Information about Israeli & Palestinian social change organizations & related media

including media and organizations of many varieties & locations

For action suggestions

Updated February 24, 2015

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Organizations:

Active Stills. Israeli photo collective, activestills.org

Alternative Information Center: www.alternativenews.org

Alternatives to Violence Programs (AVP) in Palestine and Israel, contact Joe DiGarbo, jdigarbo@gmail.com

American Friends Service Committee, youth programs in Gaza & the West Bank, & advocacy programs in Israel, www.afsc.org/office/palestine

Anarchists Against the Wall, Israeli activists, www.awalls.org

Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, www.badil.org

Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, bcpr.blogspot.com

Breaking the Silence: Testimonies of former Israeli soldiers: www.breakingthesilence.org.il

B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, studies and reports, btselem.org

CAMERA, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, a monitoring and advocacy group usually highly supportive of mainstream Israel, www.camera.org
(for an expose of one of CAMERA's efforts to undermine Wikipedia)

Caterpillar campaign, about the bulldozers used to demolish homes and uproot olive trees, www.globalexchange.org/economicactivism/caterpillar/campaigns

Christian Peacemakers Teams, nonviolent intervention, www.cpt.org

Coalition of Women for Peace, Israeli women's peace & justice initiative, www.coalitionofwomen.org/?lang=en

Combatants for Peace, www.combatantsforpeace.org/event.asp?lng=eng

Committee for the Open Discussion of Zionism, codzorg.net

The Compassionate Listening Project, methods for resolving conflict thru dialog, www.compassionatelistening.org

Electronic Intifada, electronicintifada.net/new.shtml

Ecumenical Accompaniers for Peace in Palestine & Israel, witnessing and supporting, coordinated by the World Council of Churches, www.eappi.org

Free Gaza Movement, bringing activists and humanitarian supplies to Gaza, www.freegaza.org

EcoPeace Middle East, working with and through the environment to foster peace & justice, www.foeme.org

Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, www.gcmhp.com/en
(www.gazamentalhealth.org accepts donations from US residents for the Programme)

Gaza Ark
www.gazaark.org/gfm

The Geneva Accord, one of many peace proposals, this one worked out by high level but unofficial people from Israel and Palestine, www.geneva-accord.org

Grassroots International, funds projects in Palestine, www.grassrootsonline.org//where-we-work/middle-east

Gush Shalom, education and direct action by Jewish Israelis, www.gush-shalom.org

Haaretz, Left-Mainstream Israeli Daily Newspaper, www.haaretz.com

Holy Land Trust, reality tours & nonviolence training, www.holylandtrust.org

If Americans Knew, What Every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine, www.ifamericansknew.org

Interfaith Peace Builders, reality tours, http://ifpb.org/delegations/upcoming.html

International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN), uncompromisingly committed to struggles for human emancipation, of which the liberation of the Palestinian people and land is an indispensable part, ijsn.net

International Solidarity Movement, direct action & education led by Palestinians, palsolidarity.org

Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions, youth outreach, prevention of home demolitions & rebuilding homes, www.icahd.org

Israel-Palestine: Creative Regional Initiatives (IPCRI), www.ipcri.org

Itisapartheid, about apartheid in Israel-Palestine, www.itisapartheid.org

Jewish Voice for Peace, www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

J Street, "the new address for Middle East peace & security,"www.jstreet.org

Machsom Watch, checkpoint monitoring by Jewish Israeli women, www.machsomwatch.org

MIFTAH, Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue & Democracy, information and analysis, www.miftah.org

New Profile, Israeli feminist challenge to militarized Israeli society, newprofile.org/english

NGO Monitor, making NGOs accountable, www.ngo-monitor.org

Palestine Monitor, news source, www.palestinemonitor.org

Palestinian News Network, news source, english.pnn.ps

Palestine Remembered, al-Nakba 1948, www.palestineremembered.com

Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, information about the boycott-sanction-divestment movement, www.pacbi.org

Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, www.pchrgaza.org

Palestinian Hydrology Group, promoting awareness and collecting data, www.phg.org

Parents Circle - Families Forum, Bereaved Palestinian and Israeli families supporting peace, reconciliation and tolerance, www.theparentscircle.com

PASSIA, Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, www.passia.org

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, phr.org.il/default.asp?PageID=4

Quakers with a Concern for Palestine-Israel, network of Friends groups in North America, www.quakerpi.org

Quaker Palestine Israel Network (QPIN), Coordinating Quaker Efforts to Bring Peace and Justice to Palestinians and Israelis, qpinblog.wordpress.com

Rabbis for Human Rights, justice for Palestinians and Israelis, rhr.org.il/eng

Ramallah Friends School, www.palfriends.org

Refuser Solidarity Network, www.refusersolidarity.net

Right to Education Campaign, at Birzeit University, right2edu.birzeit.edu/

Sabeel, The Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, www.sabeel.org

Seeds of Peace, In the face of some of the world’s most intractable conflicts, Seeds of Peace gives rise to new generations of leaders uniquely inspired and equipped to build lasting peace, www.seedsofpeace.org

Settlement Watch, a project of Peace Now, peacenow.org.il/eng

Skip Schiel, teeksaphoto.org, skipschiel.wordpress.com

Solomania, a blog critical of critics of Israel, www.solomonia.com/wp

Stop the Wall, the grassroots Palestinian anti-apartheid wall campaign), www.stopthewall.org

Ta'ayush, Arab-Jewish partnership in direct action, www.taayush.org

Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, peace & justice in Palestine/Israel, www.uujme.org/home

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs(UN OCHA), www.ochaopt.org/content.aspx?id=1010271

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, www.endtheoccupation.org

Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, www.vtjp.org

Viva Palestina
www.vivapalestinia.org

Which Corporations are Profiting from the Israeli Occupation?
www.whoprofits.org

Women in Black, Israeli women in support of Palestinian rights, womeninblack.org/vigils-arround-the-world/europa/israel

The World Comes to Jerusalem, originally partially in Russian, a compendium of photos of world celebrities visiting Israel in the 1960s, by Sara and Eli Ross, www.jerusalem-korczak-home.com/sar/sa1.html

Yesh Gvul, refusnik support, www.yeshgvul.org.il/en/about-2

Zochrot, "remembering," identifying and touring destroyed Arab villages in israel, www.nakbainhebrew.org/index.php?lang=english

Media:

Book & Video list, suggestions from Skip Schiel, click here

Broken Promises, Broken Dreams, by Alice Rothchild, alicerothchild.com/?page_id=4

"Building Palestinian Solidarity, Demanding Divestment," by Ora Wise & Mohammed Abed, www.warresisters.org/nva/nva0905-3.htm

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two Peoples, Pappe, Ilan

Jeff Halper:

"What are you doing? What have you become?" 2005, www.counterpunch.org/halper11072005.html

"The Key to Peace: Dismantling the Matrix of Control," 2006, www.icahd.org/eng/articles.asp?menu=6&submenu=3

"A Middle Eastern Confederation," 2005, www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org/node/180

Ha'aretz, one of the leading and bravest Israeli newspapers, a lecture to journalism students by Amos Schoken, publisher of Ha'aretz, 2002 www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=209509&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

"Imagining Israel-Palestine Peace--Why International Law Matters" with Professor Richard Falk (edited)
www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/d/ContentDetails/i/7143/pid/223

"The Importance of the Third Temple," by Jan Willem van der Hoeven, www.think-israel.org/apr04bloged.html#apr04.299

“The Israel Lobby,” by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, 2006, www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html, later a book

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan, 2006

Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie, by Rachel Corrie (Author), The Corrie Family (Editor, Introduction) Rachel Corrie, 2008

A New Legal Framework for Managing the World's Shared Groundwaters: A Case Study from the Middle East, Fadia Daibes-Murad

On the Border, Michel Warschawski, 2005

Palestine & Palestinians, a guide book, www.palestineonlinestore.com/books/palestineandpalestinians.htm

"Palestine/Israel, Ferrying Everyone Across the Shore of Liberation," by Annette Herskovits, www.bpf.org/html/whats_now/2006/herskovits_liberation.html

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, by Jimmy Carter, 2006

"Quaker Witness in Palestine," Betsy Brinison, in Friends Journal, September 2010, www.friendsjournal.org/2010070

“Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories Occupied Since 1967,” by John Dugard for the United Nations, September 2006, and later www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=12812&CategoryId=8

"Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict," Richard Goldstone, UN Human Rights Council, 2009
www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-48.pdf

Sara Roy:

“Living with the Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors,” www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0212/021222.htm

"79 Percent of Gazan Households are Living in Poverty—The Economy of Gaza" (October 4, 2006), www.counterpunch.org/roy10042006.html

Undeveloping Gaza

Searching for Peace in the Middle East, a video (DVD) by Landrum Bolling, free, 2006, www.fmep.org

Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle, Mazen Qumsiyeh, 2005

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, A Primer, by Phyllis Bennis, 2007  

Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit: Books, Vandana Shiva, 2002

When the Rains Return: Toward Peace and Reconciliation in Palestine and Israel, prepared by an International Quaker Working Party on Israel and Palestine, AFSC, 2004

When the Rivers Run Dry: Water—the Defining Crisis of the Twenty-First Century, Fred Pearce, 2006

The Wrath of Jonah: The Crisis of Religious Nationalism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Rosemary R. Ruether and Herman J. Ruether

"Zionists Proclaim the New State of Israel," published in the New York Times on May 15, 1948, www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0514.html

Compiled by Skip Schiel, with help from Nancy Murray and Anne Remley