Linda Dittmar witnessed abuses of Palestinians during the Nakba as a girl in Israel. Now in her 80s, living in America she seeks to retrace the ways that Israelis suppressed the Nakba and replaced Palestinian life with a Zionist narrative.

In “Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab Jew,” Avi Shlaim declares his identity clearly as an Arab Jew — an Arab by culture, history, and geography and a Jew by faith. His identity was destroyed by Zionism and by the Ashkenazi European Jews.

Abba A. Solomon’s new book, “Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel,” chronicles the search for a Jewish identity not inextricably tied to Israeli Apartheid.

Isabella Hammad’s new novel, “Enter Ghost,” uses theater and the lives of Palestinians in the diaspora to uncover the relationship between culture and politics, colonialism and self-determination, and love and freedom.

The wait is over for a brilliant, comprehensive account of the last two decades in Iraq. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has written a masterpiece.

Israeli demonstrations have been Zionist-only. If Israeli liberals cannot make common cause with Palestinians, they will go extinct and have only themselves to blame. They will have thrown in with a rampaging society in the name of Jewish supremacy.

Vera Tamari’s intimate story of her family’s life before 1948 allows us to dream of how life might have been in Palestine if the Nakba had never happened.

Nada Elia’s new book transports us across the globe to center women and queer peoples’ position in joint struggle and imagines a new future for Palestinian resistance.

Adel Manna’s new history of what happened to the Palestinians who remained in what would become the Israeli state after the 1948 helps us understand how the Nakba was made of many personal Nakbas.

Adania Shibli’s spare and haunting novel charts two lines, the shift in consciousness between the Nakba era and contemporary times, but also the trajectory that remains constant: racist violence.