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  • Washington had explicitly guaranteed their safety—and recently declassified documents reveal that US diplomats were told by the Israelis what they and their allies might be up to. Rashid Khalidi, The […]


  • Israel is not the only democracy in the Middle East. In fact, it’s not a democracy at all. Ilan Pappe, Jacobin, May 5, 2017 Excerpted from Ten Myths About Israel, […]


  • Israeli soldiers carried out raid on solar farm which allegedly did not have proper building permits Bethan McKernan, The Independent, 3 July 2017 The Netherlands has lodged a complaint with […]


  • Barbara Olson, The Cap Times, Jun 11, 2017 Palestinian workers wait to cross the Israeli checkpoint of Al-Jalameh, south of the West Bank city of Jenin, on their way to […]


  • Palestinians were never presented with what Israel offered every neighboring country: full withdrawal from occupied territory NATHAN THRALL, The New York Times, June 2, 2017 An Israeli soldier praying at […]


  • Jonathan Cook Blog, January 19, 2017 (copyright: Keren Manor) Here is another image that conveys the situation of Palestinians – these ones Palestinian citizens of Israel – more completely than […]


  • 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. […]


  • 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 […]


  • 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 […]


  • 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 […]


  • 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 […]


  • Noga Kadman speaks about her book Erased from Space and Consciousness: Israel and the Depopulated Palestinian Villages of 1948 7:30 pm, Elvehjem L150, UW-Madison Campus. “Poignant, sensitive, and compassionate, Kadman’s […]


  • Click image for full screen Visualizing Palestine creates data-driven tools to advance a factual, rights-based narrative of the Palestinian-Israeli issue. Our researchers, designers, technologists, and communications specialists work in partnership […]


  • Tarab NYC, January 19, 2016 We know that military occupation, ethnic cleansing, racism, and colonialism are incompatible with queer liberation and with fundamental human rights. We are EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED that […]


  • Institute for Middle East Understanding, Mondoweiss, October 22, 2015 (Screenshot: MSNBC) Last week, MSNBC aired a map (above) showing the loss of Palestinian land to Zionist settlers and then to […]


  • Madison365 staff, Oct 30, 2015 Palestinian American author Leila Abdelrazaq wrote the graphic novel Baddawi, which describes her father’s experience in a refugee camp during the Lebanese civil war. Leila […]


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  • I am not permitted to live with my wife in the country of my birth YOUSEF MUNAYYER, New York Times, May 23, 2012 Washington I’m a Palestinian who was born […]


  • Palestine: Past, Present and Future Ilan Pappé Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, 1948-1967" Tuesday, November 15, 7pm, 2650 Humanities "Squaring the […]


  • PALESTINE HISTORY CLASS March thru October at Escape Java Joint, 916 Williamson St., Madison In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the 1948 Palestine War and subsequent events, based largely […]


  • JUDITH LAITMAN and TSELA BARR, Wisconsin State Journal, May 16, 2008 This month, Jews around the world are celebrating the 60th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. […]


  • Jewish Voice for Peace – Madison, May 15, 2008 JVP’s Madison Chapter held a very successful “No Time to Celebrate” demonstration in partnership with several other area groups on May […]


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  • Endless War

    Mivtza Nikayon — Operation Cleaning Arab refugees in northern Israel on the road to Lebanon, November 1948. (Associated Press) DAVID MARGOLICK, The New York Times, May 4, 2008 1948: A […]


  • March 22, 2008 2 – 4 p.m. Escape Java Joint 916 Williamson St. Paul Beckett, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, 21 March 08 This is addressed to people interested in the […]


  • · Seizure would allow huge expansion of settlements · Move seen as rush to make changes before US summit Conal Urquhart in JerusalemWednesday October 10, 2007The Guardian Construction workers in […]


  • Saturday, October 6, 7:30 – 10:00 pm Middleton Houseparty Fundraiser with Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). Goal to raise $5000 to rebuild one Palestinian house. […]


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  • Jennifer Loewenstein, Islamic Human Rights Commission, 06 June 2007 Jennifer Loewenstein brilliantly illustrates the horrors of living under fire and portrays the Palestinians of Gaza as a people abandoned by […]


  • Worse Than Apartheid

    Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Dec 18, 2006 AP / Khalil Hamra Water mixes with blood in a street of the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun in this Nov. 8 […]


  • Jimmy Carter’s Roadmap

    NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, CounterPunch, NOVEMBER 13, 2006 The historical chapters of Palestine Peace Not Apartheid are rather thin, filled with errors small and large, as well as tendentious and untenable interpretations. […]


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  • to the International Conference of Parlimentarians Cairo, February 1970 The New York Times, February 23, 1970 “The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was ‘given’ by […]


  • Hind Khoury, The International Herald Tribune, AUGUST 11, 2005 JERUSALEM — After more than 38 years of its oppressive military occupation of the Gaza Strip, Israel will soon begin evacuating […]


  • The Jordan Valley, the settlement blocs that continue to merge into each other, the monumental Jews-only roads, the demilitarized zone long since annexed to Israel, the area annexed to Jerusalem […]


  • The International Crisis Group, REPORT No. 44 / MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA, 2 AUGUST 2005 While the world focuses on Gaza, the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations in fact may […]


  • The legalistic deception of the Israeli Civil Administration: “It is all Israel” Amira Hass, Haaretz, 13 July 2005 Listen to the soldier in the field. He says what his commanders […]


  • Amira Hass, Haaretz, July 6, 2005 The hunting season is at its height, and the settlers are the prey. They have become a target for criticism in the media to […]


  • For years, the news media ignored the injustices the settlers inflicted on their neighbors. Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Jul 03, 2005 The media is to blame: For months, it portrayed the […]


  • Israel must understand that the liberation of the Israeli people depends on the liberation of the Palestinian people Occupation Magazine, June 28, 2005 Translated from Hebrew by Daniel Breslau Summary: […]


  • The pilgrimage to Jerusalem of so many European leaders shows that they are not deterred by the criticism of Israel – they are taking part in a media event that […]


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  • Sharon is not the Problem

    Ghadi Karmi, CounterPunch, February 20, 2004 The Sharon government is widely regarded, even by Israel’s friends, as a negative force in the current politics of the Middle East. Its brutal […]


  • Gabriel Ash, The Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2004 Israeli historian Benny Morris crossed a new line of shame when he put his academic credentials and respectability in the service of […]


  • Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 24 January 2004 Sunset over the Jordan Valley, looking west towards Occupied Jerusalem from Mahis, Jordan (Photo: Ali Abunimah) When does the banishment of an […]


  • Jewish Peace News, 10 Aug 2003 [Israel’s new citizenship law, passed recently by a wide margin in the Knesset, denies any Palestinian who is married to an Israeli citizen the […]