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The Israel Prison Service said that Palestinian prisoners released as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal must “refrain from any expression of joy within Israeli territory.” ― Jeremy Scahill And Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Drop Site News, Jan 17, 2025
Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of 8-year Lawsuit Over Israel Boycott
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…
Israeli Military Confiscates School in Susiya
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…
Palestinians stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation
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…
What Valentine’s Day Means in Gaza, Palestine
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…
2020.02.14-03.15: Exhibit: Unpacked: Refugee Baggage
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…
2020.02.29: International Festival
Overture Center 201 State Street Madison 10 am – 5 pm Join MRSCP and many other Madison sister cities, businesses, and organizations at the annual…
Strangers in Our Homeland
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…
Trump’s “Deal of the Century” Has Led to Violence Not Peace
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,…
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill 3 and Destroy Home in Less than 24 Hours
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…
Trump Plan Protests in the Jordan Valley
Operation Dove, January 29, 2020 Tubas, Jordan Valley — Today in response to the “Deal of the Century” Palestinians gathered for an action in the…
Rep. Mark Pocan on Trump’s Peace Plan
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…
Trump Unveils “Palestine World”
Park Features Israeli Settlements, Private Roads, Many Pieces, and 14 Bridges or Tunnels 60-Mile Gaza Tunnel will be a Construction Marvel
Youth of Sumud Remembers Tom Hurndall
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…
Regeni murder: If only Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall had been Italian
Kamel Hawwash, Middle East Eye, 21 April 2016
THE ANSWER IS PALESTINE
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…
Activists Reclaimed a Water Source for Palestinians, Showing Co-Resistance Works
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, Truthout, January 10, 2020
2020.02.29: International Festival
Overture Center 201 State Street, Madison 10 am – 5 pm Join MRSCP and other Madison sister cities, businesses, and organizations at the annual celebration…
To Prison, Again, for Protesting Against Israel’s Colonial Rule
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…
ICC’s Pursuit of War Crimes Probe in Palestine
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, December 31, 2019
Final 2019 Appeal — Clean Water for Kids
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…
‘Blinding the truth’: Israeli snipers target Gaza protesters in the eyes
Tareq Hajjaj and Pam Bailey, The New Arab, 20 December, 2019
Why We Sail, Sail, and Sail Again: Freedom Flotilla 2020
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
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,…
Trump strategy to stifle campus organizing for Palestinian rights
Josh Ruebner, Mondoweiss, December 12, 2019
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Statement on House Resolution 326
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…
2019.12.15: Laila Hassan from Women in Hebron
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…
Netanyahu’s Real Crimes
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…
Dreams in the Crosshairs
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,…
Human Rights Activist to be Deported by Israel
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…
Israeli Attacks on the Gaza Strip, 12-14 November 2019
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), December 19, 2019
BREAKING: US Disregards International Law On Israeli Settlements
ADC, November 18, 2019
2019.10.27: Rep. Pocan emphasizes progressive caucus’s commitment to Palestine
Helena Cobban, Mondoweiss, November 14, 2019
What you need to know about the bombings in Gaza
Mike Merryman-Lotze, American Friends Service Committee, Nov 13, 2019
Desperate work for desperate people
Amjad Ayman Yaghi, The Electronic Intifada, 15 October 2019
IT’S TIME TO END THE ILLEGAL ISRAELI BLOCKADE OF GAZA
US Boats to Gaza, Nov 3, 2019
Act now to free Heba Al-Labadi
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…
Jordan-Israel Ties Strained by Detentions
“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…
Join us in court and defend the right to boycott in Olympia, Washington
Center for Constitutional Rights, October 21, 2019 Join us in court tomorrow in Olympia, Washington, as Center for Constitutional Rights Deputy Legal Director
Israeli Construction Workers, Soldiers Assault Left-wing Activists on Gaza Border
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…
Settlers beat rabbi, 80, during Palestinian olive harvest
JACOB MAGID, The Times of Israel, 16 October 2019
Palestinians Protest Facebook ‘Bias Favoring Israel’
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…
ESPN Host Panicked by Israel-Palestine Comment
Billy Haisley, Deadspin, 10/8/19
Israel Is Accused of Torturing a Prisoner Until His Ribs Were Broken
Alex Kane, Vice, October 8, 2019
The Torture of Palestinian Detainee Samer al-Arabid
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…
Noura Erakat: West Bank Annexation Is Logical End to Israel’s Apartheid Policy
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…
Gideon Levy: Let the Annexation Begin
Gideon Levy, If Americans Knew, September 12, 2019
2020 Colors of Palestine Calendar
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,…
2019.11.24 & 12.07: Mark Your Calendars: 2019 Fair Trade Holiday Festivals
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.…
Fall Olive Harvest Delegation to Palestine
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…
He got into Harvard. And now he finally got into the United States.
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…
Israel pushing Palestinians to leave Gaza
Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada, 19 August 2019
He Threatened Us, Now He Goes to Jail
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…
Meet Rashida Tlaib’s grandma: ‘Who wouldn’t be proud of a granddaughter like that?’
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…
Israel Denies Entry to Omar and Tlaib After Trump’s Call to Block Them
Isabel Kershner, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Peter Baker, New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019 JERUSALEM — Under intense pressure from President Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin…
Fordham University Students Win Landmark Fight to Establish Palestine Club
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,…
Security forces make deadly use of crowd control weapons in Gaza
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…
On the 69th Great March of Return
66 Civilians Injured by Israeli Forces: 28 Children, 2 Journalists, and 4 Women, Including a Paramedic Palestinian Center for Human Rights – Gaza, August 2,…
Israeli house demolitions are the true crime — not BDS
Mohamed Mohamed, Mondoweiss, July 26, 2019
The Israeli Occupation in Hebron: July 2019
Hebron Freedom Fund
Gaza’s Little Chef
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…
Two Congressional Resolutions That Won’t Advance Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Dr. James J. Zogby, July 13, 2019 In the coming week, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs will move on four bills – all of…
Occupation vacation: Palestine, settlements, and Airbnb
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?…
Touring the Israeli Occupation: Young U.S. Jews Get an Unflinching View
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)…
West Bank / Jerusalem
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
MECA 2018 Annual Report by Middle East Children’s Alliance on Scribd
Why We, Palestinians and Israelis, Insist on Mourning Our Dead Together
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…
26 Groups Supporting McCollum Legislation for Palestinian Children
Wisconsin Muslim Journal, May 17, 2019
Rise against Racism! #CounterCUFI
Friends of Sabeel – North America (FOSNA), May 24, 2019 For too long, Palestinians have been calling for freedom, justice, and equality. As organizations that…
Landmark Ruling Strikes Down Ban of Israel Boycott
Arsalan Bukhari, Informed Comment, 04/26/2019
