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  1. The Alternative Information Center
    A Bridge of Information and Israeli Palestinian Co-operation

    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A Palestinian-Israeli organization which disseminates information, research and political analysis on Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while promoting cooperation between Palestinians and Israelis based on the values of social justice, solidarity and community involvement.
  2. Bat Shalom (Daughter of Peace)
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Feminist peace organization working toward a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
  3. Bertrand Russell's Last Message
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
  4. B'Tselem
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
  5. Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2006
    The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
  6. Carter's Inconvenient Truths
    An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda

    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
  7. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  8. The Common Good
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  9. Cult, Ghetto, and State
    The Persistence of Jewish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  10. Electronic Intifada
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Palestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. News, commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
  11. Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
  12. 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.
  13. If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    here is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
  14. The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2006
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the Middle East crisis based on peace, justice, and human rights.
  18. 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.
  19. Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  23. Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    The thorniest of issues, elucidated, discussed, and contextualized, by an impressive array of scholars and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein, Jaber Sueiman, Nahla Ghandour, Susan Akram, Salman Abu-Sitta, and Jan Abu Shakrah. The chapters cover the historical roots of the Palestinian refugee question; the obligations of host countries under international law (the case of Lebanon); Israeli perceptions of the refugee question; the role of the United States and the European Union and the Refugee Question; the PLO; meeting the needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants from Arab countries; and a program for an Independent Rights Campaign.
  24. Powers and Prospects
    Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  25. The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  26. Radical Priorities
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  27. 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.
  28. Stop That Shit
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  29. Stop the Wall
    Organization profile published 2007

    Resource Type: Organization
    Site of the Grassroots Palestinian Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign.
  30. War in the Gulf
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    The U.S. and its allies are launching themselves into an unnecessary but potentially calamitous war.
  31. War in the Gulf
    An Environmental Perspective
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  32. When journalists forget that murder is murder
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
  33. ZNet Israel-Palestine Watch
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Progressive Web site with extensive coverage of Israel-Palestine.

Experts on Middle East in the Sources Directory

  1. The Anglican Church of Canada
  2. Canadian Petroleum Institute
  3. Simon Fraser University
  4. University of Winnipeg
  5. Zatoun

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