Books to Read and order from your Library

Ordering these books from your library is an efficient way to increase understanding of the Israel/Palestine issues.

Alternatively, these books can be purchased from News From Nowhere, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HY. www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk 

The texts and illustrations in this book provide graphic accounts and visual evidence of why Israel has provoked a worldwide ‘Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions’ campaign by human rights activists, trade unions and a multitude of other groups, including individuals in Israel and Jewish organizations in Europe and North America. It includes the Executive Summary of the Goldstone Report, an in depth case study of Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, including the blockade of such essential goods, as food and medicine, the systematic and deliberate targeting and destruction of civilian targets, including the murder of civilians in homes, schools and UN facilities; the use of weapons designed to inflect maximum pain and death to civilians (white phosphorous bombs); the gratuitous destruction of the foundations of civilian life including food production, water installations and sewage treatment facilities.

The book brings together for the first time in one volume a collection of Wiles’ articles of everyday life for Palestine’s refugees, told in their own words, and written between 2006-2007. For further details please see: http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=209193

Footnotes in Gaza
by Joe Sacco
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd (3 Dec 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0224071092
ISBN-13: 978-0224071093

Sacco spent seven years researching and drawing about two sordid events that took place in November 1956 when Israeli forces invaded Gaza as part of the joint British-French attack against Egypt. The Israeli army conducted two massacres where hundreds of Palestinians were murdered, and Sacco set out to collate the oral histories of the Palestinians who witnessed or were the victims of the events.  The book doesn’t only focus on the past, but the present is also very much part of his account; in present day Gaza giant armoured bulldozers flatten houses in Rafah and where the ongoing siege affects everybody’s lives. Sacco says: “… the past and the present cannot be so easily disentangled; they are part of a remorseless continuum…” http://www.counterpunch.org/rooij01132010.html

The Invention of the Jewish People 
By Shlomo Sand
Published by Verso Books Nov 2009
Clothback:£18.99
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 422 0
“Probably one of the most important exposures of the Jewish nationalist lethal fantasy”. Gilad Atzmon. Read his review: http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/shlomo-sands-the-invention-of-the-jewish-people-book-review.html

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (Hardcover)
by Jimmy Carter (Author)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd (5 Feb 2007)
ISBN-10: 0743285026
ISBN-13: 978-0743285025

In this book Carter argues that “Israel’s continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Middle East.”

Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State by Jonathan Cook (Author)
Publisher: Pluto Press (12 April 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0745325556
ISBN-13: 978-0745325552

Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory (Cultures of History):
by Ahmad H. Sa’Di (Editor), Lila Abu-Lughod (Editor)
Publisher: Columbia University Press (16 Mar 2007)
ISBN-10: 0231135785
ISBN-13: 978-0231135788

Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Author)
Publisher: Oneworld Publications (19 Oct 2006)
ISBN-10: 1851684670
ISBN-13: 978-1851684670

Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (Paperback)
by Sara Roy (Author)
Publisher: Oneworld Publications (19 Oct 2006)
ISBN-10: 1851684670
ISBN-13: 978-1851684670

The Case Against Israel by Michael Neumann (Author)
Publisher: AK Press (2 Aug 2006)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1904859461
ISBN-13: 978-1904859468

Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman G. Finkelstein (Author)
Publisher: Verso Books (14 Nov 2005)
ISBN-10: 184467049X
ISBN-13: 978-1844670499

Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jew: v. 2 (Hardcover)
by Alan Hart (Author)
Publisher: WORLD FOCUS PUBLISHING (23 Feb 2007)
ISBN-10: 0955020719
ISBN-13: 978-0955020711

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East (Paperback)
by Robert Fisk (Author)
Publisher: HarperPerennial (2 Oct 2006)
ISBN-10: 1841150088
ISBN-13: 978-1841150086

Overcomiong Zionism – Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel Palestine
by Joel Kovel (Author)
Publisher: Pluto Press (Feb 2007)
ISBN-13: 978-1844670499

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (Paperback)
by John J Mearsheimer and Stephen M Walt (Authors)
Publisher: Penguin (June 2006)
ISBN-13: 978-0141031231

Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (Paperback)
by Jonathan Cook (Author)
Published by Pluto Press in Feb 2008

Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair
By Jonathan Cook
Published by Zed Books  in October 2008
Hardback.  £65. ISBN: 9781848130302
Paperback: £14.99 ISBN: 9781848130319

Radio Free Palestine.
By Stuart Littlewood
Buy the book on-line and donate to charities for Palestinians http://www.radiofreepalestine.co.uk/

Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?: A re-assessment of Israel’s practices in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law.

This report represents 15 months of research and constitutes an exhaustive review of Israel’s practices in the OPT according to definitions of colonialism and apartheid provided by international law. The project was suggested originally by the January 2007 report by eminent South African jurist John Dugard, in his capacity as Special Rapporteur to the United Nations Human Rights Council, when he indicated that Israel practices had assumed characteristics of colonialism and apartheid.

You can download the report here:  http://www.hsrc.ac.za/Document-3230.phtml