Israel-critical books by Jewish authors
1. 
Days of Awe: Reimagining Jewishness in Solidarity with Palestinians
by:
Atalia Omer
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 2. 
Judaism Does Not Equal Israel: The Rebirth of the Jewish Prophetic
by:
Marc H. Ellis
4.19 avg rating — 26 ratings 3. 
Rabbi Outcast: Elmer Berger and American Jewish Anti-Zionism
by:
Jack Ross
3.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 4. 
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism
by:
Judith Butler
4.05 avg rating — 178 ratings 
8. 
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
by:
Nathan Thrall
4.35 avg rating — 11,057 ratings 
10. 
Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning
by:
Peter Beinart
4.46 avg rating — 2,358 ratings 11. 
Tablets Shattered: The End of an American Jewish Century and the Future of Jewish Life
by:
Joshua Leifer
3.89 avg rating — 336 ratings 12. 
Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation 4.42 avg rating — 24 ratings
14. 
Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History 4.23 avg rating — 846 ratings
17. 
Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel Is Coming to an End 4.11 avg rating — 142 ratings
19. 
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat
by:
Ella Shohat
4.43 avg rating — 30 ratings 
21. 
The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel
by:
Ilan Pappé
4.22 avg rating — 201 ratings 22. 
The Invention of the Land of Israel: From Holy Land to Homeland
by:
Shlomo Sand
4.26 avg rating — 434 ratings 23. 
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians
by:
Noam Chomsky
4.14 avg rating — 2,071 ratings 24. 
25. 
Our Harsh Logic: Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010 3.96 avg rating — 178 ratings
26. 
The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
27. 
A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism
by:
Esther Farmer
4.66 avg rating — 277 ratings 28. 
Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewish History, and Collective Liberation
by:
Sim Kern
4.62 avg rating — 270 ratings 29. 
The Gates of Gaza: Critical Voices from Israel on October 7 and the War with Hamas (De Gruyter Disruptions, 4)
by:
Lihi Ben Shitrit
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 
31. 
On Antisemitism: Solidarity and the Struggle for Justice in Palestine 4.08 avg rating — 151 ratings
32. 
Israel Has a Jewish Problem: Self-Determination as Self-Elimination
by:
Joyce Dalsheim
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 33. 
War over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel's Militaristic Nationalism
by:
Uri Ben-Eliezer
4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 34. 
Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years
by:
Israel Shahak
3.99 avg rating — 419 ratings 35. ![Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories [Updated & Revised]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1387745492i/1196802._SX100_.jpg)
Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories [Updated & Revised]
by:
Anna Baltzer
4.65 avg rating — 99 ratings 36. 
Wrestling With Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by:
Tony Kushner
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 59 ratings 37. 
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Traces of Racial Exception: Racializing Israeli Settler Colonialism
by:
Ronit Lentin
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings 
40. 
A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
by:
Yakov M. Rabkin
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 31 ratings 41. 
The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
42. 
Hamas and Civil Society in Gaza: Engaging the Islamist Social Sector
by:
Sara Roy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 66 ratings 
44. 
There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists 4.38 avg rating — 165 ratings
46. 
Safety through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism
by:
Shane Burley
4.53 avg rating — 100 ratings 47. 
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A Passionate Pacifist: Essential Writings of Aaron Samuel Tamares it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
50. 
Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing 4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings
52. 
The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth (Semiotext
by:
Shlomo Sand
3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings 53. 
54. 
Israel and Palestine - Out of the Ashes: The Search For Jewish Identity in the Twenty-First Century
by:
Marc H. Ellis
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Jewish History, Jewish Religion, the Weight of 3000 Years
by:
Israel Shahak
4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings 
62. 
The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret Agenda
by:
Victor Ostrovsky
3.98 avg rating — 294 ratings 63. 
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
by:
Naomi Klein
4.10 avg rating — 10,392 ratings 
65. 
Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical
by:
Shaul Magid
3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings 
67. 
Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel
by:
Adam Shatz
3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings 
69. 
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict
by:
Ilan Pappé
4.37 avg rating — 2,525 ratings 70. 
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture
by:
Smadar Lavie
3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings 
73. 
Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
by:
Noam Chomsky
4.21 avg rating — 1,154 ratings 
76. 
Co-memory and Melancholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba
by:
Ronit Lentin
3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings 77. 
Collusion Across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine
by:
Avi Shlaim
3.96 avg rating — 55 ratings 
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Embracing Exile: The Case for Jewish Diaspora
by:
David Kraemer
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating