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
![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.
![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).
![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.
![Arab Palestinian Resistance (February 1972)](images/thumbnails//30183.jpg)
Publisher: Palestine Liberation Army - People's Liberation ForcesDate: 2/1972Volume Number: Vol. 4-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Topics of coverage include the British betrayal of Palestine; the Jews of Syria; Resistance Operations; China and the Middle East; Ralph Bunche and the Palestine Conflict. Also poems, books reviews, documents, questions and answers, the Palestine Question in world press, more.
![Palestine Guerrillas - Their Credibility and Effectiveness](images/thumbnails//30204.jpg)
Publisher: Georgetown Univ. Center for Strategic and International StudiesYear: 1970Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Research and analysis of the Palestinian Guerrilla movement, its structure, effectiveness, and future.
I. Are the Palestine Guerrillas Credible?
II. How Strong is the Guerrilla Movement?
III. Why the Multiplicity of the Guerrilla Organizations?
IV. The Next Phase
V. Problems and Prospects of the Next Phase
![Aims of Palestinian Resistance Movement with Regard to the Jews - Quotations from Resistance Leaders and Documents](images/thumbnails//30210.jpg)
Publisher: Fifth of June SocietyDate: 4/1970Format: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Select quotations from Palestinian resistance leaders and organizations including Al Fateh, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Sa'iqa, and The Palestine Liberation Organization.
![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.
![The Palestinian National Convenant](images/thumbnails//30230.jpg)
Publisher: Israel Information CenterDate: 5/1978Format: PamphletCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Reproduction of text of Palestinian National Covenant, used as charter of Palestine Liberation Organization published officially, in English, by the PLO, articulating goals of PLO.
![The Freedom Fighters](images/thumbnails//30237.jpg)
Publisher: The Palestine National Liberation Movement, FatehFormat: MonographCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
Documents structure of Al-Fatah organization and profiles several of its martyred members.
![Portraits from the Struggle of Palestinian Women](images/thumbnails//39208.jpg)
Publisher: General Union of Palestine Women and Unified Information - PLOCall Number: Format: BookCollection: Palestinian Revolutionary Organizations
This quadrilingual pamphlet in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish is primarily comprised of photographs and accompanying text which document the participation and integral role of women in the Palestinian revolutionary struggle.