Year: 2016
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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 [slideshow_deploy id=’3304′] [slideshow_deploy id=’3304′] Dearest Friends, I would like to thank you all so much for your support to our project “Gaza Summer […]
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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 […]