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Year: 2022

  • November 13 2 pm Central Zoom Registration After registration you will receive a link to watch the film prior to the discussion. Combining history and headlines, THE SETTLERS is the […]

  • Nov 9, 2022 12 PM Central Zoom Registration Join us to learn the environmental reality in Israel/Palestine today, what is being done by the land’s indigenous protectors. and what we […]

  • Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop on the West Bank. She’ll read poems & be in conversation with poet Deema Shehabi. A Virtual Book Celebration! October 29, 2022, […]

  • © MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images Amnesty International, October 25, 2022 The International Criminal Court (ICC) must investigate unlawful attacks committed during Israel’s August 2022 assault on the Gaza Strip as war crimes, Amnesty […]

  • Video recorded October 3, 2022 In 1948, the tiny Gaza Strip was cut off from the rest of historic Palestine, absorbing a huge number of Palestinian refugees who were ethnically […]

  • The people of Masafer Yatta are using ancestors’ caves to resist Israel’s home demolitions Members of Palestinian Masafer Yatta communities determined to remain on their land despite Israeli forced evictions, […]

  • Gush Shalom, October 18, 2022 The State of Israel is going to general elections, but in the election campaigns there is virtually no mention of the main, existential problem facing […]

  • An olive harvest lynching

    Yuval Abraham, OCTOBER 20, 2022 This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. On Wednesday afternoon, a group of masked settlers lynched a 70-year-old Jewish Israeli woman […]

  • Today across Palestine, we’re witnessing the Palestinian people rise up united once again. It is a moment in which our people declare we will not die quietly at the hands of […]

  • Just Vision, 10/20/22 Moments ago, the ACLU petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case of national significance on the right to boycott. It’s a case with massive implications […]

  • Eyewitness Palestine, 17 October 2022 It’s been a busy past few months for us at Eyewitness Palestine, but an important part of this work is keeping our ears to the […]

  • Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, October 17, 2022 During the past month Israel has held 800 Palestinians under administrative detention orders, expelled several Palestinians from East Jerusalem, seized […]

  • Eyewitness Palestine, October 2022 We are excited to announce that our 73rd Delegation is underway! This delegation was three years in the making, and it has finally arrived. Focusing on […]

  • We, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), call upon all supporters of the Palestinian struggle to join us on October 14th – 23rd for a week of action in support of […]

  • In this time of crisis, I invite you to an Emergency Zoom Forum with the UN: Conditions on the Ground in the West Bank Sunday, October 16th, at 1pm CT […]

  • The Palestine Chronicle, October 12, 2022 Pro-Palestine activists in Uruguay celebrated a major victory on Wednesday as their country’s football team officially announced that they were not going to play […]

  • David Luhrssen, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Oct 14, 2022 The 2022 Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival runs from Oct. 20 through Oct. 23 at the Oriental Theater located at 2230 N. Farwell […]

  • Mourners take a last look at the body of Omar Asaad, 78, during his funeral at a mosque in the West Bank village of Jiljiliya, north of Ramallah, Jan. 13, […]

  • Voices for Justice in Palestine (VJP), October 13, 2022 Please join us October 24th (6 pm CT) on the UNC Campus for a night of discussion with Dr. Noura Erakat, […]

  • Dear Supporter, On October 20 the Israeli government will implement new procedures for those seeking to enter the West Bank. First published by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the […]

  • The Shaarei Shamayim synagogue in Madison, along with other Reconstructionist synagogues around the country, is hosting this series about Israel/Palestine: After a month-long break for the Jewish holidays, we return […]

  • Join AMP on Thursday, October 13th @ 5:30 PM CT for a webinar: “From Grassroots to Congress: Progressives Exposing Israeli Apartheid” During Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP Action) Advocacy […]

  • Israeli lobbies and related organizations internationally have long used disinformation, lies and deceptive methods and narratives to cover crimes Israel commits against Palestinians. pic.twitter.com/6K6mxJNAsV — Rābet by PIPD #SaveMasaferYatta (@rabetbypipd) […]

  • Beating back anti-Palestinian prejudice, which shouldn’t even exist in the first place, doesn’t feel like a win. SHAHD ABUSALAMA (FACEBOOK) MONA ABUAMARA, MONDOWEISS, AUGUST 20, 2022 Anti-Palestinianism has been increasingly […]

  • And stop your betrayal of Ben & Jerry’s SumOfUs, Sep 29, 2022 It’s a bloody time in Palestine right now. At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in the West […]

  • An online film salon for the acclaimed film: BOYCOTT Sunday, 9 October 2022 1pm PT, 2pm MT, 3pm CT, 4pm ET (US, Canada) Register here A bracing look at the far-reaching […]

  • Israel applies an oppressive, separate, and unequal regime on Palestinians. There is only one word for this: Apartheid. Omar Baddar, Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), Oct 14, 2020 Omar […]

  • 135 backpacks to Rafah by MECA on our behalf [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”27″ display=”basic_slideshow”]More MECA photos from Gaza     The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project is partnering with the Middle East […]

  • Stop the Wall, 26 September 2022 A whole village with over 90 residents is at the brink of being ethnically cleansed. The Israeli Supreme Court set September 29 as the […]

  • Thanks to those who attended our webinar “On the Ground Jewish Solidarity with Palestinian Resistance in Masafer Yatta” with Peter Beinart, Awdah Hathaleen, Nur Zahor, and Zack Witus. If you […]

  • #DefendMasaferYatta

    USCPR, 9/19/22 Israel is carrying out the largest mass expulsion of Palestinian people from their rightful homes in 55 years. The Israeli govt is violently forcing out 1,300 Palestinian people […]

  • BREAKING: Hafez Huraini, 52, was arrested by Israeli soldiers after he was brutally attacked by settlers who broke his arm and disabled his ambulance in the village of Tuwani. He […]

  • Secretary of State Tony Blinken asked Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz for the review after the killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh Israeli soldiers in Hebron on Aug. […]

  • Yellow tape marks bullet holes on a tree and a portrait and flowers create a makeshift memorial at the site where Palestinian-American Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and […]

  • Please join us — in person or online — for a special evening. I am honored to tell you that Lina Abu Akleh, niece of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, will […]

  • (Final version, emphasis added) Dear colleagues and comrades, Thank you so much for signing on to our global open letter calling on the Biden administration to take immediate action in response […]

  • Madison365 staff, Sep 1, 2022 The YWCA Madison’s Racial Justice Summit will take place Sept. 28-30. Organizers are inviting the community to practice “Weaving Our Pasts, Present and Emergent Futures […]

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  • Victory for Khalil

    182-day Palestinian hunger striker to be released [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”26″ display=”basic_slideshow”] madison4pali on Instagram Yesterday, we planned to hold a demonstration to #FreeKhalil, the 182-day Palestinian hunger-striker protesting his evidence-free […]

  • 🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 Next Thursday, September 8th at 5pm at the Seattle Google campus (1000 Mercer Street Google office) join us as we stand in solidarity with Amazon and Google tech […]

  • Huge news just broke. Today, tech worker organizer Ariel Koren, active in our #NoTechForApartheid campaign, resigned from Google. Her resignation letter cited Google’s retaliation and the silencing of Palestinian, Muslim, […]

  • The Palestinian hunger striker, whose images shocked the world amid his more than 170-day strike, has ended his strike after striking a deal to be released Palestinian administrative prisoner Khalil […]

  • A video showing Khalil Awawdeh and the toll his detention has taken on his body was shared on Monday, where he urged the world to stop Israel from detaining Palestinians […]

  • Palestinian detainee Khalil Awawdeh Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 30 Aug 2022 Geneva – Palestinian administrative detainee Khalil Awawdeh is suffering from an acute case of dyspnea and severe problems in […]

  • The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project has helped build playgrounds for both Qortuba Elementary School and the Al Samud Shuhada Street Kindergarten Human Rights Defenders, 30th of August 2022 Hebron, Palestine […]

  • A protest in solidarity with Khalil Awawdeh, a Palestinian prisoner who is on hunger strike, 1 August 2022 [Mahmoud Nasser/ApaImages] Middle East Monitor, August 29, 2022 Photos of hunger-striking Palestinian […]

  • Murals that are part of the public art project ‘I Witness Silwan’ depicting the eyes of local and international figures, including George Floyd, a Black American killed by police, top […]

  • In a terrible irony, the campaign against “anti-semitism” has become a threat to freedom Peter Beinart, New York Times, August 26, 2022 Over the past 18 months, America’s most prominent […]

  • A “Teeter-Totter Wall” conceived in 2009 to protest the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall has become reality in New Mexico. NBC News, Jul 30, 2019

  • MRSCP is passing along an unusual opportunity to help build a playground for migrant children in the Mexico-US border town of Sásabe. We have installed similar playgrounds in Rafah and […]