Category Archives: Book Reviews

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 →

By Priya Satia, Penguin Allen Lane, Oct 2020 Review by Tariq Suleman A great deal has already been written on the history of empire, but Priya Satia’s ingenious way of presenting empire steers us through a significantly new understanding of … Continue reading →

Review by Patrick Seale, originally printed in The Financial Times, 2011. The story of how Britain and France carved up the Arab world between them after the first world war has often been told but James Barr’s new book, A … Continue reading →