The Anarchive

The Anarchive is a dynamic digital repository documenting initiatives, profiles, and platforms dedicated to cultural resistance and civil disobedience. Drawing inspiration from courageous acts of protest against the ongoing genocide in Palestine, it preserves and amplifies artistic defiance, ensuring these voices and movements are never forgotten. More than a record, the Anarchive is a tool for solidarity, offering insight into the power of art in confronting oppression and inspiring change.

 

The Anarchive is part of An Artist’s Manual Against Apartheid

Deconstructing Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians

Unpack what apartheid is, understand relevant international law, and learn how the oppression and domination of Palestinians by Israel amounts to apartheid.

Israel’s Apartheid against Palestinians: Cruel System of Domination and Crime against Humanity

Q&A from Amnesty International

Decolonial Futures

We are committed to making all our resources open access under creative commons and to support our artistic and research partners in the best ways we can. In the context of the current crises, we have Indigenous partners in Brazil and Canada who are in need of more immediate support. Please donate to this emergency fundraiser for communities here if you can.

No Tech For Apartheid

Technology should be used to bring people together, not enable apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism.

7amleh

We’re a non-profit organization, working to create a safe, fair, & free digital space. Freedom of Expression Award winner in 2020.

Tech for Palestine

A loose coalition of 8,000+ founders, engineers, product marketers, community builders, investors, and other tech folks working towards Palestinian freedom.

Qafila

Psychosocial Support and Research We are a collective of psychotherapists & academics working to address psychosocial concerns through psychoanalytic thinking. Our mission: creating a system of community support through services like low-cost therapy, reading & listening circles and lectures & workshops.

Radical Therapist Network

Radical Therapist Network develops abolitionist community care infrastructure by co-producing decolonial education and healing justice resources, by and for communities experiencing systemic oppression.

The Red Clinic

The Red Clinic is a collective of communist mental health workers united for a radical psychotherapy, for the care of the oppressed, and for uniting the two in the service of communist politics. We aim to develop truly accessible and sustainable provision of psychotherapy for the working-class and the oppressed in the broadest senses of the terms, attentive to the interrelations between axes of oppression, and transcending national borders.

Science and Nonduality

Where we come together to explore beyond ultimate truths, binary thinking, and individual awakening while in deep reverence of the beauty, complexity, pain, and great mystery that weave the infinite cycles of existence.

Shifa

Connecting Hearts in Challenging Times, In the face of the ongoing conflict in Gaza and Palestine, we at Shifa Project recognize the profound impact it can have on the mental and spiritual well-being of Muslims worldwide. Our mission is to provide a supportive community that fosters understanding, resilience, and renewed faith.

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.

Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy

The Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) is a non-governmental independent organization advocating for the liberation of Palestine from all forms of settler colonialism and advancing Palestinian people’s diplomacy and a Palestinian-led movement.

OUT

They built the war machine. Together, we will dismantle it. 750 military bases. 50 million tonnes of C02. Trillions of dollars in profits. Today, we say: Shut it down.

Beautiful Trouble

Beautiful Trouble is book, strategy card deck, online toolbox and creative campaign incubator. An international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements become more creative and effective.

Palestine Action

Palestine Action take direct action against Israeli weapons factories in Britain, in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

More Than Human Life (MOTH)

The More Than Human Life (MOTH) Project is an interdisciplinary initiative advancing rights and well-being for humans, non-humans, and the web of life that sustains us all.

Growing Palestine

Growing Palestine is an organization committed to helping farmers in Palestine and the work they do to live sustainably on the land. We support them as they provide nutritious fruits, vegetables, and grains for their communities that are grown from seeds that are native to Palestine. The farms we work with are located in the West Bank. Another one of our goals is to support more efficient water and electricity systems to improve the running of the farms, and ensure their viability for years to come.

Treedom for Palestine

By planting with us, you will empower Palestinian farmers, foster food security, and fortify communities. Together we can turn a polarized holy land into a flourishing heartland.

The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature

The Arab Group for the Protection of Nature (APN) is an independent non-profit organization concerned with the protection of the environment and natural resources of Arab countries against all hazards, including the destructive impacts of wars and foreign occupations. APN was established in April, 2003 by a group of motivated people who aim to protect the Arab environment alongside regional and international organizations.

Zaytoun – Plant a Tree

The programme offers an opportunity to take positive action to support Palestinian farmers, planting hope and affirming their right to land and livelihood. It also makes a wonderful ethical gift for seasonal and religious celebrations.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign

Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is a community of people working together for peace, equality, and justice and against racism, occupation, and colonisation. Together we are the biggest organisation in the UK dedicated to securing Palestinian human rights.

Majazz Project: Palestinian Sound Archive

Discover a project reviving and remixing vintage Palestinian and Arab albums to showcase the richness and diversity of their cultural and musical heritage.

Syrian Cassette Archives 

An initiative to preserve, share and research sounds and stories from Syria’s abundant cassette era (1970s-2000s).

Citizen Sound Archive

Anticolonialism in the last century ran alongside the development of shortwave radio. Within the great unmaking of imperial geographies and histories, and the reforging of cultural connections severed by colonisation, part of anticolonial praxis involved figuring out how sound technologies might generate alternate tactics of hearing and listening to the world.

Action for Hope

Action for Hope started in summer 2013 as a pilot program under the umbrella of Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy), the leading pan Arab cultural organization and provider of services and support to the independent cultural field in the region. The genesis of the project was a trip made by a delegation of 17 Arab artists and cultural activists to the Syrian refugee camps in Kilis, Turkey and to nearby camps near the Syrian border in November 2012.

Foudation Frantz Fanon

FANON's action takes place in the post-war context marked by the ideological struggle between the Western bloc led by the United States and the socialist bloc led by the Soviet Union. The division is clear between the capitalist world and the socialist bloc, a third world emerges during the 1950s and 1960s: it is the Third World which also claims its place in international relations and its share in the sharing of the planet's wealth.

MERIP

MERIP provides critical, alternative reporting and analysis, focusing on state power, political economy and social hierarchies as well as popular struggles and the role of US policy in the region. MERIP seeks to reach academics, journalists, non-governmental and governmental organizations and informed citizens who want knowledgeable analysis and critical resources about contemporary political developments. Informed by scholarship and research, MERIP is a curated platform for critical analysis and discussion that brings informed perspectives to a broader audience.

Postcolonial Studies Association

A professional organisation that aims to bring together scholars working on postcolonial topics in any discipline or language.

DAAS – Decolonizing Architecture Art Studies

DAAS – DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE ART STUDIES, in Sharjah is an advanced research educational programme led by DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, open to artists, architects, curators, and cultural producers interested in situating and understanding their practice within a broader theoretical, historical, political, and social context.

Arab Studies Institute

A nonprofit organization that produces knowledge on matters related to the Arab world and its relations. It serves as an institute in its own right and as an umbrella organization for five other subsidiaries: the Arab Studies Journal, Jadaliyya, Quilting Point, FAMA (Forum on Arab and Muslim Affairs), and Tadween Publishing.

The Arab Thought Foundation

The Arab Thought Foundation is an independent international non-governmental organization having no association with regimes and no political, party or sectarian affiliations whatsoever.

Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy

Culture Resource (Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy) is a regional, non-profit organization founded in 2003 that seeks to support artistic creativity in the Arab region and to encourage cultural exchange within the region and beyond. The work of Culture Resource is based on an appreciation of the value of the diverse cultural heritage within the Arab region, and a belief in the critical role of culture in the development of civil society, the importance of access to culture for all, and the rights of artists to freedom of expression.

7iber

7iber is a media organization and online magazine that seeks to promote an open society that upholds values of accountability, rule of law, human rights, and pluralism, through in-depth multimedia journalism, critical analysis and public conversation.

Ettijahat – Independent Culture

Ettijahat – Independent Culture is a cultural institution active in independent culture in Syria and the Arab region, founded in late 2011. Ettijahat works to activate the role of independent culture and arts to be more positive in the process of cultural and social change.

Gaza Poets Society

Literary Community based in Gaza. We work on highlighting the work of young artists and poets in Gaza.

Passages Through Genocide

We collect, translate and publish texts from Palestinian writers confronting the genocide in Gaza, to lift up their words. We urge you to share, print, publish and distribute these texts by all possible means, in support of Palestinian liberation.

We are not numbers

When the world talks about Palestinians living under occupation and in refugee camps, it is usually in terms of politics and numbers — specifically, how many killed, injured, displaced, homeless, and/or dependent on aid. But numbers are impersonal and often numbing. What they don’t convey are the daily personal struggles and triumphs, the tears and the laughter, and the dreams and aspirations that are universally experienced but often not recognized for Palestinians, who instead have been dehumanized.

BDS Movement

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.

Boycat App

Your Ethical Shopping Companion

Zaytoun

Zaytoun is a social enterprise inspired by a love of Palestinian culture, communities and cuisine. We exist to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade – 100% of our profits are reinvested into delivering this mission.

Palestine at Home

Home is peace. Home is safety. Home is love. For many of us, it is the space we are most at ease, a space where memories are created and happiness forged. When our homes are secure we are free to live and thrive surrounded by community and those who love us. Our need for home connects us all.

Open Brief: Israeli Violations of Palestinian Food Sovereignty

This visual will look at Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid through the lens of Palestinian food production as defined by Via Campesina. The story will be grounded in principles of food sovereignty and will build on Visualizing Palestine’s series on environmental justice in Palestine.

Jumana Manna

Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Through sculpture, filmmaking, and occasional writing, Manna deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the fields of architecture, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life and its regeneration. Jumana was raised in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin.

Vivien Sansour

Vivien Sansour is an artist, storyteller, researcher and conservationist. She uses image, sketch, film, soil, seeds, and plants to enliven old cultural tales in contemporary presentations and to advocate for the protection of biodiversity as a cultural and political act.Vivien works with a global network of farmers and seed advocates to promote seed conservation and agrobiodiversity.

Mirna Bamieh

Mirna Bamieh explores the politics of disappearance and memory production by unpacking the social concerns and limitations of Palestinian communities amid contemporary political dilemmas. Since 2019 the artist has also been reflecting on the process of fermentation through text, ceramics and video works incorporated into site-specific interactive installations. Bamieh sees fermentation as a way to extend life, nurture beneficial ecologies, and shift flavors and textures—making it both a metaphor and a method in her multidisciplinary practice.

Nahla Tabbaa

I am an interdisciplinary artist, working across gestural drawing, ceramics, ecology, food and alchemy. I am also an educator, programme curator, project manager and culinary researcher. Interested in urban and environmental research, materiality, and alchemy, I work within these realms to create works and projects that are socially engaged, robust and intensive.

The Anti-Racist Educator

The Anti-Racist Educator seeks to engage in partnership work with members of local communities of colour, including allies, as well as established organisations conducting anti-racist work across institutional, educational, political, and personal contexts. The Anti-Racist Educator values practices of inclusivity, integrity, and solidarity that affirm racially diverse identities and experiences.

Mashala

Call to Action - Our children and communities are bearing witness to the injustice and destruction of lives in Gaza. We are seeing our children being policed, punished, harassed and silenced in their declaration of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation. We will not be silenced in the face of oppression.

The Runnymede Trust

Proudly independent, we speak truth to power on race and racism without fear or favour. We are not swayed by political agenda, profit or popular opinion. We are authentic, led by an ethnically diverse team we draw from our lived experience and that of our wide and inclusive community and partnership networks. ‍

End Israeli Apartheid – Studente led comapigns

Palestinians have been calling out apartheid for decades and in February 2022, Amnesty joined those calls with a report setting out how the system operates. Consensus is now emerging that Palestinians are living under apartheid: Israeli organisations, international organisations and a growing number of UN experts, politicians and newspaper editorials support what Palestinians have been saying all along. It's time to bring this system of apartheid to an end.

PalPrep 2025

For Arab youth who intend to or are studying in western universities (20 years old, 19, 18, 17). To advocate for Palestine on western campuses safely and smartly

TAMER Institute for Community Education

TAMER Institute for Community Education is an educational non-governmental non-profit organization established in 1989 as a natural and necessary response to the urgent needs of the Palestinian community during the first intifada (uprising). The most important of these is the need to acquire means to help people learn and become productive.

Al Sawa Books

Al Salwa is an award winning independent publishing house dedicated to publishing Arabic children and young adult books. We publish books for various authors in the Arab world and for ages ranging from new-borns to young adults.

Healing Justice Ldn

Building the capacities, skills, and infrastructures we need to support community-led health and healing.

Pali Answers

A crowdsourced database of short responses to Zionist lies

Visualizing Palestine

We use data and research to visually communicate Palestinian experiences to provoke narrative change. We envision a liberated future for Palestinians in a world free from oppression.

​​Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) (Mexico)

The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) is an indigenous rights movement controlling territory in Chiapas, Mexico. Since their 1994 uprising, they've used civil resistance to fight for local autonomy and indigenous land rights. Led by Subcomandante Galeano, they oppose neoliberalism while drawing inspiration from Emiliano Zapata's revolutionary legacy.

MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra)

MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) is Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement, a mass social movement fighting for agrarian reform. Active in 24 states, it has helped 450,000 families gain land rights through grassroots organizing. The movement continues advocating for settled families to obtain infrastructure and basic rights.

Beautiful Trouble

Beautiful Trouble is a book, strategy card deck, online toolbox and creative campaign incubator. An international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements become more creative and effective.

No Thanks App

Welcome to our No Thanks App! Our app simplifies the process of scanning barcodes, It makes your shopping goes easily, just scan the product and the app will tell you.

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