The Anti-Imperialist Archive

1st: Laila and Dr al-Haddad speak to Don Lemon of CNN Jan 3rd.  Sunday, January 4th, 2009. Sherif Fam interviews Dr. Moussa al-Haddad from Gaza during the Battle of al-Furqan. Dr. El-Haddad is the father of well-known Palestinian journalist, photographer and blogger Laila Al-Haddad who has been featured in Democracy Now! the Guardian, AL-Jazeera and Electronic Intifada, among other publications. T...

The Nakba: Sixty Years of Dispossession, Sixty Years of Resistance Keynote: Walid Khalidi (Co-founder of the Institute of Palestine Studies) From 1947 to 1897: From Partition to Basle. 21 & 22 Feb 2009, conference The Nakba at he Brunei Gallery - SOAS - University of London.  Palestine Society:  http://www.thenakba.co.uk/ As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks...

Journalist Jeremy Loffredo goes inside the grassroots Israeli campaign to block desperately needed aid to the besieged Gaza Strip and elicits the shockingly candid views of the Jewish Israeli nationalists manning the barricades. Setting out on a bus caravan through illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Loffredo arrives at the Kerem Shalom crossing to Gaza, filming Israeli citizens...

1st: Sherif Fam and Huwaida Arraf - 2008 Host Sherif Fam interviews Huwaida Arraf, one of 46 activists from 14 countries who recently sailed two small wooden boats (the SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty) on an epic journey to Gaza without having to go through Israel or get its permission, albeit risking being shot. They took small quantities of food and medical supplies. Read more about this trip at...

Watch the full video here: https://youtube.com/live/gnXBZ01CuI4 The Community Church of Boston: A Peace and Justice Congregation Since 1920:  http://www.communitychurchofboston.or... Professor Gerald Horne spoke with CCB about the war in Gaza. Dr. Gerald Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. Prof. Horne is the author of numerous...

As Arafat's legitimacy continues to falter, the popularity of Marwan Barghouti, another Fateh veteran, continues to rise. Known as the "leader of the Intifada," Barghouti has emerged as a key figure during the last 15 months of uprising. He is a vocal opponent of the Israeli Occupation and a watchful critic of the Palestinian Authority ­ a combination that has earned him widespread respect among P...

As the controversy over Israel's refusal to allow Arafat to make his annual pilgrimage to Bethlehem continues to simmer, the Palestinian leader can look to some sympathy from home, but not much. Just this weekend, Palestinian unity came close to dissolving this weekend as clashes between Yasir Arafat's police and Palestinian civilians left six dead and dozens injured. The violence was sparked by A...

Collective Punishment in Gaza: The Palestinian/Israeli Conflict In Context with Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and the editor of the Journal of Palestine Studies, an adviser to the Palestinian delegation at the Madrid-Washington Palestinian-Israeli negotiations of 1991-93. His most recent book is Brokers of Deceit. Chris Hedges is an American journ...

Dr. Ussama S. Makdisi delivers the 2019 Edward Said Memorial Lecture in which he unpacks the 1919 King-Crane Commission in light of its historical context and legacies for U.S. foreign policy regarding Palestine. Dr. Ussama Makdisi is Professor of History and Chancellor's Chair at the University of California Berkeley. Professor Makdisi's most recent book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame a...

Ghassan Kanafani was born in the city of Acre, Occupied Palestine in 1936. Following the Nakba in 1948, he and his family were forced into exile. Ghassan Kanafani became one of the most important Palestinian writers, a marxist, and the spokesperson for the PFLP. On July 8, 1972, Kanafani and his 17 year old niece, Lamees Najim, was murdered by a bomb planted in his car by Israel's Mossad spy agenc...

There is a long history of Zionist collaboration with the Nazis. That history has been carefully hidden from public view. Today, we have the privilege of exploring that history with Professor Mazin Qumsieh. Professor Qumsiyeh currently teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in occupied Palestine and is President of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement between People. F...

First clip is from Noor Elashi, daughter of Ghassan Elashi - video published prior to the trial in 2007. Soon after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, the largest Muslim charity in the United States - the Holy Land Foundation - was shut down, its assets frozen and five of its senior staff arrested by the FBI. The charity was founded in California in 1989 a...

Edmund Ghareeb spoke at the Palestine Center about the American media and their coverage of Palestine. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would like to reach out directly we have an email address at:  antiim...

Rachel Corrie was a 23-year-old American peace activist who was crushed to death in Gaza by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003. On Reality Asserts Itself, Craig and Cindy Corrie tell Paul Jay, "we inherited from our daughter a cause"; her experiences "completely changed our view of the whole situation." On Reality Asserts Itself, Craig and Cindy Corrie tell Paul Jay, "people find hope in the w...

Thirty years ago, after decades of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, a prospect for peace emerged. It was September 1993, and a handshake between Yitzhak Rabin, the then Israeli prime minister, and Yasser Arafat, the then leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, on the lawn of the White House raised hopes that peace would finally come to the Middle East. This two-part series trac...

Khalidi speaks on the history of occupying forces the Middle East and how it relates to the United States' invasion of Iraq. He makes several points. First, nothing that Germany and Japan occupations were accepted by the people and that Americans do not have first-hand experience with occupation, he argues that illegitimate Military occupations always produce opposition. Second, he says the people...

Audio is taken from Refaat Alareer's youtube channel - a zoom call between Mosab Abu Toha and Refaat talking about Mosab's book of poems about Gaza. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would like to reach out...

Documentary on the history, development, and ideology of the PLO. Includes interviews with PLO spokesman Rhashid Khalidy and TV director Ehud Ya'ari. As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would like to reach ou...

A lecture on the history of Palestine and its struggle to achieve a national identity. Hallaj was a member of the Palestinian National Council As always, edited by Ian Anderson (@ starsalwayslost ), with special thanks / credit to Sina Rahmani + The East is a Podcast. Robin Brickner is our social media coordinator. Our Twitter presence is @ AntiImpArchive , and if you would like to reach out direc...

The Houthis have been at the forefront of the conflict in Yemen, labelled by the UN as the world's worst humanitarian crisis in modern history. Who are the Houthis and what are their political ambitions? This documentary explores the history of the Houthis and the role they have played in resisting the Saudi-led aggression on Yemen Documentary by Ahlubayt Originals, main speaker is Kim Sharif, Yem...

There are two aspects to the Middle East problem: Israel's occupation of territories that belong to Syria and Egypt, and the uprooting of the Palestinian people. The latter is the result of Zionist settlement of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel on the national soil of the Palestinian people. This constitutes the core of the Middle East conflict. The speaker discusses the intention...

What challenges face the Palestinian educational system today in light of the daily and cumulative frustrations of a decades-long occupation? How have Palestinian academics, teachers, and higher education officials produced a population considered by many Arabs one of the most highly educated in the Middle East? What strategies does Al Quds University employ to meet the needs of its student body a...

*Disclaimer: This is a Zionist American military general!* General George Catlett Marshall, a Zionist US military official, speaks on the third anniversary of the foundation of Israel and the birthday of Dr. Chaim Weizmann. He compares the pioneers settling the United States to the people currently settling in Israel. He speaks of the United States providing military material to Israel for fightin...

In July 1983, fighting broke out in Lebanon between pro- and anti-Arafat forces. The Amal militia and anti-Arafat factions besieged the Palestinian camps in Beirut and southern Lebanon in an on-and-off onslaught that would last three years and become known as the Camps War. Al Jazeera looks at the events leading to the intifada and Arafat's formal declaration of the Palestinian state in 1988. In t...

Masters of their own Destiny is the first episode in Al Jazeera's six-part series on the history of the Palestine Liberation Organisation. It looks at the challenges encountered as Palestinians sought to wrest control of their own destiny from Arab regimes and create an independent Palestinian organisation that would lead the struggle for a national home. In the second episode of this six-part ser...