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The unpleasant and unavoidable comparison is with South Africa during the Apartheid period. And ― having visited South Africa ― I must say that they were much better off than the Palestinians living in refugee camps. ― Richard Falk, Occupation 101, 2006
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Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA), 5/11/20 From Palestine to Turtle Island (North America) settler colonialism continues to exploit land and natural resources to the detriment…
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), 5/11/20 #KeyToJustice Webinar – May 14, 4 PM Palestine time: Rafeef Ziadah, Marta Ill and Rey Perez Asis will discuss…
ICYMI: British politicians are making it clear that there will be consequences for the Israeli government if it chooses to proceed with annexation. what you…
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4/27/20 Since the Coronavirus crisis began, IfNotNow has focused most of our movement’s resources on supporting the millions of Palestinian people trapped in Gaza, a…
The possibility of further Israeli annexation of occupied territories has received legitimacy from the Israeli government, pushing even further into the abyss the slight possibility…
Ref: 36/2020 Date: 14 April 2020 Time: 10:00 GMT Second Appeal in COVID-19 Crisis PCHR Calls for Immediate Release of Minors, Women, Patients and…
Register for this Webinar Here This webinar is part of a series of virtual events to raise funds for the Let’s Get Free 2020 Program.…
Recorded on WORT 89.9 FM A Public Affair with host Esty Dinur: WORT website • SoundCloud • Facebook • Twitter Tarek Abuata grew up in…
DONATE! Here are three good options for sending medical relief to Palestine and Gaza: Rebuilding Alliance has a matching grant deadline of midnight EST on…
Social Justice Event Collective, March 5, 2020 Please join us for a film webinar on March 28th, 2020 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time for the…
Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, at the main market in Gaza City, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel…
If Not Now, March 20,2020 We have an opportunity to save thousands of lives — if we act now. As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps our…
US FUNDS AND EQUIPMENT USED TO DISPLACE COMMUNITIES IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK J Street, March 16, 2020 J Street welcomes a groundbreaking congressional letter…
This event with Tarek Abuata has been cancelled by coronavirus precautions. You can still listen to an interview with Tarek from Gaza on WORT 89.9…
Even a small outbreak among Gaza’s densely-packed, blockaded population would put an impossible strain on a healthcare system already teetering on the verge of collapse…
Today, on #IWD2020, we celebrate the inspiring leadership of women, in Palestine and worldwide, at the forefront of our struggles against oppression and militarization, and…
06 Mar 2020 Case is Part of Broader Assault on Human Rights Defenders March 6, 2020, Washington, DC – Last night, the US Campaign for…
This is a new group in the LaCrosse area that is becoming more active on Palestinian issues. Please consider signing and circulating this petition. COULEE…
Available for a limited time! Can you help put us over the top? Dear Friends, We are happy to report that we are less than…
Israeli elections were the primary reason for increasing incitement against Arabs Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, 27th Feb 2020 – One violent…
Policy Implications, Education, and Artistic Representations Pyle Center 720 Langdon St UW-Madison This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who…
Case Dismissed Against Former Board Members of Olympia Food Co-op Center for Constitutional Rights, March 9, 2018 Olympia, WA — A Washington appeals court has…
Video Link Good Shepherd Collective, February 19, 2020 This morning, the Israeli military entered the village of Susiya with a bulldozer in order to confiscate…
The TransCanada Coastal Gaslink pipeline aims to steal Wet’suwet’en land, use resource extraction to solidify control over Indigenous territories, destroy the environment and violate Indigenous…
Hani and his uncle and daughter in front of an UNRWA school in the Gaza Strip UNRWA USA, February 7, 2020 Hani Almadhoun is UNRWA…
Including Palestinian textiles provided by MRSCP Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, Room 1235 School of Human Ecology 1300 Linden Drive, UW-Madison “UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage” seeks to…
Overture Center 201 State Street Madison 10 am – 5 pm Join MRSCP and many other Madison sister cities, businesses, and organizations at the annual…
Aida Touma-Sliman, JewishCurrents, February 6, 2020 LAST WEEK, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu announced a deal that is intended to determine the future of the…
George Kamel Shalabi passed away January 31, 2020 from complications due to congestive heart failure. He was born at home on April 9, 1939 in…
February 08, 2020 (WASHINGTON, D.C. 2/8/20)—Since President Donald Trump released the details of his much-derided so-called “deal of the century,” a total of five Palestinians,…
February 6, 2020 The newest Israeli killing of Palestinians under its policy of excessive use of force, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed 3 Palestinians…
Clashes, shootings and a vehicle attack erupt in the West Bank and Jerusalem, killing Palestinians and wounding Israeli soldiers. Palestinians inspected the rubble of a…
Operation Dove, January 29, 2020 Tubas, Jordan Valley — Today in response to the “Deal of the Century” Palestinians gathered for an action in the…
A peace plan without Palestinian voices is no plan at all. It's a unilateral attempt to continue on a path towards instability in the Middle…
Park Features Israeli Settlements, Private Roads, Many Pieces, and 14 Bridges or Tunnels 60-Mile Gaza Tunnel will be a Construction Marvel
Invest in Justice by Building Genuine Connections Image via Sacramento to Bethlehem Cities for Palestine by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights WHAT’S THE CAMPAIGN…
Youth of Sumud, a group of Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills, believes and is committed to a peaceful, popular resistance as a strategic choice…
Kamel Hawwash, Middle East Eye, 21 April 2016
CODEPINK, 1/13/20 On Friday, January 11, 2020, on the Beloved game show Jeopardy, Katie Needle of Brooklyn, N.Y. correctly answered the clue “Built in the…
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, Truthout, January 10, 2020
Overture Center 201 State Street, Madison 10 am – 5 pm Join MRSCP and other Madison sister cities, businesses, and organizations at the annual celebration…
Portraits of Immigrants and Refugees 502 Mark Drive Verona, WI 6:30 – 9 pm Family Diversity Projects‘ photo-text exhibit shares the stories of immigrants and…
Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack pens a powerful Op-Ed in Haaretz on his arrest, putting into context his act of solidarity with Palestinians who face altogether…
The shoreline in Gaza City during strong winds on Christmas Day (Mohammed Abed-AFP-Getty Images) Hazem Balousha and Miriam Berger, The Washington Post, January 1, 2020…
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, December 31, 2019
Best Photos of 2019 from MECA We are now more than halfway to providing another water filter system to a school in Rafah, Palestine. If…
Mahmoud Nawajaa, BDSMovement.net The anti-Palestinian Trump Administration and Boris Johnson government are more than ever directly engaged in Israel’s desperate war of repression on advocacy…
Tareq Hajjaj and Pam Bailey, The New Arab, 20 December, 2019
Canadian Boat to Gaza, December 20, 2019 Freedom Flotilla sailors and participants are sometimes asked: Why do you keep sailing toward Gaza only to be…
Israel Social TV is an independent media organization working to promote social change, human rights and equality. “We use the unique power of visual documentation,…
David Hearst, Middle East Eye, 13 December 2019
Josh Ruebner, Mondoweiss, December 12, 2019
After a week of antisemitic speech, today Donald Trump is signing an executive order to withhold money from college campuses that tolerate “anti-Israel” movements As…
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, December 6, 2019 Today Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib took a principled stand against H. Res. 326, a resolution that will only…
Madison, WI 1:00 — 3:00 pm RSVP for directions Please join us as we welcome Ms. Laila Hassan of the Women in Hebron crafts cooperative…
Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, NOVEMBER 23, 2019 After years of investigation and months of delay, Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit formally indicted…
We Are Not Numbers video being shown in Washington, DC When Israeli snipers target people participating in or even located near Gaza’s Great Return March,…
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, November 25, 2019 Washington, D.C. | November 24, 2019 | adc.org — The targeting of human rights and peace activists by Israel continues to reflect the…
With 43 Olympic swimming pools of sewage flowing from Gaza daily, local epidemic is only a matter of time Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, Oct 16, 2018…
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), December 19, 2019
ADC, November 18, 2019
Helena Cobban, Mondoweiss, November 14, 2019
Mike Merryman-Lotze, American Friends Service Committee, Nov 13, 2019
Amjad Ayman Yaghi, The Electronic Intifada, 15 October 2019
US Boats to Gaza, Nov 3, 2019
Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E Gorham St, 2-4 pm
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Oct 28, 2019 Please take a moment to sign our latest petition demanding progressive U.S. presidential candidates speak out for…
“We hold the Israeli government responsible for the lives of our citizens whose health conditions have severely deteriorated in illegal arbitrary detention,” Mr. Safadi, the…
Center for Constitutional Rights, October 21, 2019 Join us in court tomorrow in Olympia, Washington, as Center for Constitutional Rights Deputy Legal Director
Activists, who had arranged a joint event along the two sides of the border with Gazans, were confronted by employees of a firm building a…
JACOB MAGID, The Times of Israel, 16 October 2019
Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, 17 Oct 2019
New campaign exposes double-standard of social media giant in dealing with Israeli and Palestinian incitement Dima Abumaria, The Media Line, 10/07/2019 Journalists, activists launch campaign…
Billy Haisley, Deadspin, 10/8/19
Alex Kane, Vice, October 8, 2019
Palestinian Center for Human Rights, October 8, 2019 On 8 October 2019, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) sent an urgent appeal to the…
Democracy Now!, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 GUESTS Noura Erakat Palestinian human rights attorney and an assistant professor at Rutgers University. Phyllis Bennis fellow at the Institute…
Rob Goyanes, Jewish Currents, September 9, 2019
Gideon Levy, If Americans Knew, September 12, 2019
Online and from MRSCP Resistance Art’s 2020 Colors from Palestine calendar is a tribute to the late Palestinian Poet Mu’in Bseiso (1926 – January 23,…
November 24: 9 am – 2 pm Annual Fair Trade Sale at Orchard Ridge United Church of Christ, 1501 Gilbert Road, Madison 53711. Call 608-271-7212.…
EyeWitness Palestine still has some openings available for their fall delegation. Scholarships are available. The Environmental Justice and Olive Harvest delegation is your opportunity to…
Ismail Ajjawi, a Harvard freshman who said he was was denied U.S. entry because of his friends’ social media postings, arrived in Boston in time…
TSELA BARR AND BARB OLSON, The Cap Times, August 23, 2019
Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada, 19 August 2019
Dr. James J. Zogby, August 17, 2019 Back in May, a jury found Patrick Syring, a former State Department official, guilty of 14 counts of…
Reps. Tlaib & Omar Blocked from Taking Official Trip to West Bank Democracy Now! August 16, 2019 GUESTS Mustafa Barghouti member of the Palestinian Parliament, secretary…
Rep. Tlaib’s grandmother says the family had already prepared a lamb Muftiyah Tlaib, the grandmother of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), spoke to The Washington Post…
Isabel Kershner, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Peter Baker, New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019 JERUSALEM — Under intense pressure from President Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin…