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Electronic IntifadaPalestinian portal for information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its depiction in the media. News, commentary, analysis and reference materials about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian persp...
Embassy RowEmbassy Row, published by Sources as part of the Parliamentary Names & Numbers directory, lists all embassies and high commissions to Canada, and all Canadian embassies, high commissions and consulates abro...
Independent Jewish VoicesWe represent Jews in Canada from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitment to social justice and universal human rights. We believe that individuals and groups within all co...
International Crisis GroupThe International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organization committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict. The International Crisis Group is now generally recognized as the world's...
Palestinian Centre for Human RightsThe Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is a non-government organization (NGO) based in Gaza City. The Centre is a non-profit company, dedicated to protecting human rights, promoting the rule of law and upholding ...
Michael RiordonCanadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
A primary goal of his work is to recover voices and s...
Seriously Free Speech CommitteeThe SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine in the face of growing intimidation, censorship and legal threats that try to silence those who criticize Israel. The SFSC opposes efforts by the CPCC...
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Activists tell Zim - Israeli ships not welcome in Vancouver2010-08-24
Locally-based activists, called out by the Boycott Israeli Apartheid Coalition (BIAC), are mounting a picket line at the Port of Vancouver's Delta Port facility at Roberts Bank, south of Vancouver, as...
Arrests underway in Toronto Israeli Consulate Sit-in2009-01-07
Jewish Women for Gaza
Police have moved in to arrest a group of Jewish Canadian women who are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. The women took their action in protest against th...
Author warns coalition of MPs (CPCCA) intent on criminalizing free speech on Israel/Palestine2010-09-11
Seriously Free Speech Committee
The author of a new book on antisemitism kicks off a Western Canada tour Sept. 17 to sound an alarm that a coalition of MPs (CPCCA) is intent on outlawing criticism of Israel as being antisemitic, pos...
Break the Silence Against the Siege of Gaza2008-11-19
Health Professionals Against the Siege of Gaza
Unstable medical supplies and lack of fuel have disrupted medical equipment such as incubators, dialysis equipment and heart monitors in Gaza. There is a shortage of many critical medications and esse...
B'Tselem demands a halt to baseless assault by Rights and Democracy chair2010-02-07
B'Tselem
B#Tselem has written to demand that Board members of the Canadian organization Rights and Democracy stop maligning B'Tselem's name.
Call from Gaza for Global Response to Killings on the Freedom Flotilla2010-05-31
Sources News Releases
We Gaza based Palestinian Civil Society Organizations and International activists call on the international community and civil society to pressure their governments and Israel to cease the abductions...
Canada Has Blood On Its Hands!2009-02-07
On February 9th, a day before the Israeli elections, concerned Canadians will demonstrate on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in a peaceful vigil to urge the Canadian government to challenge Israeli impunity...
Canadian Health Professionals Call for Ceasefire and Ending the Siege of Gaza2009-02-09
Canadian health professionals unequivocally protest against the Israeli siege and invasion of Gaza and against the Canadian Governmentâ##s support of Israel in its complicity in this massacre.
Canadian Health Professionals Support Flotilla 2 and its Mission to Break the Siege of Gaza2011-07-02
Canadian health professionals join with people from across Canada in support of Flotilla II, the fleet of boats carrying over one thousand courageous people aiming to break the Israeli blockade of Gaz...
Canadian Jewish Group Calls for Independent Inquiry on Flotilla Tragedy2010-06-08
Independent Jewish Voices
Independent Jewish Voices - Canada calls for independent inquiry on the Gaza flotilla tragedy.
Committee to Protect Journalists urges Israel to examine Gaza limits, military strikes2009-04-06
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Committee to Protect Journalists urges Israel to examine Gaza limits, military strikes.
Communication severed with flotilla media2010-06-01
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders urges the Israeli authorities to release a list of the journalists who were arrested during yesterday#s raid on the humanitarian flotilla and to say where they are being held...
Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian Media2009-11-13
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has concluded the launch of its programme to support ethical journalism in Palestine with a series of proposals to strengthen independent media even i...
51 Filmmakers Protest Hot Docs Collaboration with Israel2011-04-28
51 Canadian filmmakers issue a statement of protest to Hot Docs documentary film festival stating that they are deeply disappointed to learn that Hot Docs has decided to partner with the Israeli organ...
Five years of illegality: Time to dismantle the Wall and respect the rights of Palestinians2009-07-09
Oxfam International
In a report, Five years of illegality, Oxfam International presents testimonies of fifteen Palestinian men and women who recount their daily problems, arising from the construction of the Wall and its...
Freedom Flotilla II – Stay Human2011-06-23
Canadian Boat to Gaza
People from across Canada are rallying in support of the Canadian boat to Gaza which is part of the international convoy Freedom Flotilla II.
Gaza#s civilians, still unable to rebuild one year after Operation Cast Lead, 'betrayed' by international community2009-12-22
Oxfam
The international community has betrayed the people of Gaza by failing to back their words with effective action to secure the ending of the Israeli blockade which is preventing reconstruction and rec...
Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status2009-05-02
Freedom House
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, acco...
Government retaliates against BBC, accuses it of demonizing Israel2003-07-03
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders today condemned the Israeli government for announcing on 1 July that is cutting all links with the BBC. Describing the accusations against the BBC as "disgraceful and patheti...
Haaretz reporter reaches plea bargain with Tel Aviv district attorney2012-07-06
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders has deep reservations about yesterday’s announcement that a deal has been struck between the Tel Aviv district attorney and Haaretz reporter Uri Blau.
Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes -- Independent Jewish Voices2010-06-03
Independent Jewish Voices
Harper government should stop excusing Israeli crimes.
IFJ and the National Federation of Israeli Journalists2009-07-07
International Federation of Journalists
Following a number of press inquiries related to the IFJâ##s decision to expel the National Federation of Israeli Journalist at the last meeting of its Executive Committee (June 6/7, the IFJ is makin...
IFJ Backs PJS Demand for Respect of Palestinian Journalists' Dignity after Security Check Incident in Jerusalem2012-07-20
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Israeli authorities to respect the right to dignity of Palestinian journalists who work in the country.
IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in Israel2010-01-15
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsi...
IFJ Condemns Gaza Attack and Demands International Inquiry after Reports of Media Casualties2010-05-31
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists today reacted with shock at the news of the brutal attacks on civilians, including journalists, by Israeli forces in the assault on a flotilla that yesterda...
IFJ Condemns Violence against Photojournalists by Israeli Military in West Bank2010-07-23
International Federation oj Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Israeli authorities to investigate violence by its soldiers in the West Bank who attacked a group of local photojournalists last week ...
IFJ Defending Journalists in Palestine and Israel2009-02-13
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reaffirmed its commitment to defend the interests of journalists in Palestine and Israel.
IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle East2009-05-02
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Launching its â##Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of ...
IJV Demands That Canada's Mainstream Jewish Groups Condemn Spate of Racist, Anti-Democratic Laws Passed By Israeli Parliament2011-04-11
Independent Jewish Voices
IJV says that if Canada's mainstream Jewish organizations really believe in democracy, they will condemn the laws passed recently by the Israeli parliament.
IJV endorses United Church Working Group call to boycott settlement products 2012-06-09
Independent Jewish Voices
The United Church of Canada's Working Group on Israel/Palestine Policy's report has been attacked by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs. IJV is supporting the right of the Church to make its own...
Independent fact-finding mission of medical experts publishes special report on the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip2009-04-06
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Palestinian Medical Relief Socie
Independent fact-finding mission of medical experts commissioned by Physicians for Human Rights-Israel and the Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) published today its special report on the Israe...
Independent Jewish Voices letter refutes Ambassador's claim Israel supports Christian Palestinians2012-03-21
Independent Jewish Voices
Jewish organization counters Israeli ambassador's Islamophobia. IJV states Israeli occupation, not Muslims, is cause of Christian Palestinian problems.
Independent Jewish Voices Toronto protests Jewish National Fund’s role in Bedouin home demolitions2011-11-18
Independent Jewish Voices
The Toronto chapter of Independent Jewish Voices is calling for an end to the Jewish National Fund’s role in evicting Bedouin citizens of Israel from their homes in order to expand Jewish settlement.
Israel: Misuse of Drones Killed Civilians in Gaza2009-06-30
Human Rights Watch
Israeli attacks with guided missiles fired from aerial drones killed civilians during the recent Gaza fighting in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch says.
Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach 2009-06-17
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in Decem...
Israeli army raids on Bil'in village 2009-07-09
Tadamon
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
Israeli authorities close Palestinian media centre in East Jerusalem2009-05-12
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday morning's decision by the Israeli internal security ministry to shut down the Palestinian media centre that had been set up in the East Jerusalem.
Israeli government openly threatens journalists planning to sail with Gaza flotilla2011-06-27
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Israeli government’s attempts to intimidate journalists who plan to travel with a flotilla of ships that will set sail in the next few days in an attempt to brea...
Israeli Human Rights groups: Clear and present danger to the lives and well-being of tens of thousands of civilians2009-01-14
Since the beginning of the Gaza campaign a heavy suspicion has arisen of grave violations of international humanitarian law by military forces. This kind of fighting is a blatant violation of the laws...
Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally2010-04-06
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military informa...
Israeli settler destruction of 1000s of trees hits Palestinian olive harvest2011-10-20
Oxfam
Israeli settlers’ destruction of Palestinian olive trees will reduce this year’s harvest by an estimated USD $500,000 as 7,500 olive trees were destroyed in acts of settler violence, Palestinian and i...
Israeli soldiers disguised as photojournalists endanger journalists' lives, says MADA2009-10-16
Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA)
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses concern over the Israeli occupation forces disguising themselves as photojournalists in the middle of Palestinian protesters.
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of Israel2009-03-10
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tr...
Jewish-Canadians Decry Canada's Open Door to Israeli PM Netanyahu2010-05-31
Independent Jewish Voices
Independent Jewish Voices finds it abhorrent that the Canadian Government is extending a warm welcome to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to Canada on May 30/31. An honest and responsible government w...
Jewish Group Condemns 'Feeding Frenzy' Surrounding Libby Davies2010-06-16
Independent Jewish Voices
Independent Jewish Voices - Canada condemns what it calls a 'feeding frenzy' around NDP Member of Parliament Libby Davies. The story is no longer what Libby Davis said but the mania surrounding it.
Jewish group condemns Israeli attack on Gaza Freedom Flotilla2010-05-31
Independent Jewish Voices
Independent Jewish Voices Canada (IJV) has expressed shock and outrage in response to the deaths and injuries of participants in the Gaza Freedom Flotilla at the hands of the Israeli navy.
Jewish group rejects B'nai Brith censorship of Manitoba high school exam2010-06-13
Independent Jewish Voices
Independent Jewish Voices (Canada) condemns Manitoba Education Minister Nancy Allan for caving in to a demand to censor a question on the province's Grade 12 final Language Arts examination. IJV-C als...
Jewish group slams Israel for cutting off mail to Gaza2010-08-12
Independent Jewish Voices
Jewish group criticizes Israeli cut-off of mail to Gaza
Jewish group to Layton: Investigate Israel/Palestine with Neutral Hosts2010-06-24
Independent Jewish Voices
The NDP should reject the invitation of the Canada-Israel Committee to host or facilitate a trip by Jack Layton and caucus members to Israel, says Independent Jewish Voices # Canada. They should be g...
Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto2009-01-07
A group of Jewish-Canadian women occupied the Israeli Consulate in Toronto in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.
See a video at http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=ln0zFRg0...
Jewish Women Occupy Israeli Consulate in Toronto2009-01-07
Jewish Women for Gaza
A diverse group of Jewish Canadian women are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. This action is in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people...
Journalists Call Israel to Account over "Premeditated and Precise" attacks on Media in Gaza2009-03-06
International Federation of Journalists
The targeting of media by the Israeli military during last month's offensive in the Gaza Strip was "premeditated and precise" and in violation of international law, says the International Federation o...
Lack of transparency on Israel's expulsion of US journalist2010-01-20
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns suspicious circumstances surrounding Israel#s expulsion of US journalist, Jared Malsin, editor for the English service of the Palestinian press agency Ma#an.
Letter regarding Israel's attack on Gaza and international law2009-01-19
Israel's attack on Gaza constitutes a war crime in that it is disproportionate to the threat posed and violates international humanitarian law on at least grounds: Collective punishment, Targeting Civ...
Letter to Palestinian and Lebanese filmmakers from Israeli filmmakers2006-07-22
Connexions Information Sharing Services
We unequivocally oppose the brutality and cruelty of Israeli policy.
Massacre In Gaza Black Saturday2008-12-27
UHWC asks you, to issue a strong Last Appeal Statement condemning Israelâ##s human rights violations against the Palestinian people and to demand a cessation of this military offensive.
Media involved in several incidents since start of Israeli offensive against Gaza Strip2008-12-30
Reporters Without Borders is concerned about several incidents affecting the news media since Israel began its air strikes on the Gaza Strip on 27 December, including the bombing of the headquarters o...
Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives2009-10-22
Reporters without Borders
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86...
Miko Peled to speak in Vancouver on ending the crisis in Israel-Palestine2013-01-29
Independent Jewish Voices
Peled provides a clear, optimistic perspective on the crisis and how to end it.
Montrealers lay siege to Israeli Consulate: Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada2009-01-08
Second consecutive day of Israeli Consulate blockades in Canada. Early Thursday, January 8th Montrealers blockaded the Israeli Consulate in Montreal in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on...
Newspaper reporter arrested as she returns to Israel from Gaza Strip2009-05-14
Reporters Without Borders/ Reporters Sans frontiA#res
Reporters Without Borders condemns Israeli newspaper reporter Amira Hassâ##s arrest at the Erez border crossing yesterday as she returned to Israel after spending four months in the Gaza Strip reporti...
Nobel Prize Nominee and Israeli Peace Activist visits Canada on 'Gaza' tour2009-01-12
Jeff Halper, an Israeli human rights activist, anthropology professor, coordinator of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and 2006 Nobel Peace Prize nominee is on a cross-Canada sp...
An Open Letter From Anti-Zionist Jewish Youth in Canada2009-01-05
Let us not be silent bystanders while humanity suffers. Let us raise our voices, as Jewish youth, and demand a single, democratic state, with equal rights for everyone in Israel/Palestine.
Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objective2009-02-17
Reporters without Borders
Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
Opponents of Israeli occupation greet truckers at port of Vancouver2010-08-24
Port truck traffic slowed to a crawl along the Deltaport causeway as a group of about 50 protesters approached drivers with leaflets containing information about the illegal Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Palestinian Freedom Riders to Board Settler Buses to Jerusalem2011-11-15
Palestinian activists will attempt to peacefully board segregated Israeli public transportation in the occupied West Bank to travel to East Jerusalem in action reminiscent of the Civil Rights Movement...
Public Health students examine the disease of Occupation, joined by founder of Physicians for Human Rights - Israel2011-03-17
Public Health Social Justice Collective
Graduate students from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health are calling for discussion on the ongoing occupation of Palestinian territories. The Public Health Social Justice Collective challenges me...
Rachel Corrie's Death is Not Merely "Regrettable Accident"2012-08-28
Independent Jewish Voices
IJV condemns Israeli court decision absolving army of responsibility in death of Rachel Corrie.
Release of Al Jazeera journalists held by Israelis2009-07-07
Reporters without Borders
The two Al Jazeera journalists who were arrested on 30 June have been released from Ramleh prison, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Richard Falk, UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestinian Territories Speaking in Toronto2009-09-20
NECEF
Richard Falk, the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, will be speaking in Toronto next Sunday September 27th at 2pm. at 155 College St. Room 610.
A Seasonal Greeting to the World: End the Siege of Gaza2008-12-23
A Seasonal Greeting to the World: End the Siege of Gaza. This Friday at our weekly vigil, we will mark the season with a Christmas tree decorated with barbed wire to depict the prison-like conditions ...
Sources welcomes Independent Jewish Voices2010-05-31
Independent Jewish Voices
Sources welcomes a new member: Independent Jewish Voices. ndependent Jewish Voices represents Jews in Canada from diverse backgrounds, occupations and affiliations who have in common a strong commitme...
Sources welcomes Michael Riordon2010-04-14
Michael Riordon
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio a...
Sources welcomes the Seriously Free Speech Committee2010-10-17
Seriously Free Speech Committee
Sources welcomes a new member: the Seriously Free Speech Committee. The SFSC is committed to free expression of views on Israel/Palestine.
The blockade of Gaza reaches the shores of Greece!2011-07-01
Canadian Boat to Gaza
As it attempts to sail, the Canadian Boat to Gaza, the Tahrir, blockaded in Greece. Greek coast guard are now on board the Tahrir attempting to arrest Sandra Ruch, Jewish Canadian member of the Canada...
The story Israel doesn't want you to know: Israeli Resistance to Israeli Apartheid2009-02-17
Anarchists Against the Wall
Shachaf Polakow, a member of the Israeli group, Anarchists Against the Wall will be speaking about the work of the group who act jointly with the popular Palestinian struggles against the Wall in the ...
Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser2009-06-03
Toronto Artists Protest Koffler Fundraiser: Silence Tastes Badâ## Put Free Speech on the Menu.
Artists and supporters speak out for freedom of association at the launch of the Koffler Gallery fundrai...
Toronto District School Board “twinning” with injustice, says Jewish group 2011-05-16
Independent Jewish Voices
Jewish solidarity group asks Toronto School Board to reconsider its links to joint project with the Jewish National Fund.
2009 Journalist Conference in Israel: No News2009-12-02
Hagadah Hasmalit - Alternative Information Center
The support provided by Israel#s primary media to the security and political moves of the government#any government#is not new in Israel. The perception that media is committed to the ethics of the #p...
United Nations Joint Statement2010-05-31
Joint Statement of Robert Serry, UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Filippo Grandi, Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency.
Urgent Statement by Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews Worldwide2008-12-09
NetureiI Karta of The Orthodox Jewry of Palestine
It is time for leaders with a sense of morality and courage to stand up and finally declare ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!
We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers 2009-07-01
FreeGaza
On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed ...
Winners of Courage in Journalism Awards Announced2009-10-23
International Womenâ##s Media Foundation
Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Womenâ##s Media Foundation. Amira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achie...
Sources Select Resources
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian PeopleMandela, Nelson
Article
1997
It behoves all South Africans, themselves erstwhile beneficiaries of generous international support, to stand up and be counted among those contributing actively to the cause of freedom and justice. A...
Amid Censorship, Israel's Media Does Its PartDitz, Jason
Article
2010
AntiWar.com
Israel's media has once again chosen the low road, the one carefully couched in patriotism and praise for the right-far-right coalition government.
The Bible UnearthedArticle in Wikipedia on the book The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
Article
A 2001 book about the archaeology of Palestine and its relationship to the origins of the Hebrew Bible.
Brit Shalom (political organization)Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Brit Shalom was a group of Jewish 'universalist' intellectuals in Palestine, founded in 1925, which never exceeded a membership of 100.
Covering Israel-Palestine: The BBC's Double StandardsAn Exchange With The BBC#s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen
Article
2008
Medialens
The priorities of the news media mean that the more Palestinians are killed, the less importance their deaths have to news organisations. Conversely, the fewer Israelis killed the more seriousness the...
Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian MediaSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has concluded the launch of its programme to support ethical journalism in Palestine with a series of proposals to strengthen independent media even i...
Eyes With LegsDinh, Linh
Article
2010
CounterPunch
In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace ...
The Flotilla In The Israeli PressCohen, Ran Ha
Article
2010
Countercurrents
An analysis of Israeli media propaganda in the wake of Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
The Future of Israel and Palestine - InterviewClark, Harry; Shahak, Israel
Article
1999
Against the Current
The first part of this interview with the Israeli human rights campaigner Professor Israel Shahak appeared in our previous issue ("The `Peace Process' and the CIA," ATC 78).
Gaza: Health System in CollapseGarfinkle, Miriam; Deutsch, Judith; Abdul-Qadir, Reem; Santa Barbara, Joanna
Article
2008
The extremity of suffering in Gaza is little known in the West. Underlying the health emergency is the Israeli military#s destruction of Gaza#s basic infrastructure and Israel#s closure of all Gaza#s ...
Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free StatusSources News Release
Article
2009
Freedom House
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, acco...
The Goldstone report and the battle for legitimacyFalk, Richard
Article
2009
Electronic Intifada
It may yet be the case that, as in the anti-apartheid struggle, the shift in the relation of forces in the Palestinians' favour will occur not through diplomacy or as a result of armed resistance, but...
Haaretz reporter Uri Blau facing up to seven years in prisonArticle
2011
Reporters without Borders
Journalist faces heavy jail sentence for using classified military papers to document human rights abuses and murders by the Israeli military.
Hasbara Handbook: Promoting Israel on CampusArticle
2002
World Union of Jewish Students
A handbook on how to do pro-Israel advocacy.
Hypocrisy ReignsDon't Forsake the Struggle
Blum, William
Article
2010
CounterPunch
When Israel labels as "terrorists" the ship passengers who offered some resistance to the Israeli invaders, who points out that the passengers who resisted the 9-11 highjackers on the plane which cras...
IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in IsraelSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsi...
IFJ Condemns Violence against Photojournalists by Israeli Military in West BankSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation oj Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Israeli authorities to investigate violence by its soldiers in the West Bank who attacked a group of local photojournalists last week ...
IFJ Defending Journalists in Palestine and IsraelSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has reaffirmed its commitment to defend the interests of journalists in Palestine and Israel.
IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle EastSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
Launching its â##Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of ...
Israel Seeks Ways To Silence Human Rights GroupsCook, Jonathan
Article
2009
Countercurrents
In a bid to staunch the flow of damaging evidence of war crimes committed during Israel#s winter assault on Gaza, the Israeli government has launched a campaign to clamp down on human rights groups, b...
Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach Sources News Release
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in Decem...
Israel Targets Ha'aretz"A Shin Bet State"
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2010
CounterPunch
Israel uses police state tactics to crush journalists who expose crimes committed by the military.
Israel threatens Palestinians with 'holocaust'Sources News Release February 29, 2008
Article
2008
One day after Israeli occupation forces killed 31 Palestinians, nine of them children, including a six-month-old baby, in a series of bomb attacks across the Gaza Strip, Israel's deputy defense minist...
Israeli authorities close Palestinian media centre in East JerusalemSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday morning's decision by the Israeli internal security ministry to shut down the Palestinian media centre that had been set up in the East Jerusalem.
Israeli Deaths Matter MoreArticle
2008
Medialens
The reality is that by devoting disproportionate coverage to Israeli deaths over Palestinian deaths, the BBC#s claims to #impartial# reporting are simply demolished. With great consistency, lives in t...
Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since DecemberArticle
2010
Guardian
An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court o...
Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationallySources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military informa...
Israeli Property Theft is Nothing NewIs the Custodian of Absentee Property Awaiting the Absentees?
Larudee, Paul
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Israeli soldiers disguised as photojournalists endanger journalists' lives, says MADASources News Release
Article
2009
Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA)
The Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) expresses concern over the Israeli occupation forces disguising themselves as photojournalists in the middle of Palestinian protesters.
Israel's new 'attack on freedom of speech'Cook, Jonathan
Article
2010
The National
The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a 'McCarthyite' campaign against human-rights groups.
Israel's starvation diet for GazaCook, Jonathan
Article
2012
Electronic Intifada
Israel’s calculating of daily caloric needs shows how it manages the lives of Palestinians in Gaza in almost microscopic detail.
Jewish Canadians Concerned About Suppression of Criticism of IsraelArticle
2009
We are Jewish Canadians concerned about all expressions of racism, anti-Semitism, and social injustice. We believe that the Holocaust legacy "Never again" means never again for all peoples. It is a tr...
Journalists assaulted and censoredArticle
2010
International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)
Palestinian journalists are under attack from Israeli forces and are also subjected to raids and arrests as a result of political rivalry between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, report the Palest...
Journalists Call Israel to Account over "Premeditated and Precise" attacks on Media in GazaSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The targeting of media by the Israeli military during last month's offensive in the Gaza Strip was "premeditated and precise" and in violation of international law, says the International Federation o...
Justice in the News: A Response to the targetting of media in GazaArticle
2009
International Federation of Journalists and Federation of Arab Journalists
A mission to Gaza found that media were subject to intimidation and direct military assault and deliberately prevented from working freely. The findings confirm evidence of frequent targeting of media...
Justice, Peace and the Israeli StateRule by Ruthless Force
Cook, William
Article
2012
CounterPunch
International Law and the creation of a world body to aid in the direction of nation states to live in peace and justice under defined conditions such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and ...
The Last RefugeNeve Gordon and the Boycott of Israel
Levy, Gideon
Article
2009
CounterPunch
Let us admit the truth: The occupier deserves to be boycotted. As long as the Israelis pay no price for the occupation, the occupation will not end, and therefore the only way open to the opponents of...
Life in StillsTal, Tamar
Film/Video
2011
The Heymann Brothers Films
A photo shop owner and her grandson join forces to save the shop and the nearly one million negatives that document Israel's defining moments.
The media consensus on Israel is collapsingSmith, Jordan Michael
Article
2011
Salon
Across the political spectrum, once-taboo criticism is now common.
Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-divesSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86...
Newspaper reporter arrested as she returns to Israel from Gaza StripSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters Without Borders/ Reporters Sans frontiA#res
Reporters Without Borders condemns Israeli newspaper reporter Amira Hassâ##s arrest at the Erez border crossing yesterday as she returned to Israel after spending four months in the Gaza Strip reporti...
Norwegian Pension Fund Divests from Israeli Military Giant ElbitArticle
2009
Alternative Information Center
The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has excluded the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. from the Government Pension Fund # Global, on the basis of the Council on Ethics# recommendation. The Council on E...
One-state solutionSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Operation Cast Lead: News control as a military objectiveArticle
2009
Reporters without Borders
Control of news in time of war has become a military objective.
Palestine Freedom Battle "will be won": Interview with Author Miko PeledSilver, Charlotte
Article
2012
Electronic Intifada
An interview with Miko Peled, the Israeli author of The General’s Son.
Propaganda, State Religion and the Attack on the Gaza Peace Flotilla - Part 1Article
2010
Medialens
We are trained to react to violent acts, not on the basis of their objective legality and human cost, but on the basis of the perceived legitimacy of the people committing the act. Violence committed ...
Rights on Condition: Association for Civil Rights in Israel State of Human Rights Report 2009Article
2009
Alternative Information Center
In Israel, the entire spectrum of rights is dependent on what we say or believe, what ethnic group we belong to, how much money we have, and more.
The sad, sad world of Israel?s big-time liarsLittlewood, Stuart
Article
2011
Redress
Stuart Littlewood views Israel’s propaganda minister, the self-confessed racist and squatter Yuli Edelstein, and takes a close look at the manual to which Edelstein and other Zionist propagandists wor...
The Semantics of TerrorismAl-Jurf, Soha
Article
2010
CounterPunch
A mental construct has been created in which the State of Israel is an entity that is under constant attack. By terrorists. Who, irrefutably, must be eradicated. Their actions are somewhat irrelevant....
A serious newspaper should not confuse Jews and ZionistsRabkin,Yakov M.
Article
2010
On the eve of the 62th anniversary of Israel, it is important to remember that it was the Zionist minority of Palestine's inhabitants that issued the unilateral declaration of independence. Israel is ...
Shooting BackYoung Palestinians With Cameras
Duncan, Don
Article
2010
CounterPunch
For the past three years, Btselem, the Israeli human rights NGO, has provided cameras and training to young Palestinians as part of its camera distribution project, to collect video evidence of abuses...
Stuxnet on the LooseSecurity for the One Percent
Blunden, Bill
Article
2012
CounterPunch
Suspicions that the Stuxnet computer worm was indeed developed by the United States and Israel has once again exposed American exceptionalism. Espionage and sabotage are presented as intolerable crimi...
Terror in a Christmas Tree Israel Tries to Ban Non-Jewish Celebrations
Cook, Jonathan
Article
2012
CounterPunch
Who would imagine that Israeli Jews could be so intimidated by the innocuous Christmas tree?
The Truth Behind The Israeli PropagandaFisk, Robert
Article
2010
The amazing thing in all this is that so many Western journalists # and I'm including the BBC's pusillanimous coverage of the Gaza aid ships # are writing like Israeli journalists, while many Israeli ...
Twitterers Paid To Spread Israeli PropagandaCook, Jonathan
Article
2009
CounterCurrents.org
Israel#s foreign ministry is reported to be establishing a special undercover team of paid workers whose job it will be to surf the internet 24 hours a day spreading positive news about Israel. Intern...
Two-state solutionSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Winners of Courage in Journalism Awards AnnouncedSources News Release
Article
2009
International Womenâ##s Media Foundation
Iryna Khalip of Belarus, Agnes Taile of Cameroon and Jila Baniyaghoob of Iran win Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Womenâ##s Media Foundation. Amira Hass of Israel is Lifetime Achie...
Sources Bookshelf
Necessary IllusionsThought Control in Democratic Societies
Chomsky, Noam
Book
1989
An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ide...
Our Way to FightPeace-work under siege in Israel-Palestine
Riordon, Michael
Book
2011
Documents the lives and work of grassroots peace activists, Israelis and Palestinians fighting for justice and human rights on both sides of the wall. The book also explore events that stirred people ...
An Unauthorized Biography of the WorldOral History on the Front Lines
Riordon, Michael
Book
2004
This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New ...
The Israeli NetworkFeatures a wide variety of programming including news, current affairs, dramas, sports and more from Channel One, Channel Two, Hop TV and various sports channels. It also presents leading educational ...
New InternationalistNew Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
Spartacist CanadaPublication of the Trotskyist League, Canadian section of the International Communist League.
La Voix SépharadeCurrent events, community news, arts and lecture events, news and features about Israel.
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