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A quick guide to Israeli public relations
“We haven’t heard reports of deaths, we’ll check into it. The people were killed, but by a faulty Palestinian rocket or bomb. OK, we killed them, but they were terrorists. OK, they were civilians, but they were being used as human shields. OK, there were no fighters in the area, so it was our mistake. But we kill civilians by accident, they do it on purpose. OK, we kill far more civilians than they do, but look at how terrible other countries are! Why are you still talking about Israel? Are you some kind of antisemite?”
— Adam Johannes, Cardiff Stop the War Coalition, Aug 3, 2014
Tell Them
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UNICEF Warns Area Israel Pushing Rafah Residents to Is ‘Not Safe’
“It is a narrow strip of beach on the coast that lacks the basic infrastructure—like toilets and running water—needed to sustain the population,” said the agency chief. JESSICA CORBETT, COMMON DREAMS, MAY 09, 2024 As Israel’s tanks and warplanes continued attacking eastern Rafah on Thursday amid fears of a full-scale invasion, United Nations leaders warned that the…
ADC: Demand Biden, World Leaders Stop Israel Invasion of Rafah
Washington, DC | adc.org | May 11, 2024 – The ongoing genocide and invasion of Rafah has placed the lives of millions of Palestinians at risk. The Biden Administration, as well as other global leaders have empowered Israel to act with impunity and no accountability. We are calling on our members to take immediate action and send a message…
SJP UW-Madison Saturday Schedule
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UW-Madison grads take to Bascom Hill before graduation in support of Palestine
Spectrum News 1, May 9, 2024
Students for Justice in Palestine Reaches Agreement with UW Administration
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‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 216
Israel continues to close Rafah crossing as Biden threatens to halt arms shipments Ceasefire talks are “paused” as delegations leave Cairo. Sources say Israel wants a full invasion of Rafah despite U.S. opposition, while Hamas reiterates its acceptance of the latest deal. Meanwhile, a new mass grave has been unearthed at al-Shifa. BY QASSAM MUADDI MAY 9,…
UW-Madison encampment to clear after agreement reached, officials report
By Juliana Tornabene, WMTV15 News Published: May. 10, 2024 at 2:22 PM CDT|Updated: 4:32 PM CDT MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – Protesters will clear out the encampment on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on Friday after an agreement was reached with campus leaders, the university announced. UW-Madison stated the campus leaders and student representatives from Students for Justice in…
UW-Madison announces agreement with student protesters to end Library Mall encampment
Kyle Jones, Channel 3000, May 10, 2024 MADISON, Wis. — After over a week of protests, the encampment on Library Mall is set to come down after UW-Madison leaders and students reached an agreement Friday. In a statement, UW-Madison officials said that Students for Justice in Palestine, the primary group organizing the encampment, has agreed to…
U of Chicago protesters respond to campus police tearing down encampment
FOX 32 Chicago, May 7, 2024 Demonstrators at the University of Chicago were given a final notice to leave their encampment on campus which was established to protest the war in Gaza. Police entered the encampment on the campus quad early Tuesday morning and began tearing down tents. Protesters continued to face off with police.
Campus in Crisis
Jewish Currents, May 3, 2024 Eli Valley is a Jewish Currents contributing writer. His comics collection Diaspora Boy: Comics on Crisis in America and Israel is available from OR Books. ELIVALLEY on Twitter | WEBSITE
SJP UW-Madison Friday Schedule
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May 12, 2024: Read Palestine! Sitti’s Bird
Kismet Books, 101 N. Main St, Verona, WI, 608.845.2500 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
May 11, 2024: CODEPINK Madison Meeting
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UW-Milwaukee Encampment Supported by Anti-Zionist — Not Antisemitic — Jewish Students And Professors
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, May 7, 2024 Photo by Joe Brusky Chavurat Tziporah and Jewish Voice for Peace – Milwaukee hosted Shabbat Shirah May 4 at the UW-Milwaukee Popular University for Palestine encampment. Students hold up letters spelling Tikkun olam, Hebrew for “repairing the world.” Jewish professors and students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee protest encampment…
SJP UW-Madison Thursday Schedule
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SJP UW-Madison Wednesday Schedule
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May 10, 2024: Liberation Shabbat
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Rafah Invasion Calls
RAFAH INVASION Israel has rejected the latest ceasefire proposal and intensified its bombardment of Rafah, including destroying and seizing the Rafah crossing and further blocking aid as full-blown famine spreads in Gaza. It has ordered 100,000 people to evacuate from Rafah as a ground invasion begins. Please take the following actions in response:
Rafah Invasion Calls, Supporting Students, and Madison City Council Resolution
RAFAH INVASION Israel has rejected the latest ceasefire proposal and intensified its bombardment of Rafah, including destroying and seizing the Rafah crossing and further blocking aid as full-blown famine spreads in Gaza. It has ordered 100,000 people to evacuate from Rafah as a ground invasion begins. Please take the following actions in response: SUPPORT THE UW STUDENT ENCAMPMENT Here in Madison the UW…
Observations about the Campus Protests
PETER BEINART, MAY 06, 2024 Six Observations about the Campus Protests by Peter Beinart Read on Substack Hi. I wanted to talk about what’s happening on college campuses, and to make six different observations. And these come from my travels speaking at colleges this semester. I’ve probably spoken at at least a dozen, maybe fifteen,…
SJP UW-Madison Tuesday Schedule
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Israel seizes Rafah crossing, cuts off aid route
By Mersiha Gadzo, Al Jazeera, 7 May 2024
UW Faculty & Staff Join Calls for Divestment
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URGENT: Tell your senators to vote against speech-chilling legislation
Should college students who compare Israeli government policy with that of the Nazis be investigated by their school? Politicians love to say they love free speech. But let’s see who actually means it. The Senate may pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act as early as tomorrow [May 7]. Going by the name alone, it sounds great. Combating anti-Semitism…
I Oppose Israel’s Atrocities In Gaza Because I’m Not A Psychopath
I don’t oppose the butchery in Gaza because I love Hamas or hate Jews or love Islam or hate America. I don’t oppose the butchery in Gaza because I’m a lefty or a commie or an anarchist or an anti-imperialist. I oppose the butchery in Gaza because I’m not a fucking psychopath. Caitlin Johnstone, May…
We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices
Columbia College Student Council Please, listen to us – not political figures, radical fringes and misguided media The Guardian, 4 May 2024 On Tuesday night, we watched in horror as hundreds of riot police flooded our beloved campus and brutalized our classmates. The next day, students awoke with swollen faces, bruised wrists and lacerations –…
Israel orders 100,000 civilians to leave Rafah, says it will operate with ‘extreme force’
Washington Post, May 6, 2024 at 11:58 a.m. EDT Israel’s military on Monday ordered about 100,000 civilians in parts of Rafah to evacuate “immediately” to a humanitarian zone, saying it will operate with “extreme force” in those areas. Israel’s determination to invade Rafah remains a sticking point in cease-fire negotiations, which appear to have broken down. President…
Israel strikes Gaza city of Rafah after evacuation order
By Mohammed Salem and Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Reuters May 6, 2024 11:07 AM CDT Updated 24 min ago RAFAH, Gaza Strip, May 6 (Reuters) – Israel’s military carried out airstrikes in Rafah on Monday, residents said, hours after Israel told Palestinians to evacuate parts of the southern Gaza city where more than a million people uprooted by the war…
Scoop: U.S. put a hold on an ammunition shipment to Israel
Barak Ravid, Axios, May 5, 2024 The Biden administration last week put a hold on a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, two Israeli officials told Axios. Why it matters: It is the first time since the Oct. 7 attack that the U.S. has stopped a weapons shipment intended for the Israeli military. State of play: The Israeli…
Do Palestinians Have Human Rights?
Hamdan Huraini, HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA, MAY 5, 2024 How do we define human rights? Does a Palestinian have the right to live or not? Is a Palestinian a human being or not? If you think these are easy questions to answer, I tell you, do not bother. Here in the village of Susya, every…
UN Food Chief Says Northern Gaza Suffering
“And it’s moving its way south,” she warned. BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, MAY 04, 2024 United Nations World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain said Friday that Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip are experiencing “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of Israeli bombardment and invasion—and that deadly malnutrition is “moving its way south” through the embattled…
SJP UW-Madison Monday Schedule
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SJP UW-Madison Sunday Schedule
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The Army Has a New Strategy
Awdah Hathaleen, HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA, MAY 4 The occupation army has a new strategy: closing the roads that connect all of the villages and cities in Masafer Yatta. For several months, the residents of Masafer Yatta have suffered from continuous attacks from the occupation, its soldiers, and the settlements, including, land confiscations, night raids…
Tell Congress To Vote No on Four Anti-Palestine Bills
Washington, DC | www.adc.org | May 4, 2024 – Pro-Palestine protests are continuing to grow, and that is making lawmakers nervous. Over the last month, the unhinged leadership of both parties have capitulated to AIPAC and the ADL by introducing four (4) bills which curtail the rights of all Americans, two of which have already passed the House and…
Editorial | UW-Madison should rely on negotiations, not police raids
May 3, 2024 University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin erred when she authorized a police raid Wednesday on a well-organized encampment by student advocates for peace and justice in Gaza on Library Mall. The raid, which led to 34 arrests and several injuries of protesters and officers, was ill-conceived and unnecessary, as have been similar raids on a number…
The lessons from colleges that didn’t call the police
Deescalating conflict around protests was possible, but many colleges turned to law enforcement instead. By Abdallah Fayyad | abdallah.fayyad@vox.com , Vox, May 3, 2024 Abdallah Fayyad is a correspondent at Vox, where he covers the impacts of social and economic policies. He previously served on the Boston Globe editorial board. For weeks, police have been arriving on college…
SJP UW-Madison Saturday Schedule
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Israeli Military Escalates Bombing of Civilian Homes in #Rafah Amid Threats of Ground Invasion
Israeli Military Escalates Bombing of Civilian Homes in #Rafah Amid Threats of Ground Invasion Amid ongoing threats of a large-scale ground military assault on Rafah, Israeli forces have escalated airstrikes on the densely populated areas in the southern #Gaza Strip. The… pic.twitter.com/HAikgVe1zY — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – PCHR (@pchrgaza) May 2, 2024
The police brought violence to UW-Madison’s Gaza encampment
BY SCOTT GORDON ● POLITICS ● MAY 1, 2024 Wednesday morning’s crackdown included brutal attacks on protestors, arrests without charges, and a dubious narrative. Perhaps it was an example of progressive policing or Madison-centric policing or the “Madison Model.” In any case, a pro-Palestine encampment protest on UW-Madison’s Library Mall got through two overwhelmingly peaceful days and nights—full of speeches, chants, praying, reading, sharing…
May 4, 2024 Online: Challenging Christian Silence Regarding the Gaza Genocide
The Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace (PCAP), Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) and a broad coalition of Christian Voices for Palestine invite you to “Challenging Christian Silence Regarding the Gaza Genocide” with Munther Isaac and Shane Claiborne. The moral courage and consistent prophetic witness displayed by Munther and Shane during these past months has…
Letter from Jewish faculty, staff, and students at UW-Madison in support of protestors
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May 3, 2024: SJP UW-Madison Encampment Schedule
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Prominent Palestinian doctor tortured and killed in Israeli detention
Adnan al-Bursh was a Palestinian surgeon and the head of orthopaedic medicine at al-Shifa hospital By MEE staff, Middle East Eye, 2 May 2024 Adnan al-Bursh, a Palestinian surgeon and professor of orthopaedic medicine, was killed by torture while in Israeli detention, according to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. In what has been termed…
Dane Co. supervisors ask sheriff not to use county resources to break up UW encampments
MADISON, Wis. — A group of Dane County Board Supervisors sent an open letter to Sheriff Kalvin Barrett on Thursday, asking him to not use county resources to break up ongoing protests on the UW-Madison campus. Dane County Sheriff’s deputies worked with UW-Madison police officers and other law enforcement to disperse an encampment on Library…
United Methodist Church votes to divest from Israel bonds
In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church has voted to divest from Israel bonds, and those of other countries carrying out prolonged military occupations. On April 30, 2024, the General Conference of The United Methodist Church, being held in Charlotte, North Carolina, made…
