Palestine Masterlist 

Introduction to Palestine: 

Decolonize Palestine:

• Palestine 101
• Rainbow washing 
• Frequently asked questions 
• Myths 

IMEU (Institute for Middle East Understanding):

• Quick Facts - The Palestinian Nakba 
• The Nakba and Palestinian Refugees 
• The Gaza Strip

The Palestinian catastrophe (Al-Nakba)

• Al-Nakba (documentary)
• The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017 (book)
  
• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (book)
• Nakba Day: What happened in Palestine in 1948? (Article)
• The Nakba did not start or end in 1948 (Article)
  

Donations and charities: 

• Al-Shabaka
• Electronic Intifada 
• Adalah Justice Project 
• IMEU Fundraiser 
• Medical Aid for Palestinians 
• Palestine Children’s Relief Fund 
• Addameer
  
• Muslim Aid
  
• Palestine Red Crescent
  
• Gaza Mutual Aid Patreon

Books:

• A New Critical Approach to the History of Palestine
• The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
  
• Hidden Histories: Palestine and the Eastern Mediterranean
  
• The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine
  
• Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique
  
• From Haven to Conquest: Readings in Zionism and the Palestine Problem until 1948
  
• Captive Revolution - Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System
• Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History
  
• Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics
  
• Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of The Palestinians 1876-1948
  
• The Battle for Justice in Palestine Paperback
  
• Uncivil Rites: Palestine and the Limits of Academic Freedom
  
• Palestine Rising: How I survived the 1948 Deir Yasin Massacre
  
• The Transformation of Palestine: Essays on the Origin and Development of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
  
• A Land Without a People: Israel, Transfer, and the Palestinians 1949-1996
  
• The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
  
• A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples
  
• Where Now for Palestine?: The Demise of the Two-State Solution
  
• Terrorist Assemblages - Homonationalism in Queer Times
  
• Militarization and Violence against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East
  
• The one-state solution: A breakthrough for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock
  
• The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinians
  
• Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians
  
• The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
  
• Ten myths about Israel
  
• Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question
• Israel and its Palestinian Citizens - Ethnic Privileges in the Jewish State
  
• Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy
  
• Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine
  
• Palestine Hijacked 

Palestinian Culture:

• Mountain against the Sea: Essays on Palestinian Society and Culture
• Palestinian Costume
  
• Traditional Palestinian Costume: Origins and Evolution
  
• Tatreez & Tea: Embroidery and Storytelling in the Palestinian Diaspora
  
• Embroidering Identities: A Century of Palestinian Clothing (Oriental Institute Museum Publications)
  
• The Palestinian Table (Authentic Palestinian Recipes)
  
• Falastin: A Cookbook
  
• Palestine on a Plate: Memories from My Mother’s Kitchen
  
• Palestinian Social Customs and Traditions
  
• Palestinian Culture before the Nakba
  
• Tatreez & Tea (Website)
• The Traditional Clothing of Palestine
  
• The Palestinian thobe: A creative expression of national identity
• Embroidering Identities:A Century of Palestinian Clothing
  
• Palestine Traditional Costumes
• Palestine Family 
• Palestinian Costume
  
• Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, v5: Volume 5: Central and Southwest Asia
  
• Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure

Documentaries, Films, and Video Essays:

• Jenin, Jenin
• Born in Gaza
• GAZA 
  
• Wedding in Galilee 
• Omar
  
• 5 Broken Cameras
  
• OBAIDA
  
• Indigeneity, Indigenous Liberation, and Settler Colonialism (not entirely about Palestine, but an important watch for indigenous struggles worldwide - including Palestine)
  
• Edward Said - Reflections on Exile and Other Essays

Palestine Remix: 

• AL NAKBA
• Gaza Lives On
• Gaza we are coming
• Lost cities of Palestine 
• Stories from the Intifada 
• Last Shepherds of the Valley

Voices from Gaza

• Muhammad Smiry
• Najla Shawa
  
• Nour Naim
  
• Wael Al dahdouh
  
• Motaz Azaiza
  
• Ghassan Abu Sitta
  
• Refaat Alareer (murdered by Israel - 12/7/2023. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un)
• Plestia Alaqad
• Bisan Owda
  
• Ebrahem Ateef
  
• Mohammed Zaanoun
  
• Doaa Mohammad
  
• Hind Khoudary
  

Palestinian Voices, Organizations, and News 

• Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS)
• Defense for Children in Palestine
• Palestine Legal 
• Palestine Action
• Palestine Action US
  
• United Nations relief and works for Palestinian refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA)
• National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
  
• Times of Gaza
• Middle East Eye
  
• Middle East Monitor
  
• Mohammed El-Kurd
  
• Muna El-Kurd 
• Electronic Intifada 
• Dr. Yara Hawari 
• Mariam Barghouti
  
• Omar Ghraieb
  
• Steven Salaita
  
• Noura Erakat
• The Palestinian Museum N.G.
• Palestine Museum US
• Artists for Palestine UK 
• Eye on Palestine 

answering a couple questions i got on this post since i realized ppl genuinely wanna know:

tl;dr:

1. israel lets very, very little aid get into gaza. even the UN can't get in as much as they want to. funding individual families, gazan led initiatives, and mutual aid collectives operating out of gaza ensures gazans can provide for themselves and pay for the extremely expensive aid that is available.
2. with all the civil infrastructure destroyed by israel, the situation on the ground has devolved into unrestricted capitalism, driving up the price of aid (that should be free!). this makes it more urgent for people to have funding for daily survival.

the post linked above has examples of how donating to individual families can help a lot. if you want to help more than one family at a time, there are many gazan-led initiatives focusing on rebuilding their infrastructure and distributing aid fairly that are worth donating to instead of large charities that already get the majority of donations.

as i mentioned in the last post: @/careforgaza on twitter is a nonprofit started by gazans, it's been endorsed by multiple palestinian journalists.

the sameer project is a collective organized by diaspora palestinians offering emergency shelter to gazans.

ele elna elak is a project aiming to bring water, food, shelter, etc. to gazans and has been promoted by bisan owda.

and the municipality of gaza itself is fundraising to rebuild water infrastructure.

all of these organizations are active inside gaza right now and are being run by gazans. if anyone knows of other gazan-led mutual aid projects, nonprofits or charities feel free to link them in the notes! hope this helped!

long answers under the cut!

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There is like one definition of bisexuality I've heard that I think is pretty much perfect: attraction to genders like your own and genders unlike your own. No need for overly complex definitions with stupid qualifiers that are simultaneously narrow and describe something that doesn't really matter in practice or doesn't work like that. No need for splitting it into 20 other microlabels. A very concise, elegant and practical definition.