Citations for ISRAEL/PALESTINE/ USA: Hope this clears things up!

Art House Politics
7 min readMay 24, 2021

[1] Pietromarchi et. Al., May 13, 2021. “Israel threatens Gaza with ground attack amid air strikes: Live” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/13/israel-bombs-high-rise-buildings-as-gaza-marks-deadly-eid-live

[2] Nidal Al-mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller, May 16, 2021. Reuters. “Progressive lawmakers call on US to recognize Palestinians’ human rights — as it happened”

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-bombs-hamas-gaza-chiefs-home-fighting-enters-seventh-day-2021-05-15/

[3] Tovah Lazaroff and Omri Nahmias, May 16, 2021. The Jerusalem Post. “Netanyahu to Hamas: You can’t hide, IDF strikes to last as long as needed” https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/us-affirms-israels-right-to-self-defense-as-idf-continues-gaza-campaign-668277

[4] Ryan Heath, May 13, 2021. Politico. “Biden’s U.N. honeymoon is over” https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/13/joe-biden-united-nations-488160

[6] Visualizing Palestine. Graphics, including “Palestinian & Israeli Deaths” https://visualizingpalestine.org/visuals/timeline-of-violence

[5] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Database: Occupied Palestinian Territory. “Data on casualties” https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

[7] Center For Constitutional Right, 2016. “The Genocide of the Palestinian People: An International Law and Human Rights Perspective” https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/10/Background%20on%20the%20term%20genocide%20in%20Israel%20Palestine%20Context.pdf

[8] I learned this from S. Zaken.

[9] Amira Hass, 2012. Haaretz. “2,279 Calories per Person: How Israel Made Sure Gaza Didn’t Starve” https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-israel-s-gaza-quota-2-279-calories-a-day-1.5193157

[10] National Health Service. “What should my daily intake of calories be?” https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/food-and-diet/what-should-my-daily-intake-of-calories-be/

[11] Medical Aid for Palestinians and Save the Children, 2012. “Gaza’s Children: Falling Behind”

[12] Matthew Kalman, 2014. The Guardian. “Gaza warned of looming water crisis” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jan/30/gaza-looming-water-crisis-friends-earth

[13] Samira Hillis, Jumana Alaref, and Wouter Takkenberg, 2018. World Bank. “Enhancing job opportunities for skilled women in the Palestinian territories” http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/977921537274068902/pdf/129981-WP-PUBLIC-Enhancing-Job-Opportunities-for-Skilled-Females-in-the-Palestinian-Territories-Final-Report.pdf

[14] United Nations Convention against Torture “$48 billion is the estimated revenue loss by Palestine from 2000–2017 due to occupation” https://unctad.org/news/48-billion-estimated-revenue-loss-palestine-2000-2017-due-occupation

[15] Hina Jilani, Christine Chinkin, and Desmond Travers, 2011. The Guardian. “Goldstone report: Statement issued by members of UN mission on Gaza war” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/apr/14/goldstone-report-statement-un-gaza

[16] A/HRC/29/CRP.4 (23 June 2015) Human Rights Council Twenty-nine session Agenda items 7 “Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories” Report of the detailed findings of the independent commission of inquiry established pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution S-21/1* **

[17] Associated Press and Times of Israel, 2020. “Human toll of incendiary weapons documented in new report” https://www.timesofisrael.com/human-toll-of-incendiary-weapons-documented-in-new-report/

[18] Jack Dutton, May 13, 2021. Newsweek. “Israel Says Claims of White Phosphorous Use by its Forces ‘False’” https://www.newsweek.com/israel-white-phosphorus-gaza-claims-false-idf-1591107

[19] Gaza Fights for Freedom (2019), directed by Abby Martin. https://means.tv/programs/gaza

[20] Noura Erakat, 2014. Arab Studies Institute, Jadaliyya. “No, Israel Does Not Have the Right to Self-Defense In International Law Against Occupied Palestinian Territory”

https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/27551

[21] CJ Werleman, May 12, 2021. TRT World. “No phrase distorts reality more than ‘Israel’s right to self-defence’” https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/no-phrase-distorts-reality-more-than-israel-s-right-to-self-defence-46640

[22] United Nations, 2018. “19 General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Protecting Palestinian Civilians Following Rejection of United States Amendment to Condemn Hamas Rocket Fire” https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/ga12028.doc.htm

[23] Aaron Pina, 2006. CRS Report for Congress, Order Code RL33269. “Palestinian Elections” https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33269.pdf

[24] Human Rights Council, 2019. Fortieth session, 25 February–22, March 2019, Agenda item 7: Human rights situation in Palestine and other occupied Arab territories. “Report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the protests in the Occupied Palestinian Territory” A/HRC/40/74 https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/CoIOPT/A_HRC_40_74.pdf

[25] United Nations, 2018. “General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Protecting Palestinian Civilians Following Rejection of United States Amendment to Condemn Hamas Rocket Fire” https://www.un.org/press/en/2018/ga12028.doc.htm

[26] Hady Amr, 2019. Brookings. “Did Israelis just vote to end the two-state solution?” https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2019/04/10/did-israelis-just-vote-to-end-the-two-state-solution/

[27] Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell, 2013. Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978–0–745–65468–3.

[28] Carol Cohn, 2013. “‘Maternal Thinking’ and the concept of ‘vulnerability’ in security paradigms, policies, and practices,” Journal of International Policy Theory 10(1):46–49

[29] Simon Dalby, 2011. “Peace And Geopolitics: Imagining Peaceful Geographies”, a paper presented to the University of Newcastle symposium on Peace in Geography and Politics.

[30] Edward Said’s 1978 Orientalism was a foundational text on how anti-Asian bigotry structures power; the Zionist settler mythos, e.g. an empty Palestine, is an “imagined geography.” Securitization theory is a field of scholarship on the idea of this section.

[31] Dov Waxman, 2017. “Young American Jews and Israel: Beyond Birthright and BDS.” Israel Studies. 22. 177. 10.2979/israelstudies.22.3.08.

[32] Talila Nesher, 2012. Haaretz. “Why Is the Birth Rate in Israel’s Ethiopian Community Declining?” https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-ethiopians-coerced-into-birth-control-1.5300291

[33] The New Humanitarian. “Furore in Israel over birth control drugs for Ethiopian Jews”https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2013/01/28/furore-israel-over-birth-control-drugs-ethiopian-jews

[34] Jewish Voice For Peace, 2014. “Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, And The “Special Relationship” Between The U.S. And Israel” https://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/settler-colonialism-white-supremacy-and-the-special-relationship-between-the-u-s-and-israel/

[35] U.S. Department of State, 2019. “Voting Practices in the United Nations for 2019” Report to Congress Submitted Pursuant to Public Laws 101–246 and 108–447. https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Report-Voting-Practices-in-the-United-Nations-2019.pdf

[36] Biden’s website: “Joe Biden And The Jewish Community: A Record And A Plan Of Friendship, Support And Action” https://joebiden.com/joe-biden-and-the-jewish-community-a-record-and-a-plan-of-friendship-support-and-action/

[37] Open Secrets. “Pro-Israel” https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=q05

[38] John Mearsheimer, 2008. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

[39] Mersiha Gadzo, June 12, 2020. Al Jazeera. “How the US and Israel exchange tactics in violence and control” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/12/how-the-us-and-israel-exchange-tactics-in-violence-and-control

[40] Buki Domingos and George Majeed Khoury, July 17, 2020. The San Diego Union-Tribune. “Commentary: It’s time to end United States police training in Israel” https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2020-07-17/commentary-time-to-end-police-training-in-israel

[41] UN General Assembly Resolutions: Resolution 46/76, 1991. Reproduced on the Jewish Virtual Library. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/un-general-assembly-resolution-46-76-december-1991

[42] United Nations, 2016. “Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms” https://www.un.org/press/en/2016/sc12657.doc.htm

[43] United Nations, 2017. “General Assembly Overwhelmingly Adopts Resolution Asking Nations Not to Locate Diplomatic Missions in Jerusalem” https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/ga11995.doc.htm

[44] Pew Research, June 24, 2020 “Acceptance of homosexuality varies across the globe” https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/06/25/global-divide-on-homosexuality-persists/pg_2020-06-25_global-views-homosexuality_0-04/

[45] Joseph Krauss and Mohammed Daraghmeh, 2019. Associated Press. “Unable to vote, Palestinians shrug off Israel’s elections” https://apnews.com/article/5bd073882ef148a4be098b8e3754c0d1

[46] Shlomi Eldar, 2019. Al-Monitor. “Netanyahu quotes radical rabbi’s racist invective” https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2019/03/israel-benjamin-netanyahu-meir-kahane-arabs-incitement.html

[47] BBC, April 5, 2021. “Netanyahu trial: Editor ‘told to drop negative stories about Israel PM’” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-56606223

[48] The Economist. “Democracy Index 2019” https://www.eiu.com/public/topical_report.aspx?campaignid=democracyindex2019

[49] Seumas Milne and Ian Black, 2011. The Guardian. “US threat to Palestinians: change leadership and we cut funds” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/24/us-threat-palestinians-leadership-funds

[50] Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, 2019. The Jerusalem Post. “Israel in top 20 countries whose governments censor online data — report” https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-in-top-20-countries-whose-governments-censor-online-data-report-603724

[51] Doron Koren, 2016. Haaretz. “‘It’s Not Only the Two of Us Lying Here’: What the Banned Israeli Novel Is Really About” https://www.haaretz.com/life/books/.premium-what-the-banned-israeli-novel-is-really-about-1.5400116

[52] Committee to Protect Journalists, 2019. “UN commission: Israeli snipers ‘intentionally shot’ Palestinian journalists in 2018, killing 2” https://cpj.org/2019/02/un-commission-israeli-snipers-intentionally-shot-p/

[53] Committee to Protect Journalists. “Journalists attacked in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory since 1992” https://cpj.org/mideast/israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territory/

[54] Reuters, November 22, 2020. “Netanyahu urges no return to Iran nuclear deal” https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-iran-nuclear-israel-usa-idUKKBN2820N6

[55] Judy Malz, 2015. Haaretz. “Polls Show Israelis Strongly Oppose Iran Nuclear Deal” https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-polls-israelis-strongly-oppose-iran-deal-1.5386132

[56] Al Jazeera, May 15, 2021. “‘Give us 10 minutes’: How Israel bombed a Gaza media tower”https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/15/give-us-10-minutes-how-israel-bombed-gaza-media-tower

[F1] Offer Aderet, 2017. Haaretz. “Israeli Prime Minister After Six-Day War: ‘We’ll Deprive Gaza of Water, and the Arabs Will Leave’” https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-pm-in-67-we-ll-deprive-gaza-of-water-and-the-arabs-will-leave-1.5465942

[F2] European Civil Protection And Humanitarian Aid Operations, April 13, 2021. “Palestine” https://ec.europa.eu/echo/where/middle-east/palestine_en

[F3] Virginia Pietromarchi, Mersiha Gadzo and Ted Regencia. Al Jazeera, May 14, 2021. ”Several children killed as Israel pounds Gaza refugee camp: Live” https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/14/israels-bombardment-of-gaza-continues-live

[F4] The Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund tweeted https://twitter.com/ThePCRF/status/1394688721606172673

[F5] Institute for Middle East understanding, 2015. “Extremism & Incitement to Racial Hatred: Senior Israeli Officials in Their Own Words” https://imeu.org/article/extremism-incitement-to-racial-hatred-senior-israeli-officials-in-their-own

[F6] Southern Poverty Law Center, “Jewish Defense League” https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/jewish-defense-league

[F7] Josh Breiner and Nir Hasson, 2018. Haaretz. “The New Target of Israeli Police: Palestinian Flags”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-the-new-target-of-israeli-police-palestinian-flags-1.6096554

[F8] Asher Sheshter, 2015. Haartez. “How the Right-wing Already Won Israel’s Culture War” https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-how-the-right-won-the-culture-war-1.5374234

[F9] Information on the politics of cartography of Palestine: Zena Agha, 2020. Al Shabaka. “Maps, Technology, and Decolonial Spatial Practices in Palestine” https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/maps-technology-and-decolonial-spatial-practices-in-palestine/

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