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How does this work?
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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Palestine Revolution Excerpts Palestine Revolution Excerpts
Call Number: CE 472Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Series of actualities and portions of interviews on Palestine liberation and organizations, the refugee situation, and the positions of Arab nations.
Elsa Knight Thompson Interviews Dr. Norton Mezvinsky of the Anti-Zionist American Council on Judaism Elsa Knight Thompson Interviews Dr. Norton Mezvinsky of the Anti-Zionist American Council on Judaism
Call Number: KP 528Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsCollection: General materials
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Dr. Norton Mezvinsky of the American Council for Judaism. Dr. Mezvinsky talks about his organization, their view that nationalism and religion are separate components and details their stance against Zionism. While the American Council for Judaism is anti-zionist, they are not anti-Israel and do believe in the right to a Jewish State, but they oppose massive American emigration to Israel. Other topics such as anti-Semitism and middle east conflict are also discussed.
Rabbi Elmer Berger on KQED and Rabbi Ascher’s Answers on KQED Rabbi Elmer Berger on KQED and Rabbi Ascher’s Answers on KQED
Call Number: CE 633Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Recorded on Tuesday March 24th and Thursday March 26th Rabbi Elmer Berger takes an anti-Zionist position however clearly distinguishes between Jews and Zionists. He details the history of Jews and claims there was no previous widespread oppression in the Middle East and the persecution of Jews always was at the hands of Christians, not Muslims. He explains that Israel is simply representative of colonialism. Two days later, Rabbi Asher disputes Rabbi Elmer Berger’s points. He has an unfavorable view of Rabbi Berger and speaks about the necessity of the Jewish peoples’ survival in Israel. Sound becomes garbled towards the middle of the interview. The reel ends with a report on sewage in San Francisco.
Tragedy in the Holy: The Second Uprising Tragedy in the Holy: The Second Uprising
Call Number: V 746Format: VHSProducers: Dennis MuelerCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
This documentary addresses the core issues of land and identity - It probes the evolution of the seemingly incurable conflict in Palestine from a historic perspective that is typically unknown to American audiences.