A review by jiujensu
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction by Sumaya Awad, Brian Bean

challenging informative inspiring slow-paced

5.0

If you're looking to understand the history, context, and details of what's going on in Palestine/Israel, you should add this book to your list. 

This is a great overview of issues concerning the liberation of Palestine. It's socialist focus is internationalist and brings together all struggles/ divisions - imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, gender, race, class, nationality, religion which, in my opinion, is missing from many discussions from a liberal perspective (even more is missing from conservative...).

Each section discusses important bits that I hear well-meaning people get very wrong. There's a discussion of the Israeli  left/socialists, Zionism, agreements and negotiations through the years, Arab leaders' support for imperialism, the Arab Spring. 

There were great sections at the end on BDS, gender, and Black-Palestinian solidarity. It ends on a rather inspiring  note for a book full of facts I wish I had a photographic memory to hold with an essay by Remi Kanazi.