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Resources for the Liberation of Palestine

In light of the ongoing occupation of Palestine, ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and genocide in Gaza, resources are being compiled here in support of informing our audiences and providing them with tools to better understand the reality of Palestinian people and their lands. 

1948 is known for the mass expulsion of over 700,000 of the indigenous population of Palestine known as the 'Nakba' or catastrophe, known to Israel as the year they established their statehood. Subsequently, the consistent dispossession and destruction of Palestinian homes and villages, displacement of the Palestinian people and erasure or appropriation of their culture, has not since ceased. All Palestinians are persecuted as their mere existence is deemed an ‘existential threat’ to the colonising and nationalist Zionist project, a project that cannot succeed if the indigenous population persists. Below is a fraction of the information available to become better informed. We cannot remain silent, from applying pressure on our governments, to having the conversation with our peers, each one of us can play a role in the liberation of an oppressed people. No one is free until we are all free. Free Palestine. More here.

Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question 

Read ~ Human Rights Watch Report: Apartheid and Persecution

Watch ~ The Funambulist/Teach-In: The Architecture of Settler Colonialism in Palestine by Leopold Lambert

Watch ~ The Occupation of the American Mind

Watch ~ Isrealism

List of UN Resolutions and Votes

Palestinian Professors, Authors and Poets:

Rashid Khalidi (The 100 Years' War on Palestine, 2020

Mahmoud Darwish (The Butterfly's Burden, 2006 - The Presence of Absence, 2007)

Edward Said (Orientalism, 1978 - The Question of Palestine, 1979

Ghassan Kanafani (Men in the Sun, 1962)

Further Reading and Watching: 

Reading List from Verso an Independent Radical Publishing House

Library of 1700 books on Palestine & Israel 

List of 10 Award-Winning Palestinian Films

Israeli or Jewish Historians, Authors:

Illan Pappé (The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, 2006 - Ten Myths about Israel, 2017

Avi Shlaim (The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, 2000

Naom Chomsky (On Palestine, 2005)

Activists and Advocats:

Omar Barghouti, Co-Founder of Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) 

Mohammed El-Kurd, Poet and Journalist

Noura Erekat, Human Rights Attorney and Professor (Justice for Some, 2019)

Norman Finkelstein, Political Scientist 

Healers:

Dr. Gabor Mate 

Hala Alyan

Truthtellers in Israeli Media:

Gideon Levy, Amira Hass

More Voices:

Jewish Voices for Peace 

If Not Now

Donate:

PCRF - Palestine Children's Relief Fund

MAP - Medical Aid Palestine

Zaytoun - Plant a Tree

Listen: 

This is Palestine - by The Institute of Middle East Understanding

@Radioalhara can be listened to here

Content:

Visualizing Palestine - using data and research to communicate the Palestine Experience 

The Palestine Museum Digital Archive

Posters for Protests: 

Artists Against Apartheid - Downloads

UK-based Action:

Palestine Solidarity Campaign - Write to your MP (template included within and requires 1-2 minutes only)

Join the next demonstration