1. Agreement on terms
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2007
   I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
2. 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.
3. Chomsky.Info
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
4. The Common Good
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   
5. Counterpunch
   Periodical profile
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   
9. 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.
10. 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.
    
11. International Middle East Media Center
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide English language media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
12. 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.
    
13. 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.
14. Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
    New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2002
    
15. 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.
16. 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.
    
17. 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.
18. 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.
    
19. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
20. 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.
    
21. On the Irresponsible Handling of the Palestine Question
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1947
    The American and English working class must not support the Zionist drive for a Jewish State (or what, under existing conditions means the same thing, a drive for Jewish immigration and colonisation) which, while befitting imperialism, opposes the most elementary interests equally of the Arab masses as of the Jewish.
    
22. The Other Israel
    Voices of Refusal and Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    
23. 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.
    
24. 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.
    
25. 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.
    
26. 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.
    
27. 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.
28. Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
29. The Roadmap to Nowhere
    Israel/Palestine Since 2003
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
30. 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.
    
    
31. Six Questions for Augustus Richard Norton on Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Questions concerning the 2006 abduction of Israelis to trade for Lebanese prisoners being held in Israeli prisons.
32. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
33. 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.
    
34. 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.
    
35. Year 501
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    

Experts on Middle East Conflict in the Sources Directory

1. Jewish Telegraphic Agency