Search Help

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.

Search Results

Black September Black September
Call Number: CE 339Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Jordanian government position on the Palestinian Resistance Movement in Jordan. Admits that the Jordanian government used heavy armament against Palestinian Guerillas during the Black September Massacre in 1970. Claims that the price paid to maintain law and order was low despite massive deaths and injuries. Since Black September, Palestinian Resistance fighters carry out operations against the occupation from within the Israeli occupied West Bank. The official stance of the Jordanian government with respect to the Palestinians is that they support their right to resist the occupation but they prevent actions from Jordan. Interview with Michael Adams, British correspondent successful in negotiating the release of hostages from a plane hijacking by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Adams criticizes the Jordanian repression of Palestinians during Black September. Confirms that the US provided weapons to the Jordanian government for their attacks against the Palestinian guerillas in Jordan and that the US trained Jordanian Special Forces.
Operation Wrath of God Operation Wrath of God
Call Number: CE 342Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discusses Ghassan Kanafani’s ability to damage the Zionist enemy through his work as a writer. Kanafani’s philosophy on the meaning of life and death and its significance when it is connected to self-sacrifice and for the betterment of one’s people. Exposes the violence with which Israeli Operation Wrath of God assassinated and permanently maimed Palestinians, many of whom were well-respected scholars and statesman of the Palestinian nation in exile – including Anis Sayegh, Dr. Mahmoud Hamchari and Wael Zwaiter. Zwaiter, the representative of Fatah, was an esteemed public intellectual and among “liberal” Israelis in Italy. Israel refused to allow any of its targeted victims to be buried in their Palestinian hometowns.