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
![Arab Liberation Front (A.L.F.) - Some Dimensions of Israeli Colonialism](images/thumbnails//30198.jpg)
Publisher: Arab Liberation FrontYear: 1971Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Publication describing goals of ALF and discussing Israeli colonialism. "The Arab Liberation Front (ALF) is a mass movement independent from Arab regimes, through which many anti-imperialist progressive forces struggle to achieve the aims of the Arab revolution which can be summarized in the following phrases: Liberation of Palestine, Freedom from Imperialist oppression, Socialism and Arab unity."
What is the Arab Liberation Front?
Some Dimensions of Israeli Colonialism?
A message to our international comrades
![The Peaceful Solution: Illusions and Realities](images/thumbnails//30208.jpg)
Publisher: Fifth of June SocietyYear: 1970Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Excerpt form an address by Professor Hisham Sharabi, given on Nov. 4, 1970 to the Americans for Justice in the Middle East in Beirut. Reveals "political settlement" as Zionist propaganda and instead asserts the "only solution lies in the defeat of Zionism and the restoration of Palestinian and Arab rights by armed struggle."
![Towards Peace in Palestine (2 copies)](images/thumbnails//30209.jpg)
Publisher: Fifth of June SocietyYear: 1970Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Address delivered April 15 1970 at Central Hall Westminster, London under the sponsorship of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding with a goal to examine "dissimilar conceptions of peace which the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs have" and analyze the particular conditions needed for peace.
![The Arabs in Israel](images/thumbnails//30212.jpg)
Publisher: Fifth of June SocietyDate: 5/1969Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Selection from full text describing conditions of Arab minority in Israel and the "network of hostile laws and military courts under which most Israeli Arabs live."
First published in Haifa in Hebrew in 1966 and was quickly suppressed by the Israeli authorities.
![Zionist Colonialism in Palestine](images/thumbnails//30215.jpg)
Publisher: Research Center Palestine Liberation OrganizationDate: 9/1965Volume Number: Palestine Monographs 1Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Traces the rise of Zionism, the character of the Zionist state, and the Palestinian resistance to Zionist colonialism. Includes information on participation of African, Asian, and Non-Aligned states.
![Gaza](images/thumbnails//30223.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Organization Research CenterDate: 8/1971Volume Number: Palestine Essays No. 27Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
History and analysis of the people and land of Gaza during Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
![The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Al-Fateh](images/thumbnails//30238.jpg)
Publisher: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, FatehFormat: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
History and analysis of Israeli Palestinian conflict and the growth and goals of Al-Fateh as it struggles for democratic, non-sectarian Palestine.
I. Introduction
II. History of the Palestine Problem
III. The Emergence of al-Fateh
IV. Aims and Objectives of al-Fateh
V. The Position of al-Fateh vis-s-vis: The State of Israel; the Arab countries; the two superpowers; the United Nations
VI. Al-Fateh and the Future
![Palestine Discussion Papers (Vol. 2) - The 1948 War as a Crucial Juncture in the History of the Palestine Problem](images/thumbnails//30247.jpg)
Publisher: General Union of Palestine Students: Kuwaiti Graduate SocietyYear: 1971Format: MonographCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Two essays from the Second International Symposium on Palestine. The first is "The 1948 War as a Crucial Juncture in the History of the Palestine problem" by L.M.C. van der Hoeven Leonhard. The Second is "An Agenda for Research on Settler Colonialism" by Mr. George Jabbour.
Both of these papers were presented at the Second International Symposium on Palestine Feb. 13-17, 1971.