European Broadcasting Union
The new front of war: Inside Israel’s digital ‘hasbara’ offensive
Maria Flannery, Jana Heigl, Max Gilbert et al.: Insight into Israel’s digital “Hasbara” offensive. Documents show how Israel’s state-sponsored “Hasbara” campaigns use social media, paid influencers, and military tours to influence global reporting on Gaza and counter critics.
Emergency call to the international community: stop the forcible transfer in the West Bank
October 29, 2023, signed by 33 Israeli NGO’s. The first paragraph of the open letter reads: “We, the undersigned human rights and civil society non-governmental organizations in Israel, call on the international community to take urgent action to stop the state-sponsored wave of settler violence that has led to and continues to lead to the violent displacement of Palestinian communities in the West Bank.”
Norman Finkelstein, speech at University of Massachusetts Amherst, 8.10.2025:
Speech by former UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness on the consequences of October 7:
International Association of Genocide Scholars
IAGS Resolution on the Situation in Gaza
Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is committed to improving and deepening public understanding of Palestine, Palestinians, and Palestinian Americans through the media.
Quick Facts: The Palestinian Nakba (Catastrophe)
Gabor Maté:
The beautiful dream of Israel has become a nightmare.
Open letter from various scientists:
An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory
Avi-Ram Tzoreff in conversation with Georges Khalil:
A Suggestion for a Different Existence in Israel-Palestine
Avi-Ram Tzoreff (Zochrot):
A Built, Destroyed and then Built Again Home: Binationalism as a Safe Shelter
Sara Roy:
The Long War on Gaza
Online Media
Democracy now! produces a daily independent news program with global reach. Its coverage includes breaking headlines and in-depth interviews with people on the front lines of the world’s most pressing issues.
Mondoweiss was founded in 2006 as the personal blog of journalist Philip Weiss and grew within the progressive Jewish community to become an important resource for the movement for justice for Palestinians. Mondoweiss follows the debates about the role of Israel and nationalism in Jewish-American life, seeking to reflect the diverse opinions of a community on issues of international importance. Mondoweiss recognizes that Jewish voices often take precedence in discussions about Israel and seeks to challenge this dynamic by placing a universalist focus on a topic that is often dominated by narrow perspectives.
+972 Magazine is an independent, online-based, non-profit magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Since its founding in 2010, its mission has been to provide in-depth reporting, analysis, and opinion from Israel-Palestine. The name of the website is derived from the telephone code that can be used for calls within Israel and Palestine.
NGO’s and other institutions
The brief descriptions of the organizations are provided by the organizations themselves
Academia for Equality advocates for democratization, equality and access to higher education for all communities living in Israel/Palestine. “We believe that promoting our mission in the academic sphere will advance justice and equality in our society and region as a whole. Recognizing the rights of both peoples in Israel-Palestine under international law, we fight against the complicity of Israeli academia with occupation, war, and apartheid, advocate for academic freedom, and oppose the suppression of critical voices in Israel and the wider academic world.”
The Complicit Academy library documents, among other things, the suppression of dissenting opinions by Israeli academic institutions, institutionalized racism against Palestinian students and teachers, and collaboration with the settler project.
A Land for All – Two States One Homeland Israeli-Palestinian political initiative rooted in the lived reality of the country. It was founded by people who know the conflict from their daily lives. Their shared political vision is based on dignity, equality, and belonging for both peoples.
Al-Haq – Defending Human Rights independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization based in Ramallah, West Bank. Established in 1979 to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The organization has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights independent, non-partisan, non-governmental human rights organization based in the occupied Gaza Strip. Since its establishment in 1999, Al Mezan has been dedicated to protecting and promoting the respect of human rights, especially economic, social and cultural rights, supporting victims of violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and enhancing democracy, community and citizen participation, and respect for the rule of law in Gaza as part of the occupied Palestinian territory.
Akevot – Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research founded in 2014 on the recognition that archives can play a unique role in promoting fact-based discourse and supporting the work of human rights defenders. “We turn archives into instruments of change by researching and uncovering mechanisms, processes, and events that contribute to the continuation of the conflict. We support human rights defenders and civil society organizations in accessing archival documents relevant to their work. We are committed to expanding public access to government archives in order to promote transparency and freedom of information.”
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), founded in 1972, advocates for the full spectrum of human rights and civil liberties for all people living in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, freedom, and equality are guaranteed for all people, Palestinians and Jews alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible, writes B’Tselem, if the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime are ended.
Bimkom – Planning and Human Rights founded in 1999 by a group of planners and architects to strengthen democracy and human rights in the field of spatial planning.
Breaking the Silence is an Israeli organization of veterans who have served in the Israeli military since the beginning of the second Intifada and who educate the public about the reality of everyday life in the occupied territories. “Soldiers serving in the occupied territories witness and participate in military actions that profoundly change them. Cases of abuse of Palestinian civilians, looting, and destruction of property have been commonplace for years, yet officially continue to be described as ‘extreme’ and ‘unique’ isolated incidents. Our testimonies paint a different – and much bleaker – picture, reflecting the deterioration of moral standards in military orders and rules of engagement that the state considers justified in the name of Israel’s security. Our work aims to end the occupation.”
Combatants for Peace A grassroots movement of Israelis and Palestinians working together to end the occupation and create peace, freedom, and security for all people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Diaspora Alliance combats Anti-Semitism and its political exploitation.
“Anti-Semitism is hostility, discrimination, prejudice, or violence toward Jews as Jews. It blames Jews collectively for societal ills or perceived evils in the world. Anti-Semitism threatens us all by undermining democracy, fueling conspiracy theories and fanaticism, and misdirecting people’s anger, fear, and understanding of power.”
Diaspora Alliance opposes a policy of “divide and rule” that ultimately shows little regard for actual Jews or the safety of Jewish communities. “We reject approaches to combating anti-Semitism that have not only been ineffective in curbing the spread of anti-Semitic ideologies or incidents, but have also become a cover for right-wing movements and attacks on Palestinians and their supporters. In doing so, we offer ways to combat anti-Semitism alongside other forms of oppression and racist ideologies and violence.
Fabricated or frivolous accusations of anti-Semitism are used to hinder the fight for human rights, justice, and equality, to defame, and to make it more difficult to combat anti-Semitism when it occurs.”
Emek Shaveh advocates for the defense of cultural heritage rights and the protection of ancient sites as public property belonging to all communities, faiths, and peoples. “We reject the use of the ruins of the past as a political tool in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and oppose those who use archaeological sites to dispossess disenfranchised communities. We view cultural heritage sites as resources for building bridges and strengthening ties between peoples and cultures.”
European Jews for a Just Peace (EJJP) founded in 2002, alliance of 12 European Jewish peace groups in 9 European countries working against Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and against all forms of racism, Anti-Semitism, and Islamophobia in their own countries. EJJP advocates at the European level for the rights of Palestinians, against the Israeli occupation, and for the distinction between freedom of expression regarding Israel and Anti-Semitism.
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths University of London. “Our mission is to develop, apply, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence. Our team consists of architects, software developers, filmmakers, investigative journalists, scientists, and lawyers.”
FA writes about its research on Gaza: “Since October 2023, we have been closely monitoring Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip and the resulting extensive damage to the civilian population. A comprehensive cartographic analysis, published as a web platform and detailed report, reveals patterns of violence that indicate a systematic and organized campaign to destroy lives, essential conditions, and vital infrastructure.“
FA publishes the ”Index of Oppression”: “For decades, expressions of solidarity with Palestine have been suppressed by states and institutions throughout Europe and the US. Since the escalation of the genocide in Gaza in October 2023, repression in civil society has increased. The index presents data on nearly 2,000 such incidents in the UK and Germany.”
In an interview on January 14, 2026, FA founder Eyal Weizman and two members of his team talk about the work of FA: https://www.moussemagazine.it/magazine/forensic-architecture-nour-abuzaid-elizabeth-breiner-eyal-weizman-2026/
Gaza Children’s Village exists to protect childhood in the midst of crisis. “Through our Academies of Hope, we provide orphaned and vulnerable children with consistent access to education, nutritious meals, healthcare, and trauma-informed psychosocial support in community-based campuses across Gaza. Our work is grounded in dignity, routine, and care. Every day, children arrive to classrooms, get warm meals, medical attention, and trusted adults who help restore stability and a sense of belonging.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/middleeast/gaza-schools-peace-curriculum.html
Gisha founded in 2005 with the aim of protecting the freedom of movement of Palestinians, particularly those living in the Gaza Strip.
Since the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, the Israeli military has developed a complex system of rules and sanctions to control the freedom of movement of the 4.5 million Palestinians living there. The restrictions violate Palestinians’ fundamental right to freedom of movement. As a result, other fundamental rights are violated, including the right to life, the right to access medical care, the right to education, the right to livelihood, the right to family reunification, and the right to freedom of religion. Gisha represents individuals and organizations in Israeli administrative proceedings and before the courts. Gisha’s legal work is based on Israeli law, international human rights, and humanitarian law.
Hamoked – Center for the Defense of the Individual
Founded by Dr. Lotte Salzberger, this human rights organization supports Palestinians living under Israeli occupation who suffer from severe and ongoing violations of their rights. Hamoked advocates for the enforcement of the standards and values of international humanitarian law and international human rights norms.
Haqel: In Defense of Human Rights Haqel means “field” in Arabic. The field is a symbol of renewal, an important source of income, and an essential part of Palestinian life and culture. As a result of the occupation, Palestinian lands are under constant threat of takeover, and their owners are subjected to numerous human rights violations. Haqel advocates for legal proceedings on behalf of Palestinian landowners and entire communities in the occupied territories.
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights independent Palestinian human rights organization based in Gaza City. Established in 1995 by a group of Palestinian lawyers and human rights activists in order to:
- Protect human rights and promote the rule of law in accordance with international standards.
- Create and develop democratic institutions and an active civil society, while promoting democratic culture within Palestinian society.
- Support all the efforts aimed at enabling the Palestinian people to exercise its inalienable rights in regard to self-determination and independence in accordance with international Law and UN resolutions.
The Center has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and is a member of numerous international organizations. In 2002, the Center received the Bruno Kreisky-Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of human rights.
The Public Committee Against Torture (PCATI) has been working since 1990 to abolish torture in Israel. “We defend victims who have been injured during interrogations, demonstrations, detentions, prison sentences, and other measures, and represent Israelis, Palestinians, refugees, and migrants who have been tortured or subjected to inhuman, cruel, or degrading treatment by the Israeli authorities.”
Ir Amim (City of Nations), founded in 2000, aims to make Jerusalem a more just and sustainable city for the Israelis and Palestinians who share it, and to contribute to finding a negotiated solution for the city and reframing the public debate about Jerusalem through continuous monitoring, reporting, legal advocacy, and public outreach.
Jewish Voice for Peace describes itself as “the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization worldwide. We organize a multi-ethnic, cross-class, and intergenerational movement of American Jews who stand in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom and are guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people. We envision a world in which all people live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity. Like generations of Jewish leftists before us, we fight for the liberation of all people.”
Machsom Watch (Checkpoint Watch) 2001 founded by three Jewish women in Jerusalem, two years later 500 women from all walks of Israeli society were already involved. “The full extent of the damage caused by the Israeli occupation to every aspect of Palestinian life cannot be seen from Tel Aviv, Haifa, or Beer Sheva. Since there is no fair reporting in the media, the Israeli public cannot follow how the state is systematically taking over Palestinian land (de facto annexation). We have made it our mission to describe the reality of the occupation, to make it public and to convey to the unsuspecting Israeli public what is happening just minutes away from their homes and in their name. It is important to understand the fate of the humiliated Palestinian people, who can neither control their own destiny nor protect their property, their children and families; to learn how vulnerable the Palestinians are, as anyone can burn their fields and cut down their olive groves, wreak havoc in the streets of their villages at night, intimidate, threaten, and harm them without being held accountable, and in countless cases even with the support of the army and the state itself.”
Parents Circle – Families Forum (PCFF) founded in 1995, over 800 Palestinian and Israeli members, all of whom have lost a close relative to the ongoing conflict. Despite their deep grief, the members have chosen a unique and courageous path: they want to transform their pain into a force for reconciliation, dialogue, and peace.
Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI) founded in 1988 by a group of Israeli doctors and advocates for a just society in which the right to health is equally granted to all people under Israeli responsibility. In our open and mobile clinics, volunteer medical professionals provide free services to people with limited or no access to healthcare, primarily migrants, refugees, and Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. At the same time, PHRI works to change discriminatory and abusive structures and policies towards Palestinians in the occupied territories, prisoners and detainees, migrant workers, refugees, undocumented people, and Israeli residents.
Platform Palestine Solidarity Austria
“Through determined solidarity work, we want to support the Palestinian people in achieving equality with the Israeli state, so that it must be taken seriously as a partner in the conflict resolution process.”
The website contains links to numerous Austrian pro-Palestinian initiatives and NGOs.
Project48 provides educational materials, eyewitness accounts, images, videos, and artifacts that bring to life the Nakba (“catastrophe”) and its impact on multiple generations, as well as the ongoing struggle of Palestinians against colonial erasure and for the return of refugees to their ancestral lands. The term Nakba refers to the expulsion of over 750,000 Palestinians during the establishment of the State of Israel as a Jewish-dominated country in an area whose population was two-thirds Palestinian Arab.
Rabbis for Human Rights founded in 1988, brings together rabbis of all denominations and rabbinical schools in Israel. The organization advocates for the rights of disadvantaged groups, protects the rights of minorities in Israel and Palestinians in the occupied territories, and prevents flagrant violations of the fundamental rights of migrant workers. The organization puts pressure on political decision-makers in Israel to ensure that human rights are upheld, including the right to health care, housing, education, and a minimum standard of living.
The organization’s work reflects its members’ belief “that as Jews, we are obligated to protest and, where possible, prevent any injustice done to any human being—a belief rooted in the conviction that every human being is created in the image of God.
Our authority comes from two main sources: the Jewish humanistic tradition and international human rights conventions. At a time when nationalistic, violent, and separatist interpretations of Jewish tradition prevail, we express Judaism’s traditional responsibility for the welfare of the stranger, the different, and the vulnerable—the stranger, the widow, and the orphan.”
Shemesh Center for the Study of a Partnership-Based Peace research center (under construction) of the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, engages in the multidisciplinary study of the transformation of conflicts to peace, with a focus on the Israeli-Palestinian case. The main areas of research and activity include developing and refining the paradigm of a partnership-based peace, development of a peace-appropriate language, and the creation of public policy knowledge that promotes Israeli-Palestinian peace and reconciliation. The center acts to generate influence by making accessible and distributing research-based knowledge—in academic settings, civil society, media, the arts, and government—and its aim is to enrich the scholarly, professional, artistic, and public discussion of topics concerning the conflict and peace and related to propelling processes that promote peace and reconciliation.
Standing Together Vienna founded in October 2023, is a Jewish-Arab alliance for peace in the Middle East. “We are an initiative with members from diverse backgrounds that promotes dialogue and coexistence as a means to achieve a just peace in the Middle East. We believe that only through dialogue can the walls of alienation be overcome and genuine recognition and reconciliation be fostered, which are necessary for an amicable solution and the creation of a just society in Israel-Palestine. We reject all forms of violence and advocate for the demilitarization of the region.”
Torat Tzedek (Torah of Justice) Israeli human rights organization founded in 2017 by Rabbi Arik Ascherman. Torat Tzedek sees it as a particularly Jewish religious obligation to respect the image of God in every human being. Torat Tzedek advocates for the human rights of Jews and non-Jews alike.
Versöhnungsbund Austria (Fellowship of Reconciliation) As part of the international peace movement, the Austrian Fellowship of Reconciliation actively works in a nonviolent manner for a just and sustainable peace. The Fellowship of Reconciliation strives for a world in which respect for life and the dignity, freedom, and individuality of every human being are at the center of society and politics, and active nonviolence is realized as a principle of action. In this world guided by the idea of reconciliation, oppressive and inhuman structures and ideologies are replaced by a culture of peace that has grown out of religious and humanistic traditions. The Fellowship of Reconciliation supports a just peace in Palestine and Israel that is defined by those affected themselves.
Women Lawyers for Social Justice was founded in 2001 to give a voice to women who face social, geographical, national, ethnic, and economic discrimination in Israeli society.
Women Wage Peace was founded after the 50-day Gaza War in 2014. It is non-partisan and does not support any particular solution to the conflict. Instead, it empowers women from different communities to build trust across borders, which in turn leads to a unified demand for diplomatic negotiations with full representation of women to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Yesh Din – Volunteers for Human Rights founded in 2005, Yesh Din is an Israeli nonprofit organization supported by a volunteer corps, lawyers, and human rights experts. It works to protect the human rights of Palestinians living under occupation by the Israeli armed forces. “We consider the occupation to be the main cause of human rights violations and are therefore committed to ending it.”
Yesh Din documents, collects, and disseminates reliable and up-to-date information about systematic human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories. Yesh Din engages in public and legal advocacy to pressure Israeli authorities to fulfill their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect Palestinians and their rights, and to raise public awareness of human rights violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Yesh Din’s work focuses on the prosecution of settlers and other Israeli civilians, the criminal accountability of members of the Israeli security forces in the West Bank suspected of committing crimes against Palestinians, and human rights violations related to the takeover of Palestinian land and restrictions on Palestinians’ access to their land.
ZAZIM “We are a citizens’ movement of Arabs and Jews who work together to promote democracy and equality and encourage active civic engagement. We agree that it is urgently necessary to end the occupation of Palestine and stop the policies of annexation and apartheid, and we strive for a peace agreement with the Palestinians based on mutual recognition of the sovereignty, independence, and right to live in peace and security of both nations.”
Zochrot founded in 2002 by Jewish-Israeli activists. Zochrot disseminates historical information about the Palestinian Nakba in Hebrew in order to promote responsibility for the Nakba and the implementation of the right of return for Palestinian refugees among the Jewish public in Israel.