2016
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Democracy Now! December 30, 2016 Guests Diana Buttu — attorney based in Palestine. She has served as a legal adviser to the Palestinians in negotiations with Israel. She was previously […]
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At this point, the South Africa example is most instructive. Recall the state of that country as the campaign to abolish apartheid built up steam — a privileged white minority […]
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“The two-state solution has for decades been the primary focus of efforts to achieve peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Here’s a basic guide.” “With few viable or popular alternatives, the […]
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Secretary of State John F. Kerry speaks about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and the U.S. decision to allow passage of a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settler activity in the West […]
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By fuming over a U.N. resolution against Israel’s settlements on Palestinian land, Israeli leaders reveal their final solution for the Palestinians – to deny them property rights and displace them. […]
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“Resolution 2334 shatters the [Israeli] government-induced illusion that the settlement project has been normalised, that it passed the point of no return, that it is now a fait accompli that […]
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Oren Liebermann, CNN, December 26, 2016 Israel has bitterly denounced the resolution They warn it harms, not helps, the peace process Jerusalem (CNN) — The United Nations Security Council on […]
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[pdf-embedder url=”http://madisonrafah.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Freeze-Flyer-FINAL-.pdf” title=”Freeze Flyer-FINAL-“] Links for Registration Online: freezeforpeace.itsyourrace.com Mail-in Form: colombiasupport.net Mark your calendars for something different: the Freeze for Peace Run sponsored by Colombia Support Network with […]
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Here is the latest update from Open Doors for Refugees about the expected Syrian refugees coming to Madison. Open Doors is looking for furniture, household items, and gift certificates for […]
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Anees Mansour, December 16, 2016 Dear Friends, Assalamu Alaikum & Hello Everyone, I hope you, your family and friends are doing well. Special thanks to our old and new donors […]
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Find out what happened at last night's hearing . . . and join us for a holiday celebration Become a Member * Website * LIKE US ON Facebook * FOLLOW BNSCP ON Twitter Last […]
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Boulder City Council members vote 7-2 in favor of sister city proposal Alex Burness, DailyCamera Boulder News, 12/13/2016 Tom Hovestol, right, and Sid Fox listen to a speaker during a […]
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Lupe Salmeron, Madison365, December 5, 2016 An audience of around 30 people gathered to hear from talented blogger and political analyst Laila El-Haddad on Nov. 29 at The Crossing. Laila […]
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Instead of fighting antisemitism, new Senate bill threatens free speech Jewish Voice for Peace, 06 December 2016 On Friday, without a single Senator in the Senate Chamber, the Senate unanimously […]
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Dabka dance to “My Blood is Palestinian”. Enjoy. Shahir Hunaina, YouTube, November 16, 2016 My Blood is Palestinian (Dammi Falastini), translation by Sara Ba Keeping my oath, following my religion […]
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Nicholas Mirzoeff, Critical Inquiry, November 28, 2016 Acknowledgements I visited accompanying the art activist group MTL and with the generous support of many Palestinians, especially Habshe Yossef. I would also […]
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Samah Salaime, +972, November 26, 2016 The wildfire that struck Neve Shalom-Wahat al-Salam left our Jewish-Arab village more resilient than ever before. We invite Israel’s politicians to learn from us on […]
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Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, November 25, 2016 But fires are raging across Western Asia Middle East Fires, Past Week (Global Forest Watch, Washington, DC) Over 200 forest fires are raging in […]
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Friday, Nov 25 WORT 89.9 FM A Public Affair 12:00 – 1:00 PM Starting at 6:00 minutes: Laila El-Haddad was the guest on WORT Radio’s noon-time call in show A […]
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Israa Suliman, WE ARE NOT NUMBERS, November 15, 2016 Dear Native Americans, Although we are of different color, religion, culture and place, I have learned, as I read about the […]
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The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, November 22, 2016 Raji Sourani, Director of PCHR, and Issam Younis, Director of Al Mezan. Palestinian human rights organizations (Palestinian Center for Human Rights […]
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Wael Yazji’s 2007 operetta Ehna, with lyrics by the poet Jamal Darimli Wael Yazji, YouTube, November 23, 2007
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November 21, 2016 Dear Friends, Alsalam Alaykum, I hope my email finds you well. I’m writing to keep you posted about the situation here at the moment, so I have […]
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Wednesday, Nov. 30 Online Livestreaming at The Jerusalem Fund 12:00 – 1:00 pm CST A presentation by Moien Odeh, Attorney at Law and Visiting Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for […]
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The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey is a cookbook and a documentary portrait of the Gaza Strip by Laila El-Haddad and Maggie Schmitt, published by Just World Books. The […]
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Anees Mansour, gofundme, November 5, 2016 We are about to enter the winter season in Gaza. The houses can’t handle the weather as they are not insulated properly and we […]
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Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada Activism and BDS Beat 28 October 2016 EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, left, has affirmed that boycotting Israel is a protected free speech right. […]
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It’s easier to leave Palestinians in limbo waiting for a “peace process” that goes nowhere ROGER COHEN, The New York Times, October 28, 2016 One of the largest Israeli settlements […]
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C-SPAN video link: c-span.org/video/?416995-3/ben-ehrenreich-discusses-way-spring Wisconsin Book Festival The Way to the Spring Ben Ehrenreich 10/22/2016 – 12:00pm Central Library – Community Rooms 301 & 302 Ben Ehrenreich first started reporting […]
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Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 20 October 2016 Students constructed a mock wall on the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor campus to protest Israel’s violations of Palestinian rights. (SAFE-UMich Facebook) […]
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Thursday, October 20 “A Public Affair” 12:00 – 1:00 pm Allen Ruff’s Thursday guest will be freelance journalist and novelist Ben Ehrenreich, author of “The Way to the Spring – […]
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It Won’t Stop Until We Talk A Parents Circle Family Forum Presentation Sunday, October 23 Two families – one Jewish Israeli, one Palestinian Christian – have lost a close family […]
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Gifts with a Story Monona Terrace Convention Center 1 John Nolen Drive, Madison 9 am to 4 pm [Map] Admission is free. MRSCP will have a table offering kuffiyehs and […]
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Update: The Room No. 4 Exhibit advertised previously will not be available at this event. Monona Terrace Hall of Ideas 1 John Nolen Drive, Madison 11:45 AM to 2:30 PM […]
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Sunday, November 20 Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ 1501 Gilbert Rd, Madison [Map] Annual Fair Trade Fair! Come find unusual and beautiful gifts and holiday items from around the […]
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Luci Lights for Rafah and Playground finish for Hebron Dear Members and Friends of MRSCP, We would like to ask your support for two modest but important projects this fall. […]
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Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams, October 05, 2016 Group including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire aimed ‘to highlight the vital role women play not only in the resistance movement, but in the […]
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At 15:58 CEST (Central European Summer Time) on 5 October, we lost contact again with the Zaytouna-Oliva and presume that the Israeli Occupation Navy has surrounded it in International Waters […]
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Tuesday, October 11 12 noon – 1 pm Central Listen live at http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/livestream Online panel discussion presented by the Palestine Center in DC: Against Israel’s Colonial Tide: Palestinian Initiatives to […]
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UW-Madison Multicultural Student Center Red Gym – 2nd Floor 716 Langdon St, Madison, Wisconsin 7:30 pm Sponsored by UW-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine. Film screening of the documentary Pinkwashing […]
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Al-Haq, 26 September 2016 The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) expresses its full supportof the Women’s Boat to Gaza, with the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, to break the Israeli closure […]
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Amal-Hope II to follow soon Women’s Boat to Gaza, Messina, Italy, September 27, 2016 This morning at 9:50 am, women representing 13 countries spanning five continents began their journey on […]
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Women’s Boat to Gaza, September 20, 2016 Ajaccio, Corsica, France: The Women’s Boat to Gaza (Zaytouna-Oliva) left the port of Ajaccio at 09:30 this morning. It is due to arrive […]
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The Hope and Peace Foundation has now been providing services for Rafah children for one year. The program is going to lose the lease on the building they are presently […]
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Washington, DC | www.adc.org | September 16, 2014 — Today marks 32 years since the Sabra and Shatila massacre — one of the bloodiest and most brutal atrocities of our […]
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International activists on two boats carrying food and medicine aim to break Israeli siege on Palestinian territory Al Jazeera, 15 Sep 2016 Two boats, Amal and Zaytouna, will have 11 […]
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Women’s Boat to Gaza, September 12, 2016 Barcelona, Spain – From September 12-14, the sailing vessels Amal-Hope and Zaytouna-Oliva will moor at Bosch i Alsina dock in the port of […]
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The owners of the club have canceled a concert, citing a platform of groups affiliated with Black Lives Matter that calls Israel “an apartheid state” MICHAEL PAULSON, The New York […]
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9:00 am – 6:00 pm Breese Stevens Field, Madison MRSCP has activities planned for Fighting Bob Fest. Admission is free although they ask for donations. There are also movies and […]
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Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice Saturday, October 15, 2016 11:30am to 5pm TBA, Madison, Wisconsin Honoring our Past, Visioning our Future WNPJ is celebrating 25 years of work towards […]
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CODEPINK, August 28, 2016 California’s AB 2844 is an attack on the First Amendment right to freedom of speech and protest. It is intended by its authors to create a […]
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The country must be held accountable for its human rights abuses. Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace The Washington Post, June 24, 2016 In 2009, I was […]
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WORT 89.9 FM Local News – Tuesday, 23 Aug 2016 6:00 pm U.S. Representative Mark Pocan at First United Methodist Church following his recent trip to Israel and Palestine, starting […]
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Ma’an News Agency, August 22, 2016 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an ) — A small majority of both Palestinians and Israelis support the two-state solution despite their differing views on the terms of […]
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This article has raised concern about the welfare of Al Mezan Center for Human Rights staff and our other friends and fellow civil society activists in Rafah and Gaza. Attacks […]
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Israel’s public security minister, Gilad Erdan, said everything possible must be done to weaken the boycott movement. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP) Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, 8 August 2016 Israel is intensifying its […]
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Following his recent trip to Israel and Palestine Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church 203 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison (Dayton St and Wisconsin Ave) [Map] 11:30 am (Doors open at 11:00 […]
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Ryan Rodrick Beiler, The Electronic Intifada, 17 August 2016 Lutheran church wants US to halt aid to Israel until settlement construction and human rights abuses end. (Ryan Rodrick Beiler) The […]
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Ma’an News Agency, Aug. 18, 2016 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Fans of the Scottish Celtic Football Club waved Palestinian flags during an international playoff game for qualification for the UEFA Champions […]
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has been looking to improve its relations with the White House. (Amir Cohen/Reuters) Ruth Eglash and Carol Morello, The Washington Post, July 28, 2016 […]
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“As Americans who have a constitutional right to criticize our own government, we certainly have a right to criticize and, if we choose, boycott a foreign government that is heavily […]
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Fida Qishta, who visited us in Madison in 2014 and 2015 to show her powerful first film Where Should the Birds Fly, has been in film school in California. She […]
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Palestinian Rights Groups Cheer Berkeley’s Decision to Divest from Private Prisons Friends of Sabeel – North America, FOSNA Voice, July 22, 2016 To see if your city invests or has […]
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Gaza Summer Camp — July 17, 2016 Dearest Friends, I would like to thank you all so much for your support to our project “Gaza Summer Camp”. I would also […]
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JAMES GLANZ, The New York Times, JULY 21, 2016 Avigdor Lieberman, an ultranationalist, said that Army Radio should not have aired a show about Mahmoud Darwish, who is considered the […]
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Our photo (above), taken by Mohammad Mansour, was selected as a finalist in Global Giving’s 2016 Photo Contest! This picture was taken while the first pallet of Luci Lights that […]
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Rabbi Brant Rosen, Shalom Rav, July 17, 2016 This past Friday, I had the honor to participate in an incredible, unprecedented mass action of civil disobedience in the H2 section […]
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Women’s Boat to Gaza, July 20, 2016 Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for the past decade during which Israel has also launched countless attacks against the besieged population, turning […]
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Next we meet Hani Amer, whose farm lay on the route of the infamous wall. After a long struggle, Amer won the right to have his house and some of […]
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Join over 150 renowned writers, poets, translators, editors, artists, public intellectuals and cultural workers. These signers, from Alice Walker and Claudia Rankine to Naomi Klein and Jacqueline Woodson, represent some […]
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Palestinian BDS National Committee, July 7, 2016 Palestinian campaigners have launched popular boycott campaigns across the West Bank in recent months The Palestinian-led, global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement […]
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Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2016 Native: Dispatches from a Palestinian-Israeli Life by Sayed Kashua, Grove Press (2016) When novelist and columnist Sayed Kashua announced in 2014 that […]
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His Last Column for Haaretz Everything people had told him since he was a teenager is coming true. Jewish-Arab co-existence has failed. Sayed Kashua, Haaretz, Jul 04, 2014 Illustration by […]
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Kevin Walsh, July 6, 2016 A 2009 study of the legal status of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza Strip concluded that Israel’s practices constitute colonialism […]
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Sara Roy, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, June 28, 2016 During a brief pause to hostilities in July 2014, families returned to eastern Gaza, which saw some of the heaviest […]
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US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, July 2, 2016 The Occupation of the American Mind [Trailer] from Media Education Foundation on Vimeo. Dear Friend, I need to let you […]
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Khalida Jarrar greets speaks to reporters in her hometown, the West Bank city of Ramallah, following her release from an Israeli jail on June 3, 2016 (AFP) ANADOLU AGENCY, Daily […]
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Mohammed Abu Saha’s arrest sparked an international campaign by circus performers for his release. Though no charges have been filed against him, Shin Bet claims he’s a member of the […]
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Anna Baltzer, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, June 25th, 2016 I cannot remember a more significant day in church activism for Palestinian rights than the past 24 hours. […]
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Ramah Kudaimi, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, June 29th, 2016 Musician Carlos Santana is scheduled to perform in Tel Aviv on July 30. Santana is committed to the […]
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Elizabeth Kucinich in Gaza (UNRWA USA) Elizabeth Kucinich, The Hill, June 23, 2016 This month, U.S. congressmen, including Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) and Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), were refused entry into […]
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Saban and Clinton, on an earlier occasion Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, June 27, 2016 Have you had an espresso yet today? Have you had a drink? Make that a double! Brace […]
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Amira Hass, Haaretz, June 26, 2016 With Israel having cut the Palestinians’ water supply, I visited two settlements where the people are supposedly suffering too. Thus tweeted MK Bezalel Smotrich […]
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An Egyptian wears a T-shirt with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) logo in 2015. The state of New Jersey is expected to pass legislation Monday, which would boycott companies […]
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“There’s no such thing as a Palestinian person,” key Israel lobbyist says Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 25 June 2016 “Why are we using the word Palestinian? There’s no such […]
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Jeff Halper, Facebook, June 25, 2016 This is an important piece by Ali Abunimah, posted on the The Electronic Intifada. It exposes a dark, little-known campaign by the Israel government, […]
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Churches are making history Anna Baltzer, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, June 23rd, 2016 I just arrived in Columbus, Ohio, where Unitarian Universalists from around the country will […]
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Sunday 6:00 – 6:30 pm Jewish Voice for Peace, national and Madison, will be the topic of conversation on Sabi Atteyih’s Salamat program. Amanda Hoffman and Fran Zell will represent […]
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Water is the only issue in which Israel (still) finds it difficult to defend its discriminatory, oppressive and destructive policy with pretexts of security and God Amira Hass, Haaretz, Jun […]
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Israel says region’s intense heatwave combined with Palestinian Water Authority’s refusal to approve additional infrastructure had led to ‘old and limited pipes being unable to transfer all the water needed.’ […]
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Just Foreign Policy, June 21, 2016 Your Representative, Mark Pocan, was one of 20 signers of the Congressional letter to President Obama urging his administration to take steps to “address […]
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While strengthening the settlements, Israel has continued to demolish unlicensed Palestinian homes and livestock pens Money for “construction of hotels in the main tourism areas in Judea and Samaria,” referring […]
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Israeli government insists there is ‘no truth’ in claims and says shortages down to faulty water lines Peter Yeung, The Independent, 17 June 2016 Palestinian children fill bottles with water from a public tap […]
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Josh Ruebner & Tamar Ghabin, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, June 16th, 2016 Tell DNC & RNC to Put Palestinian Rights in Their Platforms Last week former Rep. […]
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Just Foreign Policy, 6/16/16 The Forward reports that former Congressman Robert Wexler is putting pressure on the Democratic Platform Committee not to include language about the occupation of the West […]
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Alex Nabaum As a Jew who has lived in Israel and has many relatives there, I feel that the government should not be dictating how I relate to the Jewish […]
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Palestinian child’s drawing (GMHF) We are launching a project to help Rafah build a Mental Health Library of professional books requested by providers. This is a critical need: the Gaza […]
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Gaza boy needs specialized medical treatment abroad The Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) is bringing Ahmad and his mother to Madison for treatment at American Family Children’s Hospital. See the […]