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Learn about Palestine!

Must-Read Nonfiction Books About Palestine (recs by sincerelyjia, a Palestinian woman)

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General

The Question of Palestine by Edward W. Said

Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe

On Palestine by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe

Blaming the Victims, edited by Edward W. Said and Christofer Hitchens

Golda Slept Here by Suad Amiry

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein

Disappearing Palestine by Jonathan Cook

Catastrophe Remembered, edited by Nur Masalha

History

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi

Palestine: History of a Lost Nation by Karl Sabbagh

The Balfour Declaration by Bernard Regan

Balfour’s Shadow by David Cronin

The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian Dynasty by Ilan Pappe

A History of Modern Palestine by Ilan Pappe

The Idea of Israel by Ilan Pappe

The Invention of the Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand

Palestinian Village Histories by Rochelle A. Davis

Nakba

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe

The Palestine Nakba by Nur Masalha

An Oral History of the Palestinian Nakba, edited by Nahla Abdo and Nur Masalha

Nakba, edited by Ahmad H. Sa’di and Lila Abu-Lughod

A Map of Absence, edited by Atef Alshaer

Shell-Shocked: On the Ground under Israel’s Gaza Assault by Mohammed Omer

Gaza Writes Back, edited by Refaat Alareer

Gaza Unsilenced, edited by Rafaat Alreer and Laila El-Haddad

Drinking the Sea at Gaza by Amira Hass

The Least of All Possible Evils by Eyal Weizman

The Drone Eats with Me by Atef Abu Saif

Method and Madness: the hidden story of Israel’s assaults on Gaza by Norman G. Finkelstein

Gaza: An Inquest into It’s Martyrdom by Norman G. Finkelstein

My Father Was a Freedom Fighter by Ramzy Baroud

Failing Peace by Sara Roy

‘This Time We Went Too Far’ by Norman G. Finkelstein

West Bank

Living Emergency by Yael Berda

Employing the Enemy by Matthew Vickery

The West Bank Wall: Unmaking Palestine by Ray Dolphin

What Did We Do to Deserve This? by Mark Howell

Life Under Occupation

The Forgotten Palestinians by Ilan Pappe

Stone Men by Andrew Ross

Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation, compiled and edited by Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke

The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine by Ben Ehrenreich

Pay No Heed to the Rockets by Marcello Di Cintio

These Chains Will Be Broken by Ramzy Baroud

Zionism

False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine by Tikva Honig-Parnass

The Myths of Liberal Zionism by Yitzhak Laor

The Returns of Zionism by Gabriel Piterberg

The Myths of Zionism by John Rose

The Fallacy of Israel by Mohammed Aziz

Laws, Policies, Apartheid

Justice for Some by Noura Erakat

Unfree in Palestine by Nadia Abu-Zahra and Adah Kay

Apartheid Israel by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs

Israel and South Africa by Ilan Pappe

Imperial Israel and the Palestinians by Nur Masalha

Hollow Land by Eyal Weizman

A Civilian Occupation, edited by Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman

Space and Mobility in Palestine by Julie Peteet

Courting Conflict by Lisa Hajjar

Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions

BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti

The Case for Sanctions against Israel, edited by Audrea Lim

Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities, edited by Ashley Dawson and Bill V. Mullen

Generation Palestine, edited by Rich Wiles

Palestinian Identity, Nationalism, Statehood

Palestinian Identity by Rashid Khalidi

The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism by Muhammad Y. Muslih

The Politics of Dispossession by Edward W. Said

The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi

Liberation/Solutions

The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah

One Country by Ali Abunimah

Palestine’s Horizon Toward a Just Peace by Richard Falk

The Struggle for Palestine, edited by Lance Selfa

Hamas/PFLP/PLO

Hamas Contained by Tareq Baconi

Under Seige by Rashid Khalidi

My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary by Leila Khaled as told to George Hajjar

A Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine

Women

Captive Revolution by Nahla Abdo

Women in Israel: Race, Gender and Citizenship by Nahla Abdo

Palestinian Women by Fatima Kassem

Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank, edited by Suha Sabbagh

Birthing the Nation by Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh

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إذا ضاقت عليك الأمور وأغلقت في وجهك الأبواب و انقطعت دونك الأسباب وطال انتظارك للفرج فثق أن الله يريد بك الخير ومن أعظم الخير و أحبه إلى الله أن تدعوه بيقين و اضطرار و أن تناجيه بدموع الافتقار اللهم ارزقنا حسن الظن بك اللهم صل على نبينا محمد.

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هذا الحي لنا …

هذه القدس لنا …

فلسطين … ارضها، بحرها وسماؤها لنا …

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#savesheikhjarrah

#SaveSilwan

#FreePalestine

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There once was a land called Palestine!

Owner: Page Emma's World

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Very simple!

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A question from Palestine 🇵🇸 to the whole world: is this normal where you live?

سؤال من فلسطين 🇵🇸 إلى كل العالم: هل هذا عادي في المكان الذي تعيش فيه؟

#StandWithPalestine

#GazaUnderAttack

#Gaza_Under_Attack

‎‏#savesheikhjarrah

#Jerusalem

#Palestine

#savealsheikhjarrah

#ElevateAgencyPalestine

#قف_مع_فلسطين

#أنقذوا_حي_الشيخ_جراح

#القدس

#الداخل_المحتل

#انقذوا_غزة

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فلسطين قضية شرفاء وأحرار العالم

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من كفرراعي - قضاء جنين

من اين انت؟

رابط الخريطة

#GazaUnderAttack

#savesheikhjarrah

#palestineunderattakAttack

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According to BBC: Members of 25 families were ALL killed in Gaza during the last 5 days, and their records were removed from personal status department!!!! (These families don't exist anymore)

This is a massacre and a #GenocideinGaza with the whole world standing as a witness! An ethnic cleansing mission using internationally forbidden weapons to kill civilians, noting that most martyrs are children and women.

حسب مراسل بي بي سي :

أفراد ٢٥ عائلة من غزة استشهدو بالكامل خلال أقل من ٥ أيام فقط ....وسجلاتهم المدنية ألغيت من دائرة الأحوال الشخصية!!!!

عم نحكي عن إبادة جماعية ومجزرة على مرأى ومسمع العالم ....تطهير عرقي وأسلحة محرمة دولياً وإستهداف للمدنيين بدليل أن معظم الشهداء من الأطفال والنساء .

#FreePalestine

#savesheikhjarrah

#GazaUnderAttack

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You are not defeated as long as you resist~ Resist, as if it’s the last thing you do in life ~

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- يقول أنس: "عندما بدأت الغارات كتبت لشيماء على الواتس آب أسألها كيف حالك؟ فردت: بخير الحمدلله بس خايفة، قلت لها: "اختبأي في مكان آمن" فلم تصل الرسالة للأسف، حينها ذهب كل شيء وتدمر المنزل فوق رأسها.".

"أنس اليازجي" ظل ما يقارب 10 ساعات يبحث عن خطيبته "شيماء" تحت ركام منزلها المدمر، أملاً منه أنها ما زالت على قيد الحياة.

أمضى "أنس" 10 ساعات من اللهفة عند كل حجر يتم رفعه وكل صوت يخرج من تحت الأنقاض وكل ركام يتم إزالته، على أمل أن تكون خطيبته من بين هذه الأصوات التي ما زالت متمسكة في الحياة.

أخيراً تمكن رجال الدفاع المدني من الوصول لشيماء وانتشالها، لكنها للأسف كانت قد لفظت أنفاسها الأخيرة تحت الأنقاض، وبين الركام الملتف حولها والغبار والرصاص الذي استنشقتهما.

رحلت "شيماء" التي كانت تترقب عيد الفطر بكل شوق حتى تحتفل بزفافها المقرر عقده خلال هذه الأيام، بعد أكثر من سنتين من الخطوبة، رحلت وبقي خطيبها أنس الذي انتظر طوال هذه السنين تخرجها حتى يتم زفافهما، بقي ليدفن روحه التي انتزعت من جسده ويدعو أمام قبرها أن يجمعهما في الجنة.

رحلت "شيماء أبو العوف" ورحل حلمها في الزواج ممن كتبه الله لها، واندثر حلم أن تصبح طبيبة أسنان بعد سنوات طويلة من الدراسة، والذي ضحت بكل شيء في حياتها من أجل عشقها في طب الأسنان.

- Anas says: “When the raids started, I wrote to Shaima on WhatsApp to ask her how are you?

Anas Al-Yazji spent about 10 hours searching for his fiancée, Shaima, under the rubble of her destroyed home, hoping that she was still alive.

Anas spent 10 hours of eagerness at every stone that was raised, every sound that came out from under the rubble and every rubble removed, hoping that his fiancée would be among those voices that still cling to life.

Finally, the civil defense men managed to reach Shaima and salvage her, but unfortunately she had breathed her last under the rubble, among the rubble wrapped around her, and the dust and bullets that she inhaled.

Shaima, who was eagerly awaiting Eid al-Fitr to celebrate her wedding scheduled for these days, passed away after more than two years of engagement. Her grave that brings them together in heaven.

Shaima Abu Al-Auf passed away, and her dream of marrying someone whom God had written for her passed away, and the dream of becoming a dentist after long years of study, who sacrificed everything in her life for the sake of her love of dentistry, died out.

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"المكان هو احنا ، وجودنا ، ذكرياتنا ومستقبلنا."

A place is who we are, our existence, our memories and our future.

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