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How I Learned to Speak Israel: An American’s Guide to a Foreign Policy Language AND When They Speak Israel: A Guide to Clarity in Conversations about Israel

By Alex McDonald. Great Tree Publishing, 2021. 426 pages. $24.95/paperback; $9.99/eBook. By Alex McDonald. Great Tree Publishing, 2021. 156 pages.…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

These Walls Between Us: A Memoir of Friendship Across Race and Class AND Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel

By Wendy Sanford. She Writes Press, 2021. 328 pages. $16.95/paperback; $9.95/eBook. By Omri Boehm. New York Review of Books, 2021.…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics and Beyond the Two-State Solution

By Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick. The New Press, 2021. 240 pages. $25.99/hardcover or eBook. By Jonathan Kuttab. Nonviolence…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

Struggling with (Non)violence

By Julie Marie Todd. In Media Res, 2020. 280 pages. $18.98/paperback. Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know By Erica…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

Who Stole My Bible?: Reclaiming Scripture as a Handbook for Resisting Tyranny and Prophetic Healing: Howard Thurman’s Vision of Contemplative Activism

[Who Stole My Bible?] By Jennifer Butler. Faith in Public Life, 2020. 178 pages. $15.99/paperback; $9.99/eBook. [Prophetic Healing] By Bruce…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017 AND Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

By Rashid Khalidi. Metropolitan Books, 2020. 336 pages. $30/hardcover; $18/paperback; $14.99/eBook. By Sa’ed Atshan. Stanford University Press, 2020. 296 pages.…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism

By Drew G. I. Hart. Herald Press, 2016. 157 pages. $29.99/hardcover; $16.99/paperback; $12.99/eBook. A few months ago, I walked to…

Reviewed by Steve Chase

Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions? A Quaker Zionist Rethinks Palestinian Rights

By Steve Chase. Pendle Hill Pamphlets (number 445), 2017. 30 pages. $7/pamphlet. Which side are you on? In the Israel–Palestine…

Reviewed by Pamela Haines

Letters: My Journey to the Quaker Movement

A letter to a fictional seeker.

Steve Chase

Speaking Up for Palestinian Rights Now

The horrific events and war crimes in southern Israel and Gaza committed since October 7 by both Hamas and the State of Israel have sent shock waves of anguish and grief around the world.

Steve Chase