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Year: 2019
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Final 2019 Appeal — Clean Water for Kids
Best Photos of 2019 from MECA We are now more than halfway to providing another…
‘Blinding the truth’: Israeli snipers target Gaza protesters in the eyes
Tareq Hajjaj and Pam Bailey, The New Arab, 20 December, 2019
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Canadian Boat to Gaza, December 20, 2019 Freedom Flotilla sailors and participants are sometimes asked:…
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Israel Social TV is an independent media organization working to promote social change, human rights…
Trump strategy to stifle campus organizing for Palestinian rights
Josh Ruebner, Mondoweiss, December 12, 2019
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US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, December 6, 2019 Today Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib took a principled…
2019.12.15: Laila Hassan from Women in Hebron
Madison, WI 1:00 — 3:00 pm RSVP for directions Please join us as we welcome…
Netanyahu’s Real Crimes
Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, NOVEMBER 23, 2019 After years of investigation and…
Dreams in the Crosshairs
We Are Not Numbers video being shown in Washington, DC When Israeli snipers target people…
Human Rights Activist to be Deported by Israel
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, November 25, 2019 Washington, D.C. | November 24, 2019 | adc.org — The targeting of human…
Israeli Attacks on the Gaza Strip, 12-14 November 2019
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), December 19, 2019
BREAKING: US Disregards International Law On Israeli Settlements
ADC, November 18, 2019
2019.10.27: Rep. Pocan emphasizes progressive caucus’s commitment to Palestine
Helena Cobban, Mondoweiss, November 14, 2019
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Mike Merryman-Lotze, American Friends Service Committee, Nov 13, 2019
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Desperate work for desperate people
Amjad Ayman Yaghi, The Electronic Intifada, 15 October 2019
IT’S TIME TO END THE ILLEGAL ISRAELI BLOCKADE OF GAZA
US Boats to Gaza, Nov 3, 2019
Act now to free Heba Al-Labadi
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Oct 28, 2019 Please take a moment to sign our…
Jordan-Israel Ties Strained by Detentions
“We hold the Israeli government responsible for the lives of our citizens whose health conditions…
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Center for Constitutional Rights, October 21, 2019 Join us in court tomorrow in Olympia, Washington,…
Settlers beat rabbi, 80, during Palestinian olive harvest
JACOB MAGID, The Times of Israel, 16 October 2019
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New campaign exposes double-standard of social media giant in dealing with Israeli and Palestinian incitement…
ESPN Host Panicked by Israel-Palestine Comment
Billy Haisley, Deadspin, 10/8/19
Israel Is Accused of Torturing a Prisoner Until His Ribs Were Broken
Alex Kane, Vice, October 8, 2019
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights, October 8, 2019 On 8 October 2019, the Palestinian Center…
Noura Erakat: West Bank Annexation Is Logical End to Israel’s Apartheid Policy
Democracy Now!, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 GUESTS Noura Erakat Palestinian human rights attorney and an assistant…
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Gideon Levy, If Americans Knew, September 12, 2019
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Online and from MRSCP Resistance Art’s 2020 Colors from Palestine calendar is a tribute to…
2019.11.24 & 12.07: Mark Your Calendars: 2019 Fair Trade Holiday Festivals
November 24: 9 am – 2 pm Annual Fair Trade Sale at Orchard Ridge United…
Fall Olive Harvest Delegation to Palestine
EyeWitness Palestine still has some openings available for their fall delegation. Scholarships are available. The…
He got into Harvard. And now he finally got into the United States.
Ismail Ajjawi, a Harvard freshman who said he was was denied U.S. entry because of…
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Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada, 19 August 2019
He Threatened Us, Now He Goes to Jail
Dr. James J. Zogby, August 17, 2019 Back in May, a jury found Patrick Syring,…
Meet Rashida Tlaib’s grandma: ‘Who wouldn’t be proud of a granddaughter like that?’
Rep. Tlaib’s grandmother says the family had already prepared a lamb Muftiyah Tlaib, the grandmother…
Israel Denies Entry to Omar and Tlaib After Trump’s Call to Block Them
Isabel Kershner, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Peter Baker, New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019 JERUSALEM…
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Judge Orders University to Recognize Students for Justice in Palestine Club Students for Justice in…
Security forces make deadly use of crowd control weapons in Gaza
B’Tselem, 06 August 2019 From the beginning of the Great March of Return protests on…
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B’Tselem, 24 July 2019
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66 Civilians Injured by Israeli Forces: 28 Children, 2 Journalists, and 4 Women, Including a…
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Mohamed Mohamed, Mondoweiss, July 26, 2019
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Hebron Freedom Fund
Gaza’s Little Chef
Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman, We Are Not Numbers, May 20, 2019 “I want to be one…
Two Congressional Resolutions That Won’t Advance Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Dr. James J. Zogby, July 13, 2019 In the coming week, the House Committee on…
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Diala Shamas and Ziad Alwan, The Activist Files, Episode 16 Did you know that in…
Touring the Israeli Occupation: Young U.S. Jews Get an Unflinching View
At Har Gilo, a Jewish settlement overlooking the southern West Bank, American college students get…
West Bank / Jerusalem
Israeli soldiers kill one Palestinian, injure many in Jerusalem IMEMC 28 June — Israeli soldiers…
MECA 2018 Annual Report
MECA 2018 Annual Report by Middle East Children’s Alliance on Scribd
Why We, Palestinians and Israelis, Insist on Mourning Our Dead Together
Alternative Memorial Day, a binational tradition since 2005, is a sign that we are capable…
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Wisconsin Muslim Journal, May 17, 2019
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Friends of Sabeel – North America (FOSNA), May 24, 2019 For too long, Palestinians have…
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Arsalan Bukhari, Informed Comment, 04/26/2019
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Ref: 64/2019, April 24, 2019 The Palestinian Center for Human…
2019.04.23-25: War Over Peace: Israel in the eyes of a Critical Sociologist
Uri Ben-Eliezer, Sociology, University of Haifa The Havens Center, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison…
The Director of Human Rights Watch in Israel Is Being Deported
Ilan Ben Zion, Time Magazine, April 17, 2019 (JERUSALEM) — An Israeli court on Tuesday…
I co-founded the BDS movement. Why was I denied entry to the US?
Omar Barghouti, The Guardian, 16 Apr 2019
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Esty Dinur, The Progressive, April 11, 2019
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The 2019 North America Nakba Tour comes to Madison UW-Madison Red Gym, On Wisconsin room…
IDF puts Palestinians under closure as Israelis go to the polls
Edo Konrad, +972 Magazine, April 8, 2019
How Much Pro-Israel Money Politicians Attacking Ilhan Omar Received
Source: Pro-Israel: Money to Congress, The Center for Responsive Politics
First Anniversary of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Ref: 50/2019, March 30, 2019
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights, March 28, 2019
2019.04.22: North America Nakba Tour
UW-Madison Campus (time & location to follow) MRSCP and UW Students for Justice in Palestine…
Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris & Beto O’Rourke skipping AIPAC!
CODEPINK, March 21, 2019 You did it! Just moments after we emailed you that Sen.…
Driving While Palestinian
Israeli Forces Kill 3 Palestinian Civilians in Nablus and Bethlehem and Wound Another Ref: 44/2019,…
2019.03.29: Book talk: Cracks in the Wall – Beyond Apartheid in Palestine-Israel
The Palestine Center Washington, DC 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT Livestream Online Videos &…
2019.03.27: Book talk: Boycott! The Academy and Justice for Palestine
The Palestine Center Washington, DC 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT Livestream Online Videos &…
Shot Like a Clay Pigeon
Pictured Here: Palestinian killed at random by an Israeli soldier Christian Peacemaker Teams, March 13,…
