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We consider the State of Israel, established in 1948, to be a continuation of that same colonial enterprise built on racism and the ideology of ethnic or religious superiority. ― Kairos Palestine, A Moment of Truth: Faith in a Time of Genocide, Nov 14, 2025
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As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project cannot support or oppose specific political parties or candidates. Land Day commemorates the general strike…
Madison Central Library, Room 301 6-9 pm When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their…
Rodlyn-mae Banting, Madison 365, March 28, 2024
Room of One’s Own Bookstore 2717 Atwood Avenue, Madison 1 pm Written and illustrated by Aya Ghanameh, These Olive Trees is the story of a Palestinian…
Join MRSCP and Students for Justice in Palestine this Thursday on Palestinian Mother’s Day to commemorate the mothers and children martyred in Gaza. We will…
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Mar 19, 2024
SUSAN ABULHAWA, THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA, 18 MARCH 2024
DAVE ZIRIN, THE NATION, MARCH 11, 2024
As a Palestinian American, I witness a new horror that Israel commits against my people, with my tax dollars, livestreamed online every day. The only…
OLIVIA ROSANE, COMMON DREAMS, MARCH 16, 2024
A Wall Street Journal investigation found that since Oct. 7, Israeli settlers have been rapidly building illegal roads and outposts across the West Bank. This…
SCOTT GORDON, TONE MADISON, MARCH 15, 2024
Click to Start The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network — Friends of Earth Palestine (PENGON — FoE Palestine) is a coordinating body for Palestinian environmental NGOs…
From Craig Corrie – 21 Years Later Gaza Crushed With Our Tax Dollars On March 16, 2003, our daughter Rachel Corrie was killed as she…
PalestinePortal.org, March 15, 2024
February 26, 2024 Madmen Arsonists Strike Again: They as Much as Lit Aaron Bushnell’s Match for Him Aaron Bushnell just couldn’t take any more. He…
CALL Pocan’s offices and insist on a pledge not to vote for any further military aid. He’s still not done that. Here is the link…
Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement Posted on March 13, 2024 Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine End all…
Aid Worker in Gaza: The U.S. Must Pressure Its Ally MARCH 12, 2024 This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. DONATE GUESTS…
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), March 9, 2024
From 350 Wisconsin: Since long before 1953, when Line 5 was constructed without the consent of Tribal Nations in its path, the Bad River Band…
Wednesday at 5:00 pm John Nolen and Williamson St, in Law Park close to Machinery Row. Map
CIA chief meets Mossad head for talks Kelsey Ables, Adela Suliman, Cate Brown, and Itay Stern, Washington Post, March 9, 2024 A Palestinian looks at…
Bryan Pietsch and Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, October 16, 2023 One of the UNRWA schools housing displaced people in Gaza on Oct. 8. (Loay Ayyoub for The Washington…
How Israeli TV news joined the Gaza war effort Tectonic shifts in Israeli broadcasting have played a key role in shaping the country’s nationalist and…
Al Jazeera, 9 Mar 2024
We suffer from violence, from sadness, from injustice, from humiliation, from the hardest forms of torture at the hands of the occupation. … My wish…
Jonathan Cook, 8 March 2024
Hosted by AFRICaide and 4W Christ Presbyterian Church 944 E. Gorham Street Madison 10:30 am – 4:00 pm For more than a decade, the AFRICaide organization has…
Democracy Now! Mar 6, 2024
DEMOCRACY NOW!, MARCH 06, 2024
Good Shepherd Collective Weekly Report Intro Since October 7, Israel has killed at least 31,043 people in Gaza, wounding 76,666. The death toll is widely…
Madison! Join us at the Capitol Wednesday to send the following message to the Biden administration: • We demand an immediate, permanent ceasefire and resumption…
A bilingual Arabic alphabet book, written & illustrated by kids at the Aida Refugee Camp Communication Madison 2645 Milwaukee Street Madison [Map] 10 am –…
‘Flour Massacre’: Impunity Persists as Israeli Forces Open Fire On Starving Palestinians Seeking Vital Aid The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), @AlMezanCenter , and…
U.S. Must Change Course This week, after witnessing the Flour Massacre in which over 100 Palestinians were killed at the site of a food aid…
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Omar Waheed, Madison365, Mar 4, 2024
Demanding Money for People’s Needs and a U.S.-Israel Ceasefire in Palestine! Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement, March 2, 2024 All photos: Wisconsin Bail Out…
Israel is making it clear to Palestinians in Gaza: We will starve you to death or we will kill you when you try to get…
Final Straw, Jan 28, 2024 This week, we’re featuring a conversation with Mohammad Hureini (twitter / instagram), a young activist from Masafer Yatta, an area…
Biden’s 2020 margin over Trump in Michigan was 150,000 votes. The Uncommitted vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary was 13% of the total. Michigan’s Arab-American…
We are forming a Kuffiyeh Contingent Meet at 10:30 am State Street Entrance steps Please join us for a Free Palestine contingent. Wear Kuffiyehs and…
Sponsored by UW Students for Justice in Palestine More information and RSVP
All Day Actions in Madison March 1, 2024. Photos below from banner drops at morning rush hour. Photo: Madison-Rafah Sister City Project Photo: Madison-Rafah Sister City…
12 Noon, 89.9 FM or listen live online Host Esty Dinur will interview two guests on Gaza: Shafiq Kassees of UW Students for Justice in…
Rafah Governate is a tiny, 25 square mile area smaller than the west side of Madison (see map above). With Israel threatening to compound its…
With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence and dispossession. Letter from the West Bank Shane Bauer, February…
Following Washington’s lead, key US allies have cut funding for the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine—making them all complicit in genocide. PHYLLIS BENNIS,…
In five minutes, the video sounds the alarm on laws intended to take away Americans’ First Amendment right to boycott Israel. As masses throughout the…
Nora Barrows-Friedman, THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA, 14 February 2024
Mads Gilbert is an anesthesiologist, head of emergency medicine at the University Hospital of North Norway, and Professor of emergency medicine at the University of…
“They got guns, batons, and pepper spray, but I’m dangerous.” On February 13th, police officers brutally suppressed a protest at a career fair that hosted…
Online Auction to Benefit Gaza Relief closes February 29 Plus, an online donation campaign update from MECA Don’t miss your chance to bid on these…
and Her Family by an Israeli Airstrike on Rafah 21.02.2024 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the killing of…
Sarah Ferguson, Unicef, February 20, 2024
Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams, February 22, 2024
LEILA WARAH, MONDOWEISS, FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Carlos Latuff, 2/22/24
Madison365 staff, Feb 19, 2024
Children in Deir El-Balah (central Gaza Strip) enjoying hot meals from one of our community kitchens It’s been a while since we sent you an…
The Read Palestine! project, supported by Madison Rafah Sister City Project, is hosting book clubs for 4th – 12th graders. Please fill out this form…
Amnesty International, February 19, 2024
February 18, 2024 We, Palestinian-led organizations in the United States, are issuing an urgent call and a warning to President Biden. Palestinians in Gaza are…
The Pentagon is not retaining comprehensive records of alleged war crimes in its global military operations as required by the Defense Department’s own policies, according…
Kismet Books 101 N. Main Street, Verona 10:30 am
World BEYOND War 12-2:00 pm Sen Baldwin’s office, 30 W Mifflin Street 2:00 pm walk to Rep Pocan’s office 2:15 pm Rep Pocan’s office, 10…
Students for Justice in Palestine UW-Madison
Baldwin in Beloit
Money for People’s Needs not Endless U.S. Wars! Actions Across Wisconsin Feb. 19-24, 2024 (Eau Claire, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Racine, Viroqua) Madison, Wisconsin Feb.…
Image: Sacramento to Bethlehem Below is a letter from the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP) to the US El Salvador Sister City Network, asking them…
The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp Washington, DC | www.adc.org | February 15, 2024 – ADC has partnered with a…
Israel will likel try to push Palestinians from Rafah into the camp Dave DeCamp, Defend Democracy Press, February 15, 2024 Egypt is building an 8-square-mile…
Despite its opposition to displacement of Palestinians, Cairo appears to be preparing for a scenario forced by Israel. A satellite image shows the construction of…
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian coalition that leads the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, calls for escalating campaigning against fossil…
Click image to enlarge Wan Hasifi Amin/@drhasifi on Twitter
The past days have been horrific for the residents of Majaz, one of the villages in Masafer Yatta, and inside the area claimed by Israel…
Sandra Whitehead, WISCONSIN MUSLIM JOURNAL, Feb 13, 2024 Members of the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project protested Dec. 23 in Madison. A small group of Madison…
Some 1.4 million Palestinians have been sheltering in a 64sq km (25sq miles) area, hoping for safety that has not materialised. Rights groups have warned…
Under the cover of the relentless bombardment and atrocity crimes in Gaza, Israeli forces have simultaneously unleashed a new, brutal wave of unlawful violence against…
Update February 15, 2024 The substitute Resolution 314 (Miles) on Antisemitism and Resolution 321 on Islamophobia passed unanimously. Resolution 333 Calling for a Ceasefire in…
Chapters, Madison Chapter, Nonviolent Activism, North America By Madison for a World BEYOND War, February 15, 2024 On Valentine’s Day, Madison for a World BEYOND…
Sponsored by World Beyond War: Stop Sending Weapons Around the World & Reinstate UNRWA Funding 12 noon – 30 W Mifflin St, 7th floor –…
with a Valentines Day to Leap Year Silent Auction Gaza is now the deadliest place in the world for civilians. The need for massive emergency…
❤️ Our silent online auction ❤️ starts Valentines day at noon and ends February 29 at 5 pm. 100% of the proceeds will go immediately…
Students for Justice in Palestine – UW Madison
Awdah Hathaleen, Humans of Masafer Yatta, Feb 11, 2024 I stopped posting and updating for a while. I didn’t do this because the situation changed…
SUPPORT US Palestinians and Israelis who’ve experienced the settlers’ attacks first-hand see the move as a positive but wholly insufficient step toward accountability. Oren Ziv,…
Alex Skopic and Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs, 07 February 2024
Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept, February 7, 2024
⚡️Absolute destruction of northern Gaza, video from this morning pic.twitter.com/APWiC5KMQp — War Monitor (@WarMonitors) February 2, 2024
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 3 Feb 2024
Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 4 Feb 2024