Free Palestine: Resources and Ways to Take Action!
What You Can Do!
Contact Congress:
Jewish Voice for Peace Resources to Contact Congress https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/urgent-tell-congress-to-stop-fueling-violence/
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U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) Resources to Contact Congress https://act.uscpr.org/a/callforgaza
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Pre-pay for e sims - instructional video: https://x.com/Roojieoo/status/1719571436489027715?s=20
Donate:
PDX Local: Encourage folks to follow and support the SWANA Rose Center which been tirelessly organizing to raise tens of thousands of dollars for the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund in the midst of this genocide in Palestine. You can follow the SWANA Rose Center on their instagram and/or donate to them on patreon anytime.
Medical Aid for Palestinians is on the ground in Gaza where they are working to stock hospitals with essential medications, disposables, and other healthcare supplies. https://www.map.org.uk/
Palestine Children’s Relief Fund is the primary humanitarian organization in Palestine. They deliver crucial, life-saving medical relief and humanitarian aid on the ground. https://www.pcrf.net/
Gaza Mutual Aid Collective (GMAC) is a grassroots collective committed to monetarily helping the people of Gaza, whose quality of life has been progressively deteriorating for almost two decades by the colonial air, land, and sea blockade and siege by the Zionist occupation. https://substack.com/@gazamutualaid
Palestinian Youth Movement is a transnational, independent, grassroots movement of young Palestinians in Palestine and in exile worldwide as a result of the ongoing Zionist colonization and occupation of our homeland. Our belonging to Palestine and our aspirations for justice and liberation motivate us to assume an active role as a young generation in our national struggle for the liberation of our homeland and people. Irrespective of our different political, cultural and social backgrounds, we strive to revive a tradition of pluralistic commitment toward our cause to ensure a better future, characterized by freedom and justice on a social and political level, for ourselves and subsequent generations. https://palestinianyouthmovement.com/
Learn more: Assorted resources.
The Palestinian Feminist Collective created this hyperlinked toolkit that features over 1,500 resources for learning, teaching, taking action, and participating in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
Mental Health + Somatic Resources for Palestinians in Diaspora / SWANA Folks
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/15/1176097958/un-nakba-day-explained-anniversary-palestine-israel
https://au.int/en/auhrm-project-focus-area-apartheid#:~:text=The%20Apartheid%20
https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/jps/vol36-141/vol36-141_b.pdf
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Countries/PS/SG_Report_FoM_Feb2016.pdf
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/01/1077291879/israel-apartheid-state-amnesty-international
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/17/how-israel-uses-water-to-control-west-bank-palestine
Accounts to Follow To Center Palestinians News:
Resist News Network:
@mintpress
@eye.on.palestine
@thecradlemedia
@qudsnen
@redstreamnet
@anat.international
@byplestia
Care & Resources:
@psychology_spa
@gigistherapyworld
@the.poc.therapist
@rim.abdellatif
@arabicwords_0
@decolonize_the_classroom
Mutual Aid:
@gazamutualaid
@palestinesocialfund
@medicalaidpalestine
Culture and Art:
@kharif
@bisan1210
@oldpalestine
@palpostersarchive
@documentingpalestine
@sanaamoussaofficial
@hareth_palestine
@yazanabosalamah
@bayan_abu_nahla
@zagoutheba
Content:
@electronicintifada
@metras_global
@metraswebsite
@palestine.story.48
@refugeechronicles
@yazankhanfer
@koufiyeh_hamra
@key48return
@arabsofcanada
@eid_yara
@ahmedhijazee
@motaz_azaiza
@ali_nassman
Community:
@wolpalestine
@healing.our.homeland
@samidounnetwork
Docs, Films, Podcasts.
The Unsettled Podcast. (Their whole archive is really great imho, but also this particular episode about Hamas seems relevant to the current moment.)
The Hundred Years War on Palestine - A book and audiobook available at the library. I found it to be a very useful framing of the erosion of Palestinian political power and lays out important historical context to current Palestinian demands and rights.
The Past Didn't Go Anywhere - a zine that parses Zionism from Judaism, and explains how anti-Jewish oppression operates
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) by Abby Martin
5 Broken Cameras (2011) by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi
Occupation 101: Voices of a Silenced Majority (2006) by Abdallah Omeish & Sufyan Omeish
Al-Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948 (1998) by Benny Bruner & Alexandra Jansse
The Israeli Lobby (2007) by Marije Meerman
Books & Podcasts.
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (collection of stories)
Rifqua by Mohammed El-Kurd
Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment by Mazin & Qumsiyeh
The Balfour Declaration by Bernard Regan
Ten Myths About Israel AND
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (everything by Ilan Pappe
The New Intifada
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Framing Resistance Call and Response: Reading Assata Shakur’s - Black Revolutionary Radicalism in Palestine by Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi
Freedom is the Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and The Foundations of A Movement by Angela Y. Davis
Black Power And Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color by Michael R. Fischbach
Unsettled Podcast produced by Max Freedman, Emily Bill, Asaf Calderon, Yoshi Fields, & Iliana Levinson (INCREDIBLE resource for those who don’t love to read or watch <my introduction into understanding the history back in 2017> https://open.spotify.com/show/5ASZEb4rRra8nkqVLmEtEs?si=4834ba6897494f41