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Leftist Journalism in Israel - Part 2 Leftist Journalism in Israel - Part 2
Date: 6/1/1972Call Number: CE 195Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Fawzi Asmar, an Arab Israeli author, discussing his experience with Israeli military censorship, being jailed for 15 months followed by house arrest after publishing poetry. He discusses a "leftist Zionists" trade union and political party and the organization of Palestinian Jews who were discriminated against by European Jews in Israel. Also mentions Israel's connection to apartheid South Africa.
Leftist Journalism in Israel - Out takes Leftist Journalism in Israel - Out takes
Date: 6/1/1972Call Number: CE 196Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Fawzi Asmar, an Arab Israeli author, discussing his experience with Israeli military censorship, being jailed for 15 months followed by house arrest after publishing poetry. He discusses a "leftist Zionists" trade union and political party and the organization of Palestinian Jews who were discriminated against by European Jews in Israel. Also mentions Israel's connection to apartheid South Africa.
Mike Rubin on the Israeli Left Mike Rubin on the Israeli Left
Date: 9/19/1971Call Number: CE 197Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About Israel's official Zionist policies masked with a "leftist/labor-friendly label." Also about the Israeli Communist Party splitting into the Rakah and the anti-Zionist Israeli Socialist Organization. Mentions the Wadi Salib Riots in Haifa by the Israeli Black Panthers against Israeli police brutality.
Uri L Davis Uri L Davis
Call Number: CE 210Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About leftist political organizations in Israel and their opposition to Zionism, the treatment of anti-Zionist organizers by Israeli authorities, and a call for a non-violent and direct-action rally of Palestinians for their right of return.
Ruth Blau Ruth Blau
Date: 3/1/1983Call Number: CE 211Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Widow of the founder of an ultra-orthodox and anti-Zionist Jewish sect who describes the philosophy behind Neturei Karta and how Jewish tradition and law opposes the "material" goals of Zionism.
Alfred Lilienthal Alfred Lilienthal
Call Number: CE 212Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Consultant to the American delegation to the founding conference of the UN and former State Department member speaking about his time in Palestine around 1945 and the coexistence of Jews and Arabs. Also about the US coercing nations to support the creation of the State of Israel in the UN. Truman's immediate recognition of Israel as a state against the advice of his cabinet.
Alfred Lilienthal - Part 1 Alfred Lilienthal - Part 1
Call Number: CE 213Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Consultant to the American delegation to the founding conference of the UN and former State Department member speaking about his time in Palestine around 1945 and the coexistence of Jews and Arabs. Also about the US coercing nations to support the creation of the State of Israel in the UN. Truman's immediate recognition of Israel as a state against the advice of his cabinet.
Alfred Lilienthal - Part 2 Alfred Lilienthal - Part 2
Call Number: CE 214Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Consultant to the American delegation to the founding conference of the UN and former State Department member speaking about his time in Palestine around 1945 and the coexistence of Jews and Arabs. Also about the US coercing nations to support the creation of the State of Israel in the UN. Truman's immediate recognition of Israel as a state against the advice of his cabinet.
Leila Khaled Leila Khaled
Date: 11/1/1969Call Number: CE 215Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
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 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.
Leila Khaled - Part 1 Leila Khaled - Part 1
Date: 11/1/1969Call Number: CE 216Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
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 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.