Israel & Palestine

A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans?...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The first definitive history of Israel’s targeted killing programs, which have shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the larger world—from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter.” “An exceptional...

“Dan Jones is an entertainer, but also a bona fide historian. Seldom does one find serious scholarship so easy to read.” – The Times, Book of the Year A New York Times bestseller, this major new history of the knights Templar is “a fresh, muscular and compelling history of the ultimate...

This program includes an introduction read by the author. A landmark history of 100 years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history. In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the...

This iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal political and financial gain. This new edition includes updated material discussing the initial reception to...

Authors MichaelBar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal take us behind the closed curtain with riveting, eye-opening, boots-on-the-ground accounts of the most dangerous, most crucial missions....

How Should Christians View Israel? For centuries, questions have lingered both within and outside the church: Is modern Israel connected to the Israel of the Old Testament? Do God’s past promises to Israel still apply now? And what does this mean for all Christians today? The Israel Decree...

Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared in The New Yorker in 1963....

An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel-Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it.

Palestine 1936 is the origin story of the world's most intractable conflict, but it is also more than that. It reveals world-changing events through extraordinary individuals on all sides....

In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context....

In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....

A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive.

Was it one of the war’s most memorable feats of valor or an act of desperation, even madness?

In the secret world of spies and covert operations, no other intelligence service continues to be surrounded by myth and mystery as does the Mossad....

Israel has always won. They are winning now. And they must always win in the future. In The Sword of Freedom, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen pulls back the curtain on Israel’s success in the face of never-ending war. Cohen has played a pivotal role in shaping Israel’s modern defense...

Nephi puts us on notice in his very first sentence that The Book of Mormon was written by temple worshippers and for temple worshippers.

A powerful, next-generation manifesto declaring that the future prosperity and ultimate fate of Western civilization is dependent upon the security and thriving of the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel—that the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral...

A major new history of the Crusades with an unprecedented wide scope, told in a tableau of portraits of people on all sides of the wars, from the author of Powers and Thrones. For more than one thousand years, Christians and Muslims lived side by side, sometimes at peace and sometimes at war...

Soon after WWII, U.S. statesman Dean Acheson warned that creating Israel on land already inhabited by Palestinians would "imperil" both American and all Western interests in the region....

An award-winning journalist presents an even-handed, thoroughly researched examination of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and illustrates how a shocking yet little-known massacre one century ago in what was then Palestine became ground zero of a war that continues to devastate.

Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."

Start-Up Nation addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and more stable nations....

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A bold, urgent appeal from the acclaimed columnist and political commentator, addressing one of the most important issues of our time “In Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, Peter Beinart offers a model for writing a new...

AUDIO EXCLUSIVE: INCLUDES THE SONG “ELATION STATION” BY INFECTED MUSHROOM! A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A “fascinating and very moving” (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social Network) chronological timeline spanning from Biblical times to today that...

In Out of the Sky, Matti Friedman unravels one of the strangest episodes of World War II: In 1944, a team of young women and men who had escaped the Holocaust made the inconceivable choice to parachute back into Nazi-occupied Europe under the cover of a British military operation. Yet by the end of the mission, not a single Nazi was harmed and not a single Jew was saved, and many of the parachutists died in the process.

Né à Jaffa en Israël, Eli Sharabi a été enlevé le 7 octobre 2023 à son domicile du kibboutz Be'eri. Retenu captif pendant 491 jours, il est devenu la voix, dans diverses enceintes internationales (ONU, rassemblements a Tel.Aviv, rencontres à la Maison Blanche), des otages et martyrs du 7 octobre.

Why immediate and unconditional peace with Israel is a pressing interest for all Arab nations. Before the State of Israel emerged, Arab nationalism and Islamism rejected the European-crafted state boundaries in the Middle East, including the concept of Palestine. Instead, these nations aspired to forge a unified Arab or Muslim nation. This grand vision, however, never materialized. The notion of Palestine as a distinct entity emerged in 1964, largely driven by inter-Arab rivalries rather than a historical reality. Since then, Palestinians have cultivated a narrative of a lost state that, in...

You've seen the headlines. But do you actually understand why this conflict never ends? Frustrated by one-sided coverage? This 5-in-1 guide offers a balanced exploration of one of the world's most complex conflicts based on historical scholarship. Unlike books that advocate for one side, Civilization, Conflict, and Power equips you with a genuine understanding of all perspectives: Israeli, Palestinian, American, and beyond.

For more than a century, prayers for the liberation of Palestine have echoed across the Muslim world. Sermons, supplications, protests, and political movements have all assumed the same premise: that victory is inevitable and divinely guaranteed. Yet the prayers have not stopped—and neither has the defeat. What if the problem is not geopolitics, but theology? In Allah’s Judgment Upon Palestine, Dr. Micah Ben David Naziri confronts one of the most controversial questions in contemporary Islamic discourse: whether the prolonged political and military failure associated with the ...