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2020.07.27: Pandemic and the Creative Response
JULY 27 Pandemic and the Creative Response: How can art pave the way for justice? In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed a global cry for justice…
Systemic Racism in the US and Israel
Institute for Palestine Studies, July 14, 2020 Recent police violence in the US has sparked anti-racism protests around the world and ignited a discussion of…
2020.07.19: Candlelight Vigil and Community Education for Black Lives
Oscar Rennebohm Park, Madison 6 pm Vegan Food by JustVeggies 7 pm Community Education 8 pm Vigil Vigil for all Black Lives lost to white…
2020.07.18: Beyond Connecting the Dots
A virtual summit on building a united racial justice movement from the U.S. to Palestine Eyewitness Palestine (formerly Interfaith Peace-Builders) JOIN US July 18 for…
I No Longer Believe in a Jewish State
For decades I argued for separation between Israelis and Palestinians. Now, I can imagine a Jewish home in an equal state. Israeli soldiers interacting in…
Palestinian civil society calls for sanctions to stop Israel’s annexation and apartheid
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council renews the call for targeted sanctions Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council, BDS National Committee, July 1, 2020 Israel’s extremist…
Bernie Sanders: Israeli annexation would be a disaster
Israel's annexation of occupied territory would be a disaster for international law, self-determination, freedom and equality. I stand with @AOC and House progressives. We cannot…
Rep. Mark Pocan: Hold U.S. Funding Over Annexation
Congressman, @repmarkpocan just issued a statement on Israeli annexation: "Congress must put conditions on U.S. funding to Israel to demonstrate opposition to annexation and the…
Letter to Biden (and Trump) Campaigns Regarding Israel and Palestinian Rights
This letter, signed by more than 100 progressive, anti-war, and faith-based U.S. organizations, urges presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden (and Donald Trump) to adopt a…
2020.06.27-30 Update: Upcoming Online Events
Saturday, June 27 Local Letter Campaign to End Violence Against Black People 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM CDT Damita Brown, Restorative Justice Director for the…
Palestinian Scholar Noura Erakat: Israeli Forces Killed My Cousin on His Sister’s Wedding Day
Democracy Now!, JUNE 24, 2020 Israeli soldiers on Tuesday killed 27-year-old Ahmed Erekat at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank as he was on…
2020.06.20-21: The Digital Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington
Poor People’s Campaign Sat: 9 am and 5 pm Central Sun: 5 pm Central Information Registration The Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on…
2020.06.19: Madison Juneteenth Rally
Madison Juneteenth Rally Olin Park, 1156 Olin-Turville Ct Madison [Map] 12 Noon – 7 pm Juneteenth events are being held this year all across the…
2020.06.15-21: Fundraising for Mrs. Najah’s Kitchen & Gaza Emergency Meals
Rebuilding Alliance GlobalGiving’s World Refugee Week Campaign is starting Monday, June 15th, at 9am Eastern / 6am Pacific time and Palestinian refugees are included in…
‘We See You’: Palestine for Black Lives
NADA ELIA, Mondoweiss, JUNE 8, 2020
The Madison-Rafah Marketplace is Open!
In keeping with the times, we are now offering Palestinian Olive Oil and Donation and Membership services at the Madison-Rafah Marketplace, a secure online store.…
The knee-on-neck, long a staple of Israel’s occupation of Palestine
TRT World, 30 May 2020
‘It’s a war crime’: Thousands rally in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu annexation bid
Meretz MK, Joint List leader says move would create ‘apartheid’; Sanders sends video message; police forcefully detain photojournalist covering event, arrest 4 demonstrators JACOB MAGID,…
Received from Friends in Palestine
“Existence is Resistance”
Palestine 2020 Series: Water as a Public Health Issue
Nidal Al-Azraq & Zena Agha on Water as a Public Health Issue Palestine Under COVID-19 & Policies of Occupation Thank you for joining our this special…
COVID-19 and Human Rights – 2013 Laureate Raji Sourani
“Governments must put human rights and dignity at the centre” Raji Sourani, The Right Livelihood Foundation, May 8, 2020 On the evening of 21 March…
2020.05.17: CENSORED! Al Jazeera’s Documentary on the Israel Lobby-USA
Massachusetts Peace Action, 5/11/20 Screening of a one-hour summary of the 4-part Al Jazeera investigative report that was never allowed to air, followed by Q&A.…
2020.05.16: Commemorate by Resisting: The Nakba and Indigenous Struggles
Friends of Sabeel-North America (FOSNA), 5/11/20 From Palestine to Turtle Island (North America) settler colonialism continues to exploit land and natural resources to the detriment…
2020.05.14-15: Key to Justice: Ending the ongoing Palestinian Nakba
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), 5/11/20 #KeyToJustice Webinar – May 14, 4 PM Palestine time: Rafeef Ziadah, Marta Ill and Rey Perez Asis will discuss…
Consequences for Israel if it proceeds with annexation
ICYMI: British politicians are making it clear that there will be consequences for the Israeli government if it chooses to proceed with annexation. what you…
Myths about Gaza — #5
If Not Now, 5/1/20
Myths about Gaza — #4
If Not Now, 4/30/20
Myths about Gaza — #3
If Not Now, 4/29/20
Myths about Gaza — #2
If Not Now, 4/28/20
Myths about Gaza — #1
If Not Now, 4/27/20
Myths about Gaza
4/27/20 Since the Coronavirus crisis began, IfNotNow has focused most of our movement’s resources on supporting the millions of Palestinian people trapped in Gaza, a…
Gantz-Netanyahu deal legitimizes annexation
The possibility of further Israeli annexation of occupied territories has received legitimacy from the Israeli government, pushing even further into the abyss the slight possibility…
Second Appeal in the COVID-19 Crisis
Ref: 36/2020 Date: 14 April 2020 Time: 10:00 GMT Second Appeal in COVID-19 Crisis PCHR Calls for Immediate Release of Minors, Women, Patients and…
2020.04.22: Gaza in Context Webinar
Register for this Webinar Here This webinar is part of a series of virtual events to raise funds for the Let’s Get Free 2020 Program.…
Tarek Abuata: Human Rights in Palestine During the Pandemic
Recorded on WORT 89.9 FM A Public Affair with host Esty Dinur: WORT website • SoundCloud • Facebook • Twitter Tarek Abuata grew up in…
Coronavirus and Gaza
DONATE! Here are three good options for sending medical relief to Palestine and Gaza: Rebuilding Alliance has a matching grant deadline of midnight EST on…
2020.03.28: Webinar: Film Gaza Fights For Freedom by Abby Martin
Social Justice Event Collective, March 5, 2020 Please join us for a film webinar on March 28th, 2020 at 1:00 PM Eastern Time for the…
Palestinians report 1st cases of coronavirus in Gaza Strip
Workers wearing protective gear spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, at the main market in Gaza City, Thursday, March 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel…
Help Palestinians in Gaza survive Coronavirus
If Not Now, March 20,2020 We have an opportunity to save thousands of lives — if we act now. As the coronavirus pandemic sweeps our…
Groundbreaking Call to Prevent US Aid for Palestinian Demolition
US FUNDS AND EQUIPMENT USED TO DISPLACE COMMUNITIES IN THE OCCUPIED WEST BANK J Street, March 16, 2020 J Street welcomes a groundbreaking congressional letter…
2020.03.29: Cancelled Tribute to Rachel Corrie: Freedom is the Future
This event with Tarek Abuata has been cancelled by coronavirus precautions. You can still listen to an interview with Tarek from Gaza on WORT 89.9…
Coronavirus Is a Death Sentence for Palestinians Caged in Gaza
Even a small outbreak among Gaza’s densely-packed, blockaded population would put an impossible strain on a healthcare system already teetering on the verge of collapse…
International Women’s Day
Today, on #IWD2020, we celebrate the inspiring leadership of women, in Palestine and worldwide, at the forefront of our struggles against oppression and militarization, and…
Palestinian Rights Organization Challenges Meritless Lawsuit
06 Mar 2020 Case is Part of Broader Assault on Human Rights Defenders March 6, 2020, Washington, DC – Last night, the US Campaign for…
Oppose the Israeli Annexation of Palestinian Land
This is a new group in the LaCrosse area that is becoming more active on Palestinian issues. Please consider signing and circulating this petition. COULEE…
New Rafah School Water Filter Donation Premium
Available for a limited time! Can you help put us over the top? Dear Friends, We are happy to report that we are less than…
2019 Index of Racism and Incitement in Israeli Social Media
Israeli elections were the primary reason for increasing incitement against Arabs Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, 27th Feb 2020 – One violent…
2020.03.06-07: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: REFUGEES IN/FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
Policy Implications, Education, and Artistic Representations Pyle Center 720 Langdon St UW-Madison This interdisciplinary conference brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who…
Appeals Court Affirms Dismissal of 8-year Lawsuit Over Israel Boycott
Case Dismissed Against Former Board Members of Olympia Food Co-op Center for Constitutional Rights, March 9, 2018 Olympia, WA — A Washington appeals court has…
Israeli Military Confiscates School in Susiya
Video Link Good Shepherd Collective, February 19, 2020 This morning, the Israeli military entered the village of Susiya with a bulldozer in order to confiscate…
Palestinians stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en nation
The TransCanada Coastal Gaslink pipeline aims to steal Wet’suwet’en land, use resource extraction to solidify control over Indigenous territories, destroy the environment and violate Indigenous…
What Valentine’s Day Means in Gaza, Palestine
Hani and his uncle and daughter in front of an UNRWA school in the Gaza Strip UNRWA USA, February 7, 2020 Hani Almadhoun is UNRWA…
2020.02.14-03.15: Exhibit: Unpacked: Refugee Baggage
Including Palestinian textiles provided by MRSCP Lynn Mecklenburg Textile Gallery, Room 1235 School of Human Ecology 1300 Linden Drive, UW-Madison “UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage” seeks to…
2020.02.29: International Festival
Overture Center 201 State Street Madison 10 am – 5 pm Join MRSCP and many other Madison sister cities, businesses, and organizations at the annual…
Strangers in Our Homeland
Aida Touma-Sliman, JewishCurrents, February 6, 2020 LAST WEEK, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu announced a deal that is intended to determine the future of the…
George K. Shalabi, 1939-2020
George Kamel Shalabi passed away January 31, 2020 from complications due to congestive heart failure. He was born at home on April 9, 1939 in…
Trump’s “Deal of the Century” Has Led to Violence Not Peace
February 08, 2020 (WASHINGTON, D.C. 2/8/20)—Since President Donald Trump released the details of his much-derided so-called “deal of the century,” a total of five Palestinians,…
Israeli Occupation Forces Kill 3 and Destroy Home in Less than 24 Hours
February 6, 2020 The newest Israeli killing of Palestinians under its policy of excessive use of force, the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed 3 Palestinians…
Violence Surges in Wake of Trump’s Mideast Plan
Clashes, shootings and a vehicle attack erupt in the West Bank and Jerusalem, killing Palestinians and wounding Israeli soldiers. Palestinians inspected the rubble of a…
Trump Plan Protests in the Jordan Valley
Operation Dove, January 29, 2020 Tubas, Jordan Valley — Today in response to the “Deal of the Century” Palestinians gathered for an action in the…
Rep. Mark Pocan on Trump’s Peace Plan
A peace plan without Palestinian voices is no plan at all. It's a unilateral attempt to continue on a path towards instability in the Middle…
Trump Unveils “Palestine World”
Park Features Israeli Settlements, Private Roads, Many Pieces, and 14 Bridges or Tunnels 60-Mile Gaza Tunnel will be a Construction Marvel
Sister Cities
Invest in Justice by Building Genuine Connections Image via Sacramento to Bethlehem Cities for Palestine by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights WHAT’S THE CAMPAIGN…
Youth of Sumud Remembers Tom Hurndall
Youth of Sumud, a group of Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills, believes and is committed to a peaceful, popular resistance as a strategic choice…
Regeni murder: If only Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall had been Italian
Kamel Hawwash, Middle East Eye, 21 April 2016
THE ANSWER IS PALESTINE
CODEPINK, 1/13/20 On Friday, January 11, 2020, on the Beloved game show Jeopardy, Katie Needle of Brooklyn, N.Y. correctly answered the clue “Built in the…
Activists Reclaimed a Water Source for Palestinians, Showing Co-Resistance Works
Oren Kroll-Zeldin, Truthout, January 10, 2020
2020.02.29: International Festival
Overture Center 201 State Street, Madison 10 am – 5 pm Join MRSCP and other Madison sister cities, businesses, and organizations at the annual celebration…
2020.01.12: Building Bridges and Border Presentation
Portraits of Immigrants and Refugees 502 Mark Drive Verona, WI 6:30 – 9 pm Family Diversity Projects‘ photo-text exhibit shares the stories of immigrants and…
To Prison, Again, for Protesting Against Israel’s Colonial Rule
Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack pens a powerful Op-Ed in Haaretz on his arrest, putting into context his act of solidarity with Palestinians who face altogether…
The U.N. once predicted Gaza would be ‘uninhabitable’ by 2020. Two million people still live there.
The shoreline in Gaza City during strong winds on Christmas Day (Mohammed Abed-AFP-Getty Images) Hazem Balousha and Miriam Berger, The Washington Post, January 1, 2020…
ICC’s Pursuit of War Crimes Probe in Palestine
Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams, December 31, 2019
Final 2019 Appeal — Clean Water for Kids
Best Photos of 2019 from MECA We are now more than halfway to providing another water filter system to a school in Rafah, Palestine. If…
BDS impact in 2019
Mahmoud Nawajaa, BDSMovement.net The anti-Palestinian Trump Administration and Boris Johnson government are more than ever directly engaged in Israel’s desperate war of repression on advocacy…
‘Blinding the truth’: Israeli snipers target Gaza protesters in the eyes
Tareq Hajjaj and Pam Bailey, The New Arab, 20 December, 2019
Why We Sail, Sail, and Sail Again: Freedom Flotilla 2020
Canadian Boat to Gaza, December 20, 2019 Freedom Flotilla sailors and participants are sometimes asked: Why do you keep sailing toward Gaza only to be…
Israel Social TV
Israel Social TV is an independent media organization working to promote social change, human rights and equality. “We use the unique power of visual documentation,…
Gaza 2020: How easy it is for the world to delete Palestinian pain
David Hearst, Middle East Eye, 13 December 2019
Trump strategy to stifle campus organizing for Palestinian rights
Josh Ruebner, Mondoweiss, December 12, 2019
Tell Donald Trump to Stop Using Jews to Shut Down Free Speech
After a week of antisemitic speech, today Donald Trump is signing an executive order to withhold money from college campuses that tolerate “anti-Israel” movements As…
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Statement on House Resolution 326
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, December 6, 2019 Today Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib took a principled stand against H. Res. 326, a resolution that will only…
2019.12.15: Laila Hassan from Women in Hebron
Madison, WI 1:00 — 3:00 pm RSVP for directions Please join us as we welcome Ms. Laila Hassan of the Women in Hebron crafts cooperative…
Netanyahu’s Real Crimes
Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, NOVEMBER 23, 2019 After years of investigation and months of delay, Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit formally indicted…
Dreams in the Crosshairs
We Are Not Numbers video being shown in Washington, DC When Israeli snipers target people participating in or even located near Gaza’s Great Return March,…
Human Rights Activist to be Deported by Israel
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, November 25, 2019 Washington, D.C. | November 24, 2019 | adc.org — The targeting of human rights and peace activists by Israel continues to reflect the…
Polluted Water is the Leading Cause of Child Mortality in Gaza
With 43 Olympic swimming pools of sewage flowing from Gaza daily, local epidemic is only a matter of time Yaniv Kubovich, Haaretz, Oct 16, 2018…
Israeli Attacks on the Gaza Strip, 12-14 November 2019
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR), December 19, 2019
BREAKING: US Disregards International Law On Israeli Settlements
ADC, November 18, 2019
2019.10.27: Rep. Pocan emphasizes progressive caucus’s commitment to Palestine
Helena Cobban, Mondoweiss, November 14, 2019
What you need to know about the bombings in Gaza
Mike Merryman-Lotze, American Friends Service Committee, Nov 13, 2019
Desperate work for desperate people
Amjad Ayman Yaghi, The Electronic Intifada, 15 October 2019
IT’S TIME TO END THE ILLEGAL ISRAELI BLOCKADE OF GAZA
US Boats to Gaza, Nov 3, 2019
2019.10.27 Update: DREAMING OF FREEDOM
Christ Presbyterian Church, 944 E Gorham St, 2-4 pm
Act now to free Heba Al-Labadi
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Oct 28, 2019 Please take a moment to sign our latest petition demanding progressive U.S. presidential candidates speak out for…
