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Israel is not targeting “terrorists” supposedly hiding behind “human shields.” On the contrary, it’s targeting the “human shields” themselves. ― Norman Finkelstein, Dec 27, 2023
‘Flour Massacre’: Impunity Persists as Israeli Forces Open Fire On Starving Palestinians Seeking Vital Aid The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), @AlMezanCenter , and @alhaq_org condemn in the strongest terms the “flour massacre” committed by the #Israeli… pic.twitter.com/fvXWYUYqqz — Palestinian Centre for Human Rights – PCHR (@pchrgaza) March 1, 2024 Full Statement
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 shipment and over 750 more starving Palestinians were injured, the Biden Administration has announced its intention to conduct air drops of humanitarian aid to Gaza. This act is too…
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Omar Waheed, Madison365, Mar 4, 2024 “Day of Action for Palestine” in Milwaukee March 2 (Photo by Omar Waheed) More protests in Wisconsin calling for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict drew out the largest crowd yet in the state for a “Day of Action for Palestine” in Milwaukee March 2. Over 1,000 people…
Demanding Money for People’s Needs and a U.S.-Israel Ceasefire in Palestine! Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement, March 2, 2024 More All photos: Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement The Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival
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 food. At dawn this morning, as hundreds of desperately hungry people gathered in Gaza City in hopes of getting a sack of flour from the few aid trucks that Israel…
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 in the hills south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank in Palestine. Mohammad is a member of a non-violent group called Youth of Sumud that struggles to hold on…
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 population is 2%. Dearborn, MI | www.adc.org | February 28, 2024 – Over 100,000 people voted for uncommitted in the Michigan Democratic Presidential Primary yesterday. This record breaking total for…
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 bring along your signs and banners calling for a ceasefire and an end to US weapons funding for Israel. Look for us under the Palestinian flags on the State Street steps…
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All Day Actions in Madison March 1, 2024. Photos below from banner drops at morning rush hour. Photo: Madison-Rafah Sister City Project Photo: Madison-Rafah Sister City Project
12 Noon, 89.9 FM or listen live online Host Esty Dinur will interview two guests on Gaza: Shafiq Kassees of UW Students for Justice in Palestine will talk about the recent lecture by an Israeli soldier in UW Chabad in which he admitted that the Israeli military kills babies and called Palestinians “the devil.” Thaer Ahmad,…
With Israel threatening to compound its assault on Gaza with a ground invasion of Rafah in the coming weeks, we are responding to this international call and organizing an emergency Day of Action for Rafah. Rafah Governate is a tiny, 25 square mile area smaller than the west side of Madison (see map above). With a prior population of…
With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence and dispossession. Letter from the West Bank Shane Bauer, February 26, 2024 The family of Bilal Saleh, who was killed while harvesting olives. Since October 7th, the U.N. has recorded nearly six hundred attacks by settlers in the West Bank.…
Following Washington’s lead, key US allies have cut funding for the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine—making them all complicit in genocide. PHYLLIS BENNIS, THE NATION, FEBRUARY 28, 2024 SHARE A group of Palestinian children is pictured at a school run by UNWRA a in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on February…
In five minutes, the video sounds the alarm on laws intended to take away Americans’ First Amendment right to boycott Israel. As masses throughout the US and around the world rally for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the Israeli assault and siege, many are recognizing boycotts and divestment as some of…
THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA Nora Barrows-Friedman, 14 February 2024 Palestinian children face extreme hunger across Gaza. Deir El-Balah, 2 February. Omar Ashtawy, APA images Israel is starving Gaza. Children “are going without food for days, as aid convoys are increasingly denied permits to enter,” reported the BBC on 10 February. The United Nations estimates that nearly one…
Mads Gilbert is an anesthesiologist, head of emergency medicine at the University Hospital of North Norway, and Professor of emergency medicine at the University of Tromsø. He visited Madison in 2012 to speak on Gaza. Feb 16, 2024 For 30 years, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert has risked his life to give medical care to Palestinians,…
“They got guns, batons, and pepper spray, but I’m dangerous.” On February 13th, police officers brutally suppressed a protest at a career fair that hosted BAE, Caterpillar, and General Dynamics at the Engineering building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. At least… pic.twitter.com/PPbE89J6fN — MintPress News (@MintPressNews) February 15, 2024 On February 13 a UW…
Online Auction to Benefit Gaza Relief closes February 29 Plus, an online donation campaign update from MECA Don’t miss your chance to bid on these great donated items. (If you have already bid, you might want to check your preferred item(s) to see where you stand.) Among the choices are lots of great gift certificates…
and Her Family by an Israeli Airstrike on Rafah 21.02.2024 The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest terms the killing of our dear colleague, Nour Naser Abu Al-Nour and seven of her family members, including her two-years-old daughter, by an Israeli airstrike on her family house in Rafah, south of the…
In the Gaza Strip on Feb. 15, 2024, a UNICEF-trained screener measures 2-year-old Leen's mid-upper arm circumference; the reading in red indicates she is suffering from severe acute malnutrition, the most visible and life-threatening form of malnutrition. © UNICEF/UNI519938/El Baba Emergency Response Sarah Ferguson, February 20, 2024 Facebook Twitter LinkedIn As the conflict in Gaza…
Heavy Gaza bombardment Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams, February 22, 2024 Aftermath of Israeli strikes in Rafah RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO/JERUSALEM (Reuters) — Israel will send negotiators on Friday to truce talks in Paris, Israeli media said, as Gazans hoped for a ceasefire that could hold off a full-blown Israeli assault on…
As Palestinians in north Gaza starve, Israel attacks MSF building in Rafah The situation in Gaza grows worse by the day as Palestinians are starved and Israeli forces turn hospitals into morgues. In the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, tensions rise as Ramadan approaches. LEILA WARAH, MONDOWEISS, FEBRUARY 22, 2024 Facebook Twitter A…
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Joining local governments across the U.S. Madison365 staff, Feb 19, 2024 A pro-Palestinian sign at a recent protest of the current crisis in Gaza at UW-Madison (Photo by Omar Waheed) The Dane County Board of Supervisors has approved a resolution, introduced by County Board Supervisor Kierstin Huelsemann (District 27), calling for an immediate ceasefire in…
Children in Deir El-Balah (central Gaza Strip) enjoying hot meals from one of our community kitchens It’s been a while since we sent you an update about MECA’s work in Gaza. When you see the news getting more terrible every day you may wonder if we’re able to do very much at all. In fact,…
The Read Palestine! project, supported by Madison Rafah Sister City Project, is hosting book clubs for 4th – 12th graders. Please fill out this form if you’re interested in participating. Meeting times, format and next books to read will be decided by the group once it has formed. Different grade levels will read different books:…
February 19, 2024 DONATE NOW Palestinians riding on a cart are refected on a mirror in the shape of the map of Palestine in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip on February 7, 2024 amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant Hamas group. ©MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images Israel must end its brutal occupation…
February 18, 2024 We, Palestinian-led organizations in the United States, are issuing an urgent call and a warning to President Biden. Palestinians in Gaza are facing the threat of extermination or expulsion, and this administration is greenlighting it. Israel’s genocidal assault on the Gaza Strip is the latest chapter in the ongoing Nakba, which began…
The Pentagon is not retaining comprehensive records of alleged war crimes in its global military operations as required by the Defense Department’s own policies, according to a declassified version of a government report reviewed by The Lever. As journalist Freddy Brewster reveals in our new scoop, the government report found that an entire year’s worth…
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World BEYOND War 12-2:00 pm Sen Baldwin’s office, 30 W Mifflin Street 2:00 pm walk to Rep Pocan’s office 2:15 pm Rep Pocan’s office, 10 E Doty St, #405 Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriation Bill After passing the US Senate with Sen. Baldwin’s YES vote, the $95 billion gift to the weapons industry is…
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Money for People’s Needs not Endless U.S. Wars! Actions Across Wisconsin Feb. 19-24, 2024 (Eau Claire, La Crosse, Madison, Milwaukee, Racine, Viroqua) Madison, Wisconsin Feb. 10, 2024. / Photo: Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement, February 18, 2024 MADISON – Mon. Feb. 19, 12 noon to 1 p.m. – Monday Noon…
Image: Sacramento to Bethlehem Below is a letter from the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP) to the US El Salvador Sister City Network, asking them to follow the lead of their partner CRIPDES (Association for the Development of El Salvador) in supporting historic and ongoing Salvadoran-Palestinian solidarity and contributing to emergency humanitarian relief for the people…
The company owns and operates Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp Washington, DC | www.adc.org | February 15, 2024 – ADC has partnered with a coalition of civil and human rights organizations in launching a petition demanding that Meta refuse to further censor the voices of those speaking up for Palestinian rights. We urge all of…
Israel will likel try to push Palestinians from Rafah into the camp Dave DeCamp, Defend Democracy Press, February 15, 2024 Egypt is building an 8-square-mile walled enclosure in the Sinai Desert near Gaza to prepare for an influx of Palestinian refugees as Israel is vowing to launch an assault on Rafah, which borders Egypt and…
Despite its opposition to displacement of Palestinians, Cairo appears to be preparing for a scenario forced by Israel. A satellite image shows the construction of a wall along the Egypt-Gaza border near Rafah on February 15, 2024 [Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters] AL JAZEERA, 16 Feb 2024 Egypt is building a fortified buffer zone near…
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest Palestinian coalition that leads the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, calls for escalating campaigning against fossil fuel giant Chevron by engaging in consumer boycotts of Chevron, Texaco, and Caltex gas/petrol stations, in addition to ongoing campaigns to divest from Chevron. Chevron has been the main international…
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The past days have been horrific for the residents of Majaz, one of the villages in Masafer Yatta, and inside the area claimed by Israel as firing zone 918. Israeli soldiers, and settlers dressed as soldiers, invaded the village on the night of February 14. The soldiers landed a helicopter and entered the village. Later…
Sandra Whitehead, WISCONSIN MUSLIM JOURNAL, Feb 13, 2024 Members of the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project protested Dec. 23 in Madison. A small group of Madison citizens banded together in 2003 to forge person-to-person relationships with Rafah (a city in Gaza), raise awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and influence U.S. public policy to benefit both peoples.…
Some 1.4 million Palestinians have been sheltering in a 64sq km (25sq miles) area, hoping for safety that has not materialised. Rights groups have warned that civilians have nowhere to go to escape Israeli bombardment. [Abdelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera] Abdelhakim Abu Riash, Al Jazeera, 13 Feb 2024 Hundreds of Palestinians are fleeing Gaza’s southernmost city…
Under the cover of the relentless bombardment and atrocity crimes in Gaza, Israeli forces have simultaneously unleashed a new, brutal wave of unlawful violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank — including unlawful killings, unnecessary lethal force against protesters, and the denial of medical assistance to injured people in the West Bank.1 In our…