Selected Book Reviews
Violence, Nonviolence and the Palestinian National Movement
By: Dr. Wendy Pearlman. Thanks so much for having me, it’s such a delight to be here. The story of this book, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement, begins where my first book ends off. So, my first book, as [Palestine Center Program Manager] Nawal [Atallah] just mentioned, called Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life in the Second Intifada,...
Israeli democracy was dead on arrival: Peter Beinart’s "Crisis of Zionism" reviewed
By: Rod Such*. Peter Beinart’s book The Crisis of Zionism might be more aptly titled The Crisis of Liberal Zionism. Beinart believes that the liberal values of the Jewish and “democratic” State of Israel are threatened by the ongoing occupation and the ascendancy of what he terms “Monist Zionism,” which seeks a Jewish majority on both sides of the Jordan...
The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel
By Khalil Nakhleh: No doubt, hundreds if not thousands of articles, reports and books have been written about the Palestinians in Israel, “the forgotten Palestinians”, in Arabic, English and Hebrew, during the last sixty some years. To my knowledge, this is the first time a major, mainstream, US academic university press publishes a comprehensive and sympathetic...
The Voucher Programme In the Gaza strip
Submitted by Pantaleo Creti. Introduction: The WFP voucher project is part of the emergency operation (EMOP 10817.0) to assist the recovery of the population affected by the conflict in Gaza Strip. WFP emergency operation has the following objectives:- Meet urgent needs and improve the food consumption for conflict-affected people targeted beneficiaries (WFP Strategic Objective 1 “Save lives and protect livelihoods in...
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
Review by: Javier Sethness: U.S. anarchist Noam Chomsky and Israeli Communist Ilan Pappé, both prominent Jewish critics of the state of Israel and its brutal oppression of Palestinians, have put together an important account of contemporary imperialism in Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel’s War Against the Palestinians, volume edited by activist Frank Barat and published in late 2010. While Gaza...
The Future Security Environment in the Middle East: Conflict, Stability, and Political Change
Edited by Nora Bensahel and Daniel L. Byman ... Since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, threats to political security in the Middle East have increased. Tensions between states have long threatened to destabilize the region....
Hidden Histories
Review by Jim Miles: The clear majority of the modern works that examine the Palestine/Israel conflict do so with a strong emphasis on the 'nakba' of 1948, with subsequent arguments based on covering events that led up to it, and then arguments based on events that have followed from it. For the former it is usually a discussion of the early...
Israeli Exceptionalism
Review by Robin Yassin-Kassab: M. Shahid Alam's latest book 'Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilising Logic of Zionism' is a fascinating historical analysis, densely detailed and referenced, of the nature and trajectory of Jewish nationalism. It is bracingly honest, dispensing with the usual Western pieties to describe three elements of what Edward Said called Israel's 'ideology of difference.' These are, firstly, the...
Understanding the Economics of Occupation
Review by Asa Winstanley: Economist Shir Hever has served as the main author behind a series of pamphlets entitled "The Economy of the Occupation" published by the Alternative Information Center in Jerusalem during the past five years. The pamphlets serve as the basis for Hever's debut book, The Political Economy of the Occupation. Although the work as a whole is...
