NEWS, INFORMATION, and ALTERNATIVE MEDIA

Ma’an

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php

A good source for daily news in English from the Palestinian territories.

Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/

A widely-read liberal Israeli daily newspaper in English.

Electronic Intifada

http://electronicintifada.net/

An activist source for news from Palestine.

International Middle East Media Center (IMEMC)

http://www.imemc.org/

A website dedicated to English translations of news from the Middle East, with a focus on Palestine.

Alternative Information Center

http://www.alternativenews.org/

A joint Israeli-Palestinian progressive organization that includes news from the region.

Palestine Monitor

http://palestinemonitor.org/spip/

Presents information and news stories about life in the occupied territories from a Palestinian perspective.

Palestine Remembered

http://www.palestineremembered.com/ZionistFAQ.html

A Palestinian-created website that includes information on Palestinian history and a variety of issues relating to the conflict.

Israel Indymedia

http://dada.israel.indymedia.org/index.php

Source for Israeli activist news and events in Hebrew with English translations.

B’Tselem

http://www.btselem.org/English/

Israeli human rights group that monitors the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories.  Includes news updates, historical and current background, facts, and statistics, and a series of detailed maps.

Human Rights Watch

http://www.hrw.org/en/middle-eastn-africa/israel-and-occupied-territories

International human rights organization that posts information and updates about the situation in Israel and the occupied territories.

Middle East Web

http://mideastweb.org/

Includes articles and information written by Israelis, Palestinians, and internationals.  Dedicated to respectful dialogue and understanding.

Palestinian National Initiative

http://www.almubadara.org/new/einside.php?id=9

This PNI page includes links to many important official documents relating to the conflict--from the Balfour Declaration to the Camp David Accords, many important texts can be found here.  This site also includes posts about recent events in Israel and the territories.

BLOGS

(*This is a very small sample of the good blogs out there on the issue, but it is a place to start)

Mondoweiss

http://mondoweiss.net/

+972 Mag

http://972mag.com/

The Only Democracy (JVP)

http://theonlydemocracy.org/

Jewish Peace News

http://jewishpeacenews.blogspot.com/

The Angry Arab News Service

http://angryarab.blogspot.com/

Lawrence of Cyberia

http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/

Tikun Olam

http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/

Refuser Solidarity Network

http://www.refusersolidarity.net/

Sheik Jarrah Solidarity

http://www.en.justjlm.org/

SUGGESTED READING

WEBSITES:

1. For a good primer on the history of the conflict:
   

2. http://www.merip.org/palestine-israel_primer/Palestine-Israel_Primer_MERIP.pdf
   

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4. Another primer by Phillis Bennis can be downloaded here:
   

5. http://www.endtheoccupation.org/article.php?id=214
   

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For links to relevant documents, U.N. resolutions, international agreements, etc.:

http://www.prospectsforpeace.com/Resources.html

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2. On the history and implications of the conflicting Israeli and Palestinian narratives by Gush Shalom:
   

3. http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/downloads/truth/Truth%20Against%20Truth%20-%20English
   

BOOKS:

There have been many books written about the conflict over the years, and these are just a few:

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3. The Palestine Israel Conflict: A Basic Introduction by Gregory Harms and Todd Ferry
   

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6. The Palestine-Israeli Conflict by Daniel Cohn-Sherbok and Dawoud Sudqi El-Alami
   

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9. Israel's Occupation by Neve Gordon
   

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12. Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti
    

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15. The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah
    

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18. The Case for Sanctions Against Israel edited by Audrea Lim
    

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21. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe
    

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24. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem 1947-1949 by Benny Morris
    

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27. Image and Reality of the Israel: The Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman Finkelstein
    

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30. Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians by Noam Chomsky
    

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33. The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi
    

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36. Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness by Rashid Khalidi
    

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39. The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State by Shlomo Avineri
    

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42. The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart
    

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45. The Jewish State by Theodore Herzl
    

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48. Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege by Amira Hass
    

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51. One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
    

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54. The Founding Myths of Israel by Zev Sternhell
    

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57. The Making of Israeli Militarism by Uri Ben-Eliezer
    

DOCUMENTARIES

There have been several documentaries made about different aspects of the conflict in recent years.  These listed below are just a few of the best ones available. Most documentaries made about the situation can also be accessed through the Palestine Docs website: http://www.palestinedocs.net/

1. Five Broken Cameras
   

2. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2013, this may be the best documentary about the occupation so far.  It follows a resident of Bil’in who had been filming the village’s demonstrations against the separation barrier.
   

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4. Promises
   

5. Israeli Director B.Z. Goldberg interviews Israeli and Palestinian children who express their attitudes about the conflict, the occupation, and each other.  Nominated for an Academy Award.
   

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7. Budrus 
   

8. Just Vision produced this film that documents the nonviolent struggle of one Palestinian village against the Israeli separation barrier that threatened to cut off the village from its lands.
   

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10. Encounter Point
    

11. Just Vision’s first documentary that chronicles Israeli and Palestinian efforts to collaborate through nonviolent activism and the obstacles that often hamper their efforts.
    

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13. Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land
    

14. This Media Education Foundation production discusses the distorted way that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is presented in the mainstream US news media.
    

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16. Gaza Strip
    

17. American director James Longley (Iraq in Fragments) documents the struggles of Palestinian children in Gaza during the Second Intifada.
    

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19. Death in Gaza
    

20. British director James Miller was killed by Israeli forces while filming this documentary about the attitudes and struggles of Palestinian children in Gaza.
    

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22. Checkpoint
    

23. Israeli director Yoav Shamir documents interactions between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians at checkpoints in cinéma vérité style.
    

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25. Defamation
    

26. Israeli director Yoav Shamir examines the problem of contemporary anti-Semitism in the world and questions the implications and consequences of an excessive focus on anti-Semitism for contemporary Jews around the world.
    

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28. Voices from Inside
    

29. Directed by Lucy Martens, this documentary interviews Israeli activists and chronicles the evolution of their personal attitudes and Zionist thought.
    

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31. Little Town of Bethlehem
    

32. Follows the story of three Israeli and Palestinian men and their engagement in nonviolent resistance to the occupation.
    

OTHER CONFLICTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES

There are many other ongoing conflicts and human rights abuses taking place around the world that also need attention.  These are just a few of them:

1. Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
   

2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11108589
   

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5. Sudan and Darfur:
   

6. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3496731.stm
   

7. Save Darfur: http://www.savedarfur.org/
   

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10. India’s occupation of Kashmir:
    

11. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/kashmir/front.html
    

12. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_conflict
    

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15. China and Tibet:
    

16. Free Tibet: http://www.freetibet.org/
    

17. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet
    

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20. Indonesia and East Timor:
    

21. East Timor Action Network: http://www.etan.org/
    

22. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Timor
    

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25. Morocco and Western Sahara:
    

26. http://www.fpif.org/reports/morocco_and_western_sahara
    

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29. For more information about these and other human rights abuses around the world:
    

30. Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/
    

31. Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org/