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We made this film, Palestinians and Israelis, because together our voices are stronger. Can’t you see that we are intertwined? That my people can be truly safe if Basel’s people are truly free and safe? There is another way. It’s not too late for life, for the living. ― Yuval Abraham, Israeli co-director of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land.
Israel Detains, Chokes, and Beats Up Amazon Union Leader Chris Smalls
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic, July 29, 2025
Palestinian activist who worked on film ‘No Other Land’ killed in occupied West Bank
Middle East Eye staff, 28 July 2025
Palestine coverage scares off nonprofit news funders
Nicole Froio, Prism, July 23, 2025
In a First, Leading Israeli Rights Groups Accuse Israel of Gaza Genocide
Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, July 28, 2025
Adalah Demands Immediate Release of 21 Activists Aboard the ‘Handala’
Adalah, The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, 27/07/2025
The End of Hasbara?
MOUIN RABBANI, JUL 26, 2025
Israeli Forces Intercept Gaza Aid Flotilla and Take 20 Crew Members Captive
PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, JUL 26, 2025
Desperate for Fuel in Gaza
MARK HERTSGAARD, THE NATION, JULY 24, 2025
Israel Is Now Blaming the UN for Its Famine. Here’s the Reality.
RYAN GRIM, DROP SITE NEWS, JUL 24, 2025
2025.07.25: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa to speak about treating patients in Gaza
Omar Waheed, Madison 365, Jul 25, 2025
2025.08.13: Bread and Blood: A Message from Gaza
Online, 11 AM CT
2025.07.25-26: Neighborhood Small Business Sale for Gaza Aid
2906 Tucson Trail, Madison, 9 am – 4 pm
Israel is Starving Gaza to Death
Visualizing Palestine, Jul 24, 2025
‘You Cannot Destroy a People Without First Destroying Their Healers’
DR. THAER AHMAD, ZETEO, JUL 24, 2025
Hudia’s Diary
Dec 2023 – Jul 2025
James Gunn’s Superman cements Israel’s villain status in the American imagination
MITCHELL PLITNICK, MONDOWEISS, JULY 18, 2025
Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza’s Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
ABDEL QADER SABBAH AND SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS, DROP SITE NEWS, JUL 21, 2025
Israel bombs WHO facilities in Gaza as global outcry grows
Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, Jul 2025
“Antisemitism is rising to dangerous levels!”
Caitlin Johnstone, Jul 20, 2025
“Precisely Designed Mass Starvation”: Aid as Weapon in Israel’s War on Gaza
DEMOCRACY NOW! JULY 21, 2025
More deaths than Kishinev, Sharpeville or Bloody Sunday. Every Day.
Peter Beinart, JUL 21, 2025
2025.07.28: Read Palestine! Discussion with Author Shadi Salem
Online, 7 – 8 pm CT
2025.07.20: Madison bike riders raise over $15K for humanitarian aid in Gaza
Sam Swartz, WMTV 15, Jul. 20, 2025
2025.07.20: Big Ride for Palestine
Donations open through August!
Iron Dome Is Not a Defensive System
Dylan Saba, Jewish Currents, May 25, 2023
AOC Is A Genocidal Con Artist
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, JUL 19, 2025
UNRWA says food for Gaza’s ‘entire population’ waiting at border
Al Jazeera, 19 Jul 2025
Israel Imposes No-Build Zone in Southern Lebanon
JEREMY LOFFREDO, DROP SITE NEWS, JUL 18, 2025
2025.07.28: Film No Other Land Screening & Discussion
Holy Wisdom Monastery, 4200 County Hwy M, Middleton, 6 pm
Kufiya Fish Prominent in Origami Display
“Sierra Club, Eco Groups Break Record For World’s Largest Display Of Origami Fish To Protest Line 5,” HENRY REDMAN, WISCONSIN EXAMINER, JULY 10, 2025
UN rapporteur calls for global action to stop ‘genocide’ in Gaza
MANUEL RUEDA, AP, July 15, 2025
2025.07.22: Education in a Time of Genocide
Online, 11 am CT
2025.07.18: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa on WORT 89.9 FM
WORT 89.9 FM, 12 – 1 pm
2025.07.16-31: Code Pink Madison Brings Free Watermelon + Flyers!
Wednesdays at Madison Capitol Square, 16 N Carroll St. Thursdays at Willy and Blair Streets. 4:30 PM
2025.07.20: The Freedom Flotilla Is Sailing Again!
Online, 12 PM CT
Beaten to Death: Eyewitnesses Describe Brutal Killing of U.S. Citizen by Israeli Settlers in West Bank
DEMOCRACY NOW! JULY 15, 2025
Father of Slain Palestinian-American’s Message for Trump: ‘Why Aren’t You Putting America First?’
PREM THAKKER AND TEAM ZETEO, ZETEO, JUL 15, 2025
New UN report reveals the companies getting rich off Israeli occupation and genocide
JONATHAN OFIR, MONDOWEISS, JULY 6, 2025
In Gaza, U.S. Mercenaries Advance Israeli War Aims
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, The American Conservative, Jul 11, 2025
2025.07.27: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa in Milwaukee
Redeemer Lutheran Church, 631 N 19th St, Milwaukee, 2 PM
Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank
Alana Wise, NPR, JULY 12, 2025
Statement of Youth of Sumud
The villages of Masafer Yatta are now facing daily violent attacks from settlers . . .
2025.07.17: ‘Good Trouble Lives On’ Events
Wisconsin Capitol Square, 12 – 2:30 pm. Cookout at Olin Park, 4 – 7 pm.
“Zero” Progress in Ceasefire Talks, Hamas Official Says
JEREMY SCAHILL, DROP SITE NEWS, JUL 07, 2025
2025.07.26: Anti-War Café with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa
The Crossing, 1127 University Ave, Noon – 3 pm
Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes
William Christou and Quique Kierszenbaum in Masafer Yatta, The Guardian, 7 Jul 2025
2025.08.06: Lanterns for Peace Event
Tenney Park, John Wall Family Pavilion, 402 N Thornton Ave, 6:30-8:30 PM
VFP Signs On to Congressional Letter Opposing the Weaponization of Aid and Starvation in Gaza
Veterans for Peace, July 4, 2025
Veterans and Allies End 40-day Fast for Gaza with Dramatic Direct Actions
Veterans for Peace, July 4, 2025
Trump as Netanyahu’s Spokesman: U.S. Policy in Gaza Mirrors Israeli Ambitions
Elijah J Magnier, Jul 3, 2025
Trump’s Big Bill Is Building a Big Police State
Chris Lehmann, The Nation, Jul 02, 2025
2025.07.09: Screening & Discussion of Film ‘Severed’
Online, 11 am CT
‘Starving a Generation’ in Gaza
Defense for Children International – Palestine with Doctors Against Genocide, June 24, 2025
‘Gaza: Doctors Under Attack’ – The Film They Didn’t Want You To See
TEAM ZETEO, JUL 02, 2025
2025.07.25 Update: Dr. Feroze Sidhwa in Madison
First Unitarian Society, 12 noon & Christ Presbyterian Church, 7 pm
Updates from the ground: Gaza’s Water Crisis & Jenin’s Forced Erasure
Good Shepherd Collective, Jul 1, 2025
In a boost to BDS, UK Co-op divests from Israel
Middle East Monitor, Jun 25, 2025
More Americans Say Campus Protests Driven by Anger With Israel Than by Antisemitism
Shibley Telhami, Lawfare, Jun 11, 2025
Netanyahu Says It’s Antisemitic For Israeli Soldiers To Describe Their Own Atrocities
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, JUN 27, 2025
Israel unleashes massive wave of strikes on south Lebanon
News Desk, The Cradle, JUN 27, 2025
Gaza’s Grassroots Effort to Ensure Humanitarian Aid Reaches Starving Palestinians
ABDEL QADER SABBAH, SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS, AND JAWA AHMAD, DROP SITE NEWS, JUN 27, 2025
Haaretz: ‘It’s a Killing Field’
Nir Hasson, Yaniv Kubovich and Bar Peleg, Haaretz, Jun 27, 2025
Israeli settlers are attacking the Christian Palestinian village of Taybeh
orthodoxtruth, Jun 26, 2025
Israel draws condemnation for Gaza aid site killings
Urooba Jamal and Caolán Magee, Al Jazeera Live, 27 Jun 2025
UN calls Gaza aid process ‘an abomination’
aljazeeraenglish, Jun 25, 2025
Madison Weekly Vigil in Support of Palestine
Weekly, UW Memorial Library, 12 pm – 1 pm
The Global March to Gaza ended in violence. Activists remain undeterred
Jenna Martin, Prism, Jun 25, 2025
Egypt Cracks Down on the “Global March to Gaza”
Emad Mekay, Jewish Currents, Jun 23, 2025
What Zohran’s Victory Means
Peter Beinart, Jun 25, 2025
Israel ‘disappeared’ 377,000 people in Gaza, half of them children: report
The New Arab, Jun 24, 2025
2025.06.29: “The Moral Issue of Our Time: Palestine”
Online, 2:30-4:00 PM CT
The Revolution Will Not Be Digitized: A “No Kings” Debrief
RJ Eskow, The Zero Hour Report, June 17, 2025
Saturday “Vote Against the Money” Action at the Madison Farmers Market
Capitol Square at North Hamilton, 10:30 am – 12 Noon
2025.06.28: Madison Queer Liberation March, including No Pride in Genocide
Assemble at James Madison Park at 10 am, then march to the Capitol
I’ll fight against this illegal effort to draw America into a war
Rep. Mark Pocan, Jun 23, 2025
U.S. INTEL SAYS IRAN ISN’T A NUCLEAR THREAT
Nick Turse, The Intercept, June 17, 2025
2025.06.23: Iran war teach-in
Online, 7 PM CT
Easy to start and hard to stop
TIMOTHY SNYDER, JEFF TIEDRICH, AND ANN TELNAES, JUN 22, 2025
The Dogs of War
ROBERT REICH, JUN 22, 2025
Trump Announces U.S. Bombing of Iran
Jun 21, 2025
Israel’s Forever Wars with Mouin Rabbani
The Dig podcast, 20 Jun 2025
Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention
SOPHIE BATES AND PHILIP MARCELO, AP, June 20, 2025
Israel Turns Gaza Aid Distribution Sites Into Open Killing Fields
HAMZA M.SALHA AND SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS, DROP SITE NEWS, JUN 20, 2025
Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank
QASSAM MUADDI, MONDOWEISS, JUNE 12, 2025
Huckabee’s Dangerous and Misguided Post to Trump
Rev. J. Mark Davidson, June 19, 2025
American Security Contractor Unloads On US-Israeli ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’
ANONYMOUS, ZETEO, JUN 11, 2025
AIPAC Demands Democrats “Stand With Israel” on Iran
DAVID DAYEN AND RYAN GRIM, DROP SITE NEWS, JUN 18, 2025
America First or Israel First? Will Trump Join Netanyahu’s War on Iran?
DANIEL LEVY, ZETEO, JUN 17, 2025
‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters can exclude Palestinian citizens
Aseel Mafarjeh, Al Jazeera, 17 Jun 2025
Demand NYT Report on Israel’s Crimes! No War With Iran!
CODEPINK, Jun 18, 2025
Israeli fire kills 140 in Gaza in 24 hours, medics say, as attention shifts to Iran
Nidal Al-Mughrabi, Reuters, June 18, 2025
U.S. Senate War Powers Resolution on Iran
Peace Action, Jun 16, 2025
Egypt’s Crackdown on the Global March to Gaza
AHMED DAHABY, DROP SITE NEWS, JUN 14, 2025
2025.07.20: “Big Ride for Palestine” set for July 20
Omar Waheed, Madison 365, Jun 12, 2025
