Links to Israeli Peace Groups

These links send you directly to the websites of Israel's most active peace movements. These organisations are reporting from Israel itself. If you have concerns that Israel is treated unfairly by the world media or are worried that those who question Israel's policies are antisemites here is an opportunity for you to see what Israelis themselves think about their own country. They are closer to the events and the discussion than any of us who live outside Israel. The people in these groups are not afraid of Palestinians, they work together with them. These are courageous people who have truly transcended Jewish paranoia and are prepared to look at their own society honestly. You can subscribe to these groups through their website and receive regular updates about important developments in Israel and Palestine.

• Yesh Gvul (There is a limit!) is an Israeli peace group campaigning against the occupation by backing soldiers who refuse duties of a repressive or aggressive nature. The brutal role of the Israeli army in subjugating the Palestinian population places numerous servicemen in a grave moral and political dilemma, as they are required to enforce policies they deem illegal, immoral and ultimately harmful to Israeli interests. The army hierarchy demands compliance, but many soldiers, whether conscripts or reservists, find that they cannot in good conscience obey the orders of their superiors.
  http://www.yeshgvul.org/

• New Profile - Movement for the Civil-ization of Israeli Society
  POB 48005, Tel-Aviv 61480, Israel
  E-mail: mailto:newprofile@speedy.co.il
  Voice box: ++972-(0)3-516-01-19
  Website: http://www.newprofile.org/

• Gush Shalom (Peace Bloc)
  POB 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033
  http://www.gush-shalom.org/

• Oznik.com is the organisation of the soldiers and officers who refuse to serve in the Israeli army.
  http://oznik.com

• Arab Jewish Partnership
  http://www.taayush.org/

• B'Tselem, the Israeli Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, was established in 1989 by a group of prominent academics, attorneys, journalists, and Knesset members. It endeavors to document and educate the Israeli public and policymakers about human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, combat the phenomenon of denial prevalent among the Israeli public, and help create a human rights culture in Israel.
  http://www.btselem.org/

• The Refuser Solidarity Network (RSN) was formed in April 2002 to provide support for the growing refuser movement in Israel. The initial impetus for the establishment of the RSN was the publication in January 2002 of the Combatant's Letter by a group of 52 reserve officers, which later became Ometz Le'sarev or Courage to Refuse.
  http://www.refusersolidarity.net

• The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI). In September 1999, in response to PCATI's petition, nine justices of the High Court ruled to absolutely prohibit the use of torture during interrogation. The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, an independent human rights organization founded in 1990, monitors the implementation of this ruling in detention centers and continues the struggle against the use of torture in interrogation in Israel and the Palestinian Authority through legal means, support of relevant legislation and through an information campaign aimed at raising public awareness of the subject.
  http://www.stoptorture.org.il/

• The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) is a non-violent, direct-action group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses in the Occupied Territories. As our activists gained direct knowledge of the brutalities of the Occupation, we expanded our resistance activities to other areas - land expropriation, settlement expansion, by-pass road construction, policies of "closure" and "separation," the wholesale uprooting of fruit and olive trees and more. The fierce repression of Palestinian efforts to "shake off" the Occupation following the latest Intifada has only added urgency to our efforts.
  http://www.icahd.org/eng/

• In 1982 and 1983, the horrors of the Lebanon War divided Israeli society and turned the attention of the world to the explosive situation in the Middle East. It was during this time that the Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (ICIPP) decided to broaden the impact of its activities by establishing an English-language newsletter, The Other Israel.

  The Other Israel, published bimonthly, aims to provide extensive coverage of the diverse struggles waged by the Israeli peace movement at large. It reports on a great variety of activities, most of which find little or no mention in the world media. It also contains commentaries on events in Israel and the Middle East from a perspective in which the interests of Israelis and Palestinians are ultimately reconcilable. More and more Israelis, Palestinians and interested groups and individuals all over the world are responding to The Other Israel. The newsletter is available at libraries in Israel, in the Occupied Territories, and in universities throughout the world. It is used as a source by journalists and quoted by political scientists.
  http://members.tripod.com/~other_Israel/

Avigail Abarbanel, 2004
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