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
![Irish Soldiers Executed in Lebanon](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 153Format: 1/4 1 7/8 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About two disarmed Irish UNIFIL soldiers being executed by an Israeli-supported private army. Includes background information on the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Israel's roots in right-wing terrorism, and references to an interview with Mary Carac of the World Lebanese Cultural Union.
![UN - Emergency Session - Six-Day War](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
The fifth emergency special session of the UN General Assembly called by the USSR in response to Israeli military aggression and the acquisition of land from Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.
![Assassination of Said Hammami](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/15/1978Call Number: CE 261Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFACollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Furaha Hayati interviews Colin Edwards about the January 4 assassination of the representative of the PLO to the United Kingdom.
Denounces the mass media for blaming the assassination on Palestinian liberation organizations and instead says that Israel killed Hammami to destroy relations between George Habash of the PFLP and Yassar Arafat of Al Fateh.
Includes a list of all Palestinian resistance members killed by Israel.
![Answer to Port Said Atrocity Charges](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/8/1956Call Number: CE 266Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Colin Edwards refutes allegations made by the world affairs editor of the National Guardian, Tabitha Bertrand, that the British massacred civilians during the invasion of Port Said in 1956.
![Answer to Port Said Atrocity Charges](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/8/1956Call Number: CE 267Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Colin Edwards refutes allegations made by the world affairs editor of the National Guardian, Tabitha Bertrand, that the British massacred civilians during the invasion of Port Said in 1956.
Includes a request to the British War Office asking for evidence refuting the allegations made against Britain.
![Dr Fayez Sayegh - Arab Intellectuals](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/12/1968Call Number: CE 268Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Professor and Senior Consultant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait discusses the role of Arab intellectuals from the late 1800's to the present. About Arab students and artists, Arab influence around the world, the rejection of Western culture to rediscover and recreate Arab culture. Also the conflict between settler-colonial Israel and Palestine and how the foundations of Zionism call for the expulsion of Arabs.
![Colonel Yaacov Nash - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/1/1960Call Number: CE 299Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About the extradition of Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and his subsequent trial in Israel. Colonel Nash denies claims that Israel extradited him.
Also about the structure and policies of the Israeli police force and the Frontier Guard. Questions about Israeli police conducting electronic surveillance and the integration of Zionist terrorist groups from the British Mandate period into the official Israeli army and police forces.
![Colonel Yaacov Nash - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/1/1960Call Number: CE 300Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About the extradition of Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and his subsequent trial in Israel. Colonel Nash denies claims that Israel extradited him.
Also about the structure and policies of the Israeli police force and the Frontier Guard. Questions about Israeli police conducting electronic surveillance and the integration of Zionist terrorist groups from the British Mandate period into the official Israeli army and police forces.
![Colonel Yaacov Nash Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/1/1960Call Number: CE 301Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About the extradition of Adolf Eichmann from Argentina and his subsequent trial in Israel. Colonel Nash denies claims that Israel extradited him.
Also about the structure and policies of the Israeli police force and the Frontier Guard. Questions about Israeli police conducting electronic surveillance and the integration of Zionist terrorist groups from the British Mandate period into the official Israeli army and police forces.
Also on Israel's relations with Argentina.
Nancy Nolan Abu Haidar - Palestinians distinguish between Zionists and Jews and Al Fateh's operations as a clandestine organization.
![Tawfiq Zayyad - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/14/1976Call Number: CE 308Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Mayor of Nazareth and Rakah member of the Knesset describes the segregation of Nazareth into an Arab quarter and a Zionist one, the expulsion of 100,000 Palestinians the expropriation of Palestinian homes and restrictions against Palestinians buying land. Describes the militant campaigns by Zionist forces to rid Galilee, Ikrit, and Nazareth of Arabs and how refugees live a few kilometers from their original homes.
Explains so-called free elections in Israel - Israeli ministers visit Nazareth and threaten to withhold Israeli funding if a pro-PLO candidate is elected. Attempts to delegitimize Arabs and communists from political process and preventing them from teaching, working in the government, traveling and frequent arrests.