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  1. America’s last taboo
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
  2. Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Anyone who criticizes the actions of the Israeli government runs the risk of being labelled anti-Semitic by those who want to silence all criticism of Israel.
  3. Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
    The long exile is over; the persecuted refugee at long last returns to Zion, but so badly scarred he’s unrecognizable, he has completely lost his self; he returns as anti-Semite, as Pogromist, as mass murderer; the ages of exile and suffering are still included in his makeup, but only as self-justifications.
  4. Blaming The Victims
    Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful, and—above all—honest, it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. Searing essays from Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mumammad Hallaj, Elia Zureik, and Rashid Khalidi.
  5. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  6. The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
    Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
  7. Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Although you wouldn't know it if you followed Jewish life simply through the activities of such major Jewish communal bodies as the Conference of Presidents of American Jewish Organizations and the Anti-Defamation League, the extent to which the eight million Jews of the Diaspora identify with Israel is increasingly open to question (much to the horror of the Zionist-oriented Jewish establishment).
  8. Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
  9. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  10. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  11. Double Standards
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Focusing on double standards in the media and in international politics. "Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people more than others (or oneself)."
  12. Hasbara
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
  13. How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
  14. If I Am Not For Myselt
    Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    In A journey through family memory and leftwing history, Marqusee introduces us to Jewish heretics and heroes. In proudly reclaiming the Jewish radical tradition, he reminds us that cultures are not the exclusive franchises of nation-states, and that Zionists and anti-semites share the same sinister, racialized concept of group identity.
  15. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America’s posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America’s national interest nor Israel’s long-term interest.
  16. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2006
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  17. Israel’s 'left’ apologists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
  18. An Issue Of Justice
    Origins Of The Israel/Palestine Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Finkelstein lays out the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict with clarity and passion, arguing that any other similar conflict would be perfectly understood, yet this one exists beneath a blanket of ideological fog. Finkelstein cuts through the fog with indisputable historical facts, optimistic that the struggle is winnable, and that it is simply an issue of justice.
  19. Jewish Voice for Peace
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A diverse and democratic community of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights. Supports the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.
  20. Judeophobia: The scourge of antisemitism
    New Internationalist, October 2004 - #372
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2004
  21. The Lion and the Gazelle
    On Jewish History
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
  22. Married to Another Man
    Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluable and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
  23. New book describes a century of Jewish opposition to Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  24. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
  25. Occupation 101
    Voices of the Silenced Majority
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2007
    A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  26. The Olga Document
    For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2004
    A document written in a series of meetings in Givat Olga, Israel, and titled after the location, The Olga Document. Advoctes coexistence of the peoples of this country, based on mutual recognition, equal partnership and implementation of historical justice.

  27. Overcoming Zionism
    Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Joel Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel draws on his detailed knowledge of the Middle East to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, in which lie the roots of continued conflict.
  28. Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    The thorniest of issues, elucidated, discussed, and contextualized, by an impressive array of scholars and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein, Jaber Sueiman, Nahla Ghandour, Susan Akram, Salman Abu-Sitta, and Jan Abu Shakrah. The chapters cover the historical roots of the Palestinian refugee question; the obligations of host countries under international law (the case of Lebanon); Israeli perceptions of the refugee question; the role of the United States and the European Union and the Refugee Question; the PLO; meeting the needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants from Arab countries; and a program for an Independent Rights Campaign.
  29. The Politics Of Anti-Semitism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    How did a term, once used accurately to describe the most virulent evil, become a charge flung at the mildest critic of Israel, particularly concerning its atrocious treatment of Palestinians? This is the question considered in these 18 essays (by nine Jews and nine Gentiles), including Edward Said, Robert Fisk, Norman Finkelstein, Lenni Brenner, and Uri Avnery.

  30. Post-Zionism Zionism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    What do we need to do to let go of all fear that separates Jew and Arab, and embrace a truly pluralistic, secular, democratic, multicultural and loving society?
  31. A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
  32. Quest for Justice
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
  33. Revisiting the partition of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.

  34. Setting the Record Straight
    Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Critics
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    There is a hope a bi-national soluation will be brought about through political discussion and agitation within both left and liberal circles, especially within the United States, a much less timid Israeli peace movement, and a Left within Israel and among US pro-peace Jewish activists, that courageously embraces the possibility of bi-nationalism and, of course, a Palestinian resistance that works to overcome the nationalism within its own ranks and forges a democratic alternative to the Arafat fraud.

  35. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  36. Speaking the truth to Jews
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Many perfectly legitimate criticisms of Israeli policy are blanketed as attacks on Israel's right to self-defense and therefore as attacks on Israel's right to exist and, therefore themselves as anti-Semitic.
  37. A Threat from Within
    A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  38. A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
  39. A truly fragile identify
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
  40. What is Anti-Semitism?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2002
    Inflating the meaning of 'antisemitism' to include anything politically damaging to Israel is a double-edged sword. It may be handy for smiting your enemies, but the problem is that definitional inflation, like any inflation, cheapens the currency. The more things get to count as antisemitic, the less awful antisemitism is going to sound.
  41. Why Israel?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    A routine strategy of Israel’s defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of “humanitarian interventions” that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council – sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
  42. Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT “recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state”
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
  43. Zionism doesn’t define Jews: It divides us
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Zionist theory denied the legitimate presence of an emerging, indigenous nation in Palestine. Zionist practice ensured its dispossession and exile.
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