The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
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Apr 26, 2026
Palestinian activist who worked on film ‘No Other Land’ killed in occupied West Bank
Middle East Eye staff, 28 July 2025
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Israel cuts off Gaza aid to pressure Hamas for new ceasefire proposal
TIA GOLDENBERGย ANDย SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 2, 2025
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Jabaliya Is Now a City of Rubble
ABUBAKER ABED, DROP SITE NEWS, FEB 05, 2025
โA City of Ghostsโ โ Returning to Rafah to Find Death and Destruction
ABUBAKER ABED, DROP SITE NEWS, JAN 29, 2025
What Itโs Truly Like to Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Tent: A Report From Gaza
Five newborns have died of hypothermia amid the cold in Gaza. Doctors tell Drop Site…
The West buries a genocide โ by making victims of Israel’s football thugs
If the West was really worried about Europeโs Nazi past, it would be better advised…
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Amsterdam Thugs and Hooligans
A Sham Enveloped in Brazen Hypocrisy Mouin Rabbani, @MouinRabbani, Nov 10, 2024 Itโs now pretty…
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No, there were no โantisemitic pogromsโ in Amsterdam
Hereโs what really happened. Media claims of โantisemitic pogromsโ against Israeli fans in Amsterdam are…
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Israelโs Murderous Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Gaza
Eyewitnesses say the IDF is starving residents, targeting hospitals, bombing shelters, and murdering civilians in…
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โIsraelโs Reel Extremismโ Documentary
Link to Video โIsraelโs Reel Extremismโ: Have You Watched Our Very Powerful Documentary Yet? by…
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Shaaban Al-Dalou, Burned Alive in Gaza, Would Have Been 20 Today
Footage captured of his burning body has seared its way through the collective consciousnessโan indelible…
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Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth
DEMOCRACY NOW! OCTOBER 08, 2024 Watch Full ShowImage Credit: Courtesy of Ta-Nehisi Coates As the…
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A conflict the White House once hoped to moderate has gone from โover the topโ…
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Israel Bombs Mosque in Deir al-Balah, Gazaโs Last Standing City
DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 07, 2024 Commentary by Sharif Abdel Kouddous Today marks the one-year…
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New video, witnesses challenge Israelโs account of U.S. activistโs killing
The IDF said Aysenur Eygi was shot โunintentionallyโ during a โviolent riot.โ A Post analysis…
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Israelโs Olympic Presence Helps Legitimize War Crimes
Paraguayโs menโs soccer team defeated Israelโbut Israel wins just by being allowed to compete. DAVE…
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The pressure is working — FIFA announced it will make a decision about whether or…
In Memoriam: Aaron Bushnell, 1999-2024
Radha Surya, Znet, March 22, 2024
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Itโs true. And itโs big. PUMA wonโt be renewing its contract with the Israel Football…
Palestine has won the World Cup
YUMNA PATEL, MONDOWEISS, DECEMBER 9, 2022
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Morocco becomes first Arab nation to make it to the last eight of international soccer…
Kick Out Apartheid Campaign
Palestinian Artist, Poet, and Filmmaker Lina Abojaradeh asks “What country in the world intentionally…
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The menโs World Cup starts in just a few days. The world will turn its…
Supreme Court Allows Teachers To Lead Students In Crusades
WASHINGTONโIn a controversial 6-3 decision regarding religious freedom, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that public…
We call hypocrisy on PUMA
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), April 6, 2022 PUMA…
On Watching Ukraine Through Palestinian Eyes
The rightful outpouring of support for Ukraine teaches us that the West can condemn occupation…
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Ismail Ajjawi, a Harvard freshman who said he was was denied U.S. entry because of…
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BโTselem, 06 August 2019 From the beginning of the Great March of Return protests on…
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“We can change peopleโs minds by defending our cause” Noga Tarnopolsky, LA Times, Aug 02,…
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Ma’an News Agency, Aug. 18, 2016 BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — Fans of the Scottish Celtic Football…
Call to action: Join Palestinian political prisonerโs day
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association & Palestinian BDS National Committee, Apr 3, 2014
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Palestinians warm themselves by a fire inside a house, which witnesses said was damaged in…
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TSELA BARR AND MICHELE BAHL | members, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, Cap Times, Nov 22,…
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On the day that the Interfaith Peace Builders delegation (with four women from Wisconsin) safely…
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Friends, Thank you so much for your support of the Rachel Corrie Ramadan Soccer Tournament…
2008.09.01-23: Rachel Corrie Soccer Tournament
Dear Members and Friends of MRSCP, We have been asked by some of our friends…
People I Love Are Dying
Kathy Walsh, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, 03 March 08 People I know and love are…
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Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May/June 2005 THEY BREATHE the same air,…
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How Madisonians helped create a respite from violence for Palestinian children Kathy Walsh, Isthmus, April…
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Rana El-Khatib, Arizona Republic, January 25, 2004 “Israel good!” were the last words my husband…
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Fiachra Gibbons, The Guardian, August 23, 2003
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