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There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

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Norman Finkelstein - An Issue of Justice: Origins of the Israel/Palestine Conflict Norman Finkelstein - An Issue of Justice: Origins of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 406Format: CDProducers: AK PressCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Finkelstein lays out the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict with clarity and passion, arguing that any other similar conflict would be perfectly understood, yet this one exists beneath a blanket of ideological fog. He cuts through the fog with indisputable historical facts, optimistic that the struggle is winnable, and that it is simply an issue of justice.
Israeli Occupation Israeli Occupation
Date: 6/8/1970Call Number: CD 705Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: Israeli OccupationCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Accounts of atrocities committed against Arabs, Christians, and Palestinians since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1948. Includes graphic descriptions of torture in Israeli prisons, mass arrests of Arab men, collective punishment of Arab villages, demolition of homes, curfews in occupied territories, IDF looting private homes and businesses, Israeli refusal to allow humanitarian aid into refugee camps and occupied zones, indiscriminate killings, bombings of villages.
Leila Khaled Leila Khaled
Date: 11/1/1969Call Number: CD 707Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Khaled details the events of August 29, 1969 when she and another member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked a plane on its way from Rome to Tel Aviv. She explains the PFLP strategy to target US imperialism internationally by preventing tourism and weapons from entering occupied Palestine. Includes detail about her house arrest and later release in Syria, her family's violent expulsion from Haifa in 1948, teaching for six years in Kuwait, the socialist ideology of the PFLP, the prominence of women in leadership, and the cooperation of Palestinian resistance movements operating in the occupied territories. Also criticizes Israel for masquerading as a socialist state, mentions the CIA's attempted assassinations of Palestinian revolutionaries, torture in Israeli prisons and Israeli targeted killings of Palestinians.
The Palestinian Revolution - Part 1 & 2 The Palestinian Revolution - Part 1 & 2
Date: 4/1/1970Call Number: CD 709Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: The Palestinian RevolutionCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
An introduction to the history of Zionism in Palestine. Interviews with officials from Palestinian revolutionary organizations about relations among their organizations their goals, philosophies, and political, social, and military activities.
The Palestinian Revolution - Part 3 The Palestinian Revolution - Part 3
Date: 4/1/1970Call Number: CD 710Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: The Palestinian RevolutionCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
An introduction to the history of Zionism in Palestine. Interviews with officials from Palestinian revolutionary organizations about relations among their organizations their goals, philosophies, and political, social, and military activities.
The Action Women of Beirut - Part 2 The Action Women of Beirut - Part 2
Date: 11/1/1969Call Number: CD 897Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: The Action Women of BeirutCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Interviews with North American women active in pro-Palestinian information organizations in Beirut, Lebanon. Conducted two years after June 1967 war. Eyewitness accounts of Jerusalem in 1967, Israeli army home looting, car theft, destruction of villages, mass assassinations, and reports from Israeli socialist organization on assassinations, mass graves, bodies floating in the Jordan River as a result of Israeli army repression. Mentions formation of “Americans for Justice in the Middle East,” which publishes a newsletter on Palestinian resistance and conditions in occupied territories to counter Zionist propaganda, an allied Arab Women’s organization the 5th of June Society, Institute for Palestine Studies, and Palestine Research Center (associated with PLO).
The Palestinian Revolution - Part 1 & 2 The Palestinian Revolution - Part 1 & 2
Date: 4/1/1970Call Number: CD 709Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: The Palestinian RevolutionCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
An introduction to the history of Zionism in Palestine. Interviews with officials from Palestinian revolutionary organizations about relations among their organizations their goals, philosophies, and political, social, and military activities.