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Books about Israel:

• Israel: A Country Study (third edition, 1990), ed. by Helen Chapin Metz (multiple formats at loc.gov)
• Israel: The Facts (New York: Youth Institute for Peace in the Middle East, ca. 1978), by Jack S. Cohen, illust. by Avrum I. Ashery (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Refuge Must Be Given: Eleanor Roosevelt, the Jewish Plight, and the Founding of Israel (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2021), by John F. Sears (PDF with commentary at Purdue)
• Israel, 1954 (New York: Israel Office of Information, 1954), by Israel Office of Information (New York, N.Y.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Israel: Problems of Nation-Building (with "Israel: Laboratory of Human Relations" by Melby; Headline Series #89; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1951), by Emil Lengyel, contrib. by Ernest Oscar Melby (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Republic of Israel: Its History and its Promise (New York et al.: Whittlesley House, c1950), by Joseph Dunner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Near East in the Southwest: Essays in honor of William G. Dever (published as v. 58 of Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research; 2003), ed. by Beth Alpert Nakhai (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Middle Bronze Age IIA Cemetery at Gesher: Final Report (published as v. 62 of Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research; c2007), ed. by Yosef Garfinkel and Susan Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gerar, by W. M. Flinders Petrie (PDF at ETANA)

• The Israeli Army and the Intifada: Policies That Contribute to the Killings (New York: Middle East Watch, 1990), by Eric Goldstein, contrib. by Paul Chevigny and Bell Gale Chevigny (PDF at hrw.org)

• Selected and Annotated Bibliography on the State of Israel and the Zionist Movement (New York: American Zionist Council, 1957), by American Zionist Council (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Israeli Expansionism (ca. 1967), by Arab Information Center (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Anti-Israel Hatred is Not Funny: Recent Anti-Israel Hate Cartoons in Yasir Arafat's Official Palestinian Authority Newspaper (New York: Zionist Organization of America, ca. 1999), by Zionist Organization of America (PDF at zoa.org)

• Ten Years of Progress: A Report on Israel (AFL-CIO publication #90; 1958), by George M. Harrison and Jacob S. Potofsky (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Hoosier Girl Abroad: A Diary of Seventy-Seven Days Attending the World's Fourth Sunday School Convention, in Jerusalem, 1904 (Terre Haute, IN: C. W. Brown, 1904), by Anna Robinson Black (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Global Political Economy of Israel (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002), by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler (PDF with commentary at York)

• The Global Political Economy of Israel (London and Sterling, VA: Pluto Press, 2002), by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler (PDF with commentary at York)
• Innovation and the State: Political Choice and Strategies for Growth in Israel, Taiwan, and Ireland (electronic edition, c2007), by Dan Breznitz (PDF files with commentary at Yale University Press)

• Immigration to Israel: A Threat to Peace in the Middle East (Information Paper #12; New York: Arab Information Center, 1960), by Fawzi Abu-Diab (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Between Jew and Arab: The Lost Voice of Simon Rawidowicz (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2008), by David N. Myers (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
• From Sofia to Jaffa: The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1994), by Guy H. Haskell, contrib. by Raphael Patai (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Chaim I. Waxman (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), by Alon Tal (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Israel's Apartheid Against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime Against Humanity (c2022), by Amnesty International (PDF with commentary at amnesty.org)
• For Our Soul: Ethiopian Jews in Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1993), by Teshome G. Wagaw (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• The Arab Minority in Israel: An Analysis of the "Future Visions" Documents (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2008), by Elie Rekhess (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Haifa Declaration (Haifa: Mada al-Carmel, 2007) (PDF at mada-research.org)
• Nakba and Survival: The Story of Palestinians Who Remained in Haifa and the Galilee, 1948-1956 (Oakland: University of California Press, c2022), by ʻĀdil Mannāʻ (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)
• From Sofia to Jaffa: The Jews of Bulgaria and Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1994), by Guy H. Haskell, contrib. by Raphael Patai (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
• American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), by Chaim I. Waxman (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Israel in the Media: A Guide to Producing Effective Media Critiques (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2004), by David Bernstein (PDF with commentary at ajcarchives.org)

• A Diminished World Body: An Overview of the UN and Israel (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2006), by Maxine Kaye and Zev Nagel (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Israel Strikes at Bases of Egyptian Aggression, Acts in Self-Defense: Text of Address by Ambassador Abba Eban, Head of the Israel Delegation to the United Nations, Before the Security Council, on October 30, 1956 (with a chronological appendix; Washington: Embassy of Israel, 1956), by Abba Solomon Eban (page images at HathiTrust)

• Making Israel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), ed. by Benny Morris (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine 1931-2013 (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2014), by Lev Luis Grinberg (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Israel's Struggle for Peace (New York: Israel Office of Information, 1960), by Israel Office of Information (page images at HathiTrust)
• Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed (revised and updated editions in multiple languages; New York: American Jewish Committee, c2018), by David A. Harris (HTML and PDF at ajc.org and joomag.org)
• Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem (originally published in 2 volumes, 1991), by Issa Nakhleh (HTML with commentary at palestine-encyclopedia.com)
• Palestine and Israel: A Challenge to Justice (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by John B. Quigley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict (third edition), by Jews for Justice in the Middle East (HTML and PDF with commentary at ifamericansknew.org)

• AI, Sacred Violence, and War: The Case of Gaza (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), by Chris Hables Gray
  • PDF and EPub with commentary at Springer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
• Israel and Iran: A Dangerous Rivalry (Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, c2011), by Dalia Dassa Kaye, Alireza Nader, and Parisa Roshan
  • PDF with commentary at rand.org
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR

• Facts About Israel, by Israel (partial serial archives)
• News from Israel, by Israel Office of Information (partial serial archives)
• Facts and Figures, by Israel Office of Information (partial serial archives)
• Israel Newsletter (1949-1950), by Israel Office of Information (full serial archives)

• Israel, Anti-Semitism, and Free Speech (New York: American Jewish Committee, 2007), by Bernard Harrison (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Brief Guide for the Perplexed (revised and updated editions in multiple languages; New York: American Jewish Committee, c2018), by David A. Harris (HTML and PDF at ajc.org and joomag.org)
• The Truth About Israeli Peace Offers (information paper #16; New York: Arab Information Center, 1961), by Arab Information Center (U.S.)
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Jewish State: A Century Later, by Alan Dowty (HTML at UC Press)
• Our Sisters' Promised Land: Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence (paperback edition, with new preface; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003), by Ayala H. Emmett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jaffee Center Report on the Middle East Peace Process: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, August 2, 1989 (Washington: GPO, 1990), by United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1977), by Gary S. Schiff (multiple formats at Wayne State)
• The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir, by Lenni Brenner (HTML at marxists.de)

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