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The ICC is preparing to issue arrest warrants for Israeli officials, Israel nearly started a war with Iran, and the IDF is preparing to commit a horrifying massacre in Rafah, so naturally the mainstream press is very, very interested in “anti-semitism” on college campuses again. — Caitlin Johnstone, 2024
US State Department declines to Condemn Israel for Shooting American Activist in the Head, Killing Her
JUAN COLE, INFORMED CONSENT, 09/07/2024 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Basil Maghrebi at the Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that on Friday, Israeli troops killed an American observer in the West Bank with a gunshot to her head, as she participated in a procession at Beita south of Nablus in the Palestinian West Bank. Aysenur Eygi, 26, a…
Witness: Israeli troops intentionally killed US activist
Maureen Clare Murphy, The Electronic Intifada, 7 September 2024 Israeli occupation forces killed both an American woman during a protest in Beita, a village near Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, and a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in a separate but nearby incident on Friday. In the latter incident, Bana Amjad Baker (some outlets gave…
On the murder of Ayşenur Eygi
Jeff Halper, ICAHD, September 8, 2024 Yet another courageous person who gave her life for a just cause, Palestinian rights. Ayşenur Eygi joins two other members of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM0), Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, killed in actions against Israeli destruction of Palestinian life in its genocidal campaign since 1948…
Israel Has Built an Economy Fueled by Genocide at Home and Abroad
With the help of the US, Israel exports instruments of oppression abroad, while testing them against Palestinians. By Ciudong Ng, TRUTHOUT, September 1, 2024 As Israel tightens its siege, medical supplies in the Gaza Strip are running out, and doctors confront patients with unimaginable injuries. The orthopedist Hani Bseso operated on his niece Ahed’s leg, after a shell plowed…
Free speech expert, ACLU question new UW-Madison protest policy
Singing, distributing newspapers and more “expressive activities” could be banned within 25 feet of university buildings under new protest guidelines announced ahead of the fall semester. By Noe Goldhaber, The Daily Cardinal, August 30, 2024 The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s new protest policy may be unconstitutional, a constitutional law expert and ACLU of Wisconsin lawyer told The…
UW-Madison admin, students for Palestine share status of last semester’s agreement
By Camberyn Kelley, WMTV, Sep. 5, 2024 MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – UW-Madison students and administration share the status of an agreement created after pro-Palestine protests on campus last spring. It’s been four months since students encamped on Library Mall. UW Madison student and member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SPJ), Dahlia Saba feels like things…
Aysenur Eygi’s Family calls for Independent Investigation
“We welcome the White House’s statement of condolences, but given the circumstances of Aysenur’s killing, an Israeli investigation is not adequate.” —Parents of Murdered Palestinian Rights Activist, Aysenur Eygi Israeli Forces Reportedly Kill US Human Rights Activist With ‘Deliberate Shot to the Head’ Israeli Forces Reportedly Kill US Human Rights Activist With ‘Deliberate Shot to…
American Human Rights Activist Murdered in the West Bank
This is not the first time Israeli forces have murdered American citizens. Israel has a long history of killing Americans and facing no consequences from the United States. In 2003, the Israeli military ran over and crushed Rachel Corrie, an American citizen, with a bulldozer and faced no repercussions. In 2010, a U.N. fact-finding mission…
A Response to the Killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi
A Response to the Killing of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi From Cindy and Craig Corrie The Corries are the parents of Rachel Corrie, a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) who was killed by the Israeli military on March 16, 2003, as she stood to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza. September…
Satellite Imagery Shows Vast Destruction in Rafah
Tal as-Sultan was the site of the Rafah Playground project in 2005. It was during the original creation of the “Philadelphi Corridor” along the Egypt border in 2003 that whole neighborhoods were razed and Rachel Corrie was killed. Israel now wants to expand the Corridor by 800 meters, and is destroying more than that. Jake…
Sep 9, 2024: Infrastructures of Revolt
Mass Politics and Anti-Colonial Revolutions in the Middle East Ingraham 206UW-Madison12:00 pm – 1:15 pm Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford) re-examines one of the key features of British colonialism – the building of infrastructure – and explores how this shaped the possibilities of anti-colonial revolution. Focusing on the 1919 Revolution in Egypt, he explores how…
Freedom Flotilla Initiates Protest to Free Its Ship “Conscience”
By alex, The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, September 4, 2024 ** THE FREEDOM WATCH HAS BEGUN!** At 6:30pm today, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and its local allies initiated the “Freedom Watch” action to free our boats from Haydarpaşa port in Istanbul so that we can sail to bring desperately needed humanitarian aid and break the genocidal siege…
Palestinian Reporters’ Gaza War Coverage Nets 4 Nobel Peace Prize Nominations
According to statistics, more than 130 Palestinian journalists and media professionals have been killed by the Israeli armed forces in Gaza since October 7 Mehr Jan, American Muslim Today, Aug 27, 2024 In a bold recognition of courage amidst conflict, four Palestinian journalists have been nominated for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize. Their fearless reporting…
Israeli Forces Shot an American in the West Bank
The U.S. Government Doesn’t Seem to Care “The money I pay in my taxes as a teacher probably funded the bullet they have run through me.” PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, AUG 31, 2024 Three weeks ago, Israeli forces shot an American teacher from New Jersey. In the aftermath, Amado Sison told me that while Palestinians showed…
Sep 8, 2024: Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb in Madison
Midvale Community Lutheran Church 4329 Tokay Blvd, Madison 7 pm Registration Greetings friends, On behalf of Bright Stars of Bethlehem, I invite you to join me for an important and timely presentation by the Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb. As someone like me, who has a connection with Bright Stars of Bethlehem, you know of the amazing and tireless…
Sep 8, 2024: Rejecting AIPAC: the Israel Lobby and the Democratic Party
12 noon CT Online Hear from Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, Palestinian academic Rami G. Khouri, labor leader and political strategist Harris Gruman, and Massachusetts Peace Action’s Brian Garvey, about AIPAC and the Democratic Party. We will discuss the history of AIPAC, the funding of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, and the power of AIPAC in the…
Sep 6, 2024: Action Hour for a Ceasefire Now: Education in Gaza
11 am CT Online Learn more about education in Gaza and hear from a former teacher in the region during the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Action Hour for a Ceasefire Now. Register here. As millions of children in the U.S. return to school, students in Gaza continue to be deprived of this right amid Israel’s…
Sep 2, 2024: Madison LaborFest
Madison-Rafah Sister City Project and Jewish Voice for Peace will be tabling at this Labor Day event for Israeli ceasefires, the Read Palestine! project, and the Madison-Masafer Yatta Olive Grove. South Central Federation of LaborMadison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park St.12:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Join us for food and drink, activities for kids, information…
Netanyahu Prefers Risking a Regional War
to a Hostage Deal and an End to the Gaza War Joel Beinin, September 1, 2024 On Sunday, Sept. 1 the Israeli army announced it recovered the bodies of six Israeli civilian hostages aged 23 to 40 in Rafah. The hostages were killed at point blank range a day or two before the army reached…
San Francisco State University divests from Israel’s weapons
Demands were part of nationwide student movement calling on universities to divest from companies involved in Israel’s occupation of Palestine By Azad Essa, Middle East Eye, 29 August 2024 California’s San Francisco State University has begun the process of divesting from four weapons manufacturers currently involved in Israel’s war on Gaza, in a move activists are…
Inside Israel’s war
Four Corners goes face-to-face with Israel’s powerful political and military voices. This article is 6 months old By John Lyons — with Jonathan Miller, Mayeta Clark and Maddy KingAustralian Broadcasting Corporation, 10 March, 2024 Ehud Barak says more than two decades ago he was new enough in Israeli politics to tell the truth. He declared then that if he was…
‘Practically a war of a mighty Israeli army on civilian population’
Palestinian Mustafa Barghouti on the latest West Bank operation Amanpour CNN, 8/30/24 Christiane Amanpour speaks to Palestinian National Initiative president Mustafa Barghouti about Israel’s operations in the occupied West Bank.
“They Want Palestine Empty”
Artist in Jenin Blasts U.S. Support for Israel Amid West Bank Assault Democracy Now! Aug 29, 2024 At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and 30 more wounded in the occupied West Bank, where Israel has launched its largest military operation in two decades. Israeli forces have simultaneously raided four cities and refugee camps in…
‘Israel’s Starvation Strategy’: IDF Fires on World Food Program Team
“This is totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents that have endangered the lives of WFP’s team in Gaza.” JAKE JOHNSON, COMMON DREAMS, AUG 29, 2024 The World Food Program said Wednesday that it was forced to suspend the movement of its employees in Gaza after the Israeli military fired on one…
Israel kills prominent militant in deadliest West Bank raids since Gaza war began
BY MAJDI MOHAMMED AND MELANIE LIDMAN, Associated Press, August 29, 2024 TULKAREM, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli military said it killed five more militants, including a local commander, early Thursday in the West Bank as it pressed ahead with what appeared to be the deadliest military operation in the occupied territory since the start of the war in…
“Trying to Repeat the Nakba”
Israel Launches Largest Military Raids in West Bank in Two Decades DEMOCRACY NOW! AUGUST 28, 2024 This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. DONATE GUESTS The Israeli military has launched its biggest operation in the occupied West Bank in close to two decades, with hundreds of troops, backed by armored vehicles, bulldozers,…
Wisconsin Ceasefire-in-Gaza Advocates to DNC: “No More Bombs”
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Aug 27, 2024 About 150 Wisconsin Ceasefire-in-Gaza advocates joined tens of thousands from around the nation to protest outside the Democratic National Convention last week in Chicago. Protestors also marched in Milwaukee and Madison days before the convention and at the DNC’s rally Tuesday at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee.…
Israeli attacks that killed scores of civilians should be investigated as war crimes
Amnesty International, August 27, 2024 A new investigation by Amnesty International reveals Israeli forces failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimise harm to civilians sheltering at camps for internally displaced people while carrying out two attacks targeting Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders and fighters in the south of the occupied Gaza Strip…
Special Back-to-School Appeal: Please support Read Palestine!
During the past year the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project joined with a group of local book-loving volunteers to create READ PALESTINE! — a project to spread awareness and educate young people about Palestine by offering them Palestinian stories and culture through books. We need your help now to expand the reach of this project. Here…
Palestine Won at the Democratic Convention
Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, August 26, 2024 The 2024 Democratic National Convention was an exhausting roller coaster ride for Arab Americans and supporters of Palestinian rights. It was a messy affair, with highs and lows, some small victories and some setbacks. But on balance, the naysayers are wrong, because Palestine and supporters…
Palestinian American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn’t Allow
Democracy Now!, Aug 23, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday after a four-day convention in Chicago where her campaign refused to allow a Palestinian American to take the stage to address Israel’s war on Gaza. We hear Georgia state Representative Ruwa Romman, who was among the list of speakers offered by…
What I Saw Was “Unfathomable”
Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel Democracy Now!, Aug 21, 2024 A group of American doctors who treated patients in Gaza held a press conference in Chicago on Tuesday to describe the suffering they saw among Palestinians injured and killed in Israel’s war on the territory. The press conference,…
Israel Using Ceasefire Talks to Expand Colonization of Palestine
Israel’s insistence on controlling two key corridors shows its intention to carry out land grabs, the expert said. By Sharon Zhang , TRUTHOUT, August 22, 2024 Israeli officials’ ceasefire demands show that they aren’t just using ceasefire negotiations to prolong their genocide of Gaza, but also to secure permission to further deepen their colonization of Palestine, a UN…
Aug 29, 2024: Read “Light in Gaza” with the FCNL
We hope that you can join us for our first virtual FCNL Book Club! Our virtual discussion on Light in Gaza will be on Thursday, Aug. 29 at 6 p.m. ET. Written by 11 Palestinian writers and poets, this anthology centers the voices of Palestinians in the conversation about a just future for Gaza. You…
DNC Faces Backlash After Organizers Deny Request for Palestinian Speaker
Elected Officials, celebrities, and community leaders speak out against the DNC’s decision to silence Palestinians PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, AUG 23, 2024 CHICAGO – The Democratic National Convention is facing a backlash over organizers’ decision late Wednesday not to welcome a single Palestinian voice to the convention stage. In less than 24 hours since the decision was made public,…
#LetPalestineSpeak
#LetPalestineSpeakToday, August 22, 2024Wisconsin Democratic Party Office15 N Pinckney St, by The Old Fashioned12 to 2pm Madison for World BEYOND War: Tonight, after weeks of negotiations, the Harris-Walz campaign refused the simplest of demands: to allow a Palestinian-American to speak from the stage of the Democratic National Convention. Here in Madison, we will stand in…
CODEPINK Disrupts “Democratic Majority for Israel” DNC Event
Challenging U.S. Support of Israel The event featured Gov. Tim Walz who is “supposedly” sympathetic to Palestine CODEPINK, August 21, 2024 CHICAGO — CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin and co-director Danaka Katovich joined other pro-Palestine activists in crashing a Democratic Majority for Israel DNC event today delivering the message: “There is no majority for Israel.” The event hosted…
Wisconsin Palestinians have felt isolated from politics.
The upcoming election has made it worse. After watching the U.S. fund Israel’s war on Gaza and not feeling represented by their politicians, Palestinian Americans in Wisconsin are finding ways to register their discontent. by Ava Menkes, Wisconsin Watch, August 20th, 2024 Miriam Hasan, 39, has had a complicated relationship with her Palestinian identity. In 1948,…
Activists force AXA to divest from ALL Israeli banks and largest weapons manufacturer
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), August 21, 2024 This is a major BDS win for Palestinian rights activists, and a win for grassroots and civil society pressure to end the shameful complicity of large financial corporations like AXA in Israel’s 76-year-old regime of settler colonialism, apartheid and genocide. In a major BDS win for human…
Wisconsin ‘uninstructed’ voters among DNC protests
THEY say Vice President Kamala Harris needs to take a more forceful stand to end the war in Gaza “nothing short of complete and total liberation of Palestine will get me to vote for the Democratic Party again” BY RICH KREMER, WPR, AUGUST 19, 2024 Wisconsin residents were among those protesting at the Democratic National Convention…
How Israel is Arming Israeli Settlers
“It is farcical to suggest a distinction between settler and state violence: They are part of the same settler-colonial structure, and not only complement each other but depend on one another.” —Fathi Nimer, The West Bank: Settler Colonial Spillover of the Gaza Genocide While Israel continues its brutal genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, armed Israeli settlers,…
Aug 25, 2024: David Rovics in Madison
Madison Labor Temple lawn 1602 S Park St, Madison 6:00 pm This is not about Israel’s wars in Gaza. This about the moments in between them, during the closest thing that passes in Gaza for “peace.” David Rovics, February 1, 2015
Aug 20 – 23, 2024: Wisconsin Capitol Vigils
Capitol Rotunda Noon to 3 pm This week we partner again with Building Unity to create a local space for concerned people to come together. Important meetings, conventions, and decisions are being made elsewhere. Here, we want to remain a constant presence that opposes wars, all wars, as an ideology for conflict resolution. Yes, Stop…
March on the DNC 2024
August 19 – 22, 2024 More information There is a bus from Milwaukee, loading 8:15 am, leaving 8:30 am, and returning from Chicago at 3:30 pm. $45 cash or check or whatever you can afford. You must reserve your spot by calling Jim Carpenter (414) 347-0353 or texting him at (414) 491-3338. More details here. There is no bus…
Good Trouble, Holy Trouble in Washington
at the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) Annual Summit by VJP board member Rev. Dr. Ron Shive John Lewis, the U.S. Congressman from Georgia, knew how to get into good trouble. He was a leader of Bloody Sunday – that fateful and tragic day on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965 . On…
US approves $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel amid threat of wider Middle East war
BY TARA COPP, Associated Press, August 13, 2024 WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has approved $20 billion in arms sales to Israel, including scores of fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles, the State Department announced Tuesday. Congress was notified of the impending sale, which includes more than 50 F-15 fighter jets, Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles, or…
An American was just shot in the West Bank.
The American press can’t be bothered. As waning global attention is on the war in Gaza, an intensifying ethnic cleansing campaign is ramping up in the West Bank. RYAN GRIM, DROP SITE, AUG 13, 2024 With an undeclared war with Hezbollah in the north, the ongoing slaughter in Gaza in the south, and the anticipation…
Aug 17, 2024: Madison Not Another Bomb Rally
August 17, 2024 View this post on Instagram A post shared by JVP Madison (@jvp_madison) Sign the petition for a U.S. arms embargo Register for the Madison Rally!
