Author: Norma Hashim
Paperback: 125 pages
Publisher: Islamic Human Rights Commission
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1903718929

Review by Ramona Wadi

Edited and published during the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, The Prisoners' Diaries is a distressing fragment of testimonies from Palestinians whose deterioration in Israeli jails has become a fact of life, rather than a blatant violation of human rights. The resilience against the occupation and a lack of global outrage against torture and apartheid practices resonated with irregular frequencies within the international community, as leaders relegate human rights to the vestiges of redundant diplomacy.

Author: Paul Keleman
Paperback: 225 pages
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-7190-8813-1

Review by Shazia Arshad

Zionism owes much of its 'success' to the support that it has received from Britain since its inception in the late 19th century. Within 20 years of having conceived of the idea of implanting the Zionist project in Palestine the then British government had been convinced to support the project and announced this decision to the world through the Balfour Declaration. As support for Zionism became de rigeur in the British establishment, the British Left and specifically the Labour Party adopted an identical policy. Paul Keleman's work tracks the relationship between Zionism and the Left as it has developed during the 20th century and most importantly how many on the Left have transitioned from Zionism's most stalwart supporters to campaigners for Palestinian rights and justice.

Author: Jacob Nammar's
Paperback: 152 pages
Publisher: Olive Branch Press, 2012
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1566568869

Review by Ramona Wadi

Years prior to Jacob Nammar's birth, Zionist intentions to implement the process of colonization were clearly articulated by Ze'ev Jabotinsky during the First Zionist Conference in Switzerland. Colonisation, according to Jabotinsky, must be 'carried out in defiance of the will of the native population.'

Authors: Peter Oborne & David Morrison
Hardback: 112 pages
Publisher: Elliot & Thompson, 2013
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-90873-989-6

Review by Dr Daud Abdullah

The current dispute between the west and Iran over its nuclear programme bears uncanny similarities to the case of Iraq; western assertions that Iran is developing a nuclear weapons programme is strikingly reminiscent of the claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In the absence of no verifiable proof of an Iranian nuclear weapons programme, Peter Oborne and David Morrison make a compelling case that the west and its client state Israel are wrong. The consequences of this dangerous delusion could be catastrophic for the region.