Resources For Writers (and Performers)
Our writers and performers aim to create impassioned theatrical responses from facts on the ground and ideologies in motion. For them and for audiences, we recommend these resources for greater knowledge and inspiration (both dark and light).
Organizations and Groups:
- Jewish Voice for Peace
- Institute for Middle East Understanding
- Breaking the Silence
- Addameer: Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
- B'Tselem: The Israeli information Center for Human Rights
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
- Physicians for Human Rights-Israel
- Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
- International Solidarity Movement
- The Institute for Palestine Studies
- The Center for Constitutional Rights
- Palestine Solidarity Legal Support
- UNRWA (UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees)
- Rabbis for Human Rights
- Jews Say No
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Students for Justice in Palestine
- Human Rights Watch (Israel/Palestine)
- Amnesty International (Israel/Palestine)
- Just Vision
Books, Films, Articles:
Films:
- Five Broken Cameras
- Budrus
- Occupation 101 (view here)
- My Neighbourhood
- Arna's Children
- Encounter Point
- Defamation
- Palestine Blues
- Bil'in Hbibti
- Peace Propaganda and the Promised Land
- Palestine is Still the Issue
- With God on Our Side (or view film here)
Books:
- Palestine Inside Out: An Everyday Occupation by Saree Makdisi
- The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
- The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Illan Pape
- Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart
- Before Their Diaspora by Walid Khalidi
- The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi
- Goliath: Live and Loathing in Greater Israel by Max Blumenthal
- Prophet's Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing About Zionism and Israel, Edited by Adam Shatz
- Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Edited by Alisa Solomon and Tony Kushner
- Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations by Avi Shlaim
- The Iron Wall by Avi Shlaim
- Palestine by Joe Sacco
- The Battle for Justice in Palestine by Ali Abunimah
- Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter
- Gaza Writes Back: Short Stories by Young Writers in Gaza, Palestine
- Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine by William Parry
- One Palestine Complete: Jews & Arabs Under the British Mandate by Tom Segev
- Footnotes in Gaza: A Graphic Novel by Joe Sacco
- Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a and Under Siege by Amira Hass
- Lords of the Land: The War over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007, by Akiva Eldar and Idith Zertal
- Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation, Edited by Vijay Prashad.
- The War for Palestine: Rewriting the History of 1948, Edited by Avi Shlaim and Eugene L. Rogan
- Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape, by Raja Shehadeh
News and Information:
- Mondoweiss: http://mondoweiss.net/
- Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/
- +972 Magazine: http://972mag.com/
- The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/
- The Middle East Eye: http://www.middleeasteye.net/
- Electronic Intifada:http://electronicintifada.net/
- Muftah: http://muftah.org/category/israel-palestine/
- Al-Monitor: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/home.html#
- Al-Jazeera English: http://www.aljazeera.com/topics/regions/middleeast.html
- Maan News: http://www.maannews.com/eng/
- IMEU News and Opinion: http://imeu.org/topic/category/news-analysis
- Jadaliyya