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
![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.
![On the Jewish Question](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Contains letters, interviews, and other writing by Leon Trotsky on such issues as anti-semitism, Zionism and the Jewish state in Palestine, and the role of the Jewish people in the Socialist movement.
![The Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews - Part III: Social Structure of Classical Judaism](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Continuation of article by Israel Shahak on the history of Judaism and Jewish identity.
![The Truth About Israel and Zionism](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Article on the nature of the anti-Zionist movement and its opposition to Israeli oppression. Also includes an essay on the incongruities of Zionism and Socialism, entitled "Socialism and Zionism: Are They Compatible?"
![Socialists and the Fight Against Anti-Semitism - An Answer to the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Contains two articles by Peter Seidman about the Anti-Defamation League's attacks on the Socialist Workers Party and their anti-Zionist stance; "Does Anti-Zionism Equal Anti-Semitism? - An Answer to the Anti-Defamation League," and "The Real Story of the Fight to Save European Refugees from Hitler's Terror." Also includes an "Open Letter to the ADL" written by Linda Jenness and Andrew Pulley.
![Israel: The Fascist State](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Ministry of National Guidance Information AdministrationFormat: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionism
A monograph comparing Israel and its Zionist ideology to fascism.
![Zionism and the Ideological Manipulation of Christian Groups](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: American-Arab Affairs CouncilYear: 1987Volume Number: 22 - FallFormat: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Reprint of original article, "Zionism and the Ideological Manipulation of Christian Groups," by Rosemary Radford Ruether. Article links theories of Zionism in Christian contexts to Palestinian oppression. Based on a talk given at the Palestinian Human Rights Campaign Conference, Washington DC, March, 1987.
![Arab Palestinian Resistance (January 1971)](images/thumbnails//30185.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Army - People's Liberation ForcesDate: 1/1971Volume Number: Vol. III - No. 1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Monthly publication from the Palestine Liberation Army-People's Liberation Forces including short stories, book reviews, poems, analyses and histories relating to Israeli oppression and Palestinian liberation. Issue includes pieces by M. T. Bujairami, Yousef Khatib, Yahya Makhlof, and Ibrahim Al-Abid.
![On the Necessity for an Anti-Racist Solution to the Palestine Conflict](images/thumbnails//30206.jpg)
Publisher: Fifth of June SocietyYear: 1969Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Analysis of race and racism with the Palestinian Israeli conflict and anti-racism as necessary for resolution. Translated from an unpublished paper in French entitled "Reflexions sur le Racisme et le Neo Anti-Semitisme."
![Verdict in Absentia](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Organization Research CenterDate: 8/1969Volume Number: Palestine Essay No. 11Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
A study of the Palestine case as represented to the Western World. Exploration of media and its use, potential, and manipulation within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.