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Reviews
Israeli Society in the 21st Century – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (Israeli Society in the 21st Century – Immigration, Inequality, and Religious Conflict. Calvin Goldscheider. Brandeis University Press, Waltham , Massachusetts. 2015.) This work intrigued me as it is obviously supportive of […]
Borderline: Forbidden Love Tales in Israel
By Jamal Kanj How can a two-year-old novel become a best seller? Censorship is the short answer. The most important question is, however, why would the “Jewish democracy” censor a love fiction between a Jew and […]
Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict – Book Review
By Jim Miles (Genesis – Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. John B. Judis. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York. 2014.) Every once in awhile a history book arrives that is […]
Apartheid In Palestine. Hard Laws and Harder Experiences – Book Review
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Ghada Ageel, ed., Apartheid in Palestine. Hard Laws and Harder Experiences, University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2016.) Apartheid in Palestine” is a valuable guidance in the struggle for justice in Palestine. Ghada Ageel […]
Attacking Churches in Palestine: An Israeli Policy since 1948
By Dr. Saleh Al-Naami Israeli documents have revealed that the Israeli army deliberately adopted a policy based on the destruction, vandalism and harm of the sanctity of churches in Palestine, during and after the 1948 […]
Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East – Book Review
Reviewed by Rod Such (Irene Gendzier – Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East. Columbia University Press – November 2015) During the mass demonstrations that took […]
Book Excerpt: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza
By Lillian Rosengarten (Lillian Rosengarten is the author of Survival and Conscience: From the Shadows of Nazi Germany to the Jewish Boat to Gaza, which Just World Books will be launching at this event— also […]
Remi Kanazi’s Before The Next Bomb Drops – Book Review
Reviewed by Mike Kuhlenbeck Many mainstream reporters have been fired over the years for doing what poet Remi Kanazi does so well in his latest book Before the Next Bomb Drops: tell the truth about […]
A Palestinian Novel Par Excellence: The Blue between Sky and Water
By Vacy Vlazna If poetry be the food of love, read on.* The Blue between Sky and Water, places Susan Abulhawa among the Illustrissimi of Palestinian literature. It is a novel one must read, at […]
Wartime Journalism: Mohammed Omer on Gaza
By Richard Falk I visited North Vietnam in 1968, and had meetings with its leaders in the midst of the ongoing war, which resulted in receiving the outlines of a proposal for ending the conflict […]
Shell-Shocked: On The Ground Under Israel’s Gaza Assault: Book Review
Reviewed by Iqbal Jassat (Author: Mohammed Omer. Publisher: OR Books. Published Date : July 8, 2015. Paperpack: 304 pages. Paperback ISBN 978-1-939293-92-3) A year after Israel’s bloody massacres in Gaza, it may appear that much of the world has […]
The Hilltop: A ‘Comic’ Zionist Lie
By Vacy Vlazna “To be honest, you know all Israelis are settlers, you know all of Israel is occupied Palestine and every single Israeli city is a settlement.” — Israeli dissident, Miko Peled The day […]
From Chaos and Counterrevolution: After the Arab Spring
(This feature on Iran is an extract from Richard Falk’s latest book, Chaos and Counterrevolution: After the Arab Spring. Visit Zed Books if you are interested in making a purchase.) By Richard Falk I have […]
Reviewing Trashy Hasbara against BDS
By Vacy Vlazna Boycotting Israel is Wrong: The progressive path to peace between Palestinians and Israelis by Philip Mendes, Nick Dyrenfurth is a slipshod diatribe against the principled efforts of the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions […]
Gaza Writes Back – Book Review
Reviewed by Gary Corseri (Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine. Edited by Refaat Alareer. Just World Books, Charlottesville, VA, 2014. 205 pages.) I think I was in the first grade […]
The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City under Fire
By Vacy Vlazna “We prepare the suhoor. We all sit around five dishes: white cheese, hummus, orange jam, yellow cheese, and olives. Darkness eats with us. Fear and anxiety eat with us. The unknown eats […]
Biography’s Life in Occupied Palestine Launched in Gaza
By CPDS – Gaza, Palestine The Center for Political and Development Studies in Gaza, Palestine held a launch of Biography’s Life in Occupied Palestine, a special issue highlighting the life of Palestinians under occupation. Cynthia […]
ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Rise of the Islamic State – ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution. Patrick Cockburn. Verso, London/New York, 2014/2015.) When observed from the mainstream media perspective, the rise of ISIS was […]
Zionism and its Discontents – Book Review
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (Ran Greenstein, Zionism and its Discontents. A Century of Radical Dissent in Israel/Palestine, Pluto Press, London 2014, 248 pp.) Nationalist narratives and political movements have dominated the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for a […]
Ralph Nader’s Recommended Holiday Reading for the Agitated Mind
By Ralph Nader 1. The Invisible Soldiers by Ann Hagedorn (Simon & Schuster, 2014). Ann Hagedorn, a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal tells the troubling story of the corporatization of America’s national security—a […]
The Politics of Empire – Book Review
Reviewed by Ludwig Watzal (James Petras, The Politics of Empire. The US, Israel and the Middle East, Clarity Press, Atlanta 2014, 196 pp.) The Israeli military went again on a rampage against the ghettoized people […]
‘Worlding’ (Post) Modernism: Interpretive Possibilities of Critical Theory – Book Review
Reviewed by A. Clare Brandabur (Haidar Eid. Worlding Postmodernism: Interpretive Possibilities of Critical Theory. Roman Books.) In hıs New Yorker review of a new biography of Paul de Man (The Double Life of Paul de […]
Battle for Justice in Palestine – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Battle for Justice in Palestine. Ali Abunimah. Haymarket Press, Chicago, USA. 2014.) With the peace talks being dead, what happens in Israel/Palestine? Settlements will continue to be built, dispossession will […]
Lia Tarachansky’s On the Side of the Road – Review
By Vacy Vlazna On the Other Side of the Road, is a documentary with a cathartic difference about the Palestinian Nakba; the 1948 catastrophe of Israel’s ethnic cleansing of over 500 Palestine villages and cities […]
You Came to Create Change
By Mats Svensson You come to Palestine as a diplomat, as a development worker. You come to create change. To make something better. Not for yourself but for people living on a small plot of […]
The Idea of Israel – Book Review
Reviewed by Jim Miles (The Idea of Israel – A History of Power and Knowledge. Ilan Pappe. Verso/New Left Books, London, 2014.) This is a powerfully written unsettling work that relates the story of Israel […]
Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide – Book Review
By Susan de Muth (Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide. Ben White, Pluto Press, 144 pages.) “Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner’s Guide” by Ben White is a new, updated and expanded edition of his hard-hitting study of […]
Baghdad Central – Book Review
By Neve Gordon (Center-staging the calamities of collaboration, Elliott Colla’s noir thriller exposes the moral and strategic failures of military occupation.) Without networks of collaborators conscripted from among the ranks of the insurgency, sustained military […]
Song of Egypt: Rima is Back to Her Old Ways
By Mamoon Alabbasi – London In Egypt, there is a new catchy tune circulating in social media pages. The song, which gives a symbolic description of the current events in Egypt, is sung by an […]