1. The Alternative Information Center
   A Bridge of Information and Israeli Palestinian Co-operation
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   A Palestinian-Israeli organization which disseminates information, research and political analysis on Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while promoting cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis based on the values of social justice, solidarity and community involvement.
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. Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2006
   Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
4. Beyond Chutzpah
   On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2005
   A meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
5. 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.
   
6. B'Tselem
   Organization profile published 2007
   Resource Type: Organization
   The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
7. Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
8. The Call for Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment Against Israeli Apartheid
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Boycott Factsheet.
9. Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2006
   A call for sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.
10. Carter's Inconvenient Truths
    An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
11. The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    Book review.
12. ChestDoc in Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    
13. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
14. Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    Believes that Israel is an apartheid state that resembles South African Apartheid and that justice will not be achieved without equal rights for everyone in the region, regardless of religion, ethnicity or nationality.
15. Companies that Profit from the Occupation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Makes the case for action against companies that profit from the Israeli occupation, and identifies who those companies are.
    
16. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
17. Criticism not disloyal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Support for Palestinian rights thus need not come at the expense of concern for Israelis – in fact, advocating changes to Israeli policies that perpetuate war, anger, and resistance is the truest promotion of Israelis’ well-being.
    
18. Disaster and Mental Health
    The Palestinian Experience
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2005
    Trauma in Gaza under Israeli military occupation is both direct and indirect, nad has severe and ongoing consequences.
19. Do I Divest?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
20. 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)."
21. Dr. Makdisi on a One State Solution
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2007
    A video clip featuring Dr. Saree Makdisi presenting the case for a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine - a democratic secular state.
22. Electronic Intifada
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. News, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
23. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    
24. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
    
25. From Gaza, with Love
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2008
    A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, about women, health, children and human rights in Occupied Palestine.
    
26. Gush Shalom
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    Gush Shalom (Translated from Hebrew, the name means "The Peace Bloc")
    is the hard core of the Israeli peace movement. Often described as "resolute", "militant", "radical" or "consistent", it is known for its unwavering stand in times of crisis, such as the al-Aksa intifada. For years now, Gush Shalom has played a leading role in determining the moral and political agenda of the peace forces in Israel, as well as in breaking the so-called "national consensus" based on misinformation. Gush Shalom is an extra-parliamentary organization, independent of any party or other political grouping. Some of its activists do belong to political parties, but the Gush is not aligned to any particular party. The primary aim of Gush Shalom is to influence Israeli public opinion and lead it towards peace and conciliation with the Palestinian people.
27. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
    
28. 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.
29. Image and Reality of The Israel-Palestine Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new and enlarged edition critically re-examines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current debacle of a "peace" process.
    
30. International Solidarity Movement
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.
31. The Iron Cage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    
32. Israel boycott may be the way to peace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    The non-violent international response to apartheid was a campaign of boycott, divestment and UN-imposed sanctions which enabled the regime to change without bloodshed. We should try to follow the same route to a just peace.
33. 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.
34. Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
    New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2002
    
35. Israel will withdraw only under pressure
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    The overwhelming majority of the Jewish public has been determined since 1967 not to relinquish any territory except if forced to do so.
36. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    
37. Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    A non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories, now also engaged in resistance activities in other areas - land expropriation, settlement expansion, by-pass road construction, policies of "closure" and "separation," the wholesale uprooting of fruit and olive trees and more.
38. Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
    
39. Israeli Violations of Human Rights
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Speech by Professor Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one."
40. 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.
    
41. 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.
42. Jews for a Just Peace
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    an organization of Vancouver Jews whose purpose is to build support in our community for a fair and just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Recognizing the inequality in the power of the two parties, we believe such a solution will be found through co-operation and dialogue, not through violence and intransigence. We are allied with similar Jewish, Palestinian and other groups, both within and outside Israel and the occupied territories, working in solidarity toward peace. We believe in the right of Israel to live in peace and security. We also believe in the right of the Palestinian people to live in peace and security, and to establish a viable independent state in the whole of the West Bank and Gaza Strip should they so wish. We believe that Israel, and any future Palestinian state, should be democracies with equal rights for all their citizens regardless of ethnicity. This does not preclude the possible eventual establishment of one democratic bi-national state, with equal rights for both peoples.
43. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
    
44. Looking at Israel from the other side
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    A review of two books: Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries, by Suad Amiry, and The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide.
    
45. Machsom Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Israeli women's organization which monitors the behaviour of Israeli soldiers and police at checkpoints and which attempts to ensure that the human and civil rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories are protected.
    
46. 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.
47. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
48. Not In My Name
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A predominantly Jewish organization committed to a peaceful and just resolution of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, one that will provide safety, security and freedom for Jews, Palestinians, and all others living in this region. Believes that such a peace can only be achieved when Israel withdraws from its settlements in the Palestinian territories and addresses the legitimate national and human rights of the Palestinian people.
49. Now Is The Time
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    The world must be offered the chance to see the good Palestinian, the good Arab and the good Muslim. We must be offered the chance to see the good Jew and the well-intentioned Christians and West. It is all in our grasp, but, we need to take that important leap by acting now with courage and wisdom. A unified vision and strategy on the Palestinian side must lead us toward peace.
50. 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.
    
51. The Occupier Defines Justice
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    
52. The Other Israel
    Voices of Refusal and Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    
53. The Other Side of Israel
    My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    Explores the unequal treatment of Palestinians living in Israel as "citizens", but as second-class citizens in a theocratic state that discriminates against Arabs in many ways.
    
54. Palestine Chronicle
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An independent online newspaper that provides daily news, commentary, features and book reviews on a variety of subjects, yet is largely focused on Palestine, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Middle East as a whole. The Palestine Chronicle team consists of professional journalists and respected writers and authors who don't speak on behalf of any political party or champion any specific political agenda.
55. Palestine Media Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
56. Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
    
57. Palestinian farmers face settler terror
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2004
    Jewish settlers have a long history of terrorising olive farmers, and they are now increasingly resorting to a worrying tactic: poisoning Palestinian water sources.
    
58. Personal testimony of an Irraeli refusnik
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Why would a regular guy get up one morning in the middle of life, work, the kids and decide he's not playing the game anymore?
59. Power to the (Palestinian) People!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    I am not a Palestinian; I am not one of the oppressed. I only hope I can use my privilege in an effective way in order to redeem the gift the people of Gaza have given all of us: the realization that the people do have power and can prevail even in the face of overwhelming power. We may each express our responsibility towards the people of Gaza in whatever way most suits us, but as the privileged we must do something.
    
60. Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
    Conversations with Jewish Critics of Isreal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    This is a collection of interviews, edited, introduced, and annotated by Farber, a member of Jews Against The Occupation. The contributors are among the leading American Jewish critics of Zionism and of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians. The book articualtes the reason behind the dissent and a vocbulary and framework to express it.
61. Redress Information & Analysis
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Aspires to redress the balance of world news and information by being a voice for the voiceless, by focusing on injustice and by providing an alternative interpretation of international and domestic issues. It is run by UK-based editors and academics of various nationalities.
62. Refuser Solidarity Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports Israelis who refuse to serve in the Occupation.
63. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
64. 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.
    
    
65. Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It’s Time
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
66. Sanctions on Israel: If not now, when?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    How much longer are we prepared to watch Lebanon and Palestine burn, before we act?
67. The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The settlers' retreat from Gaza was the theatre of the cynical.
68. Sharon and my Mother-in-Law
    Ramallah Diaries
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    A diary of everyday life under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, depicting the Kafkaesque absurdities and injustices Palestinians are forced to live with.
    
69. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
70. Stop That Shit
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
71. Stop the Wall
    Organization profile published 2007
    Resource Type: Organization
    Site of the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.
72. Strip-Searching Children
    Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
73. Support CUPE-Ontario's Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
74. Truth Against Truth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
    Challenges the myths, conventional lies, and historical falsehoods on which most of the arguments of both Israeli and Palestinian propaganda rest. The truths of both sides are intertwined into one historical narrative that does justice to both. Without this common basis, peace is impossible.
75. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
    Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
76. The Wall Must Fall
    End the Occupation and Violence in Israel-Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    A resource for interested union and community members featuring voices from the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements often shut out of the mainstream media. By highlighting the progressive peace movement, The Wall Must Fall demonstrates that this issue is not a Jewish vs. Palestinian one, but one of basic human rights.
    
77. We must speak out
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel
78. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
79. 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.
    
80. With A Little Help From Outside
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    he world sees a great and ongoing injustice. They want a just Israel. They see an Israel that occupies and is clearly unjust, and they believe they should do something. We should thank them for this from the bottom of our hearts.
81. Words have failed
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
82. ZNet Israel-Palestine Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Progressive Web site with extensive coverage of Israel-Palestine.

Experts on Palestine/Occupation in the Sources Directory

1. Zatoun