The Big Damn List Of Stuff They Said You Didn't Know
Thousands and thousands of years back in three minutes:
But closer to the issue...
Five free eBooks on the colonization and ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Pluto Books Free Palestine Reading List 30-50% off
LGBT Activist Scott Long's Google Drive of Palestine Freedom Struggle Resources
(includes some of the reading material recced below)
The Cambridge UCU and Pal Society Resources List
List of Academic and Literary Books Compiled by Dr. Kiran Grewal
Academic Books (many available in Goldsmiths library)
Rosemary Sayigh (2007) The Palestinians: From Peasants to Revolutionaries, Bloomsbury
Ilan Pappé (2002)(ed) The Israel/Palestine Question, Routledge
(2006) The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, OneWorld Publications
(2011) The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel, Yale University Press
(2015) The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge, Verso Books
(2017) The Biggest Prison on earth: A history of the Occupied territories, OneWorld Publications
(2022) A History of Modern Palestine, Cambridge University Press
Rashid Khalidi (2020) The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, MacMillan
Andrew Ross (2019) Stone Men: the Palestinians who Built Israel, Verso Books
Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir (2012) The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine, Stanford University Press.
Ariella Azoulay (2011) From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950, Pluto Press
Jeff Halper (2010) An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, Pluto Press
(2015) War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification
(2021) Decolonizing Israel, Liberating Palestine: Zionism, Settler Colonialism, and the Case for One Democratic State, Pluto Press
Anthony Loewenstein (2023) The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel exports the Technology of Occupation around the World (CURRENTLY FREE TO DOWNLOAD ON VERSO)
Noura Erakat (2019) Justice for some: law and the question of Palestine, Stanford University Press
Neve Gordon (2008) Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press
Joseph Massad (2006) The persistence of the Palestinian question: essays on Zionism and the Palestinians, Routledge Edward Said (1979) The Question of Palestine, Random House
Memoirs, Novels & Poetry:
Voices from Gaza - Insaniyyat (The Society of Palestinian Anthropologists)
Letters From Gaza • Protean Magazine
Raja Shehadeh (2008) Palestinian Walks: forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Profile Books
Ghada Karmi (2009) In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story, Verso Books
Fatma Kassem (2011) Palestinian Women: Narratives, histories and gendered memory, Bloombsbury
Mourid Barghouti (2005) I saw Ramallah, Bloomsbury
Izzeldin Abuelaish (2011) I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor’s Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity, Bloomsbury
Cate Malek and Mateo Hoke (eds)(2015) Palestine Speaks: Narrative of Life under Occupation, Verso Books
The Works of Mahmoud Darwish
Human Rights Reports & Documents
Information on current International Court of Justice case on ‘Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem’
UN Commission of Inquiry Report 2022
UN Special Rapporteur Report on Apartheid 2022
Amnesty International Report on Apartheid 2022
Human Rights Watch Report on Apartheid 2021
Report of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict’ 2009 (‘The Goldstone Report’)
Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, International Court of Justice, 9 July 2004
Films
Lemon Tree (2008)
Where Should The Birds Fly (2013)
Naila and the Uprising (2017)
Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Omar (2013)
Paradise Now (2005)
5 Broken Cameras (2011)
The Gatekeepers (2012)
Foxtrot (2017)
Gaza Mon Amour (2020)
The Viewing Booth (2020)
Innocence (2022) - Innocence (2022) | IDFA Archive
The Village Under the Forest (2013)
Palestine Film Institute's films on Gaza
Abby Martin - Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin
Dan Cohen - Gaza Fights Back | MintPress News Original Documentary
‘The Promise’, directed by Peter Kosminsky (2010) (4 part miniseries on the creation of Israel)
Sources:
https://www.972mag.com/
https://jewishcurrents.org/
Jadaliyya ‘Gaza in Context’ Series
Jadaliyya “War on Palestine” podcast - The War on Palestine Podcast: Episode 1
Border Chronicle, Interview with Israeli anthropologist Jeff Halper
NGOs
B’Tselem
Breaking the Silence
Al Haq
Palestinian Feminist Collective
Yesh Din
DAWN
Amnesty International
Human Rights Watch
Gisha
Forensic Architecture
Instagram Accounts
gazangirl
mohammedelkurd
khaledbeydoun
motaz_azaiza
wizard_bisan1
etafrum
sara_mardini963
Twitter(X) Accounts
@PalStudies - Institute for Palestine Studies
@medicalaidpal
@middleeastmatters
@KenRoth - former executive director of Human Rights Watch
@YairWallach - Reader in Israel Studies at SOAS
@ PhilipProudfoot - researcher on development, humanitarianism and Arab states
@btselem - Israeli human rights documentation centre
@MairavZ - Senior Israel-Palestine Analyst at Crisis Group
@rohantalbot - Director of Advocacy and Campaigns at MedicalAidPal
@sarahleah1 - Executive Director of DAWN (democracy and human rights in MENA)
@alhaq_org - Palestinian human rights organisation
@FranceskAlbs - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territories
@Yesh_Din - Israeli human rights organisation
@sfardm - Michael Sfard, Israeli Human Rights Lawyer
@EphstainItay - Israeli international humanitarian lawyer
@saribashi - Program director for Human Rights Watch (Israeli living in Palestine)
@Gisha_Access - Israeli NGO
@_ZachFoster - Historian
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Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.
That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.
That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.
That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.
That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.
That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.
That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.
None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.
I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.
If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.
Celebrate fan work!
To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.
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