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  1. 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.
  2. The Anti-Semitism That Goes Unreported
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Our grandparents knew that the order-enforcement authorities wouldn't intervene to help a Jewish family under attack; we know that the Israel Defense Forces, the Israel Police, the Civil Administration, the Border Police and the courts all stand on the sidelines, closing their eyes, softballing investigations, ignoring evidence, downplaying the severity of the acts, protecting the attackers, and giving a boost to those progromtchiks. The hands behind these attacks belong to Israeli Jews who violate international law by living in the West Bank. But the aims and goals behind the attacks are the flesh and blood of the Israeli non-occupation. This systemic violence is part of the existing order. It complements and facilitates the violence of the regime.
  3. 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.
  4. Bil'in Village
    Resource Type: Organization
    Palestinian village that has been engaged in continuous non-violent resistance to Israeli occupation.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Censorship? Haaretz Deletes Amira Hass Article On Surging Settler Violence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Israeli newspaper Haaretz deleted a significant article by Amira Hass headlined "The anti-Semitism that goes unreported," about an unchecked upsurge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers. The original article by Hass is available on ZComm.
  8. Chomsky.Info
    Resource Type: Website
    The Noam Chomsky Web site.
  9. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  10. 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.
  11. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
  12. 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.
  13. "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.
  14. 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."
  15. 500 rabbis urge Israel to stop demolition of Palestinian homes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Over 500 rabbis from Israel, Britain, the US and Canada have called on the Israeli prime minister to stop demolishing Palestinian homes.
  16. Gaza: water crisis grows as Israel targets essential infrastructure
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Israel's war on Gaza has seen the systematic and widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure essential for human survival. This represents an apparently deliberate 'cutting off of life support' to those that survive the bombardment now under way.
  17. Hamas, Hezbollah, and so-called 'resistance' against Zionist imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Imperialism, as Lenin states, is more progressive than the fanatical religious tendencies that fight to resist it. But to be clear, this does not amount to an endorsement of U.S. or Israeli policies of aggression. All that it means is one should not support tendencies that are even more wretched than foreign, imperialist domination, simply in the name of national self-determination.
  18. 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.
  19. Hebron - the heart of the occupation
    Justice for Palestine is central to the left. The situation in Hebron is a good example why.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    The history and current situation in Hebron.
  20. Historical Timeline: 1900-Present: History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
  21. 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.
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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
  25. The Iron Cage
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  26. 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?
  27. 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.
  28. Israel is a Terrorist State
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The violence rocking the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and now Gaza is on the verge of spilling into Israel, Palestinian leaders in Israel warned.
  29. 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.
  30. Israel will withdraw only under pressure
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    The overwhelming majority of the Jewish public has been determined since 1967 not to relinquish any territory except if forced to do so.
  31. Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2009
    A readable introduction to the history and practice of apartheid in Israel.
  32. Israeli Apartheid and Terrorism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    If Jews in France were required to carry identification cards designating them Jews, could not acquire land or buy or rent homes in most of the country, were not eligible for service in the armed forces, and French law banned any political party or legislation calling for equal rights for Jews, would France be widely praised in the United States as a "symbol of human decency" and paragon of democracy?
  33. Israeli settler destruction of 1000s of trees hits Palestinian olive harvest
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Israeli settlers’ destruction of Palestinian olive trees will reduce this year’s harvest by an estimated USD $500,000 as 7,500 olive trees were destroyed in acts of settler violence, Palestinian and international aid & development organizations say.
  34. Israeli Violations of Human Rights
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    Speech by Jeff Halper, Coordinator Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions. Halper focuses on the fact that "virtually all of Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands violates human rights conventions and especially the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids an occupying power from making its presence a permanent one."
  35. 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.
  36. Israel's road signs policy 'erases memory of place'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Israeli authorities have long banned the Palestinian Authority (PA) from putting up its own road signs that refer to Palestinian towns and villages.
  37. Israel's settlements: 50 years of land theft explained
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Today, between 600,000 and 750,000 Israelis live in these sizeable settlements, equivalent to roughly 11 percent of the total Jewish Israeli population. So why have these housing compounds caused so much rancour and been called a threat to the prospect of peace in the Holy Land? Follow this journey to find out.
  38. 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.
  39. Jewish solidarity group condemns attacks on synagogues, school and mosque
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Attacks on all religious and ethnic groups must be condemned.
  40. 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.
  41. 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."
  42. 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.
  43. Named: 112 companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements by the UN
    United Nations Human Rights Council lists firms it says likely connected to Israel's colonisation of the occupied West Bank

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    The United Nations Human Rights Council produced a list on Wednesday of 112 companies it has concluded have ties to illegal Israeli settlements. Ninty-four of the firms named are domiciled in Israel, the other 18 are in other states.
  44. Network of United Church Members Calls for Boycott and Divestment to End the Occupation
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Network of United Church members is advocating that Church members endorse boycott and divestment of Israeli products produced in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories at the Church's upcoming national conference in Ottawa.
  45. Occupation Diaries
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    An inside look at daily life in Palestine.
  46. The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The occupation of Gaza and the West Bank must end. The dispossession of the Palestinians must be fully acknowledged and Israel must reach out to embrace the full rights of Palestinians to nationhood and viability. Only then will the nightmare end that is the reality of the Palestinian people living in the Occupied Territories and the refugee camps. And only with that can there be any hope for a real peace.
  47. 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.
  48. The Occupier Defines Justice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
  49. 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.
  50. 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.
  51. 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.
  52. 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.
  53. 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.
  54. 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.
  55. Palestinian farmers face settler terror
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Jewish settlers have a long history of terrorising olive farmers, and they are now increasingly resorting to a worrying tactic: poisoning Palestinian water sources.
  56. 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.
  57. 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.
  58. Palestinians hail UN list of firms linked to Israeli settlements
    Palestinian leaders say report will reinvigorate push to boycott international companies in occupied territories.

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Palestinian leaders have hailed the United Nations Human Rights Office report, which lists firms linked to illegal Israeli settlements, saying it is a critical step towards boycotting Israeli businesses operating in the occupied West Bank. The UN body said it identified 112 business entities - 94 based in Israel and 18 in six other countries - which it has reasonable grounds to conclude have ties with Israeli settlements, which are considered illegal under international law.
  59. 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.
  60. Poisoning the village wells
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
  61. The Power of the Israel Lobby
    Two knights and a dragon

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2007
    The Israel Lobby has shifted more and more to the Right. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers.
  62. Profiting from Loss: How Business in Illegal Israeli Settlements Continues Unchecked
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    UN efforts to protect Palestinian land from economic exploitation are failing, and exposing the hypocrisy of western states.
  63. 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'.
  64. 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.
  65. Sanctions Against the Israeli Occupation: It's Time
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    A call from the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for sanctions as the next logical step in the global campaign to end the Occupation.
  66. 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?
  67. 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.
  68. 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.
  69. Support CUPE-Ontario's Call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
    Resource Type: Article
  70. Support the New Freedom Riders
    End US Support for Israeli Apartheid

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Palestinian Freedom Riders are seeking their rights to be treated as equal human beings free to move about in their own land.
  71. 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.
  72. This isn't a civil war, it is settler-colonial brutality
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2021
    We are not seeing a "civil war" inside Israel, but rather the Israeli settler state declaring a war on its colonized "citizens," and Palestinians fighting for their liberation.
  73. 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.
  74. 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
  75. United Church of Canada Members Launch Campaign to Boycott Israeli Settlement Products
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The United Network for Justice and Peace in Palestine and Israel (UNJPPI), a Network of United Church of Canada members and supporters, is launching a campaign in cities across Canada to boycott products made in illegal Israeli settlements.
  76. 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.
  77. US sued over tax-exempt donations for illegal Israeli settlements
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A group of American citizens is suing the US Treasury because they say the agency is allowing billions of dollars of tax-exempt charitable donations to flow to the Israeli army and support the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
  78. 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.
  79. 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.
  80. Alison Weir
    Resource Type: Website
    Analysis on Israel, Palestine, and the American connection.
  81. Why Boycott Aroma?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Our boycott call is part of a larger movement by Palestinian civil society to find non-violent means to end the occupation and apartheid.
  82. 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.
  83. Words have failed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    The written word is a failure at making tangible to Israeli readers the true horror of the Occupation.
  84. Zatoun
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  85. 'Zionism is nationalism, not Judasim,' a former Hebrew school teacher explains
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Former Hebrew school teacher, Tziva Thier clarifies the distinction between Zionism as a political movement and Judaism as a religion, and explains why Israel's acts cannot be condoned by the religion.

Experts on Israeli Settlements in the Sources Directory

  1. Electronic Intifada
  2. Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
  3. Wikileaks
  4. Zatoun


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