- Addressing the Violence: My Roadmap to Peace
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 In order for peace to set sail there should be some guiding principles. The most important is equality. This is not to say that the conflict is between two equals. Overwhelming Israeli power and unconditional United States support has no comparison on the Palestinian side, other than the tragic balance of terror that has been reached with Israel through suicide bombing. But neither side should be treated differently from the other.
- Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1986 Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
- Agreement on terms
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 I have come to accept that western journalists cannot accurately, let alone objectively, represent the Middle East and the Arab world. The problem is not that journalists do not always adhere to their own professional codes and methods, though that does happen. It is that even if correspondents strictly obey all the rules, they still present a fundamentally biased and skewed picture of the Middle East.
- Ahed Tamimi Offers Israelis a Lesson Worthy of Gandhi
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing them. Ahed is well qualified for the task.
- Al-Nakba
A series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures. Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 For Palestinians, 1948 marks the 'nakba' or the 'catastrophe', when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes. But for Israelis, the same year marks the creation of their own state. This series attempts to present an understanding of the events of the past that are still shaping the present.
- America's last taboo
Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 The unspoken premise of the mainstream press is that no Palestinian or Arab position on Israeli police terror, settler-colonialism, or military occupation is worth hearing from.
- Anti-Palestine Media Bias Remains Untouchable Even to Canadas Media Critics
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 A recent Canadaland podcast simultaneously highlighted anti-Palestinian media bias and the fear liberal journalists face in discussing one of the foremost social justice issues of our time.
- Anti-racists who queston Zionism are not racists
Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 Anyone who criticizes the actions of the Israeli government runs the risk of being labelled anti-Semitic by those who want to silence all criticism of Israel.
- Armed robbery in Gaza - Israel, US, UK carve up the spoils of Palestine's stolen gas
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Arrests underway in Toronto Israeli Consulate Sit-in
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Police have moved in to arrest a group of Jewish Canadian women who are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. The women took their action in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- Attacks Against Palestinian Journalists Must End, says IFJ
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the Israeli government to identify and punish the Israeli soldiers who carried out a brutal attack on a journalist in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh on Sunday 27 April, 2014.
- Author warns coalition of MPs (CPCCA) intent on criminalizing free speech on Israel/Palestine
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The author of a new book on antisemitism kicks off a Western Canada tour Sept. 17 to sound an alarm that a coalition of MPs (CPCCA) is intent on outlawing criticism of Israel as being antisemitic, posing a significant threat to free speech.
- The Battle for Justice in Palestine
Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Ali Abunimah takes a comprehensive look at the shifting tides of the politics of Palestine and the Israelis in a neoliberal world?and makes a compelling and surprising case for why the Palestine solidarity movement just might win. He provides an effective strategy for advancing the struggle for a just, single-state solution in Palestine.
- Battle to Preserve Palestine's History Rages in New Novel
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A review of Radwa Ashour's novel The Woman from Tantoura: A Modern Palestinian Novel (American University in Cairo Press, 2014).
- The BDS movement is about justice for Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The University of Ottawa Israeli Awareness Committee (IAC) blocked a Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) resolution presented by the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa (SFUO). The BDS movement is a call to action from Palestinians seeking justice and equality, while the IAC is a pro-Israel lobby group which works with the Israeli Embassy and others to promote the Israeli government to students.
- BDS Versus Settler-Colonialism
Book Review Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Review of two books about pro-Palestinian political activism known as BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions.) Contains detailed discussion of history and current events covered in the books.
- Bertrand Russell's Last Message
Resource Type: Article Published: 1970 No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?
- Between the Lines
Readings on Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S. "War on Terror" Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 A collection of essays that addresses the situation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the need for changes. It provides the background of the conflict and an analysis of the resistance and repression that have intensified due to post 9/11.
- Beyond Chutzpah
On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 A meticulously researched expose of the corruption of scholarship on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Bringing to bear the latest findings on the conflict and recasting the scholarly debate, Finkelstein points to a consensus among historians and human rights organizations on the factual record. Why, then, does so much controversy swirl around the conflict? Finkelstein's answer, copiously documented, is that apologists for Israel contrive controversy. Whenever Israel comes under international pressure, another media campaign alleging a global outbreak of anti-Semitism is mounted.
- The Bible Unearthed
Article in Wikipedia on the book The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts Resource Type: Article A 2001 book about the archaeology of Palestine and its relationship to the origins of the Hebrew Bible.
- Bil'in: Palestinian Village Under Attack
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Leaders of non-violent protests in Bil'in village against Israeli settlements and occupation arrested by Israeli occupation forces. International supporters are asked to support the non-violent resistance in the face of Israeli attempts to crush it.
- Bil'in Village
Resource Type: Organization Palestinian village that has been engaged in continuous non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation.
- Bilin's Mohammad Khatib arrested
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 One month after touring Canada key Palestinian activist kidnapped by Israeli soldiers in another in a series of raids that Israeli occupation forces have carried out in Bil#in since June 2009, raids that commenced in tandem to the commencement of legal proceedings in Canada.
- The Birth of Agro-Resistance in Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Canaan Fiar Trade, a co-operative farming project with a model of self-sufficiency and dignity, has grown rapidly, and now assists some 2000 small-hold farmers in the West Bank, but it still receives little more than ambivalent support from the compromised Palestinian national leadership.
- Black Hand (Palestine)
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article The Black Hand (Arabic: al-Kaff al-Aswad) was an anti-Zionist and anti-British militant organization founded in 1930 in the British Mandate of Palestine.
- Black September (group)
Wikipedia article Resource Type: Article The Black September Organization (BSO) (Arabic: Munaz.z.amat Aylu-l al-aswad) was a Palestinian violent non-state actor (VNSA), founded in 1970. It was responsible for the kidnapping and murder of eleven Israeli athletes and officials, and the fatal shooting of a West German policeman, during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, their most publicized event.
- Blaming The Victims
Spurious Scholarship And The Palestinian Question Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Demonstrates with cold precision how the consistent denial of truth about the Palestinians by governments and the media in the West has led to the current impasse in Middle East politics. Controversial, forceful, and 'above all' honest, it attempts to redress a sustained crime against historical truth in order to make a more rational political future in Palestine possible. Searing essays from Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Peretz Kidron, G. W. Bowerstock, Ibrahim and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Mumammad Hallaj, Elia Zureik, and Rashid Khalidi.
- Bottling peace in a jar
Buying Palestinian olive oil is a tasty way to protest the tree uprootings of the occupation Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 Robert Massoud, born in Jerusalem of Christian Palestinian parents and now living just north of Toronto, developed the Zatoun project as "a people-sized initiative for those who want to make a difference" but who "throw up their hands and walk away" in despair from seemingly hopeless cycles of retaliation in the Middle East.
- Break the Silence Against the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Unstable medical supplies and lack of fuel have disrupted medical equipment such as incubators, dialysis equipment and heart monitors in Gaza. There is a shortage of many critical medications and essential medical equipment.
- British Policy in Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 1938 The three principal factors in the political arena in Palestine 1in 1938 are British imperialism, the Arab nationalist movement under its present leadership and the Zionist movement.
- Building blocks for peace in the Middle East
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 The minimal demands of both sides are compatible and legitimate; the maximum demands lead to endless war.
- Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions and killings in Israel's attacks on the Flotilla
- 'Call me a terrorist, but I'm no different from Israeli troops defending their homeland'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Some thoughts on the true source of incitement against and hatred of Israelis from a Palestinian who spent 23 years in jail for killing one. In 1990, Muqbel was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Yaakov Shalom in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Karem. Released after 23 years, he is now a key activist in Fatah, talking on the movement's behalf in West Bank schools.
- Canada Has Blood On Its Hands!
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 On February 9th, a day before the Israeli elections, concerned Canadians will demonstrate on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in a peaceful vigil to urge the Canadian government to challenge Israeli impunity in committing war crimes and human rights abuses.
- Canadian Boat to Gaza announces the delegates who will be aboard the Tahrir
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Before the end of June, the Canadian ship Tahrir will join the Freedom Flotilla 2 Stay Human, carrying civil society delegates from coast to coast, international partners, and journalists from a range of media organizations.
- Canadian Health Professionals Call for Ceasefire and Ending the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Canadian health professionals unequivocally protest against the Israeli siege and invasion of Gaza and against the Canadian Governmentâ##s support of Israel in its complicity in this massacre.
- Canadians for Genocide Education
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Carter's Inconvenient Truths
An Honest Man Refutes Propaganda Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 The reason that Israel has been able to appropriate Palestine unto itself with American aid and support is that Israel controls the explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At least 90% of Americans, if they know anything at all of the issue, know only the Israeli propaganda line. Israel has been able to control the explanation, because the powerful Israel Lobby brands every critic of Israeli policy as an anti-semite who favors a second holocaust of the Jews.
- The Case Against Israel
Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 Neumann argues that Israel's policies are the cause of the conflict, and that the conflict can be ended by Israel changing its behaviour.
- The Case for Palestine
An International Law Perspective Resource Type: Book Published: 2005
- The Case for Palestine: An International Law Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 Book review.
- 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.
- Celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Non-Violent Resistance in Bil'in in the West Bank
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Come to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the non-violent resistance in Bil'in in the occupied West Bank. February 5th from 5 until 6pm at the Iisraeli Consulate 180 Bloor St. W. Toronto.
- The Charlatanism Of Palestine-Denial
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Here we go again. On Israel and the US losing their UNESCO voting rights, Israel's ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan, said in an interview that his country supports the U.S. decision [to suspend contributions], "objecting to the politicization of UNESCO, or any international organization, with the accession of a non-existing country like Palestine.
- ChestDoc in Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- Class Politics in Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 1939 Zionism is a factor that weakens the class struggle of the Jewish masses, and strengthens the reaction outside of Palestine as well as the reactionary forces in Palestine. Jewish immigration into Palestine, which is mainly an immigration of workers, strengthens, on the one side, the power and weight of the working class in the country, the power which, regarded historically, is the most extreme anti-imperialist factor and, cm the other hand, in so far as it is Zionist, it strengthens the exclusivist positions and the forces of imperialism in Palestine.
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article Published: 1994 A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
- 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
- Counter-Rhetoric
Challenging "conventional wisdom" & reframing the conflict Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 This useful little book does two things. It challenges the rhetoric, the perceptions and assumptions regarding the conflict in Israel/Palestine, and it exposes the underlying imbalance of power around which this rhetoric swirls. It is both useful as a historical guide and as a tool for countering the prevailing divisive rhetoric. Whether challenging the concepts embedded in Zionism, the wars of the mid 20th century and the later occupation, or the Wall as security argument, this book gives a systematic alternative to the prevailing mantras and begins the process of changing the viewing of the conflict.
- Countercurrents
Resource Type: Website An alternative news site based in India. "We bring out what the mainstream media fails to tell you, or hides from you. These are the things that really matter. The things which may determine the fate of planet earth! The future of our children! In a word, the survival of the species!"
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Criminalizing Criticism of Israel
The End of Free Speech? Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 A massive push is underway to criminalize criticism of Israel. The Lobby is working to ban as anti-Semitic any truth or disagreeable fact that pertains to Israel. It is permissible to criticize every other country in the world, but it is anti-semitic to criticize Israel, and anti-semitism will soon be a universal hate-crime in the Western world.
- Criticism not disloyal
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Support for Palestinian rights thus need not come at the expense of concern for Israelis - in fact, advocating changes to Israeli policies that perpetuate war, anger, and resistance is the truest promotion of Israelis' well-being.
- Defending The Defensible: Jewish And Palestinian Boycotts
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Oh dear, poor Israel. Poor Israel - the world's 4th largest nuclear military power. Poor Israel - the serial war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of aggression violator. Poor barbaric Israel is being picked on by the non-violent Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which champions, out of simple human decency, Palestinian inalienable rights under international law.
- Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian Media
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has concluded the launch of its programme to support ethical journalism in Palestine with a series of proposals to strengthen independent media even in the face of political difficulties.
- Destruction of Palestinian olive trees is a monstrous crime
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The uprooting and cutting down of over a million olive and fruit trees in occupied Palestine since 1967 is an attack on a symbol of life, and on Palestinian culture and survival. A grave crime under international humantarian law, the arboricide is also contrary to Jewish religious teachings.
- The Different Faces of 'Popular Resistance' in Palestine
Manipulating History Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Apparently, 'popular resistance' has suddenly elevated to become a clash of visions or strategies between the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah and its rivals in Gaza, underscoring an existing and deepening rift between various factions and leaderships.
- Dignite attacked: one Canadian on board Gaza-bound French boat
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Organizers of the Canadian Boat to Gaza (CBG), the Tahrir, lost contact with the French flagged boat Dignité from the Freedom Flotilla II, at 10:10AM local time when the boat was in international waters north of Arish, Egypt.
- Dignite on the Last Leg of Voyage to Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Small French ship carrying a message that cannot be silenced.
- The Disappearance of Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The idea that a financial lifeline whether Kerrys plan or Netanyahus economic peace is going to smooth the path to the conflicts end is an illusion. Peace, and prosperity, will come only when Palestinians are liberated from Israeli control.
- Disaster and Mental Health
The Palestinian Experience Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 The continuing Israeli military occupation of Gaza is the cause of deep and widespread trauma for Palestinian children and adults.
- Do I Divest?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
- Eight Things I learned About Palestine While Touring Eight Western Nations
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 The main theme of all my talks in various cultural, academic and media platforms was the pressing need to refocus the discussion on Palestine on the struggle, aspirations and history of the Palestinian people. But, interacting with hundreds of people and being exposed to multiple media environments in both mainstream and alternative media, I also learned much about the changing political mood on Palestine in the western world.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- The End of Academic Freedom in America: the Case of Steven Salaita
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In the years I spent at Columbia University, there was always some professor or another coming under attack from the Israel lobby. But no matter the intensity of the witch-hunt, I was always proud to see my employer stand up for the free speech rights of the faculty.
- Epilogue to Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 The epilogue to I.F. Stone's first-hand account of the movement of European Jews to Palestine in 1946.
- Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 According to the Israeli Committee against House Demolitions, an Israeli NGO, the Israeli government has demolished 28,000 Palestinian structures since the Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza began in 1967, resulting in the homelessness and suffering of untold numbers of people. There is little ambiguity about the morality of this form of ethnic cleansing, and even most Israeli legal scholars agree that it is in contravention of international law.
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Israelo historian Ilan Pappe recounts the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Israel during the war of 1948.
- Expulsion of the Palestinians
The Concept of Transfer in Zionist Political Thought 1882-1948 Resource Type: Book Before, during and after 1948 the Israelis expelled more than 750,000 Palestinians. The ideas and attitudes that allowed for this concept of "transfer" are examined in Nur Masalha's book. "Transfer"being a euphemism for expulsion- and he shows how that concept is the logical extension of the Israelis process of colonization.
- "Exterminate all the Brutes": Gaza 2009
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Facebook Is Collaborating With the Israeli Government to Determine What Should Be Censored
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Last week, a major censorship controversy erupted when Facebook began deleting all posts containing the iconic photograph of the Vietnamese "Napalm Girl" on the ground that it violated the company's ban on "child nudity." Facebook even deleted a post from the prime minister of Norway, who posted the photograph in protest of the censorship. As outrage spread, Facebook ultimately reversed itself - acknowledging "the history and global importance of this image in documenting a particular moment in time" - but this episode illustrated many of the dangers I've previously highlighted in having private tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google become the arbiters of what we can and cannot see. Having just resolved that censorship effort, Facebook seems to be vigorously courting another. The Associated Press reports today from Jerusalem that the Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network.
- The Facts About Hamas and the War on Gaza
Seeing Through the Lies Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The record shows that Hamas wanted to continue the ceasefire, but only on condition that Israel eases the blockade. Long before Hamas began the retaliatory rocket attacks on Israel, Palestinians were facing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza because of the blockade.
- False Prophets of Peace
Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine Resource Type: Book 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.
- Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions - and are fighting to export them
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes - even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce - and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
- Farming Under the Wall
Stories of Palestinian Farmers in the West Bank Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The difficulties of Palestinian farmers as their lands are placed behind the Wall.
- The Fateful Triangle
Israel, the United States and the Palestinians Resource Type: Book Chomsky examines how Israel has systematically tried to eradicate the Palestinians as a political, national and cultural entity by stealing their land, invasion and occupation and how this has been made possible by U.S. aid.
- Finkelstein, Norman
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article An American political scientist and author, whose primary fields of research are the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. (Born 1953).
- First, Do No Harm: A Doctor's Experience of Life Under Israeli Occupation
News Release May 9, 2008 Resource Type: Article Published: 2008
- First Intifada
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A Palestinian Uprising against Israeli rule in the Palestinian Territories.
- 5 Broken Cameras
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 A deeply personal, first-hand account of non-violent resistance in Bil'in, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank whose lands are being systematically seized to make room for illegal Israeli settlements. Structured around the violent destruction of each one of Palestinian farmer Emad Burnat's cameras, the low-cost film documents Bil'in's weekly protests against land seizures by Israeli forces and Jewish settlers. Neighbors are killed in the protests and demolition equipment mars the landscape while the filmmaker captures his infant son's rapid loss of innocence, heralded by his first words: "wall" and "army."
- Five years of illegality: Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 In a report, Five years of illegality, Oxfam International presents testimonies of fifteen Palestinian men and women who recount their daily problems, arising from the construction of the Wall and its associated regime of land confiscation.
- For first time in 70 years, Palestinians return to their villages
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 To commemorate Land Day, group of Palestinian refugees returned to the villages they were expelled from in 1948.
- For Palestine
Resource Type: Book This striking photographic collection was made by Finnish photographer, Leena Saraste, at the height of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the siege of Beirut. Her vivid and moving images bear witness to the humanity and courage of millions of Palestinians who live as refugees beyond the borders of their own country.
- 'The Forced Displacement of Palestinians Never Truly Ended
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary, a child and grandchild of exiled Palestinian reflects on the Nakba, where 750,000 were driven from their homes or fled in terror following massacres of Palestinian civilians by Jewish militias.
- France: EFJ Concerned by Threats against Journalists after TV Report on Palestine
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The European Federation of Journalists expresses its support to journalists and unions at France 2 following threats made against the public channel's presenters over a television programme on the potential creation of a Palestinian state.
- France: EFJ Concerned by Threats against Journalists after TV Report on Palestine
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The European Federation of Journalists expresses its support to journalists and unions at France 2 following threats made against the public channel's presenters over a television programme on the potential creation of a Palestinian state.
- Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 While we support freedom of speech and academic freedom, we believe that university administrations have a duty to provide a safe learning environment in which students and faculty are protected by incorrect or harmful ideas. To achieve this safe learning environment, it will be necessary for the university authorities to cleanse the university's libraries of harmful books, to block inappropriate Internet sites, to ban guest lectures who hold improper views, and to identify and prosecute students and faculty who are guilty of thought crimes.
- 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 On the issue of free speech most of the right and much of the left are in agreement, and so too are many liberals, activists, and human rights apparatchiks. They hold essentially the same position on freedom of expression - they are for it -in principle-, but only so long as it isn't used to express views that they find unacceptable or offensive. What they disagree about is merely who gets to decide what ideas are unacceptable, i.e., who gets to censor who.
- Freedom Flotilla Coalition Donates Materials to over 400 Fishers in Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), an international coalition composed of civil society groups demanding an end to the illegal and inhumane blockade of Gaza, recently sent fishing materials to Palestinian fishers in Gaza. In cooperation with sever
- Freedom Flotilla II Stay Human
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 People from across Canada are rallying in support of the Canadian boat to Gaza which is part of the international convoy Freedom Flotilla II.
- French boat Dignite of the Freedom Flotilla II leaves Greece
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The French boat Dignite/Karama (Dignity) left the Greek island Kastellorizo around 8:30PM local time on Saturday July 16, 2011, heading south.
- The Futile Undertaking of Palestinian Statehood
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Eventually a state that represents all its inhabitants on the basis of equality and genuine respect and dignity for all its citizens is one that the world will some day celebrate, not a phony declaration that legitimizes the oppressive nature of one and confers false hope on the other.
- The Future of Israel and Palestine - Interview
Resource Type: Article Published: 1999 The first part of this interview with the Israeli human rights campaigner Professor Israel Shahak appeared in our previous issue ("The `Peace Process' and the CIA," ATC 78).
- The Future of Israel/Palestine
Against The Current vol. 139 Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmerts address to both houses of the U.S. Congress in May, 2006 was the clearest, most explicit presentation of Israels conception of where it is going vis-à-vis the Palestinians. It is perhaps the most skilled use of Newspeak since George Orwell invented the term in his novel 1984.
- The future of the Nakba
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 If the Nakbas most salient features are the theft of Palestinian land and the expulsion of the Palestinians from their land, and subjecting the lands that could not be stolen and the people who could not be expelled to systematic control and oppression, then, it would be most inaccurate to consider the Nakba as a discrete event that refers to the war of 1948 and its immediate aftermath. Rather, it should be historicized as a process which spanned the last 140 years, beginning with the arrival of the first Zionist conquerors to colonize the land in the early 1880s. In addition, Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continue to preserve the future survival of Israel. The Nakba then turns out to be not just a past event and an ongoing process in the present, but a calamity that has a decidedly planned future ahead of it. If so, what might that future be?
- 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.
- Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
Resource Type: Book 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 Gazas 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 Gazas 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.
- Gaza: Israel's $4 billion gas grab
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Gaza's civilians, still unable to rebuild one year after Operation Cast Lead, 'betrayed' by international community
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The international community has betrayed the people of Gaza by failing to back their words with effective action to secure the ending of the Israeli blockade which is preventing reconstruction and recovery, say a group of 16 leading organizations.
- Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
- The Great Book Robbery
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 As Palestinians were expelled from their land in 1948, librarians from Israels National Library followed the militias as they forced their way into Palestinian homes. Their mission was to collect as many valuable books, manuscripts, photographs and artworks as possible an estimated 70,000 books were seized.
- Guernica Written With the Hands and Hearts of Children
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Ha'am, Ahad
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Hebrew essayist and one of the foremost pre-state Zionist thinkers. (1856-1927).
- Hasbara
Resource Type: Article Sourcewatch's analysis of 'Hasbara' -- the propaganda efforts to sell Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in world opinion. The premise of hasbara is that Israel's problems are a matter of better propaganda, and not one of an underlying unjust situation.
- Health care and children in crisis in Gaza
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Health Care Professionals In Canada Join with PHR-Israel
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Canadian health care professionals are linking with Physicians for Human Rights - Isreal to support their work in struggling and advocating for human rights, in particular the right to health, for people both in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
- Hebron Activist Who Died of Tear Gas Showed Israel's Crimes to the World
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Hebron resident and anti-occupation activist Hashem al-Azzeh died Wednesday after inhaling tear gas fired by Israeli forces.
- Hegemony or Survival
America's Quest for Global Dominance Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Chomsky documents how, for more than half a century, the United States has been pursuing a grand imperial strategy with the aim of dominating the globe.
- Hezbollah, Hamas and Israel: Everything You Need To Know
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 We are supposed to think that the current crisis in the Middle East has no historical roots.
- Historical Timeline: 1900-Present: History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017
- A History of Modern Palestine
One Land, Two Peoples Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 A history of the people of Palestine.
- A History of the Jews - Ancient and Modern
Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 Starting from a political interpretation of the period when judges, kings and prophets held sway over Israel and Judah, Ilan Halevi traces the evolution of the Jewish identity through its numerous stages, from the Roman occupation and the decline of Temple authority, through to the Zionist settlement of Palestine in the twentieth century.
- How Did It Start?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Every serious debate about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict raises the question: "When did it start?" Each side has its own date, proving that the other side started it.
- How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Entire communities in the West Bank either have no access to water or have had their water supply reduced almost by half. This alarming development has been taking place for weeks, since Israels national water company, "Mekorot", decided to cut off or significantly reduce its water supply to Jenin, Salfit and many villages around Nablus, among other regions. Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians.
- How Many Divisions?
Israel is losing this war Resource Type: Article 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.
- How Most Aid to the Palestinians Ends up in Israel's Coffers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 While Europe may think of itself as part of an enlightened West, using aid to defend Palestinians' rights, the reality is less reassuring. The aid may actually be making things significantly worse.
- How Palestinian women led successful non-violent resistance
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Two women share their stories of how they peacefully protested during both Intifadas and challenged Israel's occupation.
- How to Deal with The Lobby: The De-Zionization of the American Mind
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Countering the influence of the Zionist lobby.
- How Zionist terrorism determined Palestine's fate
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A book review on State of Terror: How Terrorism Created Modern Israel, Thomas Suárez, Olive Branch Press (2017).
- Humanize Palestine
Resource Type: Website Published: 2014 Humanize Palestine attempts to restore the humanity that is often stripped away when Palestinians are reduced to calculative deaths, forgettable names, and burned and mutilated bodies, rather than people who shared loved ones, stories, dreams and aspirations.
- Hunger strike threatens health of Palestinian journalist in Israeli jail
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' syndicate (PJS) are deeply concerned over the health of a Palestinian journalist who has been on hunger strike for almost 50 days.
- I Was Born There, I Was Born Here (Wulidtu hunak, wulidtu huna)
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- If Israel Has the Right to Use Force in Self Defense, So Do Its Neighbours
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 There is no reason why Israel should be able to enter Arab sovereign soil to occupy, destroy, kidnap and eliminate its perceived foes - repeatedly, with impunity and without restraint - while the Arab side cannot do the same.
- IFJ and FAJ Give Support to Palestinian Journalists
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A declaration in support of Palestinian journalists.
- IFJ Blames Hamas for Political Interference after Take-Over of PJS Office in Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today accused the Hamas administration in Gaza of attempting to destabilize the leadership of the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS).
- IFJ Condemns Gaza Attack and Demands International Inquiry after Reports of Media Casualties
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The International Federation of Journalists today reacted with shock at the news of the brutal attacks on civilians, including journalists, by Israeli forces in the assault on a flotilla that yesterday tried to breach the military blockade of Gaza
- IFJ Condemns Palestinian Authority Over Ban on Al-Jazeera
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Palestinian Authority to rescind its decision to close down the office the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television in the West Bank.
- IFJ Defending Journalists in Palestine and Israel
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reaffirmed its commitment to defend the interests of journalists in Palestine and Israel.
- IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle East
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Launching its â##Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of media laws in the Middle East.
- IFJ Hits Out over Arrest and Detention of Journalists in Palestine
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today condemned the "unjustified" detention of journalists by the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Services.
- IFJ Joins Call for Release of Palestinian Journalists Held in Israel
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today joined the call by its affiliate in Palestine, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), and Al Jazeera for the immediate release of journalist Samer Allawy.
- IFJ Urges Unity and Fresh Start for Journalists in Palestine
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists calls on Palestinian media to stand up and unite for their profession and said it was ready to support fresh efforts for better relations with political leaders to ensure more protection and needed reform.
- IFJ Welcomes "Historic Opportunity" as Palestinian Journalists Agree to Hold Congress
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists welcomes the decision by the Palestine Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) yesterday to hold a Congress to elect a new leadership and rebuild the unity and solidarity of journalists across the occupied territories
- IFJ Welcomes Successful Safety Training for Gaza Journalists in Egypt
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today welcomed the successful safety training organised for Gaza Journalists which took place in Cairo from 20 to 22 April.
- IJV endorses United Church Working Group call to boycott settlement products
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The United Church of Canada's Working Group on Israel/Palestine Policy's report has been attacked by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. IJV is supporting the right of the Church to make its own policy, free from intimidation.
- Image and Reality of The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Challenges generally accepted truths of the Israel-Palestine conflict as well as much of the revisionist literature. This new and enlarged edition critically re-examines dominant popular and scholarly images in the light of the current debacle of a "peace" process.
- In Support of the Palestinian Human Rights Community Call for International Action
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 In the past the world knew how to fight criminal policies. The boycott on South Africa was effective, but Israel is handled with kid gloves: its trade relations are flourishing, academic and cultural cooperation continue and intensify with diplomatic support. This international backing must stop. That is the only way to stop the insatiable Israeli violence.
- In the Matter of the International Community v Israel
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 In its first full week of a "new" get tough policy, almost 500 young Palestinian demonstrators were injured, shot and maimed, and at least three teens murdered in response to what Israel sees as a rising tide of "militant" resistance against the illegally occupied and, by now, almost completely annexed West Bank.
- Inaugural Event: A dramatic reading of a personal account of bombing of Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 New Toronto Art and Culture Venue - Beit Zatoun. Inaugural Event: A dramatic reading of SEVEN DAYS FROM A GAZA DIARY, on 1st anniversary of Israeli assault on Gaza. In Toronto; Saturday January 30 at 6 pm. Beit Zatoun House, 612 Markham St.
- Independent Jewish Voices
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Jews in Canada who share a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights and who promote the expression of alternative Jewish voices, particularly in respect of the grave situation in the Middle East, which threatens the future of both Israelis and Palestinians as well as the stability of the whole region.
- Independent Jewish Voices Joins Call for Global Protest
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Calls for women of the world to unite behind the popular resistance of Palestinian women in defence of their land, rights and dignity
- Insisting on Humanity
The Plight of the Palestinians Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 It is important that we preserve the distinction between the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian people, who have held on to their rights for so many years, and unleashed two of the greatest expressions of people's power and resolve: the First Uprising of 1987 and al-Aqsa Intifada of 2000. A whole population taking on the self-celebrated "greatest army in the Middle East" is hardly "powerless". The Palestinian people have printed themselves on the practical discourse of this conflict, and they have proved themselves to be powerful players in determining their own fate.
- International Crisis Group
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- International Solidarity Movement
Resource Type: Website A Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods and principles.
- An Interview with Tanya Reinhart
The Roadmap to Nowhere Resource Type: Article 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
- Intifada:
The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation Resource Type: Book Published: 1989
- Intimidation and Violence Against Palestinian Journalists Must End Now
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS) to condemn a brutal attack by Israeli forces on a Palestinian TV crew in Shufat Refugee Camp, near Jerusalem.
- The Iron Cage
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007
- Is Israel an Apartheid State?
Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
- Is the UN complicit in Israel's massacre in Gaza?
Resource Type: Article 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."
- Israel and the Arabs: the good guys don't always wear white hats
Review of Israel: A Colonial-Settler State, by Maxime Rodinson Resource Type: Article Published: 1973 The tragedy of two peoples brought into conflict by forces largely outside of their control.
- Israel boycott may be the way to peace
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 The non-violent international response to apartheid was a campaign of boycott, divestment and UN-imposed sanctions which enabled the regime to change without bloodshed. We should try to follow the same route to a just peace.
- Israel in Gaza: A Critical Reframing
Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Mearsheimer and Walt describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argue that this support cannot be fully explained in either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America's posture throughout the Middle East and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America's national interest nor Israel's long-term interest.
- Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article 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.
- Israel/Palestine Lexicon For Mainstream Media
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 If you are writing for mainstream media, you need to learn special uses of words and phrases that are specific to Israel/Palestine. If you use common usage, you will run into confusions, paradoxes, and hostile responses from pro-Israel people. Please follow these guidelines and you will have no problems with editors, politicians, or organized pro-Israel groups. For each phrase, this guide will present first (a) the common usage, and then (b) the specific Israel/Palestine usage that you must use in order to write for major US (and UK and Canadian of course) media (NYT, Toronto Star, BBC, CBC, etc.)
- Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights
Resource Type: Website Published: 2014 A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
- Israel - Palestine: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018
- Israel: Politics, Myths and Identity Crises
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Essays dealing with the politics and ideology of Zionism, the sociology of Israel, and politics of ethnicity generally.
- Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in December and January.
- Israel Steps up Dirty Tricks Against Boycott Leaders
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The current obsession with the challnege posed by BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) reflects a changing political environment for Israel.
- Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
- Israeli authorities close Palestinian media centre in East Jerusalem
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday morning's decision by the Israeli internal security ministry to shut down the Palestinian media centre that had been set up in the East Jerusalem.
- Israeli government openly threatens journalists planning to sail with Gaza flotilla
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Reporters Without Borders condemns the Israeli governments attempts to intimidate journalists who plan to travel with a flotilla of ships that will set sail in the next few days in an attempt to break Israels blockade of the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military information.
- Israeli minister threatens "holocaust" as public demand ceasefire talks
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Israel's deputy defense minister Matan Vilnai has threatened Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip with a "holocaust." The comments came a day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, one a six-month-old baby, in a series of air raids across the Gaza Strip.
- Israeli soldiers disguised as photojournalists endanger journalists' lives, says MADA
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses concern over the Israeli occupation forces disguising themselves as photojournalists in the middle of Palestinian protesters.
- Israeli torture of Palestinian children 'institutional'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Investigation of the practice of torture by Shin Bet interrogators, revealing the practice as systematic.
- Israelis have the Upper Hand when it Comes to Vengeance
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 As Human Rights Watch warned, Israels recent actions mass arrests; armed raids; the killing of Palestinians, including minors; lockdowns of cities, house demolitions; and air strikes amounted to collective punishment, international laws euphemism for revenge, against Palestinians. In the face of the enduring violence of Israels occupation, and the licence it provides soldiers to humiliate and oppress, ordinary Palestinians have a stark choice: to submit or resist. Ordinary Israelis, on the other hand, do not need to seek revenge on their own account. The Israeli state, military and courts are there every day doing it for them.
- Israelis rattled by search for truth about the Nakba
First 'truth commission' avoids issue of reconciliation as veteran Israeli fighters due to confess to 1948 war crimes Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The first-ever "truth commission" in Israel will feature confessions from veteran Israeli fighters of the 1948 war who are expected to admit to perpetrating war crimes as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were expelled from their homes. The commission is the culmination of more than decade of antagonistic confrontations between a small group of activists called Zochrot, the Hebrew word for Remembering, and the Israeli authorities, as well as much of the Jewish-Israeli public.
- Israel's appalling bombing of Gaza
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Israel's approved ethnic cleansing
Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 Israel's treatment of the Palestinians has always presented a moral problem to the West, as that treatment has violated every law and moral standard on the books.
- Israel's attack on Gaza is a 'Pillar of War Crimes', says Jewish human rights group
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Jewish human rights group criticizes Israel's latest attack.
- Israel's Colonial War against the Gaza Strip
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Israel is becoming a war machine, terrifying yet lacking in all moral grounding.
- Israel's education system peddles intolerance and lies
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 John Kerry spent last week testing the waters with the Israelis and the Palestinians over his so-called framework agreement designed to close the gaps between the two sides. But the issues he is trying to resolve appear more intractable by the day.
- Israel's New Land Law: Clearing the Path to Annexation
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The Israeli parliament passed the legalisation law on Monday night, widening the powers of Israeli officials to seize the final fragments of Palestinian land in the West Bank that were supposed to be off-limits.
- Israels Terrible Problem: Two States or One?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Israel has created a terrible problem which it is incapable of solving. That is why it has always been the case that the United States must pretty much dictate a solution, but it is unable to do so, paralyzed as it is by the heavy influence of Israel and Americas own apologists and lobbyists.
- An Issue Of Justice
Origins Of The Israel/Palestine Conflict Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 Finkelstein lays out the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict with clarity and passion, arguing that any other similar conflict would be perfectly understood, yet this one exists beneath a blanket of ideological fog. Finkelstein cuts through the fog with indisputable historical facts, optimistic that the struggle is winnable, and that it is simply an issue of justice.
- The Jewish-Arab Conflict
Resource Type: Article Published: 1938 The conflict between the Arab masses and Zionist aspirations can only be solved to the extent that Jewish masses in Palestine renounce Zionist exclusivism.
- Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
- Jewish group to Layton: Investigate Israel/Palestine with Neutral Hosts
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 The NDP should reject the invitation of the Canada-Israel Committee to host or facilitate a trip by Jack Layton and caucus members to Israel, says Independent Jewish Voices # Canada. They should be guided by party neutral to the conflict.
- Jewish human rights group condemns Harper government's position on UN Palestine vote
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Some Canadian Jews are adamantly opposed to the Harper government's unquestioning support for what Israel is doing.
- Jewish Voices for Peace and Justice
Press Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 Canadian Jews who oppose the continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza by Israel will gather for a one-day conference on June 8, 2003 in Toronto.
- Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 A diverse group of Jewish Canadian women are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. This action is in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- JohnPilger.com
Resource Type: Website The journalism of John Pilger.
- Journalists and media workers assaulted by occupation forces
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) condemns the attack on Reuters photographer Nayef Alhishlmon and several Palestinian journalists by the Israeli occupation forces.
- Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in Gaza
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Justice, Peace and the Israeli State
Rule by Ruthless Force Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 International Law and the creation of a world body to aid in the direction of nation states to live in peace and justice under defined conditions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Charters of the UN suggests that Israel must change, it must recognize that it is not the sole determiner of world events, that it has lifted its beliefs beyond those that exist elsewhere in the world and it must, therefore, reverse its direction to become one with its neighbors and all the nations of the UN.
- Keys, comb and a plant: Palestinians tell of their past through cherished belongings
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The first national museum for the geographically dispersed and exiled Palestinian people is taking shape, not only physically but conceptually. The goal is "to connect the Palestinians and present different narratives to the world of who we are, where we come from and what we aspire." Since the Israeli occupation authorities prevent many Palestinians from travelling to their homeland, the Palestinian Museum seeks to become the hub connecting a network of institutions in Jordan, Beirut, Gaza, Haifa and elsewhere.
- Killing Children: From Ireland to Palestine
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Land Day 2017: Israel's relentless land grab continues
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 As Israel resumes its settlement expansion with impunity, Palestinians have plenty to protest at this year's Land Day.
- Le Bateau Canadien Pour Gaza Presente Quelques Un-e-s des Delegu-e-s qui Seront a Bord du Tahrir
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Dici la fin juin, le bateau canadien Tahrir se joindra à la Flottille de la Liberté II - Rester humains. Des délégué-e-s de la société civile provenant de tous les coins du pays, des partenaires internationaux et des journalistes de divers médias
- Le bateau francais Dignite-Al Karama est sorti des eaux grecques
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Le bateau franais Dignite-Al Karama a quitte l'Ile de Kastellorizo en Grece, vers 20h30 heure locale, aujourd'hui 16 juillet 2011, en direction du sud.
- Le blocus de Gaza setend jusquaux cotes grecques!
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Alors quil tente de prendre la mer, le Bateau canadien pour Gaza, le Tahrir, est retenu en Grèce.
- Le Tahrir finira par naviguer
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Nous nous rendrons par mer, par les airs et dans les medias jusqu' ce que cesse le blocus et que la Palestine soit liberee.
- Le Tahrir, le bateau canadien pour Gaza de la Flottille de la liberte II, levera lancre aujourdhui
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Beneficiant du soutien de la societe civile grecque et du public partout au monde, le Tahrir prend la mer aujourdhui.
- Leader and Vassal
Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Americans do not think of themselves or of Israel as terrorist states, but the evidence is complete and overwhelming. Thanks to the power of the Israel Lobby, Americans only know the Israeli side of the story, which is that evil anti-semite Palestinians will not let blameless Israelis live in peace and persist in their unjustified terror attacks on an innocent Israeli state.
- The lessons we have learned
Palestine & Iraq: Any Signs of Hope? Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 A speech on "the peace movement: lessons learned and the way forward." Henry Lowi argues that "There is no sign of hope, for the old prejudices and the old concepts, and there is no hope for the colonialists, and the supremacists, and the ethnic nationalists. There is hope for those who proclaim clearly, and organize diligently, for coexistence between Arabs and Jews under a democratic constitution that upholds human rights."
- Librarians and Palestine
An Interview with Vani Natarajan Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Working to preserve Palestinian records and memory in the face of deliberate destruction by Israel.
- Looking at Israel from the other side
Book Review Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 A review of two books: Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries, by Suad Amiry, and The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide.
- The lying silence of those who know
Holocaust Denied Resource Type: Article 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.
- Making a Sow's Ear from Palestinian Protest
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The recent decision by the Congress of South African Students (COSAS) to place a pig's head in what was assumed to be the kosher section of Woolworths, and then, in fact, turned out to be the halal section, could be written off as a mere "fail of the week."
- The man reconstructing Palestine's lost villages
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Abu Sitta has diligently reconstructed and mapped the future for all Palestinians laying the groundwork for their homecoming. "Our plan is to reconstruct the destroyed Palestinian villages. The plans are derived from a massive database. We are creating a file for every village, its house plans before 1948, its features and characteristics, its economies and its status of education. Young architects are now working on the reconstruction of these destroyed villages to be built in the same locations with the same beautiful old features, but with modern amenities."
- Married to Another Man
Israel's Dilemma in Palestine Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Karmi argues that Israel has never been able to solve the original and unresolved Zionist quandary of how to create and maintain a Jewish state in a land inhabited by another people. She maintains that the problem is unsoluble and that the only solution is a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians are equal.
- A Marxist History of the World part 95: Oil, Zionism, and Western Imperialism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 British support for the Zionist movement led to the foundation of Israel in 1948. In conjunction with US imperialism, the Israeli state is an enduring source of oppression in the Middle East.
- Massacre In Gaza Black Saturday
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 UHWC asks you, to issue a strong Last Appeal Statement condemning Israelâ##s human rights violations against the Palestinian people and to demand a cessation of this military offensive.
- Massacres and Morality
Resource Type: Article 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?
- Medic Who Killed Palestinian Being Portrayed as 'National Hero'
DM Slams Coalition Members for Backing Execution Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Tensions within Israel's extremely narrow right-far-right coalition continue to grow, as the military's investigation into an Israeli medic who shot and killed an already wounded and disarmed Palestinian has become a cause célèbre for the settler movement and for hawks in general.
- Miko Peled to speak in Vancouver on ending the crisis in Israel-Palestine
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Peled provides a clear, optimistic perspective on the crisis and how to end it.
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Khatib's arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bilin to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest since June 23rd, 2009. The recent wave of arrests is largely an assault on the members of the Popular Committees - the leadership of the popular struggle - who are then charged with incitement when arrested.
- Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of West Bank Coordination Committee arrested
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Mohammed Khatib#s arrest today is the most severe escalation in a recent wave of repression again the Palestinian popular struggle and its leadership. Khatib is the 35th resident of Bil#in to be arrested on suspicions related to anti-Wall protest .
- Montrealers lay siege to Israeli Consulate: Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada. Early Thursday, January 8th Montrealers blockaded the Israeli Consulate in Montreal in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
- More than 100 media sign the Reporters Without Borders petition for international journalists to be allowed into the Gaza Strip
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Reporters Without Borders reiterates its appeal for support by the international media and again urges the Israeli authorities to lift the ban on foreign media access to the Gaza Strip that has been in force since November.
- The Nakba - an event that did not occur (although it had to occur)
Resource Type: Article Published: 2004
- Netanyahu: Have You No Shame?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Israels Prime Minister attributing the Holocaust to Palestinian influence over Hitler is a "Blood Libel" level lie.
- A New British Provocation in Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 1946 British imperialism, for years on end, has attempted to direct the ire of the Arab masses against the Jewish population of the country. For this purpose the policy of Zionist expansion has been supported, a policy which results in the eviction of Arab tenants from the land, drives Arab workers from jobs, and strengthens the Zionist fortress which is determined to establish a Jewish State in Palestine. Imperialist support for Zionism is calculated to achieve two results: One, to establish a power which directly supports it, which will constitute a faithful ally against the Arabs in every instance of an anti-imperialist uprising of the Arabs of the Middle East; the other, to have Zionism serve as a means of diverting the ire of the oppressed Arab masses away from imperialism onto a side issue - clashes with Jews.
- New Internationalist
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
- New Palestine Party Visit of Menachem Begin and Aims of Political Movement Discussed
Letter to the New York Times Resource Type: Article Published: 1948
- New solidarity ship to sail to Gaza on June 25
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 On June 25th, the Free Gaza movement will set sail on its eighth mission to break Israelâ##s horrific siege and collective punishment of 1.5 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- Noam Chomsky: 'No individual changes anything alone'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Noam Chomsky is one of the world's most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his life's work, on current events in Syria and Israel, and on the love of his life his wife.
- Now Is The Time
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 The world must be offered the chance to see the good Palestinian, the good Arab and the good Muslim. We must be offered the chance to see the good Jew and the well-intentioned Christians and West. It is all in our grasp, but, we need to take that important leap by acting now with courage and wisdom. A unified vision and strategy on the Palestinian side must lead us toward peace.
- Occupation captured
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Photos of Palestinian life and Israeli occupation in the West Bank city of Hebron.
- Occupation Diaries
Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 An inside look at daily life in Palestine.
- Occupation on Trial - Palestinian village sues Canadian corporations for building illegal Israeli settlements
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Bil'in, a Palestinian village that has become an international symbol of Palestinian popular non-violent resistance to the ongoing construction of the Israeli separation wall, is suing Canadian corporations for building illegal settlements.
- Of Sowing and Harvests
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Perhaps our word can manage to join forces with others in Mexico and the world and perhaps first it's heard as a murmur, then out loud, and then a scream that they hear in Gaza. We don't know about you, but we Zapatistas from the EZLN, we know how important it is, in the middle of destruction and death, to hear some words of encouragement.
- The Olga Document
For Truth and Reconciliation, For Equality and Partnership Resource Type: Article Published: 2004 A document written in a series of meetings in Givat Olga, Israel, and titled after the location, The Olga Document. Advoctes coexistence of the peoples of this country, based on mutual recognition, equal partnership and implementation of historical justice.
- On Nakba Day Palestinians in Gaza explain why they joined the 'Great March of Return'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Palestinian refugees in their own words, on the 70th anniversary of the creation of Israel. In the context of the 2018 opening of the USA embassy in Jerusalem.
- On Oil and Quicksand
Against The Current vol. 114 Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 The end of 2004 finds the Middle East sliding toward an even bloodier morass, thanks in large part to imperial and colonial arrogance which has rarely been on such open display.
- On the Irresponsible Handling of the Palestine Question
Resource Type: Article Published: 1947 The American and English working class must not support the Zionist drive for a Jewish State (or what, under existing conditions means the same thing, a drive for Jewish immigration and colonisation) which, while befitting imperialism, opposes the most elementary interests equally of the Arab masses as of the Jewish.
- One Country
A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 One Country proposes a radical alternative to the impasse in Israel/Palestine: to revive the neglected idea of one state shared by two peoples. Ali Abunimah shows how the two are by now so intertwined -- geographically and economically -- that separation cannot lead to the security Israelis need or the rights Palestinians must have. Taking on the objections and taboos that stand in the way of a binational solution, he demonstrates that sharing the territory will bring benefits for all.
- One State: Trump Has Reminded Palestinians What It Was Always About
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 For more than 15 years, the Middle East "peace process" initiated by the Oslo accords has been on life support. Last week, United States president Donald Trump pulled the plug, whether he understood it or not.
- The Only House Left Standing
The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 A journey through the life and thoughts of the late Tom Hurndall, a British photojournalist fatally wounded in Gaza in April 2003.
- An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
- An open letter from Jewish academics and elders to McGill's administration regarding false allegations of student anti-Semitism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 This letter was sent Nov. 13 to Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Christopher Manfredi, and Secretariat Board of Governors and Senate Maria Kontzidis.
- Open Letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Dear Secretary General, On your recent visit to Gaza, you saw with your own eyes some of the deplorable and inhumane conditions suffered by the Palestinians living in Gaza. You called it one of the most dramatic humanitarian crises that you had seen
- The Other Israel
Voices of Refusal and Dissent Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 A compilation of essays written by Israelis who oppose Israel's occupation of Palestine.
- The Other Israel
The Radical Case Against Zionism Resource Type: Book Published: 1972 A collective effort by a small group of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel to penetrate the dense net of illusion and myth that dominates the thinking and feeling of most Israelis and, at the same time, determines the prevailing image of Israel in the Western world. According to the Zionist fairy tale, the state of Israel is an outpost of democracy, social justice, and enlightenment, and a homeland and haven for the persecuted Jews of the world. The reality, as this book demonstrates, is utterly different.
- The other side of Gaza: Swimming, canoeing and 'trying' to be a child
Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Other Side of Israel
My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 Explores the unequal treatment of Palestinians living in Israel as "citizens", but as second-class citizens in a theocratic state that discriminates against Arabs in many ways.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
Killings by Police Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2014 Topic of the week is Killings by Police. Articles on the way the Ebola crisis illuminates the moral bankruptcy of capitalism; Responding the capitalist crisis, in 1914 and 2014; Globaling Gaza: Israel's leading role in undemining international law; and Marinaleda, a town in Spain attempting to create alternatives based on democracy, co-operation, and mutual aid. Group of the Week is Librarians and Archivists with Palestine.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
Organizing Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2016 Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
What are we eating? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
Massacres and Morality Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) 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.
- Overcoming Zionism
Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a 'state-sponsored racism' fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East. Kovel draws on his detailed knowledge of the Middle East to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, in which lie the roots of continued conflict.
- Painting a false picture
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 A review of the book "The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media" by Greg Shupak.
- Palestine Freedom Battle "will be won": Interview with Author Miko Peled
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 An interview with Miko Peled, the Israeli author of The Generals Son.
- 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 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.
- Palestine Media Watch
Resource Type: Website PMWATCH was established to promote fair and accurate coverage of the Israeli occupation of Palestine in the US mainstream media. In broad terms, our mission is two-fold: (1) identify, report on, and protest clear journalistic failures by the US media in covering the conflict, and (2) help media outlets with access to pro-Palestinian points of view and voices for interviews, op-eds, or background discussions, whether here in the United States, in Israel, or in the Occupied Territories. Includes tools and suggestions for action on media bias.
- Palestine overwhelmed by Illegal American Immigrants
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Israel illegally annexed part of the Palestinian West Bank to its district of Jerusalem and then settled it with squatters, not only Israeli but also American.
- Palestine Peace Not Apartheid
Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 Former U.S. President Carter calls Israel's treatment of Palestinians 'apartheid' and identifies continuing Israeli control of the occupied territories as the primary obstacle to peace.
- The Palestine Poster Project Archive
Resource Type: Website An online collection of thousands of posters from, or related to, Palestine.
- The Palestine Review: E-Books
Resource Type: Website Free books on Palestine and the Mideast. Hundreds of free books: the largest online library of free ebooks on Palestine, the Palestinians, and Palestinian history available anywhere.
- Palestine Strike
Arabs and Jews Unite Resource Type: Article Published: 1946 The biggest strikes in the history of Palestine far surpassing any other which have taken place, broke out last month (April 1946). 32,000 workers came out, of which 26,000 were Arabs and 6,000 Jews.
- Palestine: IFJ demands justice following the killing of a journalist in Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joined its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS), in condemning the killing of Palestinian photojournalist Yasir Murtaja and the wounding of at least 7 more journalists in Gaza.
- Palestine's 'Prayer for Rain': How Israel Uses Water as a Weapon of War
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Israel has been 'waging a water war' against Palestinians, according to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah. The irony is that the water provided by "Mekorot' is actually Palestinian water, usurped from West Bank aquifers. While Israelis, including illegal West Bank settlements, use the vast majority of it, Palestinians are sold their own water back at high prices.
- Palestinian civil society condemns Canadian government disinformation and repression against boycott movement
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition of Palestinian civil society organisations that leads the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement, has condemned the Canadian government's ramped up disinformation campaign
- Palestinian Freedom Riders to Board Settler Buses to Jerusalem
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Palestinian activists will attempt to peacefully board segregated Israeli public transportation in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem in action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement's Freedom Rides to the U.S. South.
- Palestinian general strike 1936
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Part of the 1936-1939 Arab revolt in Palestine.
- Palestinian, Jewish Voices Music Jointly Challenge Israel's Past
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Baroud analyzes how Israel has appropriated the Palestinian narrative of Al-Nakba to rewrite history and place the occupation of Palestine in a positive light.
- Palestinian Memory and Hope
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A group of activists are working to create a Nakba Museum of Memory and Hope in Washington, D.C. The project aims to tell the Palestinian refugee story, one that has been silenced or ignored for too long.
- Palestinian Refugees: The Right Of Return
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 The thorniest of issues, elucidated, discussed, and contextualized, by an impressive array of scholars and activists, including Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Norman Finkelstein, Jaber Sueiman, Nahla Ghandour, Susan Akram, Salman Abu-Sitta, and Jan Abu Shakrah. The chapters cover the historical roots of the Palestinian refugee question; the obligations of host countries under international law (the case of Lebanon); Israeli perceptions of the refugee question; the role of the United States and the European Union and the Refugee Question; the PLO; meeting the needs of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon; Palestinian refugees and Jewish immigrants from Arab countries; and a program for an Independent Rights Campaign.
- 'Palestinian Rights Has Become an Incredibly Mainstream Issue'
CounterSpin interview with Josh Ruebner on BDS bans Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 Interview with Josh Ruebner about anti-BDS legislation. With downloadable MP3 of interview.
- The Palestinian Struggle and the Anarchist Dilemma
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 A review of the discussion of the relationship between anarchism and the Palestinian/Israeli struggle by Uri Gordon, an Israeli anarchist, in his book "Anarchy Alive!".
- Palestinians decry West Bank industrial zone expansion
For years, Israel has increasingly taken control of Palestinian lands in Area C to build out its industrial zones. Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Israeli media outlets recently reported that 60 new companies have registered to relocate to the area, despite the threat of retaliation from the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement.
- Palestinians who see nonviolence as their weapon
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Mohammed Khatib and his West Bank supporters hope to rally others to a peaceful campaign for statehood.
- Peace in the Middle East?
Reflections on Justice and Nationhood Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 An analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict arguing for socialist bi-nationalism as the way out of the morass.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Perceptions of Palestine
Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy Resource Type: Book Published: 2001 Christison shows how America's singular focus on Israel and general ignorance of the Palestinian point of view, has impeded a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- The PLO
The Struggle Within Resource Type: Book A classic study of the diversity of Palestinian political thinking embodied in the PLO - from Baathists to Marxists. The author provides a history of the major debates within the PLO as it has moved from the idea of replacing Israel with a bi-national democratic and secular state to the notion of recovering any part of occupied Palestine and the creation of an independent and separate Palestinian state.
- The PLO and Palestine
Resource Type: Book This is the first book by a representative of the PLO that explains the history of the Palestinian people and the organization they have built to represent their interests. The author writes in the hope that a just and lasting peace can be achieved in the Middle East. By providing information not widely known in the West, Dr. Frangi shows why peace cannot be built without PLO participation, and what the PLO's own notion of a durable peace comprises.
- Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- Press for Conversion #51
May 2003 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2003 Why is the U.S. government reviled by so many people in the Middle East and North Africa? This issue looks at the past 50 years of wars and regime changes in the region and unveils a consistent pattern of U.S. involvement.
- A pro-Israel group's plan to rewrite history on Wikipedia
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Electronic Intifada exposes a secret scheme by a pro-Israel pressure group to infiltrate the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia to rewrite Palestinian history, pass off crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structures to ensure these changes go either undetected or unchallenged.
- The Public Peace Process
Resources and Inspiration Resource Type: Website
- Quest for Justice
Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 Judith Stone, an American Jew, argues that Jews of conscience must support the right of return of the Palestinian people.
- Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Why do these terrible outbreaks of violence keep happening? Written during the Israeli attack on Gaza in July 2014.
- Radical Digressions 4
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Radical Digressions 5
Resource Type: Website Published: 2008
- Radicals, Rabbis and Peacemakers
Conversations with Jewish Critics of Isreal Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 This is a collection of interviews, edited, introduced, and annotated by Farber, a member of Jews Against The Occupation. The contributors are among the leading American Jewish critics of Zionism and of Israel's policies towards the Palestinians. The book articualtes the reason behind the dissent and a vocbulary and framework to express it.
- Reading Eduardo Galeano Through Palestinian Eyes
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano is best remembered for chronicling five centuries of colonialism, genocide, pillage, and structural inequality in the Americas. His pen dug through the bleeding heart of Latin America, unearthing forgotten stories of resistance, exploring the roots of injustice and exploitation, and amplifying the voices of the outcasts and misfits.
- Recovering Nonviolent History
Civil Resistance in Liberation Struggles Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Essays showing, in considerable detail, the varied roles played by civil resistance in fifteen liberation struggles in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- Reflections and Meditations Thirty Years After
Resource Type: Article Published: 1978 I.F. Stone's reflections on Israel thirty years after writing his first-hand account "Underground to Palestine'.
- A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
- A Response to Norman Finkelstein
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 A response to Norman Finkelstein's attack on the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Tilley says that Finkelstein's insistence that the movement has to adjust itself to mainstream public opinion is bizarre: "Since when do human rights campaigns adjust their arguments to please mainstream opinion? Changing mainstream opinion is their very task. If activists took mainstream opinion as the proper guide to moral action, we would never have had the anti-slavery abolition movement, or the womens suffrage movement, and apartheid would flourish in South Africa to this day. Indeed, we wouldnt have most human rights campaigns. The toughest ones, which are often the greatest ones, must often start small and grow slowly."
- Review: Poster art of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Resource Type: Article Published: 2004
- Revisiting the partition of Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 Henry Lowi calls on honest, realistic and pragmatic peace activists the world over to expose partition, protest against it and propose an alternative solution to the question of Palestine.
- Richard Falk, UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territories Speaking in Toronto
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Richard Falk, the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, will be speaking in Toronto next Sunday September 27th at 2pm. at 155 College St. Room 610.
- The Roadmap to Nowhere
Israel/Palestine Since 2003 Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 An urgent and searing exposé of the 'peace process' by a prominent Israeli thinker.
- Rogue State
A Guide to the World's Only Superpower Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
- Sacrificing Gaza: The Great March of Zionist Hypocrisy
Resource Type: Article 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 Israels use of deadly armed force against targets (children, press, medics) deliberately chosen to demonstrate the Jewish states 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 thats befogged Western liberals eyes for 70 years.
- The Same Media That Opposed Democracy in South Africa Now Warn Against It in Israel/Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 Coverage of South African apartheid in US news in the 1980s compared with coverage of Israel/Palestine today reveals similar racist bias.
- Sanctions on Israel: If not now, when?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 How much longer are we prepared to watch Lebanon and Palestine burn, before we act?
- A Seasonal Greeting to the World: End the Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 A Seasonal Greeting to the World: End the Siege of Gaza. This Friday at our weekly vigil, we will mark the season with a Christmas tree decorated with barbed wire to depict the prison-like conditions the people of Gaza are enduring.
- Second Intifada
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article A period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000.
- Seriously Free Speech Committee
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The settlers' retreat was the theatre of the cynical
Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 The settlers' retreat from Gaza was the theatre of the cynical.
- Sharon and my Mother-in-Law
Ramallah Diaries Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 A diary of everyday life under Israeli military occupation in the West Bank, depicting the Kafkaesque absurdities and injustices Palestinians are forced to live with.
- Shocked by Donald Trump's 'travel ban'? Israel has had a similar policy for decades
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Describing how President Trump's stances and policies on immigration, borders and torture draws heavily from existing policies and tactics of the Israeli state.
- The single-state solution
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Bringing about a single secular state in which Jews and Palestinians have equal rights will not be easy, but ultimately it is the only solution to the conflict. A state based on respect for the human rights of all its citizens is a better safeguard against anti-Semitism and racism than one based on ethnic nationalism and inequality.
- The Socialist Register 1970
Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1970
- Socialist Register 2003
Volume 39: Fighting Identities Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2003
- Some Deaths Really Matter
The Disproportionate Coverage of Israeli And Palestinian Killings Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Israeli deaths matter much more than Palestinian deaths. This has long been a distinguishing feature of Western news media reporting on the Middle East. The recent blanket coverage afforded to the brutal killing of three Israeli teenagers highlights this immutable fact.
- Some deaths really matter - The disproportionate coverage of Israeli and Palestinian Killings
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Documening that the deaths of Israelis is far more heavily weighted than those of Palestinian deaths, garnering more media coverage.
- Sources welcomes Canadians for Genocide Education
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 CGE is a multi-cultural coalition of associations committed to equity and inclusivity in education on and commemoration of Genocide. Our focus areas are school curriculum and government funded projects relating to genocide and human rights.
- Sources welcomes Independent Jewish Voices
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Sources welcomes a new member: Independent Jewish Voices. ndependent Jewish Voices represents Jews in Canada from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights.
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
- South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
- Statement from the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 It would seem mandatory for the International Criminal Court to investigate the situation, and determine whether the Israeli civilian leaders and military commanders responsible for the Gaza siege should be indicted and prosecuted.
- Stop That Shit
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Whoever longs for a solution must know: there is no solution without settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- Struggle for equal rights for Palestinians is 'right choice,' and will lead to 'significant exodus of Jews' - Henry Siegman
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Everyone should read Henry Siegman's long piece in the National Interest on the "Implications of President Trump's Jerusalem Ploy." Siegman is a great leader because he has bucked the American and Jewish establishment, of which he is a member, to declare that the two-state solution is dead and buried. He is also a prophet inasmuch as he is counseling American Jewry to give up its attachment to Zionism as a dead letter, no different from a Christian state here, and so prepare itself for a future in which Israel is isolated as a pariah state and there is a "significant exodus of Israels Jews." His words are astounding because Siegman, a Holocaust survivor now in his late 80s, was himself a Zionist, and head of the World Jewish Congress. His bravery in renouncing the animating political faiths of his life-- it's inspiring.
- SYC Defends Marxism at Finkelstein Talk
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015
- Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 The Israeli state and its defenders are increasingly attempting to silence critics because they are losing the battle for public opinion.
- Talk at panel at School of Social Work
Can 'good' Jews be critical of Israel? Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 There are has been an endless road to dissillusionment and enlightment from my original days of Zionism. The Wall, the invasion of Gaza, the incarceration of thousand of Palestinians including children, the night raids against those practising non-violent resistance, the blind eye to the destruction of olive trees by Israeli settlers..... the spraying of high velocity water guns on Gazan fishermen... Israel has indeed shown itself to be absolutely brutal and arrogant and a rogue state not caring to comply with international law. But my identity as a Jew is strengthened because I know that this path of criticism is joining voice with many other Jews: The shministim, the refuseniks, who refuse to serve in the army.
- Terrorism in Palestine
Are the Terrorists Anti-Imperialist? Resource Type: Article Published: 1946 Terrorist activity in Palestine has been revived on a larger scale than formerly, calling the attention of the entire press to the organisations of the Hagana, the Irgun Zvai Leumi, the Stern Gang and their activities. Socialist internationalists must answer the question: what is the character of these organisations? Are they an anti-imperialist factor in the liberatory struggles of the colonial peoples?
- The Canadian Boat to Gaza (CBG), the Tahrir, to set sail today as part of Freedom Flotilla II
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 With the support of Greek civil society and people from all around the world the Tahrir is casting off from Greece today.
- The Military has repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Physicians for Human Rights-Israel in a Report on Medical Ethics during the War on Gaza:"The Military has repeatedly violated Medical Ethic Codes during its Gaza Offensive"
- The Outcry of Worldwide Authentic Judaism Condemning the Genocide in Occupied Palestine
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Worldwide Authentic Orthodox Judaism strongly condemns the genocide being carried out by the Zionist occupation army through air attacks on Gaza city.
- The story Israel doesn't want you to know: Israeli Resistance to Israeli Apartheid
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Shachaf Polakow, a member of the Israeli group, Anarchists Against the Wall will be speaking about the work of the group who act jointly with the popular Palestinian struggles against the Wall in the West Bank.
- The Tahrir Will Sail Again
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 We will keep coming by sea, by air, by land and in the media until the blockade collapses and Palestine is free.
- Think California's drought is bad? Try Palestine's
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 While Israelis water their lawns, irrigate crops and swim in Olympic-sized pools, Palestinian communities a few kilometers away face drought and water scarcity issues. Their roughly equal proximity to water resources theoretically allows for equal consumption.
- Time for a New Divestment Campaign
From South Africa to Israel Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 We must see Israel with the same eyes as we saw South Africa in the apartheid years - as a racist nation deserving of international isolation and sanctions.
- Toronto Peace Activists March in Solidarity to End the Illegal Siege of Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 On December 31, 2009, more than 1,300 citizens from across the world (including more than 55 Canadians) will join with an estimated 50,000 Palestinians in a peaceful march to the Erez border crossing into Israel.
- Towards a New Cold War
Essays on the Current Crisis and How We Got There Resource Type: Book Published: 1982 A sobering assessment of American foreign policy from the end of the Vietnam era to Ronald Reagan.
- The Tragedy of Norman Finkelstein -- Time to Say Goodbye
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Norman Finkelstein seems to have moved from an anti-Zionist position to believing that the best we can do is create a Palestinian bantustan while Israeli remains as a state where Jews rule and Palestinians remain legally and economically oppressed.
- Trump threat to cut Palestine aid could 'unravel Oslo'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) would deprive Washington of its influence on the body, and could cause the Oslo accords to unravel, analysts say.
- Truth Against Truth
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 Challenges the myths, conventional lies, and historical falsehoods on which most of the arguments of both Israeli and Palestinian propaganda rest. The truths of both sides are intertwined into one historical narrative that does justice to both. Without this common basis, peace is impossible.
- UN call to stop attacks on Palestinian journalists
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 The IFJ has welcomed calls by United Nations Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk that freedom of the media and the rights of journalists must be respected and that Israel should stop targeting Palestinian journalists.
- The UN did NOT create Israel
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 UN General Assembly Resolution 181, the Partition Plan, was a recommendation that was to go to the Security Council. The resolution requested that the Security Council take it up. This never happened, and the partition plan has no force of law. Israeli propagandists, however, perpetrated the myth that the UN created Israel, and this interpretation was then been repeated by numerous others.
- UN urged to recognize cultural significance of Palestine posters
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 An interview with Palestine Poster Project founder Dan Walsh, recorded by the Institute for Palestine Studies, gives a in-depth look into the history and contents of this collection of 10,000 posters.
- Underground to Palestine
Resource Type: Book Published: 1978 Underground to Palestine was written in the spring of 1946 when Stone was the first newspaper reporter to accompany survivors of the Holocaust on their epic clendestine journey to Palestine.
- Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Resource Type: Book Published: 2002 Designed to inform those who are somewhat unfamiliar with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Written in question and answer format
- The UnJewish State
The Politics of Jewish Identity in Israel Resource Type: Book Published: 1983
- UN's 1947 Partition Plan made Palestine a deal it had to refuse
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Weinroth analyzes the reasons behind Palestinians' refusal of the Partition Plan, reasons that have been largely dismissed in favour of casting their actions in an unfavourable light and thereby justifying Israeli colonization.
- Update: Humanitarian Situation in the Occupied Territories, Lebanon and Israel Update: Humanitarian Situation in the Occupied Territories, Lebanon and Israel
News Release August 16, 2006 Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Israel has invaded Lebanon and continues to hold the Occupied Territories in siege. As Canada plays an active role in supporting Israel, it is incumbent on the public and on members of government to have access to accurate reporting. At the Nuremberg Tribunal after World War II, "I didn't know" was a frequent defense. This is unconscionable. At present, there are many sources of reliable information, of facts generally not reported in the media. We reiterate to the media and to members of government their obligation to fully report, investigate, and understand the circumstances in the Middle East when making decisions that involve such profound threats to life.
- Victims No Longer?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2003 The author begins with the position that suffering is not moral and criticizes Israeli settlers and Zionists for disenfranchising Palestinians. She debunks the notion that they are a nation of victims. She calls into question the assumption that criticizing Israel is anti-semitic.
- The Wall, Apartheid and Mandela
Will the Wall Bring Down Israel? Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 During his years of struggle in South Africa, Nelson Mandela offered ideas worth examining closely, especially when considering that he and his followers defeated the very condition that Palestinians face today, Apartheid.
- The Wall Must Fall
End the Occupation and Violence in Israel-Palestine Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 A resource for interested union and community members featuring voices from the Israeli and Palestinian peace movements often shut out of the mainstream media. By highlighting the progressive peace movement, The Wall Must Fall demonstrates that this issue is not a Jewish vs. Palestinian one, but one of basic human rights.
- The Wanted 18
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 A claymation comic that showcases the BDS movement through the establishment of a Palestinian dairy co-operative in Beit Sahour.
- The War Isn't Over, But Israel Has Lost
Resource Type: Article 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.
- The Way to the Spring
Life and Death in Palestine Resource Type: Book Published: 2016 Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest villages.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article 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.
- Alison Weir
Resource Type: Website Analysis on Israel, Palestine, and the American connection.
- What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 "What Comes Next?: A forum on the end of the two-state paradigm" was initiated by Jewish Voice for Peace as an investigation into the current state of thinking about one state and two state solutions, and the collection has been further expanded by Mondoweiss to mark 20 years since the beginning of the Oslo peace process.
- What Comes Next: Towards a bi-national end-game in Palestine/Israel
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Jeff Halper suggests that the best political system to express both the desires of the two national communities of Palestine/Israel for self-determination and of its individual citizens for democracy would seem to be a consociational democracy.
- When BBC Calls, Dont 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, dont bother answering. I hope I have the good sense to follow my own advice should the phone ever ring again!
- Which came first? Palestinian rockets or Israeli violence?
Resource Type: Article 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.
- Who speaks for Jews when it comes to civil liberties and human rights?
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) Canada strongly condemns the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) for sponsoring a Daniel Pipes lecture May 13.
- Why aid projects in Palestine are doomed to fail
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 So long as aid in Palestine remains detached from the everyday realities of occupation and operates on the aggressors terms, it will continue to be ineffective.
- Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 If singling out South Africa for an international economic boycott was defensible, it would seem equally defensible to single out Israel's occupation, which uniquely resembles the apartheid regime.
- Why aren't we expelling Israel's diplomats?
Letter to the Editor Resource Type: Article Published: 2108 Canada expelled Russian diplomats on the strength of unsubstantiated allegations that Russia was involved in the poisoning of a former spy in Britain. Will Canada now expel Israeli diplomats in condemnation of Israel's latest massacre in Gaza?
- Why Israel Won't Survive
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 If there was ever a moment when the peoples of the region would accept Israel as a Zionist state in their midst, that has passed forever. Israel's "military deterrent" has now been repeatedly discredited as a means to force Palestinians and other Arabs to accept Zionist supremacy as inevitable and permanent. Now, the other pillar of Israeli power - Western support and complicity - is starting to crack. We must do all we can to push it over.
- Why Israel?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 A routine strategy of Israel's defenders is to continually redirect attention to the human rights failings of countries hostile to Israel, or to catastrophes like Darfur that are used to argue the ongoing need for the sort of 'humanitarian interventions' that provide cover for the advancement of U.S. interests. Yet the question of why Israel is being targeted and not some other country assumes, erroneously, that other countries are not being targeted. The reverse, in fact, is usually the case. Often, countries deemed acceptable for criticism by supporters of Israel are already subject to political and diplomatic sanctions by the U.S. and its tool, the UN Security Council -- sometimes for acting in ways identical to Israel.
- Why Israeli Anti-Zionists do NOT 'recognize the right of the State of Israel to exist as a Jewish state'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 States that define themselves with reference to the domination of one ethnic group cannot claim legitimacy.
- Why Kosovo But Not Palestine?
The Right to Exist Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Barak Obama pretends that he is vetoing UN recognition of a Palestinian state because it did not come about as a result of negotations. But meanwhile the US has recognized Kosovo, which came into being without negotations, and in violation of international law.
- Why There are Few Christians Left in the Holy Town of Bethlehem
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 This is the time of year when they have a chance to break out of an isolation enforced in concrete since Israel enclosed the town with a "separation wall" more than a decade ago.
- Winners of Courage in Journalism Awards Announced
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Womenâ##s Media Foundation. Amira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achievement Award winner.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
- The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media
Resource Type: Book Published: 2018 The Wrong Story lays bare the flaws in the way large media organizations present the PalestineIsrael issue. It points out major fallacies in the fundamental conceptions that underpin their coverage, namely that Palestinians and Israelis are both victims to comparable extents and are equally responsible for the failure to find a solution; that the problem is "extremists," often religiously-motivated ones, who need to be sidelined in favour of moderates; and that Israels uses of force are typically justifiable acts of self-defense. Weaving together the existing literature with new insights, Shupak offers an up-to-date and tightly focused guide that exposes the distorted way these issues are presented and why each is misguided.
- You Cant Force-feed Occupation to those who Crave Freedom
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Israel wants to believe that through force of will it can keep the tide of accountability at bay in the occupied territories. But belligerent occupations especially ones where no hope or end is in sight engender evermore creative and costly forms of resistance. A physical act of resistance can be temporarily foiled. But the spirit behind it cannot be so easily subdued.
- Zatoun
Organization profile published 2008 Resource Type: Organization Distributes olive oil from occupied Palestine and highlights the plight of Palestinian farmers and the destruction of their livelihood. Olive oil is a basic food which reminds us of our common humanity and the need for justice and peace. Web site: https://www.zatoun.com.
- Zatoun
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Zatoun: Bridge-Builder at a Crucial Time
What's a nice Jewish girl like me doing selling olive oil from Palestine? Resource Type: Article Working for Zatoun has been one of the most sustainable activisms that I have ever done.
- Zionism, Antisemitism, and the People of Palestine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2004 Intended as a popular summary of the historical and theoretical basis of the current conflict.
- Zionism, Israel, & the Arabs
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Essays by Hal Draper on Israel/Palestine, some of them dating to the period before the founding of the state of Israel. Draper argues that only a binational state that recognizes the rights of both peoples can resolve the conflict.
- Zionist Colonization is Not 'Exceptional': A Marxist Viewpoint
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 This article aims to challenge the rather widely accepted claim that the nature of Zionist settler colonization is exceptional and even "defies appeal to any precedent that can usefully be invoked as to its evolution and eventual revolution."
- Zizek and the Gaza Flotilla
Doing a Full Monty for Tel Aviv Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 As long as we misunderstand the importance of Palestine for the worlds future, we shall be trapped in an endless Middle East Crisis.
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