Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Resources
RECOMMENDED WEBSITES:
MCC Palestine Partner Organizations:
Mennonite Central Committee | http://www.mcc.org
Applied Research Institute – Jerusalem | http://www.arij.org
Badil Refugee Resource Center | http://www.badil.org
Culture and Free Thought Association | http://www.palnet.com/~cfta/
Holy Land Trust | http://www.holylandtust.org
Israeli Committee against House Demolitions | http://www.icahd.org/eng/
Palestinian Center for Rapprochement | http://www.rapprochement.org
Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network | http://www.pengon.org
Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center | http://www.sabeel.org
Stop the Wall Campaign | http://www.stopthewall.org
Wi’am Conflict Resolution Center | http://www.planet.edu/~alaslah
Zochrot | http://www.nakbainhebrew.org
Other Palestinian Sites:
Al-Awda - The Palestinian Right of Return Coalition | http://www.al-awda.org
Al-Haq | http://www.alhaq.org
Electronic Intifada: http://www.electronicintifada.net
Ibdaa Cultural Center | http://www.dheisheh-ibdaa.net
International Middle East Media Center | http://www.imemc.org
Jerusalem Media and Communications Center / Palestine Report | http://www.jmcc.org/
MIFTAH – Palestine Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy | http://www.miftah.org
Palestine Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs (PASSIA) | http://www.passia.org
Palestine Chronicle Weekly Journal | http://www.palestinechronicle.com
Palestine Independent Media Center | http://www.palestine.indymedia.org & http://www.jerusalem.indymedia.org
Palestine Media Watch | http://www.pmwatch.org & http://www.palestine-pmc.com/
Palestine Monitor | http://www.palestinemonitor.org
Palestine Remembered | http://www.palestineremembered.com
Palestinian Center for Human Rights | http://www.pchrgaza.org
Palestinian Non-Governmental Network | http://www.pngo.net
Media criticism and links to international press sites | http://www.abunimah.org/
Jewish Sites:
Bat Shalom | http://www.batshalom.org
B’tselem | http://www.btselem.org
Gush Shalom | http://www.gush-shalom.org/english/
Jewish Voice for Peace | http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Jews Against the Occupation | http://www.jewsagainsttheoccupation.org
Not in My Name | http://www.nimn.org
PEACE NOW | http://www.peacenow.org.il/English.asp
Rabbis for Human Rights | http://www.rhr.israel.net
Rabbi Michael Lerner monthly journal | http://www.tikkun.org/
Joint Palestinian-Israeli Sites:
Bitterlemons | http://www.bitterlemons.org
Neve Shalom – Wahat al-Salaam | http://www.nswas.com/
Parents’ Circle / Families Forum | http://www.theparentscircle.com/parents/
Ta’ayush | http://www.taayush.org/
Middle East News:
Haaretz (Israel) | http://www.haaretz.com
Jerusalem Post (Israel) | http://www.jpost.com
Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt} | http://www.weekly.ahram.org.eg
Daily Star (Lebanon) | http://www.dailystar.com.lb
Jordan Times (Jordan) | http://www.jordantimes.com
Today in Palestine | http://www.theheadlines.org
Other:
Christian Peacemaker Teams | http://www.cpt.org
Churches for Middle East Peace | http://www.cmep.org
If Americans Knew | http://www.ifamericansknew.org
Global Exchange | http://www.globalexchange.org
Middle East Research and Information Project | http://www.merip.org/
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs | http://www.washington-report.org
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) | http://www.unrwa.org
U.S. Campaign to End the Occupation | http://www.endtheoccupation.org
Axis of Logic | http://www.axisoflogic.com
Common Dreams | http://www.commondreams.org
Counter Punch | http://www.counterpunch.org
Christian Science Monitor | http://www.csmonitor.com
Sojourners | http://www.sojo.net
The Nation | http://www.thenation.com
Z Magazine | http://www.zmag.org/meastwatch/meastwat.cfm
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Naseer Aruri, Dishonest Broker: America’s Role in Israel and Palestine (South End Press, 2003).
Naseer Aruri, ed., Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return (Pluto Press, 2001).
Susan Atallah and Toine van Teeffelen, eds., The Wall Cannot Stop Our Stories: Diaries from Palestine 2000-2004 (Terra Sancta School for Girls, Sisters of St. Joseph, 2004).
Susan Atallah and Toine van Teeffelen, eds. Your Stories Are My Stories: A Palestinian Oral History Project (Arab Educational Institute, 2001).
Naim Stifan Ateek, Justice and Only Justice (Orbis Books, 1987).
Naim Stifan Ateek, Marc Ellis, and Rosemary Ruether, eds., Faith and the Intifada (Orbis Books, 1992).
Meron Benvenisti, Sacred Landscapes: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (University of California Press, 2000).
Gary Burge, Whose Land? Whose Promise? What Christians are Not Being Told about Israel and the Palestinians (The Pilgrim Press, 2003).
Roane Carey, ed., The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid (Verso 2001).
Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin, eds., The Other Israelis: Voices of Refusal and Dissent (New Press 2002).
Elias Chacour, We Belong to the Land (Harper Collins, 1990).
Elias Chacour, Blood Brothers (Chosen Books, 1984).
Noam Chomsky, Middle East Illusions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003)
Noam Chomsky, Fateful Triangle (South End Press, updated edition 1999).
Uri Davis, Apartheid Israel: Possibilities for the Struggle Within (Zed Books, 2004).
Marc Ellis, Out of the Ashes (Pluto Press, 2002).
Marc Ellis, Toward a Jewish Theology of Liberation (Orbis Books, 1987).
Jeff Halper, Obstacles to Peace: A Re-Framing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (PalMap, 2003).
Amira Hass, Drinking the Sea at Gaza (Henry Holt, 1998).
Amira Hass, Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land (MIT Press, 2003).
Rashid Khalidi, Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East (Beacon Press, 2004).
Rashid Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia University Press, 1997).
Walid Khalidi (ed.), All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).
Yehezkel Lein, et al, Land Grab: Israel’s Settlement Policy in the West Bank (B’Tselem, May, 2002).
Nur Masalha, Politics of Denial: Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem (Pluto Press, 2003).
Nur Masalha, Expulsion of the Palestinians: The Concept of “Transfer” in Zionist Political Thought, 1882-1948 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1992).
Donald Neff, Fallen Pillars: U.S. Policy towards Palestine and Israel since 1945 (Institute for Palestine Studies, 1995).
Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network (PENGON), Stop The Wall in Palestine: Facts Testimonies, Analysis, and Call to Action (PENGON, 2003).
Ilan Pappe, History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Michael Prior, ed., Speaking the Truth About Zionism and Israel (Melisende, 2004).
Mitri Raheb, I Am a Palestinian Christian (Fortress Press, 1995).
Mitri Raheb, Bethlehem Besieged (Fortress Press, 2004).
Tanya Reinhart, Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 (Seven Stories Press, 2002).
Edward Said, End of the Peace Process (Pantheon, 2000).
Edward W. Said, Peace and Its Discontents: Essays on Palestine in the Middle East Peace Process (Vintage, 1995).
Edward W. Said, The Question of Palestine (Vintage Books, 1980, 1992).
Raja Shehadeh, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing (Profile Books, 2003).
Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (Penguin Books, 2000).
Nancy Stohlman and Laurieann Aladin, eds., Live from Palestine: International and Palestinian Direct Action against the Israeli Occupation (South End Press, 2003).
Donald E. Wagner, Anxious for Armageddon: A Call to Partnership for Middle Eastern and Western Churches (Herald Press, 1995).
RECOMMENDED VIDEOS
Stuck with the truth (Canadian Friends of Sabeel, 2002). Palestinian Christians speak of the reality of Israeli occupation. Available from all MCC offices.
Walking the path Jesus walked (MCC, 2002). Hear Christians from Syria, Palestine, and Egypt share their faith, and learn about the enduring, vibrant witness of the historic Christian churches in the Middle East.
The Dividing wall (MCC, 2004). Features Palestinians whose lives have been devastated by Israel’s separation barriers and highlights the voices of Palestinians and Israelis who work for a future of bridges instead of walls.
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (Media Education Foundation, 2004). Provides a striking comparison of U.S. and international media coverage of the crisis in the Middle East, zeroing in on how structural distortions in U.S. coverage have reinforced false perceptions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Children of the Nakba (MCC, 2005)…
MCC RESOURCES
Video: “Walking the Path Jesus Walked” (2002)
Video: “Dividing Wall” (2004)
Video: “Children of the Nakba” (forthcoming)
Middle East Resource Box for Children. Produced by MCC. One part of the box presents the West Bank, with stories and photos of present-day Palestinian children. Also includes a curriculum on Iraq.
“A Middle East Reader” is a booklet produced by MCC which gives basic information on the Middle East, its religions, major political players and conflicts.
“Sisters, Friends—Middle East Reader on Women” is a booklet produced by MCC that introduces Middle Eastern women with a kaleidoscope of stories. The stories written, by MCC women, describe their encounters with Middle Eastern women, women much like themselves who have become their sisters and friends.
Alain Epp Weaver, “Constantinianism, Zionism, Diaspora: Toward a Theology of Exile and Return” (MCC Occasional Paper #28, 2002).
Alain Epp Weaver and Sonia Weaver, Salt and Sign: Mennonite Central Committee in Palestine, 1949-1999 (MCC, 1999).
Sonia K. Weaver, What Is Palestine / Israel: Answers to Common Questions (MCC, 2004).
“Country Profile: Occupied Palestinian Territories.” A Common Place. September/October 2004 (including the Hello publication for children).
“Walling Off the Future for Palestinians and Israelis.” MCC Peace Office Newsletter, 34(3). July-September 2004.
DIVESTMENT RESOURCES
GUIDES:
Start a Campaign (Global Exchange):
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/palestine/divestmentaction.html
Starting a Divestment Campaign (US CAMPAIGN):
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=123
List of Companies invested in Israel
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/palestine/usinvestments.html
Global Exchange Divestment toolkit (PDF):
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/palestine/divestment.pdf
FAITH-BASED EFFORTS:
Presbyterian Church:
http://www.pcusa.org/israelandjewishrelations/
http://www.pcusa.org/israelandjewishrelations/divestment.htm
World Council of Churches
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/543924.html
http://www.oikoumene.org/GEN_PUB_5_Second_report_o.779.0.html#1573
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_58769_ENG_HTM.htm
Anglican Church of Canada
http://www.christiantoday.com/news/ame/298.htm
Episcopal Church
http://www.episcopalchurch.org/3577_58769_ENG_HTM.htm
General story
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1206/p11s02-lire.html?s=hns
ORGANIZATIONS WITH APPROVED ECONOMIC MEASURES:
Presbyterian Church (USA)
National Lawyer's Guild
University of Wisconsin-Platteville Faculty
ORGANIZATIONS PUBLICLY CONSIDERING ECONOMIC PRESSURE:
Episcopal Church (USA)
Anglican Church of Canada
Church of England
City of Seattle
ACTIVE CAMPAIGNS:
Campaign links:
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/palestine/divestmentlinks.html
SUPPORTIVE ORGANIZATIONS:
Israelis Against Home Demolitions (http://www.icahd.org)
Jewish Voice for Peace (http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org)
World Council of Churches
Global Exchange (http://www.globalexchange.org)
U.S. Campaign Against the Occupation (http://www.endtheoccupation.org)
Gush Shalom
OTHER INFORMATION:
Palestine Monitor Divestment Update:
http://www.palestinemonitor.org/new_web/israel_divestment_update.htm
National Lawyer's Guild Statement:
http://www.mengos.net/articles/specialdocuments/nlg-resolution.htm
Stop Caterpillar:
http://www.catdestroyshomes.org/
The Case for Boycotting Israel:
http://www.counterpunch.org/barghouti12222004.html
Speaking to Presbyterians about Divestment
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3651.shtml
Seattle Divestment Campaign:
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=124
Boston-area Divestment Campaign:
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=125
Divestment Links
http://www.globalexchange.org/countries/palestine/divestmentlinks.html
*Special thanks to Tim, Chris & Omar for helping us gather these resources..
Posted by Dave at March 22, 2005 11:06 AM