Websites
- Jewish Voice for Peace is a grassroots, diverse and democratic community of activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights supporting the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination. JVP is dedicated to promoting full equality and democracy for all Israelis and Palestinians.
- American Muslims for Palestine educates the public about the just cause of Palestine and the rights of self-determination, liberty and justice. Through providing information, training and networking with like-minded individuals and organizations that support peace, AMP raises awareness of the issues pertaining to Palestine and its rich cultural heritage.
- Adalah (“Justice” in Arabic) The Legal Center of Arab Minority Rights in Israel is an independent human rights organization and legal center. Established in November 1996, it works to promote and defend the rights of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, 1.2 million people, or 20% of the population, as well as Palestinians living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).
- www.icahd.org The Israeli Committee against House Demolitions.
- http://unispal.un.org United Nations Information System on the Questions of Palestine.
- www.palestineremembered.com A good source of pictures of pre-1948 Palestine.
Lecturers to watch on YouTube and elsewhere
- Professor Noam Chomsky – Avram Noam Chomsky (/ˈnoʊm ˈtʃɒmski/); born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher,[6][7] cognitive scientist, logician,[8][9] historian, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years.[10] Chomsky has been described as the “father of modern linguistics”[11][12][13] and a major figure of analytic philosophy.[6] His work has influenced fields such as computer science, mathematics, and psychology.[14][15]
- Professor Ilan Pappe – is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is currently a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom
- Dr. Norman Finkelstein– Norman Gary Finkelstein (born December 8, 1953) is an American political scientist, activist and author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust, an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who are Jewish Holocaust survivors. He is a graduate of Binghamton University and received his Ph.D in Political Science from Princeton University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn College, Rutgers University, Hunter College, New York University, and, most recently, DePaul University, where he was an assistant professor from 2001 to 2007.
- Professor Avi Shlaim – is an Iraqi-born British/Israeli historian. He is a professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the British Academy
- Professor Saree Makdasi – Saree Makdisi (born 1964)[1] is an American literary critic of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, specializing in eighteenth and nineteenth century British literature. He also writes on contemporary Arab politics and culture. Makdisi currently holds the title of Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA.[2]
- Amira Hass – Amira Hass (Hebrew: עמירה הס; born 28 June 1956) is a prominent left-wing Israeli journalist and author, mostly known for her columns in the daily newspaper Ha’aretz. She is particularly recognized for her reporting on Palestinian affairs in the West Bank and Gaza, where she has also lived for a number of years. The daughter of two Holocaust survivors,[2] Hass is the only child of a Sarajevo-born Jewish mother, who survived nine months in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and a Romanian-born Jewish father.[3] Hass was born in Jerusalem, and was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she studied the history of Nazism and the European Left’s relation to the Holocaust.