Brooklyn For Peace
Israel-Palestine Committee
Reading List

Join us in informing yourself on this difficult and complex topic. For information on next meeting of the Reading Group, email is.pales@brooklynpeace.org.

Links to articles are provided wherever possible.

For February and March 2008
Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Oneworld Publications, 2006.
First five chapters For January 2008
John Mearshheimer & Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007)
remaining chapters

For October 2007
John Mearshheimer & Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007)
Preface, Introduction, Chs. 1–6, Conclusion.

For August 2007
Rashid Khalidi, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Beacon Press, 2006)
Chapters 4–end.

For June 2007
Rashid Khalidi, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Beacon Press, 2006)
Introduction and Chs. 1–3

For May 2007
Paul Scham et al, Shared Histories: A Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue (Left Coast Press, 2005)
Discussions 5 (pp. 188–204) and 6 (pp. 228–250)

For April 2007
Jimmy Carter, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
Chapters 6–end.

For March 2007
Jimmy Carter, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid (Simon & Schuster, 2006)
Chs. 1–5

For February 2007
Virginia Tilley, The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock (University of Michigan Press, 2005)
Chapters 5–end.

For January 2007
Virginia Tilley, The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock (University of Michigan Press, 2005)
Chs. 1–4

For December 2006
Azza Karam (ed), Transnational Political Islam: Religion, Ideology and Power (Pluto Press, 2004), Chapters 4–end
Tony Judt, "Israel: The Alternative," in New York Review of Books (October 23, 2003)

For October 2006
Azza Karam (ed), Transnational Political Islam: Religion, Ideology and Power (Pluto Press, 2004), Chs. 1, 2 and 3

For September 2006
Roane Carey & Jonathan Shainin, The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (The New Press, 2002)

For August 2006
Regina Sharif, Non-Jewish Zionism: Its Roots in Western History (Zed Press, 1983)

For June 2006
John Mearscheimer & Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," in London Review of Books (March 23, 2006)

Michael Massing, "The Storm Over the Israel Lobby," in New York Review of Books (June 8, 2006)

For May 2006
Isabel Kershner, Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Arab Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Chapters 4–end

For March 2006
Isabel Kershner, Barrier: The Seam of the Israeli-Arab Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Chs. 2 and 3

For January 2006
Bernard Wasserstein, Israelis and Palestinians: Why Do They Fight? Can They Stop? (Yale, 2004)
Chs. 1–3

For November 2005
Jacqueline Rose, The Question of Zion (Princeton, 2005)
Ch. 1 ("The Apocalyptic Sting: Zionism as Messianism (Vision)")

For September 2005
Ze'ev Schiff & Ehud Ya'ari, Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising — Israel's Third Front (Simon & Schuster, 1990)
Ch. 6 ("The Israeli Palestinians")

For August 2005
Ari Shavit, "Survival of the Fittest? Interview with Benny Morris," in Haaretz (January 9, 2004)