OTHER RESOURCES/LINKS
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Local Anti-Apartheid Campaign to Get Involved in
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There are lots of good resources on the web about Israeli apartheid and human rights abuses in the Occupied Territories. Below are just a few:
- The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation has a great fact sheet and other resources to help understand apartheid in the Israeli Occupied Territories.
- OCHA, The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is the United Nations' agency responsible for humanitarian aid in the West Bank and Gaza. OCHA monitors check points and closures in the Israeli Occupied Territories and produces wonderful up-to-date maps.
- B'Tselemis an Israeli human rights organization that monitors human rights abuses in the Israeli Occupied Territories. They have detailed maps, on the ground reports, statistics, and more.
- The demolition of thousands Palestinian homes is an integral part of the Apartheid system. The Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions works to end this practice.
- There is a growing movement to have international anti-apartheid weeks in February each year. In 2008, there were events in over 25 cities on 3 continents. For more info, click here.
- If Americans Only Knew is a great site of analysis and information.
- The International Solidarity Movement has a summer campaign against apartheid and has actively protested the apartheid roads.
- Friends of Sabeel North America organized a Boston conference in October, 2007 titled: The Apartheid Paradigm in Palestine-Israel. The conference featured Bishop Desmond Tutu as the key-note speaker. Click here for a report and videos of the conference.
- American Muslims for Palestine: Empowerment through Education and Action. The mission of the American Muslims for Palestine is to educate the public about the just cause of Palestine and the rights of self-determination, liberty and justice.
- For first hand experience of the occupation click here to read Skip Schiel's blog and see his photography. He is a Quaker who documents the occupation.
We have chosen to focus the Itisapartheid.org web site on apartheid in the Israeli Occupied territories. We want to be clear that the discrimination and violations of human rights do not stop there. Below are links describing those issues:
- Discrimination inside Israel:
- Plight of Refugees:
- Other useful links:
- For updated information go to the Electronic Intifada
- Active stills is a photo collective in Israel who documents the occupation. They have two web addresses. Their web site and their photo's on Flickr