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
![How Can the Jews Survive? - A Socialist Answer to Zionism](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![The June War - In the Light of its Aftermath](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Details the June 1967 War (Six Days War), Israeli aims during the war, and the legacy of the war.
![The Arabs in Israel 1948-1966](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: The Institute for Palestine StudiesYear: 1969Format: BookCollection: Institute for Palestine Studies
This book is concerned with the living conditions of the Palestine Arabs, both Christian and Muslim, who remained in territories invaded by the Israelis in the 1948 Palestine War and held throughout the period 1948-1966.
![Quo vadis Zionist Israel](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Institute for Palestine StudiesYear: 1969Format: MonographCollection: Institute for Palestine Studies
A 1969 Postscript to The Decadence of Judaism in Our Time
![New Outlook (October 1969)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: New Outlook MagazineDate: 10/1969Volume Number: Vol. 12-8Format: PeriodicalCollection: Arab Perspectives on Palestine
Monthly periodical dedicated to issues of peace in the Middle East. Articles include Zionism, the Jews, and the Arabs, J. Majdalany, S. Flapan, G. Yatziv, P. Merhav; Arab Nationalism and Community, Warren L. Young and Policy: Drift or Mastery, Yehoshua Arieli.
![Basic Political Documents of the Armed Palestinian Resistance Movement](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Organization Research CenterYear: 1969Volume Number: Palestine Books - No. 27Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Description of "the organizational development of Palestinian resistance together with an examination of the political ideologies of the various groups and their relations with the Arab governments." Particular focus on documents of Al-Fateh, the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
![Palestine in Focus](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Organization Research CenterDate: 3/1969Volume Number: Palestine Essay No. 7Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict giving historical context to the conflict, contending Zionist narratives of this history, and placing Palestinian Arabs at the center of understanding the conflict.
![Verdict in Absentia](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Organization Research CenterDate: 8/1969Volume Number: Palestine Essay No. 11Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
A study of the Palestine case as represented to the Western World. Exploration of media and its use, potential, and manipulation within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
![Address by Al-Fateh Delegation to the Second International conference in Support of the Arab Peoples](images/thumbnails//30235.jpg)
Publisher: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, FatehDate: 1/1969Format: TranscriptCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Transcription of address by Al-Fateh Delegation to the Second International conference in Cairo January 1969 advocating for Palestinian and Arab Liberation from Israeli violence and imperialism.
![The Arabs in Israel](images/thumbnails//30212.jpg)
Publisher: Fifth of June SocietyDate: 5/1969Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Selection from full text describing conditions of Arab minority in Israel and the "network of hostile laws and military courts under which most Israeli Arabs live."
First published in Haifa in Hebrew in 1966 and was quickly suppressed by the Israeli authorities.