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It’s just a tough situation, with victims on both sides. On one side you’ve got people being slaughtered in droves by genocidal massacres and siege warfare, while on the other you’ve got people whose feelings get hurt when these atrocities are opposed. Hard to say which is worse. — Caitlin Johnstone, Apr 25, 2024
Gaza Warning on Schools from the Israel Defence Forces (IDF)
A leaflet lies on the ground dropped by Israeli army planes above Gaza City, asking them to flee to the south of the Strip immediately, on October 13. (Mohammed Talatene/picture-alliance/dpa/AP) A Cairo physician source says this Israeli warning was received by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in Gaza: WARNING FROM THE IDF: Residents of…
Palestine Red Crescent Society Urgent Appeal for Al-Quds Hospital
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New Wisconsin coalition of pro-Palestinian groups responds to Israel-Hamas war
THE MORNING SHOW Thursday, October 19, 2023, 8:00am By Joel Patenaude On Oct. 7, Hamas militants killed more than 1,400 people inside Israel and took hostages. Since then, Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed more than 2,700 people. We’re joined by two members of a Wisconsin coalition of Jews and Muslims calling for peace and…
Madison women concerned for friends living in the West Bank
Cody Taylor, Spectrum News, Oct. 20, 2023 MADISON, Wis. — Cassandra Dixon is a Madison resident who has been traveling to the Palestine territories for over a decade. What You Need To Know If you are interested in buying embroidery to support the Women of Hebron, visit: Palestinepartners.org You can also get involved by adopting an…
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October 21, 2023
Film Israelism OnlineRochester Witness Palestine Film Festival Israelism (2023) Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 3:00 pm ET/2:00 CT Online only REGISTER Co-writers/directors: Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen Run Time: 1:34 Language: English Style: documentary Year: 2023 Awards: Best Documentary, Arizona International Film Festival 2023 Documentary Audience Award Winner, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 2023 Projection medium:…
Gaza Is a Prison Under Siege. This Is My Letter to the World Outside.
Ahmed Abu Artema, a founder of the Great March of Return, on facing Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza. Ahmed Abu Artema, Truthout, October 15, 2023 A Palestinian man carrying a child runs following an Israeli strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 14, 2023. (YASSER QUDIH / AFP via Getty Images)…
Updates from al Khalil/Hebron
CPT Palestine, October 19, 2023 Since 7 October, our lives have been profoundly disrupted—our daily routines upended, and our sense of safety shattered. We find ourselves constantly glued to the news, desperately searching for any glimmer of hope amidst the turmoil. Due to Meta’s collaboration with our adversaries in monitoring, censoring, and limiting Palestinian content,…
October 20, 2023
Palestine Protest at Wisconsin State CapitolThe Madison Chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine is sponsoring another rally in support of Palestine at 5 pm on Friday, Oct. 20 at the capitol in Madison. Here is the instagram link. Bring signs, flags and kuffiyehs. And please spread the word to everyone you know. We will be there, so come…
Hilton Hotel Capitulates to Hate, Cancels Palestinian Voices
Houston, TX | www.uscpr.org | October 18, 2023 – Yesterday, the Hilton Houston Post Oak Hotel, capitulating to external pressure from hate groups, unilaterally canceled the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights’s (USCPR) upcoming conference. The cancellation was made with very little notice or advanced warning. Our experience is not an isolated incident. Across the country…
No More Deaths, in Gaza or Arizona
Español abajo This week we have seen the ongoing crisis in the Gaza Strip escalate to a boiling point, as Israel continues to massacre thousands of civilians. We know many of our donors care deeply about this issue, and we want you to know that we stand against the ethnic cleansing that has been…
Jewish extremists plan to “lynch” Palestinians in chat apps
Tamara Nassar, The Electronic Intifada, 18 October 2023
October 20, 2023
Mobilize to Demand a Ceasefire Now in GazaJoin us on October 20th in Washington D.C. to march, mourn, and mobilize to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. We are everyday people of conscience, uniting across faith, race, and generations to tell President Biden and Congress that they have a choice to make: either uphold the value of all human life by working to…
October 18, 2023
World Beyond War DemonstrationToday, Wednesday 10/18, between 4:30 and 5:30pm, several of us will be at the intersection of Winnebago and Atwood Streets. We’ll stand there to be a presence against the tragedy in Gaza. We’ll have some signs. If likewise moved, please join us. We may do more vigils this week. Drop us a line if…
The facts of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital Bombing
A critical update: Al Ahli Hospital received Israeli orders to evacuate before it was struck on October 17. Al Ahli Hospital had been hit previously by an Israeli missile on October 14. Lara Kilani, Good Shepherd Collective, October 18, 2023 Standing in the middle of a pile of Palestinian bodies, the Ministry of…
‘Every western politician has the blood of these children on their hands’
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, calls the deadly attack on al-Ahli al-Arab Hospital in Gaza a ‘war crime’ that the world saw coming Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Middle East Eye, 18 October 2023 A view of belongings near Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital after it was hit in Gaza City, Gaza on 18 October 2023…
Sign at Students for Justice in Palestine Gaza Vigil
UW-Madison Library Mall, October 17, 2023
ADC Statement on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital Massacre
Washington, DC | www.adc.org | October 17, 2023 – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is outraged and horrified at Israel’s targeted bombing of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Over 1,000 Palestinians have already been reported as killed, and hundreds more have been injured. Hospitals in Gaza have already struggled with lack of medicine, medical equipment and…
Hamas Health Ministry Reports 500 Killed in al-Ahli Hospital Strike
Palestinians evacuate wounded from a building destroyed in Israeli bombardment in Rafah refugee camp in Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair) NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMYA KULLAB, RAVI NESSMAN AND MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press, October 17, 2023 KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A senior Palestinian official says President Mahmoud Abbas has canceled…
Dr. Gabor Maté Speaks Out on Israel and Palestine
Recorded in 2021. Gabor Maté CM (born January 6, 1944) is a Hungarian-Canadian physician and author. He has a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development, trauma, and potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health including autoimmune disease, cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), addictions, and a wide range of…
A Textbook Case of Genocide
Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening? Raz Segal, Jewish Currents, October 13, 2023 Palestinians look for survivors after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on October 12th, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali) ON FRIDAY, Israel ordered the besieged population in the…
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 11
The World Health Organization says there are only “24 hours of water, electricity and fuel left” in Gaza, which will lead to “a real catastrophe.” Meanwhile, Israel is now bombing the so-called “safe” areas where it told civilians to flee. LEILA WARAH and MONDOWEISS EDITORS, MONDOWEISS, OCTOBER 17, 2023 PALESTINIANS WOUNDED IN ISRAELI…
October 18, 2023
Webinar: International Law and War in Palestine/IsraelArab Center Washington DC Shutterstock/Anas Mohammed National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, Washington, DC 20045 Wednesday October 18, 2023 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CT Register About the Event UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Francesca Albanese will discuss the international legal dimensions of the ongoing…
October 17, 2023
Students for Justice in Palestine Gaza VigilInstagram The Madison Chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine is holding a lighted vigil tomorrow evening, Tuesday October 17 at 5 pm in Alumni Park, 724 Langdon Street, Madison (between the Memorial Union and the Red Gym). They are asking for community support so please consider joining the vigil. Bring signs, candles, flags and…
Here or there, our blood will plant olive trees
Earth Presses Against Us By Mahmoud Darwish Earth is pressing against us, trapping us in the final passage. To pass through, we pull off our limbs. Earth is squeezing us. If only we were its wheat, we might die and yet live. If only it were our mother so that she might temper us with…
Anti-Arab Hate Rhetoric Leads to Murder of 6-year-old Chicago Boy
October 16, 2023 Washington, D.C. | October 16, 2023 – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) sends its deepest and heartfelt condolences to the family of Wadie Al Fayoume — a 6-year-old Palestinian, Muslim American who was stabbed to death in his Chicago area home on Sunday by the family’s landlord. This is the most egregious…
American Jews and allies block all 12 entrances to the White House
American Jews and allies have blocked all entrances to the White House. Police have started making arrests. We are throwing ourselves onto the cogs of the war machine. But we didn’t come here to get arrested, we came here to demand a ceasefire. To declare, through our grief over Israeli and Palestinian loved ones, that…
All eyes on Gaza. We can’t look away now.
October 16, 2023 For the past week, the Israeli military has been making good on its promise to “open the gates of hell” on the two million Palestinians trapped under Israeli siege in Gaza. Israeli airstrikes are reducing Palestinian neighborhoods to rubble, killing entire families. The Israeli military cut off Gaza’s access to electricity, food,…
October 16, 2023
Arab Women’s Revolutionary ArtMonday, October 16, 12 noon – 1:05 pm Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and Multitudes Ingraham 206, UW-Madison Profesor Nevine El Nossery will discuss her latest book in which she explores the ways women in the contemporary Middle East and North Africa have re-imagined revolutionary discourses through creativity and collective action as a means…
People gather at Madison’s Tenney Park in support of Palestine
KWCH 12, Wichita, KS, October 16, 2023 Those in support of Palestine packed Tenney Park’s shelter Sunday to mourn the loss of life, donate to relief efforts, and discuss the ongoing war.
Palestine olive oil harvest celebration transforms into a demonstration of solidarity
Zach Orlowsky, Oct 15, 2023 The Madison-Rafah City Project and Palestine Partners hosted Stand With Palestine, an event and vigil in solidarity of Palestinian civilians, at Tenney Park on Sunday. MADISON (WKOW) — The Madison-Rafah City Project and Palestine Partners hostedStand With Palestine, an event and vigil in solidarity of Palestinian civilians, at Tenney Park…
People gather at Madison’s Tenney Park in support of Palestine
Shaina Nijhawan, WMTV NBC 15, Oct. 15, 2023 MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – Those in support of Palestine packed Tenney Park’s shelter Sunday to mourn the loss of life, donate to relief efforts, and discuss the ongoing war. Many who attended Sunday’s ‘Stand with Palestine” rally believe Israel and Palestine will eventually achieve solidarity. “I don’t…
Spectrum News: Madison’s Olive Harvest filled with somber celebrations
Palestinians share their culture with Olive Harvest attendees (Spectrum News 1/Megan Marshall) RHONDA FOXX, OCT. 16, 2023 MADISON, Wis. — Every October, Palestinians celebrate the Olive Harvest. Olives are a major source of income for Palestinians, and the region is known for producing some of the finest olives in the world. What You Need To Know…
October 15, 2023
Madison Celebrates Palestine and the Olive HarvestWe will be covering the situation in Gaza, and also how areas of the West Bank are being targeted now for increased ethnic cleansing while the world is looking elsewhere. At this point, the olive harvest has been completely shut down and at least 1000 trees in the Masafer Yatta area have been destroyed by…
A message from Gaza: We need huge protests to stop this genocide
Ahmed Abu Artema, The Electronic Intifada, 14 October 2023
Events in South Hebron Since the Outbreak of the War
October 14, 2023 At the request of supporters from abroad, we applied to friends of us, residents of south Mt. Hebron, and asked them to send reports about the current events in their places in the midst of the war in Gaza. Below is the detailed report sent to us. This report covers much of…
Settlers go on killing spree in West Bank
Tamara Nassar, THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA, 13 October 2023
Genocide, ethnic cleansing, and another Nakba in Palestine
October 14, 2023 This edition of the Wire comes to you with more urgency than we have ever felt. The Israeli government has declared a genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza, a new level of crisis. Israeli officials are openly planning to open “the gates of hell” on Gaza, referring to the 2 million…
Noura Erakat: Western Leaders & Media Are Justifying Israel’s “Genocidal Campaign”
OCTOBER 13, 2023 GUESTS Noura Erakat Palestinian human rights attorney, associate professor at Rutgers University and author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. LINKS “Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine” The unfolding crisis in Gaza, where relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 1,500 people since Saturday,…
Stop the Gaza Genocide: Call Congress
This is genocide. Over 2 million Palestinian people trapped in Gaza are living through genocide in real time, as Israel bombs, starves, and displaces them. Now Gaza is headed toward a total Internet, media, and power blackout, with no way to communicate to the outside world what is happening to them. Israel has ordered…
Days 5-6: Following Genocidal Statements, Israel Escalates Attacks on Gaza’s Civilians
Killing, Starvation, and Cutting Off Vital Supplies Photo by Ashra Amra Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, 12 October 2023 For the sixth consecutive day, Israel continued to attack Gaza with enormous and destructive weaponry, bombing and razing entire residential buildings with their residents still inside, destroying streets and infrastructure, and displacing hundreds of thousands…
Veterans For Peace Statement on Hamas-Israel
VFP eNews | Special Release | October 12, 2023 Palestinians inspect the damage following an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City Oct. 9, 2023. [PHOTO: Wafa | Wikimedia | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0] Veterans For Peace Statement on Hamas-Israel Veterans For Peace is an organization of former soldiers and allies who…
Human Rights Watch Confirms White Phosphorus Used in Gaza
“Any time that white phosphorus is used in crowded civilian areas it poses a high risk of excruciating burns and lifelong suffering” An Israeli white phosphorus round (right) airbursts over densely populated Gaza City, Palestine on October 11, 2023. (Photo: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Images) BRETT WILKINS, Common Dreams, Oct 12, 2023 Human Rights Watch…
Bernie Sanders Statement on Continuing Violence in Israel and Gaza
October 11, 2023 WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday issued the following statement on the continuing violence in Israel and Gaza following Hamas’ horrific attack on Saturday: Hamas’ terrorist assault on Israel will have horrific short- and long-term consequences. As a result of this attack, thousands of Israelis and Palestinians –…
Emergency Fund to Protect Palestinian and Arab Students on College Campuses
In the past several days, ADC has received an endless barrage of complaints and cases from students across college campuses in the United States tied to the War on Palestine. The bulk of these complaints are tied to the identity, dress and speech of students on campus and on-line. This degree of discrimination is…
What More Must the Children of Gaza Suffer?
(Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times) Fadi Abu Shammalah, The New York Times, October 12, 2023 Mr. Abu Shammalah, Just Vision’s outreach associate in Gaza and the executive director of the General Union of Cultural Centers in Gaza, wrote from the Khan Yunis refugee camp in Gaza. The bomb exploded a few hundred…
