PalSoc Gaza Teach In Resources

Palestine 101 Resources

Courses and Curricula

Maps + Visualizations

Data + Databases

Archives + Oral Histories

Human Rights Reports

Teach-In Recordings

Intro to Palestinian Poetry, Literature, + Film

Poetry + Literature

Film

Resources for Organizing / Facilitating

Palestine 101 Resources 

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
• Visualizing Palestine 101 (resource + educational hub)
• Gaza in Context (film)
• Zines from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
• Middle East Children’s Alliance Teach Palestine curriculum
• 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 Al-Nakba Documentary Series
• Al-Shabaka

• Grounding the Current Moment Syllabus
• Rethinking Palestine Podcast

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. 

• Palestine Poster Project Archives

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, Film, + Literature

Poetry + Literature

• We Teach Life, Sir – Rafeef Ziadah (spoken word poem)
• Anthology of Modern Palestinian Literature, Salma Khadra Jayyusi
• I Saw Ramallah, Mourid Barghouti (novel)
• Salt Houses, Hala Alyan (& her poetry collections)
• Men in the Sun, Ghassan Kanafani (short stories)

• & his other stories - English translation (original Arabic)

• The Question of Palestine, Edward Said (nonfiction)

• After the Last Sky (collective memoir + photographs)

• The Butterfly’s Burden, Mahmoud Darwish (poetry)
• We Are Here to Stay, Tawfiq Zayyad (poetry collection)
• Arabesques, Anton Shammas (novel)
• A Balcony over the Fakihani, Liyana Badr (novel)
• The Drone Eats With Me: A Gaza Diary, Atef Abu Seif (memoir)
• Drinking the Sea at Gaza, Amira Hass (nonfiction reporting)
• Mizna: The Palestine Issue (collection)
• The Book of Gaza: A City in Short Fiction (collection)
• Gaza Writes Back:Short Stories from Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine (collection)
• A Child in Palestine: The Cartoons of Naji al-Ali (political cartoons)
• Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine, Mohammad Sabaaneh (political cartoons)
• Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha
• Nasser Rabah (poet)

• Heart with Windows but No Doors
• In the Endless War

• Stories Under Occupation: And Other Plays from Palestine

• Including The Gaza Monologues

• The Gaza Kitchen, Laila El-Haddad & Maggie Schmitt (cookbook with stories)

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