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4. Alam, M. Shahid, Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
5. American Friends Service Committee, When the Rain Returns: Toward Justice and Reconciliation in Palestine and Israel. AFSC: 2004.
6. Ateek, Naim Challenging Empire: God, Faithfulness, and Resistance, Jerusalem: Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, 2012 
7. Ateek, Naim Stifan, Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2002.
8. Ateek, Naim Stifan, A Palestinian Christian Cry for Reconciliation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2009.
9. Ateek, Naim Stifan, A Palestinian Theology of Liberation: The Bible, Justice, and the Palestine-Israel Conflict.  Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017.
10. Ateek, Naim, Cedar Duaybis and Tina Whitehead, eds., The Bible and the Palestine Israel Conflict. Jerusalem: Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, 2009.
11. Ateek, Naim, Cedar Duaybis and Maurine Tobin, Challenging Christian Zionism: Theology, Politics and the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Jerusalem: Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, 2005.
12. Ateek, Naim, Cedar Duaybis and Maurine Tobin, The Forgotten Faithful: A Window into the Life and Witness of Christians in the Holy Land. Jerusalem: Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, 2007.
13. Awad, Alex, Palestinian Memories: The Story of a Palestinian Mother and Her People. Bethlehem: Bethlehem Bible College, 2008.
14. Baltzer, Anna, Witness in Palestine: Journal of a Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006.
15. Barghouti, Omar, BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanctions): The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011.
16. Baroud, Ramzy, The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story.  London: Pluto Press, 2018.
17. Beinart, Peter, The Crisis of Zionism. New York: Times Books, 2012.
18. Bergman, Ronen, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. New York: Random House, 2018.
19. Blumenthal, Max, The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. New York: Nation Books, 2015.
20. Blumenthal, Max, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. New York: Nation Books, 2013.
21. Braverman, Mark, Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Hold Land. Austin, TX: Synergy Books, 2010.
22. Braverman, Mark, A Wall in Jerusalem: Hope, Healing, and the Struggle for Justice in Israel and Palestine. New York: Jericho Books, 2013.
23. Brueggemann, Walter, Chosen? Reading the Bible Amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.  Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2015.
24. Burg, Avraham. The Holocaust is Over: We Must Rise from its Ashes, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 
25. Burge, Gary M., Jesus and the Land: The New Testament Challenge to “Holy Land” Theology. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic Books, 2010.
26. Burnett, Carole Monica, Zionism through Christian Lenses: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Promised Land. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2013.
27. Carter, Jimmy, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.
28. Chabon, Michael and Ayelet Waldman, eds., Kingdom of Olives and Ashes. New York: Harper, 2017.
29. Chacour, Elias, Blood Brothers: A Palestinian Struggles for Reconciliation in the Middle East. Grand Rapids, MI: Chosen Books, 1984.
30. Chacour, Elias. We Belong to the Land: The Story of a Palestinian Israeli Who Lives for Peace and Reconciliation. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001.
31. Chai, Ang Swee, From Beirut to Jerusalem. Kuala Lumpur: The Other Press, 1989, 2016.
32. Christison, Kathleen, Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2001.
33. Christison, Kathleen, The Wound of Dispossession: Telling the Palestinian Story.  Santa Fe, NM: Sunlit Hills Press/Ocean Tree Books, 2002.
34. Christison, Kathleen and Bill Christison, Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation. London: Pluto Press, 2009.
35. Cook, Jonathan, Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
36. Cook, Jonathan, Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair. London: Zed Books, 2008. 
37. Cook, Jonathan, Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iraq, Iran, and the Plan to Remake the Middle East. London: Pluto Press, 2008
38. Davis, Angela Y., Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2016.
39. Dolphin, Ray, The West Bank Wall: Unmaking Palestine. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
40. Ehrenreich, Ben, The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine. New York: Penguin Press, 2016.
41. Ellis, Marc H., Beyond Innocence & Redemption: Confronting the Holocaust and Israeli Power; Creating a 
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43. Ellis, Marc H., Judaism Does Not Equal Israel. New York: The New Press. 2009.
44. Ellis, Marc H., Future of the Prophetic: Israel’s Ancient Wisdom Re-presented. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014.
45. Esposito, John L., The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality? New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
46. Falk, Richard. Palestine: The Legitimacy of Hope.  Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2014
47. Finkelstein, Norman G., Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. 
48. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2005.
49. Finkelstein, Norman G., Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2018.
50. Finkelstein, Norman G., “This Time We Went Too Far”: Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion. New York: OR Books, 2010.
51. Gordon, Neve. Israel’s Occupation.  Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008
52. Gordon, Nahida Halaby, ed., Palestine is Our Home: Voices of Loss, Courage, and Steadfastness. www.PalestineBooks.com, 2016.
53. Gorenberg, Gershom, The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
54. Halper, Jeff, An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel. London: Pluto Press, 2001.
55. Halper, Jeff, Obstacles to Peace: A Re-framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.  Jerusalem: ICAHD: 2009.
56. Halper, Jeff, War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. London: Pluto Press, 2015.
57. Hirst, David, The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East. New York: Nation Books, 2003.
58. Horowitz, Adam, Lizzy Ratner and Philip Weiss, The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict. New York: Nation Books, 2011.
59. Hroub, Khalid, Hamas: Political Thought and Practice. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 2000.
60. Jewish Voice for Peace, On Anti-Semitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017.
61. Kassis, Rifat Odeh, Kairos for Palestine.  Lebanon: Badayl/Alternatives, 2011.
62. Khalidi, Rashid, Brokers of Deceit: How the U.S. Has Undermined Peace in the Middle East. Boston: Beacon Press, 2013.
63. Khalidi, Rashid, The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.
64. Khalidi, Rashid, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010.
65. Khalidi, Rashid, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East. Boston: Beacon Press, 2004.
66. Khalidi, Walid, ed., All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992.
67. Khalidi, Walid, Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians 1876-1948. Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1884.
68. Maalouf, Amy, Disordered World: A Vision for the Post-9/11 World. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.
69. Makdisi, Saree. Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation.  New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.
70. Mansour, Camille, Beyond Alliance: Israel and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
71. Massad, Joseph A., The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians. New York: Routledge, 2006.
72. Mearsheimer, John J. and Stephen M. Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Publisher, 2007.
73. Morris, Benny, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
74. Morris, Benny, 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
75. Morris, Benny, Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001. New York: Vintage Books, 2001.
76. Olson, Pamela J., Fast Times in Palestine: A Love Affair with a Homeless Homeland. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2013.
77. Omer, Mohammed, Shell-Shocked: On the Ground Under Israel’s Gaza Assault. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2015.
78. Pearland, Wendy, Occupied Voices: Stories of Everyday Life From the Second Intifada. New York: Nation Books, 2003.
79. Pappe, Ilan, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.
80. Pappe, Ilan, The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
81. Pappe, Ilan, The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge. London: Verso, 2014.
82. Pappe, Ilan, Ten Myths About Israel. London: Verso, 2017.
83. Peled, Miko, The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2012.
84. Piterberg, Gabriel, The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel.  London: Verso, 2008.
85. Qumsiyeh, Mazin B., Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment. London: Pluto Press, 2011.
86. Raheb, Mitri, Bethelem Besieged: Stories of Hope in Times of Trouble.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004.
87. Raheb, Mitri, ed., The Biblical Text in the Context of Occupation: Towards a New Hermeneutics of Liberation. Bethlehem: Diyar Publisher, 2012.
88. Raheb, Mitri, Faith in the Face of Empire: The Bible Through Palestinian Eyes. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2014.
89. Raheb, Mitri, The Invention of History: A Century of Interplay Between Theology and Politics in Palestine. Bethlehem: Diyar Publisher, 2011.
90. Raheb, Mitri, I Am a Palestinian Christian.  Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995.
91. Read, Jr., Adolph, Class Notes: Posing As Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene. New York: New Press, 2000.
92. Ronen Bergman, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. Random House, 2018.
93. Rosen, Brant, Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi’s Path to Palestinian Solidarity.  Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2012.
94. Rossing Barbara R., The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004.
95. Rothchild, Alice, Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish & Palestinian Trauma & Resilience. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
96. Rothchild, Alice, Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine. Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2016.
97. Roy, Sara, Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. London: Pluto Press, 2007.
98. Ruebner, Josh, Shattered Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker Israeli-Palestinian Peace. London: Verso, 2013.
99. Ruether, Rosemary Radford and Herman J. Ruether, The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002.
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104. Salaita, Steven, Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
105. Sand, Shlomo, The Invention of the Jewish People. London: Verso, 2009.
106. Sand, Shlomo, The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006.
107. Shlaim, Avi, The Politics of Partition: King Abdullah, the Zionists and Palestine 1921-1951. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
108. Sfard, Michael, The Wall and the Gate: Israel, Palestine, and the Legal Battle for Human Rights.  New York: Metropolitan Books, 2018.
109. Shlaim, Avi, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000.
110. Sizer, Stephen, Zion’s Christian Soldiers? The Bible, Israel and the Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2007.
111. Soueif, Ahdaf and Omar Robert Hamilton, eds., This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature. New York: Bloomsbury, 2017.
112. Stalder, Will, Palestinian Christians and the Old Testament: History, Hermeneutics, and Ideology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015.
113. Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, ed., How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2017.
114. Tilley, Virginia, The One-State Solution: A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.
115. Tolan, Sandy, Children of the Stone: The Power of Music in a Hard Land. New York: Bloomsbury, 2015.
116. Tolan, Sandy. The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East.  New York: Bloomsbury, 2006.
117. Zertal, Idith and Akiva Eldar, Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel’s Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007. New York: Nation Books, 2007.
118. Wagner, Donald E. and Walter T. Davis, Zionism and the Quest for Justice in the Holy Land. Eugene: OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2014.
119. Weizman, Eyal, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation. London: Verso, 2007.

Chapter 4.2 - Settler Colonialism in the Naqab/Negev

Joseph Getzoff

• Amara, Ahmad. “Beyond Stereotypes of Bedouins as ‘Nomads’ and ‘Savages’: Rethinking the Bedouin in Ottoman Southern Palestine, 1875-1900.” Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies, 15(1): 59-77, 2016.
• Amara, Ahmad, Ismael Abu-Saad, and Oren Yiftachel. Indigenous (In)Justice: Human Rights Law and Bedouin Arabs in the Naqab/Negev. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2012.
• Ben Lynfield and Eliyahu Kamisher,. “Erdan Under Fire as Reports Say Incident in Umm al-Hiran Was Not a Terror Attack,” Jerusalem Post, Feb 22, 2017 www.jpost.com
• Mansour Nasasra, “The Ongoing Judaisation of the Naqab and the Struggle for Recognising the Indigenous Rights of the Arab Bedouin People,” Settler Colonial Studies, 2:1. 81-107, 2012.
• “Negotiation” Under Fire: House Demolitions as a Central Tool of Dispossession and Concentration of the Bedouin Community in the Negev/Naqab, Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, July 2017. www.dukium.org
• Discrimination in Numbers—Collection of Statistical Data – the Bedouin Community in the Negev/Naqab January 2017. www.dukium.org
• Enforcing Distress: House Demolition Policy in the Bedouin Community in the Negev, June 2016. www.dukium.org
• Segregated Spaces: The Spatial Discrimination Policies Among Jewish and Arab Citizens in the Negev-Naqab, March 2016. www.dukium.org
• Robinson, Shira, Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State, Stanford University Press, 2013.
• Swirski, Shlomo and Yael Hasson, Invisible Citizens, Beersheva Center for Bedouin Studies and Development, 2006.
• Yiftachel, Oren, Ethnocracy, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

Chapter 4.4 - State Planning by Design: Judaization in Israel/Palestine

by Joseph Getzoff

• “Outline Planning for Arab Localities in Israel: Summary,” Planners for Human Rights & Arab Center for Alternative Planning, Planners for Human Rights & Arab Center for Alternative Planning, Bimkom, 2012.  www.bimkom.org.
• Karmi-Kohn, Sharon, “Violations of Civil and Political Rights in the Realm of Planning and Building in Israel and the Occupied Territories: Shadow Report.” Planners for Human Rights. Bimkom, 2014.  www.bimkom.org.
• Iraqi, Amjad, “The Tragic Resilience of Israel’s Unrecognized Arabs,” +972 Magazine, Mar 30, 2016. https://972mag.com.  
• Jabareen, Yosef, "Controlling Land and Demography in Israel: The Obsession with Territorial and Geographic Dominance." In Rouhana, Nadim N. ed., Israel and Its Palestinian Citizens: Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State, 238-265, 2017.
• Khamaisi, Rassem, “Environmental Policies and Spatial Control: The Case of the Arab Localities Development in Israel,” Arab Studies Quarterly, 28:1. 33-54, 2006.
• Fargeon, Ben, and Rotem, Michal, “Enforcing Distress: House Demolition Policy in the Bedouin Community in the Negev,” Negev Coexistence Forum,. June. 2016. www.dukium.org.
• Rotem, Michal, “Segregated Spaces: The Spatial Discrimination Policies Among Jewish and Arab Citizens in the Negev-Naqab,” March 2016. www.dukium.org.
• Yiftachel, Oren, Ethnocracy, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.