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