al-Nakba: the Palestinian "Catastrophe"

Ironic, how quickly innocent victims can become ruthless victimizers

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For effective discussions and presentations, try these.
SOME RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Indispensible History

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
-
Ilan Pappe

State of Terror
-Thomas Suarez

Taking Sides
-Stephen Green

Against Our Better Judgment
-Alison Weir

Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews
Vol. 1, The False Messiah
Vol. 2, David Becomes Goliath
Vol. 3, Conflict Without End
-Alan Hart

Sharing the Land of Canaan
-
Mazin Qumsiyeh

The Gun & the Olive Branch
-David Hirst

The Invention of the Jewish People
-Shlomo Sand

Living by the Sword
-Stephen Green

The Iron Wall
-Avi Shlaim

Peace and Its Discontents
-Edward Said

Before Their Diaspora
-Walid Khalidi

All That Remains
- Walid Khalidi

Zionism in the Age of the Dictators
-Lenni Brenner

The Transfer Agreement
-Edwin Black

My Father was a Freedom Fighter,
Gaza's Untold Story
-Ramzy Barout

The Attack on the Liberty:
The Untold Story of Israel's 1967 Attack
on a U.S. Spy Ship
-James Scott

Remember the Liberty!
-Phillip Nelson & three USS Liberty survivors

The Seventh Million
-Tom Segev

Dangerous Liaison
-
Andrew and Leslie Cockburn

The Israeli Holocaust
Against the Palestinians

-Michael Hoffman &
Moshe Lieberman

Realities vs. Myths

Palestine, Palestinians
and International Law

-
Francis Boyle

Blood and Religion:
The Unmasking of the Jewish
and Democratic State

-Jonathan Cook

Image and Reality
of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
-Norman Finkelstein

The Holocaust Industry
-
Norman Finkelstein

Beyond Chutzpah
-
Norman Finkelstein

Deliberate Deceptions: Facing the Facts
about the U.S.-Israeli relationship
-
Paul Findley

Guilt by Association
-Jeff Gates

The Israel Lobby in the U.S.

Foreign Agents: AIPAC
from the 1963 Fulbright Hearings to
the 2005 Espionage Scandal

-
Grant Smith

Big Israel
-Grant Smith

The Power of Israel in the United States
-
James Petras

The Transparent Cabal
-Stephen Sniegoski

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
-
John Mersheimer & Stephen Walt

Spy Trade: How Israel's Lobby
Undermine's America's Economy

-Grant Smith

Jewish Power
-J.J. Goldberg

They Dare to Speak Out
-Paul Findley

By Way of Deception
-Victor Ostrovsky


The Politics of Anti-Semitism
-Alexander Cockburn &
Jeffrey St. Clair

Realities in Palestine

Goliath:
Life and Loathing in Greater Israel
-Max Blumenthal

Palestine Inside Out
-
Saree Makdisi

An Israeli in Palestine:
Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel

-Jeff Halper

The Other Side of Israel
(Palestinians living within Israel)

-Susan Nathan

Letters from Palestine
-Kenneth Ring & Ghassan Abdullah

Witness in Palestine, A Jewish-American
Woman in the Occupied Territories

-Anna Baltzer

One vs. Two States, Ending Zionism 

One Country
-Ali Abunimah

The One-State Solution
-Virginian Tilley

Overcoming Zionism
-
Joel Kovel

Toward an Open Tomb
-Michel Warschawski

Refusing to be Enemies
-Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta


SOME RECOMMENDED VIDEOS & FILMS

The Iron Wall
(A comprehensive view of Palestinian
life under occupation)


The Land Speaks Arabic
(History of the Zionist movement and the Nakba, including oral testimonies by
Nakba survivors)

Occupation 101
(A comprehensive view of the Israeli
occupation in context)


The Nakba Archive
(Oral histories being gathered today
from Nakba survivors)


Sands of Sorrow
(A BBC documentary c. 1950
on the Palestinian refugees)


Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
(Documents gross bias in U.S. news coverage
and  U.S. role in the problem)


Reel Bad Arabs
(Documents several decades of U.S. film
propaganda dehumanizing Arabs)


The Easiest Targets
(Palestinian children as victims of the occupation)

Jonathan Cook Google Video
(On racism and discriminatory laws
within Israel)

YouTube video presentations by
Miko Peled
Ilan Pappe
Nurit Peled-Alhanon
Grant Smith
Max Blumenthal
Eran Efrati




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