VIRGIL’S READING RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!!!

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER! SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU EMAIL VIRGIL@BIGSOYNATURALS. WORLD, SAY YOU WANT TO “BORROW” A “COPY”

1. The Colonial Present by Derek Gregory
2. Palestine Speaks by Cate Malek
3. Let Me Stand Alone by Rachel Corrie
4. My Name Is Rachel Corrie by Rachel Corrie
5. The Iron Cage by Rashid Khalidi
6. Letters From Palestine by Kenneth Ring & Ghassän Abd Allh
7. Zionism And Its Discontents by Ran Greenstein
8. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman G. Finkelstein
9. The Holocaust Industry by Norman G. Finkelstein
10. Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehada
11. Language of War, Language of Peace by Raja Shehadeh
12. My Father Was a Freedom Fighter by Ramzy Baroud
13. Israel’s Dead Soul by Steven Salaita
14. Uncivil Rites by Steven Salaita
15. Inter/Nationalism by Steven Salaita
16. The Unspoken Alliance: Israel’s Secret Relationship With Apartheid South Africa by Sasha Polakow-Suransky
17. Journal of an Ordinary Grief by Mahmoud Darwish
18. The Invention of The Land of Israel by Shlomo Sand
19. Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History by Nur Masalha
20. Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma in Palestine by Ghada Karmi

Episode Sources:

• Bob the Drag Queen Tweet [Twitter]
• Know what to boycott [BDS]
• A DOUBLE VICTORY AT EVERGREEN [Socialist Worker]
• 5 Olympia Food Co-op members who sued to end Israeli boycott must pay $160K 07/12/12 [BDS]
• The nation’s first and only boycott of Israeli products by a food co-op ignites a fiercely personal, community and legal battle in Olympia, Washington, the hometown of Rachel Corrie. 07/2021 [Campus Watch]
• Judge agrees with Olympia Food Co-op, says no members hurt by boycott of Israeli goods, 03/13/18 [The Olympian]
• Israel advocates lose legal battle over Olympia Food Co-op boycott, 02/28/20 [BDS]
• Edward Said on the Death of American Activist Rachel Corrie [Lit Hub]