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The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza because it “lacked balance.” ― JONATHAN WHITTALL, DROP SITE NEWS, FEB 02, 2026
The Freedom Flotilla’s Voyage to Break Israel’s Siege
Peace activists aim to sail through the military blockade of Gaza. BY SAURAV SARKAR APRIL 18, 2024 Hundreds of civilians from more than thirty countries will…
Gaza Postcards Delivered to Tammy Baldwin’s Office
Today the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project delivered postcards written during the recent Rachel Corrie commemoration, along with an event flier, to Senator Tammy Baldwin’s office…
Gaza Journalists Call Out Media Complicity
On April 27, members of the U.S. media, celebrities, and politicians will wine and dine with President Biden and members of his administration at the…
Freedom Flotilla Emergency Gaza Mission
#BreakTheSiege and #EndTheBlockade Apr 14, 2024 İSTANBUL Retired U.S. Army Colonel & former U.S. diplomat Ann Wright introduces our upcoming Freedom Flotilla Coalition emergency mission to…
Stop Funding Genocide
Go to https://www.notmytaxdollars.org
Sign to End U.S. complicity in Israel’s genocide
The images of Palestinian children’s bodies hanging from the sides of bombed buildings or the cries of mothers holding their lifeless babies will never be…
Update from Middle East Children’s Alliance
Thank you so much for your support of the Middle East Children’s Alliance. At this devastating time, we want to share an online version of…
2024.04.12: Gaza Freedom Flotilla & War Tax Resistance
12 noon – 1 pm 89.9 FM or listen live online here. Join host Esty Dinur as she talks with Palestinian-American & Freedom Flotilla veteran Huwaida Arraf and…
2024.04.16: CODEPINK Online Regional Meeting
6:00pm – 7:00pm (CT) CODEPINK is hosting an interest meeting for people in the Madison area who may have been inspired to act by recent events in Palestine…
2024.04.14: Commemorating the Life of Rachel Corrie
Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E. Gorham St, Madison 1:30-3:30 pm Free & open to all Donations to Middle East Children’s Alliance welcome Music by Ensemble…
41,000 FLAGS TO HONOR PALESTINIAN LIVES LOST
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Apr 9, 2024
I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them.
Opinion By Peter Maass April 9, 2024 at 5:45 a.m. EDT Palestinians view the damage at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on April 1.…
Pocan discusses Gaza and Biden visit to Madison
“It appears to be a collective punishment of all Palestinians in Gaza.” April 8, 2024 Any new assistance for Israel has to have conditions. We…
2024.04.08: Biden visits Wisconsin after primary warning signs
“I was surprised to see the intensity on the issue of Gaza coming not from a student voice out of Madison, but older voters in…
justvisionmedia Tribute to Gaza Journalists
View this post on Instagram A post shared…
Israel’s war on Gaza
Six relentless months of death and destruction A look at the devastating toll Israel’s war on Gaza has taken on the Palestinian people. By Maziar…
We Israelis are the biggest Holocaust deniers
JONATHAN OFIR, MONDOWEISS, APRIL 6, 2024
The New York Times and The Intercept on Palestinian Lives
Apr 4, 2024, The Daily 26:15 Kim Severson, a food correspondent for The New York Times: I’m curious how you think about the speed with…
House Democrats Demanding Biden Halt Weapons to Israel
‘UNJUSTIFIABLE’ In a letter to the president, the lawmakers expressed their “outrage regarding the recent Israeli airstrike which killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers”…
Milestone
7/13/2003 to 4/5/202420 years 9 months7572 daysAveraging 13 per day Currently
International Civilian Aid Flotilla to Break the Siege of Gaza
zohar, Freedom Flotilla Coalition, April 4, 2024 Media Release The international Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) will sail in mid April with multiple vessels, carrying 5500…
Statement from MECA on the World Central Kitchen Killings
A statement from Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), our partner in the Grassroots to Gaza Aid Campaign, on the killing of their colleagues from World Central…
Israel Pays a Political Price for Killing Aid Workers
– When They’re Not Palestinians The attack that killed seven volunteers from World Central Kitchen is Israel’s latest assault on the humanitarian aid system in…
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing of Gaza
Smoke rises after Israeli airstrikes in Beit Lahia, in the northern Gaza Strip, December 28, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) The Israeli army has marked tens of…
A humanitarian catastrophe
The U.S. calls on Israel to prevent civilian casualties while continuing to supply weapons for it TESNIM ZEKERIA AND JUDD LEGUM, POPULAR INFORMATION, APR 03,…
Why Israel faces a strategic defeat in Gaza
David Hearst, Middle East Eye, Mar 20, 2024 David Hearst, editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye, discusses how Israel’s war on Gaza is forcing its Western…
2024.04.05: Palestinian Children’s Day Vigil for Sen. Tammy Baldwin
Rodlyn-mae Banting, Madison 365, Apr 6, 2024
2024.04.05: Palestinian Children’s Day Vigil
April 5th is Palestinian Children’s Day! Bring signs and wear your kuffiyas to commemorate Palestinian children killed by Israel. Call on your representatives to stop…
Hot meals. Community. Dignity. Income.
The team at Atfaluna’s Inclusive Kitchen package hot meals to distribute to displaced families in Gaza In December Israel bombed and torched the building of…
Christian Leaders Call for Gaza Ceasefire & Halt of Arms Sales
March 27, 2024 WASHINGTON – In a new letter released during Holy Week ahead of Easter, more than 140 Bishops and executive leaders from churches,…
Update: Grassroots to Gaza Emergency Aid Campaign
We wanted to give you an update on our Grassroots to Gaza campaign for emergency Gaza relief via the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA). The…
PCHR Report on the West Bank
Report on Israel’s Crimes and Violations of Palestinians’ Rights in the West Bank in January and February 2024 ♦️Since the beginning of 2024, the Israeli…
In Memoriam: Aaron Bushnell, 1999-2024
Radha Surya, Znet, March 22, 2024
2024.03.25: Film Israelism: Screening and Discussion
Madison Central Library, Room 301 6-9 pm When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their…
2024.03.24: Read Palestine! Presents These Olive Trees
Room of One’s Own Bookstore 2717 Atwood Avenue, Madison 1 pm Written and illustrated by Aya Ghanameh, These Olive Trees is the story of a Palestinian…
2024.03.21: Palestinian Mother’s Day Events on Library Mall
Join MRSCP and Students for Justice in Palestine this Thursday on Palestinian Mother’s Day to commemorate the mothers and children martyred in Gaza. We will…
ANTI-WAR PROTEST VOTE CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES IN WISCONSIN
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Mar 19, 2024
Opinion: Reject Biden and build a better world
SUSAN ABULHAWA, THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA, 18 MARCH 2024
Jonathan Glazer’s Brave Oscar Speech Represents the Best of Judaism
DAVE ZIRIN, THE NATION, MARCH 11, 2024
Forcing #StopArmingIsrael onto Politicians’ Agenda
As a Palestinian American, I witness a new horror that Israel commits against my people, with my tax dollars, livestreamed online every day. The only…
One-Third of Children Under 2 in Northern Gaza Now Acutely Malnourished
OLIVIA ROSANE, COMMON DREAMS, MARCH 16, 2024
Slideshow: Gaza Geno-Ecocide at its Cruelest
Click to Start The Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network — Friends of Earth Palestine (PENGON — FoE Palestine) is a coordinating body for Palestinian environmental NGOs…
21 Years Later Gaza Crushed With Our Tax Dollars
From Craig Corrie – 21 Years Later Gaza Crushed With Our Tax Dollars On March 16, 2003, our daughter Rachel Corrie was killed as she…
Maps: Loss of Land
PalestinePortal.org, March 15, 2024
Veterans For Peace statement about Aaron Bushnell protesting to the death
February 26, 2024 Madmen Arsonists Strike Again: They as Much as Lit Aaron Bushnell’s Match for Him Aaron Bushnell just couldn’t take any more. He…
Tell Pocan No More Military Aid to Israel
CALL Pocan’s offices and insist on a pledge not to vote for any further military aid. He’s still not done that. Here is the link…
The Only Barrier to Delivering Gaza Aid Is Israel
Aid Worker in Gaza: The U.S. Must Pressure Its Ally MARCH 12, 2024 This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. DONATE GUESTS…
Israel’s Measures intended to Prevent Births within Gaza Strip
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), March 9, 2024
2024.03.15-20: Madison Premier of Film Bad River
From 350 Wisconsin: Since long before 1953, when Line 5 was constructed without the consent of Tribal Nations in its path, the Bad River Band…
2024.03.13: Ceasefire Protest at Law Park
Wednesday at 5:00 pm John Nolen and Williamson St, in Law Park close to Machinery Row. Map
Canada, Sweden resume UNRWA funding
CIA chief meets Mossad head for talks Kelsey Ables, Adela Suliman, Cate Brown, and Itay Stern, Washington Post, March 9, 2024 A Palestinian looks at…
What is UNRWA, the U.N. agency in Gaza struggling to help Palestinians?
Bryan Pietsch and Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, October 16, 2023 One of the UNRWA schools housing displaced people in Gaza on Oct. 8. (Loay Ayyoub for The Washington…
On International Women’s Day We Mourn the 9,000+ Palestinian Women Killed
We suffer from violence, from sadness, from injustice, from humiliation, from the hardest forms of torture at the hands of the occupation. … My wish…
2024.03.09: International Women’s Day Celebration
Hosted by AFRICaide and 4W Christ Presbyterian Church 944 E. Gorham Street Madison 10:30 am – 4:00 pm For more than a decade, the AFRICaide organization has…
Good Shepherd Collective Weekly Report
Good Shepherd Collective Weekly Report Intro Since October 7, Israel has killed at least 31,043 people in Gaza, wounding 76,666. The death toll is widely…
2024.03.06: Madison! Tell Kamala Harris!
Madison! Join us at the Capitol Wednesday to send the following message to the Biden administration: • We demand an immediate, permanent ceasefire and resumption…
2024.03.03: A Reading of “The Aida Camp Alphabet”
A bilingual Arabic alphabet book, written & illustrated by kids at the Aida Refugee Camp Communication Madison 2645 Milwaukee Street Madison [Map] 10 am –…
PCHR on the Flour Massacre
‘Flour Massacre’: Impunity Persists as Israeli Forces Open Fire On Starving Palestinians Seeking Vital Aid The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), @AlMezanCenter , and…
Biden Aid Airdrops to Gaza are Too Little Too Late
U.S. Must Change Course This week, after witnessing the Flour Massacre in which over 100 Palestinians were killed at the site of a food aid…
2024.03.02: Madinah Academy Ramadan Show
Reserve your tickets!
2024.03.02: Over 1,000 protest at “Day of Action for Palestine” in Milwaukee
Omar Waheed, Madison365, Mar 4, 2024
NY Times “investigation” of mass rape by Hamas falls apart
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 9 January 2024
We will starve you or kill you
Israel is making it clear to Palestinians in Gaza: We will starve you to death or we will kill you when you try to get…
Mohammad Hureini of Youth of Sumud
Final Straw, Jan 28, 2024 This week, we’re featuring a conversation with Mohammad Hureini (twitter / instagram), a young activist from Masafer Yatta, an area…
Over 100,000 voted Uncommitted in the Michigan Democratic Presidential Primary
Biden’s 2020 margin over Trump in Michigan was 150,000 votes. The Uncommitted vote in the Democratic Presidential Primary was 13% of the total. Michigan’s Arab-American…
2024.03.02: Poor Peoples’ Campaign Assembly at the Capitol
We are forming a Kuffiyeh Contingent Meet at 10:30 am State Street Entrance steps Please join us for a Free Palestine contingent. Wear Kuffiyehs and…
