Documents from and about political organizations in Palestine

Destroyed ambulance in the city of Shijaiyah

Destroyed ambulance in the city of Shijaiyah

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Documents from and about political organizations in Palestine

Joint statements by multiple organizations

October 28, 2023 Joint Statement, of 5 organizations: Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement); Palestinian Islamic Jihad; Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine; and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command. 2 pages.

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

April 23, 2024 Statement: Condemning the Repression of Protests at U.S. Universities, 1 page.

November 8, 2023 Statement, 1 page.

October 28, 2023 Statement, by the Office of Martyrs, Prisoners, and Wounded for the PFLP, 1 page.

October 28, 2023 Statement, 1 page.

October 17, 2023 Statement, 1 page.

October 12, 2023 Statement, 2 pages.

October 7, 2023 Statement, 2 pages.

Our code of morals is our revolution, selected speeches and interviews of George Habash from 1970-1984. Published by the International Centre for Palestine Studies, Amsterdam, in 2021, 112 pages.

The Sixth National Conference, July 2000: Toward a new political vision, English Translation by Hamad Said Al-Mowed, 2000, 225 pages.

Tasks of the New Stage, the Foreign Relations Committee of the PFLP. This is a translation of the PFLP’s Political Report of its Third National Congress held in March 1972. The original programme was published in Arabic under the title Muhimmat al-Marhalah al-Jadidah, 1972, 84 pages.

Military Strategy of the PFLP, the Information Department of the PFLP. Presented in an interview style with Al-Hadaf, the official organ of the PFLP published in Beirut, 1970, 103 pages.

Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine, by the PFLP, originally published in 1969. This edition, Foreign Languages Press, Utrecht, 2017, 160 pages, includes a new introduction by the PFLP, and also the brief Founding Document of the PFLP (December 11, 1967).

Works About the PFLP

The Decline of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: A historical analysis, Terry James Buck, n.d. but from about 2012, 121 pages. This interesting volume appears to be a thesis for an advanced degree, but the school and other information is not included here.

Kanafani: Symbol of Palestine, George Hajjar. A study based on Ghassan Kanafani’s writings. July 1974, 91 pages.

Interview with Ghassan Kannafani on the September Crisis and the PFLP, published by the New Left Review, 1971, 8 pages.

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)

September 2024 Statement: The Foreign Affairs Department of the D.F.L.P monitors the positions of Western countries towards their martyred citizens who are in solidarity with the Palestinian people, DFLP, Department of Foreign Affairs, 5 pages.

2024 Statement: A message from the Foreign Affairs department at DFLP to the world’s parties about the crimes of Israeli settlers, 2 pages.

August 14, 2024 The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine in a full session of its Central Committee: Fieldwork and collaboration with allies to pressure the occupying state into implementing UN Security Council Resolutions 2735 and 2728, ceasing hostilities against our people, and fully withdrawing from Gaza. Immediate efforts to implement the outcomes of the Beijing Declaration, including convening the Temporary Leadership Framework and forming a National Unity Government., 11 pages.

August, 2024 Political Statement issued by the Central Committee of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 7 pages.

February 9, 2024 Message from the Department of Foreign Affairs at DFLP Aggression on the West Bank, 3 pages.

April 2024 Statement: DFLP Concludes Its Eighth Conference, 2 pages.

October 25, 2023 Statement: Letter from DFLP to political parties and societal forces in the world. Crimes continue in the Gaza Strip… and the number of massacres rises to about 600, 2 pages.

Non-dated Statement (but post-October 7, 2023): The Future of the Gaza Strip is an internal Palestinian matter, 5 pages.

October 8, 2023 Statement: Al-Aqsa Flood — a slap to the Israeli Security System, 4 pages. This is the initial DFLP public response to the Hamas-led uprising of October 7, 2023.

Statement by Fouad Baker on October 3, 2023: Full [U.N.] Membership of the State of Palestine: Problems and Solutions, 4 pages.

September 12, 2023 Statement: What is happening in Ain al-Hilweh Camp? [in Lebanon], by Fouad Baker, 2 pages.

Statement from Mid-2023 (not dated): Forced and mass displacement of the Palestinian people; an essential pillar of the Zionist Project, 2 pages.

May 12, 2021 Statement: DFLP Condemns the heinous Israeli crime that targeted unarmed citizens, including children, and mourns the martyrs of the aggression on Gaza, 1 page.

Towards a democratic solution to the Palestinian question, by the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DPFLP) [Original name for the organization], c. 1970, 20 pages.

Three Essays by the Democratic Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [Original name for the organization]: On Terrorism; Role of the Party; and, Leninism vs. Zionism. In a single pamphlet, c. 1970, 17 pages.

October 30, 2024 Statement: Israel’s Approval of the Law Banning UNRWA: A Declaration of Total War on the United Nations and Palestinian Refugees, DFLP – Department of Foreign Affairs, 3 pages

Hamas [Islamic Resistance Movement]

Our Narrative: Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a report by the group concerning the reality of what happened on October 7, the motives behind, its general context related to the Palestinian cause, as well as a refutation to the Israeli allegations and to put the facts into perspective., 18 pages.

A Statement for the People, October 9, 2023, about the commencement of the Aqsa Flood operation, 2 pages.

A document of general principles and policies (2017 Hamas Charter), updated from the original 1988 charter, The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, 13 pages.

Communist Party of Palestine, 1919-1948

The Palestine Communist Party, 1919-1948, by Maher Charif, Interactive Encyclopaedia of the Palestine Question, 2003/2007, 4 pages.

The Communist Movement in Palestine, 1919-1949, author(s) not specified, and political orientation uncertain, but with lots of information, 28 pages.

Origins of Communism in Palestine, review by Fred Halliday of Mario Offenberg’s book, Kommunismus in Palästina: Nation und Klasse in der antikolonialen Nation und Klasse in der antikolonialen Revolution. This review was originally published in MERIP Reports, No. 56, April 1977, and was then reprinted in the Journal of Palestine Studies, 8 pages. This book is said to be one of the best sources available for information about the earliest development of the communist movement in Palestine, and its struggles to overcome ideological weaknesses at that time.

Communism Versus Zionism: The Comintern, Yishuvism, and the Palestine Communist Party, by Johan Franzén, Journal of Palestine Studies, Volume 36, No. 2 (Winter 2007), pp.6-24.

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