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  1. Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    In order for peace to set sail there should be some guiding principles. The most important is equality. This is not to say that the conflict is between two equals. Overwhelming Israeli power and unconditional United States support has no comparison on the Palestinian side, other than the tragic balance of terror that has been reached with Israel through suicide bombing. But neither side should be treated differently from the other.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Bat Shalom (Daughter of Peace)
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Feminist peace organization working toward a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
  8. Bertrand Russell's Last Message
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. B'Tselem
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
  12. 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.
  13. Bustan
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A partnership of Jewish and Arab eco-builders, architects, academics, and farmers promoting social and environmental justice in Israel/Palestine. BUSTAN cultivates sustainable models to effect change by combining advocacy and in-depth political analysis with strategic action. BUSTAN utilizes the principles of permaculture and non-violent direct action across ethnic divides.
  14. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. 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).
  18. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  19. The Class Nature of Israel
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Israeli society is not merely a society of immigrants; it is one of settlers. The society, including its working class, was shaped through a process of colonization. The permanent conflict between the settlers' society and the indigenous, displaced Palestiniann has never stopped and has shaped the very strcuture of Israeli sociology, politics, and economics.
  20. 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.
  21. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  22. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  23. 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.
  24. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
  25. 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.
  26. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  27. The Culture of Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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)."
  31. 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.
  32. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad. Requires subscription to Parliamentary Names & Numbers.
  33. Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
  34. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. 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.
  38. Ha'aretz
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Israeli daily newspaper
  39. 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.
  40. Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
  41. A History of Modern Palestine
    One Land, Two Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  42. How to Defend Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1948
    Out of the night of national hatred in Palestine, from the ranks of the working class there, there can arise a real Zion – a Middle East in which Jew and Arab build together a workers’ world without exploitation and oppression.
  43. 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.
  44. If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    here is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
  45. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
    The Roadmap to Nowhere

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Persistent struggle can have an effect, and can lead governments to act. Such struggle begins with the Palestinian people, who have withstood years of brutal oppression, and who, through their spirit of zumud--sticking to their land - and daily endurance, organizing and resistance, have managed to keep the Palestinian cause alive
  50. The Iron Cage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  51. Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Rodinson argues that Zionism fits into the general pattern of Western colonialism, and that Arab opposition to Israel is the opposition of a colonized people towards their colonizers.
  52. Israel and the Arabs: the good guys don't always wear white hats
    Review of Israel: A Colonial-Settler State, by Maxime Rodinson

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    The tragedy of two peoples brought into conflict by forces largely outside of their control.
  53. 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.
  54. Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
    Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
  55. 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.
  56. Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    A joint institution of Israelis and Palestinians dedicated to the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of "two states for two peoples". Recognizes the rights of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people to fulfil their national interests within the framework of achieving national self-determination within their own states and by establishing peaceful relations between two democratic states.
  57. 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.
  58. Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
    New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2002
  59. Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books.
  60. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
  61. 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.
  62. Israeli Left Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2006
    An evolving data base of the Israeli Radical Left. The long range vision of this project is to continue to digitalize thousands of items (leaflets, internal documents, newspaper articles and press clippings, movement periodicals, photographs, protocols and other materials). The origins of the current developing data base are in the private archive of Dafna and Reuven Kaminer. In general, the data base is devoted mainly to the radical left and the women's peace movement during the sixties, seventies and the eighties.
  63. 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.
  64. Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1956
    Without in the least derogating this moral indignation at the treatment of the Arab minority, which is richly justified, one aspect of the denunciation misses the mark. The moral indignation should not be visited in the first place against the miserable, harassed, driven Jewish DPs from Europe who, in their fear and need, were used as pawns to grab the land and property of the dispossessed Arabs. They were steered and pushed into this position by those who knew what they were doing – Zionist arms like the Jewish Agency, Zionist authorities in the armed forces and government, both by design and by toleration.
    Zionism – the ideology of Jewish chauvinism – showed that it was and is one of the deeply reactionary conceptions of the political world. The child of anti-Semitism, it became the father of another form of ethnic oppression; if genocide means the murder of a people as such, then there should be a word for the robbery of a people as such.
    What Zionism created in Palestine in 1948 was the first act of a tragedy.
  65. Israel’s Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1957
    Something that is disturbing about those Israeli liberals who do tell the truth about the Arab minority is that they tend to pass the guilt off onto the backs of “the Jewish people.” They ask how could “the Jewish people” do this to “a helpless minority” when it has itself been the victim of robbery and exploitation and has so often vowed itself to righteousness and justice? One must respect the motives of this breast-beating, but the content is distressing. It was not “the Jewish people” who did this but the Zionist authorities, the Zionist movement, and the Zionist government that bear the responsibility; and the difference is enormous.
  66. Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    Israel's leaders could care less about world outrage. Israel's superpower patron, the United States, supports everything Israel does and keeps supplying money and arms, while the U.S. and Canadian media provide uncritical support.
  67. Israel’s 'left’ apologists
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
  68. Israel’s appalling bombing of Gaza
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
  69. 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.
  70. 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.
  71. 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.
  72. 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.
  73. Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
  74. 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.
  75. 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.
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. Media bias on the Middle East
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Part of the Palestine: Information with Provenance (PIWP database). Provides documents from all points on the ideological spectrum, both Zionist and anti-Zionist, along with background on everybody whose opinion you find here. Also lets you see what our sources say about each other.
  79. Necessary Illusions
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  80. 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.
  81. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
  82. No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  83. 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.
  84. 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.
  85. 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.
  86. The Occupier Defines Justice
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
  87. 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.

  88. On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
  89. The Other Israel
    Voices of Refusal and Dissent
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
  90. The Other Israel
    The Radical Case Against Zionism
    Resource Type: Book
  91. 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.
  92. 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.
  93. 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.
  94. 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.
  95. 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?
  96. 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.

  97. 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?
  98. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
  99. 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.
  100. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  101. Radical Digressions 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2006
  102. Radical Priorities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  103. 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.
  104. The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
  105. 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.
  106. 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'.
  107. Refuser Solidarity Network
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports Israelis who refuse to serve in the Occupation.
  108. A Reply to B’nai Brith’s Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario’s Boycott of Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
  109. 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.

  110. The Roadmap to Nowhere
    Israel/Palestine Since 2003
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  111. Roots of Israel’s violence
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1982
    Looking back on my own experience in Palestine I can see how today’s horror grew from small beginnings. Zionism, Jewish separateness and the belief in a Jewish homeland, have developed into state violence. My parents were pioneering Zionists, leaving Russia for Palestine in 1902 to join a total Zionist population of a few thousand. I grew up a Zionist, but Zionism didn’t have the ugly face we see today. However, there was always a fundamental crack between the Zionists and the Arabs. This same crack split Zionists from ordinary people in their countries of origin.
  112. The Samson Option
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Hersh, the investigative journalist who exposed the Mai Lai massacre, documents how Israel acquired nuclear weapons with U.S. connivance.
  113. 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.
  114. 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.

  115. Shame on you, Mr. Harper
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group.
  116. 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.
  117. '68: The Year of the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  118. 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.
  119. 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.
  120. Stop the Wall
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    Site of the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.
  121. 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.
  122. Ta'ayush
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    A grassroots movement of Arabs and Jews working to break down the walls of racism and segregation by constructing a true Arab-Jewish partnership.
  123. Telling It
    Women and Language Across Cutures
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  124. A Threat from Within
    A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
  125. A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
  126. 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.
  127. 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.
  128. Underground to Palestine
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  129. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3092
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
  130. United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1967
  131. The UnJewish State
    The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel
    Resource Type: Book
  132. 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.
  133. 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.
  134. War Crimes Airbrushed from History
    Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    A report written by a respected Israeli human rights organisation, one representing the country's Arab minority not its Jewish majority, has unearthed evidence showing that during the 2006 Lenanon war Israel committed war crimes not only against Lebanese civilians -- as was already known -- but also against its own Arab citizens.
  135. 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
  136. 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.
  137. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
  138. 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.
  139. 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.
  140. 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.
  141. 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.
  142. 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.
  143. 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.
  144. ZNet Israel-Palestine Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Progressive Web site with extensive coverage of Israel-Palestine.

Experts on Israel in the Sources Directory

  1. Embassy Row
  2. UJA Federation of Greater Toronto

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