Palestine
By Climate Vanguard
Rituals Under Occupation by Sliman Mansour (1989).
Key Texts
Chapter 1: Concerning Violence, from Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (1963)
Contextualises the role of violence in anti-colonial struggle.
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance by Rashid Khalidi (2020)
Provides a critical historical grounding to Palestinian liberation.
The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries by Rosemary Sayigh (2007)
Charts the evolution of the Palestinian struggle.
Introduction
Palestinian-American academic Salaita offers critical insights on Palestine, nationalism, and censorship.
History
Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nour Masalha (2018)
An extensive historical work that explores Palestinian identity starting from the Egyptian and Assyrian times.
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé (2006)
Details the atrocities of the Nakba when more than 700,000 Palestinians were systematically expelled from their homes in 1948.
Theory
Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native by Patrick Wolfe (2006)
Explores the connection between settler colonialism and genocide.
Decolonization is not a metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang (2012)
Exposes the misappropriation of decolonisation and reminds us of its material thrust.
Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire (1950)
“Europe is indefensible.” Cesaire rips to shreds the lies of the colonial European project
Zionism
Israel’s Dead Soul by Steven Salaita (2011)
A deep dive into the ideology and psychology of Zionism.
The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge by Ilan Pappé (2014)
How Zionist ideology infiltrates public life and social relations.
The Forgotten History of the Jewish, Anti-Zionist Left by Sarah Lazare (2020)
Unearths the history of proletarian Jewish resistance to Zionism.
Resistance
Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System by Nahla Abdo (2014)
Considers the central role of women in the Palestinian struggle and the plight of Palestinian prisoners.
Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh (2010)
A thrilling encyclopaedia of Palestinian resistance.
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis (2016)
On internationalism and solidarity between Black and Palestinian struggles.
Returning to Haifa by Ghassan Kanafani
Novella by Palestinian writer and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani.
Our History of Popular Resistance
An in-depth reading list on Palestinian resistance assembled by the Palestinian Youth Movement.
Ecology
Climate Change, the Occupation, and a Vulnerable Palestine by Zena Agha (2019)
Analyses how climate vulnerability is created and compounded by Israeli occupation.
Environmental justice, settler colonialism, and more-than-humans in the West Bank: An Introduction by Irus Braverman (2021)
A nuanced portrayal of environmental justice in the Palestinian context.
Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation by Eyal Weizman (2024)
A study on the architecture of occupation, violence, and militarisation.
Herbicidal Warfare in Gaza by Forensic Architecture (2019)
Exposes how the Israeli military deliberately sprays herbicides next to the Gazan border.
Films
Naila and the Uprising (2017)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)
The Present (2020)
Lamma Shoftak (2012)
Nae Pasaran (2018)
Podcasts
Rethinking Palestine by Al-Shabaka [Podcast]
Illan Pappé on the Latest Developments in Israel by Status/ الوضع [Episode]
This is Palestine by The Institute of Middle East Understanding [Podcast]
Understanding Settler Colonialism in Israel and the United States by Revolutionary Left Radio [Episode]
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