The Palestine Academy
The Palestine Academy was developed in October 2023 to educate folks about the history of Palestine and the Israeli occupation and apartheid and to reclaim the narrative about Palestinians. It’s a free resource that walks you through the creation of the Israeli occupation of Palestine and what life was like before October 7, 2023 under Israeli occupation and apartheid.
The course is broken down into 7 chapters and takes about 1.5 hours to complete. Other than five minutes of slow reading in the first chapter, the entire course is broken into videos.
It also includes resources to learn more, including books and films, and information about the current genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Palestine 101
Palestine 101 was developed by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights to help people understand the settler colony of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people. It’s a free course that walks you through Zionism as a colonial project, Israeli occupation and apartheid, the blockade on Gaza, the Nakba and forced displacement, and Palestinian political prisoners.
The course is broken into 7 sections with a combination of written content, videos, and visuals, like infographics. Combined, the videos are just over 1 hour long. At the end of the course there is a section with additional resources and ways to get involved.
Once you’ve completed this course, check out the other free USCPR curriculum: Freedom Bound: Resisting Zionism & White Supremacy and Together We Rise: Palestine as a Model of Resistance.
Podcasts
The Palestine Pod: “The Palestine Pod is a weekly podcast where we break down the latest Palestine-related news providing historical context, light hearted commentary and interviews with the aim of supporting Palestinian liberation, justice, and equality on the ground and in exile.”
This Is Palestine: “'This Is Palestine' is a podcast that highlights people, issues, and events around Palestine. We bring you stories from the ground in Palestine, and we speak with experts and activists to bring you unique perspectives and analysis about Palestine from across the world. This podcast is a project of the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU).”
Let’s Talk Palestine: “Mini-Wikipedia on Palestine.”
Books
In addition to the books recommended by The Palestine Academy, Publishers for Palestine has created the Free Palestine Reading List.
Several publishing houses have also made ebooks and books about Palestine available for free or reduced price.
Haymarket Books has made the following ebooks freely available:
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights, by Omar Barghouti
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire, edited by Jehad Abusalim, Jennifer Bing, and Mike Merryman-Lotze
Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, edited by Sumaya Awad and Brian Bean
Verso Books has made the following ebooks freely available:
Ten Myths About Israel, by Ilan Pappe
The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World, by Antony Loewenstein
Palestine Speaks: Narratives of Life Under Occupation, edited by Mateo Hoke and Cate Malek
Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question, edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said
The Case for Sanctions Against Israel, edited by Audrea Lim
Pluto Press has made the following books available at a reduced price:
Leila Khaled: Icon of Palestinian Liberation, by Sarah Irving
Greater than the Sum of Our Parts: Feminism, Inter/Nationalism, and Palestine, by Nada Elia
Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel, by Ben White
Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine, by Diana Allan, Rosemary Sayigh
Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women’s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System, by Nahla Abdo
One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel, by Ghada Karmi
Popular Resistance in Palestine: A History of Hope and Empowerment, by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story, by Ramzy Baroud
along with numerous others about the global fight for liberation
Videos
Salma Shawa runs the Palestinian Musings youtube channel.
Salem Barahmeh runs the Uncivilized Media youtube channel.
Here are a few instagram videos, mostly by Subhi, but some are by other Palestinians:
History and Context
Plan Dalat - in this video, Fahad Khan walks through the Plan Dalat, which the settler colony of Israel wrote in 1948 and that depicts exactly what they are doing in Gaza and the West Bank today.
History and map of Palestine - in this video, Subhi explains the history and map of Palestine and the settler colony of Israel.
Great March of Return - in this video, Subhi talks about the peaceful Palestinian protests and the settler colony of Israel’s violent military response to this.
Palestinian liberation - in this video, Subhi explains that Palestinians are fighting for absolute liberation, not equal rights.
Repeat refugees - in this video, Subhi explains that most Palestinians have been made refugees multiple times.
Risks - in this video, Subhi explains the risks that Palestinians both in Palestine and in the diaspora face for speaking up for Palestinian liberation.
Underground tunnels - in this video, Fahad explains the history of underground tunnels in Gaza.
Current genocide
Terminology 101 - in this video, Subhi explains the importance of language when talking about Palestine and the settler colony of Israel.
Extermination camp - in this video, Subhi explains the fact that Gaza, since October, is no longer an open air prison and is, instead, an extermination camp.
The right to resist - in this video, Subhi explains what it means that Palestinians, and any colonized community have the right to resist.
The peace narrative - in this video, Subhi explains the weaponization of the concept of peace to silence Palestinians.
The West Bank - in this video, Subhi explains what Palestinians are facing in the West Bank as settlers and the Israeli Occupation Forces kill them and destroy their land.