The following resources will help you understand the current situation in Palestine
The Electronic Intifada
EI is an independent online news publication and educational resource focusing on Palestine, its people, politics, culture and place in the world. For more information, click HERE The Veritas Papers The Veritas Papers are a set of 15 pamphlets in full color! These aim to be a simple resource for all, and especially activists to distribute to the wider community. They are simple and concise, each requiring only one piece of letter-sized paper. While information is readily available, it is not usually presentable, and this is the primary aim of The Veritas Papers. For more information, click HERE Addameer (Arabic for conscience) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association is a Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution that works to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons. For more information, click HERE IMEU - Institute for Middle Eastern Understanding IMEU is an independent non-profit organization that provides journalists with quick access to information about Palestine and the Palestinians, as well as expert sources, both in the United States and in the Middle East. Both through its website and its staff, the IMEU works with journalists to increase the public's understanding about the socio-economic, political and cultural aspects of Palestine, Palestinians and Palestinian Americans. For more information click HERE Visualizing Palestine Visualizing Palestine is the intersection of communication, social sciences, technology, design and urban studies for social justice. Visualizing Palestine uses creative visuals to describe a factual rights-based narrative of Palestine/Israel. For more information click HERE Jadaliyya It provides a unique source of insight and critical analysis that combines local knowledge, scholarship, and advocacy with an eye to audiences in the United States, the Middle East and beyond. For more information, click HERE B'Tselem It is a human rights organization in Israel and has published scores of reports, some comprehensive in scope, covering most kinds of human rights violations that have occurred in the Occupied Territories. The reports have dealt, for example, with torture, fatal shootings by security forces, restriction on movement, expropriation of land and discrimination in planning and building in East Jerusalem, administrative detention, and settler violence. For more information, click HERE |
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