Josh Ruebner Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@LiterateSimmie Hmmm...try Michelle Campos's excellent Ottoman Brothers. As I recall it she has a discussion about how Zionists tended to silence the old yishuv but in an earlier era. It's an excellent book! https://t.co/jV2dQmzRl4

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Eleanor Roosevelt to George Marshall: Send in US planes and tanks to force the majority indigenous Palestinian people to accept a Jewish state against their will. And this was the person responsible for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? SMH. #Nakba75 https://t.co/N2vmDreBYT

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1. Nur Masalha's Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History is a beautifully researched and written account of the millennia-old reality of Palestine as a geo-political idea, and a rich cultural and religious history showcasing Palestine's diversity. https://t.co/9Xla6y3ey6

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Treat yourself this #InternationalWomensDay by getting @nadaelia48's important new book Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism and #Palestine. PRO TIP: Get 40% off via @PlutoPress! https://t.co/AF4x3Xlxdv

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Yes, you're reading this right. A new study by right-wing Israeli historian Benny Morris finds that Israel systematically engaged in biological warfare in 1948 by attempting to poison Palestinian water supplies w/ typhus on Ben Gurion's order. #Nakba75 https://t.co/vqECv6N8uC https://t.co/3Zg3L8JmTR

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It highlights disturbing actions taken against Univ. of Washington Prof. Liora Halperin for exercising freedom of speech. BTW, her 1st book Babel in Zion is an excellent study of attempts to enforce linguistic homogeneity w/in the yishuv. Check it out: 2/ https://t.co/4orXfndGDU

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Even Dr. Ralph Bunche, who wrote the partition plan, was "not all satisfied with my scheme" but believed it was a "reasonable and workable compromise." But was it really reasonable, workable, or just? Source: Brian Urquhart, Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey, pp. 149-150. 2/

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8. Rosemary Sayigh's classic The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries is a seminal account of the experiences of Palestinian refugees and their dramatic sociological transformations after the Nakba. https://t.co/VKi58wLxkj

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4. A classic account of the Palestinian right to self-determination. Edward Said's The Question of Palestine. https://t.co/DApCZkLqeE

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5. The consolidation of a distinct Palestinian national identity in the immediate aftermath of World War I is covered superbly by Muhammad Muslih in The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism. https://t.co/GsbVDGituQ