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
![New Outlook - Comparing the Incomparable: Naomi Chazan Considers Israel and South Africa](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: New Outlook MagazineYear: 1988Volume Number: Vol. 31-6Format: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Monthly periodical dedicated to issues of peace in the Middle East. Articles include a. Israel and South Africa: Some Preliminary Reflections, Naomi Chazan; b. How Will It End?, Yoram Peri; c. The Uprising, Occupation, and Israel: A Palestinian Perspective, Mahdi Abdel Hadi; d. Special Report: Physicians for Human Rights; e. The Decline of Israel’s Labor Party, Eliyahu Agres; f. The Right to Hear All Sides, Philippa Strum; g. Paths to Peace, Chaim Shur; h. Straight Talk, Gordon Fellman; i. Crossing the Line of Silence, Pat McDonnell Twair; j. The Path to a Traitor, Ghassan Kanafani.
![Williamsburg Bridges Palestine 2002](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Catalog of an art exhibition at the Williamsburg Art and Historical Center in 2002 featuring 50 Diasporan Palestinian Artists.
![Two Articles on Palestine - The Palestine Problem/The Class Nature of Israel](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Compilation of two articles offering a Marxist analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
![Jerusalem - Palestinian Weekly](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Al FajrDate: 4/3/1988Volume Number: Vol. XI - 411Format: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Periodical publishing updates on Palestinian Liberation Movements and other related news from occupied Palestine.
a. New Restrictions in Areas; b. Palestinian Press Service Closed; c. Shultz Meets Arab Press; d. Said, Abu Lughod Discuss Meeting with Schultz; e. Academics Refute Israeli Claims; f. What does Schultz want?; g. Shamir: No to Shultz Plan; h. Land Day Marked; i. Pre-Land Day
j. Berkeley Twins Jabalia; k. Women in Black; l. Land Day, Reema Hammami; m. The Price of Success, Ibrahim Kara’een
![Jerusalem - Palestinian Weekly](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Al FajrDate: 4/10/1988Volume Number: Vol. XI - 412Format: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Periodical publishing updates on Palestinian Liberation Movements and other related news. Stories include Uprisings Enters Fifth Month; The PLO must deal with the terrorism issue; BZU (Bir Zeit University) Discusses Uprising; Land Day; more.
a. Uprising Enters Fifth Month; b. Three Killed in Beita; c. Ansar 3 Condemned; d. Medics Hold Sit-In; e. Police Enter Al-Fajr Office; f. Schultz’s Mission Fail; g. Cars Arsoned; h. 2 Town arrested; i. Pastors Visit Wounded on Easter; j. Unwise Despite the Fact; k. Consider Arab Public Opinion; l. Nothing New; m. The PLO Must Deal with the Terrorism Issue; n. Open Letter to the Christian Embassy, Jerusalem, from Foreign Christians Living in the Holy Land; o. US insists on PLO concessions; p. GUPS marks Land Day; q. Birzeit University Discusses Uprising: Two Decades of Occupation: From Resistance to Uprising (March 25-26, 1988); r. The Israeli Army; s. A Profile: Dr. Ahmad Harb; t. A Liberal’s Dillemmas; u. Weekly Review; v. A Plan to Save Israel
![Jerusalem - Palestinian Weekly (4/17/88)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Al FajrDate: 4/17/1988Volume Number: Vol. XI - 413Format: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Periodical publishing updates on Palestinian Liberation Movements and other related news. Focus on the assassination of Abu Jihad; Palestinian hospitals during emergencies; interview with Noam Chomsky; more.
a. Abu Jihad Assassinated; PLO Blames Israeli Mossad; b. Situation Critical in Areas; c. Beit Ummar Protests Rampage; d. Peace is Possible; e. False Prophecy in a Promised Land; f. Interview with Noam Chomsky; g. Poverty in Israel; h. Origins of the Palestinian Flag; i. Arafat to Al-Ittihad: “We have Friends in Moscow”
![Jerusalem - Palestinian Weekly (4/24/88)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Al FajrDate: 4/24/1988Volume Number: Vol. XI - 414Format: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Periodical publishing updates on Palestinian Liberation Movements and other related news. Cover story: West Bank, Gaza Strip Closed Off and After a 36-Day-Long Curfew Situation Critical at Jalazoun. Also, Palestinians Mourn Abu Jihad; Attacks on the Press; Interview with Elias Sanbar; poetry. Main focus on the assassination of Abu Jihad.
a. West Bank, Gaza Strip Closed Off; b. After A 36-Day- Long Curfew, Situation Critical at Jalazoun; c. Palestinians Mourn Abu Jihad; d. Killing Sparks Wide Condemnations; e. Abu Jihad Buried in Damascus; f. The Life of a Fatah Founder; g. Britain Rebukes Israel; h. … And so Does Canada; i. Arab and Diaspora News; i. Israel Denounced at Oregon State; ii. Tokyo Meeting Marks Land Day; j. Interview with Elias Sanbar: IPS Promotes Better Understanding of Conflict; k. War Crimes Ad Nauseam, Review of The Palestinian Catastrophe: The 1948
Expulsion of a People from their Homeland, Michael Palumbo; l. Poems: The Sad Melody, Mahira Jaber; The Land, Mahira Jaber; An Israeli
Soldier Speaks, Edith Segal; Whoever Would Pay Me, Ian Fogerty, Ballad for a Palestinian, Ian Fogerty; m. Weekly Review
![Towards a Democratic State in Palestine](images/thumbnails//30241.jpg)
Publisher: General Union of Palestine Students: Kuwaiti Graduate SocietyYear: 1970Format: ArticleCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Article discussing and analyzing idea of "democratic, non-sectarian Palestine" as a one-state inclusive solution to Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. This article was contributed by the Palestine National Liberation Movement, Fatah, to the 2nd World Conference on Palestine held in Amman, Sept. 2-6, 1970.
![A Palestinian View](images/thumbnails//30246.jpg)
Publisher: General Union of Palestine Students: 2nd World ConferenceFormat: MonographCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Essay arguing: "struggle of indigenous Palestinian population against Zionist colonists" is the "origin and cause of the Arab-Israeli conflict as well as the key to its solution."
![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.