Palestine
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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
Subcollections
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Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Various publications concerning the Arab world produced by members of the Arab community both in the Middle East and within the diaspora. -
Anti-Zionism
Numerous publications challenging the Zionist ideology and the use of Zionism by the Israeli State to justify territorial claims. -
Human Rights in Palestine
Various publications about Israeli Human Rights abuses against Palestinians. -
International Perspectives on Palestine
The following collection is comprised of sub-collections focusing on perspectives and information about Palestine from three non-Palestinian organizations. -
Institute for Palestine Studies
The Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS) was established in Beirut in 1963 as an independent non-profit research institution, unaffiliated with any political organization or government. -
Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Literature from revolutionary groups in struggle to liberate Palestine.
Documents
![Aims of Palestinian Resistance Movement with Regard to the Jews - Quotations from Resistance Leaders and Documents](images/thumbnails//30210.jpg)
Publisher: Fifth of June SocietyDate: 4/1970Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Select quotations from Palestinian resistance leaders and organizations including Al Fateh, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Sa'iqa, and The Palestine Liberation Organization.
![On Terrorism/ Role of the Party/ Leninism vs. Zionism](images/thumbnails//30242.jpg)
Publisher: Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineFormat: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Three articles translated into English from the original Arabic reprinted from the Palestine Resistance Bulletin.
Articles one, "Terrorism and Revolutionary Violence," is a "critical analysis of terrorism and its role in revolutionary struggle."
Article two, "Role of the Party" states the "necessity of forming a vanguard party in order to insure the continual development of the resistance struggle along the path of the socialist revolution."
Article three, "The Leninist Struggle Against Zionism: is a "brief historical analysis of Zionism in its conflict with the international communist movement."
![The August Program and A Democratic Solution](images/thumbnails//30243.jpg)
Publisher: Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of PalestineFormat: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Analysis by the "Marxist-Leninist wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who later split from the front in February of 1969 and formed the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine" of "the struggle of the Palestinian people against imperialism, Zionism, and Arab reaction. It also explains the failure of the Palestine revolts in 1936 and 1948 and the factors which caused these failures. The analysis also explains the failures of the present Arab regimes."
![Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - Committees for Solidarity with the Palestinian Revolution](images/thumbnails//30244.jpg)
Publisher: Committees for Solidarity with the Palestinian RevolutionDate: 11/1969Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Introduction to the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with a goal of correcting the British Left's "understanding of the present liberation struggle of the Palestinian people and transform[ing] this understanding into active support."
![The Palestinian Revolution/The Right to Self-Determination and the Independent State](images/thumbnails//30245.jpg)
Publisher: The Democratic Front for the Liberation of PalestineFormat: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Report following the convening of the 13th Palestinian Council, the Martyr Kamal Junblatt session, and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine's eighth anniversary of its foundation. Report includes several examples of the activities of the eighth anniversary celebration including an interview of General Secretary of the DFLP on that occasion." "The report also contains the position of the DFLP and the documents it presented in the thirteenth session of the Palestinian National Council (Cairo, March 12-29, 1977), the results of the work of the Council," and the DFLP's view of the results.