The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)

Month: November 2025

Jun 24, 2026

2025.12.06: Anti-War Café
The Crossing, 1127 University Ave, 12-4 pm
BDS, calendar, divest, Gaza, war, World Beyond War
Grok says translation from Hebrew has been disabled on X
Grok AI on X, Nov 18, 2025
hasbara, Hebrew, Israel Lobby, Madison, propaganda, Rafah
After 9 Months of ‘Israel’s Abuse,’ US Teen Mohammed Ibrahim Freed From Detention
JESSICA CORBETT, Common Dreams, Nov 27, 2025
children, citizen, detainees, human rights, Mike Huckabee, Mohammed Ibrahim, Ramallah, terrorism, West Bank
Support Gaza Sunbirds paracycling team
Eric Kleppe-Montenegro, MKEBKE, Nov 22, 2025
Gaza, Madison, Madison 365, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), Milwaukee, Palestine, paracycling, Rafah, Ride for Palestine, solidarity, Sunbirds, women, world
Free Mohammed Ibrahim!
CODEPINK, Nov 26, 2025
children, citizen, CODEPINK, detainees, human rights, Mike Huckabee, Mohammed Ibrahim, Ramallah, terrorism, West Bank
2025.11.29-30: Snow Update! Bookstore Saturday AND Sunday will raise money for Palestinian families
Omar Waheed, Madison 365, Nov 26, 2025
aid, calendar, Gaza, Grassroots, Madison, Madison 365, Masafer Yatta, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), olive oil, olive trees, Palestinian, West Bank, Women in Hebron
Zionists Are Freaking Out About Losing Control Of The Narrative
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, NOV 18, 2025
Caitlin Johnstone, Gaza, genocide, Israel Lobby, Sarah Hurwitz, war, war crimes, Zionism
Israel Moves Gaza’s Yellow Line And Then Shells Palestinians
Drop Site News, Nov 21, 2025
Ceasefire Oct 8 2025, Gaza, Palestinian, war, Yellow Line
Israeli airstrikes kill 33 people in Gaza in escalation of post-ceasefire attacks
Jason Burke in Jerusalem, The Guardian, 20 Nov 2025
Ceasefire Oct 8 2025, civilians, Gaza, Jerusalem, war
2025.11.29-30: A Call for Artisans & Bakers!!
Donate to the Gift and Sweets Sale
aid, calendar, donate, Gaza, Grassroots, Madison, Masafer Yatta, Middle East, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), olive oil, olive trees, Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, sweets, West Bank
2025.11.29-30: Snow Update! Gift & Sweets Sale for Palestine
Room of One’s Own Annex, 2713 Atwood Ave, Madison, Sat 12 pm-4 pm & Sun…
aid, artist, benefit, books, calendar, donate, Gaza, Google, Grassroots, Hebron, justice, Madison, Masafer Yatta, Middle East, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), Nablus, olive oil, olive trees, Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, solidarity, sweets, terrorism, war, West Bank, women, Women in Hebron
2025.11.29-30: Snow Update! Gifts & Sweets for November 29 AND 30!
Room of One’s Own Annex, 2713 Atwood Ave, Madison, Sat 12 pm-4 pm & Sun…
aid, calendar, Gaza, Grassroots, Madison, Masafer Yatta, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), olive oil, olive trees, sweets, West Bank, Women in Hebron
Give to the Children of Umm al Khair
Friends of Sabeel North America, Nov 18, 2025
aid, Awdah Hathleen, education, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), Israeli, land, Madison, Masafer Yatta, military, music, Palestinian, Rafah, schools, settlers, terrorism, Umm al-Khair, water, West Bank
Trump’s Plan for Gaza
DROP SITE NEWS, NOV 18, 2025
assassination, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, Board of Peace, Donald Trump, Egypt, Europe, Gaza, Hamas, images, Indonesia, Israel, Israeli, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Jared Kushner, Jordan, Madison, Mahmoud Abbas, media, Mike Waltz, New York City, occupation, Palestinian, Palestinian Authority (PA), peace, prison, Qatar, Rafah, resistance, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE), United States, vote, war, world
2025.11.20: Report from the West Bank
Online, 6 PM CT
Benny Davidovitch, calendar, detainees, ethnic cleansing, home demolition, Jordan Valley, online, settlers, terrorism, West Bank
2025.11.24: Films on Nonviolent Resistance, Past & Present
Madison Central Library, 201 W Mifflin, Room 302, 6 pm
calendar, documentary, film, Global Sumud Flotilla, Jewish, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), Madison, peace, Rafah, resistance, resources, sister cities, sumud, taxes, veterans, video, war, world, World Beyond War
2025.11.25: AIPAC Out of US Politics!
Online, 6 PM CT
American, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), apartheid, calendar, climate, Congress, Donald Trump, education, healthcare, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Israel, Israel Lobby, Israeli, justice, Madison, military, occupation, online, Palestine, Palestinian, Progressives, Rafah, solidarity, terrorism, vote, war, Zionism
2025.11.28: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on WORT 89.9 FM
A Public Affair, 12-1 pm. Live, streaming, or archived
audio, calendar, civilians, doctors, Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, Esty Dinur, Gaza, healthcare, hospitals, Israeli, Madison, nurses, paramedics, prison, Rafah, torture, volunteer, war, war crimes, WORT 89.9 FM
2025.12.07: WORT 50th Birthday Bash!
Atwood Music Hall, 1925 Winnebago Ave, 6-10 pm
benefit, calendar, Madison, music, WORT 89.9 FM
2025.12.14: Winter Recital Benefit for MECA
McFarland Lutheran Church, 5529 Marsh Rd, 2:30 pm
benefit, calendar, Gaza, land, Lutheran, Madison, Middle East, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), peace, Rafah, Threads, winter
2025.11.17: Steadfast on Campus – A Century of Global Palestinian Student Activism
Online, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm CT
calendar, colleges & universities, education, freedom, Gaza, online, Palestinian, protest, UW-Madison, West Bank
A Bloody Month in the West Bank Olive Harvest Leads to the Death of a Boy
David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, Nov. 14, 2025
Abu Falah, activists, Ayssam Ma’ala, Beita, Burin, Eran Maoz, ethnic cleansing, Ghuroub Hamayel, Hebron, Hekmat Shtewei, Idhna, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Jonathan Pollak, journalists, Kufr Qaddum, Mohamed Suleiman, New York Times, Oded Yedaya, olive trees, Ramallah, settlers, Silwad, terrorism, Turmus Ayya, West Bank
Dozens Of Gaza Medical Workers Are Still Disappeared In Israeli Detention
Kavitha Chekuru, The Intercept, November 10 2025
civilians, detainees, doctors, Gaza, healthcare, Israeli, nurses, paramedics, war, war crimes
‘A death sentence for my son’: Israel plans to deport sick Palestinians back to Gaza
Abeer Salman and Zeena Saifi, Channel 3000+ News, Nov 12, 2025
Ceasefire Oct 8 2025, children, civilians, deportation, Gaza, healthcare, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestinian
2025.11.13: “An Evening for Palestine”: Benefit concert and vigil Thursday will support this year’s olive harvest in Palestine
Omar Waheed, Madison 365, Nov 12, 2025
benefit, calendar, Gaza, Grassroots, Madison, Madison 365, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), Palestine, protest, vigil
We write / to keep our names alive / to carve our stories into time.
Eman Eid, We Are Not Numbers, November 9, 2025. Artist: Jan Khaled, Flyers for Falastin
art, artist, Gaza, human rights, justice, literature, poetry, stories, sumud, We Are Not Numbers (WANN)
‘If, one day, a people will to live, then destiny must surely respond’
Saeda Hamdona, We Are Not Numbers, November 8, 2025
children, Gaza, refugees, starvation, stories, sumud, war, We Are Not Numbers (WANN)
Settler terror devastates West Bank olive harvest
Oren Ziv and Basel Adra, +972 Magazine, October 24, 2025
Basel Adra, ethnic cleansing, olive trees, Ramallah, settlers, terrorism, Turmus Ayya, West Bank
No Appetite for Apartheid: Pledge to Boycott Israeli Products
MADISON AREA DSA, Nov 10, 2025
apartheid, BDS, boycott, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Israeli, Madison
Umm al Kheir
Email Congress Now!
Cassandra Dixon, Congress, Hebron, home demolition, Madison, Masafer Yatta, Rafah, settlers, terrorism, Umm al-Khair, West Bank
2025.11.12: Deaf Resilience in Gaza
Online, 11 AM CT
calendar, deaf, Gaza, online, war
2025.11.15: Feed Madison Now Food Drive
Fresh Madison Market, 703 University Avenue, 1 pm
calendar, donate, food, Madison, Rafah, solidarity
2025.11.17-12.15: Solidarity & Action for Palestine
Online
calendar, education, online, Palestine, solidarity, take action
2025.11.18: Media Bias and the Gaza Genocide
Online, 6 PM CT
Assal Rad, calendar, disinformation, Gaza, genocide, hasbara, Israel Lobby, media, online, propaganda, Sana Saeed, war
2025.11.19: Madison Veterans Speak – The World Needs to End Wars
UW Madison Memorial Union, 6-8 pm
calendar, Gaza, Madison, peace, UW-Madison, veterans, Veterans for Peace (VFP), war, world, World Beyond War
2025.11.23: Rooted Together – Olive Harvest Delegation Report
Online, 1-2 PM CT
calendar, delegation, ethnic cleansing, olive trees, online, settlers, terrorism, West Bank
Israel is trying to divide Gaza in half along the ‘Yellow Line.’ What is it, and is it here to stay?
MONDOWEISS PALESTINE BUREAU AND QASSAM MUADDI, NOVEMBER 6, 2025
Ceasefire Oct 8 2025, Donald Trump, ethnic cleansing, Gaza, Palestine, war, Yellow Line
‘A wasteland’: FRANCE 24 journalist given rare glimpse of war-ravaged Gaza
NOGA TARNOPOLSKY, FRANCE 24, 5 NOV 2025
Ceasefire Oct 8 2025, ethnic cleansing, France, Gaza, journalists, land, war, Yellow Line
‘Civilians can’t go home’: Gaza faces Israel’s new ‘yellow line’
NATHAN GALLO and LISE KIENNEMANN, FRANCE 24, 31 OCT 2025
Ceasefire Oct 8 2025, civilians, ethnic cleansing, Gaza, war crimes
Wave of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon; Unprecedented number of settler attacks in the West Bank
DROP SITE NEWS, NOV 7, 2025
aid, Al Jazeera, American, Awdah Hathleen, civilians, documentary, Donald Trump, economy, Egypt, film, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza, Gaza City, Hamas, healthcare, Hezbollah, homeless, images, Israel, Israel Katz, Israeli, Jerusalem, Khan Younis, land, law, Lebanon, Madison, Madleen, Middle East, military, Mohammed Ibrahim, No Other Land, occupation, Oscar, Palestinian, peace, prison, protest, Rafah, settlers, Steve Witkoff, terrorism, torture, tunnels, Turkey, Umm al-Khair, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Wall, war, water, West Bank, winter, world, Yellow Line
The Olive Harvest Deportations
Maya Rosen, Jewish Currents, 3 November 2025
deportation, ethnic cleansing, Jewish, olive oil, olive trees, West Bank
2025.11.05: A Blueprint for Peace in Israel-Palestine
Online, 11:15 am
apartheid, calendar, democracy, equality, human rights, Israel, Israeli, Jewish, Madison, occupation, one-state, online, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, Rafah, two-state, violations