Resources and Recommended Reading

Books

Cypel, Sylvian.  Walled:  Israeli Society at an Impasse.  University of California Press, Berkeley: 2007

Hass, Amira.  Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land.  Semitext(e), Cambridge, Massachusetts: 2003

Gordon, Uri.  Anarchy Alive!  Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory.  Pluto Press, London: 2008.
Israeli anarchist and activist Uri Gordon on contemporary trends and issues in anarchist organizing, with an emphasis on Palestine / Israel.  

Horrox, James.  A Living Revolution:  Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement.  AK Press, Edinburgh: 2009
Horrox explains how communitarian anarchism influenced the kibbutzniks, and how these early settlers ironically helped to lay the groundwork for the political-Zionist project.  Includes notes on contemporary Israeli anarchism and Palestinian-Israeli joint struggle.  

Incite!  Women of Color Against Violence.  Color of Violence:  the Incite! Anthology.  South End Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 2006
Includes many brilliant essays about identity and organizing, including one entitled "The Forgotten "-ism": An Arab-American Women's Perspective on Zionism, Racism, and Sexism" by Nadine Naber, Eman Desouky, and Lina Baroudi

Khaladi, Rashid.  The Iron Cage.  Beacon Press, Boston, MA: 2007

Kimmerling, Baruch and Migdal, Joe.  The Palestinian People.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 2003

King, Mary.  The Quiet Revolution:  The First Palestinian Intifada and Nonviolent Resistance.  Nation Books, New York, 2007

Klein, Naomi.  The Shock Doctrine:  The Rise of Disaster Captalism.  Pcador, New York, 2007

Kovel, Joel.  Overcoming Zionism  Toward a Single Democratic State in Israel / Palestine.  Between the Lines, Toronto, 2007

Pappe, Ilan.  A History of Modern Palestine:  One Land, Two Peoples.  University of Cambridge Press, Cambridge, England: 2006  

Reinhart, Tanya.  The Road Map to Nowhere:  Israel / Palestine since 2003.  Verso Books, Brooklyn, NY: 2006   

Sacco, Joe.  Palestine.  Fantagraphics, Seattle: 2001  
Cool graphic novel about Palestine.

Said, Edward.  Consider starting with:
Covering Islam:  How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World.  Vintage Books, New York: 1997
Peace and Its Discontents:  Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process.  Vintage Books, New York: 1995
The Question of Palestine.  Vintage Books, New York, 1992

Shohat, Ella.  Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices.  Duke University Press, Durham, NC: 2006.
An Iraqi Jewish woman who lived in Israel on Arab / Jewish and feminist identity politics.

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Zines

Anarchists Against the Wall: Opposing the Bulldozers, the Army, and the Occupation through Direct Action and Joint Popular Struggle.  Compilation.  
Israeli anarchists on the theory, practice, and challenges of joint struggle.

The No-State Solution: A Jewish Anarchist Perspective of the Israel / Palestine Conflict.  Rozele.  

Lihish'tah'weel: The Dystopia Principle and the strategic basis for a just peace in Palestine. Ricardo Levins Morales.

Race Traitor, Winter 2005, Issue 16.  
Essays by anti-Zionist Jewish and Arab writers critiquing the "two-state solution." 

Nakba: The Ongoing Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.  Mast, Edward, and El-Zabri, Haithem. 

The Missing Peace: Trust and Justice in Israel / Palestine. Laila and Ronni.
A Palestinian-American and a Jewish-American offer an overview of the Middle East conflict and anti-occupation resistance.

The Gaza Strip: A Short Radical History.  Gunnery, Mark.

I Went to Palestine. Rabble, Rachel.
Includes a timeline of the conflict, FAQ, tips for activists, and journal entries.

Films

Slingshot Hiphop
Palestinian hiphop documentary.

City of Borders
Documentary about the one queer bar in Jerusalem and its Palestinian and Jewish Israeli regulars.  

Waltz with Bashir
Israeli animated documentary about military service, memory, loss, Lebanon, Palestine, and the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre.  

Websites

imemc.org
Up-to-the-minute Palestinian news, editorials.

electronicintifada.org
Palestinian news and editorials.  

awalls.org
Anarchists Against the Wall website

activestills.org, www.flickr.com/photos/activestills/
ActiveStills, a radical Israeli photographers' collective, displays their work online. 

palestinesolidarityproject.org
West Bank-based activist news site, information about Palestine Solidarity Project.  

Templer, Bill.  "From Mutual Struggle to Mutual Aid: Moving Beyond the Statist Impasse in Israel / Palestine."  borderlands e-journal, Volume 2, November 2003
http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol2no3_2003/templer_impasse.htm