Category Archives: Resources

translated by Cynthia Schoch and Trista Selous C,Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd ISBN 9781805265252 RRP £16.99 Review by Mike Scott-Baumann Jean-Pierre Filiu is a French historian and author of Gaza: A History.  He had visited Gaza many times before 7 … Continue reading →

The Book Guild ISBN 978 1835742 457 £9.99 Review by Tim Llewellyn             Until the 2000s, English language fiction did not serve the history of the Palestinian people well. This was despite Britain’s responsibility for … Continue reading →

Book review The Parallel Histories of Israel and Palestine: Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask By Michael Davies £21.50 Review by Mike Scott-Baumann 14 July 2025 Michael Davies was the founder of Parallel Histories (Parallel Histories … Continue reading →

Book Review By Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson Profile Books £14.99 ISBN 9781805222415   By Mike Scott-Baumann In early 2022, the writers Raja Shehadeh and Penny Johnson emerged from pandemic lockdown, an experience with which they were not wholly unfamiliar, … Continue reading →

Review by Rabbi Danny Rich BD Publishing ISBN 979-8332429538 £26.29 As a prominent Jewish student activist of more than 40 years ago, I wrote  my undergraduate thesis on The Palestinian Experience in Jordan 1948-1970, and as an advocate since that … Continue reading →

LOBBYING FOR ZIONISM On both sides of the Atlantic By Ilan Pappe ONEWORLD ISBN 978-0-86154-402-8 £30, $40 US Review By Peter Oborne, 20 June, 2024 (First published by Middle East Eye) No review has yet been published of Professor Ilan … Continue reading →

By James FergussonYale University Press£16.50ISBN 978-0-300-24415-1 Review by Ian Portman James Fergusson’s great aunt Frances was a keen advocate of a Jewish state in Palestine. Her mother, Blanche Dugdale, was Arthur Balfour’s biographer – herself an ardent Zionist and a … Continue reading →

by Peter ShambrookOneworld Academic£35.00, $US45.00ISBN 978-0-86154-632-9 Review by John McHugo                                                                  Before Peter Shambrook produced Policy of Deceit, many historians in the West had shied away from the controversy over the Hussein-MacMahon correspondence of 1915-16. Whatever British commitments the letters … Continue reading →

Policy of Deceit Britain and Palestine, 1914–1939 Published by Oneworld Publication date: August 3, 2023 ISBN: 9780861546329 RRP: £35.00 Pages: 416 ‘The most comprehensive and incisive exposure of the origins of the British betrayal of Palestine.’ Ilan Pappe ‘Deeply researched, powerfully argued and meticulously … Continue reading →

The Olive Branch from Palestine, The Palestinian Declaration of Independence and the Path Out of the Current Impasse, with a foreword by Noam Chomsky, University of California Press, 2022. 291 pages, by Jerome Segal Review by Menachem Klein As hopes … Continue reading →

Stanford University Press. Paper. Hard cover. £20.99 Review by Menachem Klein When I walk in London, in particular in the City, I feel somehow disappointed by the ultra-modern architecture of steel and glass buildings next to old, imperial, probably even … Continue reading →

By Magan Singodia This is a brilliant book for anyone trying to establish the truth of the political history of America’s unwavering support for Israel. It is an eye-opening account of the lengths the Zionists were and are prepared to … Continue reading →