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Palestine Masterlist 

(this is a list of informative sources, materials, stores, charities, books, documentaries etc to better help Palestinians, learn about the Palestinian struggle, and educate yourselves on us as a people. This list will be added on to with more links as they are recommended to me.)

Introduction to Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine:

Palestine 101

Rainbow washing 

Frequently asked questions 

Myths 

Al-Nakba (documentary)

The Question of Palestine (book)

The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (book)

IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding):

Quick Facts - The Palestinian Nakba 

The Nakba and Palestinian Refugees 

The Gaza Strip

The Nakba did not start or end in 1948 (Article) 

Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (article)

Donations and charities: 

Al-Shabaka

Electronic Intifada 

Adalah Justice Project 

IMEU Fundraiser 

Medical Aid for Palestinians 

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund 

Addameer

Muslim Aid

Palestine Red Crescent

Gaza Mutual Aid Patreon

Books:

A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge

Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine

Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique

From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948

Captive Revolution - Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948

The Battle for Justice in Palestine Paperback

Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom

Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre

The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians 1949-1996

The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood

A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples

Where Now for Palestine?: The Demise of the Two-State Solution

Terrorist Assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times

Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East

The one-state solution: A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock

The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians

Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians

The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine

Ten myths about Israel

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question

Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict, New and Revised Edition

Israel and its Palestinian Citizens - Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State

Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy

Palestinian Culture:

Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture

Palestinian Costume

Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution

Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora

Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)

The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinan Recipes)

Falastin: A Cookbook

Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen

Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions

Palestinian Culture before the Nakba

Tatreez & Tea (Website)

The Traditional Clothing of Palestine

The Palestinian thobe: A creative expression of national identity

Embroidering Identities:A Century of Palestinian Clothing

Palestine Traditional Costumes

Palestine Family 

Palestinian Costume

Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, v5: Volume 5: Central and Southwest Asia

Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure

Documentaries, Films, and Video Essays:

Jenin, Jenin

Born in Gaza

GAZA 

Wedding in Galilee 

Omar

5 Broken Cameras

OBAIDA

Indigeneity, Indigenous Liberation, and Settler Colonialism (not entirely about Palestine, but an important watch for indigenous struggles worldwide - including Palestine)

Edward Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Palestine Remix: 

AL NAKBA

Gaza Lives On

Gaza we are coming

Lost cities of Palestine 

Stories from the Intifada 

Last Shepards of the Valley

Organizations and News 

Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS)

Defense for Children in Palestine

Palestine Legal 

United Nations relief and works for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA)

National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)

Times of Gaza

Middle East Eye

Middle East Monitor

Mohammed El-Kurd

Muna El-Kurd 

Electronic Intifada 

Dr. Yara Hawari 

Mariam Barghouti

Omar Ghraieb

Steven Salaita

Noura Erakat

The Palestinian Museum N.G.

Palestine Museum US

Artists for Palestine UK 

Muhammad Smiry

Eye on Palestine

[hycinthrt]

people are calling what happened today in gaza “the flour massacre”

the flour massacre

these people just wanted to get food for their families, something as basic as flour, one of the things that the very core of humanity is built on, and israel used it as a trap to murder them in cold blood

evil is not enough of a word. there is not a word to describe what they are doing to palestine. they are bleeding her out, they are torturing her and crushing her and hoping that nothing is left to remember her by when they are done. how can anyone stand and watch what is being done with indifference? how can you watch this level of human suffering, this crime against life and feel nothing, do nothing

[niiiaamh]

Depression be damned

[niiiaamh]

KEEP TALKING ABOUT PALESTINE! JOIN IN PROTESTS AND FOLLOW THROUGH CALLS TO ACTION! ENACT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE! ANYTHING FOR A FREE PALESTINE AND AN END TO THE SIEGE IN GAZA

[niiiaamh]

[heritageposts]

if you support israel right now, you're supporting the extermination of the palestinian people.

it really is that simple.

this isn't a 'complicated conflict,' it isn't a situation that 'requires nuance,' it's not a 'geopolitical event' that requires us to condemn the 'bad actors' on 'both sides.'

it's a genocide.

there is no 'nuance' to be had here. it's a genocide, committed by the israeli state against the palestinian people, and it's happening right now as we speak. you don't have to infer anything: israel has openly, with next to no pushback from so-called liberal democracies, cut off gaza's access to water, food and electricity. that's more than two million palestinians denied even the basic necessities for life. a million of them, children.

what is that, if not a genocide?

and that's only the latest escalation. we could go all day, listing the atrocities the palestinian people have been subjected to. the killings, the beatings, the children sexually abused in detention center, all the hospitals and ambulances being blown up, videos of palestinians being heckled by settlers as they're driven from their homes, israelis gathering on hilltops to cheer as their military drops bombs on gaza...

but all westerns want to talk about, is hamas.

because the murder of palestinians by the IDF is status quo; it doesn't affect them. what's one more dead palestinian but a statistic? but if hamas has killed a handful of israelis — if they've go as far as to even kill babies — then that justifies the extermination of two million palestinians, children and infants included.

westerns will even say that the palestinians brought it on themselves; that they should have know that a drop of israeli blood requires a river in return.

and just so we're clear, you don't have to like hamas. but when you equate hamas with the IDF, when you derail every conversation by demanding a condemnation of 'both sides,' or when you, god forbid, agree that israel is justified in dismantling hamas — which, as israel themselves have outlined, will involve the complete destruction of gaza and the murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians — then either wake up, or own up to the fact that you're a participant in the extermination of the palestinian people.

do you think i'm being harsh? then imagine how it's like living under constant aerial bombardment. with no food, no water, no electricity. constant air-raid sirens. a bomb, dropping every minute. never knowing a moment a peace, always wondering if today is going to be your last day, if you and your family are still going to be here tomorrow.

could you stomach living in gaza, for even a day? i doubt it.

and still, now, on the eve of what might be the ground invasion of gaza — with one million palestinians being told to flee, with nowhere to go — i'm getting messages from people who demand my sympathy... for israel.

well, you're not getting it.

i'm not even humoring your hand-wringing.

if you live in israel, and you're one of the ones who've turned a blind-eye to the suffering of the palestinian people, if you've fought for the IDF or tacitly supported them, if you've callously called upon the memory of the holocaust thinking the death and suffering of your ancestors would wash the blood of your own hands....

then yeah, i think you deserve every single hamas rocked lobbed at you and so much more.

[niiiaamh]

I cannot stop crying for the people, families, generations, disabled, schools, hospitals, culture, and life itself in Gaza

I cannot stop crying for the way Israel continues its violence, its genocide, its apartheid, its colonialism over Palestine

I can't stop crying we are witnessing a second WORSENING NAKBA while living in a state that's the most complicit, business as usual

I can't stop crying over the evil of millions being opening accepting of genocide without a bat of an eye

I can't stop crying and my heart, my voice, my solidarity will forever go to Palestine

[beljar]

Word-of-mouth testimonies from our colonizers are awarded front-page headlines, breaking news, and mass hysteria. Meanwhile, video footage of our children being slaughtered, being bombarded, being pulled out of the rubble, will never receive the same attention. Even footage of Israelis urinating and stomping on the dead bodies of Palestinians did not receive any of this media coverage.

Western newspapers work overtime to elicit sympathy for settlers while painting Palestinians as terrorists. The Palestinians whose very lands these settlers have stolen and now live on. Journalists spread this misinformation, often willingly, to decontextualize decades and decades of brutality and siege. Western newspapers will not tell you about the massacres committed by the Israeli military.

Zionism is always justifiable in their eyes. Settlers can kill, kidnap and steal, as well as institutionally monopolize violence as if it's business as usual. But dare a Palestinian resist? It's clear that the international community. And the Western world has no problem with violence, only a problem with the perpetrators of that violence.

Who gets to monopolize? Who has the authority to enact that violence? In addition to all of this, there is almost no international reporters on the ground in the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, the Palestinians in the Besie's enclave have to deal with not only there not being any electricity because Israelis have targeted electricity, but being personally targeted by airstrikes.

..Seven Palestinian journalists have been murdered by Israeli airstrikes since the beginning of the onslaught on the Gaza Strip. This very erasure is part of the reason why Palestinians resist. Mass media is preemptively conditioning you to write a blank check for Israeli genocide.

This is straight out of the playbook. They make up a lie. There is no evidence for it. Journalists spread it like wildfire. Diplomats and politics repeat it. Then a narrative is made. The general public believes it, the harm is done, and they might later admit that it never happened.

But, you do not have to be complicit in this. You do not have to justify their genocide. They are readying to wipe Gaza off of the face of the earth. And the time to mobilize support for the Palestinian cause is now.

Mohammed El-Kurd, Don't be complicit in genocide, October 11, 2023

[beljar]

The last paradox is that the tale of Palestine from the beginning until today is a simple story of colonialism and dispossession, yet the world treats it as a multifaceted and complex story—hard to understand and even harder to solve. Indeed, the story of Palestine has been told before: European settlers coming to a foreign land, settling there, and either committing genocide against or expelling the indigenous people. The Zionists have not invented anything new in this respect.

Noam Chomsky, from On Palestine, March 23, 2015

[didion-official]

But Israel succeeded nonetheless, with the help of its allies everywhere, in building a multilayered explanation that is so complex that only Israel can understand it. Any interference from the outside world is immediately castigated as naive at best or anti-Semitic at worst.

— Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

[levantine-deactivated20220812]

“I never lived in Palestine but it lives within me”

📸 @mohammadalfaraj

[probablyasocialecologist]

Israel: White Phosphorus Used in Gaza, Lebanon

Israel’s use of white phosphorus in military operations in Gaza and Lebanon puts civilians at risk of serious and long-term injuries, Human

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

From Two poems by Mahmoud Darwish

[criptochecca]

I think learning about the war propaganda behind the invasion of Iraq should be mandatory for everyone. Learn how the West lies and how it manufactures consent.

[zvaigzdelasas]

Nayirah testimony - Wikipedia

Exhibit A

[criptochecca]

‘Blot’ on Powell’s record: Lies to the UN about Iraq’s weapons

Powell used his reputation to help convince the world Saddam Hussein was an imminent threat, but the US intel was false.

Exhibit B

[moonlayl]

Now here's from the reporter that wrote that lie:

X

SHARE THIS. THE PROPAGANDA IS EVERYWHERE AND ITS FALSE AND THERE IS LITERALLY ZERO PROOF OUTSIDE OF A FEW SOLDIER'S MOUTHS

IF IT REALLY HAPPENED THE PICTURES WOULD BE EVERYWHERE. THERE IS NOT ONE VIDEO OR PHOTO FOR EVIDENCE. NOTHING.

YET SO MANY COUNTRIES AND POLITICIANS ALREADY STARTED USING THIS LIE.

SHARE THIS. SPREAD IT.

[lanaflowerz]

I'm gonna tell you a secret.....

[bloglikeanegyptian]

you would think after a lifetime of hearing the most powerful politicians in the world, the biggest media outlets in the world, and the smallest and most despicable human beings in the world talk about palestinians (and by extension, arabs, and by extension, muslims) like savage, sub-human animals i would be used to it but im not. the unfairness of it all. to be colonized, occupied, imprisoned and killed for so long that it is a matter on record, it is par on course, its mowing the lawn, and still considered the villain. this is why the palestinian cause has never died and can never die. because once you understand the injustice of it, once you truly understand it and bear witness to it, it scars you.

[txttletale]

the thing about israel and palestine is that only one side has the power to end the conflict. israel could end the occupation, end the blockade, stop the settlements, stop the apartheid, and let palestinians return to their stolen homes. an end to israeli violence--to israeli occupation of palestine--would mean an end to the conflict. an end to palestinian violence, on the other hand, would see the bombings and evictions and ethnic cleansing continue unabated. so when someone calls for "an end to violence on both sides" remember that only one side can end 'the violence'--all the other can do is roll over and die.