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
8 Documents Found
![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.
![Israeli Paper Hits Anti-Arab Policy](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Details discrimination against Israeli Arab workers in Israel.
![An Israeli Worker's Answer to M.S. Arnoni](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Offers a response to an article entitled "Rights and Wrongs in the Arab-Israeli Conflict" written by M.S. Arnoni. The essay seeks to challenge certain factual errors in the Arnoni article and to report the truth regarding certain atrocities committed by Israel against Arabs.
![Internal Control in Israel and South Africa - The Mechanisms of Colonial-Settler Regimes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The International Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial DiscriminationDate: 3/1983Volume Number: Paper No. 29Format: MonographCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Details the nature of colonial-settler regimes and the structures of power, control, and discrimination that define them. Focuses specifically on South African apartheid and Israeli occupation in the West Bank.
![Political Prisoners and Human Rights in Israel](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Provides detailed information and data about Palestinian political prisoners, the use of torture against Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli practice of Collective Punishment against Palestinians, the destruction of Arab homes, and the deportation of Palestinians. Also details the discrimination against Arabs living in Israel, the deprivation of Arab land rights, and Israel's use of military law.
![Poems From an Israeli Prison](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Book of poems written by Fouzi El Asmar, an Arab Israeli political prisoner. His poems deal with his imprisonment, identity, and political struggle.
![The Palestinians](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Minority Rights GroupYear: 1982Volume Number: No. 24Format: MonographCollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Provides extensive background information on the origins of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Discusses the roots of Zionism and the creation of Israel, Palestinian resistance and the numerous factions within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Palestinian refugees, and conditions and conflict in the West Bank.
![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.
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