Books
Abunimah, Ali. The Battle for Justice in Palestine. Chicago: Haymarket, 2014. Argues for a one-state solution; Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions; and international solidarity.
Adwan, Sami. Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine. Edited by Dan Bar-On and Eyal Naveh. New York: New Press, 2012. Separate narratives set side by side show differences in perception.
El Akkad, Omar. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This. Details the ongoing BIPOC struggle and a reckoning with what it means to live in the West, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France and Germany.  This book urges us to divorce the concept of Western Idealism.
Alyan, Hala. I’ll Tell You When I’m Home: A Memoir. New York: Avid Reader, 2025. A Palestinian American poet and novelist confronts her past through the experience of motherhood via surrogacy.
Beinart, Peter. Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. New York: Knoff, 2025. Explores the impact of the conflict in Gaza on Jewish identity and the need for a moral reckoning within the Jewish community.
Burley, Shane and Ben Lorber. Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. Brooklyn: Melville House, 2024. Shows how antisemitism works.
Coates, Ta-Nahisi. The Message. New York: One World, 2024. A collection of essays that explores the power of storytelling and its impact on how we understand the world, particularly in relation to race, power, and identity.
Cockerell, Rachel. Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. This work traces family history through the two world wars based on extensive documentation.
Finkelstein, Norman. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom. Discusses the history of Gaza and their unique relationship to Palestinian martyrdom.
Kaplan, Amy. Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2018.
Kern, Sim. Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation. Northampton, MA: InterLink, 2025. A breakdown on current genocide in Gaza and why it’s bad for everyone including Jews.
Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. New York: Picador, 2020. Describes the Zionist claim to Palestine in the century spanning 1917–2017 as late settler colonialism and an instrument of British and then later American imperialism.
Kraemer, David Charles. Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora. Extensive research makes the case for embracing diasporism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.
El-Kurd, Mohammed. Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal. A collection of essays detailing the struggles and dehumanization of Palestinians under occupation and normalization of it. El-Kurd asks us to challenge ourselves and how we view and discuss Palestinians.
Leifer, Joshua. Tablets Shattered: the End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life. [New York]: Dutton, 2024. The disintegration of the American Jewish community and four possible paths for the future: The Dying Establishment, Prophetic Protest, Neo-Reform, and Separatist Orthodoxy.
Loewenstein, Antony. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World. London and Brooklyn: Verso, 2023. Details how Israel not only affects the lives of Palestinians but how they directly influence other countries like in Latin America and the Congo.
Orner, Atalia. Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Explores the shift in attitudes of American Jews.
Pappe, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. London: Oneworld, 2006. Demonstrates that ethnic cleansing was a deliberate goal from the beginning.
Pappe, Ilan. The Idea of Israel: a History of Power and Knowledge. London and New York: Verso, 2015. The rise and fall of critical Israeli academic work concerning Zionism.
Pappe, Ilan. Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic. London: Oneworld, 2024. Covers the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
Pappe, Ilan. Ten Myths About Israel. London and New York: Verso, 2017. The book overthrows the popularly perceived “complicated” history around Israel and Palestine.
Pappe, Ilan. A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict. New York: Simon & Shuster, 2024.
Said, Edward W. The Question of Palestine. New York: Vintage, 1980. A classic work that has had a profound impact on the debate around Israel/Palestine.
Stevens, Richard P. and Abdelwahab M. Elmessiri. Israel and South Africa: the Progression of a Relationship. Revised edition. New Brunswick, NJ: North American, 1977. Describes the partnership between Israel and apartheid South Africa.
Sucharov, Mira. Borders and Belonging: A Memoir. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.The author’s search for a political and emotional home.
Takruri, Dena and Ahed Tamimi. They Call Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom. New York: One World, 2022. This memoir of a Palestinian activist describes the daily struggles of life under occupation.
Thrall, Nathan. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy. New York: Metropolitan, 2023. The story of a deadly accident in the context of Israel/Palestine.
Fiction and Poetry
Abulhawa, Susan. Mornings in Jenin. A novel about five generations of a Palestinian family and how they are continuously affected by Israel post Nakba.
Abu Toha, Mosab. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza. San Francisco: City Lights, 2022.
Abusalim, Jehad and Jennifer Bing. Light in Gaza. A collection of poems and short stories about Gaza from Palestinian writers from before the Nakba and up to the 21st century.
Alareer, Refaat. If I Must Die: Poetry and Prose. New York: Or Books, 2024. Gaza writer, published posthumously.
El-Kurd, Mohammed. Rifqa. A collection by a Palestinian poet.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East. [New York]: Greenwillow, 2002.
Films
5 Broken Cameras. 2011. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2125423/ A documentary on a Palestinian farmer's chronicle of his nonviolent resistance to the actions of the Israeli army.
1948: Creation & Catastrophe. 2017. https://www.1948movie.com Reveals the shocking events of the most pivotal year in the most controversial conflict in the world.
Born in Gaza. 2014. https://www.netflix.com/title/81077863 Filmed shortly after the 2014 war, this documentary examines how violence has transformed the lives of Palestinian children.
Farha. 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M23noPOnfig A 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumers her home.
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. 2025. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37504739/ A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza. The film also examines allegations of the targeting and abuse of doctors and healthcare workers in Gaza.
Gaza: Journalists Under Fire. https://www.bravenewfilms.org/palestinianjournalists
Gaza Sound Man. 2025. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36870669/ A Palestinian sound engineer documents his homeland's changing soundscape, from peaceful moments to wartime chaos, creating an intimate audio portrait of life in Gaza amid escalating conflict.
Israelism. 2023. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9636732/ When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Their stories reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.
Louis Theroux: The Settlers. 2025. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt36640622/ Fourteen years after his first visit, Louis Theroux meets some of the growing community of religious-nationalist Israelis who have settled in the occupied West Bank.
Naila and the Uprising. 2017. https://justvision.org/nailaandtheuprising When a nation-wide uprising breaks out in 1987, a woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three.
No Other Land. 2024. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt30953759/ This film made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval.
Pinkwashing Exposed: Seattle Fights Back. 2015. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5944670/ Activists in the Pacific Northwestern region of the US respond to an Israeli Consulate-funded pinkwashing tour featuring Israeli gay and lesbian activists that was coming to the region.
Salt of this Sea. 2008. https://www.kanopy.com/en/product/salt-sea A romantic drama about a working-class woman and her experiences travelling back home.
Where Olive Trees Weep. 2024. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32316068/ This film offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. It explores themes of loss, trauma, and the quest for justice.
News
+972 Magazine. https://www.972mag.com
The Chris Hedges Report. https://chrishedges.substack.com
Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org
Drop Site News. https://www.dropsitenews.com
Al-Jazeera. https://www.aljazeera.com/live
Zeteo. https://zeteo.com
Podcasts
On the Nose. JewishCurrents. https://jewishcurrents.org/podcast
The Palestine Pod. https://www.palestinepod.com
Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine https://sumudpod.com.
Websites
Decolonize Palestine. https://decolonizepalestine.com
Jewitches Guide to Antisemitism Education. https://jewitches.com
Just Vision. https://justvision.org. Films on Israel/Palestine.
Visualizing Palestine. https://visualizingpalestine.org
Young Adult Literature
Abdel-Fattah, Randa. Where the Streets Had a Name. New York: Scholastic, 2010. A story of curfews, checkpoints, and permits in the West Bank.
Carter, Anne Laurel. The Shepherd’s Granddaughter. [Toronto]: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi, 2008. A struggle to survive in the West Bank.
Laird, Elizabeth. A Little Piece of Ground. 2006. Chicago: Haymarket, The struggles of a Palestinian boy in the West Bank.
Murad, Nora Lester. Ida in the Middle. Northampton, MA: Crocodile, 2024. A Palestinian American girl’s coming of age story.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Habibi. N.p.: Simon Pulse, 2008. The experiences of a Palestinian American girl whose family moves back from the US to Palestine, and her forbidden relationship with a Jewish boy.
Rothchild, Alice. Old Enough to Know. Seattle: Cune, 2023. A Palestinian American boy confronts Islamophobia.
Children’s Literature
Elbayya, Hazar. My Olive Tree. Learning about the Palestinian people’s deep roots in the land.
Moushabeck, Hannah. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine. Bedtime stories of Palestine.
Nye, Naomi Shihab. Sitti’s Secrets. A young girl learns of her grandmother’s home.
Zalben, Jane Breskin. A Moon for Moe and Mo. The friendship of Jewish and Muslim boys in Brooklyn.