Books

One of the best ways to learn about the realities in Palestine and Israel is by reading some of the excellent books that have been written in recent years. Here is a list of books that CFOS recommends. You will find books for readers of all levels of familiarity with the Palestinian struggle.

Book list

  • Abuelaish, Izzeldin. I Shall Not Hate. London: Bloomsbury 2012.

  • Alareer, Refaat, Editor, and Laila El-Haddad. Gaza Unsilenced. Washington DC: Just World 2015.

  • Alareer, Refaat, Editor. Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine. Washington DC: Just World 2014.

  • Ateek, Naim Stifan. A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis 2008.

  • Ateek, Naim Stifan. Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis 1989.

  • Black, Ian. Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017. Penguin Books, 2017.

  • Bregman, Ahron. Cursed Victory: Israel and the Occupied Territories. New York: Pegasus 2015.

  • Burge, Gary M. Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians Are Not Being Told about Israel and the Palestinians. Cleveland, ON: Pilgrim Press, 2003.

  • Chomsky, Noam; and Pappe, Ilan; ed. Frank Barat. On Palestine. Chicago: Haymarket 2015.

  • El Akkad, Omar. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. McClelland & Stewart, 2025.

  • El-Haddad, Leila. Gaza Mom – Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between. Washington, DC: Just World Books 2010.

  • Erakat, Noura. Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Redwood City CA: Stanford 2019.

  • Halper, Jeff. Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State. London: Pluto Press, 2021.

  • Halper, Jeff. Obstacles to Peace: Re-Framing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Jerusalem: The Israeli Committee Against House Demolition. 5th Edition 2014.

  • Kalla, Joudie. Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen. Northampton MA: Interlink 2019.

  • Isaac, Munther. The Other Side of the Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative of Lament and Hope. InterVarsity Press, 2020.

  • Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. New York: Metropolitan 2020.

  • Kuttab, Jonathan. Beyond the Two-State Solution. Nonviolence International, 2021.

  • Kuttab, Jonathan. The Truth Shall Set You Free: The Story of a Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Working for Peace and Justice in Palestine/Israel. Hawakati Publishing, 2023.

  • Masalha, Nur. Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History. London: Zed 2020.

  • Mitwasi, Faten Nastas. Curator. Palestine: Contemporary Art from Within and Beyond the Border. Imago Mundi: Luciano Benetton Collection. Antiga Edizioni 2016.

  • Nathan, Susan. The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide. Nan A. Talese, 2005.

  • Pappe, Ilan. Ten Myths About Israel. New York and London: Verso 2017.

  • Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. London: Oneworld Publications. 2nd edition 2007.

  • Raheb, Mitri. Faith in the Face of Empire. Orbis Books, 2014.

  • Raheb, Mitri. Decolonizing Palestine: The Land, the People, the Bible. Orbis Books, 2023.

  • Roy, Sara. Failing Peace. London: Pluto Press 2006.

  • Sabawi Samah, Editor, and Stephen Orlov. Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas. Toronto: Playwrights Canada 2016. Includes Tales of a City by the Sea.

  • Sabawi, Samah, Ramzy Baroud and Jehan Bseiso. I Remember My Name. New York: Novum 2016.

  • Sabawi, Samah. Tales of a City by the Sea. Redfern, Sydney: Currency 2016.

  • Shami, Wafa. Easter in Ramallah. Illustrated by Shaima Farouki. New York: Bowker 2019.

  • Slater, Jerome. Mythologies Without End: The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020. New York: Oxford University Press 2020.

  • Zaru, Jean. Occupied with Nonviolence. Minneapolis: Fortress Press 2008.