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Whatever the coming weeks and months may hold, Palestine now once again stands at the very center of global attention, and is today what Edward W. Said termed the litmus test for humanity and morality. Two years ago, as may be recalled, it had all but disappeared, out of both sight and mind. ― Mouin Rabbani, Oct 9, 2025
Muslim Women’s Coalition Response to Archewell Foundation
Muslim Women’s Coalition, April 17, 2025
2025.04.19: National Day of Action: Buy Out the Dane Co. Farmer’s Market!
Madison Resistance Coalition, Capitol Square loop to James Madison Park, 12 – 2 pm
2025.04.18-23: Farah Nabulsi’s Film “The Teacher”
AMC Fitchburg 18
First they came for Mahmoud Khalil…
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, Mar 11, 2025
2025.04.21: Madison College Solidarity for Peace
Truax Campus, 2-5 pm
Zionist organizations are taking down names
The Intercept, Apr 14, 2025
Trump told us the horrifying reason why Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not back in the U.S.
CHRIS GEIDNER, APR 14, 2025
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In For Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested By ICE
Akela Lacy, The Intercept, April 14 2025
2025.04.12: Vigil for Gaza at Dane County Farmers’ Market
Kodichi Lawrence, 27 WKOW, Apr 13, 2025
2025.04.12: Vigil for Gaza at Dane County Farmers’ Market
Jewish Voice for Peace Madison and christa.bruhn, Apr 12, 2025
2025.04.12: Call for an end to Israeli attacks and US weapons shipments
Mennonite Action Madison, Apr 12, 2025
Israeli Policies and Settler Violence Are Driving Palestinians from the Jordan Valley
ISSAM, DROP SITE NEWS, APR 14, 2025
2025.04.23: Film “The Palestine Exception” on Campus Protests
UW Memorial Union, 6-8 pm
Mahmoud Khalil’s free speech is a national security risk
Peter Suber, FediScience, Apr 12, 2025 & Associated Press
Massive Israeli Censorship of Pro-Palestine Posts on Facebook and Instagram
WAQAS AHMED, NICHOLAS RODELO, RYAN GRIM, AND MURTAZA HUSSAIN, DROP SITE NEWS, APR 11, 2025
Israel Preparing to Seize Ethnically Cleansed Rafah for Permanent Buffer Zone
BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, Apr 09, 2025
Israeli army organises hiking tours inside occupied Syrian territory
MEE staff, 4 April 2025
With Bakeries and Kitchens All But Shut Down, Desperate Hunger Engulfs Gaza
HAMZA M.SALHA, DROP SITE NEWS, APR 09, 2025
Israel releases Ahmed Manasra after nine and a half years of jail, solitary confinement
The New Arab Staff, 10 April, 2025
In Masafer Yatta, every last joy is being stolen from us
HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA, APR 10, 2025
2025.04.22: Indigenous Water Defenders Paul DeMain and Gracie Waukechon
Social Justice Center, 1202 Williamson Street, Madison, 7-9 pm
2025.04.23 Update: WI Right to Boycott Press Conference and Lobby Day
Wisconsin State Capitol, 9 am
2025.04.14-18: UW Against Apartheid Week
Students for Justice in Palestine UW-Madison
Names of Palestinians Killed by Israel Since October 2023
PeoplesForumNYC, Washington, DC, Apr 5, 2025
Justice for Palestinian-American Omar Mohammed Rabea!
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Apr 7, 2025
2025.04.05: Photos of Hands Off! Demonstrations
Madison, WI and Birmingham, AL
Israel lied about its murder of 15 paramedics and rescue workers
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, APR 05, 2025
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Lorenzo Tondo, Malak A Tantesh, and Julian Borger, The Guardian, 31 Mar 2025
‘Point-Blank Range’: How Israel Executed 15 Medics and Rescue Workers in Gaza
DIANA BUTTU, ZETEO, APR 3, 2025
New Israeli buffer zone and military corridor in Gaza
David Gritten and Yolande Knell, BBC, Apr 1, 2025
2025.04.23: Help Overturn Wisconsin’s anti-BDS Law!
MRSCP, Apr 2, 2025
2025.04.12: Anti-War Café
The Crossing, Noon – 3 pm
Why isn’t this front page news?
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, APR 01, 2025
Immigrant with legal protected status deported by “oversight”
Letters from an American, Heather Cox Richardson, March 31, 2025
2025.04.21: Campus Speech, Antisemitism and Islamophobia
UW-Madison Pyle Center, Wisconsin Idea Lounge, 5:00 pm
Netanyahu Promises the “Final Stage” of Gaza Genocide
JEREMY SCAHILL, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 31, 2025
2025.04.05: Wisconsin’s March Forward
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice (WNPJ), Madison, 12 pm
The Low-Hanging Fruit of Canceled Student Visas
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, March 30, 2025
2025.04.03: ZOOM with WNPJ on the WI Right to Boycott campaign
Online, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Israeli settlers seen on camera assaulting a Palestinian village. Police arrest only Palestinians.
JULIA FRANKEL, AP, March 28, 2025
Settler Attack on Jinba School
mahmoud.photography97, Mar 28, 2025
2025.03.31: Direct from Gaza: Mosab Abu Toha
Online, 8:00 PM CT
22 Years Later: A Message From Rachel’s Parents
Craig and Cindy Corrie, March 16, 2025
Call Senators Baldwin and Johnson
IMEU Policy Project, Mar 27, 2025
Hard days in Masafer Yatta
Mar 27, 2025
Rubio boasts of canceling more than 300 visas over pro-Palestine protests
Joseph Gedeon, The Guardian, 27 Mar 2025
Thousands gather at Tufts to demand the release of Rumesya Ozturk
Boston PSL, Mar 26, 2025
Court Extends Hussam Abu Safiya’s Detention in Israeli Torture Camp
Sharon Zhang , TRUTHOUT, March 26, 2025
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?
Rashid Khalidi, The Guardian, 25 Mar 2025
Kids Under Fire: An investigation into Israeli soldiers shooting children
Al Jazeera, Mar 27, 2025
“The Target is Unmistakable”: The Shooting of Gaza’s Children
AMEL GUETTATFI, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 27, 2025
2025.04.01: Divesting from Israel’s Genocide
Online, 6 pm CT
WATCH: Masked ICE Agents Arrest Tufts Graduate Student
PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, MAR 26, 2025
This ‘smoking gun’ proves Netanyahu’s genocidal intent
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, MAR 26, 2025
Wife of Oscar-winning director says he was savagely beaten outside his home
BY JULIA FRANKEL, AP, March 25, 2025
Israeli strike on Gaza hospital kills Hamas leader, teen
Al Jazeera Staff, 24 Mar 2025
Oscar-winning director Hamdan Ballal is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained
Mohammad Hesham, March 24, 2025
Nightmare: Gaza’s Rafah under siege again as Israeli forces attack
Sally Ibrahim, The New Arab, 24 March, 2025
2025.04.05: Read Palestine! Celebrates Arab American Heritage
Goodman South Library, 2222 S Park St, 1:30 pm
Gaza family lost 132 relatives in 1 Israeli strike in 2024
NPR, March 24, 2025
Israeli vs. American Media
@dbattistella@todon.eu
Israel creates new military body to encourage ‘voluntary emigration’ from Gaza
Joshua Marks, Jewish News Syndicate, March 23, 2025
Israeli occupation forces forcibly displace civilians
Eye on Palestine, Mar 23, 2025
Stories of children killed in Israel’s attacks in Gaza
Al Jazeera, 19 Mar 2025
“First, They Came for Mahmoud Khalil”
MEGHNAD BOSE, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 23, 2025
Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion
Ben Reiff, +972 Magazine, March 18, 2025
Something Special is Happening
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mar 21, 2025
Israel breaks truce, resumes slaughter; human family responds
Dave Lippman, Mar 20, 2025
“Another Round of Senseless Mass Killing”: Report from Gaza Hospital
DEMOCRACY NOW! MARCH 18, 2025
Israel has launched a new ground invasion into Gaza after breaking ceasefire
Russell Lewis, Kat Lonsdorf, and Daniel Estrin, NPR, MARCH 19, 2025
Georgetown Postdoc Detained by ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens
ARCHIT AND MURTAZA HUSSAIN, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 19, 2025
Tell your Senators: No More Weapons to Israel!
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), March 19, 2025
2025.03.20: Vigil for Gaza & Palestine
SE Corner of Williamson Steet and Blair, 4:15 to 5:45 pm
Israel’s most extreme genocidal violence beckons
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, MAR 18, 2025
ADC Statement on the Collapse of a Ceasefire That Never Was
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), March 18, 2025
Massacre at 2 A.M.
ABUBAKER ABED AND JEREMY SCAHILL, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 18, 2025
Israel shatters Gaza ceasefire as more than 400 Palestinians killed in IDF strikes
Tom Ambrose, Yohannes Lowe, Martin Belam, Kate Lamb and Helen Livingstone, The Guardian, 18 Mar 2025
2025.03.19-04.17: WI Right to Boycott Information Sessions
Online, Mar 19, 8 pm; Apr 5, 4 pm; Apr 17, 7 pm; 2025
2025.03.24-28: WNPJ Virtual Spring Assembly
Online, 7-8 pm
BDS: Maersk Shareholder Resolution Letter
17 March 2025
Israel launches strikes across Gaza Strip, killing more than 100
By Lyndal Rowlands and Erin Hale, Al Jazeera Live, 18 Mar 2025
The Lives Lost in Gaza
Sudev Kiyada, Simon Scarr and Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters, March 1, 2025
EFF Joins 7amleh Campaign to #ReconnectGaza
JILLIAN C. YORK AND PAIGE COLLINGS, ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, MARCH 17, 2025
Honoring Rachel Corrie’s Legacy
The Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), March 16, 2025
A Statement From Rachel Corrie’s Parents
Craig and Cindy Corrie, March 14, 2025
We Remember Rachel Corrie
I Witness Silwan, March 16, 2025
Emergency Lawsuit Filed Challenging Trump’s Attack on Free Speech
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Mar 16, 2025
New UN report accuses Israel of sexual and gender-based violence against Palestinians
MONDOWEISS PALESTINE BUREAU, MARCH 14, 2025
Palestinian family faces lonely iftar meals this Ramadan
Aref Tufaha and Jalal Bwaitel, AP, March 13, 2025
Why Hamas just agreed to release an Israeli-American captive
QASSAM MUADDI, MONDOWEISS, MARCH 14, 2025
After Columbia arrests, international college students fall silent
JOCELYN GECKER, AP, March 15, 2025
Day 5 – Mahmoud Khalil News You Need To Know
Arab American Institute, March 13, 2025
2025.03.23: Update From Palestine
Madison Christian Community, 7118 Old Sauk Rd, 9:00 am
2025.03.20: Telling the Truth about Palestine
Online, 5-6:30 pm CT
2025.03.19: Life Stories of Three Families in the Gaza Strip
Online, 5:30 pm CT
2025.03.17: Babies, Children, and Health Care Workers
Online, 6 pm CT
US and Israel look to Africa for resettling Palestinians from Gaza
JOSEF FEDERMAN, MATTHEW LEE AND SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 14, 2025
Trump’s Disappearing Of Mahmoud Khalil Should Be A Warning For Us All
THE BIG PICTURE AND TODD BEETON, MAR 13, 2025
