News & opinions from a Palestinian-American
living & working in Ramallah/Al-Bireh, Palestine
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![Understanding American Jewish Philanthropy [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/TheAmericanJewishPhilanthropicComplex-COVER-701762-1.jpg)
Fundraise long enough and you start to learn that it is an industry, like most other domains, but very few people have the wherewithal and persistence to dig deep into the black box of how the mechanics of fundraising developed and exists in today’s world. Professor and Author Lila Corwin Berman clearly does not fit that description and her book is a fascinating read.
![Man-made Israel [Book Review]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/TheInventionofAncientIsrael-BOOKCOVER-723681-1.jpg)
What do you get when you mix ten decades of biblical studies, an Old Testament, the ideology of Zionism, and a tablespoon of politically motivated archaeology, all mixed in a bowl of historical evidence? Author Keith W. Whitelam undertook this recipe and reports on the results in The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History”. The short answer to the question is that one is left with a toxic modern state, hell-bent on crafting an umbilical cord between itself and a mythical 2000-year old past. In other words, the State of Israel.
Can’t figure out those Palestinians? Maybe this short film by Dr. Rona Sela, an Israeli curator, researcher of visual history and culture, and lecturer at Tel Aviv University, can help. Rona found stolen and ‘imprisoned’ photos and film footage in the Israeli military archives. The film features Khadijeh Habashneh and Sabri Jiryis.
!["Arabs and Israel for Beginners" by Ron David and Susan David [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Arabs-and-Israel-for-Beginners-by-Ron-David-and-Susan-David.jpg)