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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
![Arab Palestinian Resistance (January 1972)](images/thumbnails//30186.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Army - People's Liberation ForcesDate: 1/1972Volume Number: Vol. IV - No. 1Format: 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, Odeh Abu Rdeneh, Khaled Fahoum, E. Dimitriyev, V. Alexeyev, Hanna Farha, and Khalid Kishtainy.
![Arab Palestinian Resistance (November 1971)](images/thumbnails//30188.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Army - People's Liberation ForcesDate: 11/1971Volume Number: Vol. III - No. 11Format: 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, Tewfik Ziad, Hakam Bala'awi, Herbert Waddams, Yousef Khatib, Arnold Toynbee, and Geoffrey Furlonge.
![Arab Palestinian Resistance (July 1973)](images/thumbnails//30195.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Army - People's Liberation ForcesDate: 7/1973Volume Number: Vol. V - No. 7Format: 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,S. Antonius, Prof. Lajpat Rai, Anni Kanafani, and Ghassan Kanafani.
![Towards Peace in Palestine (2 copies)](images/thumbnails//30209.jpg)
Publisher: Fifth of June SocietyYear: 1970Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Address delivered April 15 1970 at Central Hall Westminster, London under the sponsorship of the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding with a goal to examine "dissimilar conceptions of peace which the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs have" and analyze the particular conditions needed for peace.
![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.
![Zionist Colonialism in Palestine](images/thumbnails//30215.jpg)
Publisher: Research Center Palestine Liberation OrganizationDate: 9/1965Volume Number: Palestine Monographs 1Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Traces the rise of Zionism, the character of the Zionist state, and the Palestinian resistance to Zionist colonialism. Includes information on participation of African, Asian, and Non-Aligned states.
![Deir Yassin, 1948 Zeita, Beit Nuba and Yalu, 1967](images/thumbnails//30231.jpg)
Publisher: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, FatehFormat: CompilationCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Two articles on massacre and destruction of Arabs and and their homes by Israeli military in the villages of Deir Yassin and and Zeita.
The article on Deir Yassin appeared in the April 1969 edition of Perspective. The one on Zeita, Beit Nuba and Yala is a reprint from the June 16, 1968 edition of the Sunday Times.
![The Palestine National Liberation Movement, Al-Fateh](images/thumbnails//30238.jpg)
Publisher: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, FatehFormat: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
History and analysis of Israeli Palestinian conflict and the growth and goals of Al-Fateh as it struggles for democratic, non-sectarian Palestine.
I. Introduction
II. History of the Palestine Problem
III. The Emergence of al-Fateh
IV. Aims and Objectives of al-Fateh
V. The Position of al-Fateh vis-s-vis: The State of Israel; the Arab countries; the two superpowers; the United Nations
VI. Al-Fateh and the Future
![Palestine Discussion Papers (Vol. 2) - The 1948 War as a Crucial Juncture in the History of the Palestine Problem](images/thumbnails//30247.jpg)
Publisher: General Union of Palestine Students: Kuwaiti Graduate SocietyYear: 1971Format: MonographCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Two essays from the Second International Symposium on Palestine. The first is "The 1948 War as a Crucial Juncture in the History of the Palestine problem" by L.M.C. van der Hoeven Leonhard. The Second is "An Agenda for Research on Settler Colonialism" by Mr. George Jabbour.
Both of these papers were presented at the Second International Symposium on Palestine Feb. 13-17, 1971.
![The Imperialist Roots of Zionism](images/thumbnails//31795.jpg)
Format: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Discusses the role of Imperial Britain in promoting the Zionist colonization of Palestine. Also discusses a June 1967 strike by Arab workers in the West Bank.