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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
![Information Papers No.8 - Altered Realities: The Palestinians Since 1967](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Association of Arab-American University GraduatesDate: 12/1973Volume Number: DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
A study of Palestine-Israel relationships, the differences between the two histories
![Bibliography Series, No. 1 - Arab-Israeli Conflict: An Annotated Bibliography](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Association of Arab-American University GraduatesDate: 2/1975Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
A bibliography with both Arab and non-Zionist perspectives on publications that deal with the Arab-Israeli confrontation.
![Radical Blankets](images/thumbnails//38154.jpg)
Multimedia zine by Palestinian poet Mohammed El-Kurd on themes of mourning, resistance, and resilience in occupied Palestine.
Contents include: Jerusalem; Bulldozers Undoing God; Flamboyance takes Spine; and RIFQA: a refugee and a destination. Likely published around 2017.
![Ruthie Gorton song on Palestine resistance:“Tal al Zaatar”](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ruthie Gorton sings solo about the oppression of the Palestinian people at the hands of Zionists. Lyrics about refugee camps, resistance, heroism and bloodshed.
![Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Warsaw Ghetto/Tal al Zaatar](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/23/1988Call Number: FI 307Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Dramatic reading that compares two struggles--the Warsaw Ghetto resistance to fascism and the Palestinian resistance to Zionist-backed invasion of the Tal al-Zaatar refugee camp in Lebanon A back-and-forth reading of poems, testimonials, and commentaries from both emphasizing the common strand of oppressed people resisting against all odds. Singing of "Zog Nit Kenymol," an anti-fascist WW 2 song at the end.
![La Pena flyer for event - "Commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising & Resistance at Tal al Zaatar"](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Flyer for event: "Commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1943 & the Resistance at Tal al Zaatar 1976." Event includes songs of Jewish and Palestinian resistance, poems, slides, and more. Sponsored by the Jewish Alliance Against Zionism.
![JAAZ as an Exclusively Jewish Organization: A Position Paper for Discussion within the CC](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Position paper outlining opposition to JAAZ being defined as a Jewish only organization.
![Information Paper No. 20: Zionism and the Problem of Palestinian Human Rights](images/thumbnails//39197.jpg)
Publisher: Association of Arab-American University GraduatesDate: 10/1976Call Number: Format: PeriodicalCollection: Anti-Zionism
Information Paper No. 20 documents the Isareli state's acts of political repression in occupied lands and investigates how and why they occur. It provides context and background on the State of Israel--its origins and developments over time.
![Mayor of Hebron Lecture on Palestine](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
The Mayor of Hebron, Palestine, speaks in the US to explain the situation in which his city was shut down by the Israeli army for 27 days. Under this lock down, families were confined to their homes, denied access to their day to day needs, telephones were disconnected, and anyone attempting to enter Hebron from Jerusalem were denied entry. The lock down was part of an occupation that saw people pushed off their land, as well as the rise of 92 settlements.
![Occupation and Resistance - American Impressions of the Intifada](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Book from Occupation and Resistance: American Impressions of the Intifada, Alternative Museum, May 5-June 30, 1990 containing essays and photographs by American artists who visited the Occupied West Bank. Focuses on conditions of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation, Palestinian resistance and the Infitada, the role of art in Palestinian resistance, and role of the U.S. in the conflict.
a. G. Roger Denson (writer and curator in NYC), Know Thine Enemy: Americans Face the Palestinian Intifada
b. Geno Rodriguez, Occupation and Resistance
c. The People of Beit Sahour, No Taxation without Representation
d. Jay Murphy, “The Intifada Makes Many Artists”
e. Ken Bloom, Bill Biggart: Photographs of Resistance
f. Noam Chomsky, The Art of Evasion: Diplomacy in the Middle East
g. Gadi Gofbarg, Divorcing Zionism
h. Derek Guthrie, Impressions
i. Karen White, an Affidavit
j. Artists in the Exhibit
k. Aritsts Biographies
l. Notes