Looking for resources on the Israeli Defense Forces and the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program? Check out the Israeli Military Page in the Connexions Subject Index. Learn more about the ongoing current conflict as well as past military engagements by the IDF, including previous attacks on Gaza and surrounding countries. Also view resources on the equipment and tactics used by the Israeli Military against militants and civilians, including the use of brutal weapons such as white phosphorus clusters and flechette shells. You can browse or use our search feature.

Connexions.org features a directory of more than 1,000 progressive groups and websites. This week, we'd like to spotlight +972 magazine. +972 is a non-profit web magazine that has been run independently since 2010 and takes it name from the international dialing code for Israel and Palestine. Composed of the writers both based in Israel and the Palestinian territories, +972 gives a voice to young individuals who want to take part in the international debate reading Israel and Palestine.    

12 Million Euros for Digital Infrastructure

CLARIAH or Common Lab Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities , a consortium of Humanities Research Institutes of which International Institute of Social History is a part of, will receive a grant of 12 million euros (17.52 Million CND) from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. The grant will fund the development of a digital infrastructure that combines diverse data sets and software tools from various humanities disciplines, and to provide user-friendly tools to search through these data sets and make them searchable. New digital tools will enable researchers to explore profound questions of cultural and social change across the disciplines. The IISH was one of the co-applicants for CLARIAH and is largely responsible for building and maintaining this digital infrastructure.

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Treasures from the archives

I.F. Stone's Weekly

I.F. Stone's Weekly was the newsletter published by the radical American journalist I.F. (Izzy) Stone (1907-1989). Finding himself blacklisted in the 1950s and unable to find work as a journalist, he decided to start him own weekly publication. I.F. Stone's Weekly launched in 1953 and continued until 1971. Stone wrote all the stories; his wife Esther handled the subscriptions. The Weekly eventually achieved a circulation of 70,000.

I.F. Stone's Weekly provided a thoroughly researched, well-documented, alternative view of events in the 1950s and 1960s. Stone covered American foreign policy, McCarthyism, and the struggle against segregation and racism in the U.S. In 1964, he was the only journalist to challenge President Johnson's claim that Vietnamese vessels had attacked American ships in the so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident, which the administration used to justify intensified attacks against Vietnam. It was later revealed that the entire 'incident' has been a fabrication designed deceive the media (easy enough!) and the public.

All issues of I.F. Stone's Weekly have been scanned and are now available on the I.F. Stone website maintained by his family.

Articles from I.F. Stone's Weekly were collected in several anthologies which are available in the Connexions Archive & Library. Stone's book Underground to Palestine, which describes the journey of Jewish refugees to Palestine in 1948, is also available in the Connnexions Archive. Stone came under intense attack as a "self-hating Jew" when, in 1978, for a new edition of Underground to Palestine, he wrote a postscript in which he criticized Israel's treatment of Palestinians.

Further reading:

I.F. Stone's Weekly online

Barrie Zwicker: I. F. Stone: A Wonderful Pariah

I. F. Stone - Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After

I. F. Stone - Connexipedia article

I. F. Stone - Underground to Palestine

I. F. Stone - The Haunted Fifties

I. F. Stone - In a Time of Torment

I. F. Stone - Polemics and Prophecies 1967-1970

I. F. Stone - The I.F. Stone's Weekly Reader
 

Studs Terkel Archive

Studs Terkel (1912 - 2008) was an American author, historian, broadcaster, and actor. His popular radio program The Studs Terkel Program, aired in Chicago between 1952 and 1997.
Terkel produced a number of oral history books about the lives of ordinary people, including "Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do target="_blank";" "Division Street: America;" "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression target="_blank";" "The Good War;" "American Dreams: Lost and Found;" and "Race: What Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession."

WFMT Radio Network, along with the Studs Terkel Center for Oral History of the Chicago History Museum and other partners are now working to create a Studs Terkel Radio Archive, parts of which are available online at http://studsterkel.org/#the_archive. A new permanent website will be launched later.

The archive will feature interviews from Terkel’s hour-long daily radio show which ran from 1952 to 1997 on WFMT in Chicago, during which he conducted over 5,000 interviews. The subjects of his interviews span almost 5 decades of prominent figures such as jazz, blues, folk, classical and world musicians; novelists; scientists; historians; visual artists; actors; political theorists and activists; poets; dancers; film-makers; sociologists and anthropologists; architects and urban planners; civil rights leaders; philosophers; folklorists and, of course, many fascinating, non-famous working people.

More information:
Studs Terkel website
Studs Terkel - Connexipedia article 
My Studs Terkel and Yours

More about grassroots archives and people's history: Connexions.org features an annotated list of grassroots, radical, labour, women's, and social history archive. Find out more about these