5 must-read essays books like A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism by Esther Farmer

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A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

By: Esther Farmer

4.68

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art A Land With a People is a book of stori…

If you liked the essays plot in A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism by Esther Farmer , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh

1. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.23

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more

Similar categories in Raja Shehadeh's Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"

-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

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2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

Similar categories in Larry Mitchell's The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • poetry
  • politics
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

3. Salt Houses

By: Hala Alyan

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more

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4. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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5. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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Cover of Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito

6. Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection

By: Junji Ito

4.11

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A collection full of grotesque imagination and surreal urban legends. Every night, a young man hea… read more

Similar categories in Junji Ito's Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • anthologies
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7. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • nonfiction
  • essays
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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8. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

By: Jehad Abusalim

4.70

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Imagining the future of Gaza beyond the cruelties of occupation and Apartheid, Light in Gaza is a p… read more

Similar categories in Jehad Abusalim's Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • poetry
  • history
  • politics
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
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9. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • poetry
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Cover of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill

10. Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

By: Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

Format: 227 pages, Hardcover

A bold call for the American Left to extend their politics to the issues of Israel-Palestine, from … read more

Similar categories in Marc Lamont Hill's Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

11. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

Similar categories in Rashid Khalidi's The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

12. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

Similar categories in Antony Loewenstein's The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom

By: Norman G. Finkelstein

4.66

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its… read more

Similar categories in Norman G. Finkelstein's Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi

14. They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom

By: Ahed Tamimi

4.69

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates th… read more

Similar categories in Ahed Tamimi's They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • politics
  • social justice
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa

15. Against the Loveless World

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more

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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

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16. The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change r… read more

Similar categories in Sim Kern's The Free People's Village book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • politics
  • social justice
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17. White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

By: Ruby Hamad

4.56

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon … read more

Similar categories in Ruby Hamad's White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
"This weaponization of White Womanhood continues to be the centerpiece of an arsenal used to maintain the status quo and punish anyone who dares challenge it."

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"White women can oscillate between their gender and their race, between being the oppressed and the oppressor. Women of color are never permitted to exist outside of these constraints: we are both wom…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

"Yes, it is true women of color have been the targets of a setup of monumental proportions, something that amounts to nothing short of a covert war against us. But it is also true that these attacks a…"

-Ruby Hamad, White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color

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18. Depart, Depart!

By: Sim Kern

4.23

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the D… read more

Similar categories in Sim Kern's Depart, Depart! book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • jewish
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19. Frankenstein

By: Junji Ito

4.01

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The master of horror manga brings the world's greatest horror novel—Frankenstein—back to life. J… read more

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Cover of A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism by Esther Farmer

20. A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

By: Esther Farmer

4.68

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A collection of personal stories, history, poetry, and art A Land With a People is a book of stori… read more

Similar categories in Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • poetry
  • history
  • jewish
  • politics
  • judaism
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • anti racist
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21. The Message

By: Ta-Nehisi Coates

4.58

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s cla… read more

Similar categories in Ta-Nehisi Coates's The Message book and Esther Farmer's A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"My sense is that if I spend more time talking to you than I spend complaining about you, then something wonderful often happens and the enlightenment is mutual. So I don't really worry about the youn…"

-Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

11 Top history books like A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism by Esther Farmer

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Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape

Raja Shehadeh

4.23

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Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim

4.70

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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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4.74

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Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Marc Lamont Hill

4.21

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Zoulfa Katouh

4.50

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Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Isabella Hammad

4.09

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Adania Shibli

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