![“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, Sam's 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)
by Sam Bahour | January 30, 2020 | Latest News
by Sam Bahour | January 28, 2020 | Latest News
![“The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017” [Recommended]](https://epalestine.ps/sambahour/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/the-hundred-years-war-on-palestine-a-history-of-settler-colonialism-and-resistance-1917–2017-by-rashid-khalidi-1.jpg)
by Sam Bahour | January 28, 2020 | Books
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.
by Sam Bahour | January 15, 2020 | Documentaries
Acclaimed Israeli writer-director Yaron Zilberman (“A Late Quartet”) chronicles the disturbing descent of a promising law student to an intransigent ultranationalist obsessed with murdering his country’s leader, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “Incitement” is a gripping and unnerving look through the eyes of a murderer who silenced a powerful voice for peace.
