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Frankly I don’t think we would be having this conversation if a group of Palestinian aid workers had been killed. — New York Times correspondents discussing the killing of foreign World Central Kitchen workers on The Daily, Apr 4, 2024
WORT 89.9FM Madison · Buzz – 3-16-22 – Attala Madison Rafah Sister City Project, WORT 89.9 FM, March 16, 2022 “Holding Israel Accountable” is the…
Critics say the endorsements endanger its declared bipartisanship and increase its association with the Republican Party. AIPAC’s reply: “We are a single-issue organization focused on…
Register in advance for this webinar March 16, 2022, 7 pm CT/5 pm PT Join the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice and Madison-Rafah…
Peter Beinart, The Guardian, 10 Mar 2022
Al-Haq, 22 Feb 2022
Judge issues an arrest warrant against Israeli anti-Apartheid activist Neta Golan For Immediate Release For more information : pressinquiriesantiapartheid@gmail.com, +972-(0)54-2340749 21.2.2022, Ashdod, Israel/Palestine. An arrest…
While the world is focused on the war in Ukraine, another vicious and devastating war grinds on with no end in sight in Yemen, creating…
Human Rights Defenders تجمع المدافعين عن حقوق الانسان, February 25, 2022 Hebron, Palestine — The Israeli occupation army brutally suppresses the peaceful demonstration of the…
#DefundRacism | defundracism.org On February 25 Palestinians in Hebron will be mobilizing in protest as we commemorate the 28th anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre,…
10 am – 5 pm FREE Come celebrate the rich cultural heritage and diversity of our community as International Festival returns live to Overture Center!…
On the 19th anniversary of the killing of American peace activist Rachel Corrie by Israeli soldiers in Rafah, MRSCP will again join with the Rachel…
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Students for Justice in Palestine – UW Madison Memorial Union 5 pm More information
Our collective advocacy is working On February 1st, we reached out to you about an anti-BDS bill in Virginia, HB1161 Virginia Public Procurement Act; required…
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Raise your voice to tell Congress to vote NO to stop normalizing ethnic cleansing! The Israeli government, funded by our…
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Amnesty International, 1 February 2022
If Americans Knew, YouTube, Feb 28, 2017
If Americans Knew, YouTube, Oct 6, 2021
Breaking the Silence, January 27, 2022
Ali Velshi, MSNBC, Jan. 22, 2022
Omar Abdalmajeed As’ad’s death after being detained during a raid on an occupied West Bank village is a tragedy that demands answers. We need an…
Details of an army investigation obtained by Israeli media indicate troops didn’t seek aid for the unresponsive detainee, but none are likely to be prosecuted.…
JAMES NORTH AND PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS, DECEMBER 30, 2021
An Israeli soldier seen during an army raid on the Palestinian village of Burqa in the West Bank next to a spray-painted symbol of The…
Middle East Eye, 21 January 2022
Since 1948, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) has been planting trees to displace Palestinians from their lands. They are currently carrying out an afforestation project…
Palestinian Administrative Detainees Declare Boycott of Israeli Military Courts Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, January 20, 2022 Palestinian Administrative Detainees Letter [English].pdf In…
Visualizing Palestine, 1/19/22 Systems of colonialism & militarism destroy both human rights + the environment. This series depicts the intersection between the Palestinian human rights…
Palestine Solidarity Campaign, January 19, 2022 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm GMT At 3am last night, Israeli security forces raided the Salhiya family house in…
Yuval Abraham, +972 Magazine, January 19, 2022
7amleh monitored the hate speech and incitement against Palestinians and Arabs in Hebrew on the Internet during 2021. The results revealed an increase in hate…
MRSCP Statement on the Death of Omar Abdulmajeed As’ad in Israeli custody The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project is deeply saddened and outraged by the death…
Dear Friends– Happy Martin Luther King Day! I hope it finds you well. This week, on Friday, Just World Ed will be launching our new…
Shatha Hammad, Middle East Eye,17 January 2022
Dispossession, Settler Violence, & Resistance in Masafer Yatta Occupied Thoughts, Foundation for Middle East Peace, 1/12/2022 In this episode of Occupied Thoughts, FMEP’s Sarah Anne Minkin…
Al Fakheit is one of 12 villages located in the Masafer Yatta area that Israel claims as Firing Zone 918. The Palestinians living in these…
His family wants an investigation Mourners carry the body of Omar Assad during his funeral in the West Bank village of Jiljiliya, north of Ramallah,…
Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | January 13, 2022 – The American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) extends its deepest condolences to the family of Arab-American Omar…
Shatha Hammad, Middle East Eye, 12 January 2022
Indlieb Farazi Saber, Middle East Eye, 5 January 2022
Jewish Voice for Peace, January 4, 2022 We are overjoyed that he will return to his family and moved by his courage and perseverance in…
Ref: 61/2021 Date: 30 December 2021 Due to the serious deterioration in the health condition of administrative detainee, Hisham Abu Hawash, the Palestinian Center for…
Health of Palestinian prisoner Hisham Abu Hawash deteriorates as he enters 135th day of hunger strike. Abu Hawash is protesting his indefinite incarceration without trial…
American Muslims for Palestine honors the legacy of a moral giant, an icon of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He left…
Online Hub Provides Information and Calls to Action Aimed at Reversing Ban on Six Palestinian NGOs 14 December 2021, Ramallah – The Palestinian civil society…
Ryan Lenora Brown, Christian Science Monitor, December 9, 2021
Screening & discussion Sun, Dec 12, 2021, 1:00 PM CST With severe medicine shortages and an overstretched health care system in Gaza, children in need…
Erum Salam, The Guardian, 7 Dec 2021
Season of picking green peas in the eastern areas of the city of Rafah in #Gaza. pic.twitter.com/t8F8O1Izw2 — The Inside- Palestine (@TInsidePal) December 6, 2021
Mission: Hebron by Israeli filmmaker Rona Segal was published recently in the opinion section of the New York Times website, and can be watched there…
Middle East Eye, 4 October 2021
Beginning 32:37 Gil Halstead interviews Samir El-Omari about our new campaign for the Al Samud playground at a Hebron kindergarten.
12 Noon Central Time Join Christian Peacemaker Teams-Palestine and the Good Shepherd Collective for a conversation on international structures and funding sources that perpetuate racism…
UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People It’s Background and Enduring Importance WORT Access Hour 8-9 pm, 89.9 FM or listen live online…
10 am Central Time If Not Now and the Palestine Institute of Public Diplomacy (PIPD) present an hour long virtual tour of Palestinian neighborhoods and…
Nov. 29th is International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People! 1. Display Palestinian flag at home &/or at work!2. Take a pic of you…
Miss Universe Greece is not the only contestant who will be a no-show at the pageant which takes place in Eilat, Israel on 12 December.…
November 22, 2021 I’m writing to share some news: a few hours ago, The New York Times published an important op-ed by Alan Leveritt, a…
Black and Palestinian Perspectives on the Power of Education and Action via Zoom Who: Dr. Ronda Taylor Bullock, Co-Founder and Executive Director of we are…
Revised MRSCP Statement on #StandWithThe6
Codepink Petition Pop star Justin Bieber is scheduled to perform in Israel on October 13, 2022. Sign the petition to him asking him to heed…
Eli Clifton, RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT, NOVEMBER 8, 2021
As salaamu alaykum — This is the best time to join in: The number of workers at Amazon and Google who are teaming up to…
News broke today that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware has been detected on phones of six Palestinian rights defenders, three of whom work for Al-Haq, Addameer Prisoner Support and…
Israeli soldiers knelt on top of 16-year-old Osama while holding him at gunpoint, arrested 17-year-old Qusai in his home at three in the morning, and…
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Greenwich, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Central The Children of Gaza: Register now! Palestine Solidarity Campaign, The Hands Up Project…
This morning, residents of Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv awoke to find posters depicting the faces of Palestinians from Massafer Yatta splashed across their cities.…
Wow. @ronenbergman confirms that Israel rushed to classify the 6 Palestinian civil society orgs as terrorist groups after Israel found out that @citizenlab discovered NSO's…
The Palestine Chronicle, November 8, 2021
Dear friends and supporters, We have some major news! Finally, after 10 years, the Israeli government has settled our compensation claim for its seizure of…
The Other Israel Film Festival Streaming two films from Breaking the Silence The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation The latest from…
Register for & share the Wednesday Power Half-Hour #StandWithThe6 Call-In to Call Out Biden Join us for the Power Half-Hour #StandWithThe6 Call-In to Call Out…
The Coulee Region Coalition for Palestinian Rights is sponsoring a free, virtual screening of the film Naila and the Uprising. When a nation-wide uprising breaks…
On 19 October 2021, Israel’s Minister of Defense signed an executive order further criminalizing and outlawing 6 prominent Palestinian human rights organizations. The 6 targeted…
Israel should rescind their blanket decision to label Palestinian civil rights organizations as terrorist groups. Many of these organizations are working to bring peace in…
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, 22 Oct 2021 Earlier today, the Israeli Ministry of Defense designated six leading Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations,…
If Mark Pocan is your representative, please contact his office and thank him, BUT request that he speak out more forcefully and publicly on this.…
Four Google & Amazon Employees to Speak Out About Historic Campaign on Thursday, October 21st at 8 PM EST More than 1,000 Google and Amazon…
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Eastern The Jerusalem Fund In this year’s Edward Said Memorial Lecture, Susan Abulhawa will provide valuable insight into Israel’s global…