![“God does not exist, and he promised us this land” [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/9780745335810252822529-710357-1.jpg)
by Sam Bahour | April 8, 2020 | Books, Writings
Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology – Zionism – is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a natural advocate for the state of Israel, Yakov Rabkin points to the Protestant roots of Zionism, in order to explain the particular support Israel musters in the United States. (Publisher’s Review)
![“Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land” [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/fatal-embrace-mark-braverman.jpg)
by Sam Bahour | April 20, 2011 | Books, Writings
Reviewed for The Jewish Post & News (Winnipeg, Canada). Braverman is unequivocal in his judgment that Israel’s ongoing destruction of Palestine, which he portrays throughout with brutal honesty, is also destroying Israel itself. His urgent call for more effective interfaith and diplomatic intervention from outsiders is clearly aimed at rescuing Israelis as well as Palestinians. Just one example, quoting from something he wrote in 2008: “Israel’s policy, remarkably consistent and relentless…, to obtain complete political and economic control of all of Palestine, is killing Israel—its young people, its economy, its soul, its very future.”
by Sam Bahour | February 5, 2009 | Documentaries
What is anti-Semitism today, two generations after the Holocaust? In his continuing exploration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir (Checkpoint, 5 Days, Flipping Out) travels the world in search of the most modern manifestations of the “oldest hatred”, and comes up with some startling answers.
![“Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History” by Norman Finkelstein [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Beyond-Chutzpah-on-the-Misuse-of-Anti-semitism-and-the-Abuse-of-History.jpg)
by Sam Bahour | June 2, 2008 | Books
“His research is painstaking, his evidence persuasive and his conclusions devastating.”—London Review of Books. In Beyond Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched exposé of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel–Palestine conflict, especially in the work of Alan Dershowitz. Pointing to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record, Finkelstein argues that so much controversy continues to swirl around the conflict because apologists for Israel contrive it. (Publisher’s description) “A very solid, important and highly informative book. Norman Finkelstein provides extensive details and analysis, with considerable historical depth and expert research, of a very wide range of issues concerning Israel, the Palestinians, and the United States.”—Noam Chomsky
!["Rooted in Palestine: Palestinian Christians and the Struggle for National Liberation 1917-2004" [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Rooted-in-Palestine-Palestinian-Christians-and-the-Struggle-for-National-Liberation-1917-2004-Xavier-Abu-Eid-980x1470.jpg)