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The mainstream Israeli Jewish society believe, because that’s the way they have been educated, that Palestine was empty, had been empty, when the Jewish settlers came there. ― Ilan Pappe, Israeli historian, Occupation 101, 2006
Update February 15, 2024 The substitute Resolution 314 (Miles) on Antisemitism and Resolution 321 on Islamophobia passed unanimously. Resolution 333 Calling for a Ceasefire in Gaza passed with Jeff Weigand voting no and Dave Ripp abstaining. From Kierstin Huelsemann, Dane County Board of Supervisors District 27: February 9, 2024 Hello. I am reaching out in…
Chapters, Madison Chapter, Nonviolent Activism, North America By Madison for a World BEYOND War, February 15, 2024 On Valentine’s Day, Madison for a World BEYOND War put love into action during a vigil, walk and fast to call on our government to stop supporting the genocide in Gaza, and to stop supporting all war, which…
Sponsored by World Beyond War: Stop Sending Weapons Around the World & Reinstate UNRWA Funding 12 noon – 30 W Mifflin St, 7th floor – Vigil inside Baldwin’s office and make antiwar valentines for Senators Baldwin and Johnson, and Rep Pocan. 12:30 pm – War Abolition Walk from 30 W Mifflin St to Library Mall.…
with a Valentines Day to Leap Year Silent Auction Gaza is now the deadliest place in the world for civilians. The need for massive emergency aid is second only to the need for a permanent ceasefire. Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP) is responding with the Grassroots for Gaza campaign: a year of fundraising for aid to…
❤️ Our silent online auction ❤️ starts Valentines day at noon and ends February 29 at 5 pm. 100% of the proceeds will go immediately to Middle East Children’s Alliance to provide emergency food, water, shelter and medical care in Gaza. The auction is free and open to the public. View items now and start…
Students for Justice in Palestine – UW Madison
Awdah Hathaleen, Humans of Masafer Yatta, Feb 11, 2024 I stopped posting and updating for a while. I didn’t do this because the situation changed or ended, I stopped because I was desperately tired of giving constant bad news. I wish I could tell you good things. Thanks for reading Humans of Masafer Yatta! Subscribe…
SUPPORT US Palestinians and Israelis who’ve experienced the settlers’ attacks first-hand see the move as a positive but wholly insufficient step toward accountability. Oren Ziv, +972, February 8, 2024 Einan Tanjil (left) and another settler attack Palestinian farmers and Israeli activists in Surif, occupied West Bank, Nov. 12, 2021. (Shay Kendler) In partnership with…
The U.S. media is once again presenting the vicious dehumanizing caricatures that make it easier to oppress and wage war on people. Alex Skopic and Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs, 07 February 2024 This article was adapted from an item in the Current Affairs Biweekly News Briefing. Subscribe today! One of the most disturbing things…
Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians Israeli soldiers detain blindfolded Palestinian men in a military truck in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 19, 2023. Photo: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept, February 7, 2024 TWO WEEKS BEFORE Hamas commandos led a series of raids into Israel on October 7, Benjamin…
⚡️Absolute destruction of northern Gaza, video from this morning pic.twitter.com/APWiC5KMQp — War Monitor (@WarMonitors) February 2, 2024
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, 3 Feb 2024
Insiders say pressure from the top results in credulous reporting of Israeli claims and silencing of Palestinian perspectives Pro-Palestinian protesters rally outside CNN’s headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on 14 October 2023. Photograph: John Arthur Brown/ZUMA Press via Alamy Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 4 Feb 2024 CNN is facing a backlash from its own staff over…
Over 800 Officials in U.S. and Europe Sign Letter Protesting Israel Policies, New York Times, Feb 2, 2024 The document was signed by government employees in 12 nations and E.U. institutions. Signers say their leaders’ policies could be contributing to war crimes in Gaza. It Is Our Duty To Speak Out When Our Governments’ Policies…
Minnesota Twin Cities Vets for Peace protesting PBS lack of Gaza coverage Petitions to Unfreeze UNRWA Funding for Starving and Dehydrated Gaza AFSC to Congress Peace Action ADC to Secretary of State Blinken Background on UNRWA and its work.
The War on Gaza and Beyond 12 noon – 1 pm Join host Allen Ruff for a live conversation with Rami Khouri, Middle East analyst and Distinguished Fellow at the American University of Beirut. With Israel’s horrific war of attrition against the entire population of Gaza showing no signs of ending, the US last Friday…
Yahya Ashour is an emerging poet known for his profound and moving reflections on the human experience, particularly the challenges faced by Palestinians of Gaza. His unique perspective as a Palestinian poet adds depth and authenticity to the discourse surrounding the complexities of the Middle East. Yahya arrived in the United States in September 2023…
📷ESCALATING OPPRESSION: Massive arrest campaigns…Extrajudicial killings..Enforced Disappearances 📷 Full report:📷 https://t.co/brru6QXXwf pic.twitter.com/gKET8x9f9i — Addameer – الضمير (@Addameer) February 1, 2024 FULL REPORT FROM ADDAMEER
“This is precisely why Israel was taken to the International Court of Justice with the accusation that it is committing genocide,” said one legal expert. Palestinians killed by Israel’s bombardment of Gaza are buried in a mass grave in Khan Younis on November 22, 2023. (Photo: Mustafa Hassona/Anadolu via Getty Images) BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS,…
Editorial, Jan 31, 2024 Palestinians mourn relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip at a hospital in Deir al Balah, Monday, Jan. 29. AP Photo/Adel Hana In the face of the ongoing Israeli assault on Gaza, which has left more than 25,000 people dead, displaced almost 2 million and destroyed much of…
Within moments of the International Court of Justice issuing a preliminary finding on Friday morning that South Africa had made a plausible genocide case against Israel, Western media was suddenly gripped by a new storyline: 12 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, or UNRWA, were alleged by Israel to have…
A state that is on trial for genocide in the court of the United Nations should be ashamed of itself Haaretz | Opinion Israeli President Isaac Herzog signs a munition near the Gaza Strip border. Credit: Haim Tzach/GPO Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Jan 28, 2024 Isaac Herzog, Yoav Gallant, Israel Katz: Israel’s president, defense minister and…
Protesters displayed the message, “Biden complicit in genocide” outside a courtroom in Oakland, California on January 26, 2024. (Photo: @ashoswai/Twitter) “We are watching a genocide unfold in Gaza in real time and, despite the government’s view that a U.S. court can do nothing about it, CCR and our clients argue that it certainly can and…
Many of us are watching with horror the severe humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Gaza. Unfortunately, too many of my colleagues in the House and Senate are choosing to ignore this reality and evade their Congressional responsibilities. Let’s be clear: what’s happening in Gaza is not just some unfortunate tragedy taking place thousands of miles from…
Times of Gaza, Jan 25, 2024 A deaf Gazan man explains the current situation in Rafah displacement camps A deaf Gazan man explains the current situation in Rafah displacement camps pic.twitter.com/tguTFWFUIm — TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) January 25, 2024 The Atfaluna Society for the Deaf, a children’s school and adult crafts workshop, was destroyed by…
Fails to Order Ceasefire Democracy Now! Jan 26, 2024 In a highly anticipated ruling, the International Court of Justice at The Hague has found that there is a “real and imminent risk” that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and supported “at least some” of the provisional measures South Africa had requested when it brought…
AN HISTORIC VICTORY FOR THE PALESTINIANS THAT ISRAEL VOWS TO DEFY Pro-Palestine activists wave flags during session of the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, on Jan. 26, 2024. Photo: Patrick Post/AP While the 17-judge panel ordered Israel to halt any genocidal acts in Gaza, it stopped short of ordering immediate ceasefire. Jeremy…
Calls for an immediate and permanent cease-fire; humanitarian aid; an end to U.S. military funding to Israel; and the release of hostages and Palestinians in Israeli military prisons Estelle Timar-Wilcox, MPR News January 25, 2024 1:28 PM Minneapolis City Council member Robin Wonsley hugs University of Minnesota professor Sima Shakhsari after the city council voted…
Survivors of Israel’s ground invasion in northern Gaza tell chilling stories of kidnappings, torture, and the rampant use of civilians as bait and human shields. The world still has no idea how inhumane Israel’s genocidal war really has been. BY TAREQ S. HAJJAJ JANUARY 17, 2024 Facebook Twitter THE RUINS OF THE MATAHEN AREA IN KHAN…
Revealed: review of internal state department documents shows special mechanisms have been used to shield Israel from US human rights laws President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv in October; IDF soldiers in Nahal Oz, in December; Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv also in October. Composite: AFP, Getty Images, AP Stephanie Kirchgaessner, The Guardian, 18 Jan…
In light of the unfolding genocide in besieged Gaza and the catastrophic situation across historic Palestine, the Justice & Accountability for Palestine Initiative kicks off! A Palestinian-led initiative composed of international legal practitioners and lawyers is pursuing legal action against individuals & entities complicit in the crimes in Palestine including genocide in Gaza. We are…
Center for Constitutional Rights Livestream: Palestinians Take Biden to Court REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT Join the Center for Constitutional Rights and our partners for a multi-part livestream on January 26 to amplify the hearing in our federal lawsuit, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) v. Biden. January 26 is also the We Charge Genocide…
Palestinian human rights organizations, Gaza residents, and US citizens with family members killed and displaced by Israel’s war filed a lawsuit last November against the Biden administration for failing to “prevent an unfolding genocide” in Gaza. At the time the lawsuit was filed, 11,000 Palestinians had been murdered by Israeli forces. Today the death toll…
10:30 am Students for Justice in Palestine assembles at Library Mall to march to the Capitol 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Rally Inside the Capitol, Room 328 NW 12:00 noon Press Conference, Room 328 NW Today is an International day of protest against war crimes in Gaza and in support of legal action against it. At 9…
If you’re surprised, you haven’t been paying attention. Benjamin Netanyahu has never made it a secret that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state and insists on total Israeli control over “the territory west of the Jordan River.” BY JONATHAN OFIR JANUARY 19, 2024 Facebook Twitter DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 23JAN14 – BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, AT THE…
Statistics on the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip (07 October – 19 January 2024) January 19, 2024 An Open Letter to Senator Tammy Baldwin: A Shameful Vote on Gaza On Tuesday January 16, the US Senate killed Senate Resolution 504, submitted by Sen. Bernie Sanders, calling for basic oversight of U.S. weapons to Israel.…
Jehad Abusalim, Executive Director of the Jerusalem Fund 6-7 pm CT Hundreds of thousands of Gazan civilians are fleeing to southern Gaza, which continues to be attacked. Hospitals and schools have been bombed, and hundreds of health care workers have been killed. Thousands of displaced Palestinians are living in tents in squalid areas, with little food or…
The Occupation of the American Mind and My Neighborhood Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin Street, Room 302 5:30 pm social time 6:00 pm screenings Discussion following the films. Free popcorn. RSVP if you can to warabolition@gmail.com Trailers: Occupation of the American Mind and My Neighborhood. If you can’t make the event, you can watch the films for free…
A Conversation with Robert Herbst 12 noon CT Register Here South Africa sued Israel for genocide in the International Court of Justice (“ICJ”) late last year. On January 11 and 12, the court heard its initial arguments on South Africa’s claim for preliminary relief, styled Provisional Measures. Robert Herbst and Michael Spath will be discussing…
“Worst man-made medical disaster in modern history” As the confirmed death toll from Israel’s assault on Gaza reaches 24,000, the U.S. is reportedly “frustrated” Israel continues to ignore calls to limit its attacks. Hamas releases video of three Israeli captives, saying fate will be revealed today. BY LEILA WARAH JANUARY 15, 2024 Facebook Twitter THE VIEW…
THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman The Electronic Intifada 19 December 2023 A man prepares bread over a makeshift wood-burning oven. (Mahmoud Nasser) It was 6:00 am on 15 December, when my mother woke me to take our turn in the line at a nearby bakery, 15 minutes away on foot. There are two lines,…
Statewide Banner Drop Day 4:30 – 6:00 pm Yes, we know it’s going to be super cold…but we plan to be on the Campus Drive overpass anyway between 4:30 and 6 pm. We’ll do this in shifts so people can get warm in parked cars. For updates and information please check our Facebook page.
4:30 pm CT Please contact Senator Tammy Baldwin by phone or online this day As South Africa gave powerful testimony at the International Court of Justice and more massive demonstrations were held last weekend in the US and around the world, news came that Sen. Bernie Sanders’ resolution (SR 504) to require the US government…