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2024.12.13: The War on Palestine and Lebanon and its Environmental Effects
Online 11 am CT On Rendering Uninhabitable: The War on Palestine and Lebanon and its Environmental Effects Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its expansion…
2024.12.17: Shifting the Narrative to Restore UNRWA Aid
Online 5 pm – 6:30 pm CT Millions of Palestinians in Gaza and throughout the Middle East rely on the United Nations Relief and Works…
2024.12.15: Uprooting the Jewish National Fund
Online 1:30 pm CT Join the Green Olive Collective to discuss the central role of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) in the ongoing displacement of…
2024.12.15: International Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Online 10 am – 11:30 am CT Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine (GSPP) is a coalition of organizations from around the world committed to…
Tell the Senate: No more repression of the Palestine rights movement
Jewish Voice for Peace, November 27, 2024 As the Senate heads into its final weeks before the new Congress, we must block two incredibly dangerous…
Report: We Will Return
An analysis of the escalating forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the West Bank since the start of the genocide in Gaza Stop the Wall,…
2024.12.14: Andaleeb Cartonera Workshop at Madison Friends’ Meeting House
1704 Roberts Court, Madison 2-5 pm Everyone is invited to another Andaleeb Cartonera workshop to make cardboard covers for books, hosted this time by the great folks…
2024.12.14: Informational Picket at Willy Street Co-op North
2817 Sherman Avenue, Madison 1-3 pm Please join MRSCP, Revolutionary Socialists of Madison, and UE Local 1186 of Willy Street Co-op for an informational picket and…
U.S. Nonprofit Raised $300,000 for Israeli Sniper Unit Killing Unarmed Palestinians
Other U.S. nonprofits have raised up to $100 million annually for the IDF, underscoring the deep financial and ideological ties between pro-Israel organizations in the…
Except for Palestine
“When crises erupt, we protect civilians from mass atrocities, promote accountability for those responsible for human rights violations and abuses, seek to free political prisoners,…
UNRWA: Nearly one million Palestinians at risk this winter
“We are running out of words. Hunger and disease are rampant. This keeps testing our shared humanity.” Gaza now has the highest number of child…
US repeats Israel’s ‘right to defend itself’ after invasion of Syria
State Department says Israel has right to ‘take actions against terrorist organisations’ By MEE staff, 9 December 2024 The US State Department said on Monday that Israel was acting in…
This Is Genocide And It Must End Now
Amnesty International just released a major report1 documenting how the Israeli government has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Right now, successfully…
In Masafer Yatta There’s No P In PTSD
WORT 89.9FM Madison · In Masafer-Yatta there’s no P in PTSD WORLD VIEW, DECEMBER 8, 2024 Cassandra Dixon, a local and international peace activist, has…
25 years of resisting Israeli settler violence in the occupied West Bank
Al Jazeera, Nov 21, 2024 Atta Jaber’s family has farmed the Baqa’a Valley in the illegally occupied West Bank for hundreds of years, but since…
Erasing Palestinian Life in Gaza: Israel’s Genocide Exposed
Francesca Albanase and Eyal Weizman, Palestine Deep Dive, 8 Nov, 2024 “Israel aims to cancel and erase Palestinian life!” UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied…
Challenging Israeli ‘Hasbara’ and ‘Conventional Wisdom’ on Palestine
An Anti-Colonial Reframing Jeff Halper, Director, ICAHD, October 30, 2024 Israel’s success in “selling” its wars and oppressive colonial practices lies in its ability to…
Let’s Turn Refaat Alareer’s “If I Must Die” into a Bestseller
On December 10 Palestinian writer, poet and educator Refaat Alareer will posthumously publish a book, “If I Must Die,” a collection of his poetry and…
Death march from Beit Lahia
Hossam Shabat reports from northern Gaza on Israel’s mass expulsion campaign Death march from Beit Lahia by Drop Site News Hossam Shabat reports from northern…
Boycott Review at Willy St Co-op
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Madison Rafah Sister City Project (@madisonrafah) Boycott Comment Link
In Masafer Yatta, our very right to education is under fire
Amid Israeli settler attacks, military raids, roadblocks, and an economic crisis, simply getting to school can be a challenge. But still we fight for our…
The West Bank villages wiped off the map by Israeli settler violence
Since October 7, over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying attacks, threats, and harassment by Israeli settlers —…
Amnesty International Investigation Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty’s director tells Zeteo. PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, DEC 04, 2024 Israel is…
Amnesty International Concludes That Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza
In a new 300-page report the human rights group joins a growing chorus of legal scholars and activists describing Israel’s assault on Palestinians as genocide. …
2024.12.05 Update: Protest for Disclosure and Divestment by University of Wisconsin
View this post on Instagram A post shared by CODEPINK Madison (@codepinkmadison) UW-Madison Gordon Hall 770 West Dayton St7:45 am Citing a Wisconsin anti-discrimination statute on…
“Ethnic cleansing by a thousand cuts”
An Update from the South Hebron Hills Unsettled Podcast, Dec 3, 2024 In this episode of Unsettled we hear from Ali Awad, a 26-year-old activist…
Lebanon Ceasefire Had Built-in Loopholes for Israel
Lebanon Ceasefire Had Built-in Loopholes for Israel by Drop Site News And the civil and proxy war reignites in Syria. Read on Substack
2024.12.08: Letter Writing For A Ceasefire
The Reading Room 2713 Atwood Ave, Madison 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm As the siege on Gaza continues, we refuse to let genocide become mundane…
2024.12.14: Holiday Craft & Cookie Sale for Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem
Memorial United Church of Christ 5705 Lacy Rd, Fitchburg 9 am – 12 noon All proceeds support a scholarship fund for Dar al-Kalima University of Arts and…
2024.12.06: Launch of the “Gaza Writes Back” Memorial Edition
Online3 pm CT Registration
Update: Respond to Willy Street Co-op & Help Remove Sabra Hummus!
1% of Willy St Co-op members requested this by 12/02/24 Willy Street emailed all members on December 3 to announce a 14-day comment period ending…
Israel Builds Bases in Central Gaza, a Sign It May Be There to Stay
In recent months, soldiers have demolished more than 600 buildings to create a buffer area and expanded a network of bases, a New York Times…
Former defense minister accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza
“The IDF is not the most moral army today. It’s hard for me to say that.” By Mick Krever and Dana Karni, CNN, December 2, 2024 CNN — A…
Israeli Settler Company Specializing in West Bank Outposts Now in Gaza
Israeli Libi Construction Company At Work In Beit Lahia REVEALED: Israeli Settler Company Specializing in West Bank Outposts Now at Work in Northern Gaza by…
My Israeli Neighbors Are Rejoicing: Trump Will Make Israel Great(er)
DIARY FROM A PALESTINIAN IN ISRAEL Diana Buttu on how Trump’s ‘Israel first’ Cabinet picks and Netanyahu’s settler ambassador signal West Bank annexation is more…
Israeli bombing kills World Central Kitchen workers and aid-seekers
Meanwhile, a former Israeli defence minister says the army is ethnically cleansing northern Gaza By Ahmed Aziz in Khan Younis, occupied PalestineMiddle East Eye, 30 November 2024…
2024.12.09-25.01.29: Gaza National Teach-In Series
7 pm Central More info & registration TeachinNetwork.org Toolbox on Gaza, Israel, and the Middle East
2024.11.29-12.06: Read Palestine Week
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Heavy rain washes away 10,000 tents in Gaza
Spreads misery for displaced Palestinians Palestinians in Gaza continue to suffer from hunger, disease, and bitter cold temperatures as Israel’s campaign of genocide continues News Desk,…
Winter rains pile misery on war-torn Gaza’s displaced
Agence France-Presse via Al-Monitor, Nov 26, 2024 At a crowded camp in Gaza for those displaced by the war between Israel and Hamas, Ayman Siam…
ADC Statement on Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire
Washington, DC | www.adc.org | November 27, 2024 – The U.S.-led ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon showcases the government’s ability to influence peace agreements when the political…
Lebanon’s “Ceasefire” Deal With Israel, and What It Means for Gaza
A breaking news podcast discussion with Dr. Sami Al-Arian JEREMY SCAHILL, DROP SITE NEWS, NOV 26, 2024 Israeli Prime Minister and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu…
U.S. officials who hated “woke” investing won’t stop buying Israel Bonds
Israel is the exception to “politically motivated investment” KA (JESSICA) BURBANK, DROP SITE NEWS, NOV 25, 2024 First, they banded together to block investing in…
The Secret Recordings Netanyahu Wants Censored
A new documentary exposes never-before-seen video of the Israeli leader — and argues he’s prolonged the Gaza War to evade corruption charges. Arjun Singh, LEVER…
Tell the World’s Governments to End the Genocide
World Beyond War, Nov 25, 2024
‘A Starvation Policy’: Former UN Aid Chief on Gaza Suffering
Jan Egeland talks to Mehdi about his visit to Gaza, the ICC arrest warrants, and how Israel under Netanyahu is behaving like Syria under Assad.…
2024.11.19 Update: Video of Osama Iliwat & Rotem Levin in Madison
Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham St, Madison [map], 7 pm – 9 pm
Saturday in At Tuwani
This has been a terrible day here with multiple large settler attacks in the area, including this attack in Tuwani in which two of my…
Photo Essay: The silent displacement in the West Bank
As the world has focused on the Gaza genocide, a massive Israeli campaign of violence and displacement has taken place across the West Bank. Photojournalist…
Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Me
‘The Message’ cuts to the human heart of the situation in Israel-Palestine, refusing to contort its argument to affirm other perspectives Amr Kotb,New Lines Magazine,…
2024.12.07: Fair Trade Holiday Festival
Monona Terrace8 am – 3 pm Madison’s 28th Annual Fair Trade Holiday Festival MRSCP, Palestine Partners, and Playgrounds for Palestine-Madison will again be offering fair trade…
2024.11.20: East Washington Vigil for Gaza Ceasefire on Wednesdays
Every Wednesday (except Nov 27, 2024)SW corner of East Washington Av & Fourth St, Madison4:00 – 4:30 pm You are invited to join this weekly…
2024.11.29: Lights Up! for Palestine International Day of Solidarity!
Plaza at W Lawn Av & Monroe StNext to Trader Joe’s4-6 pm
Kamal Adwan Hospital under siege; we can’t treat the injured
Hussam Abu Safiya, Director-General of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, confirms the hospital remains under siege, with the Israeli occupation blocking medicine, food, and…
2024.11.21: The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill
Democratic support for the bill dwindled as critics warned it would let Donald Trump crack down on political foes. Noah Hurowitz, The Intercept, November 21…
After losing her leg in an Israeli strike, Leyan fights for a new beginning
All That Remains, Al Jazeera, Nov 20, 2024 Leyan Abu Al-Atta, a 13-year-old girl from Gaza who lost her leg in an Israeli attack, is…
ICC Issues ‘Watershed’ Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant
The court rejected arguments by the U.S. and Israel that the ICC does not have jurisdiction, subjecting the officials to potential arrest in 124 countries…
From attack dogs to prison time, this is how Israel is trying to thwart my activism
The Israeli army wants to make an example of Palestinians who protest the occupation — a campaign my village At-Tuwani has faced for generations. By Sami…
War-crimes court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Hamas officials
Israel and its major ally, the United States, are not members of the court BY MOLLY QUELL, Associated Press, November 21, 2024 THE HAGUE (AP) —…
A Conversation With Peace Activists Iliwat And Levin
Listen To The Pain And Fears Of Each Other WORT 89.9FM Madison · Listen to the Pain and Fears of Each Other: A conversation with…
Why Is It So Hard for Senator Tammy Baldwin to Oppose Genocide?
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 19, 2024 At the very same time that we’re subjected to media analyses of how a “progressive” senator won reelection…
Anti-war group says Baldwin noncommittal on blocking Israeli military aid
University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community members said talks with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s military legislative assistant Monday offered “no commitment either way” on the…
Gaza Security Forces Ambush Gang Accused of Looting Aid with Israeli Support
The gang members are “operating in cooperation with the Israeli forces” to target aid convoys, Hamas’s Basem Naim said. SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS AND JEREMY SCAHILL, DROP…
Call Your Senators on Joint Resolutions Against Arms to Israel – Vote is Nov 20
Please call Senators Tammy Baldwin and Ron Johnson to ask that they vote in favor of the six Joint Resolutions of Disapproval introduced last month by Senator…
2024.11.21: 2nd Vote on H.R. 9495 to Call Nonprofits Terrorists
Dozens of Democrats still support the bill — giving the Republican-controlled House plenty of breathing room to pass it with a simple majority Noah Hurowitz,…
UN Committee finds Israel’s warfare in Gaza consistent with genocide
Use of starvation as weapon of war UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 14 November 2024 NEW YORK (14 November 2024) –…
2024.11.20-29: Never Again Is Now: Sanction Israel’s Genocidal and Apartheid Regime
Join the Global Week of Action for Sanctions (20th to 29th Nov) to pressure states and the UN to impose lawful sanctions on Israel. Palestinian…
2024.11.18: The Palestine Movement Post-Election
Online 7 pm Central This call will provide an opportunity to reflect, strategize, and commit to the path ahead as we continue our efforts to…
2024.11.18: Stop Arming Israel! Madison Push for Joint Resolutions
Outside Tammy Baldwin’s office 30 W Mifflin St, Madison 4:15 pm Check here for day-of-event rain location This week, the Senate is expected to vote on…
2024.11.17: Andaleeb Cartonera Bookmaking Workshop
A Room of One’s Own2717 Atwood Avenue, Madison2-5 pm Everyone is invited to another Andaleeb Cartonera workshop to make cardboard covers for books, hosted once again by…
2024.11.15: Rami Khouri on WORT
A Public Affair12 noon – 1 pmLive at 89.9 FM, streaming, or archived A Public Affair guest host Christa Bruhn interviews journalist and author Rami Khouri on the impact of…
Sole Survivor’s Stories, Episode 1: Mahmoud and Tayseer
Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy (PIPD) on Rabet, Nov 12, 2024
As Infested Flour Becomes a Staple, State Dept “Still Assessing” Israel’s Aid Restrictions to Gaza
“I dream of food every day” ABUBAKER ABED, DROP SITE NEWS, NOV 12, 2024 This is the most difficult period I have endured since Israel’s…
Tell the House: Vote NO on Bill H.R. 9495
As early as Tuesday, November 12, the House of Representatives could vote on dangerous and unconstitutional legislation that would give the incoming Trump administration the…
The West buries a genocide – by making victims of Israel’s football thugs
If the West was really worried about Europe’s Nazi past, it would be better advised to stop stoking an all-too-real new antisemitism: incitement against Arab…
Carrefour closes all branches in Jordan due to BDS pressure
Carrefour Group is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets, grocery, and convenience stores with 14,000 stores in 40 countries. It is the seventh-largest…
Amsterdam Thugs and Hooligans
A Sham Enveloped in Brazen Hypocrisy Mouin Rabbani, @MouinRabbani, Nov 10, 2024 It’s now pretty clear what happened in Amsterdam this week. But first some…
2024.11.17-18: Rotem Levin and Osama lliwat in La Crosse
Rotem Levin and Osama lliwat – Israeli and Palestinian peace activists – will share their personal stories of transformation, lessons of joint work in Combatants for…
No, there were no ‘antisemitic pogroms’ in Amsterdam
Here’s what really happened. Media claims of ‘antisemitic pogroms’ against Israeli fans in Amsterdam are the latest in a pattern of false narratives fueling anti-Muslim…
Settlers steal sheep and dreams of a peaceful life in Masafer Yatta
By Hamdan Ballal, HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA, NOV 10, 2024 Masafer Yatta is living through very difficult and dangerous days, in light of the repeated…
UK police arrest Israeli academic Haim Bresheeth after pro-Palestine speech
MEE staff, Middle East Eye, 4 November 2024
Children Playing in Gaza
View this post on Instagram A post shared by وديع ابو السعود (@wadeaa_.9) Journalist Wadeaa_.9 on Instagram, September 21, 2024
30 Jewish Organizations Support UN Human Rights Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
The Bullet, November 8, 2024 As Jewish organizations and groups, we express our support for Francesca Albanese, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation…
There must be “due reckoning” for horrific violations, possible atrocity crimes in Gaza
7 in 10 Killed in Gaza Were Women or Children. It is likely that the widespread disregard for civilian protections under international law amounts to…
UN: 7 in 10 Killed in Gaza Are Women or Children, in “Grave Violations” of Law
Women and children were the vast majority of those slaughtered by Israel in the Gaza genocide By Sharon Zhang , TRUTHOUT, November 8, 2024 Truthout is an indispensable…
2024.11.11 & 25: Children’s African Story Hour
Children’s African Story Hour: Egyptian LullabyFrom the Middle East Studies Program at UW-MadisonNovember 11, 4 -5 pm: Pinney Library, 516 Cottage Grove Rd. MadisonNovember 25, 2- 3…
2024.11.10 Update: Ali Awad from Masafer Yatta on WORT
World View5:00 pmLive at 89.9 FM, streaming, or archived Ali Awad is a community organizer and journalist living in Tuba, in the Masafer Yatta region of the…
Israeli Forces Declare Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Northern Gaza
Israeli forces have announced their intention to block any Palestinians from returning to north Gaza. By Sharon Zhang , TRUTHOUT, November 6, 2024 Truthout is an indispensable resource…
2024.11.10: Concert for Palestine Relief
Gamma Ray Bar, 121 West Main Street, MadisonDoors: 3:30pm, Show: 4:30pm$10 donation at the door, 21 and over event You are invited to a concert…
UNRWA on north Gaza: An entire society now a graveyard.
vocalpolitics, YouTube, Nov 7, 2024 UNRWA official Louise #Wateridge published footage revealing the horrific amount of destruction in northern #Gaza as a result of the…
2024.10.19: Madison Video of Gazan Poet Mosab Abu Toha
Wisconsin Book Festival Video View this post on Instagram A post shared by Read Palestine (@read_palestine)
Hello from Masafer Yatta
Cassandra Dixon, November 6, 2024
South Africa’s memorial to the ICJ: More evidence on Israel’s genocide
Dr Binoy Kampmark, Middle East Monitor, November 3, 2024 The timing, as with so much in the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon, was most…
Erasing ‘Any Sign of Life,’ Israeli Demolition Teams Raze Entire Villages in Lebanon
“This is a scorched-earth policy, a violation of the Geneva Conventions,” said one reporter. BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, NOV 04, 2024 As the death toll…
Gaza hospital ‘last distress call’ as fresh Israeli attack wounds patients
Gaza’s health ministry says it seems a ‘decision has been made to execute’ staff remaining at Kamal Adwan hospital By MEE staff, Middle East Eye, 4 November…
MECA Aid to Gaza, Feb 1 – Nov 5, 2024
$21,287 of $20,000 on 11/05/24 Please give now to allow MECA to provide medical aid, clean water, food, psychological support, and more. “Death is coming,…
