- 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.
- 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-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.
- Anti-Semitism and the Beirut Pogrom
Resource Type: Article Published: 1983 Fredy Perlman tells how encounters with racism in Central Europe, Bolivia and the U.S. heightened his perception and prepared him to denounce "American cheerleaders of Israel." He is astounded that potential victims of Nazi extermination camps can accept, even support, Israeli massacres of Palestinian refugees.
- Arab and Jew
Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land Resource Type: Book Published: 1986 Focusing on the diverse cultures that exist side by side in Israel and Israeli-controlled territories, Shipler examines the process of indocrination that begins in schools; he discusses the far-ranging effects of socioeconomic differences, historial conflicts between Islam and Judaism, attitudes about the Holocaust, and much more.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Countering Zionist propaganda about Hizbullah and Lebanon
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Nothing will change until the people of Palestine, Arabs and Jews, rise up to change the rules of the game, and rebuild the country on a new basis that respects democracy and human rights and good-neighbourly relations.
- Counterpunch
Periodical profile Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
- Crayons of Askalan
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adaw is sentenced and confined in the high security prison of Askalan, Israel for fifteen years. With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons and smuggling out his allegorical artwork done on pillowcases, so it finds its way to the outside world.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Norman Finkelstein
Resource Type: Website Web site of Norman Finkelstein.
- 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."
- Fuck Hamas! Fuck Israel! Gaza youth offers up a cry of despair
Rapid global reaction to cyber-manifesto surprises its drafters Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 A group of Palestinian youth put out a manifesto that calls for an end to divisive party politics in Gaza and the West Bank. The youth want peace and freedom.
- 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.
- 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.
- How to Defend Israel
Resource Type: Article Published: 1948 Out of the night of national hatred in Palestine, from the ranks of the working class there, there can arise a real Zion, a Middle East in which Jew and Arab build together a workers, a world without exploitation and oppression.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 letter refutes Ambassador's claim Israel supports Christian Palestinians
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Jewish organization counters Israeli ambassador's Islamophobia. IJV states Israeli occupation, not Muslims, is cause of Christian Palestinian problems.
- 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
- The Iron Cage
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007
- Israel: A Colonial-Settler State?
Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 Rodinson argues that Zionism fits into the general pattern of Western colonialism, and that Arab opposition to Israel is the opposition of a colonized people towards their colonizers.
- 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/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.
- 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?
- 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."
- 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 Arab Minority: The Beginning of a Tragedy
Resource Type: Article Published: 1956 Excerpt:
Without in the least derogating this moral indignation at the treatment of the Arab minority, which is richly justified, one aspect of the denunciation misses the mark. The moral indignation should not be visited in the first place against the miserable, harassed, driven Jewish DPs from Europe who, in their fear and need, were used as pawns to grab the land and property of the dispossessed Arabs. They were steered and pushed into this position by those who knew what they were doing - Zionist arms like the Jewish Agency, Zionist authorities in the armed forces and government, both by design and by toleration. Zionism - the ideology of Jewish chauvinism - showed that it was and is one of the deeply reactionary conceptions of the political world. The child of anti-Semitism, it became the father of another form of ethnic oppression; if genocide means the murder of a people as such, then there should be a word for the robbery of a people as such. What Zionism created in Palestine in 1948 was the first act of a tragedy.
- Israel's Arab Minority: The Great Land Robbery
Resource Type: Article Published: 1957 Something that is disturbing about those Israeli liberals who do tell the truth about the Arab minority is that they tend to pass the guilt off onto the backs of "the Jewish people." They ask how could "the Jewish people" do this to "a helpless minority" when it has itself been the victim of robbery and exploitation and has so often vowed itself to righteousness and justice? One must respect the motives of this breast-beating, but the content is distressing. It was not "the Jewish people" who did this but the Zionist authorities, the Zionist movement, and the Zionist government that bear the responsibility; and the difference is enormous.
- 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.
- 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."
- Letters from Lexington
Reflections on Propaganda Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Occupation Diaries
Resource Type: Book Published: 2012 An inside look at daily life in Palestine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Pro-Israel stance reeks of double standards and historical amnesia
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 Israel bombs, terrorizes and kills as it pleases, on a daily basis, and the media praise it for its restraint.
- 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 6
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009
- 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.
- Seriously Free Speech Committee
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Setting the Record Straight
Zionism from the Standpoint of its Jewish Critics Resource Type: Article Published: 2005 There is a hope a bi-national soluation will be brought about through political discussion and agitation within both left and liberal circles, especially within the United States, a much less timid Israeli peace movement, and a Left within Israel and among US pro-peace Jewish activists, that courageously embraces the possibility of bi-nationalism and, of course, a Palestinian resistance that works to overcome the nationalism within its own ranks and forges a democratic alternative to the Arafat fraud.
- The Socialist Register 1970
Volume 7: A Survey of Movements & Ideas Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1970
- 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 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.
- Telling It
Women and Language Across Cutures Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- 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.
- 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.
- A truly fragile identify
Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 Israel has equated modern identity not with actual live people, with rights and obligations, but with a vast collectivity with no limits either in the past, the present, or the future.
- 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.
- 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
- UNRWA suspends food distribution in Gaza
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Food distribution for both emergency and regular programs in Gaza will be suspended from 18 December until further notice. All crossings for goods into the Strip are closed and no humanitarian supplies, fuel and other needed commodities are being all
- 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.
- Welcome to Israel's version of apartheid
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Moments before an Aegean Airlines flight was due to take off, three Israeli passengers took security into their own hands and demanded that two fellow passengers, from Israel's Palestinian minority, be removed from the plane. By the end of a 90-minute stand-off, dozens more Israeli Jews had joined the protest, refusing to take their seats.
- What is Anti-Semitism?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2002 Inflating the meaning of 'antisemitism' to include anything politically damaging to Israel is a double-edged sword. It may be handy for smiting your enemies, but the problem is that definitional inflation, like any inflation, cheapens the currency. The more things get to count as antisemitic, the less awful antisemitism is going to sound.
- When journalists forget that murder is murder
Resource Type: Article Published: 2001 When Israelis are involved, our moral compass, our ability to report the truth, dries up.
- Why is the West praising Malala, but ignoring Ahed?
Is an empowered Palestinian girl not worthy of Western feminist admiration? Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Khoja-Moolji examines the lack of media response to the plight of 16 year-old Ahed Tamimi, detained for allegedly assaulting an Israeli soldier during a confrontation at her home during which Israeli soldiers shot a fourteen-year-old child.
- Why Israel has silenced the 1948 story of Nazareths survival
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 A rarely told story of the 1948 war that founded Israel concerns Nazareth's survival. It is the only Palestinian city in what is today Israel that was not ethnically cleansed during the year-long fighting. Other cities, such as Jaffa, Lydd, Ramleh, Haifa and Acre, now have small Palestinian populations that mostly live in ghetto-like conditions in what have become Jewish cities. Still others, like Tiberias and Safad, have no Palestinians left in them at all.
- 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.
- Wilfrid Laurier University
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- World Orders Old and New
Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Chomsky surveys the international scene since 1945.
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
- Zatoun
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
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