1. An Act of State Terrorism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   We have to appeal to the core of people who have already been active on one level or another around the Palestinian question, or those who are already convinced, to re-galvanize the movement, and go out and convince yet wider layers of people. We must argue the Palestinian case, and also push the case more generally to very wide layers of people.
2. America's Complicity in Evil
   Barbarism on the High Seas
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   Once again the US government has permitted the Israeli state to murder good people known for their moral conscience. The Israeli state has declared that anyone with a moral conscience is an enemy of Israel.
3. Army Detonates Two Homes In Hebron, Seals One With Concrete Blocs
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Israeli soldiers wired and detonated two Palestinian homes in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and sealed the home of a third Palestinian with concrete. A Palestinian home was also demolished in occupied East Jerusalem.
4. The Astounding Violence Of Israeli Colonialism
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Recently the world watched the horrific violence perpetrated inside Gaza, as 2,159 Palestinians - including 577 children, 263 women and 102 elderly - were killed during Israel's Operation Protective Edge over the course of 50 days. Zionist supporters, as usual, managed to rationalize the killing by blaming the victims, best exemplified by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's nauseating claim that Hamas "want(s) to pile up as many civilian dead as they can because ... they use telegenically-dead Palestinians for their cause."
5. The Attack on the People of Gaza
   Go ahead and stop us...
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   According to the conventional wisdom, the purpose of Israel’s assault on Gaza is self-defense, i.e., to stop rocket fire and to destroy “terror tunnels”. However, the facts include repeated attacks on hospitals, an open air market, UN schools designated as safe refuges, playgrounds, zoos, Gaza’s only power plant, etc.) by means of high-tech “smart weapons”, and these attacks are inconsistent with the notion of self-defense. These are calculated, deliberate attacks on civilians and the numbers speak for themselves: about 80% of Israel’s victims are non-combatants, including at least (for now) 318 kids.
6. Binge and Hangover
   Against The Current vol. 124
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2006
   The lords of empire set out to show that the United States, not Iran or any other potential rival, will rule the "new" Middle East. Unable to attack Iran directly, however, they instead employed the willing regional branch office of the U.S. military-industrial complex, the Israeli Defense Force, to destroy Lebanon. A war that began as a triumphal imperial binge has ended, at least as of August 14 if the fragile ceasefire holds, with uncertainty and a hangover. (The ceasefire's fate, following the failed Israeli commando raid in the Bekaa Valley, is uncertain as we go to press.)
7. Blau-Kamm case exposes the dark underbelly of Israel's security state
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2010
   In a properly democratic country, Kamm would have an honorable defence against the charges, of being a whistle-blower rather than a spy, and Blau would be winning journalism prizes not huddling away in exile. But this is Israel. Here, despite a desperate last-stand for the principles of free speech and the rule of law in the pages of the Haaretz newspaper today, which is itself in the firing line over its role, there is almost no public sympathy for Kamm or even Blau. The pair are already being described, both by officials and in chat forums and talkback columns, as traitors who should be jailed, disappeared or executed for the crime of endangering the state.
8. Breaking the Silence: Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians in Gaza
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summer’s attack on Gaza, saying it led to "immense and unprecedented harm to the civilian population and infrastructures in the Gaza Strip."
9. Breaking the Silence: Inside the Israeli Right's Campaign to Silence an anti-Occupation Group
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2019
   Breaking the Silence, an Israeli anti-occupation group that collects testimonies of Israeli soldiers operating in Palestinian territories has been targeted by moles and other attacks.
10. "Burn the Haystack!"
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
11. 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.
12. A Case of Decency Deficit
    Eden's Photoshoot
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    According to the Israeli human rights group Breaking the Silence, taking humiliating trophy pictures of Palestinian prisoners are such a "widespread phenomenon" that taking them constitutes "a norm." Why so? Because it is the "necessary result of a long term military control of a civilian population."
13. Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease
    What's Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    On August 26th, 2014, Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA) both accepted a ceasefire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction behind. The agreement calls for an end to military action by both Israel and Hamas, as well as an easing of the Israeli siege that has strangled Gaza for many years.
14. 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.
15. Combat Proven: The Booming Business of War in Israel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Arms fairs in Israel showcase the latest products the profitable Israeli weapons industry manufactures - and the demos are the perfect place to show those products off.
16. Dead Palestinian Babies And Bombed Mosques - IDF Fashion 2009
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills."
17. The deafening silence around the Hamas proposal for a 10-year truce
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The Western media have ignored the proposal from Hamas and Islamic Jihad for a 10-year-truce on the basis of 10 - very reasonable - conditions.
18. Dershowitz to the Rescue?
    The Israeli Spin-Machine in Overdrive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    According to Israel's apologists, only Israelis have a right to defend themselves. Palestinians do not have this right, nor does anyone else who is attempting to assist the Palestinians.
19. Despite Gaza Massacre, Israel Remains Immune From Criticism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Imagine for a moment that it was not the two million Palestinian in Gaza, who are mostly refugees from 1948, but the six million Syrian refugees in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan who had staged a march to return to the homes that they have lost in Syria since 2011. Suppose that, as they approach the Syrian border, they were fired on by the Syrian army and hundreds of them were killed or injured. The international outcry against the murderous Syrian regime in Washington, London, Paris and Berlin would have echoed around the world.
20. 'Disgustingly Biased' - The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering.
21. Empire of Lies and Torture
    Against The Current vol. 111
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    The prohibition of torture in international conventions is absolute. There are no exceptions for so-called "ticking bombs," for "high-value terrorists" or "illegal enemy combatants" or similar improvised fictions—or for extraterritorial prison camps (Guantanamo) where the jailers exercise absolute power but somehow disclaim the legal responsibilities of "sovereignty."
22. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Israelo historian Ilan Pappe recounts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
23. Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War Crime 
    The Experts' Verdict
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nation’s Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israel’s potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definition – right now, as you read this?
24. The evidence that Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Amnesty International has published evidence that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) specifically targeted hospitals, health workers and ambulance personnel during the attack on Gaza.
25. Ex-Israeli pilot: 'Our army is a terrorist organisation run by war criminals' 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2021
    A former Israeli Air Force pilot, Yonatan Shapira, has described the Israeli government and army as "terrorist organisations" run by "war criminals."
26. Exposing Israel's Most Dangerous Secret
    What's Really Going On at the Israeli Institute for Biological Research?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Israel's preparations for biological and chemical warfare.
27. Eyes With Legs
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace activists on the Freedom Flotilla. The U.S. never condemns these crimes because it's Israel's biggest supporter, and also because it does the same.
28. Factory and Lab: Israel's War Business
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israel invests more money in research than most other countries -- and in no other place are research institutes, the defense industry, the army and politics as interwoven. The result is a high-tech weapons factory that successfully exports its goods globally.
29. The Flotilla In The Israeli Press
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    An analysis of Israeli media propaganda in the wake of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
30. Footnotes in Gaza
    A Graphic Novel
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A graphic depiction of an incident in Gaza in 1956, when Israeli soldiers massacred 111 Palestinians.
31. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
32. Fury at Azaria Verdict is Israel's Trump Moment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Examining the popular reaction to the conviction in military court of Elor Azaria for manslaughter as demonstrating a deep social divide in the vein of Trump's election in the US and the Brexit vote in the UK.
33. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2018
    The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its inhabitants are refugees, and more than half are under eighteen years of age. Since 2004, Israel has launched eight devastating “operations” against Gaza’s largely defenseless population. Thousands have perished, and tens of thousands have been left homeless. In the meantime, Israel has subjected Gaza to a merciless illegal blockade.
    What has befallen Gaza is a man-made humanitarian disaster.
    Based on scores of human rights reports, Norman G. Finkelstein's new book presents a meticulously researched inquest into Gaza’s martyrdom. He shows that although Israel has justified its assaults in the name of self-defense, in fact these actions constituted flagrant violations of international law.
34. Gaza: Israel bombs water and sewage systems
    If this situation continues Gaza residents will be subjected to a humanitarian crisis even worse than the immediate one of trying to survive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israel's armed forces have destroyed vital water and sewage infrastructure in their bombing campaign of the besieged territory. This constitutes a severe breach of the 1977 Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the part of Israel and all those conceiving, planning, ordering and perpetrating the attacks.
35. Gaza, Israel and 'Human Shields'
    The People Putting Innocents in Danger are the Israelis
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    What does it mean to use human shields? Employed by the Germans and Japanese in the Second World War, the tactic is premised on an underlying trust in your enemy’s humanity. It appeals to the compassion and mercy of the combatant that they not slaughter the innocent in order to avenge their target. The ‘shield’ is not the human bodies surrounding the ‘guilty’ party, the shield is the clemency that mankind instinctively affords the innocent. The shield evaporates only when confronted by an enemy who is not merely a fellow solder locked in a power battle, but a psychopath unconcerned with the pain of others.
36. Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fleeing Civilians
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.
37. Gaza: Life and death under Israel's drones
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    There are many things to fear in Gaza. Drones are increasingly being used for surveillance and extra-judicial execution in parts of the Middle East, especially by the US. There are no statistics that detail the effect of the drones on Palestinians in Gaza.
38. Gaza medic killed by Israel as she rescued injured
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Israeli occupation forces shot dead a volunteer medic and injured dozens of people as they continued their indiscriminate attacks on Palestinians taking part in Great March of Return protests in Gaza for the 10th consecutive Friday. Razan Ashraf Abdul Qadir al-Najjar, 21, was helping treat and evacuate wounded protesters east of Khan Younis when she was fatally shot on Friday evening. She was about 100 meters away from the boundary fence with Israel at the moment she was shot and was wearing clothing clearly identifying her as a medic.
39. Gaza Occupation And Siege Are Illegal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Collective punishment is specifically barred under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that the objective of the blockade is to weaken the Gaza economy and undermine support for Hamas. That is a political, not a military, objective, and it is impermissible under international law to target innocent civilians to achieve nonmilitary goals. Actions taken to enforce an illegal siege cannot themselves be legal. Israel's blockade violates the human rights of Gaza Palestinians and must be brought to an end.
40. Gazan Gandhis: Gaza Bleeds Alone as 'Liberals' and 'Progressives' Go Mute 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Tens of thousands of protesters, raising Palestinian flags continue to hold their massive rallies across the Gaza border. Despite the high death toll and the thousands maimed, they return everyday with the same commitment to popular resistance that is predicated on collective unity, beyond factionalism and politics.But why are they still being largely ignored? It is politically convenient to criticize Palestinians as a matter of course, and utterly inconvenient to credit them, even when they display such courage, prowess and commitment to peaceful change.
41. Gaza's Torment, Israel's Crimes, Our Responsibilities
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    It is important to understand what life is like in Gaza when Israel’s behavior is “restrained,” in between the regular manufactured crises like this one. When Israel is on “good behavior,” more than two Palestinian children are killed every week, a pattern that goes back over 14 years. The underlying cause is the criminal occupation and the programs to reduce Palestinian life to bare survival in Gaza, while Palestinians are restricted to unviable cantons in the West Bank and Israel takes over what it wants, all in gross violation of international law and explicit Security Council resolutions, not to speak of minimal decency.
42. Goldstone Recants
    Richard Goldstone Renews Israel's License to Kill
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    On April 1 2011, in the pages of the Washington Post, the international jurist Richard Goldstone dropped a bombshell. He effectively disowned the massive evidence assembled in the United Nations' report carrying his name that Israel had committed multiple war crimes and possible crimes against humanity in Gaza during its 2008-9 invasion.
    
    Israel was jubilant. “Everything that we said proved to be true,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu crowed. “We always said that the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] is a moral army that acted according to international law,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak declared. “We had no doubt that the truth would come out eventually,” Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman proclaimed. The Obama administration used the occasion of Goldstone’s recantation to affirm that Israel had not “engaged in any war crimes” during the Gaza assault while the U.S. Senate unanimously called on the United Nations to “rescind” the Goldstone Report.
43. The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacy
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
44. Goldstone Report Dramatized
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    
45. Goldstone's shameful U-turn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    This shameful U-turn did not happen this week. It comes after more than a year and a half of a sustained campaign of intimidation and character assassination.
46. Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    A discussion of Israel's tactics in its campaign against Palestinians, which includes the use of deliberate provocation to incite retaliation, and the disturbing reality that results in large numbers of children's deaths.
47. Guillotining Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
48. Gunning for destruction in Gaza: 'You want to see people in pieces'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer's Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted.
49. Hamas Rocket Launches Don't Explain Israel's Gaza Destruction -- Israeli Forces' Manipulated Figures and Fake Evidence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israel and its supporters abroad have parried accusations of indiscriminate destruction and mass killing of civilians in Gaza by arguing that they were consequences of strikes aimed at protecting Israeli civilians from rockets that were being launched from very near civilian structures.
50. Hegemony or Survival 
    America's Quest for Global Dominance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003   Published: 2004
    Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
51. "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israel’s 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades.
52. The Hijacking of the Marianne by "The Pirates of the Mediterranean"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In the early hours of the morning (local time) of June 29th, three Israeli Navy ships intercepted and hijacked a Swedish flagged ship, the Marianne av Göteborg on route to Gaza in the State of Palestine.
53. A History of Silencing Israeli Army Whistleblowers: From 1948 Until Today
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    One might expect that only historians would care to revisit the 1948 war that created Israel. And yet the debate about what constitutes truth and myth from that period still provokes raw emotions.
54. How Israel Bought Off UN's War Crimes Probe
    Report's Fate Sealed by Threats to Palestinian Economy
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
55. How Truth Slips Down The Memory Hole
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    John Pilger, applies to current events Orwell's description in '1984' of how the Ministry of Truth consigned embarrassing truth to a memory hole. He highlights the killing of a Palestinian cameraman by the Israelis as an example of how "we" are trained to look on the rest of the world as quite unlike ourselves: useful or expendable.
56. Hypocrisy Reigns
    Don't Forsake the Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania are called "heroes"?
57. I was "part of a terror organization," says Israeli pilot turned activist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Interview with Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli air force pilot and current supporter of the Palestinian-led call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
58. I'm Omar Saad and I will not be a soldier in your army
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Omar Saad, a young (Druze) Palestinian musician from the Galilee has received a summons to the Israeli army. The Druze citizens of Israel are forced to enlist in the Israeli military, since 1956, when conscription law applied to Druze men (not to other Palestinians).
59. In an endless war on terror, we are all doomed to become Palestinians
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Jeff Halper's new book sheds light on the arms industry, arguing that Israel is now the go-to nation for armies and police forces around the world.
60. Independent Groups Debunk Israeli War Propaganda
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
61. Inside Israel-Palestine The Conflict Explained
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    An ideal guide, in question and answer format, to this most complex of conflicts.
62. Is Israel an Apartheid State? 
    Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
63. ISIS and the IDF: Canada's Double Standard
    Who are the Real Terrorists?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Why can westerners join the Israeli Defense Forces while westerners joining Islamic State are despised and killed? In what sense is the IDF scenario any less reprehensible than the IS one?
64. Israel and US apologists rattled by UN report on war crimes in Gaza
    The 'democracy' that can do no wrong
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
65. Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
66. Israel Continues to Cripple Gaza with its Sea Blockade
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Jerusalem Post reports that the Swedish boat Marianne with 18 passengers has been "interdicted" by Israeli commandos 85 miles from the Gaza coast and towed to Ashdod. The three other vessels in the flotilla turned back and another big-hearted mission ended "with a whimper". Defence Minister Moshe Ya'alon called his operation to deprive desperate, poverty stricken Gazans a "success". The Marianne‘s passengers would be be deported. "There is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza," he added.
67. Israel Intercepts International Gaza-Bound Freedom Flotilla
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Israeli Navy has intercepted the Swedish boat "The Marianne", part of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, in International waters at 05:11 AM Gaza time (GMT +3) and forced it to redirect to the nearest Israeli port of Ashdod. The coalition was on its way to Gaza to deliver aid. In a statement immediately afterward, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition accused the Israeli government of “state piracy in international waters."
68. 'Israel is a terrorist state'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned. A wave of unrest has swept Palestinian towns in Israel over recent days, with repeated clashes with Israeli police in Nazareth, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Taibeh, Sakhnin, Rahat, Kfar Qassem and elsewhere. Dozens of protesters have been arrested.
69. Israel/Lebanon: Deliberate destruction or "collateral damage"?
    Israeli attacks on civilian infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
70. Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
71. Israel offered Nukes to Racist South Africa for Use on Black Neighbors
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The implication, that Iran must be stopped because it would proliferate to neighbors, may come back to haunt pro-Israeli propagandists, given Tel Aviv's own secret role in attempting to proliferate nukes to South Africa.
72. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
73. Israel showed restraint in Gaza before attacking? You must be kidding 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli journalist Amira Hass, writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, demolishes some myths.
74. Israel will imprison soldier, 19, for publicly criticizing the occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The Israeli government is imprisoning Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier Shachar Berrin for criticizing its illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories.
75. Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2009
    A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
76. Israeli Army Admits Tweeted Hezbollah Map Actually Fake
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The Israeli media has been forced to admit a map purported to contain information on Hezbollah positions, distributed to foreign diplomats and on twitter, is a fabrication.
77. Israeli army razes home of prominent Palestinian activist
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    The Israeli army has demolished a residential building owned by a prominent Palestinian activist, whose six sons have been imprisoned by Israel. The building, owned by Latifa Abu Hmeid, is located in the Amari refugee camp near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
78. Israeli army's attitude: Regret, but no real enquiries and certainly no one punished
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2003
    The issue of the security of journalists working in the Occupied Territories cloaks another major political issue, that of the restrictions which the Israeli army imposes in the name of security on journalists working in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, especially Palestinians. Israeli officials are unstinting in their criticism of the way the foreign press covers the conflict. The foreign press rejects the criticism and accuses the Israeli authorities of trying to restrict access to information and to influence the way it is treated. Some go so far as to accuse the Israeli army of deliberately targeting journalists.
79. Israeli attacks on a dissident soldiers' group could backfire
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Yehuda Shaul was an infantryman in the Israeli army in Hebron during the second intifada. But in recent weeks, he and his group of veterans have been vilified by right-wing organizations and mainstream politicians in a public campaign against Israeli groups critical of their country's occupation of Palestinian territories.
80. Israeli Cease Fire Violations and Media Propaganda
    The Conquest of Palestine
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The Israeli conquest of Palestine has always been a difficult issue for Western mainstream media to cover. The difficulty lies not in the task of reporting the facts on the ground and transmitting an accurate depiction of them to the public, but in refraining from doing so.
81. Israeli Company Targeted by Oakland Blockade Imports Ammunition Into US
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israeli-owned shipping company Zim, the target of recent port blockades organized by Palestinian solidarity activists in California, is importing millions of rounds of small arms ammunition into the United States each year.
82. Israeli forces 'deliberately killed' Palestinian paramedic Razan
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Probe by Israeli rights group B'Tselem concludes that intentional fatal shot was fired at the Palestinian paramedic.
83. Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since December
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court order on assassinations in the occupied West Bank.
84. Israeli Military Resisters' Tour Hits New York City
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A 19-year-old Israeli military resister explains why she refused to join the Israel Defense Forces.
85. Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of 'comely gentile women' during war becomes chief army rabbi
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    “New IDF Chief Rabbi: in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to "have sex with comely gentile women against their will".
86. Israeli refusers follow South African footsteps in the struggle against apartheid
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
87. Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Children
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    
88. Israeli War Crimes? Who, Us??
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The concept of "war crimes" is dubious. The biggest crime is starting the war in the first place. This is not the business of soldiers, but of political leaders. Yet they are rarely indicted.These philosophical musings came to me in the wake of the recent UN report on the last Gaza war.
89. Israelis Shoot Motionless Arab Woman - Video
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In the age of phone cameras, we have become increasingly used to photos and videos of Palestinians in the West Bank being shot by soldiers in unjustifiable circumstances.
90. Israel's attack on the UN post in Lebanon
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
91. Israel's Attack on Us All
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    If we needed any evidence of the degree to which Western TV journalists are simply stenographers to power, the BBC, CNN and others are amply proving it. Mark Regev, Israel's propagandist-in-chief, has the airwaves largely to himself. The passengers on the ships, meanwhile, have been kidnapped by Israel and are unable to provide an alternative version of events. We can guess they will remain in enforced silence until Israel is sure it has set the news agenda.
92. Israel's Crimes, America's Silence
    Resource Type: Article
    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....
93. Israel's Exterminatory Impulse Toward Gaza
    A Protracted Genocide
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Disproportionate power yields the psychopathology of sadism.
94. Israel's 'mad dog' diplomacy doesn't make it more secure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Israel is feeling cornered on every front it considers important; and like Dayan's 'mad dog,' it is likely to strike out in unpredictable ways. These trends are likely only to deepen in the coming months and years. The mad dog is baring his teeth, and it is high time the international community decided how to deal with him.
95. Israel's relentless violence on Gaza met by global silence
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    A ceasefire has been reached in Gaza after Israel launched a wave of airstrikes that killed 34 Palestinians, including eight members of one family. Ali Abunimah of The Electronic Intifada discusses Israel's latest bombings, which come after more than one year of weekly, deadly Israeli attacks on non-violent Palestinian demonstrators.
96. Israel's Struggle Within
    Against The Current vol. 113
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    ATC interviews Uri Davis.
97. Israel's vivid act of piracy may yet turn the tide of global opinion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    In the summer of 1947 a steamer named the Exodus set out from France to run the British blockade of Palestine. The British authorities boarded and seized the ship, and killed three passengers who tried to fight the British attackers. The British succeeded in preventing the ship from landing, but the event helped to turn world public opinion against the British. Israel's attack on the Gaza aid convoy may prove to have the same result.
98. Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Researched, written, and edited by members of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, this pamphlet focuses on the role of Israel’s government, its military, and related corporations and organizations in a global industry of violence and repression. The states most involved with this industry profit from perpetual war and occupation across the globe while maintaining vastly unequal societies of their own.
99. It's not just radicalised Islamists - what about foreign fighters who flock to the IDF? 
    Is the Government interested in UK citizens who have been fighting in Israeli uniform in Gaza in the past couple of weeks?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Let us hope and pray that no UK citizens have been involved in such terrible deeds. But it wouldn’t be a bad idea, would it, if the lads in blue had a friendly word with them when they arrive back at Heathrow – and insist on knowing exactly what they were up to when they wore another country’s uniform.
100. It's Not Piracy!
     The International Law Framework
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The crimes that Israel committed during its assault on the vessels and civilian passengers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla fall firmly within the category of "high crimes." The assault, rather than an act of piracy, must be defined as a "crime against the peace" and a "crime against humanity" as Israel subjected "part of the high seas to its sovereignty" in a murderous attack on unarmed civilian vessels. The severity of these crimes is magnified precisely because the criminal actor is not an individual but a highly militarized state.
101. Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israel's Gaza Offensive
     The International Community Must End Israel's Collective Punishment of the Civilian Population in the Gaza Strip
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, the targeting of objectives providing no effective military advantage, and the intentional targeting of civilians and civilian houses have been persistent features of Israel’s long-standing policy of punishing the entire population of the Gaza Strip, which, for over seven years, has been virtually imprisoned by Israeli imposed closure.
102. Killing Gaza
     A documentary film about life under siege
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2018
     Independent journalists Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen documented Israel’s 2014 assault on Gaza during the war, and chronicled its horrific aftermath. As they waded through the rubble of Gaza’s destroyed border regions, they turned a camera onto the survivors of the slaughter and let them speak for themselves. Dan returned, week after week, to capture on film the daily struggles of the people of Gaza as they suffered through one of the worst winters in recorded history, and then weathered the sweltering summer heat without electricity and -- in many cases -- without homes. While giving voice to the pain of a people under siege, Cohen and Blumenthal also highlighted Gazans’ inspiring acts of creative resistance, from painting to break-dancing to literature, that allow them maintain their humanity in the face of deprivation and war. Yet this film is much more than a documentary about Palestinian resilience and suffering. It is a chilling visual document of war crimes committed by the Israeli military, featuring direct testimony and evidence from the survivors.
103. "Killing Gaza" captures culture of resistance
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Watch Killing Gaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.
104. The Killings Fields of Gaza
     Asymmetric Warfare
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Revelations from Israeli sources such as ‘Breaking the Silence’ and ‘Physicians for Human Rights-Israel’ that the Israeli assaults on Gaza in 2008/9 (Cast Lead) and 2012 (Pillars of Defence) were planned many months ahead pose many questions about the real motives for the seven year siege and these massive attacks on a helpless concentration of impoverished and imprisoned people.
105. Lawyers in EU draw up list of alleged IDF war criminals
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Lawyers in a number of European countries are collecting information on Israeli soldiers who are implicated in war crimes.
106. The Lessons of Lebanon
     Against The Current vol. 124
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     So what has happened to the Israeli army? This question is now being raised not only around the world, but also in Israel itself. Clearly, there is a huge gap between the army's boastful arrogance, on which generations of Israelis have grown up, and the picture presented by this war.
107. Making a Killing
     The Canada-Israel Military-Industrial Partnership
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Canadian companies supply many essential components to Israel's war machine. This pamphlet provides information on the arms trade that will help to strengthen the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions.
108. Manufacturing Consent 
     The Political Economy of the Mass Media
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
109. The Massacre
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1982
     All other news, all other concerns, fade into insignificance beside the enormous horror of the massacre in Beirut. All humanity is outraged at the wanton slaughter of hundreds of men (mainly elderly), women, and children in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. The days of the massacre -- September 16 to 18 -- shall truly live in infamy.
110. The Massacre and the Cover-Up
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Without much stronger international pressure than the international community has applied to date, there is every reason to expect Israeli massacres to steadily become more severe, their PR rationales more outlandish. Mild diplomatic rebukes will not sway them. Unless serious costs are imposed for such crimes, much worse is yet to come.
111. Massacres and Morality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     What can one say about the morality of Israeli soldiers who shoot unarmed protestors, and then are caught on camera cheering their kills? And how do we judge the civilian population of Israel, many of whom openly support and cheer their soldiers as they go about their work of killing Palestinians? And what can we say about the political leaders of other countries, Canada say, who sit down and smile and make deals with officials of the Israeli government at the very moment that the killing is going on?
112. Method and Madness
     The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2015
     In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), have resulted in the deaths of some 3,700 Palestinians. As Norman G. Finkelstein sets out in this concise, paradigm-shifting new book, an examination of Israel's motives reveals a state whose repeated recourse to savage war is far from irrational. Rather, Israel's attacks have been designed to sabotage the possibility of a compromise peace with the Palestinians, even on terms that are favorable to it.
113. The Middle East in Flames
     Against The Current vol. 124
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Andrew Kennedy and Suzi Weismann Interview Gilbert Achcar. Gilbert Achcar is the author of Eastern Cauldron and The Clash of Barbarisms, both published by Monthly Review Press.
114. Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
     The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2010
     Eastern Mediterranean, Monday, May 31st, 2010, 4.30am: Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists are dead, shot by the Israelis. Scores of others are injured. The 700 people on board the ships are arrested and transported to detention centres in Israel, and then deported.
115. The Most Moral Army?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
116. Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing testimonies from doctors, nurses, and ambulance personnel working in the area.
117. My War Diary
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1983
     In this passionate and humane diary, Dov Yermiya, a lieutenant colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces, provides eyewitness accounts of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
118. The myth of Israeli morality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Israel has consistently reacted with repression or even extreme violence to cultural and political manifestations of Palestinian identity.
119. Netanyahu's Operation Stupidity
     Who is Winning in Gaza?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Who is Winning in Gaza? Which must be answered, the Jewish way, with another question: how to judge?
120. NGO Reports on Gaza War Belie Israeli Claims
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     This week, two respected human rights organisations - one Palestinian, one Israeli - each came out with very full reports into the extent of the damage caused by the assault Israel waged against Gaza last winter.
121. Now it's Israel's IDF Leveling Gaza
     Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto, Now it’s Israel’s IDF leveling Gaza.
122. NPR Runs IDF Playbook, Spinning Killing of 17 Palestinians
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The article looks at the NPR reporting on the killing of 17 palestinians, which follows a pro-Israel bias that dates back for years.
123. Occupation 101
     Voices of the Silenced Majority
     Resource Type: Film
     First Published: 2007
     A thorough examination on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
     
124. Occupation captured
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2017
     Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.
125. Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
126. The Occupation's Dark Underbelly Exposed
     The Revelations of the Israeli Refuseniks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     A letter signed by 43 veterans of an elite Israeli military intelligence unit declaring their refusal to continue serving the occupation has sent shockwaves through Israeli society.
127. On Oil and Quicksand
     Against The Current vol. 114
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
128. Open Letter by 50 Israeli Army Reservists on Why They Refuse to Fight in Gaza
     Petition By Israeli soldiers and reservists
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     
129. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 17, 2014
     Gaza
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2014
     Topic of the week is Gaza, which was under attack by Israel as this issue appeared. Articles on surveillance capitalism, the tactics and successes of the movement for same-sex marriage in the United States, and profiles of alternative archives. Website of the week is Democracy Now!
130. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
     Truth, justice and reconciliation
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2014
     Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military.
131. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
     Killings by Police
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2014
     Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
132. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 16, 2014
     Arms Trade
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2014
     Topic of the week is the Arms Trade. Featured resources include The No-Nonsense Guide to the Arms Trade, an article on Israel's War Business, and the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade. A new feature in Other Voices is the Film of the Week: to start off, we spotlight The Corporation, an exploration of the dominant institution of our time. Plus: Lying to ourselves about the air war, Karl Marx's critique of modern agriculture, and a challenge to Montreal's anti-protest bylaw.
133. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
     Libertarian Socialism
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2014
     The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
134. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
     Urban agriculture and local food production
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2015
     This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
135. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
     Disobedience
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2017
     Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
136. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
     Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
137. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
     Massacres and Morality
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     In the wake of Israel's brutal massacres of Palestinian protestors in Gaza in May and June 2018, Other Voices looks at the ways in which state terrorism is used to keep subjugated populations in line, at home or abroad. The issue also questions the morality of those who either support, or keep silent about, the violence of the oppressor.
138. Our exclusive right to self-defense
     Rattling the Cage
     Resource Type: Article
     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."
139. Our Harsh Logic 
     Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2010-2010
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2012
     Testimonies from more than 100 soldiers detailing the viciousness of Israel's military in the occupied Palestinian territories.
140. Personal testimony of an Irraeli refusnik
     Resource Type: Article
     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?
141. Petition in Support of Letter: Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     
142. Pirates of the Mediterranean
     Israel Kidnaps Peace Boat Crew
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On June 30, 2009, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the "Spirit of Humanity" and kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries.
143. Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla - Part 1
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     We are trained to react to violent acts, not on the basis of their objective legality and human cost, but on the basis of the perceived legitimacy of the people committing the act. Violence committed by authority figures will tend to be viewed as legitimate and well-intentioned. Violence committed by non-state actors or "rogue states" resisting the state will tend to be seen as illegitimate and malevolent.
144. The Punishment of Gaza
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2010
     An account of Israel's criminal treatment of Gaza.
145. Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
146. The Real Motive Behind the Gaza Flotilla Attack
     Sabotaging Peace
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Israel's leadership is committed to "a dynamic state bent upon expansion". The greatest threat to continued expansion is the threat of peace. Whenever Israel's leadership is faced with the threat of peace, it initiates violence designed to stop it.
147. Rebutting Israel's "We don't kill civilians on purpose" argument
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The difference between intentional and accidental killing is only relevant when the aim of the violence is a just one. Accidentally killing civilians in the course of using violence to stop oppression is one thing. Doing it in the course of using violence to oppress people is a very different thing. In the case of Israeli violence, the question is not whether Israel intentionally kills civilians. The question is: What is the purpose of Israel's violence?
148. Recruiting To Kill - It Is Not Just An Israeli War On Gaza 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, there is a truth not even America's top diplomat can easily hide. His country is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that is barely inhabitable to begin with.
149. 'Refusing to serve in the army is my small act of making change'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2020
     Hillel Rabin spent 56 days in military prison for refusing to serve in the IDF. Now she opens up about her time behind bars, conversations with her fellow inmates, and talking to young Israelis about the occupation.
150. Remote-Controlled Killing
     The Spot-and-Shoot Game
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The Israeli military is increasingly using remote-controlled weapons to kill Palestinians. Israel's remotely controlled weapons systems are in high demand from repressive regimes and the burgeoning homeland security industries around the globe.
151. The Road to Civil War
     Against The Current vol. 113
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it.
152. Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The Great March of Return is a startling, powerful expression of Palestinian identity and resistance. Thousands of Palestinians have come out, bravely and unapologetically, to say: “We refuse to remain invisible. We reject any attempt to assign us to the discard pile of history. We will exercise our fundamental right to go home.” They have done this unarmed, in the face of Israel’s use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish state’s unapologetic determination to force them back into submissive exile by any means necessary. By doing this repeatedly over the last few weeks, these incredibly brave men, women, and children have done more than decades of essays and books to strip the aura of virtue from Zionism that’s befogged Western liberals’ eyes for 70 years.
153. Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014.
154. 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.
155. The Secrets in Israel's Archives
     Evidence of Ethnic Cleansing Kept Under Lock and Key
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Israel has extended the time limit for releasing documents in its archives to 70 years, to prevent disclosure of evidence of widespread ethnic cleansing. The state's chief archivist says many of the documents "are not fit for public viewing" and raise doubts about Israel's "adherence to international law," while the government warns that greater transparency will "damage foreign relations."
156. Shatila: Remembering the Massacre
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Shatila is probably the most well-known of all the Palestinian refugee camps. In September of 1982, a local Christian militia, known as the Phalange, aided by its Israeli allies, entered Shatila and bordering Sabra, engaging in an orgy of torturing and killing that lasted several days.
157. Shell-Shocked
     On the Ground Under Israel's Gaza Assault
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2015
     Operation Protective Edge, launched in early July 2014, was the third major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in six years. It was also the most deadly. By the conclusion of hostilities some seven weeks later, 2,200 of Gaza's population had been killed, and more than 10,000 injured. In these pages, journalist Mohammed Omer, a resident of Gaza who lived through the terror of those days with his wife and then three-month-old son, provides a first-hand account of life on-the-ground during Israel’s assault.
158. Shock and Awe in Gaza
     How the Media and Human Rights Groups Cover for Israeli War Crimes
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     This assualt on Gaza, like the earlier ones, will leave hundres of Palestinians dead, a majority of them civilians. It will end neither the siege nor the resistance to it. It will outrage public opinion around the globe. But our elities will carry on giving Israel financial, military and diplomatic cover, as they have now done for more than six decades.
159. Shot in the Back
     Did the IDF Execute Mavi Marmara Victims?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     In the Israeli commando assault on the Gaza aid flotilla, if victims were shot in the back or in the back of the head, then one is left really with only two possible conclusions: either the shooters, who were the Israeli commandos (according to Israel, no Israeli soldiers were themselves shot, plus all the recovered bullets were 9 mm, the type of shells in the Israeli weapons, making it clear who had the guns), fired at people who were fleeing from them, or alternatively they shot people from the front, and later executed them with shots to the back of the head, which is maybe even worse (certainly a war crime).
160. Shot in the Head
     Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestinian Children
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     In the past 10 years Israeli forces have killed at least 255 Palestinian minors by fire to the head, and the number may actually be greater, since in many instances the specific bodily location of the lethal trauma is unlisted. In addition, this statistic does not include the many more Palestinian youngsters shot in the head by Israeli soldiers who survived, in one form or another.
161. Sons and mothers vs. sacred cows
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2001
     A growing movement to refuse to serve in the Israeli military and especially in the occupied territories.
162. Spanish Peacekeeper Is the Latest Example of Israel Killing United Nations Personnel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     On January 28th a barrage of Israeli artillery fire struck near the South Lebanese village of Ghajar, killing United Nations peacekeeper Francisco Javier Soria. Soria, 36, was a Spanish citizen deployed with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, a peacekeeping mission tasked with maintaining the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon in the occupied Golan Heights.
163. Special Focus: Israeli Occupying Forces Assault Journalists in the OPT
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     As Israeli violations escalate against Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), journalists and media professionals have also been the subjects of Israeli attacks.
164. Take Israel To International Criminal Court
     Resource Type: Article
     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.
165. A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
166. 'This Time We Went Too Far'
     Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2011
     For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the Israeli invasion of December 2008 was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: In the 22-day-long action 1,400 Gazans were killed, several hundred on the first day alone. And yet, while nothing should diminish Palestinian suffering through those frightful days, it is possible something redemptive is emerging from the tragedy of Gaza. For, as Norman Finkelstein details, the profound injustice of the Israeli assault was widely recognized by bodies that it is impossible to brand as partial or extremist.
167. To the family of the one thousandth victim of Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     This is 2014 — the destruction of Gaza is well documented. This is not 1948 when Palestinians had to struggle hard to tell their story of horror; so many of the crimes Zionist committed then where hidden and never came to light, even until today. So my first and simple pledge is to record, inform and insist on the truth. But surely this is not enough. I pledge to continue the effort to boycott a state that commits such crimes.
168. 'Today is one of the most tragic days in the history of the Jewish people: one American Jews response to the Gaza massacre
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In this open letter to the Westchester Israel Action Committee by congregant Howard Horovitz, Horovitz asks "When will we stand up, as human beings, as a committee and as a Temple, to condemn the massacre of Palestinians on the Gaza border?"
169. Torturing and Jailing Palestinian Children
     Nightmare in the Occupied Territories
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     About 500-700 children are arrested by the Israeli occupation every year, according to Defense for Children International-Palestine. These children face a policy designed to kill their spirit and shut them down. It targets them physically and psychologically.
170. Towards a 'Israeli War Criminals Watch'
     Resource Type: Article
     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.
171. Treading the Borders Between Life and Death
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     During Israel's Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 - January 2009, Israeli forces killed 16 emergency medical staff and injured 57. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), perhaps hundreds of those killed could have survived if emergency services had been able to access them promptly - the access denied to them can be defined as a deliberate violation of the Geneva Conventions and therefore a war crime.
172. The Truth Behind The Israeli Propaganda
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists - and I'm including the BBC's pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships - are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli journalists are writing about the killings with the courage that Western journalists should demonstrate.
173. Turning Blood into Money
     Profiting from Killing
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Yotam Feldman’s documentary The Lab, released in August, is one of the most important exposés of the obscene rationale and execution of Israel’s hugely lucrative arms and security industries through the voices of some of its ex-military key operators: Amos Golan, Shimon Naveh, Leo Gleser, and Yoav Galant.
174. U.N. Team on War Crimes Condemns Israel, Hamas
     Resource Type: Article
     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.
175. US Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli Attack
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     On June 8, 1967, while sailing in international waters, the US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was attacked by air and naval forces of the state of Israel. Of the Liberty's crew of 294, more than half were killed or wounded. More than 40 years later, survivors are still seeking justice.
176. US Provides Israel Weapons Used on Gaza
     Blood on American's Hands
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The United States exported to Israel a substantial amount of the same types of weapons Israel is using to kill Gazans. For example, in 2013, the United States sent Israel at least $196 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters, a category that includes F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, both of which Israel is currently using to attack Gazan homes, offices and farmland. Between January and May 2014, the United States had already exported $92 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters.
177. USA: Stop arms transfers to Israel amid growing evidence of war crimes in Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The US government must immediately end its ongoing deliveries of large quantities of arms to Israel, which are providing the tools to commit further serious violations of international law in Gaza, said Amnesty International, as it called for a total arms embargo on all parties to the conflict.
178. Videos Challenge Israeli Police Account of Shootings
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     It has been called the "smartphone intifada". After a sharp escalation in violence between Palestinians and Israelis in recent weeks, shocking scenes captured on video have spread across social media.
179. A View from Gaza
     This Is a Brutal Attack, Not a "Military Operation"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     In Gaza, recent Israeli military attacks by sea, air and via artillery shells are not part of a war or a military operation though it may look so. It is collective punishment and it is a brutal attack against all Palestinian people, and mainly civilians are paying the price.
180. War Against the People
     Israel, The Palestinians and Global Pacification
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2015
     Governments today are waging a 'war against the people' -- whether 'securitization' against asylum seekers in Fortress Europe, 'counterinsurgency' in Afghanisation, or the subliminal war of policy and surveillance arising everywhere. Israel's contribution to this is key: exporting the high-tech weaponry, security systrems and methods of pacification perfected on the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.
181. 'War crimes': Israeli bombs wiped out entire families in Gaza, Amnesty says
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Israel used disproportionate military force during its summer operation in Gaza. Entire Palestinian families were killed when their homes were leveled by Israeli bombs falling with no warning and for little military gain, Amnesty International said.
182. Watch: Al Jazeera’s "Massacre at Dawn" Gives Glimpse of Horror in Shujaiya
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Thinking that the footage contained in Massacre at Dawn is just a fraction of the horror makes it even worse. No wonder Israel prevented media from covering the brutality that our people endured there.
183. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     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.
184. West Bank land belongs to Jews says Israeli judge
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Major Adrian Agassi is a senior Israeli judge who first served in the legal department that oversaw the confiscation of land in the West Bank to build Jewish settlements and was then appointed to the military court that decides -- and almost always denies -- Palestinian appeals against the seizure of their property, and that also rules on legal disputes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians. Judge Agassi maintains that people like himself, a Jew born in Britain, have more right to live in Palestine than people who were born there. He denies, however, that his beliefs affect his ability to make fair and impartial rulings.
185. West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
186. What Really Happened in Gaza
     Israel Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     The official storyline is that Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense on 14 November, 2012 because, in President Barack Obama’s words, it had “every right to defend itself.” The facts, however, suggest otherwise.
187. Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Since US media are reporting the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza as though it is a defensive action, I thought I would set the record straight. Israeli forces shelled and invaded Gaza BEFORE the rockets began. Rockets were fired only after numerous Palestinians, including many children, had been killed.
188. Who is Afraid of a Real Inquiry?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     If a real Commission of Inquiry had been set up into the Free Gaza Flotilla attack (instead of the pathetic excuse for a commission), here are some of the questions it should have addressed.
189. Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     
190. Why we walked out
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     Students across the US are protesting a public relations campaign that brings soldiers from the Israeli army to speak on campuses. These tours are an attempt to justify recent war crimes committed by the army.
191. A Wikileak on the US and Al-Jazeera
     Blaming and (Killing) the Messenger
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2011
     A Wikileaks-released cable from the U.S. embassy in Doha, Qatar, shows that U.S. officials were angry with Al Jazeera in the wake of Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza, because, alone of news networks the world over, al-Jazeera had actually shown what was happening on the ground to Gazan civilians besieged by an unrelenting Israeli air, artillery, and ground attack.
192. Will ANC government ever prosecute South Africans in Israeli Army?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were. How come the same reaction is not applied to South African Zionist Jews serving in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)?
193. A window to hell in Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Spending the day of 17 August in Khuzaa was like peering through a window to hell. But what we witnessed in the landscape of apocalyptic oblivion paled in comparison to the experience described to me by two Palestine Red Crescent volunteers who had attempted to break through the Israeli military cordon during the siege of the town.

Experts on Israelische Streitkr„fte in the Sources Directory

1. Electronic Intifada