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
![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.
![Our Socialism - Israel and Palestine: The Search for Justice](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: American SocialistsYear: 1983Volume Number: Vol. 1-6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Anti-Zionism
November/December issue of Our Socialism featuring a special report on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Includes articles on debates and contentions over Zionist policies among the Israeli population, Jewish extremism in Israel, the Palestinian struggle for national self-determination, life in the occupied West Bank, and Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. Also includes interviews with Israeli economist Ehud Ein Gil, Yesh G'vul member Gideon Spiro, Dr. Emile Touma of the Communist Party of Israel, Nayef Hawatmeh of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), and Jordanian writer Salem Nahhas.
![Begin and Co. As they Really Are](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Anthology compiling writings and opinions of Menachem Begin and his political and military associates regarding their Zionist ideology. Menachem Begin was the leader of the Zionist paramilitary group Irgun which targeted the British, Arab and Palestinian civilians leading up to the creation of Israel in 1948.
![Everything you always wanted to know about the Middle East Conflict...but were afraid to ask](images/thumbnails//29918.jpg)
Provides numerous statistics and facts regarding the persecution of Arabs by Israel and the role of Zionist propaganda in promoting the idea that Israel has sole claim to the land of Palestine.
![Israeli Paper Hits Anti-Arab Policy](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Details discrimination against Israeli Arab workers in Israel.
![The CAABU Anthology](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Council for Arab-British Understanding (CAABU)Date: 5/1979Format: CompilationCollection: Anti-Zionism
Compiles quotes on Zionism and the Israeli-Palestine conflict by numerous people and from numerous viewpoints. Topics include the origins of Zionism and early Zionist views, critics of Zionism, the establishment of the state of Israel, Israeli militarism, Israeli territorial claims in Palestine, and the relationship of Israel to the international community.
![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?"
![What "Secure Boundaries" Really Meant to Zionist Leaders Ever Since 1897](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
What "Secure Boundaries" Really Meant to Zionist Leaders Ever Since 1897: "Lebensraum" For the Wholly Transplanted, Ingathered and Newly Created "Jewish" Nation in a "Greater Eretz Israel" Empire. Article on the history of the Zionist/Israeli colonial project in Palestine from 1897 to 1967.
![Zionism: A Political Critique](images/thumbnails//29947.jpg)
Provides a history critique of Zionism and the Israeli conquest and occupation of Palestine up to the 1967 War.
![Zionists Vote Against Israeli Settlements](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Associated PressDate: 12/16/1982Volume Number: 12-DecFormat: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Photocopy of newspaper clipping about uproar around the World Zionist Congress' 1982 non-binding vote to condemn Israeli settlements in Palestine.