online PrimerS

• JVP Rabbinical Council member Laurie Zimmerman has produced an extraordinary Israel-Palestine curriculum for Jewish middle and high schoolers called Reframing Israel, with an historical background document written by JVP Philly member Matt Berkman. Visit Reframing Israel's website for the full curriculum.

• The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), a consortium of scholars and journalists committed to informed and objective analysis of the region, have produced a primer that strikes the perfect balance between concise summary and historical rigor. (last updated: Aug 2019)

JVP PHILLY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONS

• A Shadow Over Palestine: The Imperial Life of Race In America (Keith Feldman)

• Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State (Shira Robinson)

• Flying Camel: Essays on Identity by Women of North African And Middle Eastern Jewish Heritage (Loolwa Khazzoom)

• Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel (Joe Sacco)

• In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (Ghada Karmi)

• I Saw Ramallah (Mourid Barghouti, Edward W. Said, Ahdaf Soueif)

• Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire (Deepa Kumar)

• Israel/Palestine and the Queer International (Sarah Schulman)

• Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel (David Landy)

• Justice for Some, Law and the Question of Palestine (Noura Erekat)

• Justice, Justice Shall You Pursue: A History of New Jewish Agenda (Ezra Berkley Nepon)

• Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation (Saree Makdisi)

• Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (eds. Jordan Camp, Christina Heatherton)

• Reframing Anti-Semitism: Alternative Jewish Perspectives (Jewish Voice for Peace)

• Sharon and My Mother-In-Law: Ramallah Diaries (Suad Amiry)

• Shell-Shocked (Mohammed Omer)

• The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza (Max Blumenthal)

• The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries (Rosemary Sayigh)

• The Question of Palestine (Edward Said)

• Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race (Patrick Wolfe)

• We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel's Jews from Arab Lands (Rachel Shabi)