Sue Blackwell's Links
on Palestine and Israel

If you have an interesting Middle Eastern link for this site do please send it to me. As I have pointed out to my detractors, I do not include links to sites which promote racism, terrorism or Holocaust denial. This has always been my policy and applies to all my 200+ web pages, not just this one.

The links below are organised into general themes.

Twinning with Palestine

This is a new section which I hope will expand rapidly.

Birmingham Ramallah Twinning Initiative
Camden-Abu Dis Friendship Association
Twinning with Palestine
This is the website of the British Palestinian Friendship Forum which was established from the Twinning in Palestine Conference held in London in September 2005.
An Olive Tree for Solidarity - Manchester Students Union twins with An-Najah University, Nablus. Press Release 16th Nov 2007.
Staffordshire University students union twins with Palestine Action Palestine, 19th April 07.
Read the text of the motion here
Glasgow signs twinning agreement with BethlehemThe Herald, 12th April 2007.
Palestine debate ends in controversyThe Beaver, 26th March 2007.
Durham Palestine Educational Trust
This charity aids Palestinian development through Masters scholarships at Durham University.
You can raise money for it by using this link to search the Web.

Lebanon Links

This is a new section.

Tadamon Lebanese Canadian blog including a Log of Israeli violations of UN resolution 170 and a Log of cluster bombs incidents
Besieged in Lebanon The blog of Shephen Sheehi of the American University of Beirut.
Bint Jbeil
An interesting Lebanese site, with lots of political commentary on Middle East issues. See in particular the links under "Occupation" and "Liberation".
Dahr Jamail's MidEast Dispatches
Dahr has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. In the MidEast, Dahr has also has reported from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Currently his site has a number of harrowing photographs from Lebanon.
Independent News From the MidEast
From Israel to Lebanon
Harrowing pictures which nonetheless need to be seen. This is what is NOT being shown on Israeli TV and for the most part British TV either. The Israelis have been trying to block this site so it now has an alternative address: try the second or third one if the first link doesn't work.
The Jews of Lebanon
"We once again renew our appeal for people to differentiate between Zionism and Judaism and ultimately between our mission and the current crisis in our beloved Lebanon. ..."
The Jews of Lebanon

Lesbian and Gay rights; Women's rights

Please note: my policy here is to include links to Palestinian and Arab LGBT organisations, and also to non-Palestinian LGBT organisations which prominently support Palestinian rights. I don't see it as my role to promote Israeli LGBT groups unless they fall into that category. Nor am I linking to Outrage! because although they raise legitimate concerns, they equate human rights abuses by the Palestinian Authority with those of the Israeli government and I don't think there is any comparison (they are opposing the boycott of Jerusalem Pride which I have endorsed). I defend their right to turn up at PSC demos but I do wish they would bring banners with better slogans.

Palestinian Working Women in Israel Make History 11th March 2008.
Homes razed in mob fury at couple's 'affair' (Guardian, 5th Sept 2005). (This concerns the Taybeh brewery, whose products are listed in my "Things to Buy" section below.)
Commodifying Honor in Female Sexuality: Honor Killings in Palestine (By Suzanne Ruggi on the MERIP site).
Kvisa Shchora "Kvisa Shchora (Black Laundry) is a direct action group of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and others against the occupation and for social justice."
(Hmm, perhaps "dirty washing" would be a better translation?)
QUIT! Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism San Francisco-based organisation, currently promoting the boycott of World Pride in Jerusalem.
Arab author tackles the last taboo - a Muslim woman writes a bestselling erotic epicThe Guardian, June 21, 2005
OK it's not about Palestine but it's too good to miss!
Radio Netherlands report
"The Gay divide" - Report on BBC website
"In the Palestinian Occupied Territories, gays and lesbians face imprisonment, torture and even death. They cannot take refuge in Israel or seek asylum elsewhere. They are ignored or rejected by everyone, including their own families." Eric Beauchemin's report for Radio Netherlands has also been used for the BBC.
ASWAT
"We are women, we are Palestinian and we are Gay."
Boycott World Pride Jerusalem
US Gays Launch Boycott of Jerusalem Gay PrideElectronic Intifada, May 13, 2005
Middle East Women
In fact it's not just about the Middle East - there are good news items and articles about ethnic minority women in the UK as well.

Things to Buy

Taybeh: Alternative Beer Company
The beer is brewed under licence in Europe as well as in Palestine. 10% of profits go to Medical Aid for Palestinians and 5% to Yesh Gvul.
NB: Unfortunately they are not importing Taybeh at present - watch this space while Sue tries to obtain more information.
Palestine Online Store
The Palestine Online Store supports Palestinian relief projects, Palestinian artisans and their families, and Palestinian efforts at raising awareness about the struggle for freedom.
The wide selection of items includes Palestinian traditional embroidery, handmade olive wood carvings, delightful music CDs, feature and documentary films, books, calendars, kaffiya scarves, pins, and much much more! Please take a few minutes to browse.
Zaytoun
"Zaytoun is a UK based non-profit project to buy pesticide free fair trade extra virgin olive oil as an act of solidarity with Palestinian farmers."
Hadeel
Crafts from community-based groups in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon
Sambar - Palestine flags, pins and badges
A purely commercial site - as far as I can see none of the profits go to Palestinian charities. On the other hand, prices are inexpensive and they do have an enormous range of attractive products. Take a look. Please note: Sambar can now accept payment by credit card
Buy Direct from Palestine: Order Palestinian products via the internet

Books

Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine by David Shulman
University of Chicago Press, 226 pp., $22.00 Review in NY Review of Books by Avishai Margalit The Return Journey: A Guide to the Depopulated And Present Palestine Towns And Villages and Holy Sites.
A meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated study by the Palestinian Land Society.
Hollow Land, by Eyal Weizman
VERSO, £19.99. Order (free p&p) on 08700 798 897.
Nakba: Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
Edited by Ahmad H. Sa'di and Lila Abu-Lughod Published by Columbia University Press.

For further information see the web page.
The Road Map to Nowhere - Israel/Palestine since 2003
By Tanya Reinhart Published by Verso, September 2006, 260 pages.
For further information see the web page.
Hamas: A Beginner's Guide
by Khaled Hroub
Khaled Hroub is a Palestinian, born into a refugee camp in Bethlehem, and now part of the diaspora of educated intellectuals. Hroub is currently director of the Arab Media Project at Cambridge University, hosts a weekly book review programme for Al-Jazeera TV, and has written three previous books.
For further information contact Helen Griffiths on heleng@plutobooks.com or 0208 3746424
or May Calil on calilm@caabu.org or 0207 832 1325
Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State
Pluto Press.
Jonathan Cook, who has reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the Second Intifada, presents a lucid account of the Jewish state's motives. The heart of the issue, he argues, is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians - Israel's own Palestinian citizens and those in the Occupied Territories - become a majority. Inevitable comparisons with apartheid in South Africa will be drawn.
Education under Occupation: Learning to Improvise
by Nick King, with a foreword by Ahdaf Soueif. Published by Discovery Analytical Resourcing, 2006.
A Living Stone
A Living Stone: Selected Essays and Addresses. A testimony to one of the founders of Living Stones, this is a collection of Michael Prior's writings in the fields of Biblical and Holy Land studies.
(An ecumenical trust seeking to promote contacts between Christian communities in Britain and those in the Holy Land and neighbouring countries.)
Publish it not - the Middle Eastcover up
Cover blurb:
"In 1975 Christopher Mayhew and Michael Adams delivered their powerful indictment of Western media coverage of the Israel- Palestine issue. Both men, politicain and journalist, had direct experience of the situation in Palestine and both felt passionately that a curtain of concealment and deceit had been drawn over media discussion of the Israeli colonization of Palestine, resulting in misinformed and biased perceptions."
Read Tim Llewellyn's Foreword to the book here
ZIONISM: the real Enemy of the Jews By Alan Hart. Both volumes should be available by now (Feb 2006).
The Case Against Israel
by Michael Neumann, Professor of philosophy at Trent University. "Systematically dismantles the rationales for Israel put forward by Alan Dershowitz and other defenders of the Zionist state."
Available from CounterPunch Books.
The Politics of Anti-Semitism
edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair. "Confronts how the slur of "anti-semite" has been used to intimidate critics of Israel's abuse of Palestinians. It includes essays by Uri Avnery, Edward Said, Michael Neumann and Bill and Kathy Christison."
Available from CounterPunch Books.
CAABU Bookshop
All kinds of discounts and special offers. Credit cards now accepted.
Peace Under Fire: Israel, Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement
Edited by Nicholas Blincoe, Hussein Khalili, Marissa McLaughlin, Radhika Sainath and Josie Sandercock
Buy it on Amazon
Palestine and Palestinians
ISBN 9950-319-01-3, 438 pages.
The first travel guide to Palestine for five years. The guide, written and published by the Alternative Tourism Group in Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, is a comprehensive travel guide to Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza), including cultural and historical information, transport and accommodation advice and political context.
More information on the ATG site
The guide is available from Olive Co-operatives website for Ł22.00 inc P& P or from Olive Co-ops outlets.
The Other Side of Israel, By Susan Nathan
HarperCollins (UK) ISBN: 0007195109
Publication date: June 20 2005
Also to be published in US by Doubleday
In "The Other Side of Israel" Susan Nathan - a British Jew and once passionate Zionist - describes her disillusioning journey from London to a new life in Israel. After she discovers that one in five Israelis is not Jewish but Palestinian, the remnants of the country's Arab population expelled in the 1948 war, she chooses to make another, more enlightening journey across the country's deep ethnic divide to live in Tamra, a town of 25,000 Muslims in Galilee. As the only Jew there, she starts to see life in Israel through Arab eyes and experiences firsthand the discrimination exercised by the Jewish state against its Arab citizens. Susan takes the reader with her on a quest to discover the truth about Israel's troubling past and offers fresh insights into why the world is so far from solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read the review on the Palestine Monitor site
Buy the book "The Other Side of Israel"
"Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion, 2002"
Buy the book, "Searching Jenin"
"Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle" by Mazin Qumsiyeh.
Kegan Paul Publishers
Kegan Paul have a wide range of books on the Middle East (they published several of Edward Said's works). See in particular the sections on "Middle East", "Arabia Library", "Islamic Area Studies" and "Jewish Studies".

Films and music

Occupation 101 "A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Unlike any other film ever produced on the conflict -- 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
"The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. The roots of the conflict are explained through first-hand on-the-ground experiences from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.
"The film covers a wide range of topics -- which include -- the first wave of Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1880's, the 1920 tensions, the 1948 war, the 1967 war, the first Intifada of 1987, the Oslo Peace Process, Settlement expansion, the role of the United States Government, the second Intifada of 2000, the separation barrier and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, as well as many heart wrenching testimonials from victims of this tragedy."
Occupation 101: official site
Sprinting Gazelle - Palestinian Songs from the Motherland and the Diaspora
Reem Kelani is one the foremost researchers and performers of Palestinian music.
Reem Kelani's website
Read the review in the Observer, 26 Feb 2006
Her debut CD is now available from CAABU
Paradise Now
Set in Nablus, made by Dutch-Palestinian Director Hany Abu-Assad, this film explores "the mind-set that produces such acts as suicide bombings".
- Official Warner Bros site for the film
- Film review by Arjan El Fassed in The Electronic Intifada, 23 Feb 2005
- "Paradise Now" wins Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film (Electronic Intifada, 16 January 2006)
- Slingshot Hiphop
  "SlingShot Hip Hop is a documentary film that focuses on the daily life of Palestinian rappers living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel. It aims to spotlight alternative voices of resistance within the Palestinian struggle and explore the role their music plays within their social, political and personal lives. Coming Fall/Winter 2005"

Journals

Palestine Internationalist
A new journal aiming to reflect the "international and universal nature of the struggle for Palestinian liberation". The first issue is devoted to articles on the Right of Return.
Holy Land Studies: a Multidisciplinary journal

Things to boycott

General / Miscellaneous

COMPANIES THAT PROFIT FROM THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION OF PALESTINIAN LAND A comprehensive directory by the Interfaith Peace Initiative. Sue came across this in March 2008 but hopefully it is being kept up to date.
War of words over an oil named PeaceGuardian, 7th Dec 2007
Mark Tran reports on a charity under fire for marketing an Israeli olive oil at the expense of Palestinian products.
Irish Congress of Trade Unions calls for boycott and divestment Press Release from Trade Union Friends of Palestine, 6th July, 2007
T&G urges a ban on Israeli goods Jewish Chronicle, 29th June 2007
South Africa's largest trade union seeks to boycott Israel Ha'aretz, 31th May 2007
Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods - A Spearheading New Initiative by Ruth Tenne, Media Monitors Network, 1st April 2007.
Same article on the Palestine Chronicle site, 2nd April 2007.
Commerce Official Urges Compliance with U.S. Regulations Opposing Boycott of Israel Yes folks it's serious - in the Land of the Free you can't just boycott anyone you like. Cuba is OK of course, but Israel is a no-no. There is a helpful e-mail link provided here for any questions you may have concerning the Commerce Department's antiboycott regulations - you might like to use it ....
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid Canadian-based site with good resources on BDS.
British journalists call for boycott of Israeli goods International Herald Tribune, 16th April 2007.
NUJ votes to boycott Israeli goods Guardian, 13th April 2007
Research: Dozens of Dutch companies support or facilitate Israeli occupation of Palestinian and Syrian territories
On the United Civilians for Peace site, where you can read the whole Research Report dated September 2006 along with a briefing document.
Another reason to Boycott American Apparel on the blog of "Veteran Dissident for Peace", 16th Sept 2006
The Case for Boycotting Israel - Boycott Now! By Virginia Tilley, in Counterpunch, 5th-6th August 2006.
Palestine BDS Campaign
BDS = Boycotts, Sanctions and Divestment of course.
SIPTU calls for sanctions against Israel
(SIPTU is the Services, Industrial, Professional and Technical Union in the Republic of Ireland.)
Boycotting Israel and the class struggle
By Yossi Schwartz on the "in defence of Marxism" site, 5th June 2006.
COSATU Open Letter in Support of CUPE Resolution 6th June 2006.
US Bureau of Industry and Security anti-boycott laws - know thine enemy!
Davos head apologizes for anti-Semitic article (for "anti-semitic" read "anti-Zionist" of course). In Y-Net news, 26th January 2006. Congratulations to Mazin Qumsiyeh for getting this article published!
Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified by Norman G. Finkelstein in Aftenposten, 14th Jan 2006
(In the context of the recent row in Norway)
Entire Region of Norway to boycott Apartheid Israel! on the Stop the Wall site, 16th Dec 2005
20 Quebec groups urge Israel boycott
(in Canadian Jewish News, 5th Jan 2006)
Israel, Apartheid, and Sanctions: in response to Susie Jacobs Report by Greg Dropkin on Labournet, 13th June 2005
Green-Rainbow Party MA annual convention supports sanctions on Israel, names Israel as Apartheid State This statement, dated 5th June 2005, is historic: it calls for the Right of Return of Palestinians, and a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine with equal rights for all. It declares Israel as an Apartheid State and calls for full Sanctions on Israel (end of military and economic aid as well as divestments and boycotts). It supports the internationally recognized right to resist for Palestinians, and the rights of Palestinians to self-defense. Check it out. (in PDF format).
US Gays Launch Boycott of Jerusalem Gay PrideElectronic Intifada, May 13, 2005
2005 - Time for sanctions against IsraelImportant new campaign by War On Want.
Somerville Divestment Project
Wow, a whole TOWN in Massachussetts on the point of divesting from Israel!
Israel faces 'barrier boycott' BBC News, 4th Jan 2004.
Boycott Israel
Not sure who runs this site but it's great. Lots of boycott links, including specific sections for Academic Boycott and for Caterpillar. Plus more general links. Good resource.
Sing the Boycott Israel song!
BIG (boycott Israeli goods) Campaign
Boycott Israeli Goods
As well as a list of companies investing in Israel, this site also includes campaigns for an academic boycott of Israeli universities.
Boycott Israel Campaign
This page is on Innovative Minds, an Islamic website. A list of companies to boycott, plus lots of useful links to campaigns to boycott Israeli sports, tourism, culture and academia.
List of Products from Settlements in the Occupied Territories
- provided by Gush Shalom.
"Don't sweeten Israeli apartheid" petition.
Discourage Cadbury Schweppes from investing in Israeli sweets company Carmit

Connex / Veolia

Pressure mounts on companies involved with illegal tramway Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 3rd April 2008
PLO takes Veolia Transport and Alstom to court in France Electronic Intifada 20th Nov 2007, reproduced on the PACBI site.
Dutch bank divests holdings in J'lem light rail, cites settlements Ha'aretz, 3rd December 2006. Irish tramline forced to cancel contract with Israeli occupation authorities in Jerusalem Press Release, Irish PSC, 18th August 2006. By the way, the union involved is SIPTU.
Activists call for boycott of Connex Ema Corro in Green Left Weekly, August 16, 2006
Route of the initial section of the Jerusalem tramway- see page 7. (It will later be extended to Neve Yaacov)
The website for the tramway project (Gives the full extent of the completed project.)
website showing where Veolia Environmental Services operates in the UK
Divestment - general
- University of California Divestment Campaign
- Divestment Support Committee A US based resource site.
Divestment - Churches
- "Methodist Branch's Biased Divestment Report 'Borders On Anti-Semitism'" More on the ADL site, 28th June 2007.
- ADL Calls World Council Of Churches Anti-Israel Global Initiative "A Biased Action" On the ADL site, of course - 26th June 2007.
- Understanding the Presbyterian Vote: Divestment, Corporate Engagement and Israel Will Youmans and Noura Erekat in Counterpunch, June 23, 2006
- "Divest from Oppression, Invest in a Just Peace"
  Open Letter from Palestinian Civil Society to the Commissioners and Advisors to the 217th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA), 14 June 2006.
- Leading Anglican hits back in 'anti-Israel' row (Guardian, 20th Feb 2006)
- Church votes to sell off shares in Caterpillar Guardian, 7th Feb 2006
- Anglican share vote angers Israelis Vikram Dodd in the Guardian, June 25, 2005
  The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the USA voted on July 2 2004 to start a process of a "phased and selective divestment" of its nearly $8 billion portfolio from select companies that profit from sales of products or services that cause harm to Palestinians or Israelis or both. Caterpillar is likely to be first on the list. Here are some relevant links:
  - Presbyterians Establish "Criteria" for Divestment (Christian Post, 10th Nov 2004)
  - Presbyterians outline criteria for divestment from Israel (Liberty Forum, 19 November 2004)
  - Information about the Divestment Procedure in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
  - News Article 8/2/04 - Presbyterian Church divests from Israel
  - Interfaith Relations Actions of the 2004 General Assembly Raise Concerns (detailed)
  - PCUSA Stated Clerk's Statement
  - Mission Responsibility Through Investment (MRTI) Office
  - Resolution on Violence, Religion and Terrorism
  - Presbyterian Peacemaking Program
  - Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy
  - Presbyterian Church Delegates Address Selective Divestment (Palestine Chronicle, 4th March 2005)
Primers, maps, photos, facts and figures on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict
- Al-Nakba Photo Gallery
- BADIL Nakba-60 info-packet
  Including fact-sheets providing a historical and legal background to the Palestinian refugee issue, colorful brochures for activists and journalists on the ongoing displacement of Palestinians and a brochure titled “Q&A: What You Need to know about Palestinian Refugees and IDPs” which clarifies the rights-based approach to refugees' right of return, and responds to many of the prevailing myths surrounding the Palestinian refugee issue.
- Arab Christians are Arabs By Raja G. Mattar, on the Miftah site, July 29, 2005.
- Impossible Travel Amira Hass's list of roadblocks, checkpoints and travel prohibitions, in Ha'aretz, 1st Feb 2008.
- Maps of the Geneva Accord proposals
- Construction and development of settlements beyond the official limits of jurisdiction A special report presented by the “Peace Now” Settlement Watch, July 2007. (There is a link to click on for the full report in PDF format)
- VOICES: Palestinian Women Narrate Displacement
  Now accessible on the Internet: the voices of women in different regions of historic Palestine - Gaza, the West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel/1948 Palestine - telling their stories of loss of home, whether through displacement, refugeedom, demolition and threat of demolition, deportation, imprisonment, and total transformation of environment. The stories of about 70 people, mainly women with a few men, are recorded here. They are not known leaders but 'ordinary' Palestinians of varying ages and social backgrounds - urban, rural, Bedouin; citizens and refugees.
  This is a multi-media project, a digital book in which you can hear the speakers' voices, see portraits of their faces and surroundings, and read texts that describe individual speakers and give historical background. The site will be expanded as new information and readings become available.
  The voices and texts were recorded and written by Rosemary Sayigh, anthropologist and oral historian, through a grant from the Diana Tamari Sabbagh Foundation. The digital book was created by BĂ¸rre Ludvigsen, webmaster of Al-Mashriq, and Susanne Olsen, layout artist and computer programmer. .
  Photographs were offered to the project by Leena Saraste, Sallie Schatz, Rania Matar, Muhammad Omer, Darren Ell, John Torday, Peter Fryer, and many more.
- New UN map charts West Bank reality FT, 4th June 2007. The map is really valuable.
- Enduring Occupation: Palestinians under siege in the West Bank.
  Amnesty International report, June 2007.
- Access to more than 50 percent of West Bank restricted for Palestinians: World Bank
  Useful facts and figures from the World Bank Report. In the International Herald Tribune, 8th May 2007.
- The Separation Wall In East Jerusalem: Economic Consequences
  The Alternative Information Center's report provides a detailed and critical economic analysis of the damages and effects of the Separation Wall in East Jerusalem, the first report to do so. This information is especially relevant given the United Nations establishment of the Registry of Damage for Palestinians negatively impacted by the Wall, thus preparing the case for demanding monetary compensation from Israel.
- The Gaza Siege: Europe's Shameful Complicity In Israeli War Crimes JNV Anti-War Briefing 90, 8th July 2006.
- Report of the special rapporteur to the UN on the Occupied Palestinian Territory By John Dugard, 29th January 2007.
- Closed, a Film about the effects of occupation/closure A very informative film, on the site of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affais/Occupied Palestinian Authority (OCHAOPT)
- Nakba layer for Google Earth "Do you want to see where your original town or village is in Palestine? If you have Google Earth you can use the attached layer to see the destroyed and existing Palestinian Villages." Read the description on Um Kahlil's Blog. There is a link from here to the actual download.
- Israel and the Palestinians: Key terms
  The BBC's guide to terminological minefields. Quite useful though I wouldn't endorse all of it. If Beeb journalists don't follow the guidance issued here I suggest you ring up and complain!
- West Bank barrier ruling: Key points BBC summary of the ICJ ruling on the Wall, July 2004.
- Foundations of Civil and Political Rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories
  This is the doctoral thesis of Yvonne Schmidt in Graz, Austria.
- Palestinian displacement: a case apart? September 2006 issue of the Forced Migration Review, published by the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
- "We Created Terror Among the Arabs": The Deir Yassin Massacre William Martin in Counterpunch, 13th May 2004.
- History of Israeli-Arab Prisoner Exchanges
- Iran and Israel: The Ambiguous Nuclear Weapons (Palestine Chronicle, 22nd Jan 2006)
  This is a minutely detailed documentation of Israel's acquisition of nuclear weapons, culminating in a denunciation of the hypocrisy over Iran and a petition for a nuclear-free Middle East. Do sign it.
- Exodus and Outrage: Palestine 1945-1948
  An interesting site, which describes its aim as "simply trying to tell the story of the British forces involvement in Palestine for 1945 to 1948."
- David Horowitz Rewrites the PastBy Ran HaCohen on the "Anti-war" site, January 23, 2002
  Includes a helpful map of the Holy Land and numerous facts and figures.
- Stop caging Qalqilia! presented by Ma'rouf Zahran, mayor of Qalqilia. December 2004.
  Excellent slides, maps, aerial photos, facts and figures showing how the Apartheid Wall is destroying this village.
- An Updated List of Vetoes Cast by the United States to Shield Israel from Criticism by the U.N. Security CouncilWashington Report on Middle East Affairs, May/June 2005
- Palestine Media Center
  "An independent official institution established in November 2001" - with a direct line to the Palestinian National Authority. The "Who's Who" page lists all the names of the members of the new cabinet approved by the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on 24 February 2005, and other useful information.
- Britain's 1948 departure left ready-made country for Zionists
  By Dr. Salman Abu Sitta in the Daily Star (Lebanon), June 08, 2005.
- Israel's "security fence" - click here for a map in English
  NB: this may take some time to download from the Israeli Ministry of Defence site!
  Another version, from the Gush Shalom website
- BADIL report
  Full title: "International Law, Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, and a Comprehensive, Just, and Durable Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict".
  BADIL Poster competition
  Some very inspiring artwork here.
- Robert Malley's article about the Camp David 2000 offer
- Graphic presentation of Camp David, from the Gush Shalom site
- The Electronic Intifada
  A resource to help counter myth, distortion, and spin from the Israeli media war machine.
- "Intrigue in the Middle East: Lifting the Fog"
  "Oil, wars, superpowers. Britain, France, Germany and the US have fought for almost a century to control the vast petroleum wealth of the Middle East. Intrigue unravels a history little know by Americans or Europeans, making striking use of interviews and rare footage." Produced, directed and edited by Allan Siegel; found on the Information Clearing House website.
- The Jenin Inquiry Report by an international team of human rights volunteers on the 2002 Israeli invasion of Jenin Refugee Camp. Makes chilling reading.
- "The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict"
  Published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East
- MERIP Primer for Palestine, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- MERIP Primer on the Intifada
- Middle East Facts
- Palestine: Information with Provenance
  A new site with maps, articles and information on authors, broadcasters and much more.
- "People and the Land" video
  Watch Tom Hayes' award winning documentary for free online.
- The Refugee Primer (on the Al-Awda site)
Media and media-related Sites
- Al-Ahram Weekly online
  This is an Egyptian English-language weekly, with lots of coverage of Middle Eastern politics, and interesting Opinion articles as well as news.
- Arab Media Watch
- Arna's Children:
  This film tells the story of a Palestinian theatre group that was established by Arna Mer Khamis in Jenin and shows suicide attackers in their childhood.
- "Bad News from Israel"
  This is the latest publication by the excellent Glasgow Media Group, a research-based grouping of academics within the sociology department of Glasgow University.
  "Bad News from Israel" is a study of TV new coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and of how this coverage relates to the understanding, beliefs and attitudes of the television audience. Undertaken with support from the Economic and Social Research Council, It is a very extensive study with an audience sample of over 800 people and a detailed analysis of TV news over a two-year period.
  Bad News From Israel by Greg Philo and Mike Berry is published by Pluto Press, 2004. You can read further information and extracts from it here:
  - Bad News from Israel - HTML version
  - Bad News from Israel - PDF version
- Bitter Lemons: Palestinian-Israeli Crossfire
  Yossi Alpher, a former Mossad official, and Ghassan Khatib, the Palestinian Authority's Minister of Labor, have joined together to produce "Bitter Lemons," a free e-mail newsletter in which Palestinians and Israelis exchange views on the situation.
- Counterpunch
- Feral News
  "Undomesticated information for World Citizens" - lots of links on the Middle East.
- Robert Fisk archive
- Ha'aretz English Edition
  Leading liberal Israeli daily.
- the Handstand - Free online journal with a lot of articles on the Middle East amongst other topics.
- International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC)
- Indymedia Center, Israel.
- Jerusalem Independent Media Center
- Jerusalem Media and Communication Center (includes polls, news etc
- Media Lens
  Click on "Israel/Palestine" under the Articles Index for some excellent articles by John Pilger, Robert Fisk, Noam Chomsky and others.
- Media Monitors Network (MMN)
- Middle East Information Center
  Arab-Israeli Conflict news, history and discussion
- Middle East Times (based in Egypt)
- NileMedia
- Palestine Chronicle
- Palestine Media Center
- Palestine Media Watch
- Palestine News Network
- Palestine Monitor
- Palestine Solidarity Review
  PSR is a new US quarterly journal.
- The Journalism and Films of John Pilger
- The Pilger archive
- "Palestine is Still the Issue" - John Pilger
  plus interview with Dori Gold.
- Pilger on Palestine
- Spidered News>/a>
  Analysis and Discussion from World Press Network.
- Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Magazine
  Former Members of Congress are are on the Board and State Department official Richard Curtiss is the Editor. The site supports the Liberty survivors, and provides copious statistics on US state aid to Israel, amongst other things ...
- ZNet MiddleEast page
- Zajel: the Palestine Media Unit
  based at An-Najah University.
Palestinian Sites
- Adalah - the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
- Addameer Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association
- Akram Awad Blog by a member of the General Union of Palestinian Students, based in Leeds.
- Al-Rowwad Palestinian Children's Theatre Center
  Al-Rowwad Center is an independent centre for artistic, cultural, and theatre training for children in Aida Camp trying to provide a "safe" and healthy environment to help children's creativity despite the war conditions they are forced to live in.
- The Arab Association for Human Rights
  Association in service of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel
- ARIJ - The Applied Research Institute - Jerusalem
  A non-profit organization dedicated to promoting sustainable development in the occupied Palestinian territories and the self-reliance of the Palestinian people through greater control over their natural resources.
- Arabs Against Discrimination
  A new NGO, launched in January 2004, which will have as its primary objective the monitoring of the Israeli media in order to expose any content with a racist and discriminatory nature. It will also attempt to bridge the language gap between the West and the Arab world - where very few people speak Hebrew - by offering comprehensive overviews of what is being published in the Hebrew press.
- Picture Balata
  "Picture Balata puts the camera into the hands of the children born and raised inside the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Participants ranging from ages 11 to 18 photograph their situation as they live in Balata Refugee Camp."
- Beit Sahour Municipality
  The Mayor has just issued an urgent appeal: the Israeli authorities have officially opened a new Check point at Rachel's tomb, which is the main passage in and out of the district. This will strangle the Bethlehem tourist industry.
- Stop the Bleeding of Bethlehem A new Blog with information on Non Violent Direct Action in the Bethlehem area.
- Bethlehem faces a state of emergency following the completion of an eight metre high illegal cement wall at the entrance to the city that separates Bethlehem from Jerusalem and other Palestinian towns. With the Israeli wall and other closures, including militarised fences and illegal Jewish settlements, Bethlehem has been reduced to its urban core: a modern-day ghetto town.
  
  In response, Open Bethlehem was launched by the Mayor of Bethlehem on 9 November, declaring Bethlehem an open city and announcing the issue of a Bethlehem passport.
- International Committee for the Defence of Azmi Bishara
- CAABU (Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding)
- The Eco Alternative Guesthouse, Beit Sahour
  "The Eco Alternative Guesthouse is not a regular hotel. It is a grassroots initiative with a focus on alternative tourism, activism, voluntary work and international solidarity. Furthermore the Guesthouse works together with the ´Green Intifada´ which is a community based, grass roots democratic movement aiming to rebuild Palestinian society upon the ethics of sound environmental practice, sustainability and community cohesion."
- El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe
  Here are some reviews and articles about the troupe and its choreographer, Omar Barghouti.
  - Choreographer Strikes a Pose for Palestinian Identity (ABC News 7th Dec 2005)
- Friends of Al-Aqsa
- Friends Schools, Ramallah / El-Bireh
  "The Ramallah Friends Schools have served the youth of Palestine and witnessed to Quaker values in the midst of conflict and adversity for more than a century."
- From Gaza, with Love
  A moving eye-witness account of the harrowing events of the latest Israeli incursion, in this blog run by Mona ElFarra, a Palestinian doctor.
- I'LAM - Media Center for Arab Palestinians in Israel
- International Women's Peace Service Palestine
  Includes moving pictures of children's murals on the separation wall.
- Ittijah
  The Union of Arab Community-Based Associations. A network for Palestinian non-governmental organizations within Israel.
- Jerusalem Fund/Center for Policy analysis on Palestine (JF/CPAP)
- Jerusalem I love you Interesting news and opinion items, mostly by Palestinian Israelis as far as I can tell, which I haven't seen anywhere else. They are not only about Jerusalem but concern wider issues in the Middle East.
- LAW - The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights and the Environment
- Saving Lifta
  The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST) is dedicated to exposing abuses in ideological planning and architecture. Through activism FAST aims to freeze a redevelopment plan which threatens the heritage of a Palestinian village. Lifta was uprooted in 1948, however the antiquity on this native land still defiantly stands. The redevelopment plan will eradicate the memory whilst appropriating an architecture of forgetfulness to the cultivated landscape.
- The Mandela Institute
  Focuses on human rights for prisoners and their families.
- Midlands Palestinian Community Association The website of Palestinian people in the Midlands. Based in Birmingham.
- Medical Aid for Palestine
- MIFTAH
  "A Palestinian, Jerusalem-based, independent institution dedicated to fostering the principles of democracy and effective dialogue ..."
- MUSAWA: the Palestinian Centre for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession.
  "A Palestinian initiative to enhance the independence of the judicial system and the legal practive at the levels of legislation, course and conduct."
- Nakba
  Created in 1998 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Nakba (catastrophe). Includes pages of survivors' testimonies and a Photo Gallery.
- Nablus On the Europalestine site, in French, this features the famous soap industry of Nablus. Coming soon to a shop near you - we hope.
- Palestine Children's Welfare Fund
  Currently running a book appeal to help education refugee children.
- Palestine Chronicle
  An award-winning web site, with coverage of Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict, regional and world news, commentary and features. Its latest addition is a Photo Gallery with pictures of Palestinian life.
- Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions: Arabic pages
  Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions: English pages
- Palestine Liberation Organisaton (PLO) - Negotiations Affairs Department
  Includes links to various Palestinian Authority sites, plus NGOs, academic sites, media sites and others. A useful resource.
- Palestine Monitor - Voice of Civil Society
  Warning:Not all pages will display under Netscape.
- Palestinian General Delegation to the UK and Holy See
  With items by Afif Safieh, former General Delegate to the UK and Holy See. Palestinian Land Society
- Palestinian Refugee Research Net
- Palestine Remembered
- Palestine Return Centre
  This organisation is releasing a video on the massacre in Jenin and are also hosting Mr Ramzy Baroudy's book tour.
- Palestine Right to Return Coalition
- Palestinian Rights
  A good source of statistics relating to the Occupation.
- Rafah Today
  Heart-rending eye-witness accounts of Israeli atrocities in this city in southern Gaza.
- Right to Enter
  An undeclared Israeli policy is currently in effect. It denies entry and/or re-entry to foreign nationals, who want to visit, live, or work in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). Israel is arbitrarily turning away foreign nationals at Israeli ports of entry, which are the only way to reach the oPt, causing unjustified hardships: families are being separated, investors are exiting the country, educators are unable to reach their schools and universities, students' education is being disrupted, and elderly are being left without caretakers.
- Sabeel
  "an ecumenical grassroots liberation movement among Palestinian Christians"
- Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies
  Currently running a project entitled "The Palestinian Declaration of Academic Freedom"
- Shaheed
  Website of an exhibition paying a visual tribute to the first 100 Shaheed ("martyrs") of the Aqsa Intifada which began on 29th September, 2000.
- The Siraj Center for Holy Land Studies Based in Beit Sahour, the Siraj Center is currently raising funds to establish a national Palestinian cycling club.
- Stop the Wall
  "The Grassroots Palestinian anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign"
- Iqbal Tamimi's blog
  Iqbal is a Palestinian journalist who lives in Birmingham.
- The Tel Rumeida Project
  Tel Rumeida is a small Palestinian neighborhood near Hebron in the West Bank, widely acknowledged as housing the most violent and extremist faction of the Israeli settler movement. Palestinian families who live directly next to these settlers are often virtual prisoners in their homes, subject to the settlers' violent attacks and destruction of property. This project seeks to establish a permanent international presence in Tel Rumeida. Donations welcome.
- Trans-Arab Research Institute (TARI).
  This site seems to focus on the Palestinian "right to return".
- The Association of Women Against Violence (WAV)
  WAV was established in 1992 by a group of Palestinian women professionals and social activists in Israel to address the needs of women and girls in the Palestinian community by providing crisis services in the Arabic language, as well as raising awareness about gender-based violence among the Palestinian community. Since then, WAV has grown to become one of the largest Palestinian non-governmental organizations in Israel.
  Warning: These pages are in Arabic - does anyone know of an English version?
Palestinian Solidarity Organisations
- Action Palestine Manchester-based, student-focused solidarity site founded in 2006.
- Deir Yassin Remembered: I am suspending my link to this organisation's website until Paul Eisen and Israel Shamir are removed from its board. Click on the "Health Warning" button to find out why.
- Enough!
  "2007 marks the 40-year anniversary of the Six Day War, in which the Israeli army took military control of the Gaza Strip and West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Since that time the government of Israel has built 'settlements' in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and assisted its citizens in setting up homes and businesses using land and resources stolen from the Palestinian people. This situation has continued to the current day despite Israel being in violation of international humanitarian law and over 60 UN resolutions."
- Free Gaza
  "We want to break the siege of Gaza. We want to raise international awareness about the prison-like closure of the Gaza Strip and pressure the international community to review its sanctions policy and end its support for continued Israeli occupation. We want to uphold Palestine's right to welcome internationals as visitors, human rights observers, humanitarian aid workers, journalists, or otherwise."
- International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
  - Video: Dying for Palestine, June 2003.
    Tom Hurndall was shot through the head by the Israeli army. We follow his grieving family who came to Gaza to see what their son was doing.
  - Website for Tom Hurndall
    Set up by the family of the ISM volunteer who was shot on 11th April 2003 in Gaza by an Israeli sniper and was brought back to the UK in a coma. He died on 13th January 2004.
  - Rachel Corrie
    - Who remembers Rachel Corrie? (Ha'aretz, 17th March 2006)
    - Diary of an American martyr inspires a young audience in theatre's hit play
      Review of "My name is Rachel Corrie" in the Observer, 24th April 2005.
    - Rachel Corrie Memorial Web Site - with eyewitness reports of her murder and statements by family and friends
    - "A Mother's Day Talk: The Daughter I Can't Hear From" by Cindy Corrie in Counterpunch, 14th May 2003.
    - Report on Electronic Intifada website
    - Report in the Guardian
    - "University of Maryland's Shameful Tribute to a true American hero"
      (on the Global Comment website)
  - ISM "Arabic for Activists" online course
    Learn how to spell your name in Arabic! ISM nominated for Nobel Peace Prize!
  - ISM main website
  - ISM London
  - ISM: Direct Action for Justice in Palestine
    This is the New York-based group, "A grassroots organization for Americans participating in the International Solidarity Movement"
  - Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement between People
    (This is the main Palestinian co-ordinating group in ISM).
  - brightonpalestine.org
    A website set up by two individuals from Brighton doing solidarity work with grassroots organisations in Palestine. The blog posts a regular report.
- Nederlands Palestina Komitee The main Palestine solidarity organisation in the Netherlands. Some pages are in English.
- The Palestine Freedom Project
  A US-based group cultivating grassroots Palestine solidarity activism. It produces resources which are invaluable to activists doing divestsment and other solidarity work.
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign PSC national website
- West Midlands PSC
- Scottish PSC
  Note: Scottish PSC is independent of the "main" PSC whose website is above.
- Scottish PSC delegation A blog giving daily details of their recent visit to Palestine.
- Stirling Palestine Solidarity Group
- PSC South Africa
  A rather excellent site, packed with information.
- Palestine Solidarity Movement (USA)
  About to hold a Disinvestment Conference at Georgetown University.
- The Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel A World Council of Churches initiative promoting non-violent struggle, here on the Quaker site.
South African Sites, anti-apartheid links etc.
- Declaration by South Africans on Apartheid Israel (Declaration, Palestine Solidarity Committee, May 31st, 2004)
Campaigning Sites
- Against Israeli War Crimes (An American site)
- AAPER: American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights
  At last, a Palestinian lobby in the USA! Launched on 10th June 2003 - not a moment too soon - AAPER is dedicated to lobbying Congress and "informing the American public about Palestinian rights and the nature of the US role in the Arab-Israeli relationship".
- Cactus 48
  Run by Bob and Willie Cork. Beautiful pictures and moving stories.
- Christian Peacemaker Teams
  Based in Hebron.
  Racist settler graffiti in Hebron
- Citizens For Fair Legislation
- Coalition of Women For Peace
  Jewish and Palestinian women's campaign.
- Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel - run by the World Council of Churches.
- Enlighten
  Enlighten (Markaz at-Tanwir) gives Palestinian children and young persons the opportunity to develop computer skills and access educational information from the internet in a safe and relaxed environment.
- The Freedom Theatre
  "The Freedom Theatre aims to demonstrate a model of artistic excellence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and using the creative process as a model for social change, provide opportunities for the children of Jenin Refugee Camp to develop the skills, self-knowledge and confidence which would empower them the challenge present realities and to take control of their future."
- FAST (the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory)
  FAST "takes architecture, planning and territory as the basis for a strategy to overcome the conflict of causality"
- Humanity on Hold
  Good facts and figures, especially on Ariel Sharon and his war crimes.
  It also has a great photo of the Palestinian flag fluttering over that house in the bogside with "You are now entering Free Derry" painted on its wall:
  Irish solidarity
- If Americans Knew A powerful attack on censorship in the US media. See in particular the extract from Alison Weir's new book:
  CENSORED 2005
- Labournet pages on Palestine and Israel
  A whole lot better than the biased reports on LabourStart, which is run by Zionist Eric Lee.
- Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP) - a well-documented twinning initiative.
- The March for Justice
  This seems to be a new site which is still under construction. The organisation is Florida-based and supports Palestinian rights.
- Medical Fact Finding Mission Palestine: First Press Release
- One-State.org Web campaign for a single state in Israel/Palestine.
  Also at: Movement for One Democratic Secular State in Israel/Palestine.
  NB Not to be confused with "One Democratic state", a campaign I am no longer linking to because Sami al-Deeb who runs it has dubious views and Israel Shamir (See "Health Warning") is on the board.
- Palestine Pal
  A blog by Australian ISM activist Harrison Healy.
- Palestine Views
  A new Blog from Bilin - eye-witness accounts from an English activist.
- The Peace Cycle: London to Jerusalem Bike Ride 2007
  Each year, cyclists from all over Europe ride for 6 weeks from London to Jerusalem on a mission to support peace and reconciliation in Israel & Palestine. Among the cyclists are Muslims, Christians and Jews, riding side by side to call for justice, peace, and an end to the cycle of violence in the Middle East.
- Playgrounds for Palestine
- RIP Nick Pretzlik
  Nick Pretzlik, a tireless champion of the Palestinian cause, died suddenly of heart failure on 11th July 2004, aged 58. His powerful eyewitness reports from Palestine will be missed.
  - Obituary by Kasrthika Thampan, on the Countercurrents site, 17th July
  - Obituary by Robin Allen, in the Guardian, 19th August
  - Various obituaries on Nick's own site
  - Nick Pretzlik's site
    See also: Mirror site
- The Rebuilding Alliance
  "A human rights action group supported by grassroots fundraising. Our mission is to safeguard fair housing rights in regions of conflict, starting with Israel and Palestine. By mobilizing thousands of Americans to help rebuild demolished homes and schools, working through Congress, and petitioning Israeli courts, TRA helps Palestinian families keep their homes."
- Remember These Children
  A site which documents the deaths of children killed by the violence of the occupation since 27th March 2000. A useful source of statistics.
- Stop de Bezetting (Stop the Occupation) - Dutch version
  Stop de Bezetting (Stop the Occupation) - English version
  This Dutch organisation has as its chairperson Gretta Duisenberg, who famously flew a Palestinian flag from her Amsterdam house.
- SUSTAIN: Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now
- "This is What Matters": Read Nick Pretzlik's reports on Palestine, together with photographs
  More photos from the same tour.
- Trade Union Friends of Palestine
  - Global Action: Palestine
  - Policy on Palestine passed at Conference June 2002
  - Text of composite motion
  - NATFHE webpages on Palestine
- Urgent Appeals by UPMRC
- USS Liberty Memorial
  On 8th June 1967, Israeli air force planes attacked a U.S. navy electronic ship, the USS Liberty, in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea. 34 American officers were killed and 171 were wounded. This site commemorates the victims and calls for a Congressional investigation to end the cover-ups by Israel and the USA.
- Wheels of Justice
  Nonviolent education and action against war and occupation in Iraq and Palestine for justice and universal human rights.
- The Writing Empowerment Project
  This site is currently supporting the project "Everyone's Children", which matches children in Palestine who are under occupation and curfew and are unable to get to school on a regular basis, with teachers and classrooms around the world who provide academic support, addressing both the cognitive and affective needs of the children.
Refusenik Sites

The "refuseniks" are refusing to do military service in Israel and/or the occupied territories. In Israel, women as well as men get called up: after serving an initial period at age 18, Israeli men (but not women) become "reservists", liable to be called up again later. Thus, some of these conscientious objectors are refusing to serve their initial period (see Shministim); others have done their initial service but are refusing to serve as reservists. Yet others are willing to serve, but not in the occupied territories. Female "refuseniks" do not get sent to prison; male refuseniks are liable to imprisonment and indeed some have served repeated terms.
Articles
- Israeli pilots 'deliberately miss' targets Observer, 6th August 2006
- Israel: another 250 High school students say they'll refuse to serve(Labournet, 21 March 2005)
- "I punched an Arab in the face": A soldier's testimony (Gideon Levy, Ha'aretz, 27th November 2003)
- "The Power of Principle" (Susan Sontag, Guardian 26th April 2003)
- "I realised the stupidity of it" (Guardian 11th March 2003)
  - on Jonathan Ben-Artzi, Netanyahu's nephew, who has become a "refusenik".
- "I couldn't believe I was doing this" (Jonathan Steele, Guardian 22nd October 2002)
- Shlomi Segall, "Why I won't serve Sharon" (Guardian 5th July 2002)
Refusenik Sites
- Yesh Gvul Page of Shame
  Some IDF soldiers have been posing with bodies of dead Palestinians - reminiscent of Abu Ghraib .... Refusal to Serve in the Israeli Military
  An informative summary on the Wikipedia site.
- Breaking The Silence Over the last year, "Breaking the Silence" has collected testimonies given by during the last conflict. These testimonies reveal the impossible reality those soldiers have to face, and the terrible moral price this reality demands. Selected collections from those testimonies have been published in testimonial collections produced by "Breaking the Silence".
  Breaking the Silence: former Israeli Soldier Tours U.S. to Expose Abuse of Palestinians by Israeli Militaryon the Democracy Now site, 27th October 2006
- A rough guide to Hebron: The world's strangest guided tour highlights the abuse of Palestinians Donald MacIntyre in the Independent, 26th January 2008 .
- Courage to Refuse: Combatant's Letter
  The site for reservist officers.
- New Profile
  "Movement for the civil-ization (sic) of Israeli Society". An Israeli site campaigning for an end to conscription and the right to conscientious objection. (There seems to be something wrong with the English pages at the moment - the page doesn't load properly.)
- Oznik News
  Clearing-house for refusenik news. The counter above, giving the number of refusenik revervists, is provided by Oznik.
- "Five Prisoners of Conscience"
- Refuser Solidarity Network
- Shministim
  This is the school students' movement, refusing to do their initial period of military service. It is the only one of the 4 groups to include women and non-Jews. (Here again, the English page isn't loading properly at present)
- Yesh Gvul - English version
  Yesh Gvul - Hebrew version
  Yesh Gvul means "There is a limit!". This is an Israeli peace group dedicated to "supporting soldiers who refuse assignments of a repressive or aggressive nature".
STOP MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL
This is a revised version of the stop-aid-to-Israel petition.

Links on the Israeli war machine
- Israel's Weapons of Mass Destruction (on the MSNBC site)
- Traces of poison
  "Israel, not Iraq, holds that distinction of being the first country in the region to use weapons of mass destruction with genocidal intent." Salman Abu-Sitta in Al-Ahram Weekly, 27 Feb - 5 March 2003
Israeli and Jewish Peace Campaign sites

Individuals
- The link to Gilad Atzmon's page has been suspended - see my home page.
- Avigail Abarbanel's website
  A personal site based in Australia which contains writings on the Middle East conflict.
- Prof. Marc Ellis
  Prof. Ellis is the Director of the Center for American and Jewish Studies at Baylor University, Texas. This is the text of the speech he gave at the University of Bangor, hosted on the U. of Bangor Chaplaincy site. Contains some strong messages to fellow Israeli Jews.
- Horit Herman-Peled
  An Israeli human rights activists who works with a group of other Israeli women. Her site is best known for the "violin player at the checkpoint" video which horrified many Israelis because it reminded them of the Nazis' treatment of the Jews.
- Alfred Lilienthal: Home Page and Middle East Perspective
- The Official Website of Ilan Pappe
- Gila Svirsky: A Personal Website
- Tanya Reinhart's Home Page
- Mordechai Vanunu is free! (well, sort of ....)
  "Egypt's gonna get one too,
  Just to use on you-know-who.
  So Israel's getting tense,
  Wants one in self-defense.
  'The Lord's our shepherd' says the psalm,
  But just in case - we better get a bomb.
  Who's next?
  Tom Lehrer, 1965.
- "Israel Crosses the Threshold"
  Senior Nixon administration officials considered confronting Israel over nuclear Weapons in 1969 but President Nixon declined, deciding that newly declassified documents ... on the National Security Archive website.
- Israel's Nuclear Weapons (Good historical summary, on the site of the Federation of American Scientists)
Organisations
- Anarchists Against the Wall
  This group has staged some lively pieces of direct action - take a look at the photos.
- Australian Jewish Democratic Society
  "Committed to Peace and Social Justice, Reconciliation between Nations and Peoples, and Nuclear Disarmament". Contents include News, Mid East Conflict, Library, Peace Links, Readers' Forum, Newsletters, and Activities.
- Bangor University: Chaplaincy visit to Palestine and Israel, October 2003
  Pictures, stories and links.
- Bat Shalom
  "A feminist peace organization of Israeli women" - includes an "Israeli women speak out" page.
- Birthright Unplugged: Because knowledge is a journey.
  Birthright Unplugged offers two kinds of trip:
  - Its "Unplugged" trips are designed primarily for non-Israeli Jewish people. They supplement the "information" provided by the Birthright organisation by offering opportunities to meet Palestinians and learn about daily life under occupation.
  - Its "Re-plugged" trips are for Palestinian children living in refugee camps. In two to three days, they visit Jerusalem, the sea and the villages their grandparents fled in 1948. This is a journey their own parents and grandparents are usually not permitted to make.
- B'Tselem (Israeli Human Rights Group)
  An excellent source of statistics, including Palestinian fatalities.
- Challenge (the magazine of Workers Advice centre in Israel)
- Communist Party of Israel
  - Currently featuring a "Joint communication of the Communist Party of Israel, the Palestinian People's Party, and the Communist Party of Jordan". Hmm, what sort of communist party is it that calls for a two-state solution rather than a one-state solution, Sue wonders?
- European Jews for a Just Peace
- Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement
  Gisha: Center for the Legal Protection of Freedom of Movement is an Israeli not-for-profit organization that seeks to protect the fundamental rights of Palestinians living in the Occupied Territories by imposing human rights law as a limitation on the behavior of Israel's military.
- Gush Shalom (The Israeli Peace Bloc)
- Interfaith Encounter Association
  The IEA promotes respectful relations between the Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze and Bahais living in Israel. It was a major founder in establishing the Middle East Abrahamic Forum, along with similar organizations from Egypt, Jordan, The Palestinian National Authority and Cyprus.
- Interfaith Trip to Israel
  On the site of Temple B'nai Torah, Bellevue, Washington.
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
  ICAHD UK site
- Israeli-Palestinian Peace
  Archive of "The Other Israel" (q.v.) and Newsletter of the Israel Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace.
- Jews Against the Occupation
- Jews Against Zionism
  Mirror site for JAZ, on the Real News 24/7 site
- Jewish Friends of Palestine
  Gateway for links to other Jewish sites.
- Jewish Peace Fellowship
- Jewish Socialists' Group
- alternative URL for the above site
- Junity - Jewish Unity for a Just Peace
  Jewish peace groups which agree on ending abuses of Palestinian human rights and Israel's self-destructive settlement policy.
- Jewish Voice For Peace (SF Bay Area)
  This SF Bay Area grassroots organization is dedicated to the rights of Jews, Palestinians, and all peoples in the Middle East. They believe conflict won't end until Israel removes settlements. Site includes petition, listserver, resources, media.
- Jewish Women Watching
  This excellent spoof site includes the Greasy Latke Awards for slimy male behaviour, and the superb publication Jewishspeak: all the news that's fit for Jews to read.
- Jews for Justice for Palestinians
- Jews not Zionists
  A sort of umbrella website for various anti-Zionist Jewish organisations.
- JustPeace UK
  This is a discussion list run under Yahoo Groups - no website at present.
- Kav La'Oved "A non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of the most disadvantaged workers in Israel, primarily: migrant workers, Palestinians from the occupation territories, personnel company employees, and new immigrants." Here are a couple of interesting articles on the Kav La'Oved site:
  On Histadrut collaboration with the police rounding up migrant workers for deportation
  About Kav LaOved's opposition to the Histadrut representing migrant construction workers
- Kibush
  A new site in Hebrew, English and Russian. "We are united in the belief that a viable solution must be based on the unconditional end to the Israeli military occupation, and on principles of equality, justice and mutual respect."
- Machsom Watch
  "MachsomWatch or Checkpoint-watch is a voluntary group of over 400 Israeli women who conduct daily shifts at military and police checkpoints around Jerusalem and elsewhere, to bear witness to what is being done to Palestinian civilians in the name of Israeli society. We have chosen to stand by the checkpoints as they are one of the clearest manifestations of the Israeli Occupation and their very existence in the middle of Palestinian cities and villages is a violation of human rights."
  Warning - spoof site! anonymous right-wingers have set up a fake version of MachsomWatch's website, substituting www.machsomwatch.com for the legitimate www.machsomwatch.org!
- Matzpun: Appeal to boycott Israeli goods and leisure travel
  "Matzpun" is Hebrew for "conscience": The authors of this site are "Israeli citizens and Jews of other nationalities whose families have been victims of racism and genocide in past generations, and who feel they cannot remain silent."
- Mosaic Communities
  Multi-National Housing Co-ops in Israel: Yahoo groups discussion list.
- Neturei Karta
  This is a strange, arguably fundamentalist, Jewish religious group which believes that the creation of a "Jewish State" is forbidden by the Torah. It calls for "the peaceful dismantling of the [Zionist] state and the ushering in of peace, between Muslims and Jews around the world."
- Not In My Name: Taking Action for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine
  NIMN, based on their belief in Judaism, oppose "Israeli Government brutality against Palestinians".
- Open Tent Middle East Coalition
  Arab and Jewish groups of mutual goodwill. California-based.
- Peace Now
  PEACE NOW - the Israeli Peace Movement - was founded in 1978 by 348 reserve officers and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces. The first and only mass peace movement in Israel, PEACE NOW rapidly became the single most important extra-parliamentary force for peace in the country, attracting hundreds of thousands to its mass rallies and activities.
- Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
- Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
  Press Release, 30th May 2007: “Ticking Bombs” Testimonies of Torture Victims in Israel
- Rabbis For Human Rights
- Renouncing the Right to Return
  Non-Israeli Jews renounce their unsought legal right to Israeli citizenship and residence. The original letter, published in the Guardian on August 8th 2002, was signed by 45 people, but more have joined since publication. You can fill in the form if you would like to add your signature.
- Re'ut-Sadaka: Jewish-Arab Youth Organization for Peace and Democracy
  Warning: this URL seems to be incorrect, does anyone have the right one?
- Taayush
  Jewish-Arab Partnership for Peace
- The Other Israel
- Union des Progressistes Juives de Belgique(Union of Progressive Belgian Jews)
  Mainly in French, but with some pages in Dutch/Flemish and English.
- Tikkun
  "A Jewish Critique of Politics, Culture and Society"
- Workers' Advice Centre - Ma'an
  WAC-Ma'an gives legal advice to workers, and seeks to integrate Arab and Palestinian workers into the construction sector.
- Yesh Din A new offshoot from Machsom Watch (q.v.), whose aim is to bring legal actions against settlers who attack Palestinians.
- Zochrot
  Zochrot's purpose is to involve the Jewish public in Israel in remembering and talking about the Nakba. Most of the pages are in Hebrew but this one is in English.
Miscellaneous Sites of interest on the Middle East
- Coalition for Justice and Peace in the Middle East Based in Canada. Useful statistics.
- Arab Association for Human Rights
  Based in Nazareth.
- A Peaceful Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Personal site run by Dr. M A Fazal - advocates a "Federal/Confederal Solution" in Israel/Palestine.
- Al-Jazeera
  The English pages of the world-renowed Arabic broadcaster.
- Arab Gateway: "An Open Door to the Arab World"
- Common Dreams (excellent links)
- The Edward Said Archive
- "Eternal Egypt"
- Hagada Hasmalit
  Israeli Left Radical Forum. Some interesting articles here.
- Iran Bulletin
- Israel CIA - State Department Files Unfortunately these aren't all available on the Web; Paperless Archives is offering them for sale! Intriguing stuff. Apparently they contain 9,500 pages of CIA and State Department files covering Israel and conflicts in the Middle East. The CIA files date from 1949 to 1989. Files include coverage of: Conditions and trends in the Middle East affecting United Sates security interests; Israel's relationship with South Africa; Israel's nuclear weapons program; and Israel's antitactical ballistic missile program. The State Department files date from 1964 to 1993. Files include coverage of: the peace process, the intifada, Hamas, Ethiopian Jews, Soviet Refuseniks, the PLO, Yassar Arafat, Lebanon, terrorism targeted at Israel, Israeli domestic politics, elections and economy.
  Palestine Costume Archive In Canberra, Australia. Beautiful pictures.
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Caterpillar

Connex / Veolia

Divestment - general

Divestment - Churches

Primers, maps, photos, facts and figures on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Media and media-related Sites

Palestinian Sites

Palestinian Solidarity Organisations

South African Sites, anti-apartheid links etc.

Campaigning Sites

RIP Nick Pretzlik

Refusenik Sites

STOP MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL

Israeli and Jewish Peace Campaign sites

Miscellaneous Sites of interest on the Middle East

Sue Blackwell's Links
on Palestine and Israel