Colin Edwards Collection
The Freedom
Archives is
honored to contain hundreds of programs on many topics produced by
Colin
Edwards. Colin Edwards (1924–1994) was an outstanding internationalist
journalist and writer who created a huge body of work. Colin came from
Wales
and was a fervent Welsh nationalist. Following service in WW II, he became a combat correspondent in Malaya, then in
Burma, Indochina
and Korea. Later, as an independent journalist with Canadian Broadcasting, the BBC and Pacifica Radio among others. He
did important on-the-scene interviews and documentaries on
anti-imperialist national
liberation struggles in the Middle East, especially Palestine, on Asia,
particularly Vietnam, and on many other struggles, including the civil
rights, Black
Power, and student antiwar movements in the US. Edwards also worked
closely with Moshe Menuhin—a prominent Jewish anti-Zionist (and the
father of
world-famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin).
The interviews with Moshe Menuhin are in the Archives collection, as is
all of the audio work of Colin Edwards, with the exception of
interviews and
writings on Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, which reside in the National
Library of
Wales. The collection was
entrusted to the Freedom Archives by Mary Edwards, his widow, who lives
in
Oakland.
Documents
2 Documents Found
![Voice of Palestine - Colin Edwards](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/23/1973Call Number: CE 324Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KQEDProgram: Voice of PalestineCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About the 1973 OPEC oil embargo. Listeners call to ask Edwards about the history of the Zionist movement and the partition of Palestine.
Edwards distinguishes between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism and how the largely secular Palestinian Liberation Organizations works with progressive Jews to support justice for Palestinians.
![Comments on Shahak interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 341Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
References an interview with Israel Shahak on August 13, 1970 in which Shahak discusses the absurdity of the Israeli educational curriculum that indoctrinates Israeli children to believe in their superiority to non-Jews. The sentiment of Israeli superiority is also felt towards European and American Jews. Criticizes US Reform Rabbis for supporting ‘civil rights’ in the US while not really supporting the struggle for Black self determination and being racist towards Arabs in Israel.
2 Documents Found