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Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

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

Subcollections

Documents

Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Study on Zionism #1 Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Study on Zionism #1
Date: 7/6/1978Call Number: KP 217Format: Cass A & BCollection: Anti-Zionism
JAAZ members' internal educational workshop on Zionism and the state of Israel. Examines historical perspectives of Zionism beginning with pre WWII Palestine. Discussion of the role of propaganda. Touches on the relation between immigration, settlement, colonization, and the occupied territories.
Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Study on Zionism #2 Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Study on Zionism #2
Date: 7/6/1978Call Number: KP 218AFormat: Cass ACollection: Anti-Zionism
JAAZ members' internal educational workshop on Zionism and the state of Israel. Questions the role of American Zionists, discusses immigration as necessary for territorial expansion, and the examination of cultural and racist myths of both Arabs and Jews.
Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Study on Jewish History Jewish Alliance Against Zionism (JAAZ) Study on Jewish History
Date: 3/27/1980Call Number: KP 219Format: CassetteCollection: Anti-Zionism
JAAZ members' internal educational workshop on Jewish history from around the time of Christ until the early Middle Ages.
The Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews - Part I: Prejudice and Prevarication and Part II: Structure of the Legal Ediface The Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews - Part I: Prejudice and Prevarication and Part II: Structure of the Legal Ediface
Author: Dr. Israel ShakakPublisher: Khamsin 8Format: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Explores the history of the term "Jew" and the notion Jewish identity in regards to biblical writings and other religious texts.
The Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews - Part III: Social Structure of Classical Judaism The Jewish religion and its attitude to non-Jews - Part III: Social Structure of Classical Judaism
Author: Dr. Israel ShakakPublisher: Khamsin 8Format: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Continuation of article by Israel Shahak on the history of Judaism and Jewish identity.
The Ugly Truth about the ADL The Ugly Truth about the ADL
Publisher: Executive Intelligence ReviewYear: 1992Format: MonographCollection: Anti-Zionism
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 and the Ideological Manipulation of Christian Groups Zionism and the Ideological Manipulation of Christian Groups
Author: Rosemary Radford RuetherPublisher: American-Arab Affairs CouncilYear: 1987Volume Number: 22 - FallFormat: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Reprint of original article, "Zionism and the Ideological Manipulation of Christian Groups," by Rosemary Radford Ruether. Article links theories of Zionism in Christian contexts to Palestinian oppression. Based on a talk given at the Palestinian Human Rights Campaign Conference, Washington DC, March, 1987.
Palestine and the Bible Palestine and the Bible
Author: Rev. L Humphrey Waltz et alPublisher: The Institute for Palestine StudiesFormat: MonographCollection: Institute for Palestine Studies
Contents include: Zionists and the Bible; Israel- Fulfillment of Bibical Prophecy?; The Israel of God and the New Testament; The Meaning of Israel to a Christian; the Promises of God
Information Papers No. 11 - Arabs and Jews: Possibility of Concord Information Papers No. 11 - Arabs and Jews: Possibility of Concord
Author: Edward Said et alPublisher: Association of Arab-American University Graduates Inc.Date: 1/1974Volume Number: JanuaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Association of Arab-American University Graduates
Essays by Daniel Berrigan, Edward Said and Israel Shahak on reaching peace between Arabs and Jews
Unholy Alliance: Christian Fundamentalism and the Israeli State Unholy Alliance: Christian Fundamentalism and the Israeli State
Author: Alan DehmerPublisher: American-Arab Anti-Discrimination CommitteeDate: 4/1984Volume Number: No. 16Format: ArticleCollection: Anti-Zionism
Extensive article on the growth of the American Fundamentalist Christian movement and their ardent support for the state of Israel. Specifically discusses the rise of television evangelicalism (televangelists), the Fundamentalist Christian movement's alliance with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and anti-Arab sentiments present in the evangelical movement.