18 must-read history books like On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch

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On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

By: Adam Kirsch

4.24

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment. Sin…

If you liked the history plot in On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Son of Hamas

By: Mosab Hassan Yousef , Ron Brackin , مصعب حسن يوسف

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • israel
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2. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

By: Yascha Mounk

4.08

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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3. People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

By: Dara Horn

4.36

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Renowned and beloved as a prizewinning novelist, Dara Horn has also been publishing penetrating ess… read more

Similar categories in Dara Horn's People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present book and Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

  • politics
  • history
"Evil' may or may not be banal, but killing Jews sure is."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"between the raindrops" - a Hebrew expression for evading repeated disaster."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"Sometimes your body is someone else's haunted house. Other people look at you and can only see the dead."

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

"There are so few Jews in the world: even in the United States, we are barely 2 percent of the population, a minority among minorities... Statistically speaking, nothing that happens to Jews should be…"

-Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

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4. Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

By: Nellie Bowles

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From former New York Times reporter Nellie Bowles, a look at how some of the most educated people i… read more

Similar categories in Nellie Bowles's Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History book and Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

  • politics
  • history
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5. Catch-67: The Left, the Right, and the Legacy of the Six-Day War

By: Micah Goodman

4.27

Format: 264 pages, Kindle Edition

A controversial examination of the internal Israeli debate over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • israel
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6. How to Fight Anti-Semitism

By: Bari Weiss

4.19

Format: 224 pages, ebook

The prescient New York Times writer delivers an urgent wake-up call to all Americans exposing the a… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • israel
"It's hard to imagine "Fuck Jews" as being anything other than a statement of anti-Semitism."

-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

"Europe is very good at building memorials for dead Jews. It is still learning how to protect the living ones. Vigils honor the dead, but they don't do much for the living. Solidarity does."

-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

"No country is immune to criticism, nor should it be. But when that criticism takes the form of singling out just one country, unfairly, bitterly and relentlessly, over and over and over, that’s just …"

-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

"When anti-Zionism becomes a normative political position, active anti-Semitism becomes the norm. Because if you believe that Zionism is racism, it follows that Zionists are racists. And everyone know…"

-Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism

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7. Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

By: Yossi Klein Halevi

4.12

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentato… read more

Similar categories in Yossi Klein Halevi's Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor book and Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

  • politics
  • history
  • israel
"Sometimes, in political arguments with Palestinians, I would be told: Why are we arguing about who owns the land, when in the end the land will own us both?"

-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

"The notion of a people chosen by God wasn't intended to bestow privilege but responsibility. Jewish history attests that this role carries more burden than glory. The classical way Jews understood th…"

-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

"We are trapped, you and I, in a seemingly hopeless cycle. Not a "cycle of violence" -- a lazy formulation that tells us nothing about why our conflict exists, let alone how to end it. Instead, we're …"

-Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor

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8. The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace

By: Adi Schwartz

4.41

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to e… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • israel
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9. Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict

By: Oren Kessler

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner, 2024 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • israel
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10. Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart--Again

By: Robert Kagan

4.48

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling and clear-eyed warning about the threats to our democracy posed by the increasing radica… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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11. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • politics
  • history
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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12. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

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13. On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

By: Adam Kirsch

4.24

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A prominent public intellectual tackles one of the most crucial political ideas of our moment. Sin… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice book and Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice

  • politics
  • history
  • israel
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14. Israel Alone

By: Bernard-Henri Lévy

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes global responses to O… read more

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  • history
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15. On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more

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  • politics
  • history
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16. 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

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  • politics
  • history
"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

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17. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From Oliver Burkeman, author of the New York Times bestseller Four Thousand Weeks, a four-week jour… read more

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18. Black Saturday: An Unfiltered Account of the October 7th Attack on Israel and the War in Gaza

By: Trey Yingst

4.60

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of Octo… read more

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  • history
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19. After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation

By: Brendan O'Neill

4.76

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

“A bruising blow in the cause of liberty, tolerance and good sense. Thank God he is on our side” – … read more

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  • politics
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20. A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

By: Ilan Pappé

4.40

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A short primer unravelling the Israel–Palestine conflict from the nineteenth century to todayThe de… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • israel
"We need to change how we talk about Israel and Palestine. There is no point in talking about peace, as if both sides are equally at fault, when the process we’re really talking about is decolonisatio…"

-Ilan Pappé, A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict

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21. We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite

By: Musa al-Gharbi

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

How a new “woke” elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status—without he… read more

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  • politics
  • history

17 Best politics books like On Settler Colonialism: Ideology, Violence, and Justice by Adam Kirsch

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Son of Hamas

Mosab Hassan Yousef , Ron Brackin , مصعب حسن يوسف

4.11

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The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

Yascha Mounk

4.08

Transform Your Habits

People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches from the Wrong Side of History

Nellie Bowles

4.05

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Jews Don't Count

David Baddiel

4.21

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Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life-in Judaism (after Finally Choosing to Look There)

Sarah Hurwitz

4.44

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People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present

Dara Horn

4.36

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Noa Tishby

4.34

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