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
The Democratic Progressive State in Palestine
Format: MonographCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Palestinian youth attending the 10th International Youth Festival in Berlin, Germany write to international youth about the slogan of the democratic progressive state as a strategic goal in the national liberation struggle against Zionist colonization.
The ABC of the Palestine Problem: Part 1 (1896-1949)
Publisher: The Arab Women's Information CommitteeFormat: MonographCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
A detailed timeline laying out the specific process and set of events that facilitated the Zionist takeover of Palestine. Includes facts, statistics, names, places, very comprehensive.
Chapter 1: The Idea of a Zionist State leads to the Balfour Declaration 1896-1917.
Chapter 2: The Years of the Promise: Jewish Development Under British Protection 1917-1939.
Chapter 3: The Years of Militant Zionism and American Support 1939-1947.
Chapter 4: The Big Takeover 1947-1949
How Can the Jews Survive? - A Socialist Answer to Zionism
Uses the concept of the "non-Jewish Jew" to argue that Zionist Israel is an institution of Capitalist Imperialism and that the solution for the Jewish people would be to embrace Socialism.
Israel's Bid for "Peace and Security"
Format: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionism
Offers a critique of the Israeli claims regarding their desire to promote peace, especially in regards to their aggression during the 1967 War. Also includes translations of two articles published in Israeli newspapers; "Hollow Words and No Action," by David Ben Gurion, and "We are doomed to War," by General Moshe Dayan.
Jewish Critics of Zionism - A Testamentary Essay with The Stifling and Smearing of a Dissenter
Provides a history of Zionist ideology and the numerous Jewish critics who have spoken out against Israeli actions. Also includes an essay entitled "The Stifling and Smearing of a Dissenter," on the suppression of anti-Zionist works and opinions in the United States.
On the Jewish Question
Contains letters, interviews, and other writing by Leon Trotsky on such issues as anti-semitism, Zionism and the Jewish state in Palestine, and the role of the Jewish people in the Socialist movement.
On Zionism
Publisher: Arab Information CenterDate: 1/1984Volume Number: 7Format: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionism
Provides a brief history of Zionism and the World Zionist Organization leading up to establishment of Israel in 1948.
Self-Determination in the Mideast - A Debate from the pages of the Militant and Daily World
Publisher: Pathfinder PressDate: 4/1974Volume Number: AprilFormat: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionism
A debate between Dave Frankel and Tom Foley about self-determination in the Middle-East.
The Lavon Affair
Details the Lavon Affair—an Israeli plot which attempted to sour U.S.-Egypt relations by placing book bombs in American facilities in Egypt.
The Stifling and Smearing of a Dissenter
Essay by Moshe Menuhin on the suppression of anti-Zionist works and opinions in the United States. Reprinted from the publication "Issues."