1. Abandoned in the Cold and Dark
   Living Under Siege people of Gaza
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2013
   The world has forgotten Gaza, its women and children. The people of Gaza are being crushed under the Israeli blockade which severely restricts essential supplies coming into the strip. The blockade is as bad as the war; it’s like a slow death for everyone in Gaza.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Armed robbery in Gaza - Israel, US, UK carve up the spoils of Palestine's stolen gas
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Israel desperately covets Gaza's gas as a 'cheap stop-gap' yielding revenues of $6-7 billion a year, writes Nafeez Ahmed. But first Hamas must be 'uprooted' from Gaza, and Fatah bullied into cutting off its talks with Russia's Gazprom.
5. 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.
6. The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammad 
   A song for Gaza
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   
7. Born in Gaza
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   First Published: 2014
   Born in Gaza provides an intimate, deep look of how violence transforms the lives of ten children in Gaza.
8. Breaking the last taboo - Gaza and the threat of world war
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2014
   Pilger discusses the attack on Gaza and the denial of justice to Palestinians. He warns against the threat of a new world war growing by the day.
9. But What About Hamas's Rockets?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2021
   We must be clear: What started this immediate horror was the intensification of Israel’s ethnic-cleansing campaign against Palestinians in East Jerusalem.
10. 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.
11. Code Pink's Gaza Delegation
    Against The Current vol. 140
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    I was part of a delegation of 62 people that entered Gaza on March 7, 2009. The purpose of our trip, organized by the women’s antiwar organization Code Pink, was to challenge the Israeli/Egyptian and U.S.-sanctioned blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, which has been in force since the Palestinian elections of 2006.
12. 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.
13. Crossing Rafah
    Heading to Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. '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.
19. 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.
20. Dying of Thirst in Gaza
    In Gaza, Even the Water is Occupied Territory
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    In 2012, the United Nations issued a report entitled Gaza 2020: A livable place?, with a question mark. If the report took off the question mark, it would’ve answered its own question in the title. No, it's not.
21. 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.
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. "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.
24. 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.
25. 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.
26. Fathi Harb burnt himself to death in Gaza: Will the world notice?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Self-immolation is more than suicide. That can be done quietly, out of sight, less gruesomely. In fact, figures suggest that suicide rates in Gaza have rocketed in recent years. But public self-immolation is associated with protest.
27. Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza - Debunked
    Israel claims that it is merely exercising its right to self-defense and that Gaza is no longer occupied. Here's what you need to know about
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israel has killed almost 800 Palestinians in the past 21 days in the Gaza Strip alone; its onslaught continues. The UN estimates that more than 74 percent of those killed are civilians. Israel does not deny that it killed those Palestinians using modern aerial technology and precise weaponry courtesy of the world’s only superpower. In fact, it does not even deny that they are civilians.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. 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.
    
31. From Klinghoffer to the Gaza Flotilla
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Under the Rome Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts against the Safety of Maritime Navigation of 1988, it is an international crime for any person to seize or exercise control over a ship by force, and also a crime to injure or kill any person in the process. The treaty necessarily adopts a strict approach. One cannot attack a ship and then claim self-defense if the people on board resist the unlawful use of violence. In other words, according to international law, the actions of the Israeli military were beyond the law and those involved should be treated no differently than, say, the Somali pirates who are also in the habit of boarding ships by force.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. Gaza Calling
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2013
    For over six years, two Palestinian families are split between the West Bank and Gaza; mothers and sons are forbidden from travelling the one-hour road that separates them. Witness the personal cost of Israel's illegal occupation.
35. Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
    Resource Type: Website
    A Palestinian non-governmental, non-profit organization established in 1990 to provide comprehensive community mental health services - therapy, training and research - to the population of the Gaza Strip.
36. Gaza Fights for Freedom
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2019
    Filmed during the height of the Great March Of Return protests, it features exclusive footage of demonstrations where 200 unarmed civilians have been killed by Israeli snipers since March 30, 2018.
37. Gaza Freedom March Blocked
    Against The Current vol. 145
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Fourteen hundred international activists mobilized in Cairo, Egypt in late December for a Gaza Freedom March (GFM) to break the siege imposed by the U.S., Israeli and Egyptian governments. The marchers were blocked and attacked by Egyptian police and military forces; there can be no doubt that the authorization for these assaults and the orders to block the march from reaching Gaza came directly from the U.S. administration.
38. 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.
39. Gaza in Ruins
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Gaza is a ruin, populated by nearly two million people. The July-August 2014 bombardment of this tiny enclave by Israel resulted in over 2,500 dead Palestinians and an infrastructure -- already weak -- utterly destroyed. A garrotted sliver of land that sits on the Mediterranean Sea, Gaza cannot import goods to survive, let alone to reconstruct the damage. Oxfam says that it would take over a hundred years to bring Gaza back to the conditions in June 2014 because of the ongoing Israeli siege. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an agency tasked with the provision of relief to the Palestinian refugees, complained that "people are literally sleeping amongst the rubble; children have died of hypothermia." Pledges for relief are not delivered, and even if they would be handed over to the United Nations (UN), the Israeli embargo makes it impossible for goods to enter Gaza. Gaza, like the rest of Palestine, is condemned to purgatory.
40. 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.
41. Gaza - is annexation Israel's 'permanent solution'?
    The real estate of Gaza would be an additional boon - and a highly valuable one, releasing 365 square kilometres of prime development land,
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    As Israel pursues its war on Gaza with ever-increasing ferocity, and with 25% of Gaza's people forced from their homes, what's the final objective? It's unthinkable that Israel's aim is to 'cleanse' the territory of its people, seize its vast gas reserves, and annex some of the Med's hottest real estate. Isn't it?
42. Gaza: Israel's $4 billion gas grab
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The purpose of Israel's escalating assault on Gaza is to control the Territory's 1.4 trillion cubic feet of gas - and so keep Palestine poor and weak, gain massive export revenues, and avert its own domestic energy crisis. If Palestinians develop their own gas resources, the resulting economic transformation could in turn fundamentally increase Palestinian clout.
43. 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.
44. 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.
45. 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.
46. 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.
47. Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Israel's war on Gaza has seen the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for human survival. This represents an apparently deliberate 'cutting off of life support' to those that survive the bombardment now under way.
48. Gaza: What Would Lincoln Do?
    Sasha, Malia: Tell Your Parents About Sara al-Dalou!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    The point of invoking Lincoln is not to guess what he might do in Obama’s shoes, but to reflect on what he did when forced to balance political calculus, the rule of law, and moral and humanitarian considerations.
49. 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).
50. Gaza wrecked by storm, floods, acute cold, sewage overflows and power cuts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The UN has described the Gaza Strip as a 'disaster area' following the onslaught of Storm Alexa and called on the international community to lift the blockade and allow recovery efforts to proceed.
51. 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.
52. 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!
53. Gaza's Kite Runners
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Gazan children's kites are expressions of defiance, hope and the longing for freedom.
54. Gaza's Shocking Devastation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    A Canadian Jew's visit to the territory left him ashamed by what he saw.
55. 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.
56. Gaza's women of steel
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.
57. 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.
58. 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.
59. Goldstone Report Dramatized
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    
60. 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.
61. Guernica, 1937 / Gaza, 2014
    Only the Insignias Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    I invoke the Guernica example, not for spurious comparison or analogy, but because its occurrence is inscribed in the very DNA of modern historical oppression, in this case possessing precisely the same elements of overwhelming force on a largely defenseless population, in this case, having less to do with stopping rockets than a) terrorizing a people into abject submission, and b) testing out aerial warfare to soften an enemy and perhaps even clear the way for ground action—beyond consolidating settlement gains in the territories, also serving notice on Iran and whomever else (viz., Arab democracy) is viewed as a real or potential threat down the road.
62. Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of Children
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The keynote speaker at the launch of the exhibition Gaza's childrens' paintings, referred to the paintings as 'a toxic cargo of beautiful but unwelcome images which it is necessary that we see and acknowledge.' Toxic because the blockade and assault on Gaza was, and is, toxic. Toxic because the paintings mirror back to our adult world the poisonous environment we have watched develop for these children. The paintings describe aerial bombardment of apartment blocks, mosques, schools, hospitals, ambulances. They portray phosphorous, helicopter and drone attacks on civilians. Gunboats fire inland from the sea. Bulldozers demolish homes. Everything happens in an enclosed space from which there is no escape.
63. 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.
64. 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.
65. HAMAS Under the Spotlight
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    In a seemingly dramatic move in mid-2004, Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement which hitherto refused to participate in the Palestinian political system, expressed its willingness to be a part of that system.
66. 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.
    
67. Health care and children in crisis in Gaza - Arabic text
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    
68. Helping the occupation bloom: An open letter to Cargoflora
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Flowers from illegally occupied Palestinian land are being shipped to Europe.
69. 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.
70. How Israel Created Its Monster
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    How and why Israel helped Hamas to power.
71. How Israel Silenced its Gaza War Protesters
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A new report from Adalah shows how the courts and police attempted to stamp out opposition to Operation Cast Lead.
72. 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.
73. 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.
74. 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"?
75. Impressions of Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Even a single night in jail is enough to give a taste of what it means to be under the total control of some external force. And it hardly takes more than a day in Gaza to begin to appreciate what it must be like to try to survive in the world's largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror and arbitrary punishment.
76. 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.
77. 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.
78. International Middle East Media Center
    Resource Type: Website
    Media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide English language media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
79. An Interview with Norman Finkelstein: "I'm Not Betraying the Legacy of My Parents in Order to Make Myself Palatable."
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Norman Finkelstein is among the leading scholars on the Israel-Palestine conflict in the United States. His work primarily focuses on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Nazi Holocaust. For decades, he has advocated for a two state solution on the June 1967 borders, a "just solution to the refugee question," an end to the Israeli settlements in Palestine, the deconstruction of the border wall, the right to clean water, and an end to the occupation, the Gaza blockade, and the use of force against the Palestinians.
80. 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
81. The Iron Cage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    
82. 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?
83. Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A friend forwarded to me the most original greeting for the New Year: "I wish in 2009 a horrible year for all war criminals and their accomplices." I could not but think of whether some United Nations officials can be counted among such "accomplices."
84. 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.
85. 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.
86. 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.
87. 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.
88. 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."
89. 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.
90. 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.
91. 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.
92. Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - On January 7, 2016, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides on to Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. The sprayed areas belong to Israel's unilaterally imposed and poorly delineated "buffer" or "no-go zone".
93. 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.
    
94. Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
95. Israel's appalling bombing of Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Destroying the only power source for a trapped and defenseless civilian population is an unprecedented step toward barbarity. It reeks, ironically, of the Warsaw Ghetto.
96. 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.
97. Israel's Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
98. 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....
99. 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.
100. Israel's starvation diet for Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Israel’s calculating of daily caloric needs shows how it manages the lives of Palestinians in Gaza in almost microscopic detail.
101. 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.
102. 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.
103. Jewish dissenters speak out over Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     On Wednesday, a dozen Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto, demanding an end to the Israeli siege of Gaza. The women expressed "outrage at Ottawa's refusal to condemn the massacres," said spokesperson Miriam Garfinkle. They urged the media to report that "many Jewish-Canadians do not support Israel's violence and apartheid policies."
104. Jewish Voice for Peace
     Resource Type: Website
     A diverse and democratic community of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights. Supports the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.
105. Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
     See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0kRU
106. Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media during the operations.
107. 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.
108. 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.
109. "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.
110. Killing Mosquitoes: The Latest Gaza Massacres, Pro-Israel Media Bias And The Weapon Of 'Antisemitism'
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     The most recent brutality against Palestinians, and brazenness with which the killings were carried out, is yet another demonstration of the Israeli contempt for the people it tried to ethnically cleanse in 1948.
111. 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.
112. 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.
113. Leon Rosselson on Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     In Gaza the slaughter was premeditated and calculated. The snipers were primed to kill. They had their orders. They used the protesters, men women, children, for target practice. According to the latest reports, 109 Palestinians?—?including children, one an 8 month old baby -- have been killed and over 6,000 wounded, including nearly 1000 children. The wounds were particularly debilitating because Israeli soldiers used dumdum bullets which expand when they enter the body. The bullets used are causing injuries local medics say they have not seen since 2014. The entrance wound is small.The exit wound is devastating, causing gross comminution of bone and destruction of soft tissue.
114. The Lessons of Gaza 2009
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     First the numbers: "1285 Palestinians killed, mostly civilians, including 167 civil police officers. 4336 Palestinians wounded, mostly civilians. Two political leaders of Hamas assassinated, Nizar Rayan and Said Siam, in bombs that flattened their home and also killed many of their family members and neighbors. Tens of thousands of people forced to abandon their homes: 2400 houses completely destroyed, and 17,000 semi-destroyed or damaged. Tens of mosques, public civilian facilities, police stations, and media, health, and educational institutions either completely or partially destroyed. 121 industrial and commercial workshops destroyed and at least 200 others damaged."
115. 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.
116. 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.
117. 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.
118. 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?
119. The Monster That Israel Helped Create
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     There is a terrible irony in Israel’s current assault on Gaza. More than 200 Palestinians have died in an onslaught supposedly aimed at weakening Hamas and degrading its capacity to fire rockets into Israel. It was Israel itself, however, that helped Hamas to power in Gaza.
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. Noam Chomsky: Palestine 2012 - Gaza and the UN resolution
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     An analysis of the political context of Gaza since the first free elections in the Middle East were held.
122. Norman Finkelstein and Dr. Mads Gilbert
     Resource Type: Film/Video
     First Published: 2018
     A discussion with professor and author Norman Finkelstein about his book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom".
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, 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.
125. The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end. The dispossession of the Palestinians must be fully acknowledged and Israel must reach out to embrace the full rights of Palestinians to nationhood and viability. Only then will the nightmare end that is the reality of the Palestinian people living in the Occupied Territories and the refugee camps. And only with that can there be any hope for a real peace.
126. Olive oil, opposition and Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Rick Salutin writes about increasingly widespread Jewish opposition to Israel's actions.
127. On Israel, Ukraine and Truth
     The Return of George Orwell and Big Brother's War
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     As advanced societies are de-politicised, the changes are both subtle and spectacular. In everyday discourse, political language is turned on its head, as Orwell prophesised in 1984. "Democracy" is now a rhetorical device. Peace is "perpetual war". "Global" is imperial. The once hopeful concept of "reform" now means regression, even destruction. "Austerity" is the imposition of extreme capitalism on the poor and the gift of socialism for the rich: an ingenious system under which the majority service the debts of the few.
128. 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.
129. '100 years to repair Gaza': Oxfam says blockade remains, aid almost non-existent
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     Reconstructing Gaza could take an entire century, if Israel doesn't stop the siege, leading charity Oxfam warned. And that's just the time frame for essential projects. The NGO's regional director calls the situation "deplorable."
130. The Only House Left Standing
     The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2009
     A journey through the life and thoughts of the late Tom Hurndall, a British photojournalist fatally wounded in Gaza in April 2003.
131. Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
132. The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a child
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Here in Gaza, I want to tell this story. To show our audience a piece of a normal life, away from Hamas, or Israel's "terror" rhetoric, away from the diplomatic efforts, the political bargaining, away from the weekly Friday protests. Just show you something normal.
133. 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!
134. 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.
135. 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.
136. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
     Destabilization and Regime Change
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2016
     When governments get too far out of line -- the most outrageous offence, from the point of view of imperial power, is pursuing policies that help ordinary people at the expense of transnational corporations and local elites -- then they have to be overthrown. The preferred method is a destabilization campaign followed by a coup. This issue of Other Voices focuses destabilization and regime change.
137. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
     What are we eating?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2018
     What are we eating? A simple question which opens up a labyrinth of devilishly complex issues about production and distribution, access to land, control of water, prices, health and safety, migrant labour, and much else.
     For millions of people, the answer is brutally simple: not enough to survive. UNICEF estimates that 300 million children go to bed hungry each night, and that more than 8,000 children under the age of five die of malnutrition every day. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 12% of the world's population is chronically malnourished.
     How is this possible in a world where there is an enormous surplus of food, where farmers are paid not to grow food?
     A short answer is that food production and distribution are driven by the need to make profits, rather than by human needs.
138. 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.
139. 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.
140. 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.
141. 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.
142. Palestine is not an environment story
     How I was censored by The Guardian for writing about Israel's war for Gaza's gas
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     After writing for The Guardian for over a year, my contract was unilaterally terminated because I wrote a piece on Gaza that was beyond the pale.
143. 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.
144. 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.
145. Palestine, War and the Lethal Role of Journalists
     Two Films by John Pilger
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     John Pilger first made the film ‘Palestine Is Still The Issue‘ in 1977. It told how almost a million Palestinians had been forced off their land in 1948, and again in 1967. Twenty five years later, in 2002, John Pilger returned to the West Bank of Jordan and Gaza, to make another film, giving it the same title. The film asks why the Palestinians, whose right of return was affirmed by the United Nations more than half a century ago, are still caught in a terrible limbo – refugees in their own land, controlled by Israel in the longest military occupation in modern times.
146. The Pattern (Musically Annotated)
     From the Annals of Occupation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     The war of words heats up. Israeli and US leaders are all over the airwaves, saying Israel has a right to defend itself and that Hamas is responsible for all deaths on both sides. The news organizations feel they have to have some reporters in Gaza for a change. They keep trying to spin the news in Israel’s favour, but once they’re showing even a little bit of the reality on the ground, it all starts looking really bad for the Israelis with each new dead Palestinian child buried beneath the rubble.
147. 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
     
148. Postcard from a liberated Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2020
     A piece of fiction published as part of +972’s New Futures project. In this series, writers, thinkers, and activists share how they visualize Israel-Palestine the day after the pandemic, as a way of transforming this dystopian moment into an exercise in radical imagination of rethinking through the past, present, and future of this region, and envisioning a different reality for all those living between the river and the sea.
149. 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.
     
150. Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
151. Pro-Israel Lobby Alarmed by Growth of Boycott, Divestment Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel is emerging as one of the most important ways to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine.
152. 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.
153. The Punishment of Gaza
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2010
     An account of Israel's criminal treatment of Gaza.
154. Put the Palestinians on a Diet
     Media Bury Documents Revealing Israel's Deliberate Policy of Near-Starvation for Gaza
     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”.
155. 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”.
156. 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.
157. Rachel Corrie Presente!
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The following is an excerpt from a statement from the family of Rachel Corrie.
158. Radical Digressions 6
     Resource Type: Website
     First Published: 2009
     
159. 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.
160. A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
161. Rockets from Gaza
     Harm to Civilians from Palestinian Armed Groups' Rocket Attacks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Documents rocket attacks on Israeli civilians by armed groups in Gaza.
162. 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.
163. Self-Defense Against Peace
     Israel's Unjust War on Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Legally and morally, an aggressor cannot rely upon self-defence to justify violence against resistance to its own aggression. The most plausible reason Israel is fighting Hamas (and the PLO before it) is 'self-defence', not against rockets and mortars, but against having to make peace with the Palestinians on the basis of the pre-1967 borders as required by international law.
164. The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2005
     The settlers' retreat from Gaza was the theatre of the cynical.
165. 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.
166. 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).
167. Siege and resistance in Gaza – For more than 10 weeks...
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Toufic Haddad, an activist, academic and author of Palestine Ltd: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory, spoke to Omar Hassan about the meaning of the protests – and what next in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.
168. A Slice of Death in Rafah
     Against The Current vol. 111
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     from an International Solidarity Movement report. Tel Es-Sultan, Gaza Strip--Death has become something usual in Rafah. The invasion would not be successful if the occupation army didn't kill dozens of Palestinians. At least 20 Palestinians were killed up to now, and more than 60 injured in the past 12 hours. Last week 16 were killed during the invasion of Block O.
169. Some deaths really matter - The disproportionate coverage of Israeli and Palestinian Killings
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Documening that the deaths of Israelis is far more heavily weighted than those of Palestinian deaths, garnering more media coverage.
170. Steel walls cannot contain the struggle for freedom
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     If siege is an act of aggression and war, then breaking out of it by any means is an act of self-defense and resistance.
171. 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.
172. 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.
173. 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.
174. '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?"
175. Towards a New Cold War
     Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1982
     A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
176. 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.
177. The True Gaza Backstory
     It's About Land, Stupid
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     How come all those Palestinians – all 1.5 million – are crammed into Gaza in the first place? Well, their families once lived, didn’t they, in what is now called Israel? And got chucked out – or fled for their lives – when the Israeli state was created.
178. 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.
179. 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.
180. 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.
181. 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
182. The United States and Gaza
     Against The Current vol. 140
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     The courageous Israeli journalist Amira Hass, in her 1996 book Drinking the Sea at Gaza, tells us that in Israeli slang “go to Gaza” means “go to hell.”
183. 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.
184. Voices for Palestine
     Resource Type: Website
     Arab women from Jordan who came together in response to Israel's attack on Gaza and its people.
185. 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.
186. 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.
187. 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.
188. 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.
189. What the American Media Won't Tell You About Israel
     The savage punishment of Gaza traces back to decades ago.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     An old man in Gaza held a placard that read: “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all, but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
190. 'When I Go to Work, I Expect to Be Killed:' The Terror of Being A Fisherman in Gaza
     Palestine Speaks: Voices from the West Bank and Gaza
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Approximately 4,000 Gazan fishermen rely on access to the open waters of the Mediterranean to make a living. Because of punitive restrictions imposed by Israel, the Gazan fishery has virtually collapsed. Over 90 percent of Gazan fishermen are living in poverty and dependent on international aid for survival. To pursue fish beyond the permitted range means to risk arrest, the confiscation of fishing boats, or even shooting by the Israeli navy.
191. 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.
192. 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.
193. Who profits from keeping Gaza on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe?
     Keeping Gaza on the verge of collapse keeps international humanitarian aid money flowing to exactly where it benefits Israeli interests.
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2018
     Economic researcher and journalist, Shir Hever shows that Israel benefits economically from its siege and oppression of Gaza.
194. Why Is Israel Killing Gazans?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     
195. 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.
196. 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.
197. 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.
198. 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.
199. Words have failed
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
200. Worse Than North Korea
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The reality is that we are dealing with a pariah state, no better at this point in its respect for international law and basic human rights (where non-Israelis are concerned), than North Korea. And maybe worse. At least the North Koreans fired their weapon at a South Korean military vessel. The Israeli Defense Force attacked a vessel filled with civilian peace activists, including elderly Holocaust survivors, members of foreign parliaments, and young children.

Experts on Bande de Gaza in the Sources Directory

1. Electronic Intifada
2. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
3. Zatoun