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There are laws in Israel that establish separate educational systems that are funded unequally. According to a 2005 study by Hebrew University three times more was spent on the education of Jewish children than on Palestinian children who were Israeli citizens. ― Second Class Citizens, 2016
2025.10.04: Support the Flotilla and Feed Gaza Now Protest
Capitol Square at State Street, 10 am
Israeli navy intercepts boats attempting to break Gaza blockade and arrests activists
IBRAHIM HAZBOUN AND RENATA BRITO, AP, October 2, 2025
2025.10.05: Screening and Discussion of Film “Severed”
Online, 2 PM CT
2025.10.04: Film “Samidoun, The Steadfast Women of Palestine”
Online, 11 AM CT
UN lists 158 firms tied to illegal Israeli settlements
UN Human Rights Office, 26 September 2025
What it was like to flee my home in Gaza City
SERENA, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), SEP 24, 2025
2025.10.08: Art and Resistance in “Power Born of Dreams”
Online, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm CT
2025.12.04: Palestine on Screen – Stories of Survival and Resistance
UW-Madison Memorial Library, Room 126, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
2025.09.28: Wisconsin Climate March – Bring War Abolition and Palestine Solidarity!
Historical Society Steps & UW-Madison Library Mall, 12 pm
2025.09.29: Kick Israel Out of FIFA!
Online, 11 AM CT
2025.10.01: Support Immigrants & Oppose ICE at the Wisconsin Dairy Expo
Alliant Energy Center, Rimrock Rd and John Nolan, 4-5 pm
2025.10.05: Voices from the West Bank, Mohammed and Majed Sawalha
Online, 3-4 PM CT
What’s the Point of Recognizing the State of Palestine?
Joel Beinin, Sep 25, 2025
Spanish and Italian naval ships to join the Gaza-bound activist flotilla following yesterday’s drone attack
ELENA BECATOROS, AP, September 25, 2025
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
Harry Davies and Yuval Abraham, The Guardian, 25 Sep 2025
Petition to Ban Israel from Eurovision – Sign Now!
Avaaz, Sep 24, 2025
The Meaning of Western Recognition of Palestine
MOUIN RABBANI, Jacobin, 09.24.2025
Explosions and drones targeting Gaza aid flotilla boats
Guardian staff, AFP, Reuters; 23 Sep 2025
2025.10.03-13: Silent auction, art show taking place in Madison to benefit Palestinian families
Channel 3000, Sep 23, 2025
2025.10.01: Read Palestine! Writing Workshop from a Place of Bravery
Room of One’s Own Bookstore (Annex), 2717 Atwood Ave, 6-8 pm
Kaddish of the New Year
AVRUM BURG, SEP 12, 2025
2025.09.21: Madison activists walk for peace on International Day of Peace
Tanaisa Shaw, Channel 3000, Sep 21, 2025
Barbaric assault by Israeli forces against Gaza City
Farhad (@faab64@freefree.ps), Sep 21, 2025
UK recognises Palestinian statehood 108 years after Balfour Declaration
Maziar Motamedi and Federica Marsi, Al Jazeera, 21 Sep 2025
2025.09.21: War Abolition Walk at Willy Street Fair and Beyond
Meet at Madson Sourdough, 916 Williamson St, 10:30 am. RSVP.
Block the Bombs Act Endorsed by Progressive Caucus
PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, SEP 20, 2025
2025.09.30-10.28: A Short Course on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi
Online, 5:30-7:30 PM CT
2025.09.23: Justice for the Santa Marta Five Water Defenders
Online, 2 PM CT
2025.09.24: Out of the Ruins – Art and Poetry from Palestine
Online, 11 am CT
“Single Shots to the Head”: U.S. Veteran, Volunteer Surgeon Sees “Extermination of a People” in Gaza
DEMOCRACY NOW! SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
We oppose antisemitism, but state proposal isn’t the answer
Tsela Barr et al., Sep 17, 2025
One Sentence in UN Report
Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani), Sep 16, 2025
U.N. Formally Finds Israel Is Committing Genocide
ADC, September 16, 2025
UN leaves genocide deniers with nowhere to go
OWEN JONES, SEP 16, 2025
2025.10.08: The Truth about October 7th and the Gaza Genocide
ISM Community Center, 815 W Layton Ave, Milwaukee, 7 PM
What the Wounds are Telling Us
Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra, De Volkskrant (The People’s Newspaper, Amsterdam), 13 September 2025
“Go Birds, F*** ICE and Free Palestine”
CARLY THOMAS, HOLYWOOD REPORTER, SEPTEMBER 14, 2025
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee and Genocide Funding
The Intercept, Sep 14, 2025
Rubio in Israel for talks to limit diplomatic damage over Qatar strikes
Julian Borger, The Guardian, 14 Sep 2025
Israel intensifies Gaza City bombing as Rubio arrives
Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Simon Lewis, Reuters, September 14, 2025
2025.09.07: A Celebration of Culture, Resistance and Liberation in Oak Creek
Cherrie Hanson, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Sep 12, 2025
Israel takes over 1,000 Palestinian hostages in Tulkarm, West Bank
Quds News Network, Sep 12, 2025
The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
AMEL GUETTATFI, DROP SITE NEWS, SEP 12, 2025
The Netanyahu Government is Implementing a Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza of Palestinians
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley, September 11, 2025
‘This Place is Ours’
Prime Minister of Israel, Sep 11, 2025
Israel PM vows ‘there will be no Palestinian state’
Agence France-Presse, 11 Sep 2025
2025.09.15: Peace Action and Block the Bombs with Rep. Delia Ramirez
Online, 6:30 PM CT
Don’t Let Israel Silence Wisconsin!
MRSCP, CODEPINK Madison, JVP-Milwaukee & Wisconsin Muslim Civic Alliance, Sep 11, 2025
Israeli Airstrikes on Yemeni Newspaper Offices
Drop Site News, Sep 11, 2025
Why is Israel destroying Gaza’s high-rise residential towers?
Sally Ibrahim, The New Arab, 10 September, 2025
Netanyahu’s War Without Borders: The Doha Strike and the End of Arab Illusions
Elijah J Magnier, 10 Sep 2025
2nd Global Sumud Flotilla Ship ‘Alma’ Attacked
Prem Thakker, Sep 9, 2025
‘I’m so dehumanized’: Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt
Laura Albast, Prism, September 9, 2025
61 Mennonites arrested today in DC, Protesting for Palestine
Mennonite Action, Sep 9, 2025
Global Sumud Flotilla Gaza aid boat hit by drone attack in Tunisia
Lorenzo Tondo and agencies, The Guardian, 9 Sep 2025
Israel’s Peace Plan: Assassinate the Ceasefire Negotiators
Nick Turse, The Intercept, September 9 2025
Kushner and the Gaza Redevelopment Plan
Judd Legum and Noel Sims, Popular Information, Sep 09, 2025
Who’s Missing From This Picture?
MRSCP, Sep 8, 2025
2025.09.08: “From Rubble We Dance,” Palestine Dance Troupes in Madison
Add your photos to our album!
The Frontline of Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign: Report from Gaza City
ABDEL QADER SABBAH AND RASHA ABOU JALAL, DROP SITE NEWS, SEP 08, 2025
Tell the European Union to Stop Aiding Genocide in Gaza
Ekō, Sep 8, 2025
U.S Sanctions against Palestinian Human Rights Organizations
Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD), 05 September 2025
No Kings Movement Announces Next Day of Nationwide Actions for Oct 18
COMMON DREAMS, Sep 02, 2025
Gaza’s Last Functioning Children’s Hospital
ABDEL QADER SABBAH, DROP SITE NEWS, SEP 02, 2025
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s leading experts say
Emir Nader, BBC News, Sep 1, 2025
United Methodist Church divests from Israel bonds
United Methodist Kairos Response, Sep 2, 2025
Explainer: The Sabra & Shatila Massacre, 1982
Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), September 10, 2024
Israel and Double Standards
MOUIN RABBANI, SEP 06, 2025
U.S. Nonprofit Fundraising to Buy Drones for Israeli Military in Gaza Genocide
MURTAZA HUSSAIN AND SAMI VANDERLIP, DROP SITE NEWS, SEP 06, 2025
2025.09.24: Virtual Delegation to Lifta, Ghost Village of the Nakba
Online, 11 AM CT
Global Sumud Flotilla Set for Latest Attempt to ‘Break Israel’s Illegal Siege on Gaza’
BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, Aug 29, 2025
2025.09.18: Palestine Partners at the Madison Night Market
401 State Street, 5-9 pm
2025.09.08: Meta Amplifying Harmful Content During Genocide
Online, 11 AM CT
Union Solidarity with Palestine
United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America and the Autonomous Collective of Dockworkers in Genoa
2025.09.17-12.06: Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities in Madison
Cassandra Dixon, Sep 2, 2025
In Israel, ‘animals in human form’ may be killed
TAMIR SOREK, MONDOWEISS, AUGUST 31, 2025
Only 3% Of Jewish Israelis Think Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Plan For Gaza Is Immoral
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, FEB 05, 2025
Leaked ‘Gaza Riviera’ plan dismissed as ‘insane’ attempt to cover ethnic cleansing
Peter Beaumont and Alice Speri, The Guardian, 1 Sep 2025
Far-right Israeli politicians and settlers discuss luxury ‘Gaza riviera’ plan
William Christou and Quique Kierszenbaum, The Guardian, 24 Jul 2025
The genocide in Gaza is ‘another level of annihilation’
Marah Abdel Jaber, Prism, August 26, 2025
U.S. halts visitor visas for Palestinian medical evacuees
Neha Madhira, Prism, August 28, 2025
2025.09.14: Christian and Jewish Zionism and the New McCarthyism
Online, 3-4:30 PM CT
2025.09.04: David Rovics and Kamala Emmanuel in Madison!
Muso, 2040 Winnebago Street, 7 pm
The keffiyeh and pro-Palestinian campus protests
Aariz Ahmed, Special to the Cap Times, Aug 25, 2025
2025.08.31: Join CODEPINK & World Beyond War in a Madison Flotilla!
James Madison Park, 614 E Gorham St, Madison, 3 PM
Egypt Isn’t Starving Gaza – Israel Is
MUHAMMAD SHEHADA, ZETEO, AUG 28, 2025
Do you know how much a US GHF contractor is getting paid in Gaza?
Umer Bin Ajmal, TRT World, May 27, 2025
“This is Eternal Displacement”: Israeli Onslaught on Gaza City Forcing Thousands to Flee With Nowhere to Go
ABDEL QADER SABBAH, DROP SITE NEWS, AUG 27, 2025
Israel Accuses Al Jazeera Of Being Mouthpiece For Journalism
The Onion, August 27, 2025
2025.09.08: U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) Midwest Tour
USPCN, Aug 26, 2025
Democratic National Committee Votes Down Weapons Embargo on Israel
Institute for Middle East Understanding, Aug 28, 2025
Democratic National Committee Resolution 18
Barb Olson, Aug 26, 2025
