For over 75 years, most information about the Palestinian side in this struggle over indigenous Palestine land has been censored by the corporate media in the United States. Here is a massive list of resources produced by the Palestinian Youth Movement.
All the Walls Will Fall: 2023 Palestine Liberation Resource List
Curated by the Popular University of the Palestinian Youth Movement
What the mainstream English-language media refers to as the ‘Gaza-Israel’ war is, in reality, the struggle of a colonized people for liberation. This struggle did not begin on October 7th, when Palestinians tore down the cement walls, caging them in the Gaza Strip. In reality, it began over 100 years ago. This historic moment comes as a response to the decades of ongoing land theft, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing carried out by Israel, the Zionist movement globally, and Western imperialist states.
The Palestinian struggle is a revolutionary one: a struggle between the colonizer and the colonized, the oppressor and the oppressed—a struggle that will remain ongoing until the siege is broken until all prisoners are freed, until Palestine is liberated from the river to the sea, and until all refugees have returned home. The steadfast Palestinian people of Gaza—who have been living under a suffocating and brutal 16-year-long blockade—are correcting the path of history and showing the world that, indeed, all the walls will fall.
In response, the Zionist state and its Western backers have openly proclaimed their plan to annihilate the Palestinian population of Gaza, undertaking a scorched earth policy that aims to genocide 2.2 million Palestinians.
Along with this, they waged a media disinformation and repression campaign that weaponized anti-Arab and anti-Muslim tropes and messaging. These circulating lies incited hatred, greenlighting the brutal violence we’re witnessing against the Palestinian people.
The Palestinian Youth Movement has created this resource to provide an introductory-level breakdown of the events of October 2023 and the history that birthed it. We have included four sections: 1) accessible primers and analysis, such as interviews, podcasts, videos, and short articles; 2) materials about the conditions of colonial occupation and siege on Gaza; 3) resources on the theory and logic of resistance to Zionist colonialism, including the objectives of returning home and liberating colonized lands, the capture of prisoners of war in order to free Palestinian prisoners, and the right of an occupied people to resist; 4) resources on misinformation tactics about the Palestinian struggle that is pervasive in mainstream imperialist media, along with resources to combat these myths. If you want general information about the history of Palestinian resistance, refer to our complementary resource, “Our History of Popular Resistance.”
Note: This is a live resource that we will continually be updating. We included a number of texts in Arabic that offer analysis and context for this battle that is rarely offered in English media outlets. Even if you do not read Arabic, we recommend copy-pasting the texts in Arabic into Google Translate or another translation service. The translation, while imperfect, will provide you with an overall sense of the arguments and main points being made.
Table of Contents
Primers, Explanations, and Analysis…………………………………………………………
Theory and Logic of Palestinian Resistance and Struggle……………………………..
On The Right to Resist……………………………………………………………………
The Release of Our Prisoners…………………………………………………………
The Right of Return………………………………………………………………………
The Battle Over the Narrative……………………………………………………………………
Atrocity Propaganda and Misinformation………………………………………………
Israel’s Propaganda Strategy……………………………………………………………
Addressing Misinformation and Myths…………………………………………………
Media to Keep Up With Events on the Ground……………………………………
Primers, Explanations and Analysis (START HERE):
- Breakthrough News, “Palestinian Counter-offensive was decades in the making” (2023)
- Palestine Committee Zurich, The 2023 Gaza Assault: An Interview (2023)
- Asma Barakat, “Brief: Al-Aqsa Flood,” Institute for Palestine Studies (2023)
- Mohammed Hisam, Gaza’s Fight for Freedom, Katie Halper Show (2023)
- Red Nation, A Nightmare and a Dream: Palestinians Rise Up with Ali Abunimah (2023)
- Guerilla History, Palestinian Resistance vs. The Zionist Project with Max Ajl and Patrick Higgins (2023)
- قوى محور المقاومة تدرس الخطط لنصرة غزة ومقاومة فلسطين: إسرائيل تستنجد بأميركا عسكرياً ضد حزب الله” ابراهيم الأمين
- منتهى الوقاحة… منتهى البربريّة” وسام رفيدي”
- Electronic Intifada, Al-Aqsa Flood, Gaza Fights Back: Al-Aqsa Flood Shakes the World (2023)
- The Cradle, The Flood from Gaza (2023)
- Joseph Massad, “Just another battle or the Palestinian war of liberation?” (2023)
- “Will Siege on Gaza Ignite Wider War? Israel Cuts Food & Water, Biden Pledges Endless Support” (2023)
- The Palestinian Youth Movement, “The First Week” (2023)
- The Palestinian Youth Movement, “The Second Week” (2023)
Conditions in Gaza:
- Factsheet Gaza Blockade, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs occupied Palestinian territory (2022)
- Al-Jazeera, “Gaza Strip: A Beginner’s Guide to an enclave under blockade” (2021)
- “How Israel Made Gaza Into The World’s Biggest Prison,” (2021)
- Abby Martin, “Gaza Fights for Freedom” (2019)
- Maher Charif, Gaza Strip: An Inexhaustible Wellspring of Resistance (2023)
- Dala Iriqat, Gaza: The Caged Context (2023)
- Demystifying Gaza w/ Palestinian Youth Movement (2023)
Theory and Logic of Palestinian Resistance and Struggle
On the Right to Resist
- Louis Allday, Palestinians Inalienable Right to Resist (2021)
- Ghassan Kanafani interview (1970)
- Zubayr Alikhan, We Must Refuse to Apologize for Palestinian Humanity (2023)
- Rana Baker, Rejecting victimhood: the case for Palestinian resistance (2014)
- (2023) غزة-فلسطين: “طوفان الأقصى” أو حق المقاومة
- George Habash, Our Code of Morals is Our Revolution (1970)
- Basil Al-Araj, “Live Like a Porcupine, Fight Like a Flea” (2018)
- North African Decolonial Network, “Israel-Palestine War: No Peace Without Decolonisation” (2023)
- Frantz Fanon, Concerning Violence (1961)
- Kwame Ture, Opinion on Non-Violence (1979)
- Paulo Freire, Chapter 1 of Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968)
- Ramzy Baroud, How The Palestinian Resistance Is Changing the Equation (2023)
- Yara Shoufani, Podcast episode: “The Palestinian Condition” (2023)
The Release of Our Prisoners
- Why are there so many Palestinian Prisoners in Israeli Jails? Al Jazeera (2023)
- The Palestinian Prisoners Movement: History and Experiences Fanack (2023)
- Remembering the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal Middle East Monitor (2020)
- Anatomy of a prisoner exchange | Documentary (2021)
- Palestinians call for the release of 5,000 prisoners in exchange for Elizabeth Tsurkov The Cradle (2023)
- Prisoner from Jerusalem deprived of seeing newborn son Electronic Intifada (2014)
- (2023) رسالة مفتوحة إلى المقاومة: آن أوان تحرير المقاوم الكبير جورج عبد الله” وسام رفيدي”
The Right of Return
- Ahmed Abu Artema and Lara Sheehi, No Choice but to Break Free: An Interview with Ahmed Abu Artema (2019)
- NDN Collective, The Right of Return Is Landback (2022)
- Short Walk Home, Long March to Freedom, Visualizing Palestine (2022)
- Salman Abu Sitta, The Feasibility of the Right of Return (1997)
- Beryl Chea, Refugees in the Gaza Strip: December 1948-May 1950 (1988)
- (غزة: كسر الحصار والعودة (2014
- ‘Soon, we will return to our village’ (2023)
- Interactive Encyclopedia of the Palestinian Question, Israel’s Policy toward Refugees in the Gaza Strip: A Site of Continual Displacement
- Tayseer Muhaisen, Palestinian Refugees in the Gaza Strip: 1948-1967
The Battle over the Narrative
Israel’s Propaganda Strategy
- Louis Allday, Israel & the Semantics of Propaganda (2018)
- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, “Palestine, Propaganda and the President” with Ali Abunimah (2021)
- Hasbara Apparatus: Units, Tasks and Areas of Responsibility
- Tanzil Chowdry, ‘Hasbara’: an exercise in the impossible (2014)
- David Miller, Dismantling Zionism: How ‘Israel’ lobby contributes to oppression of Palestinians – Al Mayadeen (2023)
- Nora Barrows Friedman, From NYC to Florida, students fight lobby smears (2023)
- Mohammed El-Kurd, Let’s Talk About How the Media Covers Gaza (2021)
- Mohammed El-Kurd, The New Campaign to Smear Palestinian Human Rights Defenders as Terrorists (2021)
- The art of deception: How Israel uses ‘hasbara’ to whitewash its crimes, TRTWorld
- Leaked Hasbara Manual (2021)
- Occupation of the American Mind (2016)
Atrocity Propaganda and Misinformation
- How Israel dehumanizes Palestinian resistance (2018)
- Israel invokes Islamophobic tropes to justify brutal Gaza onslaught (2023)
- Anna Rajagopal, Meta Censors #Gaza Content (2023)
Addressing Misinformation and Myths
- “Wrong Footage Used in News Segment Reporting on Palestinian Demonstration in Montreal” (2023)
- “Factcheck: ‘Israel’ has no information on Hamas murdering babies” (2023)
- Barnaby Raine interview, Novara Media, “Hundreds Killed in Gaza Hospital Blast” (2023)
- Decolonize Palestine’s Myths database & Rainbow washing (2021)
- Electronic Intifada, “Israeli forces shot their own civilians, kibbutz survivor says” (2023)
- Al-Jazeera, “White House walks back Biden’s claim he saw babies beheaded by Hamas” (2023)
- Interim Revfem committee, Tear Feminism out of the Hands of the Colonizer (2023)
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