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
![The Political Manifesto of the Arab Liberation Front](images/thumbnails//30199.jpg)
Publisher: Arab Liberation FrontYear: 1969Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Manifesto of Arab Liberation Front (ALF) describing their movement towards Palestinian liberation, socialism, and Arab unity.
![The United Nations and the Palestine Question April 1947-April 1965](images/thumbnails//30213.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Organization Research CenterDate: 9/1966Volume Number: Facts and Figures Series No. 2Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Statistical summary of the extent and degree to which the United Nations involved itself in Palestine since 1947. Includes statistical analysis of resolutions, decisions, and judgements regarding Palestine.
![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.
![The Struggle of Palestinian Women](images/thumbnails//30225.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine National Assembly Research CenterDate: 9/1975Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Analysis of women's involvement in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle.
![Discrimination in Education Against the Arabs in Israel](images/thumbnails//30227.jpg)
Publisher: Palestinian Liberation Organization Research CenterDate: 9/1966Volume Number: Facts and Figues Series - No. 3Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Study of the exclusion of and discrimination against Arabs in educational institutions in Israel.
![Zionism - The Forgotten Apartheid](images/thumbnails//30263.jpg)
Publisher: Al-Talib and AlKalimaDate: 12/2001Volume Number: Special EditionFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Anti-Zionism
A collaboration between two news magazines focusing on giving the reader a brief understanding of Zionism and its effects. Includes facts, a timeline, an expose on torture, massacres and human rights violations. Also contains information on foreign aid, Israel's international war crimes and more. Published by the collective staffs of Al-Talib (UCLA) and Alkalima (UC-Irvine).
![Fact Sheet from the Committee to Protest Sharon's War Crimes](images/thumbnails//31789.jpg)
Provides a list of facts regarding the career Ariel Sharon and his role in the 1982 massacres at Sabra and Shatila.
!["All Jews are Zionists"- the Unquestioned Assumption](images/thumbnails//31792.jpg)
Flyer for forum on Anti-Zionism at Women's Building in San Francisco.
![The Imperialist Roots of Zionism](images/thumbnails//31795.jpg)
Format: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Discusses the role of Imperial Britain in promoting the Zionist colonization of Palestine. Also discusses a June 1967 strike by Arab workers in the West Bank.
![Najda Newsletter - Women Concerned About the Middle East (Summer 1990)](images/thumbnails//35116.jpg)
Publisher: Najda: Women Concerned About the Middle EastYear: 1994Call Number: Volume Number: 34-4 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Features articles detailing the environmental impacts of Israeli occupation, including the degradation of land, exploitation of water resources, and pollution from agricultural chemicals. Newsletter also includes short reports on homelessness in Jerusalem and Palestinian women political prisoners.
a. Marla Schrader, “Environmental Degredation and Conflict in Palestine”
i. Land degredation and desertification
ii. Water resources
iii. Agrochemical pollution
iv. Waste water pollution
v. Palestinian efforts
b. homelessness in Jerusalem
c. Book Reviews
i. Fragments of Memory: A Story of a Syrian Family (Hanna Mina)
ii. Daughter of Damascus (Siham Tergeman)