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. Beyond Chutzpah 
   On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History
   Resource Type: Book
   First 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. B'Tselem
   Organization profile published 2007
   Resource Type: Organization
   The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
4. The Call for Boycott, Sanctions, and Divestment Against Israeli Apartheid
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Boycott Factsheet.
5. Calls for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Against Israel
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2006
   A call for sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law and universal principles of human rights.
6. ChestDoc in Palestine
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2007
   
7. Chile Report
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1975
   Describes the repression and injustice that exists in Chile and criticizes Canada's attitude.
8. Chomsky.Info 
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   The Noam Chomsky Web site.
9. Counter-Rhetoric 
   Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2006
   This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security’ argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantra’s and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
   
10. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
11. 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.
12. Democracy Is that it?
    New Internationalist June 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    Democracy has become commonplace and its original meaning -- "rule by the people" -- has got lost. Real democracy depends on active citizenship, something that's missing from contemporary culture. Articles cover democracy in Canada and the developing world, economics in relation to democracy and politics in Pakistan.
13. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
14. Ecuador 1960-1963
    A Textbook of Dirty Tricks
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA-backed coups in Ecuador of 1960-1963.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
18. Ex-POW's sue Japan over atrocities
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    
19. Expulsion of the Palestinians
    The Concept of Transfer in Zionist Political Thought 1882-1948
    Resource Type: Book
    Before, during and after 1948 the Israelis expelled more than 750,000 Palestinians. The ideas and attitudes that allowed for this concept of "transfer" are examined in Nur Masalha's book. "Transfer"being a euphemism for expulsion- and he shows how that concept is the logical extension of the Israelis process of colonization.
20. "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.
21. Guatemala 1962 to 1980s
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the United States' repeated intereventions in Guatemala.
22. 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.
23. 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.
    
24. Human Rights: in a time of terror
    New Internationalist January/February 2008
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2008
    A look at human rights in various countries including women's and sex rights.
25. In Support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence.
    
26. Indonesia 1957-1958
    War and Pornography
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of the CIA's failed 1958 attempt to overthrow president Sukarno of Indonesia
27. 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.
28. Israel: Boycott, divest, sanction 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.
29. 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.
30. Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
    New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2002
    An in-depth into the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Discusses modern myths which have further fuelled the conflict, possible paths to peace, and the role of the United States in the issue.
31. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1994
    If Jews in France were required to carry identification cards designating them Jews, could not acquire land or buy or rent homes in most of the country, were not eligible for service in the armed forces, and French law banned any political party or legislation calling for equal rights for Jews, would France be widely praised in the United States as a “symbol of human decency” and paragon of democracy?
32. 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.
33. Israeli Violations of Human Rights
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2002
    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."
34. Israel’s 'left’ apologists 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
35. Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tragic turn of history that the State of Israel, with its ideals of democracy and its dream of being a safe haven for Jewish people, causes immeasurable suffering and injustice to the Palestinian people.
36. 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.
37. Leader and Vassal
    Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
38. 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.
    
39. 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.
40. Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    Khatib’s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil’in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees – the leadership of the popular struggle – who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
41. 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.
42. Occupation 101
    Voices of the Silenced Majority
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    
43. The Occupier Defines Justice
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    
44. On Palestinian Civil Disobedience
    The Google Matrix
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Human rights organizations have documented the forms of repression Israel deploys against villages that resist the annexation of their land. Once a village decides to struggle against the annexation barrier the entire community is punished. In addition to home demolitions, curfews and other forms of movement restriction, the Israeli occupation forces consistently uses violence against the protestors — and most often targets the youth -- beating, tear-gassing, as well as deploying both lethal and “non-lethal” ammunition against them.
45. The Other Israel
    Voices of Refusal and Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
46. The Other Side of Israel
    My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
47. 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.
48. A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja
    Resource Type: Book
    Joost's Hiltermann "A Poisonous Affair" is a disturbing book. Chronicling both the use of chemical weapons against the Iranis and specifically the Kurds at Halabja it is also the tale of culpability by the international community and the United States who turned a blind eye to the genocide. The book shows how complicit American support for Saddam layed the ground work for the ongoing distrust by Kurds and Iranis to American policy to this day. It is an essential book for those who wish to understand the tortuous policies of the US, Iraqi Kurds and Iran.
49. The Professor of Torture
    Dershowitz for the Defense -- of Waterboarding
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Whitney exposes the hypocrisy of Alan Dershowitz, who claims to support civil liberties while advocating the use of torture. Dershowitz seems to believe that he should be considered a liberal because he says that prisoners should only be tortured by "nonlethal means, such as sterile needles, being inserted beneath the nails to cause excruciating pain wthout endangering life." Whitney characterizes this as "barbarism".
    
50. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2008
    
51. Radical Digressions 5
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 2008
    
52. The Real Terror Network
    Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1982
    Herman sets out to show that the U.S. ignores or sponsors terror by authoritarian states that are allied with U.S. interests.
53. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
54. Revisiting the partition of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
55. Sanctions on Israel: If not now, when?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    How much longer are we prepared to watch Lebanon and Palestine burn, before we act?
56. States of Denial
    Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
57. Strip-Searching Children
    Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2007
    Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
58. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
59. Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group’s path to success with director Ben Fine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
60. Torture - never forget
    New Internationalist September 2000
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2000
    The importance of listening to victims of torture and bringing their stories to the world stage. Articles include an expose of the trade in torture weapons, a look at the torturers themselves, torture in Tibet and Harold Pinter on the U.S. penal system.
61. Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
    New Internationalist December 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    A look at some of the facts and issues regarding trade unions and what they have done for people in various parts of the world.
62. Twin Terrors
    New Internationalist November 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    An in-depth look at the events of the 9/11 disaster.
63. Uruguay 1964-1970
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    An account of American involvement in torture and counter-insurgency in Uruguay.
64. Violations of Human Rights in Uruguay 1972-76
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    
65. The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
    Will the Wall Bring Down Israel?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
66. The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
    The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume 1
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
67. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
68. What Uncle Sam Really Wants
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Chomsky discusses examples of U.S. intervention and links together events stretching over four decades in regions throughout the world. He provides a quick synopsis of American foreign policy and paints a vivid picture of the realities faced by social movements.
69. Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
70. Why Israel? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
71. Year 501 
    The Conquest Continues
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.

Experts on Human Rights Abuses in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library/Archive
2. Electronic Intifada
3. Professor Randall Hansen
4. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights