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The Nakba, Palestinians, and Organizations Working on Palestinian Issues

JVP's statement on the Nakba and Israel's 60th anniversary. Download JVP's informational fact sheets about the Nakba and Jews in the Middle East.    

General Resources

BADIL, Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights

  • Publications

http://www.badil.org/Publications/publications.htm

  • Electronic library with articles and monographs

http://www.badil.org/e-library/e-library.htm

  • List of organizations that work on Palestinian refugee issues:

http://www.badil.org/Links/links.htm

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Middle East Peacebuilding Unit

  • Discussion on Carter’s Peace Not Apartheid:

http://afsc.org/carter-discussion/

  • Fact sheets in Israel/Palestine:

http://afsc.org/israel-palestine/learn/default.htm

  • Reading list:

http://afsc.org/israel-palestine/learn/reading.htm

US Campaign to End the Occupation

  • Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Primer, by Phyllis Bennis

http://endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=52

  • Palestinian Right of Return Fact Sheet:

http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?list=type&type=52

  • Los Angeles Teaching Curricula on Israel and Palestine:

http://www.afsc.org/pacificsw/curricula-ip.htm

Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)

  • Reading list:

http://www.mecaforpeace.org/article.php?id=116

United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA):

http://www.un.org/unrwa/english.html

Films

Al Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948,Benny Brunner and Alexandra Jansse, 1998

http://www.arabfilm.com/item/2/ ; contact institutions@arabfilm.com

AFSC’s list of Israel-Palestine films:

http://afsc.org/israel-palestine/learn/films.htm

  • Frontiers of Dreams and Fears by Mai Masri/Jean Chamoun, Documentary, Palestine, 2001, 56 minutes, Arabic with English subtitles. Available at Arab Film Distribution http://www.arabfilm.com/

  • 500 Dunum on the Moon by Rachel Leah Jones, USA/France, 2002, 48 min. Arabic/Hebrew with English subtitles. Available at Arab Film Distribution http://www.arabfilm.com/

  • The Children of Ibdaa: to Create Something out of Nothing by Documentary, S. Smith Patrick, 2002, 30 min., Arabic with English subtitles. Available from the Middle East Children's Alliance http://www.mecaforpeace.org/ibdaamovie.html

  • Collecting Stories from Exile: Chicago Palestinians Remember 1948
    Video documentary; AFSC Chicago, 1998. Available from AFSC Chicago http://www.afsc.org/chicago/middle-east/resources.htm

Quaker International Affairs Representatives, AFSC

http://afsc.org/israel-palestine/learn/Film-Series.htm

Other Films:

Forgiveness by Udi Aloni

http://www.forgivenessthefilm.com/

Route 181: Fragments of Journey to Palestine-Israel, Directed by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan


Organizations