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The NAKBA: the Holocaust of the Palestinians
Jewish organizations that work for Palestinian human rights

compiled by Michael R. Burch, an editor and publisher of Holocaust Poetry

Here are more than 200 hyperlinks to predominantly Jewish organizations that are speaking out for equal human rights, freedom and justice for Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims.

The fact that so many Jewish organizations oppose the Israeli government's racial injustices and human rights violations tells us quite clearly that Israel has been violating the human rights of Palestinians. This has been going on for over 60 years, ever since the Nakba ("Catastrophe") of the Palestinian people in 1948. Men of peace like Mohandas Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter have explained simply and eloquently why Israel's racist policies and actions are wrong. The links below will verify that Jews of good conscience are completely aware of the problems, and working to correct them. Some of the people associated with the groups below have used their bodies as "human shields" to protect Palestinian children and farm families from Israeli soldiers: doesn't the fact that "human shields" are needed tell us something is very wrong? But the government of Israel is not listening or mending its ways, and this is endangering the lives of American children and American soldiers. Why should our children and soldiers die, because Israel chooses to practice racism? As Reza Aslan recently pointed out, ninety percent of the people at the U.S. State Department agree with Muslim imams who say the U.S. government is at least partly responsible for 9-11 and the subsequent wars (because the suffering and deaths of completely innocent Muslim women and children have driven some distraught Muslim men to forcefully oppose our government's policies and actions; they consider us terrorists and are fighting fire with fire). Americans did what we had to do by abandoning Jim Crow laws, kangaroo courts and government-sanctioned racism. Now Israel must do the same, quickly, before we find ourselves engaged in World War III.

My personal recommendations:

Anna Baltzer's Blog (Anna is a Jewish-American woman who works for equal rights for Palestinians.)
Anna Baltzer's Website (Please read her book Witness in Palestine.)
Breaking the Silence (Please read what Jewish soldiers say about their own actions.)
Jews for Justice for Palestinians (Please read what Jews of good conscience say.)
Rabbis for Human Rights (Please read what Jewish Rabbis say.)
Rabbis for Human Rights - North America (Please read what American Rabbis say.)
Jews Against the Occupation (Why is there an occupation, really?)
B'Tselem (Get the unvarnished truth about the occupation.)
Jewish Voice for Peace ("Two people, one future.")
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Israel's oldest and largest human rights group.)
Gush Shalom ("Putting an end to the occupation.")
British Shalom-Salaam Trust ("Crossing Borders for Peace.")
Israel's Back Yard (Testimonies from Israel Checkpoints.)
Jewish Socialists' Group ("Campaigning for the rights of all oppressed minorities.")

A more comprehensive alphabetic list:

5th Mother www.the-5th-mom.org/eng/home.htm
Abraham Vision www.abrahamsvision.org
Action committee for one democratic state www.onerepublic.org
Alliance of Middle East Scientists and Physicians www.keck.ucsf.edu/~yoram/amesp.html
Al Nakba in Hebrew www.NakbaInHebrew.org
Alternative Information Center www.alternativenews.org
Alternative Voice (Galilee co-existance and equality) www.alternative-voice.org
American Council for Judaism www.acjna.org
America-Israel Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace www.other_israel.tripod.com
Anarchists against the Wall www.awalls.org
Andalus Publishing www.andalus.co.il
Anna Baltzer's Blog www.annainpalestine.blogspot.com
Anna Baltzer's Website www.annainthemiddleeast.com
Association for Civil Rights in Israel www.acri.org.il
Bat Shalom, Israeli Women for Peace www.batshalom.org
B'Tselem www.btselem.org
Birthright Unplugged www.birthrightunplugged.org
Breaking the Silence (Israeli Soldiers website) www.breakingthesilence.org.il/index_en.asp
British Shalom/Salaam Trust (Peace in Hebrew/Arabic) www.bsst.org.uk
Bustan (Arab Jewish group for sustainable development) www.bustan.org
Bustan L'Shalom www.bustanlshalom.org
Challenge (Israeli magazine) www.hanitzotz.com/challenge
The Coalition of Women For a Just Peace www.geocities.com/EndTheOccupation
Coalition of Women for Peace www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org
Combatants for Peace www.combatantsforpeace.org
Courage to Refuse (Ometz L’Sarev) www.seruv.org.il
Eda Haredit, anti-Zionist Hasidim www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7891/satmar.html
European Jews for a Just Peace www.ejjp.org
Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace www.ffipp.org
Gisha Legal Center for Freedom of Movement www.gisha.org
The Green Line (Kav Yarok) www.kavyarok.co.il/index_en.php
Gush Shalom www.gush-shalom.org
Hagada Hasmalit www.hagada.org.il
Hopeways www.hopeways.org
House of Hope www.www.hohpeacecenter.org
Independent Jewish Voice www.ijv.org.uk
Indymedia www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/index.php3?language=en
The Interfaith Encounter Association www.interfaith-encounter.org
International Jewish anti-Zionist Network www.ijsn.net
Israeli Academics speak out www.academic-access.weebly.com
Israeli artists against the war www.maarav.org.il/draftedart
Israeli citizens for BDS www.boycott-occupation.mahost.org
Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions www.icahd.org
Israeli Committee Against Torture www.stoptorture.org.il
Israel Insider News www.israelimperialnews.org
Israel Legal resource center www.stopisraeliapartheid.org
Israel Religious Action Center (against religious bigotry) www.irac.org
Israel's Back Yard (Checkpoint Testimonies) www.draykcab.wordpress.com
Jewdas www.jewdas.org
Jewish Academic Network for Israeli-Palestinian Peace www.janip.net
Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation www.opentent.org/jews.html
Jewish and Arab Women for Peace www.tx.technion.ac.il/~ada/home.html
Jewish Friends of Palestine www.jewishfriendspalestine.org
Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group www.igc.org/traubman/global.htm
Jewish-Palestinian Encounter www.salam-shalom.net
Jewish Peace Fellowship www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/index.htm
Jewish People Liberation Organization www.msanews.mynet.net/Scholars/Weizfeld
Jewish Solidarity www.jewishsolidarity.info
Jewish Socialists' Group www.jewishsocialist.org.uk
Jewish Unity for a Just Peace www.junity.org
Jewish Voice for Peace www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Jewish Voices Against the Occupation www.jvao.org
Jewish Unity for a Just Peace: www.junity.org
Jewish Voices Against the Occupation: www.jvao.org
Jewish Women Watching www.jewishwomenwatching.com
Jews Against the Occupation www.jewsagainsttheoccupation.org
Jews For Justice www.mediareviewnet.com/JewsForJustice.htm
Jews For Justice for Palestinians www.jfjfp.org
Jews for a Just Peace www.ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/S_Aberle
Jews for a Just Peace (Australia) www.geocities.com/jews4jp
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel (JPPI) www.jppi.org
Jews of Belgium for a Fair Settlement www.israel-palestine.be
Jews on first www.jewsonfirst.org
Jews NOT Zionists www.jewsnotzionists.org
Jews Renounce www.jewsrenounce.org
Just Vision www.justvision.org
Kibbush (Occupation Magazine) www.kibush.co.il
Kibbush 40 (Coalition against the occupation) www.kibush40.org/wordpress
Machsum (Checkpoint) Watch www.machsomwatch.org
Matzpum, Jews to Ban Israeli Products and Tourism www.matzpun.com
Middle East Crisis Committee www.thestruggle.com
Muzzle Watch (tracking Zionist efforts to silence critics) www.muzzlewatch.org
Nahalat Shalom www.nahalatshalom.org
Needle in the Grove www.needleinthegroove.org
Negev Coexistence Forum www.ariga.com/dukium
Neturei Karta Homepage www.netureikarta.org
New Israel Fund www.nif.org
New Profile (movement for civilization of Israeli Society) www.newprofile.org
Neve Shalom/Wahat as-Salam www.nswas.com/sfp
Norman Finkelstein's Website www.normanfinkelstein.com
Not in Our Name Coalition www.diak.org/not_in_our_name.htm
Not In My Name! www.nimn.org
Occupied Territory www.occupied.org/The Olga Appeal
Olive Tree Movement www.o-t-m.org/drupal
One Voice Movement www.onevoicemovement.org/wps/portal
(The) Other Israel www.other_Israel.tripod.com
Oz v'Shalom (religious Zionist anti-Occupation) www.ariga.com/ozveshalom
Oznik News Service www.oznik.com
The Parent Circle www.theparentscircle.com
Physicians for Human Rights, Israel www.phr.org.il
Peace, Justice, and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition www.peacejusticeandjews.com
(The) Public Committee against Torture in Israel www.stoptorture.org.il
Rabbis for Human Rights www.rhr.org.il
Rabbis for Human Rights - Israel www.rhr.israel.net/overview.shtml
Rabbis for Human Rights - North America www.rhr-na.org
Realistic Religious Zionism www.tzionut.org
Re'ut-Sadaka - Jewish-Arab Youth for Peace and Democracy www.israelpages.co.il/reut
Refusenicks www.refusersolidarity.net
Righteous Jews www.righteousjews.org
Schalom 6767 (German Jewish group) www.schalom5767.de
Shministim Refusal Movement www.shministim.org/english/index.html
Search for justice and equality www.searchforjustice.org
Shvil Zahav (The Middle Way) www.middleway.org
Ta'Ayush (Arab Jewish Partnership) www.taayush.org
Toronto's Jewish Youth Against the Occupation www.TJYATO.tripod.com
We Refuse to Be Enemies www.we-refuse.org
Windows—Palestinian-Israeli cooperation www.win-peace.org
Women in Black www.womeninblack.org/history.html
Women`s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) www.wofpp.org
Visions for peace with justice in Israel/Palestine www.vopj.org
Yesh Din (There is Law) www.yesh-din.org
Zochrot (Israeli group to remind people of Al-Nakba) www.zochrot.org

Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Israel:

www.shministim.org/english_letter.html
www.refusersolidarity.net/
www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/1999/SUM/51504999.htm
www.amnesty-usa.org/news/1999/51506799.htm
www.uscj.org/ctvalley/beki/conscientious.html
Israeli Reservists Refusing to Serve www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp
Yesh Gvul, IDF men refusing to serve in the Occupied Territories www.yesh-gvul.org

You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. (Exodus 22:20-21)

Love your neighbor as yourself. (Leviticus 19:18)

Justice, Justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. (Deuteronomy XVI, 18:20) The footnote in the Hertz edition reads: “(T)here is international justice, which demands respect for the personality of every national group, and proclaims that no people can of right be robbed of its national life or territory, its language or spiritual heritage.”

Learn to do well – seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow ... Zion shall be redeemed with justice, and they that return of her with righteousness.(Isaiah 1:17,27)

If all afflictions in the world were assembled on one side of the scale and poverty on the other, poverty would outweigh them all. (Exodus Rabbah, Mishpatim 31:14)

Here are 100 other links on the same subject:

Ben White
Coteret
Crazy Country
Israel: the only democracy in the Middle East?
Just Jerusalem – the Sheikh Jarrah Campaign
Lawrence of Cyberia
Mondoweiss
Mostly on Israel
Norfolk Jewish Peace Group
Pursuing Justice
Rabbibrian's blog
Rootless Cosmopolitan
Seth Freedman
The Magnes Zionist
Tikun Olam
Tony Lerman
Uri Avnery
A Just Peace for Palestine
ActiveStills
Adalah
Al-Haq
Alternative Information Center
Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine
Association for Civil Rights in Israel (Acri)
AWalls
B'Tselem
Badil
Bereaved Families' Forum
Birthright unplugged
Breaking the Silence
British Shalom-Salaam Trust
British-Palestine Twinning Network
Bustan
Coalition of Women for Peace
Combatants for Peace
Common Ground News Service
CorporateWatch
Coteret
Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (Caabu)
Electronic Intifada
Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace – UK
Friends of Freedom and Justice in Bil'in
Gaza Community Mental Health Program
Gaza Gateway
Gaza Speaks
Gisha
Gush Shalom
Hagada Hasmolit – Left Radical Forum
Hamoked
Holy Land Trust
Human Rights Legal Aid Trust
Ibn Ezra
ICAHD
ICAHD UK
Ir Amin
Israel’s Back Yard
Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information
Jewdas
Jewish Socialists’ Group
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
Jewish Women Watching
Jnews
Just Peace UK
Labour Friends of Palestine and the Middle East
Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR)
Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine
MachsomWatch
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
Muftah
New Israel Fund
New Jewish Thought
New Profile
Occupation Magazine
Olive Cooperative
One Democracy
Open Shuhada Street
OpenDemocracy
Palestine Note
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Palestine-Israel Journal
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Peace Now
Physicians for Human Rights – Israel
Public Committee Against Torture in Israel
Rabbis for Human Rights
Russell Tribunal on Palestine
Search for Justice
Ta’ayush – Arab-Jewish Partnership
Tarabut-Hithabrut
The Palestine Telegraph
Tikkun
Tikun Olam
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Villages Group
War on Want
Watford Friends of Salfeet
Who Profits from the Occupation?
Yesh Din
Yesh Gvul
Zaytoun
Zochrot

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