GAZA, ISRAEL and PALESTINE
Links: to BDS resources, plus articles, opinion and analysis
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Things you can do to help Gaza: Sign the IAC petition a million voices for justice
Sign Avaaz.org petition (547,000 signatures.)
Contact President Barack Obama DONATION FORM FOR EMERGENCY UN RELIEF
E-mail the U.S. State Department
E-mail members of the United Nations (some addresses in the shared list might be old.)
Visit website Boycott Israel Now - lists products and brand names
BDS: Boycott Israel resource page.
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YouTubes on Gaza, pages one; two
History: The 1994 Hebron massacre by Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein
and others, killing or injuring almost 200 Muslims at early morning prayer at Ibrahimi
Mosque, also known as the Sanctuary of Abraham, or the Cave of the Patriarchs.
Documents, maps, resources: Institute for Middle East Understanding
Article: Gilad Shalit: The Grand Illusion; Gilad Atzmon;
Palestine Think Tank; Feb. 9, 09
2006 Washington Post interview with newly elected Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh:
We do not wish to throw them into the sea; Lally Weymouth, interviewer; 26/02/06 ;
Israel's Dahiyah Doctrine, stresses the use of disproportionate force. Discussed here ;
Palestinian center for statistics: January 20th, 2009 preliminary report
on the damage done in Gaza, loss of productivity, and cost of reconstruction.
Israel's 22-day war on Hamas in Gaza in figures ;
Article: Foreign doctors say one million people at death's door ;
US Campaign to end Israeli Occupation ;
Heavy-duty resource site on Israel and the occupation: If Americans Knew
- what every American needs to know about Israel/Palestine ;
Video (22 mins.): Occupation 101 life under occupation in Hebron
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BDS: (pls. note all future BDS posts will be added to new page here)
Global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement
Another boycott and resources page -SAIA
Just a few of the suggestions for boycott: Loreal (makeup);
Chapters/Indigo (books);
Caterpillar (tractors/bulldozers); Motorola;
Carmel/Agrexco (Israeli exporter of fresh produce);
United Technologies; General Electric; ITT Corporation and Terex
Hampshire College: First college in U.S. to boycott and divest.
(Contact: Hampshire College Students for Justice in Palestine
at hampshiresjp@mail.com. Download HC SJP Press Kit here (.pdf)
On February 25, 2010: University of Michigan-Dearborn Student Government issued a statement delineating the
Israeli state’s many violations of international law and resolving to a) carry out a petition to secure an advisory
committee on campus, in order for this committee to officially investigate the University of Michigan-Dearborn’s
investments and determine if any are ethically unsound – which is to say, if any are designated for companies
that sell weapons, goods, and services to the state of Israel; and, b) urge the advisory committee to immediately
divest from any companies that violate the university’s ethical foundation. (More here.)
March 18, 2010: For the first time in the University of California history, the UC Berkeley Student Senate has
approved a bill to divest from two US companies in response to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories
and to Israel’s siege and bombardment of the Gaza Strip. The vote was 16-4. ***On 24 March 2010, UC
Berkeley student association president Will Smelko vetoed the bill (‘A Bill in Support of UC Divestment From War
Crimes’). ***In the coming weeks there will be a Senate vote to attempt to overturn the veto. The Senate meets
on Wednesdays. When this vote will occur I personally do not know. I have read as early as March 31st, April
7th, or some other Wednesday soon.
Boycott Israeli Goods: list
Historical perspective: Experience of university activists who worked to convince Carleton University to divest
from companies doing business with Apartheid South Africa: Looking back at Carleton's divestment from South
Africa; Alroy Fonseca; Jan. 22, 2010; rabble.ca
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Occupation Newswire ,
Breaking news from Al-Jazeera via Twitter
International Middle East Media Center
Gaza website Gaza Talk New Media Resistance
Resources: 911 Truthpedia.org:
Israeli-Palestinian atrocities, thoughts and notes;
Extremely rich resource page (includes Al-Jazeera updates via Twitter)
on the website Electronic Intifada.
MECA for peace: Middle East Children's Alliance
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network - 'We will not be silent on Gaza'
Palestine ThinkTank
pdf IMPORTANT RESOURCE: 'Intelligence and Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage and
Commemoration Center - Summary of Rocket Fire and Mortar Shelling in 2008'
(Link address: http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/ipc_e007.pdf)
Unusually large U.S. weapons shipment to Israel: Are the U.S. and Israel planning a broader Middle East war?
by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research.ca; Jan. 11, ;09
YouTube: CNN confirms Israel broke the ceasefire first; Jan. 5, '09. Viewed over 156,000+
Journalist calls Livni a terrorist during Washington press conference on Gaza operation
Why isn't this news? U.S. Rabbis call for Gaza cease-fire; Dave Belden; Huffington Post; Jan. 14, '09
Must read: Gaza Catastrophe: Resource Conflict?
by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed January 7, 2009 Information Clearing House - natural gas deposit off Gaza's coast.
(see also, here; and here)
Inter Press Service: US Weaponry facilitates killings in Gaza, by Thalif Deen; Jan. 8, '09
Video news report: includes Red Cross report of the starving Palestinian babies discovered by their slaughtered
mothers, Red Cross blocked from gaining access to the area for four days.
U.S. Weapons at War 2008 - Executive Summary; New America Foundation, By William D. Hartung, Frida
Berrigan: U.S. largest arms exporter (45% of total)
Statement from American moral leader Ralph Nader in a Dec. 31st, '08 letter to Bush on Gaza Crisis
http://www.nader.org/index.php?/archives/2092-Letter-to-Bush-on-Gaza-Crisis.html#extended
January 9th, 2009 statement by U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich on Israel's assault on Gaza;
An Unnecessary War, by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Washington Post, Jan. 9, '08, republished here in
countercurrents.org
Text of letter by the Prime Minister of Israel's office on Gaza. The e-mail provides the substance of Israel's
pretext for attacking Gaza. Dated January 11, 2009
Gulf Daily News the voice of Bahrain reporting: UN calls for independent investigation of possible IDF war
crimes. Palestinians herded into a house which is bombed 24 hours later. Red Cross blocked access to assist
the wounded and orphaned starving babies for four days. Jan. 10, '09
Analysis: Abettors of war crimes will be held accountable; Adri Nieuwhof and Daniel Machover, The Electronic
Intifada, 10 January 2009. Discusses: Israel's 'Dahiyah Doctrine' that civilians are legitimate military targets;
which aims to maximize carnage as collective punishment for deterrence purposes in violation of international
humanitarian law.
Bombing to make the Gaza prison even more secure for Israel
by Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada January 7, 2009
Notes: According to former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Likud, terrorism can be justified in the service
of (Zionist but not Palestinian) national struggle: "Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to
deny the morality of terror used as a means of war…. We are very far from any moral hesitations when
concerned with national struggle. First and foremost, terror is part of the political war appropriate for the
circumstances of today.”
– Hazit (Aug.1943, Journal of Lehi, the terrorist organization Shamir led before Israel’s independence.)
Article: Into the abyss: Gaza and the crisis of political morality; Imam Zaid; 08/01/09; New Islamic Directions.com
Article: Israel recruits 'army of bloggers' to combat anti-Zionist Web sites; By Cnaan Liphshiz; Divining The News
(DTN); 19/1/09;
Article: Israel may face UN court ruling on legality of Gaza conflict; Afua Hirsch, legal affairs correspondent The
Guardian, Wednesday 14 January 2009 ;
Propaganda: Jewish settlers expelled from Gaza tell Israeli leaders 'We told you so'; CanWest news services;
Edmonton Journal; 13/01/09
Article by Daniel Day-Lewis: Inside scarred minds (Gaza, 2005)
Israeli and Palestinian Avaaz members, like other Avaaz members and the general public around the world, firmly
support a peaceful, just, two-state solution for Israel and Palestine and respect for human rights on both sides.
To support these goals, Avaaz has run extensive local, regional, and global campaigns -- launched by the "Stop
the Clash of Civilizations" video in March 2007. The video, which has been viewed more than 2.5 million times
across nine different language versions, was voted YouTube's Political Video of the Year for 2007, among
other awards, and has been televised around the world.
Graph from Wikipedia; Israeli rocket fire for 2008-09 has been deleted from the site.
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