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News Sources & Organizations

Selected News Sources:

  • Ha’aretz — major Israeli newspaper with a liberal viewpoint.
  • The Jewish Daily Forward — it’s tag line is: “News that Matters to American Jews”.
  • Washington Report on Middle East Affairs — a DC-based monthly magazine covering Middle East events abroad and in the U.S.
  • Mondoweiss — Israel/Palestine from a liberal American Jewish perspective. Published online by Philip Weiss.
  • +972 — Israeli liberal perspective on Israel/Palestine events. Published online from Tel Aviv.
  • Electronic Intifada — Online magazine from Palestinian perspective.
  • This Week in Palestine — Weekly tourist publication with interesting in-depth features about Palestine.
  • The Palestine Portal — This is a website for all things related to Palestine, largely from the perspective of religious organizations and groups.

U.S. Organizations Working for Peace & Justice:

  • Churches for Middle East Peace — CMEP is a coalition of nearly 30 reiligious denominations. UUA is a founding member and currently has a Board seat. UUCA is partner, local church.
  • UUJME — UUs for Justice in the Middle East. UUJME has about 30 chapters nationally of which NoVA-UUJME is one.
  • Foundation for Middle East Peace — FMEP is a DC-based foundation headed by Lara Friedman, a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer. FMEP provides excellent resources and background information about Israel/Palestine.
  • Jewish Voice for Peace — JVP is a rapidly growing liberal Jewish organization that seeks an end to the Israeli occupation of the Arab lands seized in 1967 and peace and justice for all. JVP DC Metro is a close ally of NoVA-UUJME.
  • U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights — The U.S. Campaign works nationally for Palestinian rights.
  • J Street — J Street bills itself as the “political home of pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans”. It is a registered lobby that also has a Political Action Committee (PAC) that funds the campaigns of Senators and Representatives supportive of the “two-state” solution.
  • Americans for Peace Now — APN is the U.S. organization that is affiliated with the Peace Now movement in Israel and aims for a comprehensive arrangement of peace and security between Israel and Palestine.
  • Friends of Sabeel North America — FOSNA is the North American affiliate of Sabeel which is a grassroots movement founded in East Jerusalem by Palestinian Christians working for a just peace in Palestine and Israel.

Israeli, Palestinian and U.N. Human Rights Organizations

  • U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) — OCHA works in several areas of the world. In the Israeli occupied Palestinian Territories, it tracks human right issues and is an excellent source for data, maps and other material that graphically illustrate the situation on the ground.
  • B’tselem — B’tselem is the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.
  • Al-Haq — Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation based in Ramallah.
  • Adalah — (Adalah means “justice” in Arabic) Adalah’s mission is to promote human rights in Israel in general and the rights of the Palestinian minority, citizens of Israel, in particular (around 1.5 million people, or 20% of the population). 
  • Gisha — Gisha is an Israeli not-for-profit organization, founded in 2005, whose goal is to protect the freedom of movement of Palestinians, especially Gaza residents. Gisha aims to promote rights guaranteed by international and Israeli law.
  • Zochrot — (Zochrot means “remembering” in Hebrew) Zochrot is an Israeli NGO working to promote acknowledgement and accountability for the ongoing injustices of the Nakba, the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948 and the reconceptualization of the Return as the imperative redress of the Nakba and a chance for a better life for all the country’s inhabitants.