Reading list for the Israel
The past few weeks have been difficult to process—or as the New York Times put it at the start of this week, “War Has Smashed Assumptions About Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” This is apparently as true for veteran analysts of the region as it is for those of us who are less well-versed in the past several decades (and centuries) of this history. As debates about whether we all have to opine about these topics individually raged on, here at Slate we found ourselves looking to one another for guidance on what to watch, listen to, and read to better understand the current conflict. (It turns out our sister publication, Foreign Policy, had this same idea—their recommendations are incredibly thorough and worth checking out too.) Read on for recommendations from all corners of our staff. Part family memoir, part history, this is an honest, poignant probing of Israel’s noble ideals and its dark roots as an occupying power. A classic diplomatic history about the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the roots of the Israel-Palestine conflict. By Ben Birnbaum and Amir Tibon, the New Republic, July 20, 2014. This book bills itself as a biography, and it helps to think of it that way—a broad portrait of a place that has been so central and significant to many peoples over the centuries. A disturbing, illuminating exploration of how the revered Jewish past often reinforces antisemitic and dehumanizing narratives about Jews; it provides essential context for understanding the national mourning experienced by Jewish Israelis right now. This collection of essays offers essential, and accessible, insights into the Palestinian diaspora and probes questions about the Palestinian people’s struggle as related to gender and Black American solidarity. This definitive history draws from generations of the author’s own family’s archives to assert that this isn’t a modern, fair fight between two equal states: Instead, it’s a complex colonial war of continual dispossession of a homeland belonging to Palestinians. A remarkable work of ’90s comics journalism—the author traveled to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the waning days of the first intifada and heard from numerous Palestinians about their brutal experiences under Israeli occupation. A collection of Haaretz columns by a longtime Israeli journalist covers Israel’s “disengagement” from Gaza, the first election of Hamas, the twilight of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s political career, the second Lebanon War, and the subsequent Gaza War. By Alex Kane, Mari Cohen, Jonathan Shamir, and Isaac Sher, Jewish Currents, Oct. 10, 2023. This extremely comprehensive explainer answers some foundational questions about what’s happened since Oct. 7, and outlines the stakes and questions that remain. A compelling, searching primer on the contradictory realities many American Jews on the left grapple with, a struggle that is coming to a head with the twinned tragedies in southern Israel and Gaza. Essential viewing for people trying to understand the tangled nexus of race/ethnicity, religion, and power in Israel. An intimate depiction of one Palestinian family’s life in the West Bank as their village protests the Israeli occupation—as seen through the lens of the filmmaker’s five video cameras that are destroyed as he witnesses it all unfolding.My Promised Land, by Ari Shavit
A Peace to End All Peace, by David Fromkin
“The Explosive, Inside Story of How John Kerry Built an Israel-Palestine Peace Plan—and Watched It Crumble”
A thoroughly reported, mainly on-the-record account of how Obama‘s secretary of state nearly negotiated a Middle East peace but failed because neither Israel nor the Palestinian Authority wanted it.Jerusalem, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
People Love Dead Jews, by Dara Horn
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, by Rashid Khalidi
Palestine, by Joe Sacco
The Punishment of Gaza, by Gideon Levy
“The Hamas Attacks and Israeli Response: An Explainer”
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