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Nevada County for Palestine (NC4P) On Instagram, multi-generational coalition organizing for political education, support of Palestine. https://www.instagram.com/nc4palestine/ @nc4palestine. Peace and Justice Center of Nevada County http://facebook.com/peaceandjusticenevadacounty (including Occupy Beale AFB, Justice4thePeace Band, and the New Peace Choir) @peaceandjusticecenternc https://www.ncpeace.org/ and https://www.ncpeace.org/category/palestine-israel/ NEWS OUTLETS Lifting the Fog NC4P Substack https://substack.com/@nc4pmedia?r=1r2f60&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Al Jazeera English https://www.aljazeera.com/ and https://www.aljazeera.com/where/palestine Breatkthrough News https://breakthroughnews.org/ The Chris Hedges Report https://chrishedges.substack.com/ The Cradle https://thecradle.co/ Democracy Now https://www.democracynow.org Drop Site News https://www.dropsitenews.com/ The Electronic Intifada Highly recommended as a credible Palestine news source. https://electronicintifada.net/ Middle East Eye https://www.middleeasteye.net/ WAFA News Agency, English Palestine News and Information Agency based in Ramallah https://english.wafa.ps/ +972 Magazine Independent, online by Palestinian and Israeli journalists. https://www.972mag.com/ The Grayzone https://thegrayzone.com Palestine Nexus https://palestinenexus.com BOOKS Ali Abunimah One Country: A bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, 2006. Diana Allen (ed.) Voices of the Nakba: A living History of Palestine, 2021. Norman Finklestein Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom, 2018 Rashid Khalidi The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, 2020. Gideon Levy (Haaretz) The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe, 2024. Mahmoud Muna, Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture, 2024. Ilan Pappé Ten Myths about Israel, 2017. The most contested ideas and fallacies concerning the origins and identity of the current state of Israel. Highly recommended, and The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, 2006. Thorough history of the events up to 1948 that culminated in the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland. Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall, 2001. Another new Israeli historian, Shlaim presents a critical interpretation of the history of Zionism and Israel challenging Israel’s foundational myths. Enzo Traverso, Gaza Faces History, 2024. Ben White, Cracks in the Wall–Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel, 2018. Israeli Apartheid–A Beginner’s Guide, 2nd edn. 2014. FILM AND VIDEO The Encampments (Mar 2025, 1h 21m)protests at Columbia University https://breakthroughnews.org/ From Ground Zero (Feb 2025, 1h 52m) 22 Gazan filmmakers to reveal untold stories of the current siege on Gaza. Available for purchase or rent on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Fandango At Home Kids Under Fire: An investigation into Israeli soldiers shooting children (Mar 2025, 25 m) Israeli snipers intentional targeting of children. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0zrQZWwDE The Last Sky (2024, 57 m) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QekO4pGUuSM&t=1659s No Other Land (2024, 1h 32m) Academy Award Palestinian-Israeli collective film Atrocity Inc.: How Israel Sells Its Destruction of Gaza (2024, 44m) Media deceptions and atrocity hoaxes Israel pushed after October 7 to create political space for its Gaza assault Oct 7, Al Jazeera Investigations (2024, 59m) Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019, 1h 24m) Filmed by Abby Martin during the height of the Great March Of Return Gaza border protests from the end of March 2018 to December 2019. Thirty thousand participated in this largely non-violent protest over the period. More than 9,000 Palestinians were wounded and 223 killed by Israeli snipers. Israelism (2023, 1h 24m) American documentary about the portrayal of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in American Jewish institutions. When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. Available from Apple TV, YouTube, Roku, Google Play, Tubi The Lobby, USA (2018, 3h 7m–full version; 1h 7m–abridged version) A four-part undercover investigation by Al Jazeera into Israel’s covert influence campaign in the United States. Exposes the efforts of Israel and its lobbyists to spy on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support Palestinian human rights. https://bit.ly/2PCKgF0 full version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnzRsfMqOqI abridged version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZA6V7Fa5aw The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel’s Public Relations War in the United States (2016, 1h 26m: full version; 45m: abridged version) full version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmoYoiMgpWU&ab_channel=TheOccupationoftheAmericanMind
Occupation 101: Voice of the Silenced Majority (2006, 1h 29m) ORGANIZATIONS American Friends Service Committee https://www.afsc.org/ Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/en/ B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories BDS: Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement https://bdsmovement.net Code Pink https://www.codepink.org/palestine Doctors Without Borders https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/ Ele Elna Elak A volunteer-driven Palestinian support of Palestinian families in need with food, clothing and other essentials. NC4P (see below) has donated to this organization.https://eleelnaelak.org Human Rights Watch https://www.hrw.org/ Humanti https://www.humantiproject.org/ If Americans Knew Stats, videos, articles, onconfiscation, military aid, media bias. https://ifamericansknew.org If Not Now Movement American Jews organizing to end U.S. support for Israel’s apartheid system and demand equality, justice, and a thriving future for all Palestinians and Israelis. https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/ International Solidarity Movement (ISM) Direct action, documentation and education to challenge the Israeli regime and its violations of international law and human rights. https://palsolidarity.org/ Jewish Voice for Peace Progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization, Intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews in solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people”. https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/ UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) https://www.unrwa.orghttps://uscpr.org Who Profits Research Center  These Gazan babies had to be removed from incubators because of the siege on fuel for electricity. Five have already died. Our military aid tax dollars at work. Ready to support a cease fire yet, or do you still want to debate the issue?  NEW Give Peace a Song event! Our 20 voice “New Peace Choir” will once again be singing out for peace and justice, along with other musical guests and speakers. Featuring The New Peace Choir (secular songs of Peace & Hope) You can optionally RSVP on Facebook, as well as invite others: https://fb.me/e/5bbxUWpIA Palestine-Israel News Sources: Jewish Voice for Peace www.jvp.org Democracy Now www.democracynow.org Code Pink www.codepink.org American Friends Service Committee www.afsc.org B’TSelem https://www.btselem.org Common Dreams www.commondreams.org The Gray Zone www.thegrayzone.com The Intercept www.theintercept.com Veterens For Peace www.vfp.org Electronic Intifada www.electronicintifada.org The Chris Hedges Report www.chrishedges.substack.com The Real News Network https://therealnews.com/ Mint Press News https://www.mintpressnews.com/ Mondoweiss https://mondoweiss.net/ Palestine Portal https://www.palestineportal.org/ Videos: The Greater Context of the Genocide in Gaza (youtube) Gaza Fights for Freedom (Documentary) (youtube) Watch Born in Gaza (Netflix required) Husam Zomlot, Head of the Palestinian Mission to the UK interview Democracy Now Interview with Mohammed El-Kurd Democracy Now interview with Refaat Alareer Breakthrough News https://www.youtube.com/@BreakThroughNews Books: The General’s Son Miko Peled A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy Nathan Thrall The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine: Pappe, Ilan 10-23-23 I learned of the October 7, 2023 atrocities committed by Hamas with much sadness, and feel great empathy for the families that lost loved ones, as a Jew who has worked on a Kibbutz and a humanThe Peace and Justice Center believes that violence creates a spiral that destroys our world and brings suffering to all eventually. Also as a Jew, I feel great responsibility to tell the rest of the story. I grew up in a neighborhood of Holocaust survivors and vowed to never remain silent in the midst of a genocide. I don’t approve of the 75 years of ethnic cleansing and apartheid that has brought us to this sad day, nor do I approve of the vengeful acts against helpless civilians, half of whom are children, in Gaza that are ongoing: no water, no food, no electricity, bombardment of schools, hospitals and houses of worship, and no medical facilities to take injured children to. Israel portrays this as a war against Hamas, but most do not know that Hamas was actually supported at its inception by Israel in an attempt to create a fundamentalist Islamic enemy for the secular Palestinian liberation movement, like the US did with the mujahedeen in Afghanistan. Few also know that despite all the implausible commotion about how unprepared Israel was for the attack, Israel admits that it was warned about the attack by Egypt and other sources. The right wing government of Israel’s strategy is clearly to eventually annex Gaza and the West Bank occupied territories. What stops them from doing so is the “demographic problem”. In other words, there are enough Palestinians in total to outvote Jewish Israelis. So Israel is trying hard to reduce the Palestinian population by making their lives unlivable in the occupied territories, by expulsion, by violence. Although we will probably never know for sure, it’s not hard to imagine this government cynically allowing the October 7 security breach in order to create the pretext for emptying Gaza of its 2 million plus Palestinians. For now, we must advocate for a ceasefire to prevent genocide, and a prohibition on US military aid to Israel . Subsequently, the blockade must be ended and the apartheid conditions must end. One major obstacle to this is the outsized power of the Israel lobby in US politics, where groups like AIPAC massively fund primary challenges to any legislators who speak out for Palestinian rights. Israel’s policies do not make Israelis safer. A negotiated settlement is the only path to safety. Jeffrey Gottesman |
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