Solidarity with Palestine - several free official e-books to download & learn more (edited by MNHQ at request of OP)

[restabove]

I am resharing this (kindly provided by another MNer on another thread) as I feel it is so useful to anyone looking to understand this conflict.

You can presently download a number of official e-books about the conflict at the following link:

https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/solidarity-with-palestine-free-resources-and-further-reading

Includes writing by famous authors such as Ilan Pappe, Gideon Levy, Chomsky, Finkelstein and more.

Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe
The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein
Palestine Speaks Edited by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek
Blaming the Victims (compilation including Chomsky, Finkelstein etc)
The Case for Sanctions Against Israel (another compilation)
The Punishment of Gaza by Gideon Levy

To get the e-books you sign up for a free account then download the e-pub files.

Please share widely!

Apologies, title should say "Solidarity" not Solidary! (reported for correction by MNHQ)

Thanks a lot @restabove !

Lots of interesting resources there. Worth anyone's time to understand the situation.

This website is a gem with lots of well researched info and bibliography:

https://decolonizepalestine.com/

@Ohlalalalala thank you for that. I like this mythbusting page https://decolonizepalestine.com/myths/ on quick glance. Need to read more about it but adding to my list of resources!

I have some serious reading to do now as I downloaded all the ebooks from the top link!!

Agreed.

Good luck with your reading list!

I have also found this link of some other free to download official e-books that look good!

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/495-free-ebooks-for-a-free-palestine

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions - The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
by Omar Barghouti

Light in Gaza - Writings Born of Fire
Edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction
Edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean

And I found this free audiobook for anyone who prefers to listen:

https://www.audiobooks.co.uk/audiobook/on-palestine/552335

On Palestine by Chomsky and Pappe

The sequel to the acclaimed Gaza in Crisis from world-famous political analyst Noam Chomsky and Middle East historian Ilan Pappe.

Operation Protective Edge, Israel's 2014 assault on Gaza, left thousands of Palestinians dead and cleared the way for another Israeli land grab. The need to stand in solidarity with Palestinians has never been greater. Ilan Pappe and Noam Chomsky, two leading voices in the struggle to liberate Palestine, discuss the road ahead for Palestinians and how the international community can pressure Israel to end its human rights abuses against the people of Palestine.

Books & DVDs section of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign

https://shop.palestinecampaign.org/collections/books-cds

Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956 (New Directions in Palestinian Studies Book 6) https://amzn.eu/d/ilja2zK

Free to download on Kindle

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Beginning in 1948, Israeli paramilitary forces began violently displacing Palestinian Arabs from Palestine. Nakba and Survival tells the stories of Palestinians in Haifa and the Galilee during, and in the decade after, mass dispossession. Manna uses oral histories and Palestinian and Israeli archives, diaries, and memories to meticulously reconstruct the social history of the Palestinians who remained and returned to become Israeli citizens. This book focuses in particular on the Galilee, using the story of Manna's own family and their village Majd al-Krum after the establishment of Israel to shed light on the cruelties faced by survivors of the military regime. While scholars of the Palestinian national movement have often studied Palestinian resistance to Israel as related to the armed struggle and the cultural struggle against the Jewish state, Manna shows that remaining in Israel under the brutality of occupation and fighting to return to Palestinian communities after displacement are acts of heroism in their own right.

Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine (New Directions in Palestinian Studies Book 5) https://amzn.eu/d/fs9Sn2A

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

Camera Palaestina is a critical exploration of Jerusalemite chronicler Wasif Jawhariyyeh (1904–1972) and his seven photography albums entitled The Illustrated History of Palestine. Jawhariyyeh’s nine hundred images narrate the rich cultural and political milieu of Ottoman and Mandate Palestine. Nassar, Sheehi, and Tamari locate this archive at the juncture between the history of photography in the Arab world and the social history of Palestine. Shedding new light on this foundational period, the authors explore not just major historical events and the development of an urban bourgeois lifestyle but a social field of vision of Palestinian life as exemplified in the Jerusalem community. Tracking the interplay between photographic images, the authors offer evidence of the unbroken field of material, historical, and collective experience from the living past to the living present of Arab Palestine.

Thank you both!

https://decolonizepalestine.com/reading-list/

(These might not be free but a lot can be easily found online either free or very cheap.)

The Palestine reading list
Welcome to the Decolonize Palestine reading list.

We have carefully put together this list so that you can expand your knowledge on all things Palestine. In an effort to make it easier to navigate, we have attempted to distribute these works into different categories. We understand that this list is rather long; rest assured you don’t have to read every book mentioned here (though that would be awesome!). We are confident that you will learn something new from any of our selected works.

Please keep in mind that sometimes it’s difficult to place readings under a specific category and sometimes they may fit under many. Consequently, some recommendations can be found in multiple sections.

Thank you all for helpful ideas. I just found this one too:

https://www.liberationschool.org/palestine-israel-and-the-u-s-empire-audio-book/

Free audio book: Palestine, Israel, and the U.S. Empire

Thanks to everyone, all ready have some but loads to get through 🇵🇸

@feralunderclass so many here that they should all keep us going a while :)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/29/publishers-launch-initiative-to-highlight-palestinian-authors-and-history

Loads of amazing ebooks and more free for one week only!

Thanks op

https://publishersforpalestine.org/2023/11/29/free-ebooks-for-readpalestine-week-november-29-december-5/

Here is the website for the article linked above. Lots of good resources on there. Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, arts and culture, politics etc.

Get in quick before the 5th December!

Just a reminder to anyone looking for e-books there's an offer for freebies on for another couple of days at the above link. :)

Thank you for sharing these! Not books, but a good English - language media outlet worth checking out is The Palestine Chronicle.

@Dilemma8188 thanks so much

Sharing the link for anyone interested:

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/

Great thread thanks OP!

@Desertrose2023 thank you!