Essential Readings on Palestine
May 15, 2021
Editor s Note: This list has been adapted from Dr. Asi s Twitter thread on the same topic.
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espite its prominence in international relations and global humanitarian response, most people are taught very little about what exactly is going on with Israel and Palestine, or most importantly why. One might learn about the Oslo Accords, or at least recall seeing the famous photo where then-US President Bill Clinton presided over a handshake by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, then the leaders of Israel and the Palestinians, respectively. They’ve almost certainly heard about some flare-up of violence from an
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Issa Amro at J Street conference, October 2019, Washington convention center.
Issa Amro is an anti-apartheid activist in the occupied city of Hebron in Palestine who is dedicated to nonviolence, though he has been arrested by the Israeli military more times than he can remember. “I was arrested, detained, attacked many times… I used to be detained and arrested around 25 times a year,” he says.
Last month Amro was convicted in an Israeli military court on six trumped-up charges relating to his work over several years, among them the charge of disrespecting an Israeli soldier by using the word “stupid.” Amro faces sentencing by a military judge next week, and there’s been a campaign of solidarity for Amro from around the world.
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Books
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Wilkerson writes really big books, both in pages and scope. The follow-up to her Pulitzer Prize-winning
The Warmth of Other Suns posits that caste, a system of societal hierarchy seen in other parts of the world, is manifested most profoundly in the treatment of Black Americans through historical and contemporary oppression.
2.
A Promised Land by Barack Obama This first of a two-volume memoir reminds us that words matter, and they can be eloquent, too. Get off Twitter and savor these 768 pages slowly, because there’s no release date yet for the second part.