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
![Speech by Leila Khaled](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Speech by Leila Khaled.
![Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Study](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
JAAZ members' educational workshop on Middle Eastern culture within the broader context of Israel. Covers the strategic history of oil economics in relations to U.S. policy. In-depth examination of women historically in Islamic culture plus current issues and movement. Includes discussion of genital mutilation. Part 1 of 2 - see KP 214.
![For the Children of Palestine](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: KP 051Format: Cass A & BProducers: KPFACollection: Human Rights in Palestine
Poets and writers express support for Palestine through spoken word, poetry, stories, and songs. Gloria Emerson reads a poem about the experiences of children living under war in Palestine. Sarah Diamond discusses attacks against the Middle East Children's Alliance by the UC 17, a group of University of California academics who censored information about the Palestine-Israel conflict under the banner of political correctness. Susan Griffin reads "On the Attitude Towards Children in Wartime," a poem by Dahlia Ravikovitch; she also reads her own poems, "On the Path of Ideal," which considers the Persian Gulf War, gender, sexuality, and patriarchy, and "Hunger" written about photographs of post-atomic Chernobyl. [poet] reads a poem by Mahmoud Darwish on the poet's connection to Palestinian land. [poet] also reads his own poems which touch on Jewish ceremonial traditions and advocates for Jewish and Palestinian solidarity. June Jordan reads "Apologies to All the People of Lebanon," dedicated to the 600,000 men, women, and children who lived in Lebanon from 1948-1983, "To Sing a Song for Palestine," "Nightline," "Intifada," "Moving Towards Home," and others. Allen Ginsberg reads poems from 1973-1971, accompanied by an accordion.
![Speech by Leila Khaled [CD]](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Speech by Leila Khaled.
![Arab Palestinian Resistance (May 1970)](images/thumbnails//30179.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Army - People's Liberation ForcesDate: 5/1970Volume Number: Vol. II No. 8Format: PeriodicalCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Monthly publication from the Palestine Liberation Army-People's Liberation Forces including short stories, book reviews, analyses and histories relating to Israeli oppression and Palestinian liberation. Includes pieces by Dr. Constantine Zurayk, Dr.Abdul Fattah Haykal.
![Arab Palestinian Resistance (June 1972)](images/thumbnails//30187.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Army - People's Liberation ForcesDate: 6/1972Volume Number: Vol. IV - No. 6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Monthly publication from the Palestine Liberation Army-People's Liberation Forces including short stories, book reviews, analyses and histories relating to Israeli oppression and Palestinian liberation. Issue includes pieces by M. T. Bujairami, Misbah Al-Budairi, Odeh Aburdeneh, S. Hasa, and Edmund Ghareeb.
![Arab Palestinian Resistance (June 1973)](images/thumbnails//30196.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Army - People's Liberation ForcesDate: 6/1973Volume Number: Vol. V - No. 6Format: 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, Joseph Ryan, Amos Lasso, and George Hishmeh.
![The Political Manifesto of the Arab Liberation Front](images/thumbnails//30199.jpg)
Publisher: Arab Liberation FrontYear: 1969Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Manifesto of Arab Liberation Front (ALF) describing their movement towards Palestinian liberation, socialism, and Arab unity.
![For a New Approach to the Israeli-Arab Conflict](images/thumbnails//30211.jpg)
Publisher: Fifth of June SocietyYear: 1967Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Book Review of Jean Paul Sartre's special issue of "Les Temps Modernes" featuring a confrontation between Arab and Israeli intellectuals. Reprinted from the New York Review of Books, August 3, 1967.
![Palestine and Arab Nationalism](images/thumbnails//30216.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Organization Research CenterDate: 1/1970Volume Number: Palestine Essay No. 3Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Exploration of the inextricable and complex relationship between Palestinian liberation and Arab nationalism.