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Until the early 1930’s the Jewish population of Palestine remained under 17%. ― Occupation 101, 2006
Ask UBS to divest from Elbit Systems
UBS’s shares in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems, just increased by 875%. This comes as the world’s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase, just divested huge amounts from Elbit. Let’s build on this momentum and tell UBS to divest too. SIGN THE PETITION While UBS lines its pockets, the Israeli military has surrounded and is attacking Rafah, where hundreds…
Protesters disrupt Wisconsin Democrats’ convention
Call for defunding Gaza war Erin McGroarty, The Cap Times, Jun 8, 2024 Protests calling for a cease-fire in Gaza erupted in multiple demonstrations Saturday as the Wisconsin Democratic Party held the first of its two-day convention in Milwaukee. About 10 audience members inside the convention hall interrupted U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s address, calling for…
White House Encircled with Red Line
(Since Biden’s Wasn’t Real) to Demand End to War on Gaza David Swanson, World BEYOND War, June 8, 2024 Photos by David Swanson, John Reuwer, Ted Majdosz, and random passersby
More than 200 Palestinians killed in Israeli hostage raid
The brazen daytime raid freed four Israeli hostages but unleashed relentless bombardment of the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza. By Claire Parker, Mohamad El Chamaa and Lior Soroka, The Washington Post, June 8, 2024 Israel’s military launched one of the bloodiest raids of the war Saturday, killing more than 200 Palestinians in a brazen operation to rescue four…
Update: Watch Israelism Online
ISRAELISM NOW AVAILABLE TO RENT OR OWN Dear Israelism Supporters, We are delighted to let you know that Israelism can now be rented or bought on all major video on demand platforms. Click the buttons below to watch Israelism on each respective platform. ISRAELISM ON APPLE TV ISRAELISM ON YOUTUBE ISRAELISM ON GOOGLE PLAY ISRAELISM…
Jun 8, 2024: CODEPINK We Are the Red Line – Wisconsin State Capitol
Join us for our very own Madison red line this Saturday! We will join hands in the capitol rotunda wearing red as our own mini-version of the DC red line protest. All are welcome! Event takes place from 12:00PM to 2:00PM on Saturday, June 8th. WHEN June 8, 2024 at 12:00pm – 2:00pm (CDT) WHEREWisconsin State Capitol2 E…
Stop the Genocide!
Eight actions you can take now As Israel’s deadly attacks and blockade of critical aid continue, we urge you to take action now to stop the genocide. Below are MECA’s list of things you can do today, tomorrow, and as long as we need to: Please act now. Take one or all of these actions…
Visiting Palestinian textile artist has a message for Madisonians
Miquéla V. Thornton, The Cap Times, June 6, 2024 When Laila Hasan thinks back to the first time she engaged in the traditional Palestinian embroidery technique of tatreez, she recalls being 7 years old and learning the skill from her mother, who told her, simply, “Laila, if you want to be strong, you have to…
Gaza Summer School!
This summer, we’re turning up the heat to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza and to Free Palestine! It’s time to educate, agitate, and mobilize our communities like never before. Inspired by the courageous campus encampments that have swept across colleges nationwide, CODEPINK is thrilled to announce the Gaza Summer School! Join us for…
Jun 9, 2024: Laila Hasan’s Embroidery & Jewelry
Listen to Laila Hasan and Esty Dinur on WORT 89.9 FM’s A Public Affair, 5/31/24 Textile artist Laila Hasan joins us by phone. For many years she has brought women textile artists together to develop shared sales opportunities for their hand made items. Many of the artist now the sole economic support for their families. She…
COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW REFUSED TO TAKE DOWN ARTICLE ON PALESTINE
ITS BOARD OF DIRECTORS NUKED THE WHOLE WEBSITE The students who edit the journal sought out the article by a Palestinian scholar who was censored by Harvard Law Review last year. Natasha Lennard and Prem Thakker, The Intercept, June 3 2024 LAST NOVEMBER, THE Harvard Law Review made the unprecedented decision to kill a fully edited essay…
Dozens killed in strike on U.N. school
At least 30 were killed, an al-Aqsa Hospital spokesman said, as the IDF struck what it called a Hamas compound inside the UNRWA-run school in central Gaza. Niha Masih, Hajar Harb and Kyle Melnick, The Washington Post, June 6, 2024 at 3:23 a.m. EDT Israeli fighter jets on Thursday struck a U.N. school in central Gaza that the…
June 8, 2024: War Abolition Bike Ride
Bring the kids! Bring the adults! Share this post to invite others. Join us for all or part of this short, family-friendly ride at a moderate pace. Questions or if you can help out – warabolition1@gmail.com. For updates on the day of this Move for Peace event, look here or here. 9 am – Meet at Winnebago St &…
June 1 – 6, 2024: Genocide Petition & Madison Free Palestine! Events
Building Unity Wisconsin, June 2, 2024 Petition to End the Genocide Project We can’t sit back and allow our country to support a genocide any longer.It is time for all of us, elected leaders and we, the people, to take a stand. If anyone wants to help expand the actions to locations beyond Madison, let…
We need to talk about Zionism
THE LISTENING POST We need to talk about Zionism Al Jazeera, 1 Jun 2024 The Listening Post cuts through the confusion about Zionism and anti-Zionism in Western media and politics. In the coverage of Israel-Palestine in the Western media, an ideology that is central to the story – Zionism – rarely gets discussed. Instead, we…
All Eyes on Rafah
Israel’s International Isolation and Drift Towards Authoritarianism Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University June 1, 2024 Israel’s continuing war on the Gaza Strip and the shocking accounts of the human carnage it is inflicting on Rafah are deepening its international isolation. Global opinion is…
Israeli International Criminal Court Arrest Warrants
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Israel’s covert war on the ICC exposed
Top Israeli government and security officials have overseen a nine-year surveillance operation targeting the ICC and Palestinian rights groups to try to thwart a war crimes probe, a joint investigation reveals. By Yuval Abraham and Meron Rapoport, +972 Magazine, May 28, 2024 In partnership with For nearly a decade, Israel has been surveilling senior International Criminal Court officials and…
GAZA’S STOLEN HEALERS
Hundreds of Palestinian Doctors Disappeared Into Israeli Detention Kavitha Chekuru, The Intercept, May 24 2024 IT’S BEEN TWO months since Osaid Alser has heard from his cousin, Khaled Al Serr, a surgeon at Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis. Before late March, they had been in regular contact — or as…
Stories of people from Gaza
Stories of people from Gaza Numbers are impersonal and often numbing. What they don’t convey are the daily personal struggles and triumphs, the tears and the laughter, and the aspirations that are so universal that if it weren’t for the context, they would immediately resonate with virtually everyone. That’s why established and aspiring “word artists”…
June 1, 2024: Education Against the Gaza War
Madison Farmer’s Market Capitol Square King Street corner 7 am – 2 pm An action including a display of shoes and reading of names of the dead is planned by several local groups at the Farmer’s Market on Saturday. If people want to participate, they should go to the Veterans for Peace table on the Square…
A quick guide to Israel’s PR methods
Check the pattern: 1. We haven’t heard reports of deaths, will check into it;2. The people were killed, but by a faulty Palestinian rocket/bomb;3. OK, we killed them, but they were terrorists;4. OK, they were civilians, but they were being used as human shields;5. OK, there were no fighters in the area, so it was…
Nurse fired by NYU Langone Health after referring to Gaza ‘genocide’ in speech
BY KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press, May 29, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — A nurse was fired by a New York City hospital after she referred to Israel’s war in Gaza as a “genocide” during a speech accepting an award. Labor and delivery nurse Hesen Jabr, who is Palestinian American, was being honored by NYU Langone Health…
Six Tropes to Look Out for That Distort Israel/Palestine Coverage
LARA-NOUR WALTON, FAIRNESS & ACCURACY IN REPORTING, AUGUST 22, 2023 Do Palestinians deserve to be free? “A complex and controversial issue,” says ChatGPT (Twitter, 5/8/23). Do Israelis deserve to be free? “Yes, like all people.” “This is quite something,” remarked Nadi Abusaada in a May 8 tweet. As many of us have done, the Palestinian…
June 4, 2024: Palestine Film Screening
worldbeyondwar.uw Antiwar Film Series – Details on this month’s films and others we’ll show this summer … Tues, June 4 at 6 pm, Central Library, 201 W Mifflin St, Room 302. Light, a brand-new documentary about Palestine from the unarmed civilian accompaniers of Community Peacemaker Teams [May 2024, 69 mins, trailer] and Israel’s Shocking AI…
Wisconsin activist frustrated over blocked aid to Palestinians
Longtime international volunteer says she is ‘devastated’ food and medical supplies cannot reach Gaza BY RICHELLE WILSON, WPR, MAY 27, 2024 Wisconsin-based human rights activist Cassandra Dixon was all set to accompany a cargo ship carrying 5,000 tons of humanitarian aid to Palestinians last month. Dixon planned to board a passenger vessel docked in Istanbul and…
Gaza 2035: Netanyahu unveils regional business plan
“Massive free trade zone” with rail service to Saudi Arabia By Daniel Roche, The Architect’s Newspaper, May 21, 2024 Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office recently released a PowerPoint that gives a glimpse into what the Likud Party has in mind for Gaza’s future, and the Levant region at large. On May 3, Netanyahu unveiled Gaza 2035: A three-step master plan to build…
May 31, 2024: Gaza and the West Bank on WORT
Noon CT WORT 89.9 FM Live or archived We will have two guests this Friday at noon CT on WORT, 89.9 FM’s A Public Affair. First is Robert Schoville, a Madison native best known in Madison as the founder of the Brazilian percussion group The Handphibians. He has spent the last five years living on the…
U.S. silent as global condemnation of Israel’s Rafah offensive grows
The Biden administration maintains that Israel’s invasion of the southern Gazan city is “limited,” despite an International Court of Justice order and a worsening humanitarian crisis. By Karen DeYoung, The Washington Post, May 25, 2024 at 7:21 p.m. EDT The United States, which prides itself as a global leader on human rights and international law, was…
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 230
Israel lashes out at West Bank in wake of ICC request Airstrikes continue across the Gaza Strip as the Israeli ground invasion continues in Jabalia and Rafah, displacing thousands. Meanwhile, the Israeli army launched a wide-ranging invasion of Jenin refugee camp, killing 12 people. BY QASSAM MUADDI MAY 23, 2024 HUNDREDS ATTEND THE FUNERAL FOR THE 12…
“Gaza Votes” May Determine November Election
According to Polls in Five Battleground States Today, Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) released the results of YouGov polls commissioned in five battleground states. The polls show roughly a fifth of Democratic and Independent voters in key states are less likely to vote for President Biden in November because of his support for Israel’s war in…
More than 30 people killed in strike on refugee camp in central Gaza
Rescue workers continuing to search for those missing under the rubble following attack on Nuseirat refugee camp Yohannes Lowe (now) and Jessica Murray (earlier, The Guardian, 19 May 2024 09.33 EDT
May 15, 2024: Madison Nakba Protest
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“A Racist, Criminal Project”
Palestinian Historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti on the 1948 Nakba, Zionism, and U.S. Policy Democracy Now!, May 15, 2024 Palestinians across the globe are marking the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — which means “catastrophe” in Arabic — when those establishing the state of Israel violently expelled over 700,000 Palestinians. Palestinian historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti says…
May 29, 2024: Live from Haifa Virtual Delegation
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CDT Online Join Eyewitness Palestine on Wednesday, May 29th at 12PM ET for our Live from Haifa webinar, featuring a special virtual delegation led by Khulood Basel, who will take us around Haifa on a custom tour of the city. Khulood will take us around the Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi Salib, where families who remained during…
May 25 – June 1, 2024: Madison Veterans for Peace Annual “Memorial Mile” & Peace Rally
May 25 starting 9 am: Marker installation, Olbrich Park May 27 at 1 pm: Peace Rally, Gates of Heaven Synagogue, James Madison Park June 1 starting 9 am: Marker removal, Olbrich Park Madison Veterans for Peace asks you to join them for Memorial Day and a Week to Remember to honor those lost in war…
May 23, 2024: Break the Bonds! Divest from Israel Bonds, Invest in Freedom
7 pm CT OnlineJewish Voice for Peace invites you to join them and partner organizations for an Israel Bonds divestment campaign launch event and teach-in. More info & registration There has never been a more important moment to campaign to end U.S. support for the Israeli apartheid and the Israeli military’s genocide of Palestinians. Billions in…
May 23, 2024: Join a conversation on land and solidarity
7 p.m. CT online My name is Amy Yoder McGloughlin. I am the pastor at Frazer Mennonite Church in Malvern, PA, and a member of the Mennonite Action steering committee. I’m thrilled to invite you to Mennonite Action’s mass meeting this Thursday, May 23 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT. I will be…
May 22, 2024: Music for Gaza Relief at the Bur Oak
The Bur Oak [Map]2262 Winnebago St, MadisonDoors open at 7 pm, music at 8 Grassroots to Gaza presents a night of music for humanitarian aid to Gaza, featuring: Moonboot, The Takeaways, and 20 Minute Mission. Suggested $10 donation. All proceeds go to Middle East Children’s Alliance for immediate humanitarian assistance to Gaza. Sponsored by Madison-Rafah…
May 19, 2024: American Friends Service Committee’s New Tool for Divestment
Friends Meeting House 1704 Roberts Court, Madison 12:30 pm CT Brian Blackmore, national Director of Engagement for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), will introduce a new tool called “Investigate” which can be used to look up how certain investments support Israel’s military occupation, militarization of the U.S./Mexico border, and prisons. All those interested in…
May 19, 2024: The Heart of Change
Event Link: https://fb.me/e/1Yux6pKCJ Event by Echo Valley Hope, Driftless Palestinian Solidarity and Building Unity
‘Dark Times’: Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Detained, Interrogated by FBI
“The good news is—actions like this by the USA or European countries taken under pressure from the pro-Israeli lobby or Israel itself smell of sheer panic and desperation,” the renowned author said. BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, MAY 16, 2024 In what one observer called “a whole new level of insanity and paranoia,” renowned Israeli historian…
The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel
After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists, lawlessness has become the law. By Ronen Bergman and Mark Mazzetti, New York Times Magazine This story is told in three parts. The first documents the unequal system of justice that grew around Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. The second…
Trailer: “Where Olive Trees Weep” (2024)
May 14, 2024 Online Premiere, June 6-27, 2024 “Where Olive Trees Weep” offers a searing window into the struggles and resilience of the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. Following Palestinian journalist and therapist Ashira Darwish, grassroots activist Ahed Tamimi and others, the film explores the themes of loss, trauma, and quest for justice. Ancient landscapes…
ADC Commemorates 76 Years of Nakba
Washington, DC | www.adc.org | May 15, 2024 – Today we commemorate 76 years of Nakba – The Catastrophe. This day is a solemn reminder of the expulsion and dispossession of the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland at the hands of Zionist militias and settler military forces. Decades of killing, ethnic cleansing and dehumanization.…
Nakba Then and Now
Visualizing Palestine
Settler Colonialisms and Deadly Violence: Algeria and Israel/Palestine
Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University Revised from talks delivered at UC Law SF and The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley The riveting artistic power of “The Battle of Algiers” rendered Algeria the best-known instance of settler colonialism and armed struggle for decolonization and national independence.…
Gaza mourns deaf activist Hashem Ghazal, killed in Israeli strike
Tributes have poured in for the accomplished carpenter, disability activist, and organiser at the Atfaluna Society for Deaf Children The New Arab, 14 May, 2024 A prominent figure in Gaza’s deaf community has been killed alongside his wife in an Israeli strike on the enclave, activists and Palestinian media said on Monday. Hashem Ghazal was a disability rights advocate in…
