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Isabel Kershner, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Peter Baker, New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019 JERUSALEM — Under intense pressure from President Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin…
Judge Orders University to Recognize Students for Justice in Palestine Club Students for Justice in Palestine at Fordham University Center for Constitutional Rights, August 6,…
B’Tselem, 06 August 2019 From the beginning of the Great March of Return protests on Land Day, 30 March 2018 until the end of June…
66 Civilians Injured by Israeli Forces: 28 Children, 2 Journalists, and 4 Women, Including a Paramedic Palestinian Center for Human Rights – Gaza, August 2,…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York’s 14th congressional district [Rothman’s/Facebook] The Middle East Monitor, April 18, 2019 US Congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has…
Mohamed Mohamed, Mondoweiss, July 26, 2019
Hebron Freedom Fund
The morning of Monday, July 22, 2019, Palestinian families in the village of Sur Baher woke up to the sound of bulldozers accompanied by hundreds…
Photos: Jim Maas/FUS Social Justice Ministry, Tsela Barr/MRSCP, and Kit Kittredge/NA Boat to Gaza Campaign Since 2008, the Freedom Flotilla movement has sent 35 ships…
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Nonviolence, July 23, 2019
Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Ref: 89/2019, July 22, 2019
Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman, We Are Not Numbers, May 20, 2019 “I want to be one of the best chefs in the world,” says Mahmoud Abu…
Dr. James J. Zogby, July 13, 2019 In the coming week, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will move on four bills – all of…
Diala Shamas and Ziad Alwan, The Activist Files, Episode 16 Did you know that in Palestine, Israeli settlers and companies profit off of stolen land?…
At Har Gilo, a Jewish settlement overlooking the southern West Bank, American college students get a history lesson. (Ilia Yefimovich for The New York Times)…
If Americans Knew, June 26, 2019
Milwaukee resident Ari Bloomekatz. (Photo: Jimmy Rothschild) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel June 25, 2019 It’s just a few seconds caught on video. Pulled from multiple videos…
Israeli soldiers kill one Palestinian, injure many in Jerusalem IMEMC 28 June — Israeli soldiers and the police invaded, on Thursday evening, the al-‘Issawiya town,…
MECA 2018 Annual Report by Middle East Children’s Alliance on Scribd
In 2018, Americans were horrified to learn that migrant children were being cruelly separated from their families at the U.S. border and imprisoned in intolerable…
A growing number of Palestinians want a ‘one state, equal rights’ model and think Trump may unwittingly pave the way for it. Palestinian youths climb…
Mohamed Mohamed, The Palestine Chronicle, May 21, 2019
Alternative Memorial Day, a binational tradition since 2005, is a sign that we are capable of taking down the walls of fear. Mourners and supporters…
Wisconsin Muslim Journal, May 17, 2019
Friends of Sabeel – North America (FOSNA), May 24, 2019 For too long, Palestinians have been calling for freedom, justice, and equality. As organizations that…
Arsalan Bukhari, Informed Comment, 04/26/2019
Ahmad Kabariti, Mondoweiss, April 20, 2019
Palestinian Center for Human Rights, Ref: 64/2019, April 24, 2019 The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns that the Israeli authorities stationed at…
Action is needed to protect them and tens of thousands more who risk losing their homes under Israel’s devastating home demolition policies. Mike Merryman-Lotze, American…
Uri Ben-Eliezer, Sociology, University of Haifa The Havens Center, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison “The Nation and War, Some Reflections from Israel’s History” Tuesday,…
Ilan Ben Zion, Time Magazine, April 17, 2019 (JERUSALEM) — An Israeli court on Tuesday upheld a deportation order against Human Rights Watch’s local director…
Israel’s family reunion practices are gravely offensive This time; Palestine Updates brings you two powerful testimonies. The first is from Zoughbi Zoughbi, Director of Wi’am:…
Omar Barghouti, The Guardian, 16 Apr 2019
A crowd celebrates in Tel Aviv on Nov. 29, 1947, after the U.N. votes for the partition of Palestine. (Hans Pins/GPO, via Getty Images) J.J.…
Esty Dinur, The Progressive, April 11, 2019
The 2019 North America Nakba Tour comes to Madison UW-Madison Red Gym, On Wisconsin room 716 Langdon St 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Mariam Fathalla…
Edo Konrad, +972 Magazine, April 8, 2019
Source: Pro-Israel: Money to Congress, The Center for Responsive Politics
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), Ref: 50/2019, March 30, 2019
Nathan Thrall, New York Times, March 28, 2019
Palestinian Center for Human Rights, March 28, 2019
UW-Madison Campus (time & location to follow) MRSCP and UW Students for Justice in Palestine will be co-sponsoring a Madison appearance of the 2019 North…
Edo Konrad, +972, March 4, 2019
“Many of those killed in the Christchurch, New Zealand mosque attack were, in fact, Palestinians. Rifat Audeh is a Palestinian-Canadian who participated in the Freedom…
CODEPINK, March 21, 2019 You did it! Just moments after we emailed you that Sen. Elizabeth Warren would not be attending AIPAC’s annual conference this…
Israeli Forces Kill 3 Palestinian Civilians in Nablus and Bethlehem and Wound Another Ref: 44/2019, 21 March 2019 In two separate crimes of killing in…
The Palestine Center Washington, DC 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT Livestream Online Videos & Transcripts with Ben White, Author and Journalist After decades of…
The Palestine Center Washington, DC 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm CT Livestream Online Videos & Transcripts with Dr. Sunaina Maira, Professor of Asian American Studies,…
Pictured Here: Palestinian killed at random by an Israeli soldier Christian Peacemaker Teams, March 13, 2019 On March 12, a Palestinian man came to deliver…
An Antiwar Story from the Embattled Middle East He is a rarity in his own land, one of only a handful of refuseniks living in…
On Wisconsin Public Television’s Women, War & Peace Tuesday, March 26 8:00 pm on WPT 26-1 Wednesday, March 27 2:00 am on WPT 26-1 Sunday,…
Online from the Palestine Center Washington, DC 12 noon – 1 pm Central Time Listen live “Gaza is eviscerated. Apartheid is entrenched in the West…
Wil-Mar Community Center 953 Jenifer St, Madison Workshop 3:00 pm The Role of Music in Social Movements And Popular Education – Workshop / Teach-In /…
Story/Backstory, episode 1: The longer arc of U.S.-Palestine relations Helena Cobban, February 22, 2019 This is the first episode in our new “Story/Backstory” miniseries, which…
UW-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine Memorial Union UW-Madison 800 Langdon St 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM Register here Despite decades of facing oppression and…
7amleh, March 11, 2019 In 2018, 474,250 inciting posts against Palestinians were written. Legislation about the Nation-State Law was the main engine of racism for…
Ted Rall, March 11, 2019
F. Brinley Bruton and Yael Factor, NBC News, March 11, 2019
Dear Rep. Engel and Rep. Lowey, We, members of the Westchester chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, are your constituents. And we proudly #StandWithIlhan. Many…
Middle East Monitor, March 6, 2019
#StandWithllhan Please consider calling or emailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and your own Representative: Speaker Pelosi: 202-225-0100, press “1” to leave a message, or email…
Hashtag to Headlines: The Gaza Great March of Return The 2019 tribute to Rachel Corrie on March 3, 2019, with Ahmed Abu Artema and Jehad…
Latest Maia Water Filters in Rafah (28 Feb 2019) from Josie Shields-Stromsness, Middle East Children’s Alliance Maia Brochure Contribute online at MECAforPeace.org/Madison For more information,…
UW Multicultural Center 716 Langdon Street Madison 8:15 pm – 9:15 pm General meeting of UW-Madison Students for Justice in Palestine discusses the history of…
Goodman Public Library 2222 S Park St, Madison 6:30 pm Peace and Justice Book Club discusses Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood by Ibtisam Barakat.…
An AIPAC and Capitol Hill veteran explains the lobby’s tactics of reward and retribution. M.J. Rosenberg, February 14, 2019 US. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) and…
Palestinian Center for Human Rights Ref: 16/2019, February 7, 2019
This February, join USCPR and the Dream Defenders by showing solidarity with all the radical voices that continue to be silenced for speaking up against…
Friday, March 1 12 noon to 1 pm The speakers for Madison’s 2019 tribute to Rachel Corrie, Ahmed Abu Artema and Jehad Abusalim, will be…
Operation Dove, 2/13/19 Facebook video: Israel Destroys South Hebron Hills Water Piping Today Israeli forces destroyed and confiscated underground pipes in the Palestinian villages of…
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), February 12, 2019 The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) unequivocally condemns all attacks and mischaracterizations against Representative Ilhan Omar for her outspoken…
201 State Street Madison 10 am – 5 pm Once again Overture celebrates the rich cultural heritage within our community with more than 30 FREE…
Join us for the 2019 tribute to Rachel Corrie with Ahmed Abu Artema, writer, refugee and peace activist from Rafah. First Unitarian Society 900 University…
Ahmad Al-Bazz and Anne Paq, Mondoweiss, February 11, 2019
Expulsion by a thousand cuts Dear Friends, The last weeks have been busy and challenging in the South Hebron Hills. Young Palestinians, with international and…
Israel’s right-wing government has remained silent, wary of alienating settlers in an election year The funeral last Sunday for Hamdy Naasan, who was killed in…
Daily Kos, January 31, 2019
Fady Hanona and Ali Aby Yaseen desperately trying to make it to the U.S. premiere Ashleigh Stewart and Kaleem Aftab, The National, January 28, 2019…
In this January 16, 2019 photo Palestinian artist Ahmed Humaid, 29, works on one of his origami sculptures in his house in Nusseirat refugee camp,…
Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss, January 23, 2019
First Bipartisan Bill in the Midst of the Shutdown Ryan Grim and Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, January 5 2019 When each new Congress is gaveled…
Just World Educational, January 6, 2019
CODEPINK, December 31, 2018 Huge News! Last week HSBC Bank in the UK announced it will be divesting from Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons company,…
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Ref: 138/2018, 21 December 2018
B’Tselem, 19 December 2018
So She Lost Her Texas Elementary School Job Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, December 17 2018 A children’s speech pathologist who has worked for the last…
Senator Richard C. Shelby, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, has objected to unrelated bills clinging to his panel’s work. (Erin Schaff for The New York…
A Senate bill aims to punish those who boycott Israel over its settlement policy. There are better solutions.
PCHR Ref:135-2018, December 15, 2018
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), December 4, 2018
Gaza Unlocked Blog Team, American Friends Service Committee, December 3, 2018
Gaza Unlocked Blog Team, American Friends Service Committee, December 3, 2018
Gaza Unlocked Blog Team, American Friends Service Committee, December 3, 2018 Rahf Hallaq is a 19-year-old sophomore student at the Islamic university of Gaza studying…
Brittany Dawson, PALESTINE SQUARE, December 6, 2018 When hundreds of Central American migrants arrived in Tijuana, Mexico, in late November, planning to claim asylum in…