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
![World Public Opinion and Israel](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: United Arab Republic Ministry of National Guidance State Information ServiceYear: 1968Volume Number: Series 4Format: CompilationCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Articles and letters published by the world press on the situation in the Middle East and the Israeli occupied territories.
![World Public Opinion and Israel [6]](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: United Arab Republic Ministry of National Guidance State Information ServiceVolume Number: Series 6Format: CompilationCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
A History of the Balfour Declaration as published in London by the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding in October 1967.
![World Public Opinion and the Current Aggression in the Middle East](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: United Arab Republic Ministry of National Guidance State Information ServiceVolume Number: Series 1Format: CompilationCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Articles and letters published by the world press on the situation in the Middle East and the Israeli occupied territories.
![The Democratic Progressive State in Palestine](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Format: MonographCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Palestinian youth attending the 10th International Youth Festival in Berlin, Germany write to international youth about the slogan of the democratic progressive state as a strategic goal in the national liberation struggle against Zionist colonization.
![The Arab-Israeli Dispute](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Transcript of the David Susskind Show on which Fayez Sayegh was a guest.
![War and Peace in the Middle East: The Present Situation and Future Prospects](images/thumbnails//29987.jpg)
Publisher: University Christian Center ForumYear: 1967Format: TranscriptCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Delivered as part of a lecture series on War and Peace in the Middle East.
![The ABC of the Palestine Problem: Part 1 (1896-1949)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The Arab Women's Information CommitteeFormat: MonographCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
A detailed timeline laying out the specific process and set of events that facilitated the Zionist takeover of Palestine. Includes facts, statistics, names, places, very comprehensive.
Chapter 1: The Idea of a Zionist State leads to the Balfour Declaration 1896-1917.
Chapter 2: The Years of the Promise: Jewish Development Under British Protection 1917-1939.
Chapter 3: The Years of Militant Zionism and American Support 1939-1947.
Chapter 4: The Big Takeover 1947-1949
![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.
![A Gift of Kindness - A Fond Recollection](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Format: TranscriptCollection: Anti-Zionism
Transcript of Moshe Menuhin recollecting the kindness of an Arab dentist he met as a child.
![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.