They shout "Free Palestine." Do you know what to say back?
Since October 7, the campaign against Israel has moved from the fringes to the center of Western life. Students chant for intifada on elite campuses. Activists hail Hamas as a resistance movement. Slogans like "from the river to the sea" and "Nakba" are repeated everywhere, and most people who hear them have no idea what they mean or where they came from.
"The Pro-Israel Handbook is a powerful and essential tool for anyone who wants to understand, and explain, Israel's truth. It presents facts clearly, dismantles myths intelligently, and gives every reader the confidence to stand up for Israel with knowledge and integrity."
Prof. Mordechai Kedar, Israel's expert on Middle Eastern studies
Supporters of Israel know the slogans are false. But knowing it and proving it are two different things.
In The Pro-Israel Handbook, Matan Peleg, the former head of Im Tirtzu, Israel's largest student movement, and an IDF reservist who served in Gaza and Lebanon, gives you the facts that win the argument. Drawing on British Mandate records, Ottoman census data, 19th-century travelers' accounts, captured Palestinian Authority documents, and the words of Arab leaders themselves, Peleg makes three arguments that every defender of Israel needs to understand:
There is no such thing as a "Palestinian people." The Arabs who lived in the Land of Israel came from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Bosnia, and dozens of other places, and their own leaders admitted that a separate Palestinian identity was invented for political purposes.
There is such a thing as a "Palestinian ideology," and it has Nazi roots. From the Grand Mufti's meeting with Hitler to Arabic editions of Mein Kampf in Gaza to UNRWA textbooks that teach children to count "martyrs," Peleg traces a straight line of Jew-hatred that predates Zionism.
The source of the conflict is Arab rejection. From the Peel Commission in 1937 to the UN Partition Plan in 1947 to the offers made at Camp David and Annapolis, the Jews said yes to compromise. The Arab leadership said no every time, and the so-called "right of return" explains why.
Short, sharp, and built for real conversations, this handbook gives you the history, the quotes, and the numbers you need to answer the most common anti-Israel claims with confidence.
For students and young advocates facing hostility on campus and online, The Pro-Israel Handbook is a ready reference you will return to again and again.
For Christian readers who stand with Israel and want to defend her with more than good intentions, it provides the historical record behind the headlines and explains why the Jewish people's claim to their land is both biblical and historical.
Stop arguing with slogans. Start answering with facts.
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