- The Aftermath of Israel's Latest Assault on Gaza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 On August 26, a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed upon, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2,150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms of the ceasefire.
- The Attack on the People of Gaza
Go ahead and stop us... Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 According to the conventional wisdom, the purpose of Israels assault on Gaza is self-defense, i.e., to stop rocket fire and to destroy terror tunnels. However, the facts include repeated attacks on hospitals, an open air market, UN schools designated as safe refuges, playgrounds, zoos, Gazas only power plant, etc.) by means of high-tech smart weapons, and these attacks are inconsistent with the notion of self-defense. These are calculated, deliberate attacks on civilians and the numbers speak for themselves: about 80% of Israels victims are non-combatants, including at least (for now) 318 kids.
- Breaking the silence -- only in the Letters page
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Time to break silence on Gaza assault. So writes Dr.Miriam Garfinkle in Sundays Star. Both the Star and the Globe did not mention the story of the Israeli Defense Forces carte blanche to basically shoot anything that moves and they did.The rules of engagement seemed to be non-existent -- 500 children massacred to begin with
- Breaking the Silence: Army Deliberately Targeted Civilians in Gaza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Breaking the Silence, an organization of veteran Israeli soldiers, harshly slammed the Israeli army for its operational policy during last summers attack on Gaza, saying it led to "immense and unprecedented harm to the civilian population and infrastructures in the Gaza Strip."
- Canadian hands involved in Gaza bombings
Details on Canadian complicity in Israeli apartheid Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Aside from sustained Conservative diplomatic cheerleading for Israel, one key element of Canada's implication less in the public eye but very important, is the key role that many Canadian companies are playing in creating the military devices and technologies now involved in carrying out the deadly bombing raids in Gaza.
- Canadian MDs comment on the Gazan war
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 As one would expect about such an emotional issue, Canadian physicians are deeply divided about the current war between Israel and Hamas. Take, for example, the recent experiences of two Canadian MDs, Mark Clarfield and Miriam Garfinkle.
- 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.
- Eighth Journalist Killed in Gaza: Israel Must Answer for Crimes
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Two Palestinian journalists were killed while reporting in a market in Gaza yesterday an appalling incident which means eights journalists have now lost their lives since the Israeli bombardment of the region began nearly one month ago.
- Every Israeli Missile Strike is a War Crime
The Experts' Verdict Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 When are going to hear Human Rights Watch or the United Nations Navi Pillay stop talking about proportionality or Israels potential war crimes, and admit Israel is committing war crimes by definition right now, as you read this?
- The evidence that Israel deliberately targeted hospitals and ambulances
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Amnesty International has published evidence that Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) specifically targeted hospitals, health workers and ambulance personnel during the attack on Gaza.
- 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: Israeli Soldiers Shoot and Kill Fleeing Civilians
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Israeli forces in the southern Gaza town of Khuzaa fired on and killed civilians in apparent violation of the laws of war in several incidents between July 23 and 25, 2014. Deliberate attacks on civilians who are not participating in the fighting are war crimes.
- The Gaza Platform
Resource Type: Database Published: 2015 The Gaza Platform is an interactive map of attacks by Israeli forces on Gaza between 8 July and 26 August 2014. It enables its users to explore a vast collection of data, collected on the ground by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), as well as Amnesty International, during and after the conflict.
- Gaza: Who or What Has a Right to Exist?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 A look at Norman Finkelstein's book "Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom", which investigates the Israeli attacks on Gaza such as Operation Cast Lead (2008-09), the Mavi Marmara (2010), and Operation Protective Edge (2014).
- Gaza: Whole Villages Have Been Wiped Off the Map
A VIsit to Khuza'a Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Im writing now from my home, but I still feel dizzy from shock and nauseated by the sights and smells on my visit to Khan Younis and Khuzaa.
- Globalizing Gaza
How Israel Undermines International Law Through "Lawfare" Resource Type: Unclassified Published: 2014 At the same time as it engages in repeated massive military assaults on a primarily civilian popuation in Gaza, Israel is also engaged in an ongoing assault on international humanitarian law by a highly coordinated team of Israeli lawyers, military officers, PR people and politicians. It is an effort not only to get Israel off the hook for massive violations of human rights and international law, but to help other governments overcome similar constraints when they embark as well on asymmetrical warfare, counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism against peoples resisting domination. It is a campaign that Israel calls lawfare and had better be taken seriously by us all. ...
Israels strategy of lawfare rests on repeating illegal acts while continuing to justify them with new military ethics. If you do something for long enough, says Colonel (res.) Daniel Reisner, former head of the IDFs Legal Department, the world will accept it. The whole of international law is now based on the notion that an act that is forbidden today becomes permissible if executed by enough countries
. International law progresses through violations. We invented the targeted assassinations thesis [that extra-judicial killings are permitted when it is necessary to stop a certain operation against the citizens of Israel and when the role played by the target is crucial to the operation] and we had to push it. Eight years later it is in the center of the bounds of legality. The more often Western states apply principles that originated in Israel to their own non-traditional conflicts in places like Afghanistan and Iraq, says Kasher, then the greater the chance these principles have of becoming a valuable part of international law.
- Gunning for destruction in Gaza: 'You want to see people in pieces'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 36,000 artillery shells, tank shells, mortars, anti-tank missiles and munitions, alongside an ubiquitous use of armored bulldozers, razed streets and districts to the ground during last summer's Gaza war. According to a newly published Breaking the Silence report, this is exactly what the Israeli army wanted.
- "A Hideous Atrocity": Noam Chomsky on Israel's Assault on Gaza & U.S. Support for the Occupation
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Hideous. Sadistic. Vicious. Murderous. That is how Noam Chomsky describes Israels 29-day offensive in Gaza that killed nearly 1,900 people and left almost 10,000 people injured. Chomsky has written extensively about the Israel/Palestine conflict for decades.
- Historical Timeline: 1900-Present: History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017
- How Israel Spins War Crimes
The Secret Report That Helps Israelis Cover Atrocities Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Israeli spokesmen have their work cut out explaining how they have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, compared with just three civilians killed in Israel by Hamas rocket and mortar fire. But on television and radio and in newspapers, Israeli government spokesmen such as Mark Regev appear slicker and less aggressive than their predecessors, who were often visibly indifferent to how many Palestinians were killed.
- 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).
- The ICC Must Investigate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza
The Credibility of the Court is at Stake Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Regardless of the efforts of Israel or its closest ally, the United States, to prevent the International Criminal Court from seeking justice for the Palestinians and international aid workers killed and wounded in Gaza, the Court has a duty to at least open an investigation. The credibility of the ICC hangs in the balance. No individual who violates international law should escape justice. If Israeli officials are not investigated for possible war crimes in Gaza, then the tragic lessons learned from the last century about failures in international criminal justice and the consequences of inaction will have been in vain.
- IFJ urges accountability for deliberate targeting of journalists in 2014 summer Gaza war
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate the Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate (PJS) today called for accountability for the deliberate targeting of journalists during the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza strip
- Is Israel singled out for its human rights violations?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Some people assert that human rights activists and the international community are disproportionately and unjustifiably focusing their attention on the Jewish state. They are "ignoring" human rights violations elsewhere Myanmar, Uzbekistan, Chad, wherever in order to unfairly vilify Israel. This bias, the argument usually goes, is motivated by anti-Semitism.
- Israel Commemorates Nakba with Mass Murder at the Gaza Fence
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 On the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" that resulted in the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, and the theft of their lands, homes, and even their household possessions, the message today was clear: the Israeli state is prepared to maintain its apartheid state by any means necessary. The catastrophe for the Palestinians was the birth of Israel and was celebrated by the Israeli state with tear gas, bullets and the blood of Palestinians.
- Israel spraying toxins over Palestinian crops in Gaza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Khan Younis, Gaza Strip - On January 7, 2016, a low-flying agricultural aircraft sprayed herbicides on to Palestinian farmlands along the eastern border, eradicating or damaging up to 162 hectares of crops and farmland along the Israeli border fence. The sprayed areas belong to Israel's unilaterally imposed and poorly delineated "buffer" or "no-go zone".
- Israeli activists 'thought it nice' to hold BBQ near Palestinian hunger strikers
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 In the face of increasing human rights abuses being committed towards Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, an Israeli right-wing group mocked the Palestinian mass hunger strike by hosting a BBQ outside a military prison.
- Israeli minister threatens to destroy Gaza "once and for all"
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 As Israel bombed it dozens of times in the past day, a senior Israeli minister has incited the total destruction of Gaza.
- Israeli rabbi who advocated rape of 'comely gentile women' during war becomes chief army rabbi
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 New IDF Chief Rabbi: in times of war it is permissible for soldiers to "have sex with comely gentile women against their will".
- The Israeli War Crime That Goes Unmentioned
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Here set out in black and white in the Israeli media is a moral conundrum that western politicians, diplomats and international human rights organisations are resolutely failing to address -- and one I have been highlighting since 2006.
- Israeli War Crimes? Who, Us??
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The concept of "war crimes" is dubious. The biggest crime is starting the war in the first place. This is not the business of soldiers, but of political leaders. Yet they are rarely indicted.These philosophical musings came to me in the wake of the recent UN report on the last Gaza war.
- Israel's atrocities in Gaza prompt unprecedented political fallout
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 "Carnage" in Gaza "the killing of children and the slaughter of civilians". Not the words of a Palestinian spokesperson but rather French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Australia's FM Julie Bishop condemned what she called "shocking" and "indefensible" incidents, with "hundreds of innocent people" killed.
- Israel's Exterminatory Impulse Toward Gaza
A Protracted Genocide Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Disproportionate power yields the psychopathology of sadism.
- Israel's use of cluster bombs is a war crime
Resource Type: Unclassified Israel's use of cluster bombs is a clear violation of the Genera Conventions.
- Israel's first trans officer helps with ethnic cleansing
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Queer and transgender activists protested an event featuring an Israeli soldier in Seattle on 5 April.The event was supported by the LGBTQ Commission, a body that advises city leaders on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.Two commissioners resigned in protest just days earlier, criticizing the groups participation as an act of pinkwashing. Pinkwashing is a public relations strategy that deploys Israel's supposed enlightenment toward LGBTQ issues to deflect criticism from its human rights abuses and war crimes and as a means to build up support for Israel among Western liberals and progressives.
- Jewish Appeal to Support the Goldstone Report signatories
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009
- 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.
- 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?
- Media Interviews during the January 7, 2009 Israeli consulate occupation in Toronto
Resource Type: Audio Published: 2009 On January 7, 2009, a group of Jewish women occupied the Israeli consulate in Toronto to protest against Israel's attack on Gaza. In this audio clip, spokeswomen Miriam Garfinkle and Judy Rebick explain why they are taking this action.
- Method and Madness
The Hidden Story of Israel's Assaults on Gaza Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 In the past five years Israel has mounted three major assaults on the 1.8 million Palestinians trapped behind its blockade of the Gaza Strip. Taken together, Operation Cast Lead (2008-9), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014), have resulted in the deaths of some 3,700 Palestinians. As Norman G. Finkelstein sets out in this concise, paradigm-shifting new book, an examination of Israel's motives reveals a state whose repeated recourse to savage war is far from irrational. Rather, Israel's attacks have been designed to sabotage the possibility of a compromise peace with the Palestinians, even on terms that are favorable to it.
- Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 Eastern Mediterranean, Monday, May 31st, 2010, 4.30am: Israeli commandos, boarding from sea and air, attack the six boats of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as it sails through international waters bringing humanitarian relief to the beleaguered Palestinians of Gaza. Within minutes, nine peace activists are dead, shot by the Israelis. Scores of others are injured. The 700 people on board the ships are arrested and transported to detention centres in Israel, and then deported.
- The Most Moral Army?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 War is the realm of killing and destroying. How is it possible to talk about a law of war when war itself breaks all laws? An army that trains its soldiers to kill, how can it demand from them to show mercy?
- Mounting evidence of deliberate attacks on Gaza health workers by Israeli army
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 An immediate investigation is needed into mounting evidence that the Israel Defense Forces launched apparently deliberate attacks against hospitals and health professionals in Gaza, which have left six medics dead, said Amnesty International as it released disturbing testimonies from doctors, nurses, and ambulance personnel working in the area.
- Now it's Israel's IDF Leveling Gaza
Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Once it was Nazis Leveling the Warsaw Ghetto, Now its Israels IDF leveling Gaza.
- On 'Human Shielding' in Gaza
How the Israeli Army has Tried to Justify Striking Civilian Areas Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 All fighting within cities and all bombardments of urban spaces, even the most precise and surgical, is a potential death trap for civilians. Consequently, the permeation of war into cities inevitably transforms their inhabitants into potential human shields.
- 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
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2018 This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
- 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.
- 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.
- Petition in Support of Letter: Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of Nazi genocide unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014
- A Political Witch-Hunt in the Name of "Academic Freedom": In Defense of the American Studies Association
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Wald provides insight into the American Studies Association's decision to boycott Israeli universities and defends the group's decision against the backlash given by the media and academia.
- Post-traumatic stress and the children of Gaza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 The situation in Gaza is devastating. We have to act to protect the children of Gaza.
- 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.
- Samples of Israeli Horrific Brutality and War Criminality in Gaza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The Israeli group Breaking the Silence issued a report this morning containing testimony from Israeli soldiers about the savagery and criminality committed by the Israeli military during the attack on Gaza in the summer of 2014.
- The Secrets in Israel's Archives
Evidence of Ethnic Cleansing Kept Under Lock and Key Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Israel has extended the time limit for releasing documents in its archives to 70 years, to prevent disclosure of evidence of widespread ethnic cleansing. The state's chief archivist says many of the documents "are not fit for public viewing" and raise doubts about Israel's "adherence to international law," while the government warns that greater transparency will "damage foreign relations."
- A Tale of Two Atrocities: Douma and Gaza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Compare the intense media coverage of an alleged Syrian chemical attack to the near silence accorded the horrific civilian massacre perpetrated by Israeli soldiers in Gaza, at the very same time.
- The Telegenic Dead
A poem Resource Type: Article Published: 2014
- 'This Time We Went Too Far'
Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 For the Palestinians who live in the narrow coastal strip of Gaza, the Israeli invasion of December 2008 was a nightmare of unimaginable proportions: In the 22-day-long action 1,400 Gazans were killed, several hundred on the first day alone. And yet, while nothing should diminish Palestinian suffering through those frightful days, it is possible something redemptive is emerging from the tragedy of Gaza. For, as Norman Finkelstein details, the profound injustice of the Israeli assault was widely recognized by bodies that it is impossible to brand as partial or extremist.
- Time to break silence on Gaza assault
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Previous reports from such groups as Physicians for Human Rights Israel have indicated clearly that civilians were indiscriminately targeted, including in hospitals and ambulances. Testimonies from soldiers given to Breaking the Silence give further evidence to the extreme criminal actions of the Israeli army last summer. The silence in North America media on this report is deafening. Even Israeli media has reported it. The suppression of the truth does not serve us well. Its time for the North American media to break its silence.
- 12 map points to help the NDP to find its moral compass (and for that matter, the Liberals, too)
Voters for Gaza: We Expect Better from the NDP! Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 We believe silence is complicity, and think it is time for the NDP to find its moral compass and to end the deafening silence about Israel and the war crimes it is committing. The NDP, of all federal political parties, must speak out against the violence and rising civilian death toll in Gaza. We expect better from a party claiming a tradition of social justice, human rights and strong relationships to social movements.
- Two journalists among 17 killed in Israeli raid on Gaza market
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Two Palestinian journalists were killed July 30 in an Israeli air raid on a crowded market in the Shijaiyah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City.
- UN Council: Israel Intentionally Shot Children and Journalists in Gaza
Officials say killings are part of Israel's 'obligation' Resource Type: Article Published: 2019 A short piece on the UN Human Rights Council report on Israel's firing on unarmed protesters.
- USA: Stop arms transfers to Israel amid growing evidence of war crimes in Gaza
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The US government must immediately end its ongoing deliveries of large quantities of arms to Israel, which are providing the tools to commit further serious violations of international law in Gaza, said Amnesty International, as it called for a total arms embargo on all parties to the conflict.
- 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.
- 'War crimes': Israeli bombs wiped out entire families in Gaza, Amnesty says
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Israel used disproportionate military force during its summer operation in Gaza. Entire Palestinian families were killed when their homes were leveled by Israeli bombs falling with no warning and for little military gain, Amnesty International said.
- West's failure to act will be cause of the next Gaza massacre
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Jewish Israelis celebrate, and governments around the world stand by passively, as Israel massacres Palestinians in Gaza. Inaction by Western governments ensures that Israel will feel embolded to commit further massacres in the future.
- What If the Children Dying in Gaza Were Jews?
They Made Them Do It.... Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Lets do a thought experiment and imagine that the Arabs had gotten the better of the Israelis in the 1948 ArabIsraeli War and after years of conflict, all that was left of Israel was the Gaza strip. Assume for a moment that instead of Palestinians, over 1.8 million Jews were crammed into the 11 mile Gaza strip and the state of Palestine, subsidized and supported by a superpower, was administering the calories to the Jews in Gaza, keeping them to a limit of 2,300 a day.
- 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?
- 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."
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