Resource Guide
Israel & Palestine
I. Background Information & Fact Sheets
II. Maps (Courtesy of PASSIA & B'Tselem)
III. AFSC Statements
IV. Local Middle East Peace Organizations
V. National Peace Organizations
VI. Israeli Human Rights & Peace Organizations
VII. Palestinian Human Rights & Peace Organizations
VIII. Joint Israeli-Palestinian Peace Sites
Background Information & Fact Sheets
AFSC - Palestine/Israel Timeline 1516-2006
AFSC - East Jerusalem and the Politics of Occupation Fact Sheet (PDF)
AFSC - Educational Video “Removing Barriers to Peace” (2min.)
HDIP - General Fact Sheets (Children, Health, Water & the Wall)
Israeli Coalition Against House Demolitions - FAQs
Maps
PASSIA Maps
First Jewish Colony in Palestine, 1878
Zionist Colonies in Palestine at the Beginning of the British Mandate, 1920
Distribution of Population (Palestinian and Jewish) by Subdistrict, 1946
Palestinian Villages Depopulated in 1948 and 1967
Golan Heights Under Israeli Occupation
Strategic Value of the Golan Heights
Palestinian Sovereign Areas According to the Sharon Proposal, 2001
B'Tselem Maps
Jewish Settlements in the West Bank, 2002
Settlements in the Southern West Bank & Hebron Hills, 2005
Forbidden Roads Regime in the West Bank, 2004
AFSC Official Statements
A Needed Break in the Violence January 22, 2009
AFSC’s Open Letter to the President and President-Elect December 31, 2008
Tehran Forum on the Holocaust December 21, 2006
An Appeal for Those Who Suffer in the Crossfire July 21, 2006
Principles for a Just and Lasting Peace Between Palestinians and Israelis Oct. 28, 1999
Local Middle East Peace Organizations
Northeast Ohio American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Northeast Ohio AFSC Middle East Programming
Council of American-Islamic Relations-Ohio
Interfaith Council for Peace in the Middle East (Northeast Ohio)
Middle East Peace Forum (Cleveland)
Students for Justice in Palestine – Case Western Reserve University
National Peace Organizations
Friends of Sabeel - North America
Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation
International Solidarity Movement
Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA)
Rabbis for Human Rights – North America
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
Israeli Peace & Human Rights Organizations
(Including Jewish & Palestinian-Israeli Groups)
Adalah – The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Bat-Shalom - The Jerusalem Women's Action Center (West Jerusalem)
B'Tselem – Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
Breaking the Silence – Israeli Soldiers talk about the O.T.
Free the Shministim – Israelis Young Conscientious Objectors
Galilee Society – The Arab National society for Health Research & Services
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch) - Israeli women peace activists against he Israeli Occupation
New Profile – Movement for the Civil-ization (Demilitarization) of Israeli Society
Physicians for Human Rights - Israel
Palestinian Peace & Human Rights Organizations
Addameer - Prisoners' Support and Human Rights Association
Al-Haq – NGO to Protect and Promote Human Rights & the Rule of Law in the OPT
Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (Natural Resources)
Badil – Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights
Health, Development, Information and Policy Institute in Palestine (HDIP)
Gaza Community Mental Health Programme
MIFTAH – Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network
Palestinian Fair Trade Association
Sabeel – Palestinian Ecumenical Theology Center in Jerusalem
Wi'am – The Palestinian Conflict Resolution Centre
Joint Israeli-Palestinian Sites
Parents' Circle/Families Forum – Bereaved Families Supporting Peace, Reconciliation & Tolerance
Sindyanna of Galilee- An organization of Arab & Jewish women working together to improve the economic conditions of Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories.