Links
Activism
- www.palestinecommunitycentre.com
The Palestine Community Centre (1874 Kingsway , Vancouver) aims to
provide social, cultural and political programs and
services, to serve the Arab community in BC, to protect and to preserve
the Palestinian national identity, and to empower the Arab community
and its political presence in BC
- Canada-Palestine
Support Network. Organization of Canadians of all backgrounds
dedicated to change the policies and actions of the Canadian government
so that these come to support the human, democratic and national rights
of the Palestinian people.
- The
International Solidarity Movement A Palestinian-led movement of
Palestinian and international activists working to raise awareness of
the struggle for self-determination. It resists the
occupation through non-violent direct action methods of resistance.
- The
Electronic Intifada. This website offers reference materials about
the history and nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a
Palestinian perspective. It publishes news and analyses and the
role of the media in this conflict.
- Canada Palestine Support Network - Ottawa http://www.yayacanada.com/canpalnet-ottawa.html
Campaigns
- We pledge our support to the just struggle of the Palestinian
people for freedom and self-determination, and pledge to expose the
Canadian government's immoral and inhuman stand against the
Palestinians to the Canadian public. To petition against the Canadian
Government Banning of Three Palestinian Resistance Groups, please visit
petitiononline.com The Canadian government's
banning of these organizations gives a
license to de-legitimize the Palestinian struggle and its Canadian
support base. This will lead to further persecution and fear
amongst Canadian supporters and escalate the racism, stereotyping and
unwarranted arrests against many Palestinian and Arab-Canadians.
See also our letter to the Solicitor General of Canada in Statements.
- Under the pretext of security, Israel is continuing to carry out
its long-term policy of occupation, expulsion and discrimination that
amounts to ethnic cleansing and to the destruction of the material
basis for the survival and development of Palestinian society as a
whole. Life behind the Apartheid Wall will become intolerable:
Palestinians will be imprisoned in walled ghettos, deprived of the most
basic Human Rights and lose a large part of their land, water
resources,
and sources of livelihood. Join us and uphold International Law
by exerting your influence on the state of Israel to stop and demolish
this monstrous project immediately. To sign the petition, click here
- The Campaign to Free Marwan Barghouti Marwan Khatib Bargouti, born in
1959, is a Palestinian and resident of Ramallah. He has served in the
following positions: member of the Palestinian Council that was elected
in accordance with the Israeli-Palestinian interim agreement, a member
of the Palestinian National Council of the PLO, a member of the central
council of the Movement for the Liberation of Palestine (Fatah), a
member of Fatah's Revolutionary Council, and director general of Fatah.
Fatah is the principal movement among the Palestinian movements and
factions that comprise the PLO. This movement is the main force that
was and is active in the negotiations taking place between Israel and
the Palestinian people. It was in the context of these negotiations
that the peace agreements between the State of Israel and the
Palestinian people, represented by the PLO, were signed. In
apprehending, detaining and torturing Marwan Barghouti, Israel has
violated a number of provisions of international law, not to mention
fundamental human rights.
- Boycott
Israeli Goods, a campaign to divest from Israel and to boycott Israeli
products and leisure tourism has gathered momentum across the globe.
Money talks. Many will abandon their support of Israel if their
economic interests are threatened. These boycott campaigns will
continue to grow until Israel withdraws from the occupied areas,
respects human rights (including right of refugees to return to their
homes and lands), and obeys international law.
Palestinian Human Rights Organizations
- The Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights &
the Environment (LAW) is a non-governmental organization dedicated
to preserving human rights through legal advocacy. LAW is an affiliate
to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), The World
Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and is a member of the
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network
-
The Joint Advocacy Initiative of East Jerusalem YMCA and
the YWCA of Palestine (JAI) was established in December 2000 and has offices in East Jerusalem in the YWCA
and Beit Sahour in the YMCA.
Their work focuses on presenting an accurate picture of life in Palestine and offering people
the opportunity to express solidarity with the Palestinian people. They have campaigns, such
as the Olive Tree Campaign, which aims to replant 50,000 olive trees in the Palestinian
Territories, to keep hope alive for the farmers whose land is threatended with confiscation
by the Israeli army, settlers or the separation wall, and to encourage them to stay on their
land. They also market the products of disadvantaged Palestinians, whose income depends on
the land through the Al Ard Al Taybeh Campaign (The Good Earth Campaign).
Medical Services
- The Union of
Palestinian Medical Relief Committees UPMRC is a grassroots,
community-based Palestinian health organization, founded to supplement
the decayed and inadequate health infrastructure caused by years of
Israeli military occupation. It is non-profit, voluntary, and one of
the largest health NGOs in Palestine.
Palestinian Resistance Organizations
- Palestine National Liberation Movement (Fateh), Palestinian
movement founded by Yasser Arafat
- The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is
a political party that is founded on a progressive vision of the common
good. The PFLP believes that the major obstacle to peace in the
Middle East is the Israeli occupation -- its ideology and its practices
(political, economic, military-security) -- which are the means used to
deny the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
Advocacy for the Right of Return (ROR)
- BADIL Resource
Center for Palestinian residency and refugee rights (in Arabic)
- The Palestinian Return Centre, United Kingdom (English/ Arabic) is an
independent academic/media consultancy. It specializes in the
research, analysis, and monitor of issues pertaining to the dispersed
Palestinians and their right to return. It also serves as an
information repository on other related aspects of the Palestine
Question and the Arab-Israeli conflict.
- Website of the Palestine Right to Return Coaltition (Al-Awda), a
grassroots association dedicated to educate the international community
to fulfill its legal and moral obligations towards the Palestinian
people (English/Arabic)
Palestinian Art & Culture
- The Sakakini
Cultural Centre is a non-governmental, non-profit organization
dedicated
to the promotion of arts and culture in Palestine. The Sakakini
works in three areas: the visual arts, Palestinian identity &
narrative, and holding regular public activities such as art exhibits,
concerts, literary events, film screenings, children's activities and
lectures.
Media & Information
- Media
Monitors NetworkJournalists, editors, writers, photographers, human
rights activists, webmasters, poets, columnists, reporters,
researchers, analysts, observers, columnists, content providers, media
contributors, observers, social scientists and other professionals from
around the globe are invited to join Media Monitors Network (MMN) to
counter information warfare and fabricated propaganda in the world
media and to promote the whole truth, fairness and accuracy in news
reporting.
- Jerusalem Media
& Communication Centre established by a group of Palestinian
journalists and researchers to provide information on events in the
West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. JMCC's
Jerusalem and Gaza offices provide a wide range of services to
journalists, researchers, international agencies, individuals and
organizations interested in obtaining reliable information on the
Palestinian territory
Palestinian Israeli's
- 1948 Arabs (Arabic)
- Adalah
(justice in Arabic) is a non-profit, non-sectarian
Palestinian-run
legal center in Israel.
Adalah's legal work draws on Israeli law, comparative
constitutional law, and international human rights standards. The main
goal of Adalah's work is to achieve equal rights and minority rights
protections for Palestinian citizens of Israel.
- Association of
Forty association for the recognition of the Arab Unrecognized
Villages in Israel. The plight of the Arab Unrecognized Villages
first began in 1948 with the establishment of the State of Israel. Even
though these Arab Villages existed tens and hundreds of years ago, The
Israeli consecutive governments ignored the existence of these villages
and the inhabitants were denied their rights as citizens of the
country. Since this time, these villages have not appeared on any map
and there is still no plan for their development.
- ACRI
Association for Civil Rights in Israel (only in Hebrew/Arbabic)
- ARABHRA the
Arab Association of Human Rights, an association in the service
of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel.
Documentation
- Birzeit
University excellent source for information about Palestinian
history and current events and the overall development of Palestinian
society.
- Palestine
Remembered is a non-profit organization whose main objectives are
to
emphasize that the core issues of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are
the dispossession and ethnic cleansing (compulsory population transfer
for political gains) of the Palestinian people for the past five
decades, to preserve the memories and the experiences of Palestinians
around the world, to create an easy medium to present, document, and
share experiences among the Palestinian refugees, to increase refugees'
awareness of their rights to return to their homes, farms, and
businesses based on United Nations resolution 194 and to provide a
convenient and comprehensive source of information about the past and
present injustices committed by Israel and the Zionist movement against
the Palestinian people.
Sabra & Shatila
- Indict
Sharon offering news on the case lodged in Belgium against Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and other Israelis and Lebanese responsible
for the massacre, killing, rape and disappearance of civilians that
took place in Beirut between 16 and 18 September 1982 in the camps of
Sabra and Shatila and the surrounding area.
- Lawsociety Sharon Complaint the complaint against
Ariel Sharon for his involvement in the massacres at Sabra and Shatila