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Civil rights in Israel depend on more than citizenship alone. They differ depending on the combination of citizenship, ethnicity, and religion. — Joel Beinin, Emeritus Professor of Middle East History, Stanford University, 2023
The Israeli Ministry of Interior requires all residents to provide an original birth certificate, an original marital status certificate, and an original proof of religion in order to receive the required national ID card.
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 (with a subscription) or on YouTube. Mission: Hebron is a short documentary based on interviews conducted by the director with Breaking the Silence testifiers about their service in Hebron. Describing…
Israeli authorities have created a “permissive atmosphere” allowing settlers to “let off steam” Hebrew graffiti in the village of Deir Estya, which translates as ‘village of terrorists’, in an apparent ‘price tag’ attack by Jewish settlers, 18 June 2019 (AFP) Middle East Eye, 4 October 2021 Israeli settler attacks on Palestinian villages and properties in…
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 and the Israeli Occupation in Palestine. Featuring Bana Abu Zuluf from the Good Shepherd Collective and Hisham Sharabati & Ahmad Abu Monshar, human rights activists from Hebron. More information and…
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 Steve Wolvin and David Williams will discuss the origination of the Day of Solidarity in 1977, and summarize its yearly observance up to the present. This will be followed by…
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 cities to demonstrate how Apartheid as practiced by Israel — and supported by US funding — is not some abstract concept, but a lived reality for millions of Palestinians every…
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 & your display!3. Post pic on social media! Important: Include your city, state and country, attach #PalestineDay, & tag @uspcn! pic.twitter.com/XxgsoUZvnB — Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (@MRSCP48) November 24, 2021
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. Contestants from Malaysia, Indonesia, and Laos have all bowed out of visiting the controversial venue. Barbados has also withdrawn, but cited COVID as the official reason… Also, South Africa has…
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 news publisher in Arkansas who is suing the state over its anti-boycott legislation. Alan is also one of the protagonists of our new film, Boycott, and his article — “We’re…
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 (working to extend anti-racist education), and Dr. Iymen Chehade, History professor at Columbia College, Chicago, and human rights activist When: December 6, 7:00 PM (Eastern Time Zone) Dr. Chehade and…
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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 the call from Palestinian civil society to boycott, divest, and sanction Israel. Tell him to support Palestinian human rights by cancelling his show. Dear Justin, We the undersigned appeal to…
Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, November 16, 2021 Our own Executive Director, Reverend Mark Davidson, sent this opinion editorial to the News and Observer last week to urge our community at large to stand for justice against Israel’s designation of six Palestinian human rights groups as “terrorist organizations.” Please read below. In “On Tyranny: Twenty…
Candidates know what the billionaire donor wants, and that’s a hawkish pro-Israel U.S. policy in the Middle East Miriam Adelson attends 4th annual champions of Jewish values international awards gala at Marriott Marquis Times Square, 2016 (shutterstock/lev radin) Eli Clifton, RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT, NOVEMBER 8, 2021 It’s big news when a political party’s biggest funder announces,…
As salaamu alaykum — This is the best time to join in: The number of workers at Amazon and Google who are teaming up to push both companies towards #NoTechForApartheid has doubled since we last emailed you. There are now over 1,000 Amazon and Google workers organizing to demand their employers cut ties with Israeli…
‘Harsh invasion of privacy’ provides Israeli Security Agency with a system of control over the Palestinians A woman uses her phone in a courtroom in Nablus, occupied West Bank in February 2021 (AFP) Lubna Masarwa, Middle East Eye, 15 November 2021 Israel can listen to every telephone conversation taking place in the West Bank and…
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 Human Rights Association, and the Bisan Center for Research and Development, organizations that Israel recently criminalized. Meanwhile, the Washington Post has uncovered a massive Israeli military facial recognition program threatening the safety of…
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 forced 17-year-old Islam to sleep outside in the cold overnight. On November 20, Universal Children’s Day, join us for the global premiere of Caging Childhood: Palestinian Children in Israel’s Military…
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 and the National Education Union are thrilled to bring you this interactive webinar live from Gaza to mark UN World Children’s Day. Featuring a live bilingual reading from Gazan artist…
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. Since the late 1990s, the Israeli army has been trying to operate a military training zone (Firing Zone 918) in Massafer Yatta. After a twenty-year legal battle to remain on…
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 spyware Pegasus on the phones of activists in these groups. https://t.co/T2YlAh7g8M — Elizabeth Tsurkov (@Elizrael) November 9, 2021 A man walks past the logo of Israeli cyber firm NSO Group…
Jewish settlers try to destroy a Palestinian playground near Hebron. (Photo: via Social Media) The Palestine Chronicle, November 8, 2021 Amnesty International has condemned an attack by Israeli settlers and soldiers against Palestinian children in a playground in the occupied West Bank village of Susya, near Hebron (Al-Khalil), according to the Middle East Monitor. The…
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 our boat and its cargo. On November 4, 2011, the Tahrir, funded by grassroots donations from Canada, Australia, Belgium and Denmark, along with its cargo of some $30,000 in medical…
Israel requests social media to remove content Speaking at the panel with the 7amleh digital rights team on Monday, Mahmoud Franji, the coordinator for the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), said such a tool is needed now more than ever [Hisham Daraghmeh/Al Jazeera] Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Nov 5, 2021 Ramallah, occupied West Bank –…
‘We’re succeeding in changing the paradigm’ After being outlawed as ‘terrorist organizations’ overnight, Palestinian human rights groups talk to +972 about why Israel’s allegations are not just unfounded, but amount to an act of political persecution. Sahar Francis, Director of Addameer, seen at the organization’s offices in Ramallah, the West Bank on February 19, 2019.…
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 Director and Breaking the Silence Executive Board member Avi Mograbi has been making the rounds at film festivals around the world. Based on testimonies of former IDF soldiers and officers…
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 Biden. Join us for 30 minutes on Wednesday, November 3, 2pm ET / 1pm CT / 12pm MT / 11am PT to be part of a wave of people power…
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 out in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a young woman in Gaza must make a choice between love, family, and freedom. Undaunted, she embraces all three Free Tickets and More Info
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 organisations are: Addameer for Prisoner Support – Read their statement Al-Haq Organization – Read their statement Bisan Center for Research and Development Defense for Children International-Palestine – Read their statement…
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 the region and are vocal critics Hamas & the PA.https://t.co/TTYHQ94n6O — Rep. Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan) October 22, 2021
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, such as Defense for Children International – Palestine and Addameer, as “terrorist organizations.” This is another front in the expansion of lawfare and a dangerous expansion of Israel’s attacks on…
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. Pocan’s direct contact info: Madison phone: 608-258-9800 DC phone: 202-225-2906 Email form Also, please sign and circulate this petition from If Not Now: Sec. Blinken: Condemn Israel’s “Terrorist” Designation of…
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 employees have joined forces and gone public against Project Nimbus, a 1.2 billion dollar contract with the Israeli military and government. Since the launch of the campaign, 20,500 people have…
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 arms trade and exports, and how this ties into Israeli settler colonialism and oppression of Palestinians. Susan Abulhawa is a novelist, poet, essayist, scientist, mother, and activist. Her debut novel…
Saturday, Oct 16, 10 am – 4 pm 1924 East Dayton Street, Madison [Map] Off First Street between East Washington and East Johnson (Rain date: Sunday October 17 at 317 Rethke Ave, 11 am – 3 pm) Palestine Partners and Playgrounds for Palestine will hold a fall Sidewalk Sale to celebrate the olive harvest. Handmade…
On Tuesday, October 12, at 8 p.m. Eastern / 5 p.m. Pacific, please join the No Way to Treat a Child campaign for a webinar to unpack U.S. military funding to Israel. We’ll discuss the different kinds of military funding that the U.S. sends to Israel, share updates from Capitol Hill that affect Palestinians and…
More #SaveAlWalaja graphics to stop ethnic cleansing for 220 families in Al-Walaja
U.S. tax dollars continue funding the horror that Palestinians in Gaza face daily. We have a moral obligation to act to end that horror. That’s why we’re doing something about it — and we need you with us. The Gaza Is Palestine campaign, led by us and Adalah Justice Project, is a new Palestinian-led effort…
Sunday, October 3, Noon – 3 pm James Madison Park shelter 614 E Gorham St, Madison, WI Wishing you could visit Palestine? Don’t miss this free outdoor celebration of Palestinian dance and culture. Dance performance by Milwaukee’s Traditional Palestinian Dabka group Al-Ghurba. Free Palestinian snacks and sweets. Taste and celebrate this year’s Olive Harvest! Purchase…
An Israeli consul general baselessly accused a graduate student of antisemitism and said she shouldn’t teach a course on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, N.C., on April 21, 2013. Photo: Lance King/Getty Images Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept, September 28 2021 This August, Israeli consular officials in the southeast…
Mark Pocan (D-WI), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), all of whom have been critical of Israel, voted ‘Yes’ RASHIDA TLAIB CALLS ISRAEL AN APARTHEID STATE DURING DELIBERATIONS ON SPENDING $1 BILLION FOR ISRAELI MILITARY PROGRAM, IRON DOME. SEPT. 23, 2021. SCREENSHOT MICHAEL ARRIA AND PHILIP WEISS, Mondoweiss, SEPTEMBER…
Giving Israel $1 billion in fungible money for a weapon system will only encourage further war crimes. ISRAEL’S IRON DOME SYSTEM INTERCEPT ROCKETS LAUNCHED FROM THE GAZA STRIP TOWARDS ISRAEL, AS SEEN FROM GAZA STRIP, ON MAY 19, 2021. (PHOTO: BASHAR TALEB/APA IMAGES) STEPHEN R. SHALOM, Mondoweiss, SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 Like Nora Berman (“I’m a…
Pocan, a leading figure among Israel critics in the House, organized a series of floor speeches criticizing Israel Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) Marc Rod, Jewish Insider, May 20, 2021 Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI), a left-wing Democrat who has frequently been vocally critical of Israel, argued on Wednesday that Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system should…
Join the US Boats to Gaza webinar with documentary filmmaker Fida Qishta, who has just returned from several months in Gaza. Fida will speak about the current conditions in Gaza and show clips from footage she filmed after the latest Israeli attack on Gaza. She will also talk about her upcoming new documentary, We Are…
This campaign by Madison for Palestine is endorsed by MRSCP. Use the following links to find your Dane County Board supervisor and compose a letter asking them to support proposed resolution 2021 RES-131, urging the Biden Administration to end military aid to Israel in the wake of the recent assault on Gaza. View resolution 2021…
The Peoples’ Inquiry, sponsored by Adalah Justice Project and MPower Change, is an opportunity for the U.S. public to hear the accounts of Palestinians from Gaza on the massacres carried out by Israel in May 2021. It will culminate in a clear call to action for people in the U.S. to exercise personal power to…
Visit with Youth of Sumud and your guides Bana & Sami September 2021 Join us for a virtual tour of the South Hebron Hills. During this tour we will visit villages in the southern part of the West Bank where Palestinians remain steadfast and continue to resist the constant threats and attacks from nearby Israeli…
Register Amer Zahr, founder and producer of the annual 1001 Laughs Ramallah Comedy Festival, is a rising star in both the US and the Middle East. Amer is an Arab-American comedian, speaker, political activist, writer, and adjunct professor at the University of Detroit, Mercy School of Law. “Comedy is my form of protest,” says Amer!…