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
Zionism: A Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination
Publisher: Office of the Permanent Observer of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United NationsYear: 1976Call Number: Format: PamphletCollection: Anti-Zionism
Transcripts with notation from four statements made by Fayez Sayegh, Ph.D., representative of Kuwait, at the Third (Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural) Committee and at the General Assembly of The United Nations in 1975. After these speeches the UN considered and adopted it's historical decision in which it determined that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination. In these statements Dr. Sayegh asserts that not only is the nation of Israel and it's inherent Zionism racist in it's rampant and violent displacement of Palestinians but also in how it asserts a racial essentialism of Judaism.
"All Jews Are Zionists" The Unquestioned Assumption (with additional info)
Multi-panel flyer announcing forum and cultural evening on Jewish anti-Zionism and the Middle East crisis.
The program includes background on Zionism, perspective on anti-Semitism, Zionism in practice, and a discussion period. Flyer includes illustrations of fluctuating Palestinian borders under British Mandate, 1947 UN Partition Plan, and the wars of 1948 and 1967. Under the illustrations, pivotal moments in the battle over Palestinian land are listed chronologically. Ruthie Gorton song titled "Free Palestine Now" included on the back.