- 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.
- Arab Jews vs. Palestinians: Israel's Refugee Pawns
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Israel's attempt to compare Arab Jews to Palestinian refugees.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Library: Middle East Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
- 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.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Cult, Ghetto, and State
The Persistence of Jewish Question
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Jewish studies, Maxime Rodinson says in this book, has been a field in which ideological delirium has long had virtually free rein. In this collection of essays, he tries to redress the balance, bringing his expertise to bear on Jewish problems past and present.
- Dissonance in Zion
Resource Type: Book
Michael Jansen, author of The Battle of Beirut, turns in her book to examine the workings of Israeli politics. She concentrates on the increasing popularization of the ultra-right. The author highlights the role of the military in Israeli politics and examines the cultural and social background of the religious parties which exercise such pressure on the Israeli consensus.
- 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.
- From Sykes-Picot to "Islamic State": Imperialism's Bloody Wreckage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
When the Jihadist group Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) changed its name and declared the establishment of the Caliphate, it did so with the release of a promotional video entitled "The End of Sykes-Picot." This was a reference to the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement that marked the end of the Ottoman Empire and the establishment of two zones of influence, British and French.
- The Great War for Civilisation
The Conquest of the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Fisk explores a number of key themes in the history of the modern Middle East: the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf War as well as the 2003 Iraq War as well as other regional conflicts such as the Armenian Genocide and the Algerian Civil War.
- A History of Modern Palestine
One Land, Two Peoples
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A history of the people of Palestine.
- Hizballah Through the Fog of War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
An interview with Middle East specialist Augustus Richard Norton on the nature of the Lebanese-based Hezbollah group, in which he attempts to dispel some of the shibboleths that hamper Western understanding of its aims and design.
- 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/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.
- 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.
- Judaism or Zionism?
What Difference for the Middle East?
Resource Type: Book
American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism (AJAZ) and the Organization for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (EAFORD) here bring together diverse and notable scholars, religious figures, and others - Jewish and Arab, American and European - to debate what, over the past century, Zionism as a political movement has done to Judaism as one of the world's oldest religious faiths.
- 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.
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- Lineages of Revolt
Issues of Contemporary Capitalism in the Middle East
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
While the outcomes of the tumultuous uprisings that continue to transfix the Arab world remain uncertain, the root causes of rebellion persist. Drawing upon extensive empirical research, Lineages of Revolt tracks the major shifts in the region’s political economy over recent decades.
- The Lion and the Gazelle
On Jewish History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
If we, the Israelis, want to consolidate our nation, we have to free ourselves from the myths that belong to another form of existence and re-define our national history. We must recognize the difference between myth and history, between religion and nation, between a Diaspora and a state, in order to find our place in the region in which we live and develop a normal relationship with the neighboring peoples.
- 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 66: The Ottoman Empire and the 1908 'Young Turk' Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the revolution that began in Turkey in 1908 initiated a process that would transform the middle east over the following two decades.
- 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.
- A Marxist History of the World part 96:1956: Hungary and Suez
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
1956 was a year of war, revolution, and disillusionment – a year after which nothing could ever be quite the same again.
- Middle East at the Crossroads
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1946
The events of the last few weeks (1945) in the Middle East have drawn the attention of the whole world to what is happening in this region. The terroristic acts of Zionist military organizations, the strikes and demonstrations of the Arab masses in Cairo, Alexandria, Damascus, Beirut and Baghdad against Zionism, and the concentration of British troops in Palestine has aroused numerous questions whose answer will demand an uncovering of the socio-economic roots of the tangle in which this part of the world is involved.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- No Easy Victories
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In today's "new Middle East" with its cauldron of Arab upheavals and the likelihood of longterm revolutionary processes, the United States cannot dictate terms unilaterally.
- On Democracy As A Good
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Is democracy good in itself? Exploring the impact of democracy during and after the Arab Spring.
- 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.
- 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.
- Our Generation
Volume 18 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- 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.
- Palestine Remembered
Resource Type: Website
Founded to emphasize that the core issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are the Dispossession and Ethnic Cleansing (compulsory population transfer to achieve political gains) of the Palestinian people for the past five decades, and to preserve the memories and experiences of Palestinian people around the world, especially the Palestinians refugees who were ethnically cleansed from their homes, farms, and businesses.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 1: From the Beginning to the Eve of the French Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- 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.
- Perspectives On Power
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
Chomsky sets down his thoughts on topics ranging from language and human nature, to the Middle East and East Timor.
- Powers and Prospects
Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
- 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.
- 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.
- Targeting Iran
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2007
A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
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