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
![Yasser Arafat speaks in Havana](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/1/1978Call Number: KP 200Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Greg GoldinCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
At a Cuban press conference, head of the PLO, Yasser Arafat thanks friendly Socialist and Islamic countries for their support of the Palestinian Liberation struggle. He condemns the United States, Israel, and Egypt's President Sadat for their abuse of the rights of the Palestinian people. Arafat responds to press questions about his formula for peace.
![Our Socialism - Israel and Palestine: The Search for Justice](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: American SocialistsYear: 1983Volume Number: Vol. 1-6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Anti-Zionism
November/December issue of Our Socialism featuring a special report on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Includes articles on debates and contentions over Zionist policies among the Israeli population, Jewish extremism in Israel, the Palestinian struggle for national self-determination, life in the occupied West Bank, and Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. Also includes interviews with Israeli economist Ehud Ein Gil, Yesh G'vul member Gideon Spiro, Dr. Emile Touma of the Communist Party of Israel, Nayef Hawatmeh of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and Jordanian writer Salem Nahhas.
![A Gift of Kindness - A Fond Recollection](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Format: TranscriptCollection: Anti-Zionism
Transcript of Moshe Menuhin recollecting the kindness of an Arab dentist he met as a child.
![Begin and Co. As they Really Are](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Anthology compiling writings and opinions of Menachem Begin and his political and military associates regarding their Zionist ideology. Menachem Begin was the leader of the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun which targeted the British, Arab and Palestinian civilians leading up to the creation of Israel in 1948.
![Everything you always wanted to know about the Middle East Conflict...but were afraid to ask](images/thumbnails//29918.jpg)
Provides numerous statistics and facts regarding the persecution of Arabs by Israel and the role of Zionist propaganda in promoting the idea that Israel has sole claim to the land of Palestine.
![Farewell Israel Book Review](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Book Review of Farewell, Israel by Ephraim Sevela. Reviewed by Allan C. Brownfeld.
![How Can the Jews Survive? - A Socialist Answer to Zionism](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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 Haunted](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Format: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Book Review of Jews Against Zionism by Thomas A. Kolsky. Reviewed by Murray Polner.
![Israeli Paper Hits Anti-Arab Policy](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Details discrimination against Israeli Arab workers in Israel.
![Israel's Bid for "Peace and Security"](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.