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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
Film offers most detailed account yet of journalist’s killing by Israeli army, including video of moments surrounding shooting Colleagues and friends react as the Palestinian flag-draped body of Shireen Abu Akleh is brought to the news channel’s office in the West Bank city of Ramallah in May. Abbas Momani/AP Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 4…
I’d like to you to meet Mahmoud and Emily, a Palestinian and foreigner couple who are thinking about taking the next big step in their relationship together. Watch “Love Under Occupation,” a 2-minute short film by Mondoweiss. WATCH THE FILM No relationships were harmed in the making of this video. But they will be soon.…
Join CODEPINK and Meera Shah of Palestine Legal on Zoom December 14th at 2pm ET/11am PT for an important and timely call on recent anti-BDS legislation and its impacts on movements for Palestine solidarity, and various forms of divestment. Since 2014, U.S. legislators have introduced over 200 bills targeting boycotts for Palestinian rights – and…
Morocco becomes first Arab nation to make it to the last eight of international soccer tournament Morocco’s players celebrate with a Palestinian flag at the end of the Qatar 2022 World Cup round of 16 soccer match between Morocco and Spain at the Education City Stadium in Al-Rayyan, west of Doha on December 6, 2022.…
Palestinian Artist, Poet, and Filmmaker Lina Abojaradeh asks What country in the world intentionally shoots football players in the legs and knees? Join the movement and visit Kick Out Apartheid
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The newly elected Netanyahu government will include bigoted, intolerant, and violence-advocating ministers Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, December 5, 2022 Since its founding, Political Zionism has had two distinct and contradictory personas. One portrayed it as a national liberation movement that was liberal, democratic, tolerant, and inclusive. This was the face its adherents…
The Abu Rayya tragedy is a direct result of the blockade, as frequent power cuts have forced families in Gaza to use alternative fuel sources to fight the dark, often in hazardous conditions. MOURNERS ATTEND THE FUNERAL OF 21 PALESTINIANS WHO DIED IN A FIRE THAT BROKE OUT IN AN APARTMENT IN JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP…
Farha tells the true story of a young Palestinian girl surviving the Nakba in 1948 by hiding in a small, locked storage room. This eye-opening and heartbreaking film is based on the experiences of a friend of writer and director Darin Sallam’s mother, and shows events tragically familiar to Palestinians around the world. Farha is…
Toronto International Film Festival Review FARHA_Trailer_English subtitle from Picture Tree International on Vimeo. Jared Mobarak, The Film Stage, September 11, 2021 The text reads: Palestine, 1948. That’s all you need to know to understand what’s coming. A year earlier marked the start of the Palestinian Civil War between Jewish and Arab residents after the United…
Activists say hundreds of spam accounts are giving low ratings and bad reviews for the film on rating platforms Many of the accounts giving Farha low ratings on IMDb were newly created (TaleBox) Nadda Osman, Middle East Eye, 2 December 2022 Hundreds of spam accounts have left negative reviews of the film Farha on the…
Online Film & Panel Discussion 2:00 pm Central So many people travel, take tours, and make pilgrimages to the “Holy Land” each year. What are the ethical, political, and personal implications of a journey to holy sites surrounded by 30-foot-high concrete walls, where soldiers patrol the streets and residents live under military occupation? Three recent,…
9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon Memorial United Church of Christ 5705 Lacy Rd, Fitchburg This will be the 18th year of selling crafts and cookies to support a full-year scholarship to a student at Dar Al Kalima University of Arts and Culture in Bethlehem. We sell hand-made crafts made by the congregation, and Christmas cookies…
Walk: 4:30 pm, meet at the Memorial Union; bring Palestinian flags, wear your kuffiyehs and the red, white, black and green colors of Palestine. Film Night: 6:30 pm in Grainger Hall, Room TBD. Free and Open to the public; sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine-UW Madison. Updated information here
A Public Affair 89.9 FM at 12:00 pm Listen Live Esty Dinur on A Public Affair this Friday has guests Iman Abid of US Campaign for Palestinian Rights and Haggai Matar of +972 Magazine. Iman Abid is the Director of Advocacy and Organizing at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR). Prior to joining USCPR,…
In keeping with the Jewish practice of tokhehah, which could be translated as “calling-in,” we are asking you to recognize and redress the damage that these responses have caused. This letter also appeared in The Cap Times on November 29, 2022 as Memo to UW: Antisemitism and anti-Zionism are not the same thing. Photo by…
A fundraiser by the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project Our goal is to raise $10,064 to renovate a family apartment in the Tal al Sultan neighborhood of Rafah, where in 2005 we funded a playground for local children. This family consists of a father, mother and three children. The father has become disabled and the mother…
More at Students for Justice in Palestine UW-Madison
Widely regarded as the most blessed time of the year, Palestinian families in Gaza wait all year for the olive harvest season. A Boy in the Shahin Family Helps His Family Pick Olives During the Olive Harvest Season in Gaza, October 2022. (Photo: Mohammed Salem) Tareq S. Hajjaj, Mondoweiss, October 28, 2022 The Shahin family…
It’s been six months since my aunt #ShireenAbuAkleh was killed, and yet there has been no #JusticeforShireen May your beautiful soul rest in peace my shushu🕊️🤍 pic.twitter.com/6EFlpu8At3 — Lareen Abu Akleh (@aa_lareen) November 11, 2022
Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire book cover. (Photo: AFSC) American Friends Service Committee, Sep 27, 2022 11/17/22 update: WORT’s Gil Halsted talks with Yousef Aljamal and Asmaa Abu Mezeid, two of the Light in Gaza authors now on tour in the U.S. Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire brings together sixteen essays and…
The men’s World Cup starts in just a few days. The world will turn its attention to the largest sporting event on the planet. Major sporting events, organized by corrupt sports governing bodies and fed with dirty sponsorship money, are often used in an attempt to mask human rights abuses or push through unpopular policies.…
Sometimes there is a moment of hope. Please join me this Thursday at 4:30 pm CT to hear how we are redefining development housing in Gaza starting with 20 homes for families in dire need: Click here to join the Zoom Call
As salaamu alaykum, Marvel Studios is out of touch. They’ve announced a new film featuring an Israeli Mossad agent named Sabra. Mossad agents are notorious for carrying out targeted assassinations of Palestinian leaders. They should not be held up as heroes — even in the fantasy world of Marvel.¹ Tell Marvel Studios to do the…
Americans for Justice in Palestine (AJP Action) welcomes the U.S. Justice Department’s announcement that the FBI will be conducting an independent investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by the Israeli military. AJP Action, along with our partners and supporters, has spent considerable energy in recent months lobbying Congress and the State…
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz called the FBI decision “a grave mistake” and said Israel will refuse to cooperate. “The IDF conducted an independent and professional investigation. I have made it clear to the U.S. government that we won’t cooperate with any external investigation and won’t allow any interference in Israel’s internal affairs,” he added.…
Some in D.C. express concern about Netanyahu’s coalition, but little is done about tax-exempt U.S. support of Israel’s far right. Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli far-right lawmaker and the head of the Otzma Yehudit party, gives a statement following the exit polls of the 2022 Israeli general election on Nov. 2, 2022 in Jerusalem. Photo: Ilia Yefimovich/picture…
Dear Friends, The Israeli army showed up and closed our community center! The house belongs to Human Rights Defender Issa Amro, who is now left alone and isolated while under threat from the nearby Israeli settlement and army base. Tell the U.S. State Department to act now! While Americans were celebrating Halloween, Israeli soldiers enforced…
AIPAC is spending millions to oppose Democrat who would be Pennsylvania’s first Black female member of Congress Summer Lee survived an AIPAC effort to block her at the primary stage because of her criticisms of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians. Photograph: Quinn Glabicki/Reuters Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 3 Nov 2022 More than 240 Jewish American…
“Israel’s apartheid remains the root cause of Palestinians’ suffering,” said the group. Palestinians inspect the ruins of a collapsed building destroyed by an Israeli air strike in Gaza City on August 6, 2022. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images) JULIA CONLEY, Common Dreams, October 25, 2022 Calling for the International Criminal Court to open a…
On November 15, the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA), Black Lives Matter (BLM) Phoenix Metro, Mijente, and Puente continue their fight against the corporate-led American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) in the Arizona Supreme Court. The groups will join the Center for Consitutional Rights and the Peoples Law Firm for oral argument in court. Our lawsuit argues…
Destruction of the water network in Masafer Yatta, South Hebron hills, Area C of West Bank. | Courtesy: Nasser Nawaj’ah, B’Tselem, 25 November 2020 Anna Abraham, Currently, October 12, 2022 The Israeli-occupied territory of Palestine faces both natural and state-sanctioned acute water scarcity. The term “man-made climate change” is used to reiterate the role humanity…
November 20 12 Noon Central Zoom Registration The Jewish National Fund (JNF) owns the land where over half the population of Israel lives. It is best known around the world for its forestation, tree planting, and environmental conservation efforts. This ethical image is contrasted by the central role the JNF plays in the ongoing dispossession…
November 13 2 pm Central Zoom Registration After registration you will receive a link to watch the film prior to the discussion. Combining history and headlines, THE SETTLERS is the first comprehensive look at the sensitive issue of Israel’s continued construction of settlements in the West Bank, which is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian…
Nov 9, 2022 12 PM Central Zoom Registration Join us to learn the environmental reality in Israel/Palestine today, what is being done by the land’s indigenous protectors. and what we can do to support their efforts. We are honored to have one of Palestine’s leading voices on Palestinian activism and resistance, Mazin Qumsiyeh, an authority…
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop on the West Bank. She’ll read poems & be in conversation with poet Deema Shehabi. A Virtual Book Celebration! October 29, 2022, 1 PM CT Benefit for the Palestine Writing Workshop, Tickets $10 RSVP and share! Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is a Palestinian writer, storyteller, and mother based…
© MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images Amnesty International, October 25, 2022 The International Criminal Court (ICC) must investigate unlawful attacks committed during Israel’s August 2022 assault on the Gaza Strip as war crimes, Amnesty International said today in a new research briefing. Using photographs of weapons fragments, satellite imagery analysis and testimony from dozens of interviews, the organization reconstructed…
Video recorded October 3, 2022 In 1948, the tiny Gaza Strip was cut off from the rest of historic Palestine, absorbing a huge number of Palestinian refugees who were ethnically cleansed from their ancestral lands. In 1967, it was militarily occupied by Israeli forces, its inhabitants suffering from a plethora of colonial domination techniques and…
The people of Masafer Yatta are using ancestors’ caves to resist Israel’s home demolitions Members of Palestinian Masafer Yatta communities determined to remain on their land despite Israeli forced evictions, south of Hebron in the West Bank, May 7, 2022. (Mamoun Wazwaz-Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert, Business Insider, October 23, 2022 Palestinians are…
Gush Shalom, October 18, 2022 The State of Israel is going to general elections, but in the election campaigns there is virtually no mention of the main, existential problem facing all who live in this country. The West Bank is on fire, as are the neighborhoods of East Jerusalem. This is not “a wave of…
Yuval Abraham, OCTOBER 20, 2022 This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. On Wednesday afternoon, a group of masked settlers lynched a 70-year-old Jewish Israeli woman who was accompanying a Palestinian farmer for the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank. Her name is Hagar Geffen. They attacked her with clubs…
Today across Palestine, we’re witnessing the Palestinian people rise up united once again. It is a moment in which our people declare we will not die quietly at the hands of Israel’s massive violence, but we will resist, and keep resisting, until Palestine is free. Palestinian people on the ground are on a general strike today. The youth…
Just Vision, 10/20/22 Moments ago, the ACLU petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case of national significance on the right to boycott. It’s a case with massive implications for First Amendment rights. As you know, we’re tracking the spread of anti-boycott legislation sweeping state houses in the United States – and with great…
Eyewitness Palestine, 17 October 2022 It’s been a busy past few months for us at Eyewitness Palestine, but an important part of this work is keeping our ears to the ground when it comes to the pressing issues that we want to ensure we give our base as many resources on as possible. With that…
Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, October 17, 2022 During the past month Israel has held 800 Palestinians under administrative detention orders, expelled several Palestinians from East Jerusalem, seized more Arab-owned land from areas around Hebron and in the Jordan Valley turning much of it over to settlers, and instituted a lockdown of many…
Eyewitness Palestine, October 2022 We are excited to announce that our 73rd Delegation is underway! This delegation was three years in the making, and it has finally arrived. Focusing on the Olive Harvest and Environmental Justice, 28 participants will learn from our Palestinian and Israeli partners over the next several days. Unfortunately, one delegate, a Cypriot…
We, the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), call upon all supporters of the Palestinian struggle to join us on October 14th – 23rd for a week of action in support of Palestinian political prisoners and their fight for freedom and dignity. pic.twitter.com/tyMlugEuQu — Palestinian Youth Movement (@palyouthmvmt) October 11, 2022 Palestinian Youth Movement, Oct 11, 2022…
In this time of crisis, I invite you to an Emergency Zoom Forum with the UN: Conditions on the Ground in the West Bank Sunday, October 16th, at 1pm CT Register for Sunday’s Zoom Forum Who: Our guest speaker is the U.N.’s West Bank Field Coordinator, Jonathan Whittall, who will be calling in from Jerusalem.…
The Palestine Chronicle, October 12, 2022 Pro-Palestine activists in Uruguay celebrated a major victory on Wednesday as their country’s football team officially announced that they were not going to play in Israel as was previously scheduled. In a statement, a copy of which was sent to The Palestine Chronicle, the Uruguayan group, Coordinación por Palestina…
David Luhrssen, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Oct 14, 2022 The 2022 Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival runs from Oct. 20 through Oct. 23 at the Oriental Theater located at 2230 N. Farwell Ave, Milwaukee, WI. The Milwaukee Muslim Film Festival is committed to screening thought provoking films about timely, relevant topics to generate meaningful discussion about Muslims.…