Below are web links to some other sites we thought you might
find interesting or informative.
We have divided the
sites into 3 groups:
Campaigning
Organisations
Media Organisations
Faith-based
Organisations
Charitable
Organisations
Official Sites
Please note that
the Peace Cycle cannot be held responsible for the content of
any of these external sites.
Campaigning
Organisations
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign
www.palestinecampaign.org
PSC is a UK based organisation that campaigns
for justice for the Palestinian people.
The Association of the Palestinian Community
in the UK
www.apcuk.org
APC UK is an organisation that brings together members of the
Palestinian community living in the UK, and campaigns for
justice for the Palestinian people.
The Council for Arab-British Understanding
www.caabu.org
Promoting an enlightened and positive
approach to Arab-British relations in Government.
Al-Awda Right of Return Coalition
www.al-awda.org
The
Palestine Right to Return Coalition
is a charitable organisation of grassroots activists and
students committed to public education on the rights of all
Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of
origin.
Nakba 60
www.nakba60.org.uk
Nakba60
is a London-based campaign organised by a group of activists and
students committed to commemorating sixty years of the
Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe).
Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International
Affairs
www.passia.org
PASSIA
seeks to present the Palestinian Question in its national, Arab
and international contexts through academic research, dialogue
and publication.
The Arab Association for Human Rights
www.arabhra.org
AAHR was founded in 1988 to promote and
protect the political, civil, economic, and cultural rights of
the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel.
Adalah
www.adalah.org
The legal centre for Arab minority rights in
Israel.
Miftah
www.miftah.org
NGO in East Jerusalem that promotes human
rights, democracy, civil society and peace.
The Palestinian Centre for Rapprochement
www.rapprochement.org
A group with a commitment and a long history
of working for justice and peace.
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions
www.icahduk.org
ICAHD is a non-violent, direct-action
group originally established to oppose and resist Israeli
demolition of Palestinian homes in the Occupied Territories.
Badil
www.badil.org
Badil is a resource centre for Palestinian
residency and refugee rights.
Rediscovering
Palestine
www.rediscoveringpalestine.org.uk
A British network of NGOs involved in
Palestinian issues.
Media Organsations
Electronic Intifada
www.electronicintifada.net
The Electronic Intifada (EI) publishes news,
commentary, analysis, and reference materials about the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a Palestinian perspective.
Arab Media Watch
www.arabmediawatch.com
AMW’s main activities
include monitoring and analysing the British media, establishing
a dialogue with journalists and editors, organising topical
events, and encouraging members to engage the media in a polite,
factual and targeted manner.
The Palestine Chronicle
www.palestinechronicle.com
The Palestine Chronicle is an independent
online newspaper that provides daily news, commentary,
features, book reviews, photos, art, etc, on a variety of
subjects but largely focuses on Palestine, Israel, and the
'Middle East' region.
The Palestinian Information Centre
www.palestine-info.co.uk
PIC aims to promote awareness about
Palestine, the Palestinians and the Palestinian issue and to
balance the often-distorted picture presented in the mainstream
media.
The Alternative Information Centre
www.alternativenews.org
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) is
an internationally oriented, progressive, joint
Palestinian-Israeli activist organization. It is engaged in
dissemination of information, political advocacy, grassroots
activism and critical analysis of the Palestinian and Israeli
societies as well as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Palestine Monitor
www.palestinemonitor.org
Alongside news and updates, information, fact sheets and regular
political analysis, the Palestine Monitor also publishes first
hand eyewitness accounts of life in the occupied territories.
Middle East Realities
www.middleeast.org
MER's purpose is to present the most
insightful and independent information and analysis about what
is going on in today's Middle East as well as in Washington
about the Middle East.
If Americans Knew
www.ifamericansknew.org
The mission of If Americans Knew is to inform
and educate the American public on issues of major significance
that are unreported, underreported, or misreported in the
American media.
Faith-based Organisations
Friends of Sabeel UK
www.friendsofsabeel.org.uk
Sabeel
was formed by Palestinian Christians to work for a just peace,
and to promote non-violence and reconciliation between the
people of Palestine and Israel.
Christian Peacemaker Teams
www.cpt.org/work/palestine
CPT maintains teams in the Palestinian cities
of Hebron and at-Tuwani village, both in the southern West Bank.
They monitor the treatment of Palestinians by the Israeli
forces, and accompany Palestinians to school and work.
The Joint Advocacy Initiative
www.jai-pal.org
JAI is a project of the East Jerusalem YMCA
and YWCA of Palestine.
The Holy Land Trust
www.holylandtrust.org
Holy Land Trust is a Palestinian
not-for-profit organisation that supports the Palestinian
community in its struggle to achieve independence by non-violent
action. It also works to broaden international understanding of
Palestine, and establish links between the Palestinian people
and the international community.
Pax Christi
www.paxchristi.org.uk
The International Catholic Movement for
Peace.
Gush Shalom – the Israeli Peace Bloc
www.gush-shalom.org
The primary aim of Gush Shalom is to
influence Israeli public opinion and lead it towards peace and
conciliation with the Palestinian people, based on ending the
occupation and accepting the right of the Palestinian people to
establish an independent state within the pre-1967 borders.
Jews for Justice for Palestinians
www.jfjfp.org
Jews for Justice for Palestinians is a
network of Jews who oppose Israeli policies that undermine the
livelihoods, human, civil and political rights of the
Palestinian people.
B’tselem
www.btselem.org
Israeli Human Rights Group - they research
and publish data on human rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank
and Gaza.
Rabbis for Human Rights
www.rhr.israel.net
Bringing a Jewish religious perspective to
the peace and justice movement.
Independent Jewish Voices
IJV is a new organisation of British Jews with a radical agenda
advocating their views on a variety of issues, a principal one
being their opposition to Israel's occupation of Palestine.
Jewish Voices Against the Occupation
www.jvao.org
Promotes the end to the Israeli Occupation of
the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem.
Jews Against Zionism
www.jewsagainstzionism.com
True Torah Jews is a non-profit organisation
formed by a group of religious Orthodox Jews dedicated to
informing the world and the American public and politicians in
particular, that the ideology of Zionism is in total opposition
to the teachings of traditional Judaism.
Friends of Al Aqsa
www.aqsa.org.uk
Friends of Al Aqsa campaigns for the defence
of Al-Aqsa and for peace in Palestine.
Interpal
www.interpal.org
Interpal is a non-political, non-profit making British charity
that focuses on the provision of relief and development aid to
the poor and needy of Palestine, and the refugee camps in Jordan
and Lebanon.
The Muslim Association of Britain
www.mabonline.net
The Muslim Association of Britain works with
organisations, civic institutions, and political bodies to
achieve positive integration of Muslims in wider British
society.
Charitable Organisations
Medical Aid for Palestinians
MAP is a UK Charity providing support to the health and medical
needs of vulnerable Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank
and across the Middle East.
The Dove and Dolphin
www.doveanddolphin.co.uk
The Dove and Dolphin is a project to ship
food aid from the UK to starving children in Gaza.
Hadeel
www.hadeel.org
Haddel is a Fair Trade shop which aims to
provide a sustainable source of income for craftspeople working
in community based groups in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon.
Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hadeel also supplies crafts
through it’s website.
Playgrounds for Palestine
www.playgroundsforpalestine.org
PFP is a non-profit organization dedicated to
building playgrounds and recreation areas for Palestinian
children living under military occupation.
Official Sites
Palestinian General Delegation to the UK
www.palestiniangd.org.uk
The Palestinian General Delegation has all
the responsibilities, burdens and expectations of a regular
Embassy, however; it lacks all the privileges, immunities, and
the financial facilities of a normal Embassy. The Palestinians
are still a national liberation movement struggling for
independence and statehood.
PLO Negotiation Affairs Department
www.nad-plo.org
The central coordinating institution of the
Palestinian/Israeli negotiation process.
Permanent Observer
Mission of PALESTINE
to the United Nations.
www.un.int/palestine
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