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Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

Palestine

This collection includes a wide range of audio tapes and English publications about the Palestinian struggle for self determination, the colonization of Palestine and Zionism. Political journals and monographs from multiple viewpoints on topics such as Zionism, Israeli abuses of human rights and international law, the role of the US and Britain policy in shaping Palestine, as well as on the Middle East and the Arab world. Perspectives in this collection are drawn from international organizations in the West and the Middle East, Palestinian revolutionary organizations, academics, thinkers and students, and voices of everyday Palestinian resistance. The majority of the materials in this collection are paper documents; monographs, periodicals, articles and pamphlets; however it also includes a number of important and unique audio materials. The bulk of the collection focuses on Palestinian resistance between 1948 and the early 1990s.   

News and information about Palestine: Institute for Middle East Understanding; If Americans Knew; B’TSELEM (Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories);

Analysis on Palestine: ElectronicIntifada; Mondoweiss; +972 Magazine

Documents

Eli Lobel Obituary Eli Lobel Obituary
Publisher: Khamsin - Journal of Revolutionary Socialists of the Middle EastYear: 1980Call Number: Volume Number: No. 7Format: ExcerptCollection: Anti-Zionism
Taken from Communist Parties of the Middle East issue.
International Declarations: Zionism and Racism International Declarations: Zionism and Racism
Publisher: Palestine Information OfficeYear: 1981Call Number: Format: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionism
Contents include: Declaration and Resolution of the International Forum on Zionism and Racism (Tripoli, Libya 1976) and Resolutions Adopted by the Symposium on Zionism (Baghdad, Iraq 1976). The declarations and resolutions represent the views and ideas of a wide range of intellectuals and activists from Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as Europe and the United States.
Information Paper No. 20: Zionism and the Problem of Palestinian Human Rights Information Paper No. 20: Zionism and the Problem of Palestinian Human Rights
Publisher: Association of Arab-American University GraduatesDate: 10/1976Call Number: Format: PeriodicalCollection: Anti-Zionism
Information Paper No. 20 documents the Isareli state's acts of political repression in occupied lands and investigates how and why they occur. It provides context and background on the State of Israel--its origins and developments over time.
Zionism and Apartheid Zionism and Apartheid
Call Number: Format: PamphletCollection: Anti-Zionism
United Nations and International Response to: Israel and South Africa Collaboration. This pamphlet provides a number of General Assembly Resolutions related to the international response of the United Nations to the issue of Palestine and South African apartheid. Resolutions include condemnation of states and companies who provide the South African military regime with equipment and supplies, elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, and more. Of emphasis are concerns regarding the strengthening relations between Israel and South Africa.
Minors in the Shore Camp Minors in the Shore Camp
Author: Tamar Peleg SryckPublisher: Association for Civil Rights in IsraelYear: 1988Format: MonographCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Report on conditions for the young Palestinian prisoners at Ansar 2 prison, also known as the "Shore Camp."
Report of Visit to Ketziot Detention Camp on June 1, 1988 Report of Visit to Ketziot Detention Camp on June 1, 1988
Author: Tamar Peleg SryckPublisher: Association for Civil Rights in IsraelDate: 6/5/1988Format: MonographCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Report on the conditions at Ketziot Detention Camp featuring accounts by many prisoners held there. Details brutal treatment and humiliation of Palestinian detainees by Israeli soldiers and the poor conditions and inadequate medical care for the prisoners.
Palestine Human Rights Bulletin Palestine Human Rights Bulletin
Publisher: Palestine Human Rights CampaignDate: 6/30/1977Volume Number: No. 1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Contains reports written by Felicia Langer and Leah Tsemel detailing a hunger strike by Arab prisoners at the Ashkelon jail. The strike was undertaken in response to poor conditions at the prison.
Palestine Human Rights Bulletin Palestine Human Rights Bulletin
Publisher: Palestine Human Rights CampaignDate: 8/30/1977Volume Number: No. 2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Contains an excerpt from a letter written by Noam Chomsky to Roger Baldwin of the International League for Human Rights (ILHR). Letter takes issue with the ILHR's stance towards Israeli and their neglect in reporting certain Israeli abuses, such as the use of torture against Palestinian prisoners.
Zionist Israeli Acts of Terrorism 1939-1974 Zionist Israeli Acts of Terrorism 1939-1974
Publisher: Free PalestineFormat: MonographCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Report enumerating Zionist and Israeli acts of terror against Arabs between 1939 and 1974.
Children of The Stones Children of The Stones
Publisher: Palestinian Center for the Study of Non-ViolenceYear: 1988Format: MonographCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Report on the violence and suffering perpetrated against Palestinian children by the Israeli military. Includes signed affidavits from numerous witnesses detailing the abuses of children.