Press
Release: January 7th, 2012
The Veritas Papers: A Crash Course on the Truth
[[Summary: We've released a set of 15 eye-pleasing pamphlets on some of the most pressing and controversial issues on the longest occupation in modern history. Check them out on our website, and download them for free!]]
Promotional YouTube video: http://youtu.be/EkkIQ70tGoM
www.veritashandbook.org
Dear World,
We are pleased to announce the launch of our newest publication: The Veritas Papers. They are a set of 15 pamphlets that cover a wide range of issues from the ethnic cleansing of Palestine to the boycott movement to celebrities who support the cause. Each of the pamphlets can fit on a single letter-sized page. They are available for a free PDF download and we highly encourage all to print and distribute them as widely as possible. We also made a mildly entertaining youtube video to spread the word.
One of
the most difficult aspects of outreach is finding appropriate materials that a general audience will
find interesting and informative. The history is indeed detailed, however, the problem is pretty simple
in that it is the story of the occupied vs. the occupier. When we released The
Veritas Handbook in July 2010, one of the most common things the editor heard
was “Whaaaat…. 347 pages?!” For these (lazy) individuals, and those completely
uninformed, we decided to release The Veritas Papers, something much
shorter and accessible.
When
reading and distributing The Veritas Papers, we ask you to keep in mind the
words of Rafeef Ziadeh, who, in her (excellent) piece titled “We teach life,sir” says: “Today, my body was a TV’d
massacre that had to fit into sound-bites and word limits filled enough with
statistics...” The Palestinian
struggle cannot be limited to, nor demeaned to fit a few pieces of paper. It
cannot fit into word limits and papers. This is a
human struggle, and no words can do it justice.
What makes The Veritas Papers stand out amongst other pamphlets, is their accessibility and attractiveness. Each of the papers has been designed to print on a single letter-sized paper (on both sides), in a booklet format, and they look pretty good. There is a grand total of 15 papers including addenda.
The papers are
titled as follows (links can be used to go to the page for each paper):
Paper 1: Occupation from Scratch
Paper 2: Myth vs. Reality
Paper 3: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Paper 4: Israel's "Right to Exist"
Paper 5: The West Bank & Settlements
Paper 6: Apartheid
Paper 7: Breaking Gaza
Paper 8: International Law
Paper 9: Resistance
Paper 10: A Real Partner for Peace?
Paper 11A: Canada's Role in Occupation
Paper 11B: America: Israel's Biggest Ally
Paper 12: Boycotting Israel
Addendum 1: Companies to Boycott: Be a Responsible Buyer
Addendum 2: Famous People and Things who Support Palestine
Here’s some additional information on The Veritas
Papers:
- They’re FREE and can
be downloaded on our website! Print, print, and PRINT (but save trees)
- We have designed
them in colour (so they look pretty good, if we do say so ourselves)—but they
also print pretty nicely in black and white.
- Fact Checked: Due
to the space limitations on an 8.5x11 piece of paper, our references are linked
on our website instead. Send all doubters there! The website contains links to the
resources used in each paper and we hope that this will make our work more
accountable and reliable.
- In case you don’t
remember us…. The Veritas Papers were released by The Veritas Handbook: A
Guide to Understanding the Struggle for Palestinian Human Rights. Check it
out!
These
papers can
hardly be called an introduction. Rather, the purpose of these papers is to
garner an interest for people to educate themselves on the occupation. There
are so many subjects that still need to be covered, including media, prisoners,
refugees, children, solutions, access to resources and more. We hope to cover these in the soon future.
