Palestinian Human Rights

The United States provides nearly $4 billion per year in foreign aid to Israel, which has militarily occupied the West Bank and Gaza since 1967. And yet, few Americans know about the harsh economic, political, and human rights conditions under which Palestinians live. The following Teach Ins, Academic Lectures, Short Videos, and Resources offer insightful analysis and often ignored facts about the realities facing Palestinians living under a brutal decades-long Israeli occupation.

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Teach Ins on Palestine

The Question of Palestine and Zionism’s Internal Debates After 1948

Teach-In on Gaza

Palestine Teach In Series: Palestine 101 with Dr. Zachary Foster

Palestine Teach in Series: West Bank and Jerusalem with Dr. Zachary Foster

Palestine Teach in Series: Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Territories with Dr. Zachary Foster

CSRR “Know Your Rights” College Activism on Palestine Presentation

Teach In on Political Zionism

Academic and Public Policy Lectures

In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story with Dr. Ghada Karmi

Displacement and Erasure in Palestine: The Politics of Hope with Noa Shaindlinger

Gaza, Genocide and International Law with Francesca Albanese

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy with Nathan Thrall

Antisemitism and Palestinian Genocide: A Conversation with Raz Segal

One State Reality: What is Palestine Israel? with Nathan J. Brown Shibley Telhami

Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape with Raja Shehadeh

International Humanitarian Law and the Crisis in Gaza with Kenneth Roth

Origins and Outcomes of U S Defense Policy Toward Israel with Josh Paul

Assessing the Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza with Dr. Tariq Haddad

A Discussion with Omar Shakir: Gaza, Genocide, and International Law

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine with Professor Noura Erakat

REPORT LAUNCH: Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine-Israel Discourse

Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine with Dr. Lara Sheehi

The West, Israel and Settler Colonization of Palestine with Professor Prof. Joseph Massad

Consistent Partiality: US Foreign Policy on Palestine-Israel w/ Sarah Whitson Prof. Peter Beinart

Except for Palestine:The Limits of Progressive Politics with Marc Hill & Mitchell Plitnick

“The 100 Years’ War on Palestine” Teach-In with Professor Rashid Khalidi

The Illusory Peace in the Israeli Palestinian Conflict with Hesham Youssef

Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians featuring Khaled Elgindy

Books, Articles, and Media

Pervez, A. (2025). Witnessing silence: the Palestinian genocide, institutional complicity, and the politics of knowledge. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1–18.

Kids Under Fire in Gaza. Reveal. (2025).

Beinin, J. and Hajjar, L. (2025). Palestine and Israel – A Primer, Middle East Report, no. 154 (Sept.-Oct. 1988).

Dana, K. (2025). To Stand With Palestine: Transnational resistance and political evolution in the United States. Stanford University Press.

Hajir, B., & Qato, M. (2025). Academia in a time of genocide: scholasticidal tendencies and continuities. Globalisation, Societies and Education, 1–9.

New Report Analyzes Crackdown on Palestine Solidarity in the U.S. Palestine Legal. (2024).

All That Remains. Al Jazeera. (2024).

Islamophobia, Race, and the Palestine Taboo. Faculty of Arts, University Of Alberta. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).

Investigating war crimes in Gaza. Al Jazeera. (2024).

Welcome to Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps. The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories. (2024).

Racism as a Threat to Palestinian Health Equity  A., Yara, Sharif, M. Wispelwey, Health Equity 2024 8:1, 371-375. 

Settler Antisemitism, Israeli Mass Violence, and the Crisis of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Raz. Segal  Journal of Palestine Studies, 1–24. (2024).

Netanyahu, America, & the Road to War in Gaza. The FRONTLINE Dispatch. (2024).

Bibliography of Books on Palestine. Center for Security, Race and Rights. (2024).

Database of Israeli Incitement to Genocide. Law for Palestine. (2024).

Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza. Zinn Education Project. (2024).

Israel Quotes. Khalid Elassaad. (2024).

Amid Gaza War, College Campuses Become Free Speech “Testing Ground”. Intercepted. (2024). (interviewing Sahar Aziz).

Letter from Gaza with a response from New York – Allegra Lab. Zahra Ali. Allegra Lab. (2024).

Understanding Anti-Palestinian Racism. Anti-Palestinian Racism. (2024).

Abudayya, A., Bruaset, G., Nyhus H., Aburukba R., Tofthagen R. (2023). Consequences of war-related traumatic stress among Palestinian young people in the Gaza Strip: A scoping review, Mental Health & Prevention, Volume 32.

Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In Series — Know Your Rights: The Assault on Campus Activism. Jadaliyya. (2023).

“The Squad,” Part 3: The Last Gaza War. Deconstructed. (2023).

Report: Anti-Palestinian Racism & Islamophobia in Gaza War Coverage. Bridge: Georgetown University. (2023) (interviewing Sahar Aziz).

Instruments of Dehuman­ization. Maryam Jamshidi. Boston Review. (2023).

Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine–Israel Discourse. Center for Security, Race and Rights. (2023).

Tomorrow’s Freedom. Groundtruth Productions. (2022).

Erakat, N. (2021).Beyond Discrimination: Apartheid is a Colonial Project and Zionism is a form of Racism. European Journal of International Law. 

Anti-Palestinian Racism: A Resource. Anti-Empire Project. (2021).

Why We Can’t Talk About Israel-Palestine; A Conversation w/ Prof. Sahar Aziz. RaceClass. (2023).

Tantura. Alon Schwarz. (2022).

Lentin, R. (2020). Palestinian Lives Matter: Racialising Israeli Settler-Colonialism. Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies 19(2):133-149.

The Palestine Exception to Free Speech. Palestine Legal (2015).

Fighting the Lobby’s Racism, with Lara Sheehi. The Electronic Intifada Podcast. (2023).

Unveiling the Chilly Climate: The Suppression of Speech on Palestine in Canada. Independent Jewish Voices.(2022).

Boycott. Just Vision. (2022)

Farha. Middle Eastern Movies. (2022).

Understanding Antisemitism At Its Nexus With Israel And Zionism.  Center for the Study of Hate. (2022).

For Shireen Abu Akleh. Jennifer Zacharia. (2022). Boston Review.

The Vocabulary of Oppression: Jewish Supremacy from the River to the Sea. Occupied Thoughts. (2022).

The Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh. Al Jazeera. (2022).

Resource Guide on Palestine. Center for Security, Race, and Rights. (2021).

Palestine. Throughline. (2021).

This Is Palestine. Institute for Middle East Understanding. (2021).

Deutsch, E. Michael & Thompson, Erica. (2008). Secrets and Lies: The Persecution of Muhammad Salah (Part I). Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. XXXVII, No. 4 (Summer 2008), pp. 38–58.

Facts on Palestinian Life Under Israeli Occupation

The Palestinian people in the West Bank continue to live under brutal occupation by the Israeli military, wherein they are subjected to an apartheid system of checkpoints, arbitrary arrest, indefinite detention, inhuman conditions of confinement, absence of basic due process rights, and denial of their humanity. To learn more about the facts gathered by international human rights organizations demonstrating this anti-Palestinian apartheid system, you can watch CSRR’s short videos here.