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⭐ SPOTLIGHT: Watermelon Pictures & Watermelon+

Watermelon Pictures is an American film production and distribution company founded in 2024 by Badie and Hamza Aliwas, with Alana Hadid serving as creative director. Its mission is to expand the representation of Palestinian liberatory media and combat the rampant dehumanization of Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians in cinema.

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Thank you for your interest in learning (and unlearning) about our world and the liberation of oppressed peoples. None of us are free until we all are. Free Palestine.


“If thou hast Knowledge, let others light their Candle at thine.” —Thomas Fuller (1726)

The Big Five (with runners up):

⭐ The 100 Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi (2020)
    A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017

Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members, mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists, this seminal work upends accepted interpretations of the colonization of Palestine. Instead of framing the conflict as a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process with which he himself was involved.

  • Runners up by Rashid Khalidi: Palestinian Identity (1997), The Iron Cage (2006), Brokers of Deceit (2013). An unofficial trilogy of works on Palestinian history, politics, and struggle for identity. Khalidi weaves together historical documents, personal stories, and political analysis to present a nuanced perspective on Palestinian nationalism, the obstacles to statehood, and the external influences that have shaped the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From the late Ottoman period to the present day, these works collectively trace the evolution of Palestinian identity, the entrapments of colonial and post-colonial power dynamics, and the role of international diplomacy in the ongoing quest for peace in the Middle East.

⭐ Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha (2018)

Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, this comprehensive work explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day. Drawing on a rich body of sources and the latest archaeological evidence, Masalha shows how Palestine's multicultural past has been distorted and mythologized by Biblical lore and Zionist propaganda, known as “hasbara.” In the process, Masalha reveals that the concept of Palestine is not a modern invention or one constructed in opposition to Israel, but rooted firmly in ancient past, beyond even Herodotus. This book represents the authoritative account of the country's history.

  • Runner up by Nur Masalha: The Palestine Nakba: Decolonising History, Narrating the Subaltern, Reclaiming Memory (2012). Explores “social history from below”, subaltern narratives of memory and the formation of collective identity. Masalha argues that to write more truthfully about the Nakba is not just to practise a professional historiography but an ethical imperative. The struggles of ordinary refugees to recover and publicly assert the truth about the Nakba is a vital way of protecting their rights and keeping the hope for peace with justice alive.

⭐ The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé (2006)

This groundbreaking work offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of the horrific events leading up to and following the mass forced expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homeland, an event known as the “Nakba” or the Catastrophe. Between 1947 and 1949, over 500 Palestinian villages were deliberately destroyed as civilians were massacred and expelled from their homes at gunpoint. Decisively debunking the myth that the Palestinian population left of their own accord in the course of this war, Ilan Pappe offers impressive archival evidence to demonstrate that, from its very inception, a central plank in Israel’s founding ideology was the forcible removal of the indigenous population. Indispensable reading.

⭐ Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé (2017)

This book is directed at audiences with pre-existing notions of Palestine and the Zionist movement. Many are not aware that they were only taught a small part of the full story, an aggressively whitewashed version that depicts Zionism as anything but a modern settler colonial movement. This relatively quick and accessible read addresses the following myths:

  1. Palestine was an empty land
  2. The Jews were a people without a land
  3. Zionism is Judaism
  4. Zionism is not colonialism
  5. The Palestinians voluntarily left their homeland in 1948
  6. The June 1967 war was a war of ‘No Choice’
  7. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East
  8. The Oslo Mythologies
  9. The Gaza Mythologies
  10. The Two-States Solution is the only way forward

⭐ The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein (2022)
     How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

Israel’s military industrial complex uses the occupied Palestinian territories as a testing ground for weaponry and surveillance technology that they then export around the world to despots and democracies alike. Over a half century of occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an “enemy” population, the Palestinians. It’s here that they have perfected the architecture of control. Lowenstein shows in-depth how Palestine has become the perfect laboratory for the Israeli military-techno complex, from surveillance, home demolitions, and indefinite incarceration to the hi-tech tools that power the 'Start-up Nation'. Israel has become a global leader in spy technology and defence hardware that fuels the globe’s most brutal conflicts. As ethno-nationalism grows in the 21st century, Israel has built the ultimate model.


Non-Fiction

More books specifically by or about Jews (by request)

More books on the “Peace Process” from October War to Intifada


Adult Fiction

  • Ghassan Kanafani 
    • ⭐ Men in the Sun (1962)
    • "All That's Left to You" (Novel, 1966)
    • "Umm Saad" (Novel, 1969)
    • "Return to Haifa" (Novella, 1969)
    • "Palestine's Children" (Short Stories, 1970)
    • "The Land of Sad Oranges" (Short Stories, 1970)
    • "The Little Lantern" (Play, 1961)
    • "The Poster" (Play, 1968)

Kids Lit

Elementary

Middle Grade

Young Adult

Poetry

With thanks to Em Berry for help with this section.

Join the yearlong Palestine poetry subscription service at Open Books

Cookbooks

Other Palestine Reading Lists

Documentaries

  • Watch for free on YouTube. When Monear Shaer first started making a slideshow about his Palestinian family, he thought he was highlighting the beauty of life in Gaza. But when the onslaught of the 2023 invasion developed, it became imperative that the true reality and first hand experience of life in his family’s homeland is shown to the world. Monear’s first feature-length documentary shows just a few of the millions of heartbreaking injustices that have been occurring over the last several decades.

Mini-docs

Feature Films

Shorts

TV

Talks, Interviews, Video Essays

Norman Finkelstein Interviews

With thanks to Leland Wright’s List of Norman Finkelstein Interviews

Other Palestine Movie Lists

Palestine Courses

Podcasts

News Outlets

Telegram Channels

NGOs & Non-Profits

Palestine on Instagram

Antizionist Jewish Socials to Follow & Support

Organizations on Instagram

(Search org name + your city to find a local chapter!)

  • @jewishvoiceforpeace - Jews organizing toward Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism.
  • @ifnotnoworg - American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system and demand equality, justice, and a thriving future for all.
  • @jewishantizionistnetwork - International network of Jews who are uncompromisingly committed to the liberation of Palestine and ending Zionist colonization.
  • @jews4palestine_ - An archive of counter-knowledge → see, hear from, + learn about Jews for a Free Palestine. Highlighting voices for collective liberation.
  • @juedischestimme - (Germany) Jüdische Organisation, die sich für Frieden und Gerechtigkeit im Nahen Osten einsetzt/Jewish org in Germany fighting for justice in middle east
  • @israelismfilm - Award Winning Documentary on the Transformation of American Jews in Relation to Israel/Palestine.
  • @rabbis4ceasefire - Rodfei Shalom. We are Rabbis and Rabbinical students and at this moment of great moral reckoning, we are speaking out with one voice.
  • @judaismooot - Building vibrant, radically inclusive, and liberation aligned independent Jewish communities in college campuses.
  • @radicaljewishcalendar - Jewish calendar with holidays, movement anniversaries, and original art.
  • @jewsagainstwhitesupremacy - Internationalist Jewish anti-zionist organisation dedicated to challenging and defeating Jewish zionist institutions.
  • @thejewishlaborbund - The Jewish Labor Bund is back in town. Reclaim 127 years of Jewish anti-Zionist tradition. Doikayt is Yiddish for Praxis!
  • @breakingthesilenceisrael - Israeli soldiers talk about the occupied territories.

Super Awesome BFFs, Allies, Cool Kids, Comrades

Substack

  • ⭐ 4 the grandchildren & the girlies [gender neutral] Rand aka officialjakegyllenhalal
  • Noor’s Substack Noor al-Dayeh | queer, arab, artist, proud
  • warmly, renuka Renuka | navigating the balance
  • fabliha’s diary Fabliha Yeaqub | bangladeshi queer writer and community organizer
  • ayandastood Ayanda | a muse-letter on creativity, spirituality, and expanding collective consciousness towards love, pleasure, and liberation  
  • Threadings. Ismatu Gwendolyn | viral essayist. poet in hiding.
  • moonseed Hala Alyan | writing prompts. questions. meditations. letters. musings on liberation and practices of care.
  • Matthew's Notebook Matthew Petti | Assistant editor at Reason Magazine
  • How To Cure A Ghost Fariha Róisín | An exploration of all the ghosts that haunt me.
  • The.Ink Anand Giridharadas | The Persuaders (coming soon), The True American, India Calling. MSNBC.
  • Palestine Will Be Free Everything Palestine and its fight for justice.
  • The Diaspora Journal Hebh Jamal | I write about the Palestinian cause and diaspora, state sanctioned violence, and Islamophobia.
  • Palestine is Still the Issue Asa Winstanley | Investigative journalist and podcaster. Author of “Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.”
  • Antony Loewenstein Independent journalist, best-selling author, film-maker and co-founder of Declassified Australia. His latest book is "The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports. The Technology Of Occupation Around The World."
  • The Racket Jonathan M. Katz | Explore the unseen connections behind world affairs, politics, disaster, and more. (*No longer on Substack, now a newsletter.*)

48 Myths About Israel | Decolonize Palestine

  1. Palestinians sabotaged the “peace process”
  2. The United Nations created Israel
  3. The two-state solution is the only way forward
  4. Had Palestinians accepted the 1947 partition plan, they would have had a state by now
  5. Israel has always sought peace
  6. Israel is a democracy
  7. Israel holds itself responsible for its human rights violations
  8. All Israelis are equal
  9. ⭐ Israel is not an Apartheid state
  10. Israel was created as penance for the Holocaust
  11. Palestinians used watermelons as symbols during the first Intifada
  12. Netanyahu [or any other Israeli politician] is/was the problem
  13. You can’t be antisemitic if you support Israel
  14. Israel lost its “soul” after the 1967 occupation
  15. Israel is defending itself
  16. The IOF is the most “moral army in the world”
  17. Palestinians fake Israeli atrocities, hire crisis actors (Pallywood)
  18. ⭐ Palestinians use human shields
  19. Palestinian refugees are unique
  20. The Palestinian Authority subsidizes “terrorism” (pay to slay)
  21. The Mufti helped inspire the Holocaust
  22. There is a media bias against Israel
  23. ⭐ Israel made the desert bloom
  24. The Gaza Strip is no longer occupied
  25. “From the river to the sea” is a call to genocide
  26. Palestinian Christians are leaving due to Palestinian Muslims and the PA
  27. ⭐ Anti-Zionism is Antisemitism
  28. There was no ethnic cleansing because the population increased
  29. The war of 1948 was inevitable self-defense for Israel
  30. Palestinians sold their land to the Zionist settlers
  31. Palestinians were economic migrants who moved to Palestine after Zionist induced prosperity
  32. The ethnic cleansing of Palestine was an accident of war
  33. Israel was outnumbered and outgunned in 1948 war
  34. ⭐ Israel (or any other state) has a right to exist
  35. Palestinians left their communities based on Arab orders during the Nakba
  36. War of 1967 was self-defense
  37. Zionism is not colonialism, just Jewish self-determination
  38. ⭐ My people were here before your people
  39. Only Zionists were called Palestinians during the mandate period
  40. The name “Palestine” was a Roman invention
  41. The Mandate of Palestine had a star of David on its flag
  42. ⭐ A land without a people for a people without a land
  43. Falafel, Hummus, Za’tar are Israeli
  44. Palestinians are Arabs that arrived in the 7th century
  45. The “Conflict” is ancient
  46. Palestinian identity is “fake”
  47. The Palestinian question is about religion
  48. ⭐ It’s just so incredibly complicated

Boycott Resources

Apartheid Sources

Greenwashing & the JNF

More Useful Articles, Sites, & Pages

  • Website dedicated to providing a comprehensive source of information about the villages and cities that were ethnically cleansed, looted, and destroyed by the Israeli army.
  • ⭐ PaulNM | Beacons
    • My curated Beacons page with links and resources such as fundraisers, digital tools, zines, and advocacy guides.

Music

sci-hub.pub
Zotero Collection

Ancient / Prehistory

Nakba

Apartheid

Pinkwashing

Holocaust Exceptionalism

1929 Western Wall Uprising

Other

Palestine Solidarity

Global Liberation


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