Palestine Bookshelf

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/the-biggest-prison-on-earth-a-history Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.n2f2aqj3vf1j MAIN THESIS Pappé is uneasy with the word "occupation." He argues it falsely separates "democratic Israel" from the territories and indirectly legitimi...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/gaza-doctors-under-attack-by-karim Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.lsgvw3fyttbm MAIN THESIS The film argues that attacks on medical personnel are systematic and intentional, not isolated mistakes or incompetence.   Destroying "human i...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/footnotes-in-gaza-by-joe-sacco Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.4gebhobkhrcu MAIN THESIS The Khan Younis and Rafah killings of November 1956 were not minor incidents; Sacco treats them as events that "planted hatred in hearts" and help...

also viewable on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/on-palestine-by-noam-chomsky-and Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.mslzd2ns7v8a MAIN THESIS Dominant narratives treat 1948 and what followed as a tragedy or "catastrophe" (Nakba) rather than a crime with identifiable perpetrators and vic...

also viewable on Substack:  https://palestinebookshelf.substack.com/p/when-the-world-sleeps-stories-words Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.ivcvg73lhvnr MAIN THESIS Albanese argues that the world has slept through — and remains complicit in — the systematic destruction of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation,...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/perfect-victims-and-the-politics Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.rscryk4gru0z MAIN THESIS Palestinians are required to pass endless tests imposed by society, journalism, and Israelis simply to narrate their own experiences. El-Kurd re...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/my-father-was-a-freedom-fighter-gazas   Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.x6it61j4bm1j MAIN THESIS The expulsion, occupation, and ongoing suffering of Palestinians in Gaza were not accidental byproducts of war but the result of delibera...

also viewable on Substack:  https://palestinebookshelf.substack.com/p/the-bibi-files-by-alexis-bloom Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.qpm8bcugqwp MAIN THESIS The film exposes Netanyahu's deep personal involvement in corruption, including bribery, gifts, media manipulation, and interference in official processes t...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/all-thats-left-of-you-by-cherien Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.f03p2swa1fet MAIN THESIS The film portrays the Palestinian catastrophe (Nakba and ongoing occupation) through the lens of one family's story across generations (1948, 19...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/gaza-in-crisis-by-noam-chomsky-and Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?pli=1&tab=t.5nr1hdqdjeej MAIN THESIS Chomsky and Pappe argue that dominant narratives about Israel and Palestine are built on myths and distortions that justify displacement, occu...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/decolonizing-israel-liberating-palestine   Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.3u5go4ccec7m MAIN THESIS Halper frames Zionism as a classic settler-colonial project aimed at establishing Jewish dominance by displacing the indigenous Palestinian...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/children-of-shatila-by-mai-masri Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.ddgr1zbd7jl8 MAIN THESIS The film offers an intimate, child-centered portrait of daily life in Beirut's Shatila Palestinian refugee camp through the eyes of two children (Issa...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/palestine-peace-not-apartheid-by Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.nmb2t4a4r1ty MAIN THESIS Carter outlines three basic premises for peace talks: (1) Israel's right to exist within recognized borders and live in peace; (2) no condoning of kil...

also viewable on Substack:  https://palestinebookshelf.substack.com/p/the-sabra-and-shatila-massacres-eye Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.wcfu0dut35ef MAIN THESIS The massacres were not random violence but a deliberate, planned operation of revenge and ethnic cleansing following the assassination of Bashir Gemayel. Is...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/the-settlers-by-louis-theroux Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.oky7g5mu95v MAIN THESIS The documentary reveals the extreme religious-nationalist ideology of Israeli settlers, who believe God promised them the land (which they call Judea and...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/the-revolution-of-1936-1939-in-palestine Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.1uf2etlpbdgh MAIN THESIS The 1936-1939 revolution was a legitimate popular uprising by Palestinians against rapid Jewish immigration, land dispossession, economic marg...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/tantura-by-alon-schwarz Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.ivzn7qfp701f MAIN THESIS The film uses the story of one Palestinian village — Tantura — as a microcosm to expose the systematic ethnic cleansing, massacres, rapes, and dispossession ca...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/palestine-in-israeli-school-books Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.7hrqnm29m80q MAIN THESIS Israeli school books actively rewrite history, present Palestinians as subhuman or a "problem to be solved," and use maps and vocabulary to reinforce...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/the-palestine-laboratory-by-antony Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.va3t81ms2dlm MAIN THESIS Loewenstein's book is a damning exposé of how Israel has transformed its long-term occupation and control of the Palestinian population into a profi...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/palestine-36-by-annemarie-jacir-13b Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.l5ggdpsbcy6o MAIN THESIS Palestine Bookshelf presents Palestine '36 as one of the finest and most impactful films on Palestine, arguing that the 1936–1939 Palestinian revol...

also viewable on Substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/israelism-by-sam-eilertsen-and-erin Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.tb4hm97c0utv MAIN THESIS The film and the host's commentary argue that a profound generational divide is emerging within the American Jewish community. Many young Jews, rais...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/the-question-of-palestine-by-edward Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.mqezrtssm2c MAIN THESIS The video presents Said's work as a foundational Palestinian perspective asserting the reality and legitimacy of Palestinian existence, identity, an...

also viewable on Substack:  https://palestinebookshelf.substack.com/p/our-narrative-operation-al-aqsa-flood Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.dt5qs7uk25oy MAIN THESIS The document argues that Operation Al Aqsa Flood was a necessary, defensive act of national liberation against 75+ years of Zionist occupation, ethnic cle...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/gaza-an-inquest-into-its-martyrdom Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.csups384zbj6 MAIN THESIS Finkelstein argues that Gaza has endured repeated "martyrdom" through Israel's deliberate policies of collective punishment, blockade (since 2007),...

also viewable on Substack:  https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinebookshelf/p/the-occupation-of-the-american-mind Copy of the summary:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KiBSLYqj5qd2TXU4cE9pLfRGg3Pdis7rd5fwQxwx-Tw/edit?tab=t.ji3qeguq19vq OVERVIEW This livestream focuses on the film's examination of how pro-Israel public relations strategies shape U.S. media coverage and public opinion to sustai...