Index: Sources

• Palestine: A Socialist Introduction — Sumaya Awad & brian bean (eds.), Palestine: A Socialist Introduction (Haymarket Books, 2020): a nine-essay edited collection arguing Palestinian liberation requires an international socialist movement from below against capitalism and imperialism, with chapters on the Nakba and Zionist settler colonialism, Israel as the US watchdog state, the Palestinian national liberation struggle and its class analysis, the Israeli working class as a colonizing class, the Oslo peace process, the Arab uprisings, BDS, gender and liberation, and Black–Palestinian solidarity, closing on a singular democratic state with return. Read in full, lines 1-5516 of 5516 in parts 1-5 of 5 (praise and front matter, Introduction, Timeline, Chapters 1-9 in full, the Conclusion, Afterword, Acknowledgments, the Notes in full, the Index in full, and the back matter including About the Editors, Contributors and About Haymarket Books).
• Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights — Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket Books, 2011): the Palestinian civil society BDS Call’s programmatic case — a rights-based, nonviolent, Palestinian-led global movement insisting on the three irreducible rights (ending the 1967 occupation, full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and refugee return under Resolution 194) while prescribing no one-state or two-state formula. Read in full, PDF p.1-341 of 341 in parts 1-5 of 5 (front matter and praise, Introduction, Chapters 1-16 in full, the Conclusion, Appendices 1-4 in full, the Notes in full, Acknowledgments/Sources, Index, and back matter including the Copyright Page).
• Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope — Richard Falk, Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope (Just World Books, 2014): a collection of the former UN Special Rapporteur’s 2010-2013 blog posts around his thesis of a Palestinian legitimacy struggle — nonviolent, law- and morality-based soft power and global solidarity (above all BDS) against a United States-mediated peace process he argues cannot deliver justice. Read in full: PDF p.1-297 of 297 in parts 1-5 of 5 (front matter, Introduction, Parts 1-7 complete, A Concluding Note, Acknowledgments and the full endnotes).
• The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine — Ghassan Kanafani, The 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine (1972): a booklet built around Kanafani’s Marxist analysis of the 1936-39 revolt, with front matter on his life and political writings, his story Letter From Gaza, a tribute and a biography.
• Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation — Saree Makdisi, Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (W. W. Norton, 2008; later printing with a new foreword by Alice Walker, 2010): an account of the everyday occupation — bureaucracy, permits, the population registry, the wall, the seam zone and the closure system — arguing the conflict is about land, that Israel wants the land without its people, and for a one-state, secular, democratic solution. Read in full: PDF p.1-453 of 453 in parts 1-7 of 7 (front matter, Foreword, Author’s Note, Introduction, Chapters 1-4, “Outsides”, “Insides”, “Outside In” and “Inside Out”, the Coda, the Epilogue, Acknowledgments, Notes on Sources, Notes on Statistics and Maps, all complete).
• Nakba and Survival — Adel Manna, Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948–1956 (University of California Press, 2022; originally 2016): a history of the Palestinians who remained — the remainers — built from 120 oral testimonies, family documents and trilingual archives, arguing that non-expulsion in northern Palestine was high-level policy differentiated by sect, and that ethnic cleansing ran wider and longer than Plan Dalet, through the prohibition of return and military rule to 1956. Read in full, PDF p.1-388 of 388 in parts 1-10 of 10 (Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Chapters 1-7, Epilogue, Appendices, Notes, Bibliography and Index).
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine — Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006): a history arguing that 1948 was a planned ethnic cleansing — the paradigm of ethnic cleansing against the paradigm of war, transfer as Zionist ideology, the Village Files, Plans A-D and the Consultancy, and UN Resolution 181 as a partition imposed on the indigenous majority with no mechanism to prevent the cleansing. Read in full, PDF p.1-384 of 384 (Preface, Chapters 1-12 and Epilogue; Endnotes, Chronology, Maps and Tables, Bibliography and Index).
• The Question of Palestine — Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine (1979): a Palestinian political essay for the American reader — the Palestinian experience of Zionism, the denial and reconstitution of Arab Palestine, the Balfour Declaration against the demographic facts, the liberal West’s hegemonic identification with Zionism and its representation of the Palestinians, Zionism from the standpoint of its victims, the PLO’s rise, and the Palestinian question after Camp David, with full Chapter Notes and Index. Read in full, PDF p.1-291 of 291.
• Zionist Colonialism in Palestine — Fayez A. Sayegh, Zionist Colonialism in Palestine (1965), excerpts in Settler Colonial Studies 2, 1 (2012): Zionist colonisation as a distinctive settler colonialism, its 1917 alliance with British imperialism, the settler-state’s racism, violence and expansion, and the five-stage Palestinian response.
• The Palestinian Nakba 1948 — The Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine — Salman Abu Sitta, The Palestinian Nakba 1948 — The Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine (Palestine Land Society, London; 1st ed. 1998, 2nd ed. 2025): the Register (Section V of the book) as one 24-column table over 20 sheets — every depopulated locality with its date, 1948 population, land, operation and UNRWA-based refugee figures: 531 fully and 662 partially depopulated localities, 804,465 people, 17,184,463 dunums, 4,940,269 refugees in total estimated for 1998. Read in full, PDF p.1-20 of 20.
• Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern — Kenneth S. Stern, Written Testimony of Kenneth S. Stern (United States House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, November 7, 2017): the lead drafter of the EUMC working definition of antisemitism testifies against the proposed Antisemitism Awareness Act, arguing the definition was made for data collectors, not to target or chill campus speech, and that enshrining it in Title VI law would harm academic freedom, Jewish students and faculty. Read in full, PDF p.1-18 of 18.

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