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Abettors of war crimes will be held accountable
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Taking action to bring perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity to justice.
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1997
It behoves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice. All of us need to do more in supporting the struggle of the people of Palestine for self-determination; in supporting the quest for peace, security and friendship in this region.
Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Albert Einstein Quotations Opposing a Jewish State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
Alternative Press Center
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Annotated links to alternative points of view available on the Internet.
America’s last taboo
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
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.
Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
The arrogance of the long distance Zionist
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1998
Immigration as part of a concerted plan that will take over the country, expropriating, expelling and exploiting the native masses, is less immigration and more a long drawn out and aggressive invasion.
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2006
Israeli director Avi Mograbi documents what he calls the "culture of death" in the psychology of Israel the occupier.
Bat Shalom (Daughter of Peace)
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Feminist peace organization working toward a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
Bertrand Russell's Last Message
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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?
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.
Blaming The Victims
Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
Boycott Derails Jerusalem Rail Line
Rail Firm Pays Price for Link to Settlements
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The very survival of the rail project is now in question after the boycott movement’s successful lobbying. A Dutch bank, ASN, pulled its investments from Veolia in 2006, and the company lost a large contract in Sweden this year.
Boycott Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It is clear to me that the only way to counter the apartheid trend in Israel is through massive international pressure.
B'Tselem
Organization profile published 2007
Resource Type: Organization
The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
"Burn the Haystack!"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
This war is part of (the Israeli government's) plans to achieve total control over the Palestinian people -- plans which will inevitably lead to both peoples, Palestinians and Israelis alike, paying a terrible price in blood.
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.
Calling Bono
Your Palestinian Gandhis Exist ... in Graves and Prisons
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Palestinians have been engaging in nonviolence for decades. The reality is that nonviolence is only as powerful as its visibility to the world.
The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
Carter's Inconvenient Truths
An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
Documents numerous instances of plagiarism and misrepresention by Alan Dershowitz in his smear campaigns against critics of Israel.
The Case Against Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2005
Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
Celebrate Jewish Glasnot
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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).
Chomsky on MisEducation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2000
Chomsky critiques the education system and discusses what education could be like in a democratic society.
Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
The Class Nature of Israel
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
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.
The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
Comparison of military strength of Israel and the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has once again flared up following Israel's ongoing air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip, the IMEU presents a comparison of Israeli and Palestinian military capabilities. (Jaunary 2009).
Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1989 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.
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.
Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
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.
Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. newsletter edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair.
A Country Of Sacred Cows And Ten Commandments
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It's high time that Israel must understand that criticizing Israeli government's foreign policy for assassinating people or for shooting children, is by no way Anti-Semitic, it's just being humane.
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.
Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double Standards
An Exchange With The BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The priorities of the news media mean that the more Palestinians are killed, the less importance their deaths have to news organisations. Conversely, the fewer Israelis killed the more seriousness their deaths are accorded.
Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
The End of Free Speech?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. The Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.
Criticism not disloyal
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Cult, Ghetto, and State
The Persistence of Jewish Question
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1983
The Culture of Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Chomsky argues that the United States elites are dedicated to the rule of force, and that their commitment to violence and lawlessness has to be masked by an ideological system which attempts to control and limit the domestic damage done when the mask occasionally slips.
Deconstructing The Israeli Narrative
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel has revealed its nature; a nation built on actions normally termed war crimes by world institutions; a nation that does not follow international law; and a nation that does not heed United Nations Resolutions. Distracting and deceiving the world community with contrived and fallacious narratives permits Israel to continue its illegal maneuvers. Setting the record straight will straighten the road to Middle East peace.
The Difference Between Judaism and Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Argues that "Judaism and Zionism are by no means the same. Indeed they are incompatible and irreconcilable: If one is a good Jew, one cannot be a Zionist; if one is a Zionist, one cannot be a good Jew."
Disaster and Mental Health
The Palestinian Experience
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
Do I Divest?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
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)."
Dr. Makdisi on a One State Solution
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2007
A video clip featuring Dr. Saree Makdisi presenting the case for a one-state solution in Israel-Palestine - a democratic secular state.
Education gap divides Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A recent report by an Israeli non-governmental organisation says 5,000 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem will not be able to attend classes this year because there are not enough classrooms.
Eichmann in Jerusalem
A report on the banality of evil
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1963 Published: 1965
Hannah Arendt's report on the trial of Adolph Eichmann.
Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1946 Published: 1978
The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
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.
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.
"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.
The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
Seeing Through the Lies
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The record shows that Hamas wanted to continue the ceasefire, but only on condition that Israel eases the blockade. Long before Hamas began the retaliatory rocket attacks on Israel, Palestinians were facing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza because of the blockade.
Fearsome Words?
Nationalism and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We are so bemused by the lovely vision of peoples determining themselves, we cannot see that ethnic self-determination is, in the real world, a quest for racial sovereignty, not a bid to enter some international folk dancing festival.
Finkelstein, Norman
Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
(Born 1953). An American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust.
Five years of illegality
Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Oxfam International presents testimonies of Palestinian men and women who recount their daily problems, arising from the construction of Israel's illegal Wall and its associated regime of land confiscation and permits, and settlement construction.
Footnotes in Gaza
A Graphic Novel
Resource Type: Book
A graphic depiction of an incident in Gaza in 1956, when Israeli soldiers massacred 111 Palestinians.
For Israel, A Reckoning
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The farce of the climate change summit in Copenhagen affirmed a world war waged by the rich against most of humanity. It also illuminated a resistance growing perhaps as never before: an internationalism linking justice for the planet earth with universal human rights, and criminal justice for those who invade and dispossess with impunity.
Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Gaza: Health System in Collapse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military’s destruction of Gaza’s basic infrastructure and Israel’s closure of all Gaza’s borders.
Gaza Peace Protester Is Prisoner In Own Home
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Nine months after he helped to organise protests against Israel’s attack on Gaza, Samih Jabareen is a prisoner in his home in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, an electronic bracelet around his ankle to alert the police should he step outside his front door.
The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but on the symbolic battlefield of legitimacy that has become global in scope.
The Great Fear of Israel's Leaders
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The great fear of Israel's Zionist leaders is that ordinary people in all of historic Palestine, no matter what their religion, will define the struggle against Zionism not as Jew versus non-Jew but as a struggle by those who seek equality under the law for all people, no matter what their religion, versus those who oppose that goal.
Guillotining Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Noam Chomsky briefly depicts the many factors which prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and promote ongoing conflict in the region.
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.
Ha'am, Ahad
Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
(1856-1927). Was a Hebrew essayist, and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers.
Ha'aretz
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Israeli daily newspaper
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.
The Height of Kitsch
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The attitude of the German government towards Israel is a Sonderbehandlung. It, too, says: the Jews are something special. The “Jewish State” must be treated differently than all other states. That is to say, the Jews are different from all other peoples, their state is different from all other states, their morals are different from those of others.
Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We are supposed to think that the current crisis in the Middle East has no historical roots.
A History of Modern Palestine
One Land, Two Peoples
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A history of the people of Palestine.
A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1987
Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
The Hollow Land
Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Groundbreaking exposé of Israel’s terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond.
How Can We End the U.S. Government's Pro-Israel Foreign Policy?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
We need to start thinking about building a revolutionary movement and not a reform movement focused just on one issue.
How Israel Bought Off UN’s War Crimes Probe
Report’s Fate Sealed by Threats to Palestinian Economy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Palestinian officials faced threats that Israel would retaliate by inflicting enormous damage on the beleaguered Palestinian economy, unless the Palestinian authority agreed to stop pursuing international action against Israel for war crimes.
How Israel Created Its Monster
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
How and why Israel helped Hamas to power.
How Israel Silenced its Gaza War Protesters
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead.
How low will Israel stoop to win the propaganda war?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israel Project’s training manual is an unpleasant piece of work. It recycles many of the discredited techniques used by the advertising industry. And it serves to undermine with clever words the inalienable rights pledged by the UN and the world’s civilized nations to all peoples, including the Palestinians.
How Many Divisions?
Israel is losing this war
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In this war, as in any modern war, propaganda plays a major role. The disparity between the forces, between the Israeli army - with its airplanes, gunships, drones, warships, artillery and tanks - and the few thousand lightly armed Hamas fighters, is one to a thousand, perhaps one to a million. In the political arena the gap between them is even wider. But in the propaganda war, the gap is almost infinite.
How to Defend Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
How to really fight anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If I Am Not For Myselt
Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
There 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.
The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1973
Image and Reality of The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995 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.
Imperial Crusades
Iraq, Afghanistan and Yugoslavia: A Diary of Three Wars
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
Iraq was just one of three major imperial crusades in the decade after 1992, orchestrated by a new generation of American politicians, both Democrat and Republican, who backed pre-emptive strikes to overthrow unruly regimes in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan under the pretext of humanitarian intervention. Imperial Crusades chronicles the lies that are now returning almost daily to haunt the liars in Washington and London, the secret agendas and the under-reported carnage of these wars.
Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
As the Israelis try to justify the massive loss of civilian life in Gaza, their arguments and counter-charges continue to be shot down either by the United Nations or by international human rights organizations.
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.
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.
An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
The Roadmap to Nowhere
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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
The Iron Cage
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
Is It Realistic to Demand the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
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.
Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1967 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.
Israel and apartheid: A fair comparison?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The comparison between Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and to apartheid is a legitimate part of that debate and this is an analogy frequently used by Israelis and also by South Africans.
Israel and Palestine
Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Reflections on the causes and consequences of the Israel Palestine conflict, by the author of The Iron Wall.
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
First Published: 1973
The tragedy of two peoples brought into conflict by forces largely outside of their control.
Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
The “democracy” that can do no wrong
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Paul J. Balles considers the “lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia” inherent in the hypocritical reactions of Israeli officials, and of Israel’s apologists in the United States, to the UN report on war crimes in Gaza.
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.
Israel boycott may be the way to peace
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Israel in Gaza: A Critical Reframing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The critical reframing we offer, that of Israelis committed to human rights, international law and a just peace as the only way out of this interminable and bloody conflict, argues that security cannot be achieved unilaterally while one side oppresses the other and that Israel’s attack on Gaza is merely another attempt to render its Occupation permanent by destroying any source of effective resistance.
Israel is an apartheid state and that is why they are losing legitimacy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Israel is losing legitimacy in the world because of what their government is doing to the Palestinians, not because of anti-semitism.
Israel, Lebanon, and the "Peace Process"
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
Chomsky illustrates the position of Lebanon amidst the conflicts and interventions belonging to the Israel-Arab contention.
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.
The Israel Lobby?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Noam Chomsky comments on an article by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in which they assert that "the Lobby" dominates over strategic-economic interests in Israel's policy-making. Although Chomsky praises this courageous stand, he explains why he does not agree with this thesis.
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
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.
Israel/Palestine: "It's Complicated" ... Or Is It?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
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.
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.
Israel Seeks Ways To Silence Human Rights Groups
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel’s winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, both in Israel and abroad.
Israeli Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
"Lost" American Youth Urged to Come to Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israeli government has launched a television and internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of marrying non-Jews.
Israeli agents to screen judges before appointment
Fury as security service gets veto over judiciary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel's internal security service has been given a de facto veto over the appointment of judges.
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?
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.
Israeli Deaths Matter More
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
The reality is that by devoting disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths over Palestinian deaths, the BBC’s claims to “impartial” reporting are simply demolished. With great consistency, lives in the ‘Third World’ are presented as being of far less importance than those who are ‘like us’.
Israeli Doctors Collude in Torture
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli human rights groups charge that Israel’s watchdog body on medical ethics has failed to investigate evidence that doctors working in detention facilities are turning a blind eye to cases of torture.
Israeli guards 'humiliated inmates'
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A group of female former Palestinian prisoners detained in Israeli jails have accused prison guards of subjecting them to intrusive and degrading treatment.
Israeli Left Archive
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First 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.
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.
Israeli Rabbis Ban Marriage For Jewish ‘Untouchables’
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
New immigrants to Israel from Russia with inadequate documentation have found themselves on a collision course with Israel’s Orthodox rabbis, who regard themselves as guarding the Jewish people’s ethnic and religious purity.
Israeli refusers follow South African footsteps in the struggle against apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Shministim are conscientious objectors. We are Israeli high-school graduates who refuse conscription into the military, and are repeatedly imprisoned as a result. We will not take part of the occupation of another people, the Palestinians, particularly when doing so goes against human values and cannot be explained on grounds of security.
Israeli Spying in the United States
Full-Spectrum Penetration
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel runs one of the most aggressive and damaging espionage networks targeting the U.S.
Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israeli authorities are increasingly targeting and intimidating nonviolent Palestinian grassroots activists involved in anti-occupation activities who are drawing increased support from the international community. They see non-violent activists as a major threat because they undermine the legitimacy of Israel's occupation and apartheid policies.
Israel's Apartheid
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Blacks in South Africa never faced a 20-foot wall dividing their communities. Palestinians' land is still being seized, their orchards bulldozed.
Israel’s appalling bombing of Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
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.
Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Israel's Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Israel’s Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Israel's Arab Women Workers Need Not Apply
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel’s private sector is almost entirely closed to Arab women because of discriminatory practices by employers.
Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Israel’s Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
Israel's Crimes, America's Silence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
To date, too little mention has been made of investigations that show there is sufficient evidence to bring charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israel's political and military leadership for their actions in Gaza. Recently, two comprehensive independent reports have been published on Gaza, and earlier this month a mission mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, and chaired by South African Richard Goldstone, visited Gaza to conduct a further investigation into Israel's offensive....
Israel’s 'left’ apologists
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitism.
Israel's New Strategy: "Sabotage" And "Attack" The Global Justice Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
Reut's analysis vindicates the effectiveness of the Boycot Divestment Sanctions strategy. As Israeli elites increasingly fear for the long-term prospects of the Zionist project they are likely to be more ruthless, unscrupulous and desperate than ever.
An Issue Of Justice
Origins Of The Israel/Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
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.
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.
Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
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.
Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
The Last Refuge
Neve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of the occupation is to take concrete means that will make the Israelis understand that the injustice they are perpetrating comes with a price tag.
Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Lawyers in a number of European countries are collecting information on Israeli soldiers who are implicated in war crimes.
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.
The lessons we have learned
Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
The Life and Death of Socialist Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2003
As a mass movement, Socialist Zionism is finished. One might say that it accomplished its actual goal -- the building of the Jewish state. Unless one identifies "socialism" with statism, socialism was never a goal of Ben-Gurion and his co-thinkers.
The Lion and the Gazelle
On Jewish History
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Looking at Israel from the other side
Book Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
The lying silence of those who know
Holocaust Denied
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In every war, Israel has had the same objective: the expulsion of the native people and the theft or more and more land.
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.
The main problem with Israel is that it is based on religion
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1999
Married to Another Man
Israel's Dilemma in Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First 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 unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
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.
Merkel in the Knesset
Israel, Israel Above Everything!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
We are still confronted with the phenomenon that critics of the Jewish State are labeled as anti-Semites or as self-hating Jews, respectively.
Middle East Diplomacy
Continuities and Changes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1991
In October 1991 a Conference on the Middle East was held in Madrid. Chomsky compares and contrasts two perspectives on this event. The first praises President Bush's diplomacy skills and accredits this great achievement to US efforts and is the one that dominates public discussion. The other is Chomsky's own which probes such questions as why these efforts came about when they did and were they to mark a new US position.
Middle East Illusions
including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Written during the last 30 years, these pieces display many characteristics of Chomsky's thought: a deep mistrust of U.S. and Israeli intentions and a desire to change the course of history. Chomsky is erudite, and some of the points are now standard in discussion about the Middle East, such as the contradiction of Israel being both a Jewish state and a democracy.
The Myths of Liberal Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Yitzhak Laor, one of Israel's most independent writers and prominent dissidents, demystifies the "peace camp" liberals.
Necessary Illusions
Thought Control in Democratic Societies
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1989 Published: 1991
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
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.
New Internationalist Online
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
The New McCarthyism In Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say.
New Palestine Party Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed
Letter to the New York Times
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1948
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.
Norwegian Pension Fund Divests from Israeli Military Giant Elbit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has excluded the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. from the Government Pension Fund – Global, on the basis of the Council on Ethics’ recommendation. The Council on Ethics has found that investment in Elbit constitutes an unacceptable risk of contribution to serious violations of fundamental ethical norms as a result of the company’s integral involvement in Israel’s construction of a separation barrier on occupied territory.
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.
Now Is The Time
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Obama on Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Noam Chomsky criticizes Barack Obama's vague stance on the Israel-Palestine conflict and warns that there is much importance in what he is not expressing.
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.
The Occupier Defines Justice
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Of Sowing and Harvests
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don’t know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
The Olga Document
For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Olive oil, opposition and Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Rick Salutin writes about increasingly widespread Jewish opposition to Israel’s actions.
On the US-Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The supposed justifications for the invasion are a cynical fraud.
One State is Not Snake Oil: A Reply to Michael Neumann
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
The income of the 18 wealthiest families in Israel is equivalent to 77 percent of Israel's national budget, which is NIS 256 billion a year. This means that in less than 4.4 years the 18 wealthiest families in Israel could pay the entire debt owed by Israeli Jews living in homes and land stolen from Palestinians. It means that in 4.5 years a fund set up by these 18 wealthiest families could offer every Jewish Israeli who lives on stolen land a million U.S. dollars which they would use either to buy their home from the rightful Palestinian owner or buy another home (probably it would have to be newly constructed) so they could return the stolen one but not end up homeless.
An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
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.
The Other Israel
The Radical Case Against Zionism
Resource Type: Book
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.
Our exclusive right to self-defense
Rattling the Cage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
This is the Israeli notion of a fair deal: We're entitled to do whatever the hell we want to the Palestinians because, by definition, whatever we do to them is self-defense. They, however, are not entitled to lift a finger against us because, by definition, whatever they do to us is terrorism. And there are no limits on our right to self-defense. There is no such thing as "disproportionate."
Outcry Over Israel’s War Crimes
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Jonathan Cook describes legal actions underway to hold Israel accountable for war crimes.
Overcoming Zionism
Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2007
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.
Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
Palestinian Children and Israeli State Violence
Resource Type: Book
Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
Perceptions of Palestine
Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1999 Published: 2001
Christison shows how America's singular focus on Israel and general ignorance of the Palestinian point of view, has impeded a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Personal testimony of an Irraeli refusnik
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
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?
Plowshares into Swords
From Zionism to Israel
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
An authoritative history of Zionism and Israel.
The Politics Of Anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
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?
The Power of the Israel Lobby
Two knights and a dragon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Rabbis Take on Settlers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Away from the media spotlight that focuses on the widening chasm between Israelis and Palestinians, a group of Israeli humanists is quietly working to break down barriers with their Palestinian neighbours.
‘Rachel’ screening in San Francisco shows a growing movement tired of being censored about Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A wide spectrum of individuals and organizations attempt to enforce the axiom: there shall be no public criticism of Israel. This platitude ironically goes hand in hand with the view that ‘Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.’ Over the past several decades, self-appointed watch dogs of appropriate Israel discourse have spent hundreds of millions of dollars and poured out enormous doses of vitriol upon any individual or organization that dares to expresses even a drop of sympathy with the plight of Palestinians.
Radical Digressions 3
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2001 Published: 2006
Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2006 Published: 2008
Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2008
Radical Digressions 6
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
First Published: 2009
Radical Priorities
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1981
A broad range of subjects is covered with a view to alerting people about the problems humanity is facing, and possible solutions we can undertake. What is particularly significant about this collection is that C.P. Otero lucidly presents an analysis and overview of Chomsky’s social and political philosophy. For the first time the roots of Chomsky’s politics are examined and the relationship to his theory of linguistics demonstrated.
Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
Conversations with Jewish Critics of Isreal
Resource Type: Book
First 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.
The real aim of Israel's attacks on Lebanon
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The real aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
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.
Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1978
I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
Refuser Solidarity Network
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Supports Israelis who refuse to serve in the Occupation.
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.
The Returns of Zionism
Myths, Politics and Scholarship
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature.
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.
Right and Wrong Responses to Palestinian Suicide Bombers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
The Israeli government hypocritically seizes upon every suicide bombing to justify the far greater Israeli state terror against Palestinians. To side with Israel in this hypocrisy is as morally bankrupt as it would have been to side with slave owners or the genocidal U.S. cavalry or the apartheid South African government because of objections to terrorism.
Rights on Condition: Association for Civil Rights in Israel State of Human Rights Report 2009
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In Israel, the entire spectrum of rights is dependent on what we say or believe, what ethnic group we belong to, how much money we have, and more.
The Roadmap to Nowhere
Israel/Palestine Since 2003
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An urgent and searing exposé of the ‘peace process’ by a prominent Israeli thinker.
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.
Roots of Israel’s violence
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
The Samson Option
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1991
Hersh, the investigative journalist who exposed the Mai Lai massacre, documents how Israel acquired nuclear weapons with U.S. connivance.
Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It’s Time
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
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.
Scenes from the Uprising
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1988
Noam Chomsky calls upon his visits to Israel and Nicaragua to explore the nature of popular struggle in regions under occupation.
A secular-democratic state
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1996
What is needed is a secular Arab-Jewish state based on socialism and democracy in all of Palestine.
Selective Vision: Iran, Israel and Nuclear Arms
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
For many years, the corporate media has been amplifying supposed "fear" in the West about Iran becoming a nuclear-armed nation alongside the US, the UK, France, Russia - and Israel.
Self-Defense Against Peace
Israel's Unjust War on Gaza
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Legally and morally, an aggressor cannot rely upon self-defence to justify violence against resistance to its own aggression. The most plausible reason Israel is fighting Hamas (and the PLO before it) is 'self-defence', not against rockets and mortars, but against having to make peace with the Palestinians on the basis of the pre-1967 borders as required by international law.
Setting the Record Straight
Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Critics
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
Shame on you, Mr. Harper
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Open letter initiated by members of Shalom-Salaam, a Jewish-Arab Montreal dialogue group.
Should People Opposed to Bigotry and Anti-Semitism Support Israel?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
That the Zionist project is bad for Jews as well as for non-Jews is an idea which, for many decades, has been suppressed. It is time good people -- of all faiths -- rediscovered it.
Should There Be A Jewish State?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
The very concept of ethnically pure states is divisive and destined to stoke conflict. The so-called "two state solution" in the Middle East — establishing a Palestinian state to counter the Jewish state — is a conceptual and political trap that prevents Arab and Jewish working people from uniting around their common interests and values. The situation in the Middle East cannot be solved within this framework; it leads nowhere except to more destruction and hate and more elite control.
6 Floors to Hell
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2008
On the outskirts of Tel Aviv, in an underground world, live hundreds of Palestinian workers sleep in this hell in order to find a day's work in Israel and bring money home to their families in the West Bank.
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.
'68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
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.
Spot The Difference
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
When I first brought up the similarity between Prussia and Israel (in a chapter dedicated to this theme in the Hebrew and German editions of my 1967 book, “Israel Without Zionists”) it might have looked like a baseless comparison. Today, the picture is clearer. Not only does the senior officers corps occupy a central place in all the spheres of our life, and not only is the huge military budget beyond any discussion, but our daily news is full of typically “Prussian” items.
Stop That Shit
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Stop the Wall
Organization profile published 2007
Resource Type: Organization
Site of the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.
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.
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.
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.
Take Israel To International Criminal Court
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2010
It is imperative that the international community view the Israeli response to the Goldstone report as a blatant attempt to whitewash its crimes in Gaza, and refer the matter to the ICC without further delay. To do otherwise will only continue to encourage Israeli intransigence.
Telling It
Women and Language Across Cutures
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1990
A Threat from Within
A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004 Published: 2005
A Threat from Within: Jewish Opposition to Zionism - Review
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Review of a book on Jewish Orthodox opposition to Zionism.
Time for a New Divestment Campaign
From South Africa to Israel
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years – as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
A Time to Speak Out
Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
A collection of strong Jewish voices, drawing on an established tradition of Jewish dissidence, come together to explore some of the most challenging issues facing diaspora Jews, notably in relation to the ongoing conflict in Israel-Palestine.
Tony Karon on Growing Dissent among American Jews
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Towards a “Israeli War Criminals Watch”
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
It is upon us, every woman and man, in Israel and abroad, who fear for international public hygiene and international law—to unite forces in order to place before those war criminals the dilemma: risk being tried if they are found in countries in which the law permits this or remain locked in Israel.
Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1982
A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
A truly fragile identify
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2002
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.
Truth Against Truth
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
A turning point for the US solidarity movement
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
We have learned that change will not come from above. It will and must come from the grassroots, the people, those who have nothing to lose but their prison walls, the daily humiliation of life as a refugee, a second- or third-class citizen, or a non-citizen.
Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli Propaganda
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Israel’s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Internet-savvy Israeli youngsters, mainly recent graduates and demobilised soldiers with language skills, are being recruited to pose as ordinary surfers while they provide the government’s line on the Middle East conflict.
"Two State Solution" Equals Racism
Palestinians and Jews CAN Live Peacefully as Equals in One Democratic State
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The mutual fear and distrust between Jews and non-Jews in Palestine today is no more innate to these people than the belief in anti-black stereotypes so widely accepted by white Americans in the past was innate to white people. The animosity between Palestinians and Israeli Jews was deliberately fomented by Israeli Zionist leaders with the help of British and American leaders for decades. It was not the presence of Jews in Palestine, per se, that angered the native Palestinians; rather it was the intention (and then the reality) of Zionists removing non-Jews from their homeland to turn most of it into an exclusively Jewish state.
2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The support provided by Israel’s primary media to the security and political moves of the government—any government—is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of the “public’s right to know,” in numerous cases even against strong currents that demand the silencing and concealment of information, serves more as a title for academic conferences and less as a rule that guides the media establishment in Israel. Not only this, but the journalists’ association adopted the official governmental approach in relation to international forums concerned with human rights. This approach places obstacles of suspicion and hostility before anyone who does not follow the official line of Israeli patriotism. Legitimate criticism of unprofessional and unethical conduct of media that volunteers for national or military service is countered with the contention that the source of criticism is anti-Semitic.
The UN in Israel's Crosshairs
Nowhere to Run to, Nowhere to Hide
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
History will record Israel’s onslaught in Gaza as noteworthy not only for the wide destruction of institutions of state and civil society, but for the deliberate targeting of the United Nations and the refugees it aided and sheltered. And it certainly would not be the first time Israel has done so.
U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
A four-member United Nations fact-finding mission, which has just concluded an investigation into last year's brutal conflict in Gaza, makes a strong case for war crimes charges against Israel for its unrelenting 22-day military attacks on Palestinians, largely civilians, including women and children.
An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordan's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1946 Published: 1978
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
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3092
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1973
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 1967
The UnJewish State
The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel
Resource Type: Book
Uri Avnery Is Dead Wrong
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
In order to move forward and overcome the arguments people like him will hurl against us, we will need to get outside the reformist box and adopt a frankly revolutionary outlook, one that clearly sees the class conflict that rages all around us, that speaks to people about it directly, that asks people to evaluate ideas and events in light of their own insights into the world based on their personal experience of the class war, and that aims not merely to act as a cheerleader for this or that "lesser evil" scheme of our capitalist rulers but to win the class war so that ordinary people can shape society by their positive values.
Voices for Palestine
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Arab women from Jordan who came together in response to Israel's attack on Gaza and its people.
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.
The Wall Must Fall
End the Occupation and Violence in Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005 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.
Waltz with Bashir
A Lebanon War Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A graphic novel depicting an Israeli soldier's experience during Israel's war in Lebanon. See also the film with the same name.
War and Peace in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1995
Avi Shlaim locates various sources of conflict in the Middle East, from the presence of oil, competition between the Soviet Union and the United States, to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
War Crimes Airbrushed from History
Evidence of Israeli "Cowardly Blending" Comes to Light
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
The War Isn’t Over, But Israel Has Lost
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The Israelis – and their backers in the American political establishment – appear incapable of grasping that which is empirically obvious: Hamas and its ilk grow stronger every time Israel seeks to eliminate them by force.
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.
We must speak out
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
Supporting a world-wide appeal to teachers, intellectuals and artists to join the cultural boycott of the state of Israel.
We're not celebrating Israel's anniversary
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2008
We will celebrate when Arab and Jew live as equals in a peaceful Middle East.
What is Anti-Semitism?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First 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.
What Will It Take To Win?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2005
Our current strategy engages people in an arena – history and events in Palestine/Israel – far from their direct experience. We are the experts on a topic they know little about. We ask people to learn from us about something far away, and to take some local action (like voting for divestment) to express their agreement with us about it. There is a limit to how many people will be interested in doing this. A revolutionary strategy, in contrast, engages people in the arena which they know a lot about, and into which they have tremendous insights from direct personal experience.
When journalists forget that murder is murder
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2001
When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
Who Profits?
Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry
Resource Type: Database
Published: 2010
In exposing companies and corporations involved in the occupation, we hope to promote a change in public opinion and corporate policies, leading to an end to the occupation.
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.
Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Why Israel Won't Survive
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power – Western support and complicity – is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
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.
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
First Published: 2007
States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
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.
Why Not Sanctions for Israel?
Gross Violations of Human Rights
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The US led the imposition of sanctions against South Africa because of South Africa’s apartheid practices. The sanctions forced the white government to hand over political power to the black population. Israel practices a worse form of apartheid than did the white South African government. Yet, Israel maintains that it is “anti-semitic” to criticize Israel for a practice that the world regards as abhorrent.
Why Our Government Supports Israel's Government, and Why We Shouldn't
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2007
Israel's Leaders Harm Both Jews & Palestinians.
Why “Pick On” Israel? Here’s Why
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
There are a lot of excellent reasons for singling Israel out, and none of them have anything to do with anti-Semitism. Israel is the only nation that self-righteously accuses any critic of its ethnic cleansing of being a bigot (anti-Semite.) It is the only nation that insists that its racist policies are “a light unto the nations.” If we let Israel get away with this we are contributing not only to its actual ethnic cleansing, but to its glorification of the principle of ethnic cleansing, which aids and abets this crime everywhere in the world.
With A Little Help From Outside
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2006
The 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.
Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
Words have failed
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2004
The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
Yes to Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Against Israel
An Answer to Uri Avnery
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
The BDS campaign was initiated by a broad coalition of Palestinian political and social movements. No Israeli who claims to support the national rights of the Palestinian people can, decently, turns his or her back to that campaign: after having claimed for years that "armed struggle is not the way," it will be outrageous that this BDS strategy will too be disqualified by those Israeli activists. On the contrary, we must all together join to "Boycott from Within" in order to provide Israeli support to this Palestinian initiative. It is the minimum we can do, and it is the minimum we should do.
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.
Zionism, Israel, & the Arabs
Resource Type: Book
Zionism - tried and failed: Interview with Akiva Orr
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
In the end, the Zionist thing is basically, from a Jewish point of view, a failure. It's not safe and it doesn't preserve the Jewish identity.
Zionism vs. Zionism
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
First Published: 2009
Mainstream and right-wing Zionism has always been tangled up in this catch 22: wanting to be normal, yet at the same time wanting to be seen as totally unique, singled out, attacked more unfairly than any other nation and, thus, quite abnormal. The more Israelis have tried to become normal by naming and defeating their enemies, the deeper they've entrenched themselves in their myth of being the uniquely persecuted people.
ZNet Israel-Palestine Watch
Resource Type: Internet WWW site
Progressive Web site with extensive coverage of Israel-Palestine.

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