Feb 22, 2023Book launch!We had a fantastic launch event at the swanky Capella cocktail bar in Tel Aviv. Hosted by Shanna Fuld and Tribe Tel Aviv, we signed books...
Feb 13, 2023Reviewed in the WSJ!“When did the conflict assume its current parameters? … Kessler argues that the crucial moment was an overlooked episode a decade before...
Jan 17, 2023⭐ Booklist Starred Review“With indelible portraits...Kessler’s history is key to understanding the current situation between Israelis and Palestinians.” Read at...
Dec 5, 2022The first review of “Palestine 1936” is in“Oren Kessler’s brave new history book Palestine 1936 reveals the deep roots of today’s Israel-Palestine conflict... A tragic history …...
Nov 17, 2022“Palestine 1936” spotted at Frankfurt Book Fair Frankfurter Buchmesse is the world’s largest and oldest (500 years!) book festival...
Jun 7, 2021The Meaning of Israel’s First Religious Prime Minister (FP)One “first” of the new government may be remembered as more historic than all the others: Israel will have its first prime minister who...
May 1, 2021The 1921 Jaffa riots, 100 years on: Mandate Palestine’s First Mass-Casualty AttackIt was, for the Zionist movement, a turning point in its perception of the “Arab question” and its own relation to armed force and...
Jul 1, 2020‘A dangerous people to quarrel with’: Lloyd George’s Testimony to the Peel Commission RevealedIn Fathom, I unearth the secret 1937 testimony given by David Lloyd George, who had been British prime minister during the 1917 Balfour...