People love Dead Jews – Dana Horn
A startling and profound exploration of how Jewish history is exploited to comfort the living.
Recommended Reading for Canadian Jewish Advocacy
Published on February 27, 2025
War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream has Obstructed the Path to Peace – Adi Schwartz & Einat Wilf
Two prominent Israeli liberals argue that for the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians to end with peace, Palestinians must come to terms with the fact that there will be no "right of return."
We Should All Be Zionists: Essays on the Jewish State and the Path to Peace – Einat Wilf
"We Should All Be Zionists" is the third volume in Dr Einat WIlf's trilogy, after "Winning The War of Words" and "Telling Our Story". It brings together her essays on Israel, Zionism and the path to peace...
Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israel – Cary Nelson
Dreams Deferred arrives as debates about the future of the Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict intensify under the extraordinary pressure of a region in chaos.
Jewish Pride: Rebuilding a People – Ben Freeman
Reclaiming Our Story: The Pursuit of Jewish Pride, tells us how we can all act now for a fairer, more equal and more tolerant society.
How to Fight Antisemitism – Bari Weiss
On October 27, 2018, eleven Jews were gunned down as they prayed at their synagogue in Pittsburgh. It was the deadliest attack on Jews in American history...
Antisemitism: Here and Now – Deborah Lipstadt
Over the last decade there has been a noticeable uptick in antisemitic rhetoric and incidents by left-wing groups targeting Jewish students and Jewish organizations on American college campuses...
Canadian Handbook on IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
The first step to combatting antisemitism is defining it. In 2019, the Government of Canada adopted the non-legally binding International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Working Definition of Antisemitism (IHRA Definition) as part of Canada’s Anti-Racism Strategy.
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbour - Yossi Klein Halevi
Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor is one Israeli’s powerful attempt to reach beyond the wall that separates Israelis and Palestinians and into the hearts of "the enemy."
Israel: A Concise History Of A Nation Reborn – Daniel Gordis
The first comprehensive yet accessible history of the state of Israel from its inception to present day, from Daniel Gordis.
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignited the Arab-Israel Conflict – Yardena Schwartz
In 1929, in the sacred city of Hebron—then governed by the British Mandate of Palestine—there was no occupation, state of Israel, or settlers.
Israel Alone - Bernard-Henri Lévy
Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world: anti-Semitism, why Israel is waging this existential war against barbarism alone, and what’s at stake for Israel and the world.
Count Us In: The Struggle to Free Soviet Jews - Wendy Eisen
Eisen's narrative begins in 1956, when the first significant news of any kind began to leak out of the Soviet Union with the rise of Nikita Khrushchev; it ends in 1989, when Mikhail Gorbachev granted virtually unrestricted emigration rights to Soviet Jews.
Antisemitism online – Decoding Antisemitism - Editor Johannes Angermuller
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse engages in the exchange between discourse theory and analysis while putting emphasis on the intellectual challenges in discourse research. Moving beyond disciplinary divisions in today’s social sciences, the contributions deal with critical issues at the intersections between language and society
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth - Noa Tishby
Israel. The small strip of arid land is 5,700 miles away but remains a hot-button issue and a thorny topic of debate. But while everyone seems to have a strong opinion about Israel, how many people actually know the facts? Here to fill in the information gap is Israeli American Noa Tishby. But “this is not your Bubbie’s history book”
The Star and the Scepter: A diplomatic history of Israel - Emmanuel Navon
The first all-encompassing book on Israel’s foreign policy and the diplomatic history of the Jewish people, The Star and the Scepter retraces and explains the Jews’ interactions with other nations from the ancient kingdoms of Israel to modernity.
Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews - David L. Bernstein
In May 2021, amid another conflict with Iran-backed Hamas, Israel took a beating in both the mainstream press and social media. Notwithstanding the rocket fire aimed at its citizens, the Jewish state was portrayed as the oppressor and the Hamas government as the oppressed. While Israel has always been subject to excessive scrutiny, this time was different.