By Benay Blend At the core of the novel there is a central question: What do we inherit from our ancestors, and what do we leave behind? At first glance, Steven Salaita’s Daughter, Son, Assassin […]
By Jim Miles Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. Caroline Elkins. Vantage Books/Penguin Random House, New York, 2022. This is an amazing history, one that should be on the list of every […]
By Jim Miles (The Arabs – A History. Eugene Rogan. Basic Books, New York, 2009. Revised 2017.) While the genocide has raged on in Gaza I have been reading Eugene Rogan’s large work simply titled The […]
By David Faber (Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out, Ramzy Baroud and Ilan Pappé, Clarity Press, 2022) Now that this seminal and historical political work has been launched and is making its […]
By Jim Miles (Women’s Voices From Gaza: Come My Children. Hekmat Al-Taweel. Ed. Ghada Ageel & Barbara Bill. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2023.) The third book in the Women’s Voices From Gaza Series, Come […]
By Jeremy Salt (Blake Alcott, The Rape of Palestine. A Mandate Chronology. 2 vols., Tredition.com.) A monumental amount of work has gone into the preparation of these two volumes, 1437 pages, excluding annexes, not just […]
By Jim Miles Light the Road of Freedom – Women’s Voices From Gaza. Sahbaa Al-Barbari, Ed. Ghada Ageel & Barbara Bill. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2021. This is the second volume in the series […]
By Jim Miles (Women’s Voices From Gaza – A White Lie. Madeeha Hafez Albatta. Ed. Barbara Bill & Ghada Ageel. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, 2020.) “A White Lie” is the first in a series […]
By Kathy Kelly (War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon, The New Press, 2023) Following a string of United States “forever wars,” a profusion of well-written, […]
By Kathy Kelly Sometimes, I needed to pause and recall my own presumptive conclusions about experiences in prisons and war zones when I had recognized a defining reality, which was that we would eventually return […]
By Jim Miles (Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambitions in the Middle East. Steven Simon. Penguin Press, New York, 2023.) While Simon’s “Grand Delusion” does provide a good political background to events […]
By Benay Blend (Finding Melody Sullivan. Alice Rothchild. Cune Press, Seattle, 2023) Alice Rothchild’s long career as a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and human rights activist enabled her to write this book. In medical school she began […]
By Jim Miles (America and Iran: A History 1720 to the Present. John Ghazvinian. Vintage Books, Penguin Random House, New York, 2021.) The relationship between Iran and America has been one of tension, misunderstandings, and […]
By Lois Griffiths (They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom, by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri, One World, 2022) Ahed Tamimi and journalist Dena Takruri tell Ahed ‘s story. Ahed was […]
By Jim Miles (Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts – Feminism Inter/Nationalism & Palestine. Nada Elia. Pluto Press, 2023. London.) Interestingly this work by Nada Elia – Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts […]
By Jim Miles (Imagining Palestine – Cultures of Exile and National Identity. Tahrir Hamdi. I. B. Taurus, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, 2023.) In her recent work, “Imagining Palestine”, Tahrir Hamdi has made an intriguing, thought-provoking, […]
By Jim Miles (Glory to God in the Lowest: Journeys to An Unholy Land. Donald E. Wagner. Olive Branch Press, Interlink Publishing group, Inc. Northampton, Massachusetts. 2022.) In “Glory to God in the Lowest”, Donald […]
By Jim Miles (Zionism During the Holocaust: The Weaponization of Memory in the Service of State and Nation. Tony Greenstein. 2022.) The current Israeli government promotes the idea that it speaks for the Jewish people […]
By Jim Miles (The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People. Walter Russell Mead. Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2022.) In today’s world, a clear understanding of […]
By Jim Miles (The Hundred Year War on Palestine – A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017. Rashid Khalidi. Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2020.) With the writing of “The Hundred […]
By Jim Miles (Advocating for Palestine in Canada – Histories, Movements, Actions. Ed.: Emily Wills, Jeremy Wildeman, Michael Beuckert, Nadia Abu-Zahra. Fernwood Publishing, Halifax/Winnipeg, 2022.) Different groups advocate for Palestine from a variety of perspectives […]
By Jim Miles (‘Stand on Guard for Whom?’: A People’s History of the Canadian Military, Black Rose Books, Montreal, 2021) For a short while, at least as announced by the mainstream media, Canada found itself […]
By Gary Anderson (Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out, Ramzy Baroud and Ilan Pappé, Clarity Press, 2022) This powerful book is a series of themed essays and interviews with knowledgeable thinkers and […]
In commemoration of the 74th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, renowned historian, Professor Ilan Pappe, and Palestinian author, Dr. Ramzy Baroud, announce the release of their latest book, ‘OUR VISION FOR LIBERATION: Engaged Palestinian Leaders […]
By Lois Griffiths (Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out, by Ramzy Baroud and Ilan Pappé, Clarity Press, 2022) ‘Our Vision for Liberation: Engaged Palestinian Leaders and Intellectuals Speak Out’ is […]
By Jim Miles (Giving up is not an option: Memoirs of a Palestinian American. Hani Q. Khoury. Amazon, 2021.) In an interesting short work, Giving up is not an option – Memoirs of a Palestinian […]
By Jim Miles (The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. Robert Fisk. Fourth Estate – HarperCollins Publishers, London, 2005.) Robert Fisk (1946-2020) was the penultimate war reporter for the second half […]
By Jim Miles (Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim. Richard Falk. Clarity Press, Atlanta, GA. 2021) Writing an autobiography after experiencing the greater part of a century as a public intellectual has resulted […]
By Jim Miles (Giants: The Global Power Elite. Peter Phillips. Seven Stories Press, New York, 2018.) Abby Martin’s interview with Peter Phillips was the instigator for reading Peter Phililips’ now slightly outdated but highly valuable […]
By Jim Miles The American Trap: My Battle to Expose America’s Secret Economic War Against the Rest of the World. Frédéric Pierucci (with Mathieu Aron). Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2020. It becomes more clear with […]
A recent New York Times made many claims about the ‘mass rape’ of Israeli women on October 7. But two leading Palestinian media organizations, The Palestine Chronicle and Friends of Palestine Network, conducted a joint investigation, the outcome of which resulted in the ‘The Black Dress’, a groundbreaking 18-minute documentary looking into allegations and the possible falsification of evidence.
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