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
![Information Papers No. 14 - The Development of Palestinian Resistance](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Association of Arab-American University Graduates Inc.Date: 6/1974Volume Number: JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
A history of Palestinian Arab resistance to colonialism, beginning in 1882 to 1971
![Information Papers No.18 - Arab Peace-Efforts and the Solution of the Arab-Israeli Problem](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Association of Arab-American University GraduatesDate: 2/1976Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
A close study of the history of peace efforts and the search for a solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, covering three periods: 1920-1948; 1948-1967; 1967-present
![Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/4/1980Call Number: KP 210Format: CassetteProducers: Anne GonskiProgram: KPFACollection: Anti-Zionism
Four members of JAAZ are interviewed on KPFA radio to make the distinction between of what is Zionism and being Jewish and the relation of anti-Semitism. There is also a discussion of Israel's economic motives for settlement of the occupied territories in Palestine, U.S. interests in the Middle East, racism and sexism within Israel itself, and solutions to the conflict.
![Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Internal Meeting](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
JAAZ members pose many questions in order to clarify and discuss their purpose, focus, actions, and general political direction. There is frank examination of specific stances on Zionism in regards to a Jewish state and Palestine and the occupation of the West Bank. This is Part 1 of 2 -- see KP 212.
![Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Internal Meeting](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
JAAZ members pose many questions in order to clarify and discuss their purpose, focus, actions, and general political direction. There is frank examination of specific stances on Zionism in regards to a Jewish state and Palestine and the occupation of the West Bank. Consideration of the relation of anti-Semitism in Zionism and role Jews in the U.S. can play in assisting with the Palestinian right to self-determination. This is Part 2 of 2 -- see KP 211.
![Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Study](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
JAAZ members' educational workshop on Middle Eastern culture within the broader context of Israel. Covers the strategic history of oil economics in relations to U.S. policy. In-depth examination of women historically in Islamic culture plus current issues and movement. Includes discussion of genital mutilation. Part 1 of 2 - see KP 214.
![Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Study](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
JAAZ members' educational workshop on Middle Eastern culture within the broader context of Israel. In-depth feminist analysis and the roles of women in both Israel and Palestine-also includes other discussion of class struggles and racism within that context. Some of the early history of Jewish and Islamic relations. Part 2 of 2 - see KP 213.
![The Ugly Truth about the ADL](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Provides an overview of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Order of B'nai B'rith. Argues that the ADL is only a nominally Jewish organization and ties them to various nefarious activities such as financial fraud, money laundering and the distribution of drugs in the U.S., as well as groups such as the KKK.
![Zionism - The Forgotten Apartheid](images/thumbnails//30263.jpg)
Publisher: Al-Talib and AlKalimaDate: 12/2001Volume Number: Special EditionFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Anti-Zionism
A collaboration between two news magazines focusing on giving the reader a brief understanding of Zionism and its effects. Includes facts, a timeline, an expose on torture, massacres and human rights violations. Also contains information on foreign aid, Israel's international war crimes and more. Published by the collective staffs of Al-Talib (UCLA) and Alkalima (UC-Irvine).
![Zionism: A Form of Racism and Racial Discrimination](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.