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Abbas fears the Prisoners' Hunger Strike
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is due to meet Donald Trump to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. Back home, things are heating up. There is anger in the West Bank, both on the streets and within the ranks of Abbas's Fatah movement. The trigger is a hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners.
Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace
Resource Type: Article
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.
Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 1986
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
Al-Nakba
A series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
For Palestinians, 1948 marks the 'nakba' or the 'catastrophe', when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes. But for Israelis, the same year marks the creation of their own state. This series attempts to present an understanding of the events of the past that are still shaping the present.
The Alternative Information Center
A Bridge of Information and Israeli Palestinian Co-operation
Resource Type: Website
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.
America's last taboo
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1983
Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
Anti-Semitism, Zionism, and the Defense of Palestinian Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Arab Jews vs. Palestinians: Israel's Refugee Pawns
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Israel's attempt to compare Arab Jews to Palestinian refugees.
Authors of Gaza youth manifesto speak to Electronic Intifada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
We, the youth of Gaza, who make up sixty percent of Gaza's 1.6 million residents, have increasingly felt repressed in many aspects, starting from the long-standing Israeli occupation of our lands -- particularly the four-year-old Israeli blockade of Gaza -- through the injustice inflicted everywhere by the rulers of Gaza, who we elected four years ago.
Bat Shalom (Daughter of Peace)
Resource Type: Website
Feminist peace organization working toward a just peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours.
Bertrand Russell's Last Message
Resource Type: Article
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.
Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
Bustan
Resource Type: Website
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
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.
Carter's Inconvenient Truths
An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda
Resource Type: Article
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 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.
The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2005
Book review.
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."
ChestDoc in Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
A Child in Palestine
The Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
Presents the work of Naji Al-Ali, a leading Palestinian political cartoonist, and is introduced by Joe Sacco, author of Palestine.
Christian Evangelicals Increasingly Support Palestinian Human Rights
David Brog, the Attorney Behind CUFI
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Support for Israel is eroding among American evangelical Christians, with only 30 percent in a recent survey stating support for Israel above Palestinians.
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.
Color of Violence
The INCITE! Anthology
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2006
An anthology of critical writings demanding that we address violence against women of color in all its forms, including interpersonal violence, such as sexual and domestic violence, and state violence, such as police brutality, militarism, attacks on immigrants and Indian treaty rights, the proliferation of prisons, economic neo-colonialism, and violence from the medical industry.
Comparison of military strength of Israel and the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
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).
Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict
Resource Type: Article
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 mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
A Country Of Sacred Cows And Ten Commandments
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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.
Crayons of Askalan
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adaw is sentenced and confined in the high security prison of Askalan, Israel for fifteen years. With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons and smuggling out his allegorical artwork done on pillowcases, so it finds its way to the outside world.
Creating A Giant Ghetto in Gaza
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
I is possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the United States, in close cooperation with Europe, are now engaged in a rigorous scientific experiment in order to obtain a definitive answer.
Disaster and Mental Health
The Palestinian Experience
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2002
If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
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.
Drinking the Sea at Gaza
Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996 Published: 1999
Israeli journalist Amira Hass describes life in Gaza under Israeli siege.
Education gap divides Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article
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.
Electronic Intifada
Resource Type: Website
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.
Ethnic Cleansing of Invented People
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Once we connect the dots it is not hard to see that the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza is only a small part of the Israeli Palestinian issue. The greater issue is the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine by the Zionist state. The way forward for Israelis and Palestinians alike is to oppose the ethnic cleansing by opposing all its manifestations.
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.
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
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
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.
False Prophets of Peace
Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Honig-Parnass unearths the central role played by the Israeli Left in laying the foundation for the colonial settler project and its campaign of dispossession.
The Fateful Triangle
Israel, the United States and the Palestinians
Resource Type: Book
Chomsky examines how Israel has systematically tried to eradicate the Palestinians as a political, national and cultural entity by stealing their land, invasion and occupation and how this has been made possible by U.S. aid.
Fearsome Words?
Nationalism and the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Article
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.
5 Broken Cameras
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2011
A deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank whose lands are being systematically seized to make room for illegal Israeli settlements. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat's cameras, the low-cost film documents Bil'in's weekly protests against land seizures by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers. Neighbors are killed in the protests and demolition equipment mars the landscape while the filmmaker captures his infant son's rapid loss of innocence, heralded by his first words: "wall" and "army."
'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
Free Abdallah Abu Rahmah, Now!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
In a sense, Bilin is the Soweto, the Derry and the Chiapas of the beginning of the 21st century, with two specificities: it is a civic non-violent mobilization and it is based on a strong alliance between the local Palestinian population, the Israeli anti-colonialist movement and active international solidarity.
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.
French Jews for Palestinian Rights
Against The Current vol. 89
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2000
The following text (abridged here) was published in the French daily Le Monde of October 18, 2000 accompanied by the signatures of fifty French people of Jewish origin, several of them well-known political or intellectual figures. Citizens of the countries in which we live and citizens of the planet, we do not habitually express ourselves as Jews.
From Gaza, with Love
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2006
A blog by Dr. Mona El-Farra, about women, health, children and human rights in Occupied Palestine.
Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
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.
Gaza 2009: De-Osloizing the Palestinian Mind
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The lesson we learn from Gaza 2009 is to harness all effort to fight the outcome of the Oslo Accords, and to form a United Front on a platform of resistance and reforms. This cannot be achieved without dismantling the PA and realizing that ministries, premierships, and presidencies in Gaza and Ramalah are a façade not unlike the South African Independent Homelands with their tribal chiefs. The classical national program, created and adopted by the Palestinian bourgeoisie has reached its end unsuccessfully.
Gaza: Health System in Collapse
Resource Type: Article
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: 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.
Gaza Peace Protester Is Prisoner In Own Home
Resource Type: Article
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.
Gaza, The World's Largest Outdoor Prison
Against The Current vol. 134
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Sara Roy couldn't have predicted the deterioration of Gaza since the 2005 unilateral pullout of Israeli occupation forces and settlers any more effectively than in her book Failing Peace: Gaza and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. For those seeking a thorough understanding of the failure for peace to spontaneously erupt upon the exit of the settlers from Gaza, Failing Peace is a valuable resource.
Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).
Gazan Youth's Manifesto for Change
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
We, the youth in Gaza, are so fed up with Israel, Hamas, the occupation, the violations of human rights and the indifference of the international community!
Gaza's Kite Runners
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Gazan children's kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
George Bush's Unending War and Israel
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
The present U.S. strategy, defined by the neo-cons at the end of the 1980s, is no longer a strategy of stabilizing world order and building a “new Middle East” through multilateral negotiations, but imposing the “American age,” i.e. U.S. total hegemony, by a global non-ending preemptive war. The Israeli war against the Palestinian people and against Lebanon is part of this global war; indeed, it is the United States’ most advanced and important front.
The Great Fear of Israel's Leaders
Resource Type: Article
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.
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.
Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
These days one hears a lot about Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, adults who have been specifically trained for warfare, who are nevertheless traumatized by the experience of seeing comrades injured or killed, or suffering injuries or danger themselves. The trauma goes on, long after the experience has ended and they are back in a place of safety. How much worse then for children in Gaza who witness and experience these events day after day, week after week with no end and with no place of safety.
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.
Historic Declaration by Palestinians, Israelis in Support of Israeli Social Protest, Anti-Colonial Struggle
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2011
Some 20 political parties and social movements from both sides of the Green Line issued an historic declaration in support of the social protests currently rocking Israel and their necessary linkage to the struggle against Israel’s occupation and colonial policies.
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 Hour of Sunlight
One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Traces al Jundi's evolution from Palestinian militant to prisoner to peacemaker.
How Israel Stacks the Legal Deck
Court System Provides Little Justice for Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
To Palestinians, Israeli military courts are sites of repression, not houses of justice. Palestinian defendants facing trial in 2010 were found guilty in 99.74% cases.
How Many Divisions?
Israel is losing this war
Resource Type: Article
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.
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here (Wulidtu hunak, wulidtu huna)
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009 Published: 2001
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.
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.
In Search of Fatima
A Palestinian Story
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2004
A frank and intimate memoir by diaspora Palestinian Ghada Karmi, detailing her experiences of displacement, nostalgia and loss.
Incarcerated Inside Israel
Palestinians Tortured and Isolated
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2012
Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and indeed children.
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.
Insisting on Humanity
The Plight of the Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
It is important that we preserve the distinction between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people, who have held on to their rights for so many years, and unleashed two of the greatest expressions of people's power and resolve: the First Uprising of 1987 and al-Aqsa Intifada of 2000. A whole population taking on the self-celebrated "greatest army in the Middle East" is hardly "powerless". The Palestinian people have printed themselves on the practical discourse of this conflict, and they have proved themselves to be powerful players in determining their own fate.
International Solidarity Movement
Resource Type: Website
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
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 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?
Is It Realistic to Demand the Right of Return of Palestinian Refugees?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Israel and apartheid: A fair comparison?
Resource Type: Article
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 the Arabs: the good guys don't always wear white hats
Review of Israel: A Colonial-Settler State, by Maxime Rodinson
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 1973
The tragedy of two peoples brought into conflict by forces largely outside of their control.
Israel Continues Its Attack on Palestinian Freedom of Expression
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The arrest of a teenager for voicing an opinion on a social media site raises serious concerns over freedom of expression in Israel.
Israel in Gaza: A Critical Reframing
Resource Type: Article
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
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 Torture
Against The Current vol. 125
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
An interview with Marty Rosenbluth. Marty Rosenbluth is Amnesty International’s country specialist for Israel, the Occupied Territories and the Palestinian Authority.
Israel/Palestine: "It's Complicated" ... Or Is It?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
We often hear it said that the Israel/Palestine conflict is complicated. But is it really?
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.
Israel & Palestine The occupation is killing us all
New Internationalist August 2002 - #348
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2002
An in-depth look into the conflict between Israel and Palestine. Discusses modern myths that have further fuelled the conflict, possible paths to peace, and the role of the United States in the issue.
Israel Steps up Dirty Tricks Against Boycott Leaders
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
The current obsession with the challnege posed by BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) reflects a changing political environment for Israel.
Israeli activists 'thought it nice' to hold BBQ near Palestinian hunger strikers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
In the face of increasing human rights abuses being committed towards Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, an Israeli right-wing group mocked the Palestinian mass hunger strike by hosting a BBQ outside a military prison.
Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2009
A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
Resource Type: Article
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 Deaths Matter More
Resource Type: Article
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 guards 'humiliated inmates'
Resource Type: Article
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 minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
Resource Type: Article
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 Police Impunity
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Israeli police expect, and usually receive, impunity for using violence against Palestinians.
Israeli Soldiers Sexually Abuse Palestinian Children
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Israeli Violations of Human Rights
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Speech by Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one."
Israelis Targeting Grassroots Activists
Resource Type: Article
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
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 approved ethnic cleansing
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 1956
Excerpt:

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
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
First Published: 2009
Israel's private sector is almost entirely closed to Arab women because of discriminatory practices by employers.
Israel's Gaza backlash targets Arab minority
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Israel's large Palestinian minority is facing an unprecedented backlash of incitement and violent reprisals as Israeli Jews rally behind the current military operations in Gaza, human rights groups and political activists have warned.
Israel's Struggle Within
Against The Current vol. 113
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
ATC interviews Uri Davis.
Israel's "Withdrawal" Toward Apartheid
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
David Finkel interviews Jeff Halper. “From Sharon's point of view it’s a done deal. Israel has won its century-old conflict with the Palestinians,” writes Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.
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.
Jeff Halper's Obstacles to Peace
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
“The occupation challenges us all… Can a system of control, displacement, denial of fundamental rights and repression actually prevail? What does it mean if we are unable to end an occupation that is growing continually stronger by the day, before our very eyes, in defiance of international law and more than 200 UN resolutions? If occupation and repression actually defeat a people’s aspirations for freedom and fundamental human rights, then what are the implications for oppressed peoples in other parts of the world far from public attention?”
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article
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.
Keys, comb and a plant: Palestinians tell of their past through cherished belongings
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2015
The first national museum for the geographically dispersed and exiled Palestinian people is taking shape, not only physically but conceptually. The goal is "to connect the Palestinians and present different narratives to the world of who we are, where we come from and what we aspire." Since the Israeli occupation authorities prevent many Palestinians from travelling to their homeland, the Palestinian Museum seeks to become the hub connecting a network of institutions in Jordan, Beirut, Gaza, Haifa and elsewhere.
Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
The most tragic casualty in a conflict is that of a child, the most disturbing casualty in a conflict is that of a child killed purposely. In Palestine there is a disturbingly tragic high rate of children killed by those sporting the uniform of Israeli armed forces.
The lessons we have learned
Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope?
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2006
We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
Looking at Israel from the other side
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
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
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: Website
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.
Marching to Jerusalem
Searching for Dignity in Occupied East Jerusalem
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
46 years ago, Israel seized East Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has undertaken measures to restrict Palestinian movement.
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.
Martin Kramer, Harvard and the Eugenics of Zion
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
At Herzliya the cream of the Zionist security elite gather to raise the alarm about Arab births and hear scholarly analyses of family size and fertility rates among Jews and Arabs as 'existential' threats to the State. Meanwhile, in the Israeli Knesset there are elaborate debates on how to define who is a Jew and who is not - along with legislating what extra privileges should be allocated to the former and denied to the latter. It would be hard to imagine another modern country where such discussions are part of the intellectual mainstream, rather than isolated in the more shadowy fringes of racist right-wing politics. Similar attitudes are expressed in the Zionist Diaspora, where bemoaning Jewish assimilation, promoting Jewish childbearing and financing Aliya to strengthen Israel's Jewish demography are common themes. Early eugenicists (and their successors) once warned against 'miscegenation' and 'mongrelization' as a danger to the White Aryan Race. Today, Jewish charities like the Robert I. Lappin Charitable Foundation announce their prime mission as education against 'intermarriage.'
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.
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?
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.
New Democracy Internet site
Resource Type: Website
Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
New report details 'brutal' Israeli policies
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
The first bullet struck 16-year-old Samir Awad in his left leg. He staggered away as fast as he could, but was too slow. A second round slammed into his left shoulder, exiting from the right side of his chest. Then, moments later, a third bullet penetrated the back of his skull and exited from his forehead.
Not In My Name
Resource Type: Website
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
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.
NYT op-ed describing Israel as a place of refuge is missing the word, Palestinians
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
A rebuke by author Levine to the New York Times op-ed written by Susan Silverman titled "How Did Israel Become A Place of No Refuge?".
Occupation captured
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.
Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
Occupation Diaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
An inside look at daily life in Palestine.
The Occupier Defines Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
On Nakba Day Palestinians in Gaza explain why they joined the 'Great March of Return'
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2018
Palestinian refugees in their own words, on the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel. In the context of the 2018 opening of the USA embassy in Jerusalem.
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.
On Palestinian Civil Disobedience
The Google Matrix
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Human rights organizations have documented the forms of repression Israel deploys against villages that resist the annexation of their land. Once a village decides to struggle against the annexation barrier the entire community is punished. In addition to home demolitions, curfews and other forms of movement restriction, the Israeli occupation forces consistently use violence against the protestors - and most often targets the youth -- beating, tear-gassing, as well as deploying both lethal and 'non-lethal' ammunition against them.
An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2017
This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
The Other Israel
The Radical Case Against Zionism
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1972
A collective effort by a small group of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel to penetrate the dense net of illusion and myth that dominates the thinking and feeling of most Israelis and, at the same time, determines the prevailing image of Israel in the Western world. According to the Zionist fairy tale, the state of Israel is an outpost of democracy, social justice, and enlightenment, and a homeland and haven for the persecuted Jews of the world. The reality, as this book demonstrates, is utterly different.
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.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 30, 2016
Conflict of interest
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices shines a light on the murky world of conflict of interest, the hidden reality that often underlies appearances of neutrality, objectivity, and due process. Conflicts of interest are inherent in capitalism, a system founded on the premise that the state and society should be subordinated to economic self-interest and the accumulation of private wealth. Scientists who are supposed to be studying the effects of GMOs are funded by agribusiness corporations. Doctors who receive money from pharmaceutical companies write articles promoting the drugs produced by those companies. Decisions about pipelines are made by regulators who have spent years working in the oil industry, and who will be heading back to jobs in the industry after their stint 'regulating' it. Politicians receive campaign funds from corporate lobbyists.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 18, 2016
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2016
This issue of Other Voices features a wide range of issues. The topic of the week is homophobia, the hate that led to 49 deaths in Orlando last week, but which is present in greater or lesser form in every part of the world.
We are always concerned, not only with what is wrong with the world, but what to do about it.
This issue carries an excerpt from Umair Mohammed's book 'Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in the Age of Individualism' in which he warns against the pitfalls of individualist and consumer-oriented approaches and argues in favour of collective action to build an effective movement.
Derrick Jensen considers some of the arguments in favour of pacifism and finds them wanting. He agrees that creative approaches to social change can oftentimes make violence unnecessary, but that sometimes violence is a necessary response to violence.
Another article looks at the decline of liberation theology, targeted as a threat by both the Vatican and secular power structures.
Kenan Malik considers the issue of "cultural appropriation" and asks why so many on theso-called left are more interested in criticizing Justin Bieber's hairstyle than in fighting capitalism.
Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
First Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
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.
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.
Our Way to Fight
Peace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2011
Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people to action, and the escalating risks they face in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. The title is borrowed from a young Palestinian who makes and teaches film in the Jenin refugee camp. "This is my way to fight," he said. Like other people featured in the book, he is a peace activist. Like them he is also, in his own way, a freedom fighter. If a just peace can grow in this beautiful, hard land, the seeds for it will have been planted by people like these.
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 & Palestinians Guidebook
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003 Published: 2005
More than an ordinary tourist guidebook, this book provides an in-depth discovery of the entire range of Palestinian culture: historical, archaelogical, religious, and architectural, as well as the daily realities of the Israeli occupation.
Palestine Chronicle
Resource Type: Website
An independent online newspaper that provides daily news, commentary, features and book reviews on a variety of subjects, yet is largely focused on Palestine, the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Middle East as a whole. The Palestine Chronicle team consists of professional journalists and respected writers and authors who don't speak on behalf of any political party or champion any specific political agenda.
Palestine in Israeli School Books
Ideology and Propaganda in Education
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2012
How are Palestine, and the Palestinians, portrayed in the Israeli school system? Nurit Peled-Elhanan argues that the textbooks used in the school system are laced with a pro-Israel ideology, and that they play a part in priming Israeli children for military service.
Palestine/Israel: A single state, with liberty and justice for all
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The notion of religious-ethnocentric entitlement and exclusivity for one people at the expense of another has been rejected the world over. Palestinians reject it and we assert that we are human beings worthy of the same human rights accorded to the rest of humanity; that we are worthy of our homes and farms, our heritage, our churches and mosques, and our history; and that we should not be expected to negotiate with our oppressors for such basic dignities. The two-state solution was and remains an instrument to circumvent the basic human rights of Palestinians in order to accommodate Israel's desire to be Jewish. Polls show that Palestinians refuse to be the enemies of our Jewish brothers and sisters anywhere, just as we refuse to be oppressed by them.
Palestine Media Watch
Resource Type: Website
PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
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.
The Palestine Review: E-Books
Resource Type: Website
Free books on Palestine and the Mideast. Hundreds of free books: the largest online library of free ebooks on Palestine, the Palestinians, and Palestinian history available anywhere.
Palestinian Children and Israeli State Violence
Resource Type: Book
Palestinian Democracy
Against The Current vol. 121
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Few elections throughout the world have been perceived by the local population, as well as international observers, as democratic and transparent as the Palestinian ones. At first glance, Palestine seems to be the perfect example of the “democratization of the Middle East” that President George W. Bush and his administration are fighting for.
Palestinian farmers face settler terror
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2004
Jewish settlers have a long history of terrorising olive farmers, and they are now increasingly resorting to a worrying tactic: poisoning Palestinian water sources.
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.
Palestinian Women Suffer as Israel Violates CEDAW
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Palestinian women continue to suffer abuse and denial of basic human rights at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
The Palestinians: "We Shall Not Be Moved"
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2021
The resolve of the Palestinians to live on the land that is rightly theirs, despite all the Israeli efforts to dislodge them and drive them out, has never wavered. Just as the long struggle of African Americans has persisted in the face of white resistance.For both peoples their simple determination to win their rights remains their greatest strength.
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.
Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1997
Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
Photographing Tragedy
What Victims Actually Want
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
What is the use of a photo when the human conscience has grown numb, and barely appreciates the artistic expression of the photo, not the moral and political crisis it represents?
Power to the (Palestinian) People!
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
I am not a Palestinian; I am not one of the oppressed. I only hope I can use my privilege in an effective way in order to redeem the gift the people of Gaza have given all of us: the realization that the people do have power and can prevail even in the face of overwhelming power. We may each express our responsibility towards the people of Gaza in whatever way most suits us, but as the privileged we must do something.
Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1996
A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article
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.
The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1993
a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
Put the Palestinians On A Diet
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Israel has been forced to reveal what Palestinians and other observers on the ground have known for a long time: that the blockade of Gaza is state policy intended to inflict collective punishment, not to bolster Israeli “security”.
Quest for Justice
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2002
Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
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.
Racist Universities?
New Rules Favor Former IDF Soldiers
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticised by lawyers and human rights groups.
Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2008
Radical Digressions 6
Resource Type: Website
First Published: 2009
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 Ramallah Concert
Resource Type: Film/Video
First Published: 2005 Published: 2006
This concert by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra took place in August of 2005 in the Palestinian Territory in the city of Ramallah and includes repertoire that Daniel Barenboim is famous for, such as Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola and the ""Nimrod"" variation from Elgar's ""Enigma Variations."" Also includes a feature-length documentary: ""Knowledge is the Beginning"", which was filmed over a six-year period and tells the story of Barenboim's development of the orchestra through interviews, rehearsal and concert excerpts.
Redress Information & Analysis
Exposing injustice, disinformation and bigotry
Resource Type: Website
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
First Published: 1978
I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
A Rejoinder to Joel Kovel
Against The Current vol. 133
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2008
Joel Kovel is to be congratulated on the successful struggle to overturn the outrageous University of Michigan Press decision to halt distribution of Overcoming Zionism. To whatever extent the controversy has boosted the book’s sales and stimulated discussion of the issues it raised, so much the better.
Reporting from Ramallah
An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
Amira Hass, a Jewish Israeli journalist lives in the Palestinian town of Ramallah. These dispatches cover five years of her reporting
Resistance in Gaza: Young Palestinians Find Their Voice Through Hip-Hop
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Making music is a form of resistance to war and occupation, and also a tool to communicate the reality of life in Palestine.
Review: Political War Over Palestine
Against The Current vol. 131
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
It has become impossible to review titles like these, or discuss the issues they raise, without reference to the rise of an exceptionally vicious campaign against critical activist voices and academic scholarship on Palestine and Israel.
Revisiting the partition of Palestine
Resource Type: Article
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.
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.
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.
The Root of the Mid-East Conflict and the Reason Our Government Supports Israel's Government
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
How should decent people respond to the Middle-East conflict? We should support equality, not Zionist ethnic cleansing. Equality is the way to make a better world for ordinary people from Watertown to Ramallah to Tel Aviv, and it is the only way to end racist ideologies such as anti-Semitism and Zionism.
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."
Seth Farber's Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
Against The Current vol. 120
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
My grandparents came to America from Hungary in 1912. My family who stayed there and the Hungarian Jewish population were mostly killed by the fascists in the bitter winter of 1944, some 800,000. Twenty thousand alone died of the cold and disease, huddled in the great unheated synagogue, the largest in the world, on Dohany Street in Budapest.
Sharon and my Mother-in-Law
Ramallah Diaries
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2003
A diary of everyday life under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, depicting the Kafkaesque absurdities and injustices Palestinians are forced to live with.
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.
Shooting Back
Young Palestinians With Cameras
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
For the past three years, Btselem, the Israeli human rights NGO, has provided cameras and training to young Palestinians as part of its camera distribution project, to collect video evidence of abuses and misconduct by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) and Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
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.
Social media giants repress Palestinian content
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2022
Silicon Valley is solidly entrenching itself as a devoted enemy of political dissent. As the West implements draconian sanctions against Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, including the banning of the Russian news outlets RT and Sputnik from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok as well as search engine results, social media censorship of political messaging about the Palestinian liberation struggle continues.
South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
Stop That Shit
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2006
Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Strip-Searching Children
Humiliation and Child Abuse at Israeli Checkpoints
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2007
Israeli officials have been regularly strip-searching children for decades.
Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
Top Ten Reasons East Jerusalem does not belong to Jewish-Israelis
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
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.
A truly fragile identify
Resource Type: Article
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
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.
Understanding Power
The Indispensable Chomsky
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 2001 Published: 2002
In a series of enlightening and wide-ranging discussions, all published here for the first time, Chomsky radically reinterprets the events of the past three decades, covering topics from foreign policy during Vietnam to the decline of welfare under the Clinton administration. As he elucidates the connection between America's imperialistic foreign policy and the decline of domestic social services, Chomsky also discerns the necessary steps to take toward social change.
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
Violent, Genocidal Anti-Palestinian Rhetoric Moving to US?
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2014
Earlier this week the Times of Israel published a post, written by American Yochanan Gordon, titled "When Genocide is Permissible," which concludes with the following question:
"If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?"
Voices for Palestine
Resource Type: Website
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
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
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.
The Wanted 18
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2016
A claymation comic that showcases the BDS movement through the establishment of a Palestinian dairy co-operative in Beit Sahour.
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.
The War Isn't Over, But Israel Has Lost
Resource Type: Article
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.
What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
"What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm" was initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace as an investigation into the current state of thinking about one state and two state solutions, and the collection has been further expanded by Mondoweiss to mark 20 years since the beginning of the Oslo peace process.
What Comes Next: Towards a bi-national end-game in Palestine/Israel
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2013
Jeff Halper suggests that the best political system to express both the desires of the two national communities of Palestine/Israel for self-determination and of its individual citizens for democracy would seem to be a consociational democracy.
What Should Be Done in Palestine
Israel Shamir's Talk at the Ankara Conference
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2009
Indeed, the whole story of Palestine is a story of immigrants taking over a country. Such things happen: immigrants from Britain took over North America and Australia. This is a sad thing, but it happened. Now it is not realistic to hope that they will sail back to England - they won't. It is wrong to try and create an 'independent state' for the native Americans - such independent states are called 'reservations'. The right answer is equality for native and immigrant alike. Some Jews would complain that they want a state of their own. We shall answer them: you have built on sand, and a house built on sand can't stand forever. If you want a state of your own without anybody else, find yourself a lonely uninhabited island. Palestine was, and is, populated; the best you can wish is to be equal citizens in Palestine with everybody else.
What's in a name? In a racist society, everything
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
In our society refusal to contemplate a relationship with a person from another ethnic or religious background is described and denounced as racism or bigotry. In Israel it is protected by law.
When journalists forget that murder is murder
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2001
When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
Resource Type: Article
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
First Published: 2009
Why Israel Won't Survive
Resource Type: Article
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
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
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
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 NGO Monitor is attacking The Electronic Intifada
Resource Type: Article
First Published: 2010
NGO Monitor has launched a campaign targeting a Dutch foundation's financial support to The Electronic Intifada, accusing the publication among other things of "anti-Semitism." NGO Monitor is an extreme right-wing group with close ties to the Israeli government, military, and West Bank settlers,
World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book
First Published: 1994
Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
ZNet Israel-Palestine Watch
Resource Type: Website
Progressive Web site with extensive coverage of Israel-Palestine.

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