visit www.creativityforpeace.com.

Organizations:

Active Stills, activestills.org/mainenglish.php

AIC, Alternative Information Center: www.alternativenews.org

American Friends Service Committee, www.afsc.org

Anarchists Against the Wall, www.awalls.org

Alternative Information Center, www.alternativenews.org/

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

Boston Coalition for Palestinian Rights, BCPR.net

Boston to Palestine, tours, advocacy, & information, www.bostontopalestine.org/

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

Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Jewish Alliance for Justice & Peace: www.btvshalom.org

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.catdestroyshomes.org

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

Coalition of Women for Peace, Israeli women's peace & justice initiative, coalitionofwomen.org/home/english

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

Committee for the Open Discussion of Zionism, www.codz.org

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, www.eappi.org

Families Forum-Bereaved Israeli & Palestinian Families, www.theparentscircle.com/Pages.asp?page_id=4

Friends International Center in Ramallah, hope and reconciliation where despair and violence too often reign , www.ramallahquakers.org

Friends of the Earth Middle East, working with and through the environment to foster peace & justice, www.foeme.org/about_us.php

Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, www.gcmhp.net
www.gazamentalhealth.org (this site accepts donations from US residents for the Programme)

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/HomePage.aspx?FolderID=11&lang=en

Grassroots International, reality tours, www.grassrootsonline.org

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

Haaretz, Left-Mainstream Israeli Daily Newspaper: http://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: http://www.ifamericansknew.org/

Interfaith Peace Builders, reality tours, www.ifpbdel.org/upcoming.html

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

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

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

Israel/Palestine Center for Research & Information, www.ipcri.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, www.newprofile.org

Palestine Monitor, news source, www.palestinemonitor.org/nueva_web/about_us/about_us.htm

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

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

Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, phr.org.il

Rabbis for Human Rights, justice for Palestinians and Israelis, www.rhr.israel.net

Ramallah Friends School, www.palfriends.org

Refuser Solidarity Network, www.refusersolidaitry.org

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

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

Settlement Watch, a project of Peace Now, www.peacenow.org.il/site/en/peace.asp?pi=51

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

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

Somerville Divestment Project, www.diverstmentproject.org

Stop the Wall, the grassroots Palestinina 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

UN OCHA, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, www.reliefweb.int/hic-opt

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

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

Women in Black, Israeli women in support of Palestinian rights, www.womeninblack.org

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

 

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

"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

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

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

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

“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, www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=12812&CategoryId=8

 

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

Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, by Bennis, Phyllis 

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, Ruether, Rosemary R. 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 Remle

 

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