Free Palestine! A Reading List

A love letter to Palestinian ancestors, their descendants, and their land, to all anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles, to a history that will never be forgotten, and to a future in which t...

PALESTINE BOOK AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER “Mohammed El-Kurd has written a new Discourse on Colonialism for the twenty-first century.” —Ro...

Winner of the Palestine Book Awards 2024 Creative Award A unique, stunning collection of images of Palestine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and a testament to the vibrancy of Palestinia...

A powerful collection of testimonies from Palestinians facing genocide and displacement in Gaza with hope and resistance. Displaced in Gaza aims to raise global awareness of how violent displaceme...

Written during a genocide, After Savagery reveals the ethical bankruptcy of “Western philosophy” and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonized. The death toll in Gaza continues to rise―a col...

The definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians. US trade unionists ...

A collection of interviews with some of the world’s leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more a...

From the organizers of the Palestine Festival of Literature, this anthology of essays connects Palestinian resistance with global freedom struggles against settler colonialism and calls on us to th...

Each day after school, Mohammed El-Kurd’s grandmother welcomed him at the door of his home with a bouquet of jasmine. Her name was Rifqa—she was older than Israel itself and an icon of Palestinian ...

This edited volume makes an impassioned and informed case for the central place of Palestine in socialist organizing and of socialism in the struggle to free Palestine.

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be.

Arab womanhood, migration, queerness and Palestine are navigated with striking lyricism and urgency in Noor Hindi’s defiant collection.

As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.

Ali Abunimah provides an effective strategy for advancing the struggle for a just, single-state solution in Palestine.

Edward W. Said discusses the centrality of popular resistance to his understanding of culture, history, and social change. He reveals his thoughts on the war on terrorism, the war in Afghanistan, a...

An intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries leading public intellectuals

Before the Next Bomb Drops explores the Israeli occupation of Palestine and US militarism through a poetic lens.

Gripping eye-witness account of Operation Protective Edge by only Palestinian reporting in English from Gaza during Israel's 2014 assault.

Eleven prominent South African scholars reflect on the analogy between apartheid South Africa and contemporary Israel.

For more than six decades, Israel and Palestine have been the global focal point of intractable conflict, one that has led to one of the world’s most widely reported yet least understood human rights crises. In their own words, men and women from West Bank and Gaza describe how their lives have been shaped by the conflict. Here are stories that humanize the oft-ignored violations of human rights that occur daily in the occupied Palestinian territories.

What does the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how can left-wing organizations grow—in numbers and power—while remaining accountable to the broader movements of which they are a pa...

Chomsky and Pappé discuss the past and future of Palestine.

Salaita exposes the blatant disregard for academic freedom in the academy through his personal struggle with the University of Illinois.

A timely and incisive handbook that argues academic boycott is a vital component of the struggle against Israeli Apartheid.

In this provocative and compelling work Shourideh Molavi documents the legal plight of Palestinians living inside of Israel.

A lifelong activist, Moshé Machover's essays, written as an Israeli socialist in solidarity with the Palestinian people, are collected here.

This is the definitive account of a secular party that forged links between Arabs and Jews.

This critique of Left Zionism argues a Jewish-only state cannot offer peace or justice for Palestinians

A comprehensive indictment of what Noam Chomsky calls the "disgraceful and extremely dangerous" policy the US has enacted towards Israel.

A creative and critical analysis of America's largest pro-Israel organization: Christians United for Israel.

The uses and abuses of antisemitism in the 21st Century, collected by Jewish Voice for Peace.

A challenge to fundamentally rethink the basis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today.

As Israel continues its barbaric assault on Gaza, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe put the recent campaign against Gaza.

Leading international solidarity activists offer insight into the ongoing struggle for Palestinian freedom and justice. Includes Anthony Arnove, Naseer Aruri, David Barsamian, Paul D'Amato, Phil Ga...

The definitive account and overview of the attack on the Mavi Marmara freedom flotilla by the state of Israel.

Interviews with the late Edward Said, world-renowned literary scholar, cultural critic, and advocate for Palestinian rights.

An extraordinary book about war and peace through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy.