Palestine Links Date this page last updated: 10/04/2004 Table of Contents
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United Nations / UN Resolutions (coming soon...)
* Other CCMEP Links Pages:
Colorado
Colorado Communities for Justice and Peace (formerly: Colo. Coalition Against the War on Iraq)
Mountain Forum For Peace Nederland
Pikes Peak Justice and Peace Commission Colorado Springs
Pueblo Action for Justice and Peace, e-mail: amanirb@webcoast2coast.net
Roaring Fork Peace Coalition Aspen/Carbondale
Strength through Peace Fort Collins
United States
A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) Commission of Inquiry on U.S.-backed Israeli War Crimes in Palestine
Christian Peacemaker Team Full time presence in Al-Haleel (Hebron).
Direct Action for Justice in Palestine - New York We join Palestinians in non-violent civil disobedience against the Israeli occupying forces.
End The Occupation New US Campaign of NGOs and grassroots activists
Foundation for Middle East-Peace - dedicated to informing Americans about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Hello, Peace! Project, is a free phone service that lets Israelis and Palestinians start talking again
International Action Center IAC's Palestine section
Jews Against the Occupation - Jews Against the Occupation is an organization of progressive, secular and religious Jews of all ages throughout the New York City area advocating peace through justice for Palestine and Israel.
Not in My Name A Jewish peace group that works for a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
Palestine Media Watch Excellent site that will route your letters and op-eds to the right place.
International
Al-Awda The Palestine Right to Return Coalition.
B'Tselem A leading Israeli human rights group.
Centre for Rapprochement Between Palestinian Peoples - Beit Sahour Key organizer for the Int'l Solidarity Movement
Free Marwan Barghouti International Campaign to Free Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti
Gush Shalom Another Israeli human rights group.
Indict Sharon International
Campaign for Justice for the Victims of Sabra and Shatila
International Solidarity Movement Key group that brings internationals to Palestine
International Women's Peace Service - Palestine International Solidarity House in Palestine
Intifada Online See their Activism page.
Jewish Unity for a Just Peace Jewish activists who support an end to Israel's Occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
Law Society Updated day to day coverage of events, with detailed descriptions of incidents and the specific names and ages of the martyrs.
Media Monitors Network Critique of the mainstream media, from Palestine to Chechnya.
MIFTAH Dr. Hanan Ashrawi's organization focused on solid research and information. Top-notch site.
Palestinian Center for Human Rights based in Gaza.
Shalom Center A network of American Jews who draw on Jewish tradition and spirituality to seek peace, pursue justice, heal the earth, and build community.
HISTORY / BACKGROUND:
Palestinians in Gaza after Israel bombs Neighborhood, July 2002
Alaqsa
Intifada Up-to-date resource on the current Palestinian Intifada.
Al-Bushra An Arab Catholic website.
Al-Nakba Detailing the beginning of the Palestinian Diaspora
Applied Research Institute Jerusalem Excellent Maps and Analysis
Foundation for Middle East Peace Excellent source on Israeli colonization of the West Bank and Gaza
The Jenin Inquiry Report--Authoritative Report on the 2002 Israeli Invasion of the Jenin Refugee Camp, by International Human Rights Activists
Middle East Facts Excellent all-around source for history and analsyis.
National Lawyer's Guild Middle East Report, January 2001, "The Al Aqsa Intifida and Israel's Apartheid: The U.S. Military and Economic Role in the Violation of Palestinian Human Rights" From main page scroll down and click on "Report on the Middle East Delegation to Palestine."
The Other Israel Newsletter of the America-Israel Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Palestine Remembered Great site for beginners to learn about Palestine, Zionism and more.
FILM & VIDEO DOCUMENTARIES:
*For several of the following links you must have windows media player or real player to view and listen.
WATCH NOW: "not going there, don't belong here" 2002, 40 minutes by Helga Tawil. CU-Boulder student visits Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, where she was born.
WATCH NOW: Excellent short and long documentaries courtesy of Free Speech TV:
A Conversation with Palestinian Leaders Dr. Abdel Shaafi (Elder statesman and chair of the Red Crescent Society in Gaza), and, Dr. Raji Sourani (Director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights). January, 2002, 70 minutes. CCMEP footage, taped by Nadya Waziri.
The Jenin Massacre. Firsthand Report of the Israeli Assault on Jenin
Gaza
Strip, 2002, 74 minutes by James Longley. "By recording the lives
of children, seniors, widows, orphans, and humanitarian workers, GAZA STRIP
aspires to the most basic aim of a documentary film: to fix reality in an
unblinking, thought-provoking way."
WATCH NOW:
Click here if you want to watch a 15-minute interview with the director
with clips from his documentary.
Jerusalem: Occupation Set in Stone 1995, 55 minutes. Opening scene is worth the price of the film. Preview and buy film here.
Promises Powerful 2001 documentary about seven Palestinian and Israeli children. Preview and buy film here.
WATCH Free Speech TV for excellent coverage of the Middle East.
GRAPHIC ARTISTS:
Resistance Art 2004 Wall Calendar Supports independent Palestinian artists
Khalil Bendib - Great Political Cartoons
MEDIA Local / National - International
Alternative Radio David Barsamian's media project archiving many important dissident voices.
Colorado Daily Boulder
KGNU Community Sponsored local radio station that carries alternative news (i.e. Democracy Now)
National - International Media
Al-Ahram: In Egypt, one of the leading English-language newspapers in the Arab world.
Al-Jazeera English site of popular Arab media source
Common Dreams An excellent clearinghouse for alternative perspectives - updated daily
Counterpunch Alexander Cockburn & Jeffrey St. Clair's simple top-notch site.
Democracy Now Amy Goodman's daily investigative radio show
Electronic Intifada A resource for countering myth, distortion, and spin from the Israeli media war machine
The Experiment Alternative digest of news.
FAIR: Media watch-dog group.
KPFA Flashpoints Radio Show Excellent archive.
Free Speech Radio Alternative to Pacifica Radio
Free Speech TV -- excellent source of news, great short video investigations, interviews
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"If our job is to seize a densely packed refugee camp or take over the Nablus casbah, and if this job is given to an (Israeli) officer to carry out without casualties on both sides, he must before all else analyse and bring together the lessons of past battles, even – shocking though this might appear – to analyse how the German army operated in the Warsaw ghetto." - Israeli Officer quoted in The lies leaders tell when they want to go to war - Robert Fisk, The Independent, 3/30/02 |
The Independent (London): Home of articles by Robert Fisk.
International Middle East Media Center -- Independent News Service based in Palestine
Israel IMC Indy Media Center in Israel.
Palestine Chronicle Excellent English-language online news source focused exclusively on Palestine.
Z Magazine Middle East Page: Z magazine.
Music of Resistance: Peace Not War CD * Links to More than 20 Songs
PALESTINE GOVERNMENT:
Palestinian National Authority
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT:
U.S. GOVERNMENT:
U.S. State Department, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs