, and "the Wall." See, for example: http://www.amazon.com/Concrete-Messages-Israeli-Palestinian-Separation/dp/9185639389/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353434806&sr=1-1&keywords=separation+barrier+the+wall and:
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Wall-The-Resistance-Palestine/dp/1569767041/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y#_

I have more "propaganda" pictures here: http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/2011/02/separation-barrier-separation.html

For a discussion of the metaphorical and political significance of this "separation barrier," please see Sylvain Cypel's book above. [Should you choose to read only one book from the list, this might suffice by way of a fairly comprehensive introduction by someone intimately (i.e., personally and professionally) acquainted with its particulars (a Jew who lived over a decade in Israel and at the time of publication was a senior editor at Le Monde).]

Other discusssions include:

Catherine Cook and Adam Hanieh, "The Separation Barrier: Walling in People, Walling Out Sovereignty," in Joel Benin and revecca L. Stein, eds., The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005 (Stanford University Press, 2006): 338-347.

The Saree Makdisi title in the list above.

Neve Gordon's Israel's Occupation (2008) also above.

The "separation barrier" is examined in a larger context and original analysis by several authores in Adi Ophir, Micha Givoni, and Sari Hanafi, eds., The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Zone Books, 2009).

Harvard University's Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Policy Brief (2004): "The Separation Barrier and International Humanitarian Law," available: http://www.diakonia.se/documents/public/IHL/nonihlforum/harvardpolicybriefonmilitarynecessity.pdf (it's supposed to be archived at the above Program but the link is broken)

B'Tselem - The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories: http://www.btselem.org/separation_barrier

See too the film, Lemon Tree: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_Tree_(film)

Should one really be interested in the nature of propaganda with regard to this conflict as covered by the mass media in the States, please see the Dunsky volume, Pens and Swords (2008) in the above list.

I was not motivated by "propaganda" in assembling this list or in posting the picture, that is, if the term is defined, as it should be, as "The organized attempt through communication to affect belief or action or inculcate attitudes in a large audience in ways that CIRCUMVENT OR SUPPRESS AN INDIVIDUAL'S ADEQUATELY INFORMED, RATIONAL, REFLECTIVE JUDGMENT." Indeed, I've made these sources available so as to engage such rationally informed judgment, to help (however modestly) individuals come to more adequately informed, reflective, and rational judgments.

I can only marvel at how the provision of sources is deemed so threatening....

[AnonProf]

They were not "threatening" but substantively misinformative.

[Ani]

If the point of this discussion is to build toward a simulation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with the reading list as the metaphoric wall, color me impressed.

Otherwise, I stick with the idea that a data dump -- not even distinguishing the best books by a particular author, a number of whom have multiple entries -- isn't likely to help the already-aware or the unaware, and thus won't engender rationally informed judgment as much as would a more select list. A more select list does, of course, require making and possibly defending choices, but isn't that what we want the well informed to be able to do?

[Patrick S. O'Donnell]

Yes, works by recognized experts in their respective fields (history, political science, sociology, law, what have you), as well as by public intellectuals, continues to be viewed as "substantively misinformative" by some individuals (in particular, I suspect, by those Sylvain Cypel and Stanley Cohen would argue are prone to or afflicted by 'states of denial' as defined and discussed in the latter's excellent book on the subject). I hope individuals will be motivated to explore at least some of the titles and make up their own minds as to the quality of the reasearch, the soundness and persuasiveness of the arguments, and perhaps even the degree of accuracy or veracity of the accounts in toto. Other individuals can compose alternative lists as they see fit to counter their perception of misinformation.