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  1. The Aftermath of Israel's Latest Assault on Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On August 26, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed upon, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2,150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms of the ceasefire.
  2. The Attack on the People of Gaza
    Go ahead and stop us...

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    According to the conventional wisdom, the purpose of Israel’s assault on Gaza is self-defense, i.e., to stop rocket fire and to destroy “terror tunnels”. However, the facts include repeated attacks on hospitals, an open air market, UN schools designated as safe refuges, playgrounds, zoos, Gaza’s only power plant, etc.) by means of high-tech “smart weapons”, and these attacks are inconsistent with the notion of self-defense. These are calculated, deliberate attacks on civilians and the numbers speak for themselves: about 80% of Israel’s victims are non-combatants, including at least (for now) 318 kids.
  3. Breaking the last taboo - Gaza and the threat of world war
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  4. Breaking the Silence: Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summer’s attack on Gaza, saying it led to "immense and unprecedented harm to the civilian population and infrastructures in the Gaza Strip."
  5. Canada's journalists cowed into silence while colleagues die in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Rami Rayan, a young Palestinian photojournalist, was the latest reporter to be killed. He was among at least 16 people reportedly killed after an Israeli air strike on a crowded market during a supposed four-hour "truce." The Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), which claims to be "the national voice of Canadian journalists", has been noticeably silent. If you check the CAJ's website you won't find so much as a perfunctory statement denouncing the killing of their colleagues in Gaza. Instead, the top item on its website is a story written by members of the association's 'ethics' committee about that old saw: reporters getting too close to their sources.
  6. Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombings
    Details on Canadian complicity in Israeli apartheid

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Aside from sustained Conservative diplomatic cheerleading for Israel, one key element of Canada's implication less in the public eye but very important, is the key role that many Canadian companies are playing in creating the military devices and technologies now involved in carrying out the deadly bombing raids in Gaza.
  7. Ceasefires in Which Violations Never Cease
    What's Next for Israel, Hamas, and Gaza?

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  8. The Children of Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A poem
  9. Chomsky, Pilger and Loach call on BBC to reflect reality of Gaza's occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Noam Chomsky, John Pilger and Ken Loach are among 45,000 signatories who have signed an open letter to the BBC calling on its journalists to reflect the reality of Gaza’s occupation while reporting on Israel’s current assault.
  10. Continuous protest at Israeli consulate in Toronto starts July 24
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On July 24 people of conscience including Muslims, Jews, and Christians, are coming together at the Israeli consulate in Toronto for a three day continuous vigil to call attention to the frightening slaughter of the Palestinian people in Gaza
  11. The deafening silence around the Hamas proposal for a 10-year truce
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  12. 'Disgustingly Biased' - The Corporate Media On The Gaza Massacre
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The bias in failing to report the brutalisation of a trapped, impoverished people under occupation is staggering.
  13. Eighth Journalist Killed in Gaza: Israel Must Answer for Crimes
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Two Palestinian journalists were killed while reporting in a market in Gaza yesterday – an appalling incident which means eights journalists have now lost their lives since the Israeli bombardment of the region began nearly one month ago.
  14. Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War Crime
    The Experts' Verdict

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nation’s Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israel’s potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definition – right now, as you read this?
  15. The evidence that Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Amnesty International has published evidence that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) specifically targeted hospitals, health workers and ambulance personnel during the attack on Gaza.
  16. Eyeless in Gaza
    Locked in an Embrace

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The trouble with war is that it has two sides. Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course.
  17. Eyeless in Gaza
    Israel's Deceptions

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A single incident at the weekend – the reported capture by Hamas on Friday of an Israeli soldier through a tunnel – illustrated in stark fashion the layers of deception Israel has successfully cast over its attack on Gaza.
  18. 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
    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.
  19. 40 people stage 'die-in' in front of Israeli consulate in Toronto - Friday August 8, 8:30 am
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Canadians call on government to end weapons sales to Israel. At least 40 people are disrupting rush hour traffic on one of Toronto's busiest roads this morning in protest against Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip.
  20. Freedom and Safety of Journalists in Gaza Must be Upheld, says IFJ
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists has demanded that Israeli forces respect the rights of journalists in Gaza and has issued a renewed appeal for journalists in the region to take all necessary safety precautions.
  21. Gaza and the Press
    Dress the Gaza Situation Up All You Like, But the Truth Hurts

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The latest bloodbath in Gaza, which is being so graphically covered by journalists that our masters and our media are suffering a new experience: not fear of being called anti-Semitic, but fear of their own television viewers and readers – ordinary folk so outraged by the war crimes committed against the women and children of Gaza that they are demanding to know why, even now, television moguls and politicians are refusing to treat their own people like moral, decent, intelligent human beings.
  22. Gaza Crisis: Far-Right Israelis Chant 'There's No School Tomorrow, There's No Children Left in Gaza!'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Right-wing Israelis have been filmed chanting "There's no children left there [in Gaza]" and "Gaza is a cemetery" in celebration of their military's attacks on Gaza.
  23. Gaza headline absurdly inaccurate
    Re: Palestinians flee Gaza as ceasefire pleas fail

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Targeting civilians is always wrong. We speak out against Hamas when it does so, but our Canadian government applauds the Israeli government when it does so on a much greater scale. As human beings, as Canadians, as a Palestinian and Jew, we condemn this horrific collective punishment.
  24. Gaza in Ruins
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  25. "Gaza is a graveyard," sing joyful Israeli youths
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    This video shows an Israeli mob actually singing in celebration of children’s deaths in the style of a soccer fans’ song: “In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there, Olé, olé, olé-olé-olé.”
  26. 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
    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?
  27. Gaza: Israel bombs water and sewage systems
    If this situation continues Gaza residents will be subjected to a humanitarian crisis even worse than the immediate one of trying to survive

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Israel's armed forces have destroyed vital water and sewage infrastructure in their bombing campaign of the besieged territory. This constitutes a severe breach of the 1977 Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the part of Israel and all those conceiving, planning, ordering and perpetrating the attacks.
  28. Gaza, Israel and 'Human Shields'
    The People Putting Innocents in Danger are the Israelis

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    What does it mean to use human shields? Employed by the Germans and Japanese in the Second World War, the tactic is premised on an underlying trust in your enemy’s humanity. It appeals to the compassion and mercy of the combatant that they not slaughter the innocent in order to avenge their target. The ‘shield’ is not the human bodies surrounding the ‘guilty’ party, the shield is the clemency that mankind instinctively affords the innocent. The shield evaporates only when confronted by an enemy who is not merely a fellow solder locked in a power battle, but a psychopath unconcerned with the pain of others.
  29. Gaza: Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fleeing Civilians
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuza’a fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.
  30. The Gaza Platform
    Resource Type: Database
    Published: 2015
    The Gaza Platform is an interactive map of attacks by Israeli forces on Gaza between 8 July and 26 August 2014. It enables its users to explore a vast collection of data, collected on the ground by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), as well as Amnesty International, during and after the conflict.
  31. Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  32. Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
    Resource Type: Article
    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).
  33. Gaza: Whole Villages Have Been Wiped Off the Map
    A VIsit to Khuza'a

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    I’m writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuza’a.
  34. Gaza's Torment, Israel's Crimes, Our Responsibilities
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  35. Gazonto
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    What would Israel's attack on Gaza in 2014 look like if it took place in Toronto?
  36. Globalizing Gaza
    How Israel Undermines International Law Through "Lawfare"

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    At the same time as it engages in repeated massive military assaults on a primarily civilian popuation in Gaza, Israel is also engaged in an ongoing assault on international humanitarian law by a highly coordinated team of Israeli lawyers, military officers, PR people and politicians. It is an effort not only to get Israel off the hook for massive violations of human rights and international law, but to help other governments overcome similar constraints when they embark as well on “asymmetrical warfare,” “counterinsurgency” and “counter-terrorism” against peoples resisting domination. It is a campaign that Israel calls “lawfare” and had better be taken seriously by us all.
  37. Guernica, 1937 / Gaza, 2014
    Only the Insignias Change

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  38. Gunning for destruction in Gaza: 'You want to see people in pieces'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer's Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted.
  39. Hamas Rocket Launches Don't Explain Israel's Gaza Destruction -- Israeli Forces' Manipulated Figures and Fake Evidence
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  40. "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israel’s 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades.
  41. How Israel Spins War Crimes
    The Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark Regev appear slicker and less aggressive than their predecessors, who were often visibly indifferent to how many Palestinians were killed.
  42. The ICC Must Investigate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
    The Credibility of the Court is at Stake

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Regardless of the efforts of Israel or its closest ally, the United States, to prevent the International Criminal Court from seeking justice for the Palestinians and international aid workers killed and wounded in Gaza, the Court has a duty to at least open an investigation. The credibility of the ICC hangs in the balance. No individual who violates international law should escape justice. If Israeli officials are not investigated for possible war crimes in Gaza, then the tragic lessons learned from the last century about failures in international criminal justice and the consequences of inaction will have been in vain.
  43. If Gaza's Dead Were America's Dead
    Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Imagine the Outrage Over 27,000 Dead Kids...
  44. IFJ Led Delegation Visits Gaza to Provide Solidarity and Support to Journalists
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Leaders of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), and a number of leading Egyptian journalists have concluded a two-day solidarity visit to journalists in Gaza
  45. IFJ urges accountability for deliberate targeting of journalists in 2014 summer Gaza war
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) today called for accountability for the deliberate targeting of journalists during the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza strip
  46. The Illusion of Debate
    Consensus for the People that Matter

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A recent article in FAIR reviewed the findings of its latest study on the quality of political “debate” being aired on the mainstream networks. It studied the run-up to the military interventions in both Iraq and Syria. Perhaps the arbiters of the study intended to illustrate what we’ve learned since the fraudulent Iraq War of 2003. Well, it appears we’ve learned nothing.
  47. Israel does not want peace
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Rejectionism is embedded in Israel's most primal beliefs. There, at the deepest level, lies the concept that this land is destined for the Jews alone.
  48. Israel showed restraint in Gaza before attacking? You must be kidding
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Israeli journalist Amira Hass, writing in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, demolishes some myths.
  49. Israeli Cease Fire Violations and Media Propaganda
    The Conquest of Palestine

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The Israeli conquest of Palestine has always been a difficult issue for Western mainstream media to cover. The difficulty lies not in the task of reporting the facts on the ground and transmitting an accurate depiction of them to the public, but in refraining from doing so.
  50. Israeli Forces Must Be Held accountable for Attacks on Journalists in Gaza, says IFJ
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined increasing international calls for the Israeli government and its forces to be held accountable for the atrocities that are being carried out against journalists covering events in Gaza.
  51. Israeli human rights organization highlights deterioration of Palestinian health under occupation
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reports by Physicians for Human Rights - Israel document the deterioration of Palestinian health in the West Bank and Gaza as the direct consequence of ongoing Israeli military occupation.
  52. Israel's atrocities in Gaza prompt unprecedented political fallout
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    "Carnage" in Gaza – "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM Julie Bishop condemned what she called "shocking" and "indefensible" incidents, with "hundreds of innocent people" killed.
  53. Israel's Exterminatory Impulse Toward Gaza
    A Protracted Genocide

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Disproportionate power yields the psychopathology of sadism.
  54. Israel's Gaza backlash targets Arab minority
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  55. Israel's War Echo Chamber
    Lost Voices of Dissent

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    For several days now, some of my neighbours have suggested that the time has come to “destroy them”- meaning either Hamas or Palestinians – “once and for all”. Government ministers, members of Knesset and leading media commentators have also been consistently pouring oil onto the fire. Indeed, it seems the only vocal criticism against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that he is too soft on the Palestinians. There is no public debate about the necessity of another war, but only about how punitive Israel should be.
  56. It's Raining Bombs and Shells
    A Doctor's Notes From Gaza

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    I’m still alive. I don’t know what this means, but I can say that most of the time I can still walk and do some work with people who need help. It all depends on my luck. And here, for people living in Gaza, luck means how close to you the bombs fall from Israel’s tanks, planes, or warships. Some hours it’s raining bombs. Americans say “It’s raining cats and dogs.” In the new Gaza idiom, we say “It’s raining bombs and shells.”
  57. Joint Declaration by International Law Experts on Israel's Gaza Offensive
    The International Community Must End Israel's Collective Punishment of the Civilian Population in the Gaza Strip

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, the targeting of objectives providing no effective military advantage, and the intentional targeting of civilians and civilian houses have been persistent features of Israel’s long-standing policy of punishing the entire population of the Gaza Strip, which, for over seven years, has been virtually imprisoned by Israeli imposed closure.
  58. Lancet: an Open Letter for the People of Gaza
    The Massacre Must Stop

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A public letter from doctors and scientists to stop the massacre.
  59. Let's talk about Gaza, Sderot and the racist valuation of lives
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A frank discussion about everything we don’t mention when talking about rockets and bombs and Gaza. Let’s talk about fear, about poverty, about angst and about racism.
  60. London, Ontario peace and human rights advocates occupy office of Conservative MP
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Five London peace and human rights advocates are now occupying the office of the Conservative MP for London North Centre.
  61. The Monster That Israel Helped Create
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  62. Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing testimonies from doctors, nurses, and ambulance personnel working in the area.
  63. NBC News Pulls Veteran Reporter from Gaza After Witnessing Israeli Attack on Children
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been ordered by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately.
  64. Netanyahu's Operation Stupidity
    Who is Winning in Gaza?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Who is Winning in Gaza? Which must be answered, the Jewish way, with another question: how to judge?
  65. Now it's Israel's IDF Leveling Gaza
    Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto, Now it’s Israel’s IDF leveling Gaza.
  66. On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza
    How the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most “precise and surgical”, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitably transforms their inhabitants into potential human shields.
  67. '100 years to repair Gaza': Oxfam says blockade remains, aid almost non-existent
    Resource Type: Article
    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."
  68. Open Letter by 50 Israeli Army Reservists on Why They Refuse to Fight in Gaza
    Petition By Israeli soldiers and reservists

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
  69. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 31, 2014
    Truth, justice and reconciliation

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2014
    Articles on truth, justice and reconciliation efforts in countries affected by civil war or internal conflict; Bone Collectors: the fate of the remains of Australian aboriginal people stolen from their burial grounds and dispersed to museums; the Galway children's mass grave; and Which came first: Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence? The topic of the week is the Israeli military.
  70. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
    Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    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.
  71. Palestinian Journalist and Teenage Daughter are Latest Victims of Israeli Attacks
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    International Federation of Journalists has issued a renewed demand for safety and freedom of journalists in Gaza to be upheld following news of today’s latest media violations, including the killing of a Palestinian journalist and his daughter
  72. Palestinian media death toll reaches 13
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    12 Palestinian journalists and one media worker have been killed since the start of Operation Protective Edge.
  73. The Pariah State
    A Short History of Israeli Impunity

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Hasbara has elevated the manipulation of language to a new plateau. This is a qualitative leap. Moving beyond the difficulty of seeing the stye in our own eye, the Hasbara upends linguistic conventions. Black becomes white, evil is translated into righteousness. Victims of murderous ethnic cleansing become terrorists. The conventions of language go completely out the door. Mass murder is self defense. The Great Wall is a barrier or a mere fence. Land grabs are voluntary relocations into disputed territories.
  74. 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
    Published: 2014
  75. The Punishment of Gaza
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    An account of Israel's criminal treatment of Gaza.
  76. Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
  77. Recruiting To Kill - It Is Not Just An Israeli War On Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    To some, US secretary of state John Kerry may have appeared to be a genuine peacemaker as he floated around ideas during a Cairo visit on 25 July about a ceasefire between Israel and resisting Palestinian fighters in Gaza. But behind his measured diplomatic language, there is a truth not even America's top diplomat can easily hide. His country is very much involved in fighting this dirty war on Gaza that has killed over 1,050, injured thousands more, and destroyed much of an already poor, dilapidated space that is barely inhabitable to begin with.
  78. Relevance of Hannah Arendt's "A Report On The Banality Of Evil" To Gaza
    Self-Deception, Lies And Stupidity

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Hannah Arendt, philosopher, writer, academic of Jewish heritage, went to Jerusalem in 1961 to cover the trial of Eichmann, one of the actors in the Final Solution, for the New Yorker magazine. Her account of the trial became a basis for the book, Eichmann In Jerusalem: A report on the banality of evil.
  79. Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014.
  80. Stakes rising for Israel as rockets reach airport
    Temporary air blockade of Israel reveals deeper issues to its citizens

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Israel’s effective loss of its only international airport for a couple of days last week — and the cloud of uncertainty that continues to hang over its operation in the future — has deeply unsettled Israelis.
  81. The Telegenic Dead
    A poem

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
  82. 13 Journalists Killed in Gaza: Palestinian Protest Rally Demands End Attacks
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), to express its outrage and condemnation at the 13 media workers who have to date been killed in the Gaza region.
  83. This is Genocide
    On Israel/Palestine

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    To call what is going on in Israel and Palestine a “conflict” is to partake in the racist and blatantly false narrative that is being pushed by Israel. When one side fights with stones and homemade rockets, and the other side fights with a military backed by the full force of the United States military industrial complex, it is not a “conflict.” When civilian casualties – including hundreds of children – amass on only one side, it is not a “conflict.” When one side sets up with lawn chairs and popcorn to watch and cheer as their government bombs another country, it is not a “conflict.”
  84. Time to break silence on Gaza assault
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Previous reports from such groups as Physicians for Human Rights Israel have indicated clearly that civilians were indiscriminately targeted, including in hospitals and ambulances. Testimonies from soldiers given to Breaking the Silence give further evidence to the extreme criminal actions of the Israeli army last summer. The silence in North America media on this report is deafening. Even Israeli media has reported it. The suppression of the truth does not serve us well. It’s time for the North American media to break its silence.
  85. To the family of the one thousandth victim of Israel's genocidal slaughter in Gaza
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  86. The True Gaza Backstory
    It's About Land, Stupid

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  87. 12 map points to help the NDP to find its moral compass (and for that matter, the Liberals, too)
    Voters for Gaza: We Expect Better from the NDP!

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    We believe silence is complicity, and think it is time for the NDP to find its moral compass and to end the deafening silence about Israel and the war crimes it is committing. The NDP, of all federal political parties, must speak out against the violence and rising civilian death toll in Gaza. We expect better from a party claiming a tradition of social justice, human rights and strong relationships to social movements.
  88. Two journalists among 17 killed in Israeli raid on Gaza market
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Two Palestinian journalists were killed July 30 in an Israeli air raid on a crowded market in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
  89. US Provides Israel Weapons Used on Gaza
    Blood on American's Hands

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The United States exported to Israel a substantial amount of the same types of weapons Israel is using to kill Gazans. For example, in 2013, the United States sent Israel at least $196 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters, a category that includes F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters, both of which Israel is currently using to attack Gazan homes, offices and farmland. Between January and May 2014, the United States had already exported $92 million in parts for military airplanes and helicopters.
  90. A View from Gaza
    This Is a Brutal Attack, Not a "Military Operation"

    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  91. 'War crimes': Israeli bombs wiped out entire families in Gaza, Amnesty says
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Israel used disproportionate military force during its summer operation in Gaza. Entire Palestinian families were killed when their homes were leveled by Israeli bombs falling with no warning and for little military gain, Amnesty International said.
  92. Watch: Al Jazeera’s "Massacre at Dawn" Gives Glimpse of Horror in Shujaiya
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Thinking that the footage contained in Massacre at Dawn is just a fraction of the horror makes it even worse. No wonder Israel prevented media from covering the brutality that our people endured there.
  93. What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
    They Made Them Do It....

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Let’s do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Gaza strip. Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day.
  94. When BBC Calls, Don’t Answer..
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In any event, my advice to the media savvy, is that if you have caller ID, and you can tell that it is BBC calling, don’t bother answering. I hope I have the good sense to follow my own advice should the phone ever ring again!
  95. Why Israel Needs Anti-Semitism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    It would be ironic indeed if fear of Muslim neighbors in Paris suburbs should lead French Jews to move to a country totally surrounded by millions of hostile Muslim neighbours.


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