1. America's Complicity in Evil
   Barbarism on the High Seas
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   Once again the US government has permitted the Israeli state to murder good people known for their moral conscience. The Israeli state has declared that anyone with a moral conscience is an enemy of Israel.
2. Azmi Bishara and Muslims Worldwide Say No to Attacks on Non-Combatants
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2007
   We need the public to know that the choice is between supporting equality or supporting racism, not between opposing or supporting the killing of non-combatants, as the Zionists try to make the public believe. We should tell the public that, yes, we do disagree with the actions of some Palestinians, but that doesn't at all take away from the fact that Zionist ethnic cleansing is the root of the conflict and must be abolished.
3. Battle of Blair Mountain
   Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   In 1921 between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted company-paid private detectives in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mine counties.
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. Critique of Nonviolent Politics 
   From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1984   Published: 2002
   Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
6. Dershowitz to the Rescue?
   The Israeli Spin-Machine in Overdrive
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   According to Israel's apologists, only Israelis have a right to defend themselves. Palestinians do not have this right, nor does anyone else who is attempting to assist the Palestinians.
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. Eyes With Legs
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2010
   In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it’s Israel’s biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
9. For Reasons of State
   Resource Type: Book
   
10. From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Under the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process. The treaty necessarily adopts a strict approach. One cannot attack a ship and then claim self-defense if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence. In other words, according to international law, the actions of the Israeli military were beyond the law and those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force.
11. Great Railroad Strike of 1877
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Began on July 14 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States and ended some 45 days later after it was put down by local and state militias.
12. Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A strike against the Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific railroads involving more than 200,000 workers.
13. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
14. Homestead Strike
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A labour lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892.
15. Islamic Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
    There is not the slightest real and legitimate relationship between the appalling calamities that have befallen the Jewish people in this century and the suppression and crimes committed by the extremist right wing government in Israel against the Palestinians. There is not the slightest real and justified relationship between the sufferings of the deprived people of Palestine and the terrorism of Islamic or non-Islamic organisations attributed to these people.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. Israel's vivid act of piracy may yet turn the tide of global opinion
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    In the summer of 1947 a steamer named the Exodus set out from France to run the British blockade of Palestine. The British authorities boarded and seized the ship, and killed three passengers who tried to fight the British attackers. The British succeeded in preventing the ship from landing, but the event helped to turn world public opinion against the British. Israel's attack on the Gaza aid convoy may prove to have the same result.
19. Israeli army’s attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punished
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on journalists working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, especially Palestinians. Israeli officials are unstinting in their criticism of the way the foreign press covers the conflict. The foreign press rejects the criticism and accuses the Israeli authorities of trying to restrict access to information and to influence the way it is treated. Some go so far as to accuse the Israeli army of deliberately targeting journalists.
20. Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
21. Israeli Police Impunity
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Israeli police expect, and usually receive, impunity for using violence against Palestinians.
22. Israel's Attack on Us All
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    If we needed any evidence of the degree to which Western TV journalists are simply stenographers to power, the BBC, CNN and others are amply proving it. Mark Regev, Israel’s propagandist-in-chief, has the airwaves largely to himself. The passengers on the ships, meanwhile, have been kidnapped by Israel and are unable to provide an alternative version of events. We can guess they will remain in enforced silence until Israel is sure it has set the news agenda.
23. Israel's 'mad dog' diplomacy doesn’t make it more secure
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Israel is feeling cornered on every front it considers important – and like Dayan’s “mad dog”, it is likely to strike out in unpredictable ways. These trends are likely only to deepen in the coming months and years. The mad dog is baring his teeth, and it is high time the international community decided how to deal with him.
24. Journalists Killed since 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
25. 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.
26. The Massacre and the Cover-Up
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Without much stronger international pressure than the international community has applied to date, there is every reason to expect Israeli massacres to steadily become more severe, their PR rationales more outlandish. Mild diplomatic rebukes will not sway them. Unless serious costs are imposed for such crimes, much worse is yet to come.
27. The myth of Israeli morality
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Israel has consistently reacted with repression or even extreme violence to cultural and political manifestations of Palestinian identity.
28. The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
29. The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    A review of the increasingly prolific global arms trade and its economic, political and social impact on exploited and vulnerable nations.
    
30. Nonviolence
    Twenty-five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    
31. On Cowardice and Violence
    Reflections by a Former US Marine on the Mavi Marmara
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    On the morning of the attack I was directly involved in the disarming of two Israeli Commandos. This was a forcible, non-negotiable, separation of weapons from commandos who had already murdered two brothers that I had seen that day.
32. Palestinian Children and Israeli State Violence
    Resource Type: Book
    
33. Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
34. The Real Motive Behind the Gaza Flotilla Attack
    Sabotaging Peace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Israel's leadership is committed to "a dynamic state bent upon expansion". The greatest threat to continued expansion is the threat of peace. Whenever Israel's leadership is faced with the threat of peace, it initiates violence designed to stop it.
35. Remote-Controlled Killing
    The Spot-and-Shoot Game
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The Israeli military is increasingly using remote-controlled weapons to kill Palestinians. Israel's remotely controlled weapons systems are in high demand from repressive regimes and the burgeoning homeland security industries around the globe.
36. Rocket Attacks on Israeli Civilians
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    I challenge anybody to show how attacks on Israeli non-combatants help defeat the Israeli ruling class. It is as clear as day that it only strengthens our enemy. If the Israeli rulers didn't have rockets landing in Haifa and other civilian targets, they wouldn't have nearly the support for their war on Gaza and Lebanon that they unfortunately enjoy today from the Israeli Jewish population and much of the North American and European population, gentile as well as Jewish.
37. The Semantics of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant. Whether they are school children, passing through checkpoints, or citizens from other countries bringing medicine and food to Gaza, Israel will garner an astonishing degree of unconditional national and international support for harming them if they call them terrorists.
38. The Truth About Kent State
    A Challenge to the American Conscience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
39. Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
40. Violence Today
    Actually Existing Barbarism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today’s actually-existing barbarism.
41. Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    
42. Why Israeli Leaders Love Qassam Rockets
    A Reply to Michael Neumann
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israeli leaders want Jews to believe that they are surrounded by violent anti-Semites. This is how the billionaires and generals and politicians who rule over the Israeli population get away with what they are doing: getting richer and more powerful while driving the rest of the population down economically. They need the Israeli population to believe that the rulers of Israel are protecting Jews from the "real enemy"--violent anti-Semitic Arabs. To make sure the "real enemy" remains credible, non-combatant Jews must die at the hands of apparent anti-Semites.
43. Worse Than North Korea
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    The reality is that we are dealing with a pariah state, no better at this point in its respect for international law and basic human rights (where non-Israelis are concerned), than North Korea. And maybe worse. At least the North Koreans fired their weapon at a South Korean military vessel. The Israeli Defense Force attacked a vessel filled with civilian peace activists, including elderly Holocaust survivors, members of foreign parliaments, and young children.

Experts on Violence Against Civilians in the Sources Directory

1. Canadians for Genocide Education