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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 19 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781911350750 | ISBN 10: 1911350757
Ten years after breaking a world record for cycling around the world, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels on the roads of Israel and occupied Palestine. His route weaves from the ancient hills of Galilee, along t ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781781256541 | ISBN 10: 1781256543
As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales of a green land beyond the border.He couldn't have known then what Israel would come to mean to him, or to foresee the future oc ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781608467617 | ISBN 10: 1608467619
Foreword by Judith Butler When the State of Israel claims to represent all Jewish people, defenders of Israeli policy redefine antisemitism to include criticism of Israel. Antisemitism is harmful and real in our society. What must also be ad ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781851689965 | ISBN 10: 1851689966
David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, mere days after Israel thwarted historic cease-fire negotiations among the Palestinians, a bomb ripped open Hebrew University’s cafeteria. Jamie’s body was sliced with s ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781443837965 | ISBN 10: 1443837962
There is an expectation in Jewish communities around the world that all Jews embrace Zionism and offer unquestioning support for Israel, ‘right or wrong’. Jewish identity and Zionism are commonly and deliberately blurred. Jews who criticise Israel or ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781408822098 | ISBN 10: 1408822091
Heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hate is a Palestinian doctor's inspiring account of his extraordinary life, growing up in poverty but determined to treat his patients in Gaza and Israel regardless of their ethnic origin. ... more
View book details£19.95 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780863723803 | ISBN 10: 0863723802
Refusing to be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation presents the voices of over 100 practitioners and theorists of nonviolence, the vast majority either Palestinian or Israeli, as they reflect on their own ... more
View book details£24.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745330228 | ISBN 10: 0745330223
Our Way to Fight follows the dangerous lives of peace activists in Israel and Palestine. It explores the crises that stirred them to act, the risks they face, and the small victories that sustain them. Michael Riordon takes us to thousand ye ... more
View book details£26.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745328836 | ISBN 10: 0745328830
This is the inside story of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), from its beginnings in 1964 to the signing of the Oslo agreement in 1993. For over three decades, the main goal of the PLO was to achieve a just peace in the Arab-Israe ... more
View book details£15.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780230618978 | ISBN 10: 0230618979
Modern-day Israel, and the Jewish community, are strongly influenced by the memory and horrors of Hitler and the Holocaust. Burg argues that the Jewish nation has been traumatized and has lost the ability to trust itself, its neighbors or the world a ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781844674350 | ISBN 10: 1844674355
This is an eloquent and deeply felt memoir exploring the author's complex relationship with his Jewish identity. If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It ... more
View book details£9.95 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9789963610389 | ISBN 10: 9963610382
Throughout Hazem Nusseibeh’s long and illustrious career as a senior politician and diplomat, the lure of Jerusalem, the city of his birth, remained strong. In Jerusalemites, Dr Nusseibeh tells of growing up in British Mandate Palestin ... more
View book details£22.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780745329314 | ISBN 10: 0745329314
This book tells the remarkable story of Birzeit University, Palestine's oldest university in the Occupied Territories. Founded against the backdrop of occupation, it is open to all students, irrespective of income. Putting the study of democracy and ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781570757846 | ISBN 10: 1570757844
An analysis of the conflict over land between Palestine and Israel by a Palestinian Christian Arab who is also a citizen of Israel. From the text: "The background is clear...[Jerusalem] has been conquered and re-conquered more than ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780552155144 | ISBN 10: 0552155144
In the summer of 1967, Bashir - a young Palestinian man - knocks on the door of his childhood home in the town of Ramla in Israel, a home from which his family was driven some twenty years earlier. The door is opened by a young Jewish woman, Dalia, w ... more
View book details£25.50 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781588263902 | ISBN 10: 1588263908
In the midst of the continuing violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are many who remain committed to moving forward on the road to peace. The Palestinian and Israeli contributors to this book, recognizing the great potential of civil s ... more
View book details£21.99 hardback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781565849303 | ISBN 10: 1565849302
Through anecdotes, interviews and letters, the author provides an insider's view of the milestones of the Israeli peace movement, drawing on her experience as co-founder of the pioneering human rights organization B'Tselem and the feminist peace grou ... more
View book details£15.00 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781844675012 | ISBN 10: 1844675017
The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was founded to support Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israel's military occupation. Its highly visible actions, which have included breaking the sieges in Ramallah and Bethlehem, as well as saving co ... more
View book details£31.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781842774519 | ISBN 10: 1842774514
Hundreds of Israeli soldiers, called up to take part in controversial campaigns like the 1982 invasion of Lebanon or policing duties in the Palestinian territories today, have refused orders. Many of these 'refuseniks' have faced prison sentences rat ... more
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