Useful Links

Name

URL

Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem, monitors settlement building.

www.arij.org

Association for Civil Rights in Israel: works to protect Palestinian and Israeli civil liberties.

www.acri.org.il/english-acri/

Al-Haq: monitors human rights violations.

www.alhaq.org

Bat Shalom: feminist peace organization.

www.batshalom.org

B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

www.btselem.org

Bereaved Parents Circle: Israelis and Palestinians  who have lost children to the conflict between them.

www.theparentscircle.com

Cactus48 - information sharing on Palestine

www.cactus48.com

Christian Aid is an agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland. It strives to change the rules that keep people poor.

www.christianaid.org.uk

Christian Peacemaker Teams

www.cpt.org

Church World Service, Middle East Forum

www.loga.org/mideastforum/home.htm

Churches for Middle East Peace

www.cmep.org

Coalition of Women for a Just Peace

www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org

Council for the National Interest supports a balanced US foreign policy in the Middle East.

www.cnionline.org

The Foundation for Middle East Peace publishes a bimonthly "Report on Israeli Settlement."

www.fmep.org

Ha'aretz Israeli newspaper

www.haaretzdaily.com

Human Rights Watch

www.hrw.org

International Center of Bethlehem is a Lutheran-based, ecumenically-oriented institution serving the whole Palestinian community.

www.annadwa.org

Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions (ICAHD)

www.icahd.org

Jewish Voice for Peace is a  group dedicated to the human, civil and economic rights of all peoples in the Middle East.”

www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

JUSTPEACE Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation

www.justpeaceumc.org

Maps of Israel/Palestine - useful

www.passia.org/palestine_facts/MAPS

Methodist Federation for Social Action (MENUM)

www.mfsaweb.org

Middle East Children's Alliance

www.mecaforpeace.org

Palestinian Center for Rapprochement: a Palestinian community service center.

www.rapprochement.org
 

Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of  Global Dialogue & Democracy

www.miftah.org

Peacebuilder on the Web

www.shalam.org

Peace Now, an Israeli organization, has a settlement watch program that tracks settlement building.

www.peacenow.org

Rabbis for Human Rights is an important and active organization of about 90 Israeli rabbis.

www.rhr.israel.net

Sabeel is an ecumenical center for Palestinian Liberation Theology.  Sabeel works to promote  international awareness of the identity, presence, and witness of Palestinian Christians.

www.sabeel.org
 

Seeds of Peace brings Arab and Israeli teenagers together.

www.seedsofpeace.org

Society for Biblical Studies, Rev. Peter Miano. SBS offers “Programs of study, pilgrimage and service in the lands of the Bible.”

www.sbsedu.org

Ta'ayush: A grassroots movement of Arabs and Jews working to break down the walls of racism and segregation by constructing a true Arab-Jewish partnership. . . .

 www.taayush.org

Tikkun (Hebrew for "to mend, repair and transform the world")  is a Jewish critique of politics, culture, and society.

www.tikkun.org

TIPH -- the Temporary International Presence in Hebron. A UN-like organization of human rights observers. This site has good info on settlements in Hebron. www.tiph.org
 

Wi'am, the Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center in Bethlehem, strives to improve relationships by addressing injustices rather than avenging them.

www.planet.edu/~alaslah