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
![A Palestinian View](images/thumbnails//30246.jpg)
Publisher: General Union of Palestine Students: 2nd World ConferenceFormat: MonographCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Essay arguing: "struggle of indigenous Palestinian population against Zionist colonists" is the "origin and cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the key to its solution."
![Information Papers No.18 - Arab Peace-Efforts and the Solution of the Arab-Israeli Problem](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Association of Arab-American University GraduatesDate: 2/1976Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
A close study of the history of peace efforts and the search for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, covering three periods: 1920-1948; 1948-1967; 1967-present
![Palestine Lives: Address by Mr. Yasser Arafat](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: People's PressDate: 11/13/1974Call Number: Format: TranscriptCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Speech given at the 29th Session of the UN General Assembly. Chairman of the PLO, Yasser Arafat summarizes the struggle for Palestine and a clear statement of the Palestinian goal of a democratic secular states in all of Palestine.
![Zionism: A Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Office of the Permanent Observer of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United NationsYear: 1976Call Number: Format: PamphletCollection: Anti-Zionism
Transcripts with notation from four statements made by Fayez Sayegh, Ph.D., representative of Kuwait, at the Third (Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural) Committee and at the General Assembly of The United Nations in 1975. After these speeches the UN considered and adopted it's historical decision in which it determined that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. In these statements Dr. Sayegh asserts that not only is the nation of Israel and it's inherent Zionism racist in it's rampant and violent displacement of Palestinians but also in how it asserts a racial essentialism of Judaism.
!["All Jews Are Zionists" The Unquestioned Assumption (with additional info)](images/thumbnails//38110.jpg)
Multi-panel flyer announcing forum and cultural evening on Jewish anti-Zionism and the Middle East crisis.
The program includes background on Zionism, perspective on anti-Semitism, Zionism in practice, and a discussion period. Flyer includes illustrations of fluctuating Palestinian borders under British Mandate, 1947 UN Partition Plan, and the wars of 1948 and 1967. Under the illustrations, pivotal moments in the battle over Palestinian land are listed chronologically. Ruthie Gorton song titled "Free Palestine Now" included on the back.
![Zionism and Apartheid](images/thumbnails//39212.jpg)
United Nations and International Response to: Israel and South Africa Collaboration. This pamphlet provides a number of General Assembly Resolutions related to the international response of the United Nations to the issue of Palestine and South African apartheid. Resolutions include condemnation of states and companies who provide the South African military regime with equipment and supplies, elimination of all forms of racial discrimination, and more. Of emphasis are concerns regarding the strengthening relations between Israel and South Africa.
![September: Counter-Revolution in Jordan](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Palestine Solidarity CommitteeDate: 11/1970Call Number: Format: PamphletCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Pamphlet published by the Palestine Solidarity Committee written by the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DPFLP), covering the counter-revolution in Jordan that took place during 1970.