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ISRAELI And PALESTINIAN ORGANISATIONS

Alternative information/resource centres

Alternative Information Centre (AIC)
The AIC is a Palestinian-Israeli organization which disseminates information, research and political analysis on Palestinian and Israeli societies as well as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while promoting cooperation between Palestinians and Israeli s based on the values of social justice, solidarity and community involvement.

Arabic Media Internet Network (AMIN)
AMIN encourages constructive and thoughtful debate on issues of concern to the Palestinian public and international community.

Ariga
Ariga sounds Italian. It's not. Nor is it Greek, Phoenician or Turkish. It is a Hebrew word meaning weave, in other words, what we all try to do on the web... The site was opened to the public in mid 1995 as an experimental web-publishing platform, the first web-based source of news from Israel, emphasizing the peace process, but including poetry, painting and other subjects of interest.

BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Bethelem
BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights is a Palestinian community-based organization that aims to provide a resource pool of alternative, critical and progressive information and analysis on the question of Palestinian refugees

Bitter Lemons
Bitterlemons.org is a website that presents Israeli and Palestinian viewpoints on prominent issues of concern. It focuses on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and peace process, but other, related regional issues are also discussed. It is produced, edited and partially written by Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian, and Yossi Alpher, an Israeli.

Electronic Intifada
The Electronic Intifada project (EI) is an online publication produced by a small network of pro-Palestinian activists with a history of Internet and media activism, focussed on one aspect of the struggle -- the war in the media for a fair representation of the Palestinian point of view.

Givat Haviva, The Jewish Arab Center for Peace
Givat Haviva is an education, research and documentation center, founded in 1949 by The Kibbutz Haartzi Federation in memory of Haviva Reik. The campus is located in the northern Sharon Valley (east of Hadera), Israel.

Indymedia Israel
The www.indymedia.org.il newswire works on the principle of OPEN PUBLISHING, an essential element of the Indymedia project that allows anyone to instantaneously self-publish their work on a globally accessible web site.

On Indymedia generally:
The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media's distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity... The Independent Media Center, was established by various independent and alternative media organizations and activists in 1999 for the purpose of providing grassroots coverage of the World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Seattle.

International Middle East Media Center
IMEMC is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide an English language media coverage of Israel-Palestine.

Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI)
IPCRI, founded in Jerusalem in 1988, is the only joint Israeli-Palestinian public policy think-tank in the world. It is devoted to developing practical solutions for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jerusalem Forum
The Jerusalem Forum is an Amman-based non-governmental organization geared to educating, and exposing the human dimension of the Palestinian people and their attachment to their land; past and present.

The Jerusalem Media Communciation Centre
JMCC was established in 1988 by a group of Palestinian journalists and researchers to provide information on events in the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. JMCC's Jerusalem and Gaza offices provide a wide range of services to journalists, researchers, international agencies, individuals and organizations interested in obtaining reliable information on the Palestinian territory.
The JMCC periodically carries out public opinion polls assessing Palestinian attitudes on issues such as democracy and the peace process.

MITFAH, the Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
MITFAH is a Palestinian, Jerusalem-based, independent institution committed to fostering the principles of democracy and effective dialogue based on the free and candid exchange of information and ideas. Established in January 1999, Miftah's underlying premise is the integration of several processes: Palestinian nation-building and empowerment on the basis of the principles of democracy, human rights, rule of law, and participatory governance; international reconciliation and cooperation; the gathering and dissemination of information and the active participation in the global dialogue as an equal partner.

OccupationMagazine
News, summaries and commentary by people opposing the occupation. The aim of this website is to provide informations and alternative commentary on the ongoing developments in the Occupied Territories - the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - in Hebrew, English and Russian. The need for such informations arises since the ongoing devastation of the Palestinian land and people in the Occupied Territories is misrepresented in the Israeli and US media as "fight against terror" and a "just struggle for Israel's very existence and security". The Editors represent a range of opinions as to the optimal solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, we are united in the belief that a viable solution must be based on the unconditional end to the Israeli military occupation, and on principles of equality, justice and mutual respect.

Occupational Hazard
www.OccupationalHazard.org is an effort to confront the Israeli-Palestinian conflict honestly and constructively, towards the goal of replacing conflict with coexistence. We commit ourselves to presenting an accurate, balanced and current account of the conflict...

The Other Israel
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.

Oznik.com
I've been running this site in this format since autumn of the year 2000. I try to publish reports that are not available elsewhere. Material is posted as it flows in, which is rarely more than a piece a week, but I am looking for more regular contributions, and collaboration.

Oznik.com maintains the Refuseniks Watch banner that we display on the JfJfP site.

Palestine Center for Policy and Survey Research
PSR programs and activities are organized through three units: the Domestic Politics Unit (DPU), the Strategic Analysis Unit (SAU), and the Survey Research Unit (SRU). These units conduct and organize four types of activities: research and policy analysis, empirical surveys and public opinion polls, task forces and study groups, and meetings and conferences. The units focus on current public policy issues with a special reliance on empirical research as the tool to advance scholarship and understanding.

Palestine Monitor
At the outbreak of the current Intifada in September 2000, The Palestinian Non-Governmental Network (PNGO) perceived a real lack of the Palestinian narrative in the media... PNGO therefore delegated to HDIP [Health, Development, Information, and Policy Inst

Palestine-Israel Journal
The Palestine-Israel Journal is an independent quarterly that aims to shed light on, and analyze freely and critically, the complex issues dividing Israelis and Palestinians. It will also devote space to relevant Middle East and international affairs.

PalestineRemembered
PalestineRemembered.com was founded by a group of ordinary Palestinians who have dedicated themselves to preserving and documenting the collective experiences and heritage of the Palestinian refugees.

Shaml (Palestinian Daispora and Refugee Centre)
Shaml is an independent non-governmental organization dedicated to the research of issues related to Palestinian refugees and the Palestinian diaspora. It was established in 1994 by a group of concerned academics and human rights activists who felt the need to examine issues pertaining to Palestinian refugees from a comparative perspective encompassing relevant  experiences in other parts of the world. Shaml is also a resource center on Palestinian refugee issues.

Sounds Like Freedom
The website of a group of people working in Jenin. Contains articles and reports and radio and real-media video files for download, made both by Palestinians and Internationals. It aims to provide a direct voice from the residents of Jenin to the world.

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