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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
Killing Underscores ‘War-Like’ Israeli Assault on West Bank Olive Growers
“The olive season has turned into a season of killing for the Palestinian people, whether at the hands of the Israeli army or armed settlers,” said one observer. BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, OCT 18, 2024 The killing of a 59-year-old woman who eyewitnesses said was shot in the back by a member of the Israel Defense Forces…
UK police raid home, seize devices of Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 17 October 2024 British counterterrorism police on Thursday raided the home and seized several electronic devices belonging to The Electronic Intifada’s associate editor Asa Winstanley. Approximately 10 officers arrived at Winstanley’s North London home before 6 am and served the journalist with warrants and other papers authorizing them to search his house and…
Discontent at The Guardian Over Palestine ‘Double Standard’
‘Please pass on my deepest fuck you.’ by Rivkah Brown, Novara Media, 18 October 2024 Susan Abulhawa saw the censor’s hand before it even touched her piece. “As the Guardian doesn’t typically publish people like me,” she cautioned her editor at the paper, “I want to be sure the edits don’t ‘dilute’ the piece to make it…
Oct 25, 2025: Ta-Nehisi Coates & Dena Takruri in Oakland Live Online
Join us for a community conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates on white supremacy and the long fight for Palestinian liberation. By AROC Action Date: Friday , October 25Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM PT, 9:00 – 11:00 PM CTLocation: Oakland, CA For more information: bit.ly/tncoakEvent will be livestreamed and lasts 2 hours “When you live as we have, among a people whose humanity…
US Can’t Decide if Israel Is Blocking Aid – But It’ll Send Bombs Either Way
Biden gives Israel 30 days to boost aid to Gaza or risk cuts in military assistance. Will it be another empty threat? PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, OCT 18, 2024 Early Thursday morning, I was woken by a distressed call from a doctor in Gaza, telling me of an Israeli strike on a school in the Jabalia refugee camp…
Progressives Say Only an Arms Embargo Can Stop Israel
A Year Since Their Ceasefire Resolution, Rep. Cori Bush says the Biden administration must stop enabling Israel’s violence. Akela Lacy and Jessica Washington, The Intercept, October 16 2024 ONE YEAR SINCE she introduced a resolution for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said she hasn’t seen any indication that a Kamala Harris presidency would result in…
Shaaban Al-Dalou, Burned Alive in Gaza, Would Have Been 20 Today
Footage captured of his burning body has seared its way through the collective consciousness—an indelible image of the horrors Israel has wrought in Gaza. ABUBAKER ABED, DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 16, 2024 Over the past two weeks, Israel has ratcheted up its killing operations in northern and central Gaza. Multiple journalists have been maimed and killed. And…
Oct 19, 2024: Implementation of International Law to Stop the Genocide Online
Implementation of International Law to Stop the Genocide Start: Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM CT End: Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 1:30 PM CT Virtual event Host Contact Info: David, david@worldbeyondwar.org Register to sign up and get the Zoom link for the event! This 90-minute, live event is free and open to the public. We will…
Israel ‘starting to implement’ north Gaza starvation plan, say rights groups
‘Generals’ Plan’ calls for closed military zone and evacuation, with those remaining treated as combatants and denied aid. Senior Israeli security officials are unwilling to approve the plan, considering parts of it to be violations of international law. But Israeli media reported last month that Netanyahu was considering the scheme. By: James Shotter in Jerusalem,…
Oct 18, 2024: Rev. Prof. Mitri Raheb on WORT
A Public Affair with Esty Dinur NoonLive at 89.9 FM or streaming, and archived Esty Dinur will be talking with Rev. Prof. Mitri Raheb, Founder and President of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem. The most widely published Palestinian theologian to date, Dr. Raheb is the author and editor of 50 books including his latest, Decolonizing…
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
The Israeli public long ago became inured to the brutal occupation that has characterised the country for 57 out of the 76 years of its existence. But the scale of what is being perpetrated in Gaza right now by the IDF is as unprecedented as the complete indifference of most Israelis to what is being…
Oct 16, 2024: “The Night Won’t End” Film Discussion
7 pm CT Online Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines team has investigated the killings of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the United States in the war. Their new documentary “The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza” examines their findings. It also explores the human stories behind them. Join…
Oct 16, 2024: Challenging US Weapons Transfers to Israel . . .
. . . Increasing Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, and Stopping a Wider Regional War Online6 pm CTRegister Here This webinar by Massachusetts Peace Action and others features: Max Hoffman, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Senator Sanders is the main sponsor of the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRD) on the proposed $20 billion+ US…
Building Unity Walking Vigils for Peace
Mondays through Fridays along State St All who are outraged by the U.S. support for Israel’s horrific, genocidal war are welcome to meet us at any of the places outlined in the schedule below. Daily Walking Peace Vigil Schedule: 12:00 Noon – State St. corner of the Capitol Square 12:05 PM – Depart for a walk…
Oct 19, 2024: Democracy and Freedom for All Rally
Capitol Square at State St2:30 – 5:00 pm Palestine is on the rally agenda, so bring your flags, signs and kuffiyehs!
Oct 19, 2024: Peacemaker of the Year Award to UW-Madison Professor Samer Alatout
Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice Fall AssemblyMadison Friends Meetinghouse, 1704 Roberts Ct, Madison10 am – 1 pm, in-person or onlineRegister Here
Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza JEREMY SCAHILL AND SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS, DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 14, 2024 With the full support of the Biden administration, Israel is waging a merciless war of extermination against the 400,000 Palestinians remaining in the northern…
“No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine”
“The US and Israel’s unflinching and ongoing televised genocide in Gaza and now Lebanon in defence of a colonial occupation and an Apartheid state.” Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech Arundhati Roy, The Wire, 11/Oct/2024 Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by…
Breaking: Massacre in Gaza, Israel Burns Palestinians Alive
Take Action: Now is the time for an Arms Embargo View this post on Instagram A post shared by ADC National (@adcnational) Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | October 13, 2024 – A short while ago Israeli occupation forces launched multiple air attacks, dropping bombs on and around the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Baha. The bombings have resulted…
Oct 15, 2024: Voice Matters: Writing and Speaking for a World BEYOND War
Honoring Indigenous Peoples Day Central Library, 201 W Mifflin, Room 104 6 – 8 pm Join us to explore avenues for writing and speaking out about settler colonialism past and present, genocide, the human and environmental impact of the military industrial complex and more. Find and give support for project ideas. Time will be allowed…
U.S. Foreign Policy Has Created a Genocidal Israel
Without massive, unconditional U.S. military subsidies, Israel would have had to practice diplomacy with their neighbors years ago. Sunjeev Bery, The Intercept, October 10 2024 AS BEIRUT BURNS under Israel’s bombs, it is obvious for anyone who is paying attention that America has long incubated the emergence of the worst possible version of Israel. Decades of…
Israel’s Ideology of Genocide Must Be Confronted and Stopped
Israel’s violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy the Palestinian people. JEFFREY D. SACHS, Common Dreams, Sep 30, 2024 When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium at the U.N. General Assembly last week, dozens of governments walked out of the…
Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth
DEMOCRACY NOW! OCTOBER 08, 2024 Watch Full ShowImage Credit: Courtesy of Ta-Nehisi Coates As the war on Gaza enters its second year and Israel expands its attacks on Lebanon, we continue our conversation with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message, is based in part on his visit last year to Israel and…
De-Gaza: 365 days of devastation
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 06 Oct 2024
Israeli Snipers Routinely, Deliberately Shoot Palestinian Kids in the Head
The evidence is undeniable, and the sourcing is as solid as it gets. There are mountains upon mountains of rock solid proof that Israeli forces routinely, deliberately shoot Palestinian children in the head in Gaza. Caitlin Johnstone, October 10, 2024 There’s yet another doctors’ testimony about Israeli forces constantly shooting Palestinian children in the head,…
65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza
By Feroze Sidhwa, New York Times, Oct. 9, 2024
UN Report Exposes Systematic Targeting of Gaza’s Health Sector
WASHINGTON D.C., October 11, 2024 – We are deeply saddened to announce the tragic news that on Wednesday, October 9th, Israeli forces targeted and killed Dr. Soma Baroud while she was in a taxi in Khan Younis, Gaza. Dr. Baroud was the sister of renowned author and journalist Dr. Ramzy Baroud and the aunt of our…
Oct 12, 2024: Gaza Vigil at Dane County Farmers Market
Capitol Square7:30 am During this summer and fall members of the Madison Friends Meeting, the Madison Mennonite Church, and other local faith and peace groups have participated in a monthly event at Madison’s Saturday Farmers Market on the Square to raise awareness of the devastation of this conflict. Two hundred pairs of shoes are placed on…
How Joe Biden lost his grip on Israel’s war for ‘total victory’ in Gaza
A conflict the White House once hoped to moderate has gone from “over the top” to out of control. By Karen DeYoung and Missy Ryan, The Washington Post, October 3, 2024 On the morning of April 1, President Joe Biden’s top national security aides had a stern message to deliver to Israel as it prepared to launch a…
Veterans Call for Criminal Indictment of Anthony Blinken
Govt. Agencies Found Israel Blocked Gaza Aid. Blinken Told Congress Otherwise. by Veterans For Peace | Fall 2024 Edition State Dept. officials say Blinken lied to Congress about Israel blocking aid to Gaza. “That report and its flagrant untruths will haunt us.” A national veterans’ organization on Sept. 30 called for a grand jury to indict Department of State…
As Israel Launches Massive Attack in Northern Gaza, Hospital Director Defies Israeli Evacuation Order
“As long as there are patients, I won’t leave,” Dr. Hossam Abu Safia tells Drop Site. News from Kamal Adwan Hospital. SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS and ABUBAKER ABED, DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 9, 2024 The director of the besieged Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza is refusing Israeli orders to shut the hospital down and evacuate.…
What Did You Do?
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Husam Zomlot (@hzomlot) Husam Zomlot, Instagram Husam Zomlot is Ambassador of the State of Palestine to the U.K. and former Ambassador to the US.
What Have We Learned? Israel’s Genocide — One Year On – with Mouin Rabbani
Jadaliyya, October 8, 2024 Gaza in Context: A Collaborative Teach-In SeriesHosted by: Bassam Haddad Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of…
US Approved Israel Bombing Aid Trucks
Breaking Points, Oct 8, 2024 Ryan Grim of Drop Site News discusses recent reporting that the US approved Israeli strikes on aid convoys in Gaza. Grim is a longtime D.C. reporter for Drop Site News, The Intercept, and HuffPost. At HuffPost, he led a team that was twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won…
‘It’s heartbreaking’: Israel-Hamas war reaches one-year mark
By: Chloe Morrissey, WKOW27, Oct 7, 2024 MADISON (WKOW) — October 7, 2024 marks one year of the Israel-Hamas war. With no end in sight and an expanding conflict, advocates from both sides are speaking out. “I’m heartbroken every day I hear more news of the horrific attacks that are happening with our tax dollars,”…
Oct 7-15, 2024: Building Unity Daily Walking Vigil for Peace
10/7/24 The Madison Monday Noon Vigil for Peace will become a Daily Walking Vigil Mon-Fri, October 7th – Oct. 15, 2024. On most Mondays since 1981 a small group of pro-peace people have been gathering in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, calling on our government and all of us to demand an end to war. Today, October 7th,…
Israel accused of invoking ‘Hannibal Directive’ during 7 October attack
Protocol is aimed at stopping the kidnapping of soldiers by any means necessary Alisha Rahaman Sarkar, The Independent, 08 July 2024 The Israeli army invoked its controversial “Hannibal Directive” during the 7 October Hamas attack, according to a report, a measure that has the potential to increase risks to civilian lives. The directive was created by the Israeli…
How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October
Asa Winstanley, The Electronic Intifada, 7 October 2024 One year ago today Palestinian fighters led by Hamas launched an unprecedented military offensive out of the Gaza Strip. The immediate goal was to inflict a shattering blow against Israel’s army bases and militarized settlements which have besieged Gaza’s inhabitants for decades – all of which are built on land that…
Israel Bombs Mosque in Deir al-Balah, Gaza’s Last Standing City
DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 07, 2024 Commentary by Sharif Abdel Kouddous Today marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns in recent history. Just over the past three days, Israel bombed a mosque, a school, a hospital, and several homes, as…
NOT ANOTHER BOMB! A Year of Genocide in Gaza And Escalating Regional War
CONGRESS: NOT ANOTHER BOMB! A Year of Genocide in Gaza And Escalating Regional War Dear Friends, After one year of genocide in Gaza, the Administration continues to pretend that the problem in the Middle East is “terrorism”, that a “ring of fire” surrounds poor Israel and that the United States must “stand with Israel” as…
US media coverage of Israel’s 1982 war in Lebanon was different
Media Education Foundation, Oct 1, 2024 This is a clip from the documentary “The Occupation of the American Mind,” narrated by Roger Waters. Watch the full film.
Oct 5, 2024 Update: Milwaukee All Out for Palestine, All Out for Lebanon Protest!
More photos at Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement This group is coordinating travel from Madison to Milwaukee. Zeidler Union Square Park 2:00 pm Call from the Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine: The world has witnessed the genocide by a terrorist state over the past year, and we REFUSE to be silent. As millions around the globe…
Jewish Voice for Peace – Madison: No peace and justice a year after Oct. 7 attack
By Tsela Barr and Susan Nossal | guest column, Oct 2, 2024 As American Jews, the anniversary of Oct. 7, when 1,139 Israelis were killed by Hamas fighters and 250 hostages were taken, serves as a painful reminder of the ongoing cycle of violence that has gripped our world. We mourn the lives lost and…
Oct 8, 2024: Genocide and the Widening Middle East Wars Online
6:00 pm CT REGISTER Phyllis Bennis, Ervand Abrahamian, and Assaf Kfoury speak about Israel’s Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and Yemen wars. With missiles flying between Israel and Iran, Lebanon, and Yemen, no end in sight to the Gaza genocide, and the United States deepening engagement as Israel’s ally and weapons supplier, we have organized an exceptional…
Investigating war crimes in Gaza
“The first livestream genocide in history … If people are ignorant they are wilfully ignorant.” — Susan Abulhawa Al Jazeera, Oct 3, 2024 This feature length investigation by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit exposes Israeli war crimes in the Gaza Strip through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the…
How Western Media Lets Israel Get Away With Murder in Lebanon and Gaza
We now know exactly what it looks like when dishonest reporting succeeds in justifying genocide. RAMZY BAROUD, Common Dreams, Oct 03, 2024 The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding long-range missile launchers in…
Inside the State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel
Leaked cables and emails show how the agency’s top officers dismissed internal evidence of Israelis misusing American-made bombs and worked around the clock to rush more out while the Gaza death toll mounted. by Brett Murphy, ProPublica, Oct. 4, 2024 In late January, as the death toll in Gaza climbed to 25,000 and droves of Palestinians…
At least 18 killed in massive Israeli strike on Tulkarm in occupied West Bank
The attack is the first such missile strike on Tulkarm since the Second Intifada in the early 2000’s A child walks amid the rubble in an alley following an Israeli army raid in Tulkarem in the north of the occupied-West Bank, on September 12, 2024. (Zain JAAFAR / AFP) By MEE staff, 3 October 2024 At…
