1. Abettors of war crimes will be held accountable
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   Taking action to bring perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to justice.
2. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
3. Counterpunch
   Periodical profile
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
4. The court does not sympathize
   The moral depravity of the Israeli legal system
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   The blood of Palestinians is cheap in this country. No one has ever been punished for killing Palestinians – children, adults, newborns, old people. The murderers are all walking among us, free and happy.
5. Eichmann in Jerusalem
   A report on the banality of evil
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1963   Published: 1965
   Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
6. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2007
   Israel historian Ilan Pappe recounts the "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
7. "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   Israel has a straightforward means to defend itself: put an end to its criminal actions in occupied territories, and accept the long-standing international consensus on a two-state settlement that has been blocked by the US and Israel for over 30 years, since the US first vetoed a Security Council resolution calling for a political settlement in these terms in 1976. The Arab League has gone even beyond the consensus, calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. Hamas has repeatedly called for a two-state settlement in terms of the international consensus. Iran and Hezbollah have made it clear that they will abide by any agreement that Palestinians accept.
8. Footnotes in Gaza
   A Graphic Novel
   Resource Type: Book
   A graphic depiction of an incident in Gaza in 1956, when Israeli soldiers massacred 111 Palestinians.
9. Foreword to the War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
   In Bertrand Russell's War Crimes Tribunal on Vietnam
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1971
   Chomsky introduces the themes to be explored in Russell's book on the Vietnam Tribunal. He points out the complacency in Europe and the USA and calls the Tribunal as a renouncement of the crime of silence. Although the Tribunal was not accurately reported, criticisms arose, two of which Chomsky highlights: 1) The bias of jurors, witnesses and participants; and 2) The superfluous nature of the Tribunal in light of the atrocity of the crime of barbarism.
10. Gaza's Shocking Devastation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    A Canadian Jew's visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw.
11. Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1949
    Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Adopted on 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War, Held in Geneva from 21 April to 12 August, 1949. Entry into force 21 October 1950.
12. The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but on the symbolic battlefield of legitimacy that has become global in scope.
13. Guilt of War Belongs to All
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1995
    Chomsky discusses the guilt of war and Japan's refusal to apologize for its role in the Second World War.
14. The History of the German Resistance 1933-1945
    Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    A thorough portrayal of the plans, hesitations, frustrations, and failures of the opposition to Hitler.
15. How America Gets Away With Murder
    Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    Michael Mandel offers a critical account of America's illegal wars and a war crimes system that has granted America's leaders an unjust and dangerous impunity, effectively encouraging their illegal wars and the war crimes that always flow from them.
16. How Israel Bought Off UN’s War Crimes Probe
    Report’s Fate Sealed by Threats to Palestinian Economy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Palestinian officials faced threats that Israel would retaliate by inflicting enormous damage on the beleaguered Palestinian economy, unless the Palestinian authority agreed to stop pursuing international action against Israel for war crimes.
17. Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
18. Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
19. Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
20. Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
    The “democracy” that can do no wrong
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Paul J. Balles considers the “lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia” inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel’s apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
21. Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
    Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Amnesty International calls for the immediate establishment of a comprehensive, independent and impartial inquiry into violations of international humanitarian law by both Hizbullah and Israel in the conflict. The inquiry should examine in particular the impact of this conflict on the civilian population. It should propose effective measures to hold accountable those responsible for crimes under international law, and to ensure that the victims receive full reparation.
22. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2009
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
23. Israel’s appalling bombing of Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
24. Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Israel's leaders could care less about world outrage. Israel's superpower patron, the United States, supports everything Israel does and keeps supplying money and arms, while the U.S. and Canadian media provide uncritical support.
25. Israel's Crimes, America's Silence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    To date, too little mention has been made of investigations that show there is sufficient evidence to bring charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israel's political and military leadership for their actions in Gaza. Recently, two comprehensive independent reports have been published on Gaza, and earlier this month a mission mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, and chaired by South African Richard Goldstone, visited Gaza to conduct a further investigation into Israel's offensive....
26. Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Lawyers in a number of European countries are collecting information on Israeli soldiers who are implicated in war crimes.
27. The lying silence of those who know
    Holocaust Denied
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
28. Manufacturing Consent 
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
29. Media Think
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    Increasingly the news media are owned by a small group of very large corporations with extensive interests outside the industry, run by the corporate elite.Winter argues that instead of offering diverse perspectives on events and issues, the media portray an increasingly dogmatic and orthodox corporate picture of the world around us. The consistency with which they do this has its consequent, intended effect on public opinion and policy formation.
30. New World Order
    A postwar analysis
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    Everyone is allowed to play the game, so long as it's according to the U.S. rules.
31. NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    This week, two respected human rights organisations - one Palestinian, one Israeli - each came out with very full reports into the extent of the damage caused by the assault Israel waged against Gaza last winter.
32. Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
33. On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
34. Outcry Over Israel’s War Crimes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Jonathan Cook describes legal actions underway to hold Israel accountable for war crimes.
35. Preventive War 'the Supreme Crime'
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    Chomsky illustrates how the US-UK coalition reconfigured the term "pre-emptive" into "preventive" in an attempt to justify the invasion of Iraq despite opposition from the international society.
36. Principles of Nuremberg
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1950
    
37. Problems of Knowledge and Freedom
    The Russell Lectures
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1972
    These lectures explore Russell's work on empiricism, morality, linguistics and politics.
38. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2001   Published: 2006
    
39. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
40. Radical Digressions 6
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2009
    
41. Refuser Solidarity Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports Israelis who refuse to serve in the Occupation.
42. Responsibility and Judgment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    
43. Revolutionary Nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970   Published: 1971
    
44. Take Israel To International Criminal Court
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    It is imperative that the international community view the Israeli response to the Goldstone report as a blatant attempt to whitewash its crimes in Gaza, and refer the matter to the ICC without further delay. To do otherwise will only continue to encourage Israeli intransigence.
45. Towards a “Israeli War Criminals Watch”
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    It is upon us, every woman and man, in Israel and abroad, who fear for international public hygiene and international law—to unite forces in order to place before those war criminals the dilemma: risk being tried if they are found in countries in which the law permits this or remain locked in Israel.
46. Treading the Borders Between Life and Death
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    During Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 – January 2009, Israeli forces killed 16 emergency medical staff and injured 57. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), perhaps hundreds of those killed could have survived if emergency services had been able to access them promptly—the access denied to them can be defined as a deliberate violation of the Geneva Conventions and therefore a war crime.
47. The UN in Israel's Crosshairs
    Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    History will record Israel’s onslaught in Gaza as noteworthy not only for the wide destruction of institutions of state and civil society, but for the deliberate targeting of the United Nations and the refugees it aided and sheltered. And it certainly would not be the first time Israel has done so.
48. U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A four-member United Nations fact-finding mission, which has just concluded an investigation into last year's brutal conflict in Gaza, makes a strong case for war crimes charges against Israel for its unrelenting 22-day military attacks on Palestinians, largely civilians, including women and children.
49. Voices for Palestine
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Arab women from Jordan who came together in response to Israel's attack on Gaza and its people.
50. Waltz with Bashir
    A Lebanon War Story
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A graphic novel depicting an Israeli soldier's experience during Israel's war in Lebanon. See also the film with the same name.
51. War Crimes
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Corporate media can’t ignore photos the way they ignored protests. The real reign of terror we face is much closer to home than we dare to think.
52. War Crimes Airbrushed from History
    Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2008
    A report written by a respected Israeli human rights organisation, one representing the country's Arab minority not its Jewish majority, has unearthed evidence showing that during the 2006 Lenanon war Israel committed war crimes not only against Lebanese civilians -- as was already known -- but also against its own Arab citizens.
    
53. War Crimes in Vietnam
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
54. Wars for Africa's wealth
    New Internationalist May 2004
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2004
    Discussion of the wealth in Africa, and the wars and violence which it has fuelled.
55. White Flag Deaths
    Killings of Palestinian Civilians during Operation Cast Lead
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Documents incidents where Israeli soldiers fired on civilians with small arms during Israel's military operations in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009. These attacks killed 11 civilians, including five women and four children, and wounded at least another eight.
56. Who Profits?
    Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry
    Resource Type: Database
    Published: 2010
    In exposing companies and corporations involved in the occupation, we hope to promote a change in public opinion and corporate policies, leading to an end to the occupation.
57. Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    

Experts on War Crimes in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library/Archive
2. Electronic Intifada
3. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
4. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum