Organizations in Palestine and Israel & Their Websites

The delegates met with people from all these groups; their websites are excellent sources of information.

+972 Bloggers: www.972mag.com. A blog-based web magazine that is jointly owned by a group of journalists, bloggers and photographers whose goal is to provide fresh, original, on-the-ground reporting and analysis of events in Israel and Palestine.

Addameer (Arabic for ‘Conscience’) Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association www.addameer.org.  A Palestinian non-governmental, civil institution that works to support Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli and Palestinian prisons.

American Friends Service Committee www.afsc.org/region/middle-east. A Quaker organization that includes people of  various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace, and humanitarian service.

Anarchists Against the Wall  www.awalls.org/ An Israeli group that is part of the international solidarity movement supporting the Palestinian popular struggle against the Israeli separation wall and the occupation.

BADIL Resource Center www.badil.org  The primary resource center for Palestinian residency and refugee rights.

BDS Movement www.bdsmovement.net/ A portal for the movement for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel until it complies with international law

Birzeit University www.birzeit.edu/  Birzeit is the most prestigious of Palestine’s universities; the student body is highly engaged in activism; the majority of Palestinian government figures and academic leaders are graduates, as well as many resistance organizers. Birzeit is currently engaged in a campaign on the Human Right to Education.

Boycott from Within http://boycottisrael.info/ Palestinians, Jews, citizens of Israel, join the Palestinian call for a BDS campaign against Israel

Breaking the Silence www.breakingthesilence.org.il/  Collects testimonies from Israeli soldiers about their actions in the Occupied Territories.

Holy Land Trust www.holylandtrust.org  Strengthening and empowering people to end all forms of oppression through nonviolence, leadership development and healing.

Interfaith Peace Builders www.ifpb.org  Organizes delegations to the West Bank and Gaza;  planned and co-led DCI’s tour; offers blogging and follow-up media support and webinars.

Israeli Committee Against Housing Demolition (ICAHD)  http://www.icahd.org/  A human rights and peace organization dedicated to ending the prolonged Israeli Occupation over the Palestinians.

Just Vision  http://www.justvision.org/. Increases media coverage and support for Palestinians and Israelis working to end the occupation and resolve the conflict nonviolently. Produced the documentary Budrus, among others.

New Profile www.newprofile.org/english/.  An Israeli feminist movement working to demilitarize society and state in Israel.

Open House www.friendsofopenhouse.co.il/ A peace education center in Ramle, Israel.

Palestinian Campaign for Academic, Cultural Boycott of Israel www.pacbi.org organizing boycotts within the educational and cultural spheres.

Popular Struggle Coordinating Committee: www.popularstruggle.org. Coordinating the work of community-based activists in the popular committees from all over the Occupied Territories.

Sabeel  www.sabeel.org An ecumenical liberation theology center in working for justice, peace and reconciliation in Palestine-Israel

Tent of Nations  http://www.tentofnations.org/.  An educational and environmental farm near Bethlehem seeking to build bridges between people from different countries, and between people and the land.
Youth Against Settlements www.youthagainstsettlements.org/  is a national Palestinian non-partisan activist group which seeks to end Israeli building and expanding settlements in Palestine.

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We also heard a lot about the following organizations; they, too, are also excellent sources of information.

B’Tselem  www.btselem.org/  The Israeli information center for human rights in the Occupied Territories.

Who Profits? www.whoprofits.org/. A research project dedicated to exposing the commercial involvement of Israeli and international companies in the continuing Israeli control over Palestinian and Syrian land.

Zochrot (“Remembering”) www.zochrot.org/en.  Seeks to raise public awareness of the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”), especially among Jews in Israel.