Palestine recommended reading list
2025 August 31
What Does Israel Fear From Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
Succinct, concise overview of the conflict and the humanitarian crisis taking place in Gaza. This book could go a lot deeper, but it's a good primer for anyone who needs a good starting point to learn more about what is currently happening in Palestine right now.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
This is essential reading - a thorough dissection of the Western empire and the hypocrisy that makes it all possible.
"One of the most damaging, longest-lasting consequences of the War on Terror years is an utter obliteration of the obvious moral case for nonviolence. The argument that violence in any form debases us and marks the instant failure of all involved is much more difficult to make when the state regularly engages in or approves of wholesale violence against civilians and combatants alike. Instead, the case for nonviolence becomes, in the ugliest way, pragmatic: the state wants violence, because in that playing field it maintains every advantage, from bigger guns to total immunity to the privilege of perpetual victimhood."
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall
This book covers decades of Palestinian and Israeli relations and how an every day tragedy was a direct consequence of settler colonialism and military occupation.