Resources
Israel / Palestine
Books & Articles
Maya Wind, Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom (Verso, 2023).
Ardi Imseis, The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Brendan Ciara Browne, Transitional (in)Justice and Enforcing the Peace on Palestine (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
Amahl Bishara, Crossing A Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford University Press, 2022).
Walid Khalidi, Palestine's Partition: From the Great Revolt 1937 - 1939 to the Nakba 1947 - 1949 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 2021).
Yara Hawari, The Stone House (Hajar Press, 2021).
Sara Roy, Unsilencing Gaza - Reflections on Resistance (Pluto Press, 2021).
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (Diana Allan ed.)(Pluto Press, 2021).
Jeff Halper, Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State (Pluto Press, 2021).
Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917 – 2017 (Metropolitan Books, 2020).
Francesca Albanese & Lex Takkenberg, Palestinian Refugees in International Law (2nd ed.) (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Noura Erakat, Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).
Nadera Shalhoub - Kevorkian, Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Tareq Baconi, Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance (Stanford University Press, 2018).
Yael Berda, Living Emergency: Israel’s Permit Regime in the Occupied West Bank (Stanford University Press, 2018).
Amy Kaplan, Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance (Harvard University Press, 2018).
Shlomo Avineri, The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State (Basic Books, 1981, 2017).
Bernard Regan, The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate, and Resistance in Palestine (Verso, 2017).
Elia Zureik, Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit (Routledge, 2016).
Salman Abu Sitta, Mapping My Return (The American University of Cairo Press, 2016).
Ghada Karmi, Return: A Palestinian Memoir (Verso, 2015).
Sean Jacobs & Jon Soske, Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy (Haymarket Books, 2015).
Ilan Pappe (ed.), Israel and South Africa: The Many Faces of Apartheid (Zed Books, 2015).
Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2015).
Ahmad Sa’di, Thorough Surveillance: The Genesis of Israeli Policies of Population Management, Surveillance & Political Control towards the Palestinians (Manchester University Press, 2014).
Ariella Azulay & Adi Ophir, The One - State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel / Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2013).
Judith Butler, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism (Columbia University Press, 2013).
Jonathan Cook, Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair (Zed Books, 2013).
Amahl Bishara, Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford University Press, 2012).
Virginia Tilly (ed.), Beyond Occupation: Apartheid, Colonialism and International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Pluto Press, 2012).
Nur Masalha, The Palestine Nakba: Decolonizing History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory (Zed Books, 2012).
Rochelle Davis, Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced (Stanford University Press, 2012).
Audrea Lim, The Case for Sanctions Against Israel (Verso, 2012).
Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence (Sinan Antoon translator)(Archipelago, 2011).
Susan Akram et al eds., International Law and the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict (Routledge, 2011).
John Collins, Global Palestine (Hurst, 2011).
Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket Books, 2011).
The Plight of the Palestinians: A Long History of Destruction (William A. Cook ed.)(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Esmail Nashif, Palestinian Political Prisoners: Identity and Community (Routledge, 2010).
Hillel Cohen, The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948 - 1967 (University of California Press, 2010).
Victor Kattan, From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab Israeli Conflict, 1891 – 1949 (Pluto Press, 2009).
Francis Boyle, Palestine, Palestinians, and International Law (Clarity Press, 2009).
Ben White, Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide (Pluto Press, 2009).
Nurith Gertz & George Khleifi, Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma, and Memory (Edenborough University Press, 2008).
Raja Shihadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into Vanishing Landscape (Scribner, 2008).
Niv Gordon, Israel’s Occupation (University of California Press, 2008).
Ahmad Sa'di & Leila Abu Lughod, Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory (Columbia University Press, 2007).
Ali Abunimah, One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli Palestinian Impasse (Picador Paper, 2007).
Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (Oneworld, 2007).
Laleh Khalili, Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
John Mearsheimer & Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Penguin Books, 2007).
Joseph Massad, The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians (Routledge, 2006).
Samih Farsoun & Nasser Arouri, Palestine and the Palestinians: A Social and Political History (Westview Press, 2006).
Lisa Hajjar, Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005).
Leila Farsakh, Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation (Routledge, 2005).
John Quigley, The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective (2nd ed.)(Duke University Press, 2005).
Bayan Nuwayhed Al-Hout, Sabra and Shatila: September 1982 (Pluto Press, 2004).
Nasser Arouri, Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine (South End Press, 2003).
May Seikaly, Haifa: Transformation of an Arab Society 1918 – 1939 (I.B. Tauris, 2002).
David Kretzmer, The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories (State University of New York, 2002).
Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Nasser Aruri ed.)(Pluto Press, 2001).
Nadim Rouhana, Palestinian Citizens in an Ethnic Jewish State (Yale University Press, 1997).
George Bisharat, "Land, Law, and Legitimacy in Israel and the Occupied Territories", 43 Am. U. L. Rev. 467 (1993 - 1994).
Walid Khalidi, All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).
Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882 – 1948 (Institute For Palestine Studies, 1992).
Henry Cattan, Jerusalem (Routledge, 1981).
Edward Said, The Question of Palestine (Vintage, 1979).
Elia Zureik, The Palestinians in Israel: A Study in Internal Colonialism (Routledge, 1979).
Ibrahim Abu – Lughod (ed.), The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab – Israeli Conflict (Northwestern University Press, 1971).
United Nations Documents
International Court of Justice, Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, Advisory Opinion, 19 July 2024.
Anatomy of a Genocide, OHCHR Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation in the 1967 Occupied Territories, 25 March 2024.
International Court of Justice, South Africa v. Israel, Provisional Measures, Order of 26 January 2024.
International Court of Justice, South Africa v. Israel, Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip, January 2024.
OCHA in Occupied Palestinian Territories
United Nations experts demand accountability for Israel's violations of international law, June 2020
John Dugard on Israel’s Apartheid, 17 April 2019
Report of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the 2018 protests in the OPT, 18 March 2019
Report of the independent international fact-finding mission regarding Israeli settlements, A/HRC/22/63, 7 February 2013.
Report of the international fact-finding mission to investigate violations of international law, including international humanitarian and human rights law, resulting from the Israeli attacks on the flotilla of ships carrying humanitarian assistance, A/HRC/15/21, 27 September 2010
Report of the Secretary-General’s Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident, July 2011
Report of the United Nations Fact – Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, 25 September 2009
International Human Rights Organizations' Reports
Genocide in Gaza: Analysis of International Law and its Application to Israel's Military Actions Since October 7, 2023, University Network for Human Rights, 15 May 2024.
Center for Constitutional Rights, U.S. Court Concludes Israel’s Assault on Gaza Is Plausible Case of Genocide, 31 January 2024.
Center for Constitutional Rights, Palestinians Sue Biden for Failure to Prevent Genocide, 13 November 2023.
Center for Constitutional Rights, Israel's Unfolding Crime of Genocide of the Palestinian People & U.S. Failure to Prevent and Complicity in Genocide, 18 October 2023.
Amnesty International, Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity, February 2022.
Human Rights Watch, A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, April 2021.
Human Rights Watch, Israel: Discriminatory Land Policies Hem in Palestinians, 12 May 2020
Amnesty International, The Occupation of Water, November 2017.
Amnesty International, Families Under the Rubble: Israeli Attacks on Inhabited Homes, 2014
Human Rights Watch, Razing Rafah: Mass Home Demolitions in the Gaza Strip, October 2004
Human Rights Watch, Jenin: IDF Military Operations, May 2002
Human Rights, Research, and Policy Organizations
Palestinian Center for Human Rights
Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights
Al Dameer – Association for Human Rights
Palestinian Medical Relief Society
Institute for Palestine Studies
Al-Shabaka - The Palestinian Policy Network
Ha Moked – Center for the Defense of the Individual
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Mada al-Carmel Arab Center for Applied Social Studies