The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine (Kotef Hagar)(Paperback)

The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine (Kotef Hagar)(Paperback)

Colonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers in the Americas and Australia dwell and thrive

Enemies and Neighbours - Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 (Black Ian)(Paperback / softback)

A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish 'national home' in Palestine, veteran Guardian journalist Ian Black has produced a major new history of one of the most polarising conflicts of the modern age. Drawing on a wide range of sources - from declassified documents to oral

The Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction - Fourth Edition (Harms Gregory)(Paperback)

The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict in living memory. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to falsely assume the hostilities stretch continuously back to an ancient period. The Palestine-Israel Conflict provides a balanced,

Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel (White Ben)(Paperback)

After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, Israel has created an apartheid system in historic Palestine. Peace efforts have failed because of one hard truth: the best Israeli offers do not meet the minimum that a truly free Palestine would require--nor that international law would

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: A History (Gelvin James L.)(Paperback)

Now in its fourth edition, James L. Gelvin's award-winning account of the conflict between Israel and Palestine offers a compelling, accessible and current introduction for students and general readers. The book traces the struggle from the emergence of nationalism among the Jews of Europe and the

Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Schulman Sarah)(Paperback)

In this chronicle of political awakening and queer solidarity, the activist and novelist Sarah Schulman describes her dawning consciousness of the Palestinian liberation struggle. Invited to Israel to give the keynote address at an LGBT studies conference at Tel Aviv University, Schulman declines,

Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility (Kotef Hagar)(Paperback)

We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated communities to nation-states. In Movement and the Ordering of Freedom, Hagar Kotef examines the roles of

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict - A History with Documents (Smith Charles D)(Paperback / softback)

The Two-State Delusion: Israel and Palestine--A Tale of Two Narratives (O'Malley Padraig)(Paperback)

Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide (White Ben)(Paperback)

* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2012*Since its release in 2009 Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide has become an essential primer for undergraduate students and activists getting to grips with the Palestine/Israel conflict for the first time. Ben White skilfully distills the work of

Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War (Hazkani Shay)(Paperback)

In 1948, a war broke out that would result in Israeli independence and the erasure of Arab Palestine. Over twenty months, thousands of Jews and Arabs came from all over the world to join those already on the ground to fight in the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces and the Arab Liberation Army

Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine (Adwan Sami)(Paperback)

In 2000, a group of Israeli and Palestinian teachers gathered to address what to many people seemed an unbridgeable gulf between the two societies. Struck by how different the standard Israeli and Palestinian textbook histories of the same events were from one another, they began to explore how to

Arabs and Jews in Ottoman Palestine: Two Worlds Collide (Dowty Alan)(Paperback)

When did the Arab-Israeli conflict begin? Some discussions focus on the 1967 war, some go back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and others look to the beginning of the British Mandate in 1922. Alan Dowty, however, traces the earliest roots of the conflict to the Ottoman Empire in the

The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine (Peled Miko)(Paperback)

A powerful account, by Israeli peace activist Miko Peled, of his transformation from a young man who'd grown up in the heart of Israel's elite and served proudly in its military into a fearless advocate of nonviolent struggle and equal rights for all Palestinians and Israelis. His journey is

Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine (Monterescu Daniel)(Paperback)

Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the 'mixed towns' of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict (Finkelstein Norman G.)(Paperback)

'The most revealing study of the historical background of the conflict.' --Noam ChomskyAn acclaimed critical examination of Zionism in Israel/Palestine through a survey of dominant popular and scholarly images Finkelstein opens this acclaimed study with a theoretical discussion of Zionism, locating

Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock (Hagar Sammy)(Paperback)

Sammy Hagar--legendary lead singer of Van Halen, founder of the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand, and one of rock music's most notoriously successful performers--tells his unforgettable story in this one-of-a-kind autobiography of a life at the top of the charts. From his decade-long journey alongside Eddie

Righteous Dopefiend, 21 (Bourgois Philippe)(Paperback)

This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying

Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom, Palestine and the Criticism of Israel (Landy David)(Paperback)

Academic freedom is under siege, as our universities become the sites of increasingly fraught battles over freedom of speech. While much of the public debate has focussed on 'no platforming' by students, this overlooks the far graver threat posed by concerted efforts to silence the critical voices

Decolonizing Palestine: Hamas between the Anticolonial and the Postcolonial (Sen Somdeep)(Paperback)

In Decolonizing Palestine, Somdeep Sen rejects the notion that liberation from colonialization exists as a singular moment in history when the colonizer is ousted by the colonized. Instead, he considers the case of the Palestinian struggle for liberation from its settler colonial condition as a

How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less (Glidden Sarah)(Paperback)

The award-winning graphic memoir about Israel that offers more questions than answers about identity and politicsSarah Glidden is a progressive Jewish American twentysomething who is both vocal about and critical of Israeli politics in the Holy Land. When a debate with her mother prods her to sign

Ten Myths about Israel (Pappe Ilan)(Paperback)

The myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel

The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel (Papp Ilan)(Paperback)

A vivid and incisive analysis of the complex relationship between Israel and its Palestinian citizens written by an acclaimed Israeli historian For more than 60 years, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have lived as Israeli citizens within the borders of the nation formed at the end of the 1948

Brink of Chaos (LaHaye Tim)(Paperback)

In the third book of The End series, Joshua Jordan remains in Israel during his self-imposed 'exile' out of the reach of U.S. authorities who have trumped-up false criminal treason charges against him. His wife, Abigail, continues to lead the Roundtable to prove the innocence of her husband