palestine reading list

i've spent a large chunk of my time over the last few months reading about palestine and trying to get my own head around the ongoing genocide there. it's an immense privilege to have the time to just sit and read, especially when the information that's easiest to find is so biased in favor of imperial interests, and while talking with friends irl about it, i wished i had a way to drop some of the articles that i found most helpful and illuminating into their hands. so i decided to make a reading list.

in the interest of making this as accessible as possible, i've included the word count of each article, and the links shoullllllld hopefully remove any paywalls. this is a personal list; it isn't comprehensive or striving for any kind of neutrality or perfect objectivity. all of these articles are working from a lefty, anti-colonialist, pro-human rights perspective. i'll keep updating this page, and hopefully someday soon i'll be able to update it with good news about a free palestine.

last updated 5/15/24

palestine reading list

There Was an Iron Wall in Gaza

Have We Learned Nothing?

Palestinian Suffering is Never as Urgent as the Counterfactual

South Africa's ICJ Case Against Israel Is a Call to Break Free From the Imperial West

No Side to Fall In

Israel is Losing This War

A Loud and Hungry Darkness

How Britain Destroyed the Palestinian Homeland

The Nakba did not start or end in 1948

Can You Tell Us Why This Is Happening?

I Joined Gaza's Trail of Tears And Displacement

The Wisdom of Edward Said Has Never Been More Relevant

A Bosnian genocide survivor on Israel's siege on Gaza

At the Threshold of Humanity

A Tradition of Defiance

The world would rather show solidarity with our corpses than our resistance

Turning the Tables

Tectonic Shifts

Israel's Western Allies Have Done Everything Possible to Criminalize Nonviolent Resistance

What Every American Should Know About Gaza

Rubble from Bone

The Shoah After Gaza

Letters from Gaza

Toward an Intellectual History of Genocide in Gaza

Why Does Biden Keep Making the Same Dangerous Comment About Jews?

The Missing News About Gaza

Crimes Against Language

It's Clearer Than Ever: Israel's War Has Failed Catastrophically

Documenting Six Months of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

'Come out, you animals': how the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital happened

Palestine Reading List

Palestine is Free (If You Want It)

How to Make a Paper Kite

Photographs of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896-1919)