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May Day Milwaukee: A Day Without Latinx and Immigrants
MONDAY, MAY 1ST IN MILWAUKEE AT 11:00 AM Background May 1st has long been recognized as a day of solidarity and action around immigrant rights. This year, our partners at Voces de la Frontera are hosting their annual May 1st action, strike, and mass march: “May Day: A Day Without Latinx and Immigrants.” Together, we…
May 25, 2023
Dr. Don Wagner on Palestinian Rights
Leopold’s Books Bar Caffe 1301 Regent Street, Madison 7 – 9 pm Join us for an intimate interview and book talk about Dr. Wagner’s latest memoir, which details his personal, political, and religious journey from Evangelical Christian faith and conservative politics to solidarity with the poor and advocacy for anti-war, anti-racism, and Palestinian rights. Desserts…
May 15, 2023
Mandela Nakba Day Tour – Milwaukee
NEW: MRSCP is partnering with Building Unity on a “Care-avan” carpool to this event from Madison and Janesville; if you would like to offer a ride or are in need of a ride, please click here then scroll down and fill out the form at the bottom to RSVP and get updated information U.S. Palestinian Community Network…
Friends of Hebron: New social media links
Just days ago, Israelis demolished several Palestinian shops in the old Hebron vegetable market. These are shops that were forced closed by military order for security reasons — reasons that have now proven themselves as a mere pretext for settlement expansion. We fear more destruction to come – we need action now! Donate Now as…
Rising Violence In The West Bank
A Conversation With Cassandra Dixon And Ali Awad A PUBLIC AFFAIR, WORT 89.9 FM, APRIL 20, 2023 WORT 89.9FM Madison · Rising Violence in the West Bank: a Conversation with Cassandra Dixon and Ali Awad On March 7th, Cassandra Dixon, a peace activist from Wisconsin, was attacked by Israeli settlers while visiting and volunteering in…
Sierra Club: Stop Supporting Environmental Racism
Adalah Justice Project Why are we asking you to write to the Sierra Club Board candidates? In March 2023, the Sierra Club sponsored a “nature outing” to Israel that willfully ignored ongoing Israeli settler colonialism, Israel’s illegal military occupation, and its brutal siege on Gaza. Although the Sierra Club canceled a similar trip last year…
A brave humanitarian: Tom Hurndall remembered 20 years on
Tom Hurndall, Youth Of Sumud Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights, 11th April 2023 Tom Hurndall was 21-years-old when, twenty years ago today, he was shot in the head while trying to rescue a small child in Gaza. Tom lay in a coma for eight months, until his passing on 13 January 2004. Tom is an…
Upcoming Events: April 19 – 28, 2023
Monday, April 17 – Monday, April 24: UW Justice for Palestine Week Wednesday, April 19: Public Forum on F35 Jet Noise vs Children Tuesday, April 25: Online Talk: “Apartheid S. Africa! Apartheid Israel!” Friday, April 28: Annual Middle East Studies Conference at UW-Madison AND…Article of the Week: Storytelling and Survival in Gaza: American Friends Service…
In Hebron, a salad needs security coordination
The direct violence of the occupation is obvious, but what are the subtle ways in which apartheid seeps into Palestinian life? Ameera Al-Rajabi, Community Peacemaker Teams, April 11, 2023 The Israeli occupation of Palestine is marked by the war crimes directly carried out by the occupiers, such as murder, demolition, displacement, and other violations that…
Cassandra is Back from Palestine!
MRSCP member and Palestine Partners founder Cassandra Dixon is home safe and (mostly) sound from the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank after being seriously injured in a settler attack. (Check out this podcast.) This week you have three chances to hear from her: First, on Sunday April 16 starting at 5 pm, a…
Support Palestinians in Masafer Yatta
“We are staying here, herding our sheep and cultivating our land. Nothing will uproot us from our land.” —Jaber Dbabseh, Masafer Yatta Two Hundred Fifteen Palestinian families in Masafer Yatta, near the southern border of the West Bank in Palestine, are asking us to help them resistforced expulsion from their lands. Israeli authorities have delivered demolition orders…
“Escalating Violence in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank”
A letter to President Biden and Secretary Blinken from Bernie Sanders, Jamaal Bowman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Summer Lee, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar, Betty McCollum, André Carson, and Ayanna Pressley Senator Bernie Sanders and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (Photos: Sheila Fitzgerald and lev radin via shutterstock.com) [pdf-embedder url=”http://madisonrafah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/FINAL-Palestine_Israel-.docx.pdf”]
Jewish Voice for Peace: What is Zionism?
Jewish Voice for Peace, April 10, 2023 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jewish Voice for Peace (@jewishvoiceforpeace) We’re proud anti-Zionists at JVP. But what is Zionism and why are we opposed to it? Zionism, in the words of its founders, is an explicitly “colonial” ideology. Zionism is a 19th century political…
#StopArmingIsrael
Tax Day Action Kit [pdf-embedder url=”http://madisonrafah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Tax-Day-Action-Flier-8.5×11-size.pdf”] Invite your neighbors to question how the U.S. government uses our tax dollars to fund Israeli violence—and imagine what could happen if those funds powered the future of our local communities instead.
U.S. Senior Citizen Says Her Skull Was Fractured by Israeli Settlers
Mel Frykberg, March 27, 2023 Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Courtesy Cassandra Auren An American senior citizen allegedly suffered a potentially fatal attack in the West Bank as part of a surge in violence that has gripped the Israeli-occupied region since Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power at the head of an extreme right-wing coalition.…
Wisconsin volunteer attacked in West Bank
Cassandra Dixon is helped by women from the Palestinian hamlet of Tuba, in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank, after she was attacked by a Jewish settler on March 7. Ed Treleven, Wisconsin State Journal, March 27, 2023 Cassandra Dixon’s work as a volunteer in the Israeli-occupied West Bank puts her in an area…
Israelis, welcome to BDS
Though not named as such, BDS tactics have been central to Israel’s anti-government protests. And the hypocrisy is not lost on Palestinians. Israeli protesters clash with police on horseback while blocking Ayalon Highway during an anti-government demonstration, March 16, 2023. (Oren Ziv) Amjad Iraqi, +972 Magazine, March 19, 2023 This article originally appeared in…
URGENT! Stand with Masafer Yatta today!
MRSCP has decided to join in an emergency campaign sponsored by Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) and Stop the Wall Coalition to provide emergency shelter and schools for the families of Masafer Yatta in the South Hebron hills area. You will hear more from us in the coming week about our portion of the campaign,…
I Witnessed a Shocking Attack on Palestinian Civilians
What I Saw May Be a Sign of What’s to Come Mourners march with the body of Abdel Fatah Hussein Khroushah, a 49-year-old Palestinian who was killed and was accused of killing two Israeli settlers in the Palestinian town of Huwara on Feb. 26. The funeral was held the Askar camp for Palestinian refugees east…
“A Closed, Burnt Huwara”
How Israeli Settlers Launched A Pogrom With Israeli politicians constantly fanning the rhetorical flames, last month’s violence—and actual arson—didn’t exactly come as a surprise. Smoke and flames rise after Israeli settlers went on a rampage in the West Bank town of Huwara, setting fire to several homes and cars and injuring dozens of Palestinians on…
Upcoming Events: March 21 – April 1, 2023
Tuesday, March 21: No Way to Treat a Child Webinar Tuesday, March 21: Another chance to watch film Boycott online Tuesday, March 21: Ground the F35s Online Capitol Calling Party Friday, March 24: Film Theaters of War: How the Pentagon & CIA Took Hollywood Fri-Sun, March 24-26: Anti-Militarism, Ground the F35s Conference Saturday, March 25: Online World-Wide Rally…
20 years later: Remembering Rachel Corrie
WORT 89.9FM Madison 2023-03-17 WORT 89.9FM Madison · 20 years later: Remembering Rachel Corrie Twenty years ago today, on March 16, 2003, word came to us that our daughter Rachel had been killed in Gaza. She had been run over by an Israeli military-operated and U.S. made and funded Caterpillar D9R bulldozer, as she stood…
‘Who hits a 64-year-old woman with a bat?’
Cassandra Auren, an American peace activist, was visiting the Palestinian village of Tuba when settlers attacked her with a bat and fractured her skull. Yuval Abraham, +972 Magazine, March 13, 2023 Cassandra Auren seen following a settler attack in the village of Tuba in the South Hebron Hills, West Bank, March 7, 2023. In partnership…
International Festival at Overture
International Festival at Overture Saturday-Sunday April 1-2. MRSCP will be there on April 1 with our brand-new shipment of Hirbawi Kuffiyehs! You can browse MRSCP crafts at the Marketplace.
The Heartbreak and Defiance of Occupation
WORT 89.9FM Madison 2023-03-12 WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Heartbreak and Defiance of Occupation At a 1979 meeting of Israel’s “Ministerial Committee for Settlement Matters in the Judea and Samaria area,” created in 1972 for the purpose of establishing new settlements in the West Bank, chairman of the committee Ariel Sharon said of the “firing…
Email Congress Now to keep Jubbet Ahd Dhib School Standing
Dear Friend, I am writing to you today with an urgent and time sensitive request for intervention, as yet another Palestinian school in the West Bank faces demolition by the Israeli Army. In this case, the the Jubbet Ahd Dhib School was not afforded due process or even given their day in court, and it…
Upcoming Events: March 12-16, 2023
Sunday, March 12: WORT interview with Masafer Yatta Activist Thursday, March 16: Cindy and Craig Corrie on WORT Thursday, March 16: Tantura Film and Discussion On Sunday March 12 at 5 pm, tune into WORT’s World View program for a taped interview with Masafer Yatta activist Ali, who will discuss the current situation of…
Why there are no two sides to the Huwara pogrom
Huwara is not a story of ‘two sides fighting each other.’ It’s the story of a regional superpower that tramples over millions of disenfranchised people. Nawal Domedi looks at the entrance to her house after it had been burned in a settler pogrom in the Palestinian town of Huwara, West Bank, February 28, 2023. (Oren…
Celebrating Economic Empowerment of Palestinian Women in Gaza
Middle East Children’s Alliance For International Women’s Day we are honored to share a video highlighting some of the incredible women MECA and our partner the Gaza Urban and Peri-Urban Agricultural Platform (GUPAP) supported during a special project to enhance food sovereignty in Gaza.
Film Boycott Now Available to Stream
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D.C. Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Israeli Boycott
Court dismisses claims arising from 2013 Boycott Resolution as a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation), siding with Steven Salaita and others March 2, 2023, Washington, D.C. – The D.C. Superior Court yesterday dismissed a lawsuit against the American Studies Association (ASA) and some of its former leaders for a 2013 resolution endorsing the academic…
Palestine in Pictures: February 2023
The Electronic Intifada, 3 March 2023
The Huwara pogroms by Israeli settlers and military
Demolition Report Good Shepherd Collective, 3 March 2023 Over $5,000,000 in reported damages after the Huwara pogroms — a collobrative night of violence organized by the Israeli settler movement and the Israeli military. Over 30 homes and 100 cars were burnt, as well several injured and one Palestinian killed. Demolition Data It’s critical to remember that…
The State Department Should Deny Smotrich Entry
Please take this action aimed at the State Department. It is outrageous (and against US law) that someone who openly advocates for the genocidal “erasing” of an entire Palestinian town is allowed to freely visit the U.S. and spread his venomous hatred. We are informed that the main restraint of Israeli ethnic cleansing in Massafer…
March 1st Yemen Day of Action:
Congress Must End the Yemen War
The death toll from the war in Yemen1 has reached nearly 400,000 and, despite diplomatic progress, 2022 was one of the deadliest years since the beginning of the conflict eight years ago. While President Biden’s February 2021 announcement2 that “we are ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen including relevant…
The illusion of Israeli democracy has been shattered
Haim Bresheeth-Žabner, The Electronic Intifada, 20 February 2023
Between army invasions and settler ‘pogroms,’ the West Bank rises
Palestinians inspect the destroyed cars at a scrapyard in the town of Huwara near Nablus in the West Bank on February 27, 2023 after they were torched overnight. Photo by Shadi Jarar’ah/ APA Images Key Developments (February 20 – 27) 14 Palestinians killed by Israeli violence in the span of the week. 13 of the…
Rafah Home Construction
Rafah Home Construction 2/27/23 Phase 1: $3,080 • Goal: $3,080 Phase 2: $3,555 • Goal: $3,555 Phase 3: $3,429 • Goal: $3,429
Global Day of Online Action #EndEthnicCleansing
Palestine is on fire. Since yesterday night, Palestinian villages of Huwara, Burin, Asira Qabliya, Beita, Beit Furiq and Za’atara in South Nablus district have been under full attack by Israeli settlers, supported by their military. Settlers all across the West Bank have attacked people and their lands, burned their homes, streets and cars. Over 100…
Upcoming Events: March 1-4, 2023
Wednesday, March 1: MENA event “Night at the Bazaar” Thursday, March 2: What’s next for the right to boycott in America? Saturday, March 4: AFRICaide & 4W International Women’s Day Saturday, March 4: Senegambia Int’l Women’s Day Dinner & Dance Mark Your Calendars for a Virtual Workshop to “Write Your Nakba Story”: To commemorate 75 years…
What’s Behind the Calls for “Democracy” in Israel?
Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in the last few weeks to rally against the Israeli government’s plans for so-called judicial reform. In Jerusalem on February 20, 2023, Israelis protest outside Israel’s parliament against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government to overhaul the judicial system. (Ohad Zwigenberg / AP…
Stop Nora’s Eviction أوقفوا تهجير نورة
Occupied Jerusalem, 2/18/2023 On 6 February 2023, the Israeli occupation’s high court rejected a request from the Ghaith-Sub Laban family to appeal an eviction order issued in March 2022 in favor of an Israeli settler organization. The family’s request for appeal, submitted through their lawyer Mohammad Dahleh, is the last legal intervention possible within the…
Victory! ABA removes controversial definition of antisemitism
Proposed resolution targeted Palestinian rights advocacy In January, we sent letters urging the American Bar Association (ABA) to remove its reference to the “International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism” in its proposed Resolution 514, explaining that rather than fighting antisemitism, the controversial IHRA definition is used to silence Palestinian rights advocates. In…
The theft of Harun Abu Aram’s body, home, and life
Harun was born into, paralyzed, and killed by Israel’s colonial system. The struggle to dismantle it begins in the cave where he spent his final years. Harun Abu Aram in his village of Al-Rakeez in Masafer Yatta, West Bank. (Emily Glick) Yuval Abraham, +972 Magazine, February 16, 2023 Harun Abu Aram is dead. For two…
You Can’t Save Democracy in a Jewish State
Protesters in Tel Aviv hold placards that say “Israeli students fighting for democracy” and “Without democracy there is no academy.” (Jack Guez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images) Peter Beinart, New York Times, Feb. 19, 2023 The warnings come every day: Israeli democracy is in danger. Since Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government announced plans to undermine the independence…
Upcoming Events: February 21 – March 2, 2023
Tuesday, Feb. 21: Don’t Step on My Feet Again: A Poetic Exploration of Life in Gaza 11 am – 12 Noon CT This is the second AFSC “Light in Gaza” webinar, where you will have the privilege of listening to Basman al-Dirawi in conversation with poet Tariq Luthun. This event will delve into the richness…
‘Badge of Shame for Israel’
Palestinian Shot and Paralyzed by Israeli Forces Two Years Ago Dies of Wounds Harun Abu Aram with his father, Rasmi, at home this week. Harun was born in the very same cave where he lies now, unable to move. Credit: Alex Levac Harun Abu Aram was shot in the neck by Israeli soldiers during a…
The Date Boycott spreads like wildfire
Since the launch of our 2023 date boycott campaign two weeks ago, tens of thousands have viewed our materials, and a record number of Americans have signed our online pledge. The campaign has been endorsed by prominent leaders and activists, including Dr. Omar Suleiman, Linda Sarsour, Miko Peled, Huwaida Arraf, Suhaib Webb, and more! This…
‘It’s our home! Why would we leave?’
How Palestinians in Masafer Yatta are resisting Israel’s expulsion attempts Qassam Muaddi, The New Arab, 10 February 2023 In May 2022, the Israeli supreme court ended a 20-year-long legal battle by rejecting a petition, presented by the inhabitants of the 12 villages, against the military declaration of their lands and homes as a ‘firing zone’.…
Israel is Annexing the West Bank
Don’t be Misled by its Gaslighting The Israeli settlement of Givat Zeev, near the Palestinian city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on February 3, 2023. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images) Tamar Megiddo, Ronit Levine-Schnur and Yael Berda, Just Security, February 9, 2023 Two parallel developments that took place last December seem…

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