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I saw a video where two Australian doctors described how they had to deliver a baby via emergency c-section because the baby’s mother had been decapitated by an Israeli airstrike. Information like this always reminds me of that period last year when all the western politicians and media outlets were telling us that the worst people in the entire world were the university students who were protesting against this genocide. — Caitlin Johnstone, Sep 21, 2025
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2024.05.01: Rally & Calls to Support the UW-Madison Palestine Protest
RALLY 5 PM TODAY AT UW LIBRARY MALL PHONE CALLS NEEDED FOR THE ARRESTED PROTESTERS Organizers are calling on everyone to rally on Library Mall…
SJP UW-Madison Encampment Returns
They’re baaaack
Older Generation Weighs in on UW Madison Student Protest
By Marcus Aarsvold Published: Apr. 30, 2024 at 6:41 PM CDT|Updated: 17 hours ago MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – As a ‘Free Palestine’ protest continues on UW…
UW-Madison Professor Arrested
UW Madison Professor Samer Alatout asked police to leave students at the encampment alone this morning. This is what the police did to him. Professor…
LIVE UPDATES: Law enforcement officers, protesters clash
Maggie Degnan, Channel 3000, May 1, 2024 Protestors Taken Away in Handcuffs MADISON, Wis. — Police removed nearly all of the tents from Library Mall…
Phone calls needed to support UW-Madison students protesting the Gaza war
Yesterday hundreds of students and faculty at UW Madison and UW-Milwaukee joined the growing campus protests around the US. against the slaughter in Gaza. (Directory…
What went down during the first day of pro-Palestine encampment protests at UW-Madison
By Annika Bereny , Amari Mbongwo , Gavin Escott , Kodie Engst , Nicholas Sinn , Noe Goldhaber , Tomer Ronen , Gabriella Hartlauband Bryna Goeking The Daily Cardinal, April 29, 2024 Pro-Palestine demonstrators who organized an encampment Monday at the…
The Israel-US game plan for Gaza is staring us in the face
Jonathan K. Cook, 30 April 2024 The western media is pretending the West’s efforts to secure a ceasefire are serious. But a different script has…
2024.05.01: Pizza & Music for Gaza
Giant Jones Brewing Co.913 E Main St, MadisonEnter on Brearly5-9 PM
Stop the Rafah massacre, join an encampment
Good Shepherd CollectiveBeit Sahour, Palestine GSC Update This map shows a small snapshot of the US-based encampments. With such a large distribution of encampments, its…
Pocan Seeks to Show Biden Liberal Dismay on Gaza
The progressive Democrat from a rural, mostly white Wisconsin district is highlighting that it is not just young people of color who are concerned about…
Under Israeli Pressure, Guinea Bissau Withdraws Flotilla Flags
💚🖤💔Hello all, I am heartbroken to pass on the news that our Flotilla will be unable to sail for Gaza at this time due to…
A Room of One’s Own has . . .
. . . books, by, about, and for Palestine! Kid’s books, cookbooks, fiction, poetry, photography, memoir, theory & non-fiction!
2024.04.30: Collapse of the Gaza Health Care System
Eyewitness Palestine Free but donations accepted 11 am CT More information and registration
2024.04.29: A Conversation with Naomi Shihab Nye and Heather Raffo
5-6 pm CTJoin ADC for an Arab-American Heritage Month conversation on how our community relates to life’s joy and struggles through language and art. You’ll hear from award-winning…
2024.04.29: Countering the Destructive Consequences of Christian Zionism
April 29, 2024:11:30 am CT More information and registration
2024.04.29 & ongoing: SJP Protest for Divestment and Rally for Gaza
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Students for Justice in Palestine- UW Madison (@sjpuwmadison) Meet at UW-Madison Library Mall at 9 am.…
2024.04.28: Challenging Empire – Israel, USA & Imperialism
Goodman Community Center Hicks Room 149 Waubesa St, Madison 4-5:30 pm Israel’s genocidal invasion of Gaza has continued for over six months, with full backing…
Israel Marks 200 Days of Genocide with Plans to Destroy Rafah
24، Apr 2024 Tuesday, April 23, 2024, marked the 200th consecutive day of Israel’s large-scale military offensive on the Gaza Strip. Nearly 90 percent of…
2024.04.27: Viroqua Music Benefit for Emergency Gaza Relief
Landmark Center 500 East Jefferson St, Viroqua 6-10 PM
2024.04.26: SJP Palestine Art Build
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Students for Justice in Palestine- UW Madison (@sjpuwmadison)
Caitlin Johnstone on Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone is an Australian independent journalist.
Israel says it is ‘moving ahead’ with Rafah operation
By Farah Najjar Published On 24 Apr 202424 Apr 2024
Turkiye has not yet given permission to sail
MINA News, 24 April 2024 – 08:28 WIB Istanbul , MINA – The Freedom Flotilla Coalition ( FFC ) was forced to postpone its sailing…
Israeli soldier speaks out on war in Gaza
Channel 4 News, Apr 23, 2024
Will the Freedom Flotilla sail to Gaza?
Türkiye is under significant pressure from the US and Israel to block the flotilla from setting sail and achieving its objective of delivering aid and…
‘Damning’ Independent Probe Finds Israel Has Not Provided Evidence Against UNRWA
The U.S. House on Saturday passed a bill including a prohibition on funding the agency, due to Israel’s unsubstantiated claims that UNRWA employees have terrorism…
‘Obvious Evidence of Genocide’: Mass Grave in Gaza’s Nasser Hospital
Palestinian rescue workers said they found hundreds of bodies, some with their hands bound and others with their skin, organs, or heads removed. OLIVIA ROSANE,…
Update: The Gaza Flotilla still needs your help!
April 24, 2024 From the Flotilla today: We have completed all technical and crewing requirements in order to launch the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza on…
UN experts demand safe passage for Freedom Flotilla
Format News and Press Release Posted 26 Apr 2024 Originally published 26 Apr 2024 Origin View original GENEVA (26 April 2024) – UN experts today demanded safe passage…
Mads Gilbert | Don’t Lose Hope
Muslim Central, YouTube, April 22, 2024 Organise. Act. Now! We often feel helpless, so little we can do. But we are the majority, the people…
Google fires 28 over protest of Israel contract
Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday after sit-ins at the company’s offices in protest of its cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. Why it matters: The protests…
‘I can’t find food’: despair in Gaza as children face malnutrition
Majdi Fathi and Monika Čvorak, The Guardian, 15 Apr 2024 According to the World Food Programme, malnutrition among children in Gaza is spreading at a record…
Gaza aid flotilla plans to challenge Israeli blockade
By Kareem Fahim and Beril Eski, The Washington Post April 21, 2024 at 3:00 a.m. EDT ISTANBUL — A flotilla of ships bound for the Gaza Strip is preparing to…
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 196
Israel strikes Iran, Gaza health ministry says Israel destroyed the Strip’s health system Israel targets Iranian bases in Isfahan with drones, while Iranian sources say…
Why Hundreds of People are about to Sail to Gaza
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Freedom Flotilla Coalition (@gazafreedomflotilla) Why the Flotilla? A video with Ismail of the Mavi Marmara Association and…
Protect the Freedom Flotilla emergency mission
Washington, DC | www.adc.org | April 19, 2024 – Your help is urgently needed to push Congress to protect brave civilians on the Freedom Flotilla’s nonviolent mission. The Freedom…
2024.04.26: Apartheid Wall Rally
Students for Justice in Palestine — UW-Madison is organizing an Apartheid Wall Rally with details TBA.
2024.04.25: Palestinian Benefit at The Bur Oak
Good people of Madison, are you ready to raise funds for those who are trapped in the devastating conflict in the Middle East? Let’s come…
2024.04.25: Stories from Gaza
Students for Justice in Palestine — UW-Madison will present a panel of university students and community members who have family living in Gaza. They will…
2024.04.23: Palestine Prisoners
Students for Justice in Palestine — UW-Madison will hold an event of action for the Holy Land Foundation Five who were imprisoned over a decade ago…
2024.04.23: Refaat Alareer — The Power of Telling the Story of Gaza
12-1:30 pm CT In December, Palestinian poet and professor Refaat Alareer was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike in Gaza. In this special event, authors,…
2024.04.22: Living Under Apartheid
Students for Justice in Palestine — UW-Madison will present an apartheid panel of university professors and students to discuss their life growing up under apartheid: RSVP…
2024.04.22-26: SJP Palestine Solidarity Week
Students for Justice in Palestine — UW-Madison is holding its annual Palestine Solidarity Week on the theme “Stories of Palestine.” We would love to see you…
2024.04.20: Live Update on the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza
I would like to invite you to join us, on short notice, to listen to our comrades in Istanbul who are about to board the Freedom…
The Freedom Flotilla’s Voyage to Break Israel’s Siege
Peace activists aim to sail through the military blockade of Gaza. BY SAURAV SARKAR APRIL 18, 2024 Hundreds of civilians from more than thirty countries will…
Blinken Is Refusing to Sanction Israeli Military Linked to Killings or Rapes
Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The allegations at issue mostly took place in the West Bank and occurred before Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.…
Gaza Postcards Delivered to Tammy Baldwin’s Office
Today the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project delivered postcards written during the recent Rachel Corrie commemoration, along with an event flier, to Senator Tammy Baldwin’s office…
Gaza Journalists Call Out Media Complicity
On April 27, members of the U.S. media, celebrities, and politicians will wine and dine with President Biden and members of his administration at the…
Can AIPAC’s millions oust the Squad?
As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project cannot support or oppose specific political parties or candidates. In one week, Democratic Congresswoman Summer…
Israel Kills Both Family, and Paramedics Given Safe Passage
Palestinian paramedics said Israel gave them safe passage to save a 6-year-old girl in Gaza. They were all killed. By Meg Kelly, Hajar Harb, Louisa Loveluck, Miriam Berger and Cate Brown…
Freedom Flotilla Emergency Gaza Mission
#BreakTheSiege and #EndTheBlockade Apr 14, 2024 İSTANBUL Retired U.S. Army Colonel & former U.S. diplomat Ann Wright introduces our upcoming Freedom Flotilla Coalition emergency mission to…
Stop Funding Genocide
Go to https://www.notmytaxdollars.org
Sign to End U.S. complicity in Israel’s genocide
The images of Palestinian children’s bodies hanging from the sides of bombed buildings or the cries of mothers holding their lifeless babies will never be…
Update from Middle East Children’s Alliance
Thank you so much for your support of the Middle East Children’s Alliance. At this devastating time, we want to share an online version of…
2024.04.12: Gaza Freedom Flotilla & War Tax Resistance
12 noon – 1 pm 89.9 FM or listen live online here. Join host Esty Dinur as she talks with Palestinian-American & Freedom Flotilla veteran Huwaida Arraf and…
2024.04.18: Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities
William I. Robinson , TRUTHOUT, March 23, 2024
2024.04.16: CODEPINK Online Regional Meeting
6:00pm – 7:00pm (CT) CODEPINK is hosting an interest meeting for people in the Madison area who may have been inspired to act by recent events in Palestine…
2024.04.14: Commemorating the Life of Rachel Corrie
Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham St, Madison 1:30-3:30 pm Free & open to all Donations to Middle East Children’s Alliance welcome Music by Ensemble…
2024.04.11: Journalist Arun Gupta on Debunked Oct. 7 Atrocity Stories
12 noon – 1 pm WORT Radio 89.9 FM or listen live online here. In the days following the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel, numerous…
41,000 FLAGS TO HONOR PALESTINIAN LIVES LOST
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Apr 9, 2024
I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them.
Opinion By Peter Maass April 9, 2024 at 5:45 a.m. EDT Palestinians view the damage at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on April 1.…
Pocan discusses Gaza and Biden visit to Madison
“It appears to be a collective punishment of all Palestinians in Gaza.” April 8, 2024 Any new assistance for Israel has to have conditions. We…
2024.04.08: Biden visits Wisconsin after primary warning signs
“I was surprised to see the intensity on the issue of Gaza coming not from a student voice out of Madison, but older voters in…
2024.04.08 Update: Madison Rally to Protest Biden
“Joe, Stop the Gazacide” Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace — Madison, Students for Justice in Palestine — UW-Madison, and World Beyond War Madison…
justvisionmedia Tribute to Gaza Journalists
View this post on Instagram A post shared…
Israel’s war on Gaza
Six relentless months of death and destruction A look at the devastating toll Israel’s war on Gaza has taken on the Palestinian people. By Maziar…
We Israelis are the biggest Holocaust deniers
JONATHAN OFIR, MONDOWEISS, APRIL 6, 2024
The New York Times and The Intercept on Palestinian Lives
Apr 4, 2024, The Daily 26:15 Kim Severson, a food correspondent for The New York Times: I’m curious how you think about the speed with…
House Democrats Demanding Biden Halt Weapons to Israel
‘UNJUSTIFIABLE’ In a letter to the president, the lawmakers expressed their “outrage regarding the recent Israeli airstrike which killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers”…
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International Civilian Aid Flotilla to Break the Siege of Gaza
zohar, Freedom Flotilla Coalition, April 4, 2024 Media Release The international Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will sail in mid April with multiple vessels, carrying 5500…
Statement from MECA on the World Central Kitchen Killings
A statement from Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), our partner in the Grassroots to Gaza Aid Campaign, on the killing of their colleagues from World Central…
Israel Pays a Political Price for Killing Aid Workers
– When They’re Not Palestinians The attack that killed seven volunteers from World Central Kitchen is Israel’s latest assault on the humanitarian aid system in…
The Ghoulish Ostentatiousness of Israel’s Latest War Crimes
It’s as if Israel is flaunting its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. JACK MIRKINSON, THE NATION, APRIL 4, 2024 Palestinians are standing next to a vehicle…
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing of Gaza
Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) The Israeli army has marked tens of…
A humanitarian catastrophe
The U.S. calls on Israel to prevent civilian casualties while continuing to supply weapons for it TESNIM ZEKERIA AND JUDD LEGUM, POPULAR INFORMATION, APR 03,…
Israel Kills Aid Workers, Devastates Gaza’s Hospitals to Starve Palestinians
Yesterday, an Israeli drone strike killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers who had been distributing vital food aid in northern Gaza. By deliberately killing…
Oglala Sioux Tribe Passes Resolution in Support of Palestinians in Gaza
Yahoo News Displaced Palestinians take shelter in a makeshift tent camp by the beach in Rafah near the border with Egypt. (Photo/NPR) NATIVE NEWS ONLINE…
Weekly Briefing: Biden ‘quietly’ gives massive bombs to Israel
Even as establishment voices say “Stop the genocide” The Biden administration “quietly” approved a new transfer of more massive bombs to Israel even as the…
Why Israel faces a strategic defeat in Gaza
David Hearst, Middle East Eye, Mar 20, 2024 David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, discusses how Israel’s war on Gaza is forcing its Western…
2024.04.05: Palestinian Children’s Day Vigil for Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Rodlyn-mae Banting, Madison 365, Apr 6, 2024
2024.04.05: Palestinian Children’s Day Vigil
April 5th is Palestinian Children’s Day! Bring signs and wear your kuffiyas to commemorate Palestinian children killed by Israel. Call on your representatives to stop…
“This Is a Movement of Hope”: Wisconsin’s Uninstructed Campaign Has Momentum
As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project cannot support or oppose specific political parties or candidates. The Uncommitted national movement has reached…
META REFUSES TO ANSWER ON GAZA CENSORSHIP
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 3, 2022, in Washington, D.C. (Photo:…
Hot meals. Community. Dignity. Income.
The team at Atfaluna’s Inclusive Kitchen package hot meals to distribute to displaced families in Gaza In December Israel bombed and torched the building of…
Draft UN Report Finds Israel Has Met Threshold for Genocide
BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, MARCH 25, 2024
US Dept of Education could stifle criticism of Israel at UW-Madison
ARVIND DILAWAR, TONE MADISON, MARCH 25, 2024
Christian Leaders Call for Gaza Ceasefire & Halt of Arms Sales
March 27, 2024 WASHINGTON – In a new letter released during Holy Week ahead of Easter, more than 140 Bishops and executive leaders from churches,…
First Recognize Palestinian Humanity
First Recognize Palestinian Humanity Dr. James J. Zogby President, Arab American Institute Guys in white shirts and ties in Washington and their counterparts in Israel…
Update: Grassroots to Gaza Emergency Aid Campaign
We wanted to give you an update on our Grassroots to Gaza campaign for emergency Gaza relief via the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA). The…
PCHR Report on the West Bank
Report on Israel’s Crimes and Violations of Palestinians’ Rights in the West Bank in January and February 2024 ♦️Since the beginning of 2024, the Israeli…
In Memoriam: Aaron Bushnell, 1999-2024
Radha Surya, Znet, March 22, 2024
