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Relevant Books: Palestine in US Policy
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Table of Contents
The US-Israel Alliance and the Israel Lobby
- Bennis, Phyllis. Understanding Palestine and Israel. Olive Branch Press, 2025.
- Fleisch, Eric. Checkbook Zionism: Philanthropy and Power in the Israel-Diaspora Relationship. Rutgers University Press, 2024.
- Kaplan, Amy. Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance. Harvard University Press, 2018.
- Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
- Pappe, Ilan. Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic. OneWorld Publications, 2024.
- Parsi, Trita. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the U.S. Yale University Press, 2007.
US-Palestinian Relations: Aid, Diplomacy, the “Peace Process,” and Palestinian Statehood
- Anziska, Seth. Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo. Princeton University Press, 2018.
- Bishara, Azmi. Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice. C. Hurst & Co., 2022.
- Bhungalia, Lisa. Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine. Stanford University Press, 2024.
- Elgindy, Khaled. Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, From Balfour to Trump. Brookings Institution Press, 2019.
- El Kurd, Dana. Polarized and Demobilized: Legacies of Authoritarianism in Palestine Hurst & Co., 2017.
- Khalidi, Rashid. Brokers of Deceit: How the US Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East. Beacon Press, 2013.
- Khalidi, Rashid. Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East. Beacon Press, 2004.
- Said, Edward. Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process. Vintage Books, 1996.
- Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine. Vintage Books, 1992.
- Yaqub, Salim. Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s. Cornell University Press, 2016.
The Debate on Palestine in the United States, Public Opinion, and Popular Mobilization for Palestine
- Abunimah, Ali. The Battle for Justice in Palestine. Haymarket Books, 2014.
- Dana, Karam. To Stand with Palestine: Transnational Resistance and Political Evolution in the United States. Columbia University Press, 2025.
- Davis, Angela. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Haymarket Books, 2016.
- Feldman, Keith P. A Shadow over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race in America. University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
- Hill, Marc Lamont, and Mitchell Plitnick. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics. The New Press, 2021.
- Levin, Geoffrey. Our Palestine Question: Israel and American Jewish Dissent, 1948-1978. Yale University Press, 2023.
- Lubin, Alex. Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary. The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.
Palestinian Americans, Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, and US Policy
- Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11. New York University Press, 2012.
- Bawardi, Hani. The Making of Arab Americans: From Syrian Nationalism to U.S. Citizenship. University of Texas Press, 2014.
- Hagopian, Elaine C., ed. Civil Rights in Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims. Pluto Press, 2004.
- Naber, Nadine. Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism. New York University Press, 2012.
- Pennock, Pamela. The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s-1980s. University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
- Salaita, Steven. Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes from and What It Means for Politics Today. Pluto Press, 2006.
- Yaqub, Salim. Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s. Cornell University Press, 2016.
