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
10 Documents Found
![Mayor of Hebron Lecture on Palestine](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
The Mayor of Hebron, Palestine, speaks in the US to explain the situation in which his city was shut down by the Israeli army for 27 days. Under this lock down, families were confined to their homes, denied access to their day to day needs, telephones were disconnected, and anyone attempting to enter Hebron from Jerusalem were denied entry. The lock down was part of an occupation that saw people pushed off their land, as well as the rise of 92 settlements.
![Horrors of Napalm](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Directorate of Public Relations Ministry of Culture and GuidanceYear: 1967Format: MonographCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Focuses on the horrors, history and usages of napalm, specifically on Arab populations.
![Occupation and Resistance - American Impressions of the Intifada](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Book from Occupation and Resistance: American Impressions of the Intifada, Alternative Museum, May 5-June 30, 1990 containing essays and photographs by American artists who visited the Occupied West Bank. Focuses on conditions of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, Palestinian resistance and the Infitada, the role of art in Palestinian resistance, and role of the U.S. in the conflict.
a. G. Roger Denson (writer and curator in NYC), Know Thine Enemy: Americans Face the Palestinian Intifada
b. Geno Rodriguez, Occupation and Resistance
c. The People of Beit Sahour, No Taxation without Representation
d. Jay Murphy, “The Intifada Makes Many Artists”
e. Ken Bloom, Bill Biggart: Photographs of Resistance
f. Noam Chomsky, The Art of Evasion: Diplomacy in the Middle East
g. Gadi Gofbarg, Divorcing Zionism
h. Derek Guthrie, Impressions
i. Karen White, an Affidavit
j. Artists in the Exhibit
k. Aritsts Biographies
l. Notes
![Israeli Settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The Institute for Palestine Studies and Kuwait UniversityYear: 1981Volume Number: Vol. 11-1 AutumnFormat: ArticleCollection: Institute for Palestine Studies
Article reprinted from Journal of Palestine Studies
![The Arabs in Israel 1948-1966](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The Institute for Palestine StudiesYear: 1969Format: BookCollection: Institute for Palestine Studies
This book is concerned with the living conditions of the Palestine Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, who remained in territories invaded by the Israelis in the 1948 Palestine War and held throughout the period 1948-1966.
![Death of a Mediator](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The Institute for Palestine StudiesYear: 1968Format: MonographCollection: Institute for Palestine Studies
On the assasination of Count Folke Bernadotte, UN Mediator in Palestine
![Quo vadis Zionist Israel](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Institute for Palestine StudiesYear: 1969Format: MonographCollection: Institute for Palestine Studies
A 1969 Postscript to The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time
![Arab Palestinian Resistance (February 1972)](images/thumbnails//30183.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Army - People's Liberation ForcesDate: 2/1972Volume Number: Vol. 4-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Topics of coverage include the British betrayal of Palestine; the Jews of Syria; Resistance Operations; China and the Middle East; Ralph Bunche and the Palestine Conflict. Also poems, books reviews, documents, questions and answers, the Palestine Question in world press, more.
![Palestine Guerrillas - Their Credibility and Effectiveness](images/thumbnails//30204.jpg)
Publisher: Georgetown Univ. Center for Strategic and International StudiesYear: 1970Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Research and analysis of the Palestinian Guerrilla movement, its structure, effectiveness, and future.
I. Are the Palestine Guerrillas Credible?
II. How Strong is the Guerrilla Movement?
III. Why the Multiplicity of the Guerrilla Organizations?
IV. The Next Phase
V. Problems and Prospects of the Next Phase
![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).
10 Documents Found