Palestine teach-in resources

This resource base was compiled and circulated by Cambridge UCU and Cambridge PalSoc at their Gaza teach-In on 31 October 2023. It is archived here with permission from the organisers.

This resource base collates together a range of “Palestine 101” resources, including; Courses and Curricula, Maps + Visualizations, Data + Databases, Archives + Oral Histories, Human Rights Reports, Teach-In Recordings; as well as an introduction to Palestinian poetry, literature and film; and resources for organizing and facilitating.

Courses and Curricula

• Decolonize Palestine – Palestine 101 and Myths Database
• Makan’s Palestine 101
• USCPR (US Campaign for Palestinian Rights) Palestine 101
• IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding) Palestine 101 
• Gaza in Context (film)
• Zines from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
• Intro to BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) 
• Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
  • JVP First Steps to Freedom
  • on Zionism

• Institute for Palestine Studies Digital Projects 
• Al-Jazeera’s Al-Nakba Documentary Series

Maps + Visualizations 

• Visualizing Palestine
  • Palestine Open Maps
• Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestine Question (PalQuest)
  • Collaboration between the Palestinian Museum, Institute for Palestine Studies, and Visualising Palestine. Traces the history of modern Palestine from end of Ottoman era to present. 
• Decolonizer Maps

Data + Databases 

• B’Tselem (Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories)
  • B’Tselem House Demolitions Database
  • B’Tselem Fatalities Database
• UN (OCHA) Compilation of Data on Palestine
  • Includes food security, health, infrastructure, internal displacement, education
• Adalah Legal Center Database of Discriminatory Laws
• United Nations Information System on Palestine (UNISPAL)
  • Mandate and Objectives of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People
  • List of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) Resolutions on Palestine 
• Institute for Palestine Studies Congressional Monitor 
  • Every legislative initiative introduced in US Congress relevant to Palestine

Archives + Oral Histories

• Nakba Archive
• Palestine Oral History Archive
• Project 48 on the Nakba
• Institute for Palestine Studies – Palestine Social History Archives (Arabic)
• Institute for Palestine Studies – Settlement Monitor
  • Reprinted articles, statistics and maps pertaining to Israeli settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories.  

Human Rights Reports

• Human Rights Watch Report on Israeli Apartheid 
• Amnesty International Report on Israeli Apartheid
• Latest UNGA Human Rights Council Report on Human Rights Situation in Palestine and other Occupied Arab Territories

Teach-In Recordings

• Beshara Doumani, Gaza in History Teach-In, Jadaliyya 
• Norman Finkelstein, Teach-In on Gaza
• Racial Violence Hub,Emergency Teach-In, Genocide in Gaza 
• Watson Institute @ Brown University, Gaza: the Longest Siege in Modern History
• Jacobin Radio
  • Preventing a New Nakba with Bashir Abu-Manneh
  • War on Gaza with Noura Erakat & Arielle Angel 

Intro to Palestinian Poetry + Literature 

• We Teach Life, Sir – Rafeef Ziadah 
• Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature, Salma Khadra Jayyusi 
• I Saw Ramallah, Mourid Barghouti
• Salt Houses, Hala Alyan (& her poetry collections)
• Men in the Sun, Ghassan Kanafani 
  • & his other stories – English translation (original Arabic)
• The Question of Palestine, Edward Said
• The Butterfly’s Burden, Mahmoud Darwish
• We Are Here to Stay, Tawfiq Zayyad (poetry collection)
• Arabesques, Anton Shammas 
• A Balcony over the Fakihani, Liyana Badr
• Mizna: The Palestine Issue 
• A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali

Intro to Palestinian Film

• Gaza-London, Dina Hamdan (short film)
• 5 Broken Cameras, Emad Burnat (documentary film)
• Where Should the Birds Fly? Fida Qishta (documentary film)
• Tarzan Nasser + Arab Nasser (directors)
  • Gaza Mon Amour
  • Condom Lead
• Tears of Gaza, Vibeke Løkkeberg (documentary film)
• Fatenah, Ahmad Habash (short animated film)
• Habibi, Susan Youssef
• Elia Suleiman (director)
  • Divine Intervention
  • It Must Be Heaven
  • The Time that Remains

Resources for Organizing / Facilitating 

• Organizing 101 (US Campaign for Palestinian Rights)
  • https://effectivecollective.net/library-full
• International Journalists’ Network Tips for Covering Palestine
• BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Organizing Guide (Israeli Apartheid Week)
  • Responding to arguments against BDS 
• No Tech for Apartheid Organizing Toolkit 
• Birzeit University – Guidelines for Palestinian Rights Advocacy in Conformity with International Law 
• Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Legal Guide for Student Activists
• American Muslims for Palestine Campus Activism Handbook 
• Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Media Toolkit
• IMEU Framing and Messaging Kit
• Within our Lifetime Rally Toolkit   
• Palestine Digital Action Toolkit 
• Palestinian Feminist Collective Toolkit
• Amaliah Palestine Resource and Activism Guide

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