Year: 2019
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B’Tselem, 06 August 2019 From the beginning of the Great March of Return protests on Land Day, 30 March 2018 until the end of June 2019, Israeli security forces killed […]
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B’Tselem, 24 July 2019 Israel’s unlawful open-fire policy during the demonstrations along the Gaza perimeter fence – which were upheld by the Supreme Court – have so far resulted in […]
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66 Civilians Injured by Israeli Forces: 28 Children, 2 Journalists, and 4 Women, Including a Paramedic Palestinian Center for Human Rights – Gaza, August 2, 2019 On the 69th Great […]
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Demonstrators protest New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s McCarthyite executive order requiring state agencies to divest from organizations that support the Palestinian call to boycott companies profiting from, or cultural or […]
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York’s 14th congressional district [Rothman’s/Facebook] The Middle East Monitor, April 18, 2019 US Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has proposed the US cut military […]
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Celebration of house demolition, by Israeli border police and IDF officer, July 22, 2019. Screenshot from video. Mohamed Mohamed, Mondoweiss, July 26, 2019 Israel is at it again. It remains […]
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The morning of Monday, July 22, 2019, Palestinian families in the village of Sur Baher woke up to the sound of bulldozers accompanied by hundreds of Israeli troops that had […]
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Photos: Jim Maas/FUS Social Justice Ministry, Tsela Barr/MRSCP, and Kit Kittredge/NA Boat to Gaza Campaign Since 2008, the Freedom Flotilla movement has sent 35 ships attempting to break Israel’s illegal, […]
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Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, July 23, 2019 “I felt shaky and uneasy all day, preparing for this talk” – Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian from the territory of Gaza […]
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Ref: 89/2019, July 22, 2019 On Monday morning, 22 July 2019, Israeli military forces launched a large-scale destruction operation against civilian property in Wadi al-Humus […]
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Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman, We Are Not Numbers, May 20, 2019 “I want to be one of the best chefs in the world,” says Mahmoud Abu Nada. That, despite the fact […]
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Dr. James J. Zogby, July 13, 2019 In the coming week, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will move on four bills – all of which, I believe, drive more […]
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Diala Shamas and Ziad Alwan, The Activist Files, Episode 16 Did you know that in Palestine, Israeli settlers and companies profit off of stolen land? That’s what our Advocacy Director Nadia […]
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At Har Gilo, a Jewish settlement overlooking the southern West Bank, American college students get a history lesson. (Ilia Yefimovich for The New York Times) David M. Halbfinger, The New […]
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If Americans Knew, June 26, 2019 It’s anybody’s guess how this will play out, but it’s going to be a long, wild ride. Overwhelmed by the crowd of candidates for […]
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Milwaukee resident Ari Bloomekatz. (Photo: Jimmy Rothschild) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel June 25, 2019 It’s just a few seconds caught on video. Pulled from multiple videos and posted on Twitter, it […]
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Israeli soldiers kill one Palestinian, injure many in Jerusalem IMEMC 28 June — Israeli soldiers and the police invaded, on Thursday evening, the al-‘Issawiya town, north of occupied East Jerusalem, […]
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MECA 2018 Annual Report by Middle East Children’s Alliance on Scribd
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In 2018, Americans were horrified to learn that migrant children were being cruelly separated from their families at the U.S. border and imprisoned in intolerable conditions. Many U.S. lawmakers – […]
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A growing number of Palestinians want a ‘one state, equal rights’ model and think Trump may unwittingly pave the way for it. Palestinian youths climb a section of Israel’s wall […]
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According to Amnesty International, over the past 20 years, Israeli military exports went to at least eight countries that have been known for serious violations of human rights,. (Photo: via […]
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Alternative Memorial Day, a binational tradition since 2005, is a sign that we are capable of taking down the walls of fear. Mourners and supporters at the Alternative Memorial Day […]
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Wisconsin Muslim Journal, May 17, 2019 Israel has the dubious distinction of being the only country in the world that systematically prosecutes an estimated 500 to 700 children each year […]
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Friends of Sabeel – North America (FOSNA) For too long, Palestinians have been calling for freedom, justice, and equality. As organizations that share these values, we urge you to join […]
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Arsalan Bukhari, Informed Comment, 04/26/2019 WASHINGTON, D.C. (CAIR News Release) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed this afternoon’s […]
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The injured Abu Jazar brothers, with their father and mother in Gaza. Photo By Mohammed Asad Ahmad Kabariti, Mondoweiss, April 20, 2019 In a dim room in a two-story building […]
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Ref: 64/2019, April 24, 2019 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns that the Israeli authorities stationed at Beit Hanoun “Erez” Crossing arrested […]
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Action is needed to protect them and tens of thousands more who risk losing their homes under Israel’s devastating home demolition policies. Mike Merryman-Lotze, American Friends Service Committee, Apr 19, […]
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Uri Ben-Eliezer, Sociology, University of Haifa The Havens Center, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison “The Nation and War, Some Reflections from Israel’s History” Tuesday, April 23, 4pm, 6191 Helen […]
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Ilan Ben Zion, Time Magazine, April 17, 2019 (JERUSALEM) — An Israeli court on Tuesday upheld a deportation order against Human Rights Watch’s local director and gave him two weeks […]
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Israel’s family reunion practices are gravely offensive Palestine Update 234, April 12, 2019 This time; Palestine Updates brings you two powerful testimonies. The first is from Zoughbi Zoughbi, Director of […]
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With this denial of entry, Israel appears to have once again enlisted the Trump administration to do its bidding “Palestinians are now helplessly anticipating a far-right Israeli tsunami that will […]
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A crowd celebrates in Tel Aviv on Nov. 29, 1947, after the U.N. votes for the partition of Palestine. (Hans Pins/GPO, via Getty Images) J.J. Goldberg, New York Times, April […]
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“The only possible option for them is to continue knocking on the walls of their prison with the hope that the world will hear them.” Ahmed Abu Artema has organized […]
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The 2019 North America Nakba Tour comes to Madison UW-Madison Red Gym, On Wisconsin room 716 Langdon St 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Mariam Fathalla was just 18 years old […]
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While Jewish Israelis will be able to move freely in and out of the occupied West Bank, millions of Palestinians — even those with entry permits issued by the Israeli […]
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Source: Pro-Israel: Money to Congress, The Center for Responsive Politics
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Israeli Forces Kill 3 Palestinian Civilians and Wound 364 Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Ref: 50/2019, March 30, 2019 On Saturday, 30 March 2019, in excessive use of force […]
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The growing prominence of the B.D.S. movement — and the backlash to it — is widening fault lines from college campuses to Capitol Hill. Nathan Thrall, New York Times, March […]
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Palestinian Center for Human Rights, March 28, 2019 On Friday 30 March 2018, the commemoration of Land Day, Palestinians launched a massive wave of peaceful weekly demonstrations known as the […]
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UW-Madison Campus (time & location to follow) MRSCP and UW Students for Justice in Palestine will be co-sponsoring a Madison appearance of the 2019 North America Nakba Tour featuring Um […]
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Edo Konrad, +972, March 4, 2019 Osama Iliwat was supposed to speak to synagogues, churches, and universities across the United States about the power of nonviolence and bringing an end […]
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Many of those killed in the Christchurch, New Zealand mosque attack were, in fact, Palestinians. Rifat Audeh is a Palestinian-Canadian who participated in the Freedom Flotilla when the activists on […]
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CODEPINK, March 21, 2019 You did it! Just moments after we emailed you that Sen. Elizabeth Warren would not be attending AIPAC’s annual conference this weekend, we got the GREAT […]
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Israeli Forces Kill 3 Palestinian Civilians in Nablus and Bethlehem and Wound Another Ref: 44/2019, 21 March 2019 In two separate crimes of killing in cold blood, the Israeli forces […]
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The Palestine Center Washington, DC 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT Livestream Online Videos & Transcripts with Ben White, Author and Journalist After decades of occupation and creeping annexation, Israel […]
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The Palestine Center Washington, DC 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT Livestream Online Videos & Transcripts with Dr. Sunaina Maira, Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California – Davis […]
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Pictured Here: Palestinian killed at random by an Israeli soldier Christian Peacemaker Teams, March 13, 2019 On March 12, a Palestinian man came to deliver documents on behalf of the […]