“This invaluable tour de force by Phyllis Bennis offers readers the most comprehensive, lucid, readable, and reliably informed and evidence-based guide available … While objective in its use of data and interpretative commentary, the book is impressively clear about the distinction between oppressor and oppressed.”

– Richard Falk, Professor of International Law, Emeritus, Princeton University

“With stunning clarity and an unwavering commitment to speaking truth in an age of official lies, Phyllis Bennis tears back the curtain of government and corporate disinformation to reveal the truth of a one-hundred-year history of colonization, apartheid and genocide, and a growing global movement for justice in Palestine. This point-by-point examination brings together the historical, factual, legal, and moral basis for an informed understanding of one of the great historical (and ongoing) injustices of the past hundred years.”

– Craig Mokhiber, international human rights lawyer and activist and former senior United Nations official

“To interrogate the role of the Israeli government and its military, over many years, in creating a fertile soil for Palestinian anger.... Understanding Palestine and Israel, a new book by writer Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at DC’s Institute for Policy Studies, might be a useful primer.”

– The Washington Post

“For decades now, we have been able to count on Phyllis Bennis to refute arguments that we who are not ‘experts,’ that we cannot possibly grasp the complexities of the Israel-Palestine ‘conflict.’ In this moment of unprecedented opposition to the Zionist project, Bennis’ most recent book once again offers lucid exposition and compelling argumentation for the ever-increasing numbers of advocates for freedom and justice in Palestine.”

– Angela Y. Davis, Distinguished Professor Emerita, UC Santa Cruz