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Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

Palestine

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

Documents

Everything you always wanted to know about the Middle East Conflict...but were afraid to ask Everything you always wanted to know about the Middle East Conflict...but were afraid to ask
Publisher: Arab Information CenterYear: 1973Format: PamphletCollection: Anti-Zionism
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.
Farewell Israel Book Review Farewell Israel Book Review
Author: Allan C. BrownfieldPublisher: The LinkYear: 1978Volume Number: FallFormat: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Book Review of Farewell, Israel by Ephraim Sevela. Reviewed by Allan C. Brownfeld.
How Can the Jews Survive? - A Socialist Answer to Zionism How Can the Jews Survive? - A Socialist Answer to Zionism
Author: George NovackPublisher: Merit PublishersYear: 1969Format: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionism
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.
Israel Haunted Israel Haunted
Author: Murray PolnerFormat: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Book Review of Jews Against Zionism by Thomas A. Kolsky. Reviewed by Murray Polner.
Israeli Paper Hits Anti-Arab Policy Israeli Paper Hits Anti-Arab Policy
Publisher: Zo Haderach (Israeli Communist Party Paper)Format: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Details discrimination against Israeli Arab workers in Israel.
Israel's Bid for "Peace and Security" Israel's Bid for "Peace and Security"
Author: Arlette TessierFormat: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionism
Offers a critique of the Israeli claims regarding their desire to promote peace, especially in regards to their aggression during the 1967 War. Also includes translations of two articles published in Israeli newspapers; "Hollow Words and No Action," by David Ben Gurion, and "We are doomed to War," by General Moshe Dayan.
Issues Issues
Publisher: American Council for JudaismYear: 1961Volume Number: Vol. 15-5 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Anti-Zionism
Fall 1961 publication of Issues. Contents include: "Open Secrets of the Lavon Affair"' by Moshe Menuhin, "Reflections on Jewish Nationalism" by Phillip Sigal, "Way to Israeli-Arab Unity: A British View" by Fenner Brockway, "The Arab Refugees Still Wait" by Roger Baldwin, "Integration of the Jew into America's Three-Religion Society" by Will Herberg, "Zionism is Not What It Seems" by Clarence L. Coleman Jr., and "The Constitution and the Balfour Declaration" by Elmer Berger. Also includes an open letter to Ben-Gurion written by Mrs. Raymond Arsht, a statement by Clarence L. Coleman Jr. on U.S. Jews and Israel, and a review of the book "Prelude to Israel: An Analysis of Zionist Diplomacy" by Alan R. Taylor, reviewed by Maurice Harari.
Jew Supports Palestinians Jew Supports Palestinians
Author: Larry PolonPublisher: The Daily CalifornianDate: 5/10/1976Format: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Article on Edmund Hanauer, the executive director of the "Search for Justice and Equality in Palestine" organization and an outspoken Jewish critic of Israeli actions against Palestine.
Jewish Critics of Zionism - A Testamentary Essay with The Stifling and Smearing of a Dissenter Jewish Critics of Zionism - A Testamentary Essay with The Stifling and Smearing of a Dissenter
Author: Moshe MehuhinPublisher: Arab Information CenterYear: 1974Format: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionism
Provides a history of Zionist ideology and the numerous Jewish critics who have spoken out against Israeli actions. Also includes an essay entitled "The Stifling and Smearing of a Dissenter," on the suppression of anti-Zionist works and opinions in the United States.
Middle East Comments Middle East Comments
Publisher: The NationDate: 8/1982Format: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
From the August 7-14, 1982 issue of The Nation. Features comments on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and Israeli nationalism by Yael Lotan and Henry Schwarzchild.