Palestine: Matters of Truth and Justice is a bold and important work on the history of modern Palestine and the Palestinian struggle over the past century. Alongside the historical examination of major events, Bishara analyzes key issues central to the question of Palestine and rebukes some common tropes and misconceptions. 

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This study analyzes the pivotal role of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence that was issued in 1988. In many ways it is the story of a path not taken, what might have been, and what could still be in the future.

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This book analyzes Zionism through the prism of the Icelandic government and media. Heiðdal convincingly demonstrates how the remote country of fewer than 400,000 people played an outsized role in legitimizing and facilitating the establishment of the Israeli state in 1948. 

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This book assesses U.S.-Iran relations since 1979. The authors argue that the prevalence of strongly held—and often conflicting—national myths in both countries help explain the animosity between Tehran and Washington over the past 40-plus years. 

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Shaul Magid’s study of Kahane’s life and thoughts is an excellent resource to understand the extreme religious philosophy settlers use to justify their violent persecution of Palestinians. Readers see how Kahane drew on his 13 years of study in the Mir Yeshiva in Brooklyn to convince religious Israelis to discard the spiritual reluctance of some earlier religious Zionists to engage in hands-on violence against “Arabs” who got in the way of Jewish “redemption” of the Land of Israel.

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