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Al Ahram
Weekly English-language site of respected Egyptian daily Al Ahram.Ha'aretz
English website of Ha'aretz , the leading Israeli liberal daily - nearest equivalent to the ‘Guardian’Jerusalem Post
Site of English-language Israeli daily Jerusalem Post - definitely not Ha'aretz!Ynetnews
Ynetnews is the English-language website from Yedioth Group, and a sister site to Ynet , Israel’s leading news web site. (Yedioth Ahronoth is Israel’s most-read newspaper.)
See also Alternative information/resource centres
openDemocracy is the leading independent website on global current affairs - free to read, free to participate, free to the world...
offering stimulating, critical analysis, promoting dialogue and debate on issues of global importance and linking citizens from around the world.
openDemocracy is committed to human rights and democracy. We aim to ensure that marginalised views and voices are heard. We believe facilitating argument and understanding across geographical boundaries is vital to preventing injustice.
See open Democracy's Israel & Palestine – old roads, new maps
RESEARCH WEBSITES
Research Guide to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
A very packed, very useful website of links to articles and mapsUK ORGANISATIONS
British Friends of Peace Now
British Friends of Peace Now supports the right of the people of Israel to live in peace and security. We work in the UK to promote the goals of Shalom Ahshav - Peace Now, the grass roots Israeli peace movement, which campaigns for a comprehensive peace between Israel and its Arab neighbours and a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict based on mutual recognition self-determination and peaceful co-existence.British-Palestine Twinning Network
This network is not to replace or compete with other Palestinian solidarity movements. It is specifically to help groups to make twinning links with Palestinian communities where "twinning” includes both formal and informal links with specific organisations, and includes a focus on grassroots links. The network aims to promote the development of twinning links, helping groups to find partners and avoid duplication; and to encourage groups to help each other through the sharing of experience and information.British Shalom-Salaam Trust
The British Shalom-Salaam Trust (BSST) is a charitable trust based in the UK. It is a Jewish initiative created in response to the humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. It welcomes supporters of all faiths and none. The Trust aims to foster positive relations between Jews, Palestinians and other communities living within Israel’s 1967 borders, in the West Bank, Gaza and the Golan; and as refugees in other parts of the Middle East.The Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (Caabu)
Caabu believes that the need for mutual understanding and sympathy between the people of Britain and the people of the Arab world was never more vital than at the present time. Britain and the Arabs have a long tradition of mutual respect and friendship; they have much to admire in each other's way of life and the principles to which both peoples adhere. We have sympathy for the aspirations, achievements and rights of the Arab peoples, especially the Arabs of Palestine, for whose administration Britain was responsible until 1948, and whose case must not be permitted to go by default.Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace - UK
FFIPP, the Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace, is a network of faculty largely US-based, endeavoring to achieve just peace and end the occupation in Israel-Palestine and the region. It's executive committee consists of Israeli and Palestinian academics.There is also a FFIPP-UK group.Jewdas
Hard to define but easy to love for its willingness to smash the golden calves of 'the community'. All power etc. As they say in their general schnor: 'Help us fund events and speed the coming of the messiah.' Who could ask for more?
As a taster here is one of their proposed games for synagogue AGMS etc: "Just a minute - a game where each participant must talk for a minute on any subject (related to Israel) without mentioning the Palestinians. This game is likely to be an easy one for many of our readers."Jewish Left-wing Community Website
This is a website of Secular Jews. It is of Jewish Socialists, Anarchists, Social Democrats, Environmentalists, Animal Rights Activists and Peaceniks.
Our website works in general for four different goals:
1 To support and build support for the Peace movement in Israel
2 To campaign against the Neo-Con and Free-Market policies of the current Israeli government
3 To raise support for Left-Wing politics within the Diaspora Jewish Communities
4 To defend Jewish Communities from Anti-Semitism and to fight against all forms of fascismJewish Socialists' Group
The JSG is a political organisation campaigning for Jewish rights and the rights of all oppressed minorities in building a socialist future... We unite on issues we recognise as crucial for the future of the Jewish community. We share a commitment to building the kind of socialism that will encourage minorities to express and develop their historical and cultural identities and that will liberate ordinary people of all communities from poverty, racism, sexism, oppression, and war.Joint Action for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
JAIPP was established in London in 2001 as a forum for discussion between Palestinians and Jews, including Israelis and others who share their concerns. JAIPP organises public meetings, lobbies for lasting peace and justice for both peoples, and supports like-minded groups and coalitions in (and between) Israel and Palestine.JustPeace UK
We are a group of peace activists concerned and outraged by the Israeli policy which led to the recent events in the Palestinian occupied territories. We gathered out of an urgent need to do whatever we can to stop the bloodshed and the occupation.Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights
LPHR supports Palestinian people in their legal struggle to exercise their right of self-determination. It works, both in the UK and abroad, on legal issues focused on protecting and promoting Palestinian human rights, with a special focus on Palestinians living under Israeli occupation in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza Strip.
LPHR pursues its goals through litigation, advocacy, education and awareness raising, dissemination of information and lobbying. Where possible it takes its lead from, and co-ordinates its work with, lawyers and human-rights organisations in the region.Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine
Membership is open to anyone who is a Party member and who wants to support efforts for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
MAP was founded in 1982 in the aftermath of the massacres at Sabra and Shatila. It operates today in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Syria delivering basic health and medical care to Palestinian refugees. It also works to empower the Palestinian people and provide longer-term support through, for example, training local medical staff, teaching vocational skills and addressing the needs of particularly vulnerable groups such as disabled people.New Jewish Thought
A group of British Jews from across the communal spectrum, who have come together to:
* foster dialogue and respectful connection between Jews with different opinions, from different streams of Jewishness, from different backgrounds.
* highlight issues that are not extensively discussed within the Jewish community.Olive Cooperative
Olive, a Manchester-based co-operative, is offering a solidarity tour service to Israel and the West Bank. Olive Co-operative tours offer opportunities to people who want to visit a part of the world which presents challenges for most travellers and to meet Palestinians and Israelis working at the frontline for peace and justice, in their communities and with national and international organisations.Olive Co-operative was founded by four peace and justice activists in 2003 in Manchester, UK. Olive works only with individuals and organisations that promote principles of respect and non-violence by all and to all. Olive's members have forged good working relationships with Palestinian and Israeli peace groups by organising tours with the International Solidarity Movement and Jews for Justice for Palestinians. Olive's members speak seven languages including fluent Arabic and some Hebrew.
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Since 1982 PSC has become the largest and most active campaigning organisation in the UK on the issue of Palestine. We aim to build an effective mass campaign, organising protests, political lobbying and raising public awareness.Jewish Socialists' Group, Joint Action for Israeli-Palestinian Peace, and Just Peace UK are co-affiliates to the European Jews for a Just Peace along with JfJfP.
US ORGANISATIONS
For a more recent compilation (November 2005) see the (draft) ANNOTATED LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN GROUPS AND RESOURCES FOR PALESTINE. There is inevitably quite a lot of overlap with the organisations listed below.
American Task Force on Palestine
ATFP is a non-partisan, not-for-profit corporation that aims to articulate the national security interests of the United States in establishing a Palestinian state. Specifically, ATFP seeks to promote awareness of the far-reaching benefits that Palestinian statehood will have for the United States in the following areas:1.Enhancing national security, as well as regional peace and stability;
2.The proliferation of American values of freedom and democracy, through the creation of a democratic and constitutional state for the Palestinian people;
3.The expansion of economic opportunities throughout the Arab & Islamic worlds, in an atmosphere of peace and cooperation.Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace
FFIPP, the Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace, is a network of faculty endeavoring to achieve just peace and end the occupation in Israel/Palestine and the region.
The objectives of FFIPP are these:
* To build an effective faculty network that will influence U.S. policy in the region, and, indirectly, Israel’s policy, towards making those policies more conducive to reaching a just peace;
*To influence policy and opinion makers and others to implement policies to stop the violence;
* To cooperate with those who work for a just peace and assist Palestinian and Israeli faculty.The Israel-Palestine Forum
The Israel-Palestine Forum is a website that promotes dialogue among progressives about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Our vision is of a Middle East in which the two sides live in peace and security. We look forward to the day when there will be economic, cultural and political exchanges on a broad scale. While the two peoples have caused each other much grief, it is yet possible that they will enrich each other's lives.Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
A Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a San Francisco Bay Area grassroots organization dedicated to the human, civil and economic rights of Jews, Palestinians, and all peoples in the Middle East. Beyond our focus on the Middle East, JVP aims to build a community of activists working together on issues of social and economic justice.Jewish Women Watching
Jewish Women Watching aims to rouse the public to challenge and change the sexist and other discriminatory practices in the American Jewish community. We use biting satire and real-life facts to criticize our community's narrow-minded priorities. Jewish Women Watching remains anonymous to focus attention on the issues - not ourselves.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.Middle East Crisis Committee
Website of the Middle East Crisis Committee, New Haven CT USA. Contains useful articles including on Palestinian school textbooks.New Israel Fund
The NEW ISRAEL FUND is a philanthropic partnership of Israelis, North Americans and Europeans that works for equality and social justice for all of Israel's citizens. Since its founding in 1979, NIF has granted more than $120 million to more than 600 organizations in Israel dedicated to safeguarding civil and human rights, bridging social and economic gaps, and fostering tolerance and religious pluralism.
New Israel Fund London OfficeNot In My Name
Not In My Name is a Jewish peace group that was formed in November 2000 to work for a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians. ‘We believe that the first step toward attaining peace must be for Israel to end its occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.‘Search for Justice
SEARCH seeks to improve American media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict by disseminating information about the issue and by urging journalists to cover the conflict accurately and to support a just peace in their editorials.Semitism.net
'Pro-Jewish. Pro-Arab. Pro-Peace'
A US based website that provides a view from the Jewish left. It aims to call attention to a growing Jewish dissent from the hard-line conservative position of the pro-Israel lobby; bring together Jews who hold more progressive ideas, and facilitate community organizing at the grassroots level; and connect individuals with Jewish organizations that are already working for a peaceful settlement to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and build support for these organizations.US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, a coalition of groups and organizations - local, state, regional, and national - that have signed on to the Campaign Call to Action, thereby committing to work for its principles and purpose collaboratively and in good faith with other Campaign groups. The Campaign also welcomes individual members. Over two hundred groups were affiliated as at 11th July 2007.
Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine
Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine is a Boston-based alliance of Jews working to promote a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians based on mutual respect, justice, and equality. We envision a peace in which Jews and Palestinians share the land of Israel/Palestine and its resources, acknowledging and respecting each other's rights as equal citizens and neighbors, free from violence, and able to develop their own futures with full respect for human and civil rights.See also the listing of organisations affliated to the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation.
RELIGIOUS
Jews not Zionists
Traditional orthodox religious antizionists including Neturei KartaNetivot Shalom
Orthodox Zionist anti-occupationRHR
RHR is the only organisation in Israel today concerned specifically with giving voice to the Jewish tradition of human rights. RHR is also the only Israeli rabbinic organisation comprised of Reform, Orthodox, Conservative and Reconstructionist rabbis and students.Tikkun
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A radical US-based liberal religious website and magazine campaigning for peace, environmental and social justice issues, as well as for justice for Palestinians
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