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And now there is blood on my name, on my tree in Israel. Do not speak to me of self-defense, of necessity and nations and history. ― Julia Vinograd, For My Tree in Israel, 1988
Nov 1, 2024: A Gaza Nurse and Israel’s Plans for Northern Gaza on WORT
A Public Affair with Esty Dinur NoonLive at 89.9 FM, streaming, or archived Wilhelmi Massay, a critical care and trauma nurse based in Omaha, talks about the six weeks he spent working in Gaza and the ever-worsening situation. Then Raed Jarrar, advocacy director for the nonprofit DAWN founded by slain writer Jamal Khashoggi, discusses Israel’s ‘General’s’ and ‘Eiland’ plans…
Human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
Genocide as colonial erasure Francesca Albanese, A/79/384, 01 October 2024 Summary In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, examines the unfolding horrors in the occupied Palestinian territory. While the wholesale destruction of Gaza continues unabated, other parts of the land…
UN Expert Says Israel Seeks ‘Eradication’ Of Palestinians
Agence France Presse (AFP), October 29, 2024 Outspoken UN rights expert Francesca Albanese reiterated Tuesday an allegation that Israel is committing “genocide” in Gaza, charging that the country is seeking the “eradication of Palestinians” from their land. “Today, the genocide of the Palestinians appears to be the means to an end: the complete removal or…
Rapporteur urges Israel’s UN membership suspension
‘I do believe that the impunity that has been granted to Israel has allowed it to become a serial violator of international law,’ says Francesca Albanese Servet Günerigök, Anadolu Agency (AA), Oct 30, 2024 WASHINGTON A UN rapporteur urged the suspension of Israel’s UN membership on Wednesday, citing repeated violations of international law and the…
This activist group chat has been blocking a weapons shipment to Israel for weeks
A South African WhatsApp group working with BDS has sparked a movement to block a ship carrying military explosives bound for Israel. Madison Bannon, Waging Nonviolence, October 28, 2024 For a few hours between Oct. 17-18, a cargo ship called the MV Kathrin had “gone rogue” just outside of Malta’s territorial waters. To “go rogue,” in shipping terms,…
Kamala Harris Protest at Alliant Energy Center, Madison
View this post on Instagram A post shared by CODEPINK Madison (@codepinkmadison) Photos: Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement CODEPINK Madison, Wisconsin Coalition for Justice in Palestine, and Students for Justice in Palestine- UW Madison
Nov 3, 2024: Stop the Genocide Zoom
Stop the Genocide! Dear Friends, Please join the Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine Coalition (GSPPC), for the 2nd EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION on Sunday, November 3rd at 6-8npm Palestine time and 11 am – 1 pm New York time. At the conference, Palestinians on the ground in Gaza will be joined by speakers Raji…
Oct 30, 2024: Emergency Protest of Kamala Harris at Alliant Energy Center
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Students for Justice in Palestine- UW Madison (@sjpuwmadison) Students for Justice in Palestine-UW MadisonWisconsin for PalestineListen to WisconsinUW Freedom Badgerssay “Join us for an emergency protest to tell Kamala Harris: We are speaking. No genociders on our campus!” Latest rally location (Oct 29 9:30 pm) is…
Recommend “The Message” by Ta-Nehisi Coates to UW-Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison invites us to participate in its common book program for 2025-2026, Go Big Read. Campus and community are invited to participate by nominating books, reading them, and taking part in campus and community discussions and events. We’d like to recommend The Message by Ta Nehisi Coates as a way to keep…
Madison-Rafah Palestinian Olive Harvest Event Recognizes Devastation And Resilience In Gaza
BY JESS MILLER AND WORT NEWS DEPARTMENT, WORT 89.9FM, OCTOBER 28, 2024 For the last several years, late October has been a time of celebration for the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project – a chance to commemorate the annual olive harvest in Palestine. This year, though, the group went a different direction with the event. “We called it a chance to honor…
‘Project Esther’: A Plan to Crack Down on America’s Pro-Palestine Movement
The Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation is now going after what they call the “Hamas Support Network” – groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and American Muslims for Palestine. PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, OCT 29, 2024 As if Project 2025 – the 900-page repressive blueprint for the US put together by scores of Donald Trump-tied political staffers – wasn’t enough,…
How American media incited genocide
Commentaries published by US media outlets have openly demonised Palestinians and justified the mass killings in Gaza. Gregory Shupak, Al Jazeera, 27 Oct 2024 Despite the US government’s incessant claims that it is working to secure a ceasefire, the genocide that has unfolded in Gaza over the past year has been a joint US-Israeli endeavour. Israel would…
“Save Us from Ourselves”: 3,000+ Israelis Call for International Help
“Pressure Israel to Back Ceasefire” DEMOCRACY NOW! OCTOBER 28, 2024 GUESTS Neve Gordon, professor at Queen Mary University of London. More than 3,000 Israelis have signed an open letter urging “global pressure on Israel to force an immediate ceasefire.” The signatories say they are motivated by patriotic duty to stop the country’s war crimes in…
Oct 27, 2024 Update: Olive Harvest 2024 – Honor Palestinian Resilience
Tenney Park Shelter, 402 N Thornton Ave, Madison 1-4 pm Photos from Tsela Barr & Cassandra Dixon Please join us for an afternoon in honor of Palestinian resilience during the 2024 olive harvest. Enjoy live Palestinian music by Ensemble Shamaali, Palestinian olives, olive oil, hot tea, and light Palestinian snacks. Sponsor an olive tree in…
Israel claims there’s a secret Hezbollah bunker underneath a Beirut hospital
But no-one else can find it By Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran, Cherine Yazbeck, and Orly Halpern, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Oct 26, 2024 When the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) this week claimed that Hezbollah had a secret bunker stuffed with $US500 million ($753 million) in gold and cash under a Beirut hospital, it set off a…
Northern Gaza is what you imagine hell to be, and probably worse
We are being strangled. The only thing that can stop our suffering is an end to this siege. Musabah F M Almadhoun, Al Jazeera, 24 Oct 2024 Can you imagine what it feels like to be told that you and your family may be killed if you do not leave your home? That you all…
Sign the UW faculty/staff-written petition
Sign the faculty/staff-written petition urging the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs (VCSA) drop the unjust sanctions that were issued by the Office of Student Conduct and Community Standards (OSCCS) this summer against 30-40 students, including year-long disciplinary probations. Anyone can sign. You can also call and email the following to drop the sanctions: Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin chancellor@wisc.edu 608-262-9946…
Oct 30, 2024: Gaza: 76 Years and a Genocide Later Online
11 am CT Join Eyewitness Palestine for a special edition webinar featuring a video with messages and interviews directly from Gaza including Palestinian children, journalists and healthcare workers. They will discuss the extreme conditions they have witnessed over the past year during the genocide. We will also be joined live by Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian…
Oct 28, 2024: Letters for Ceasefire at A Room of One’s Own Bookstore
2717 Atwood Avenue, Madison 5 – 7 pm As the siege on Gaza continues, we refuse to let genocide become mundane or to stop speaking out against it. Join A Room of One’s Own to write letters to your representatives demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Whether you have been protesting daily or you are…
Thiel’s Palantir dumped over Israeli work
Stefania Spezzati and Gwladys Fouche, Reuters, October 25, 2024 LONDON/OSLO (Reuters) – One of the Nordic region’s largest investors has sold its holdings in Palantir Technologies because of concerns that the U.S. data firm’s work for Israel might put the asset manager at risk of violating international humanitarian law and human rights. Storebrand Asset Management…
Israel’s Murderous Ethnic Cleansing in Northern Gaza
Eyewitnesses say the IDF is starving residents, targeting hospitals, bombing shelters, and murdering civilians in the streets SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS AND ABUBAKER ABED, DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 23, 2024 On Monday, Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif posted a photograph from northern Gaza capturing the Israeli military’s brutal depopulation campaign. In the photo, hundreds of Palestinian men, women, and children crowd…
Olive Harvest 2024 will honor the resilience of Palestinian families
By Omar Waheed, Madison 365, Oct 15, 2024 A community event to highlight Palestinian resilience will be held at Tenney Park on Madison’s East Side on Sunday, Oct. 27. Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, Palestine Partners and Jewish Voice for Peace-Madison will host “Olive Harvest 2024” to honor the resilience of Palestinian families. The event will…
Oct 27, 2024: Celebrating Palestinian Cultural Resistance
UW Memorial Union, Great Hall5-9 PM View this post on Instagram A post shared by Students for Justice in Palestine- UW Madison (@sjpuwmadison)
Oct 25, 2024: “Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters”
A Public Affair with Esty Dinur NoonLive at 89.9 FM, streaming, or archived This Friday Esty Dinur will be talking with Helena Cobban about her new book, co-authored with Rami G. Khouri, Understanding Hamas And Why That Matters. The book, which aims to deepen understanding of a movement that is a key player in the current crisis, is a series of conversations…
“We Have Lost All Credibility”
Hala Rharrit on Quitting State Dept. & Ending U.S. Complicity in Gaza DEMOCRACY NOW! OCTOBER 23, 2024 GUESTS Hala Rharrit former career diplomat who resigned from the State Department over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. As human rights groups continue to call out war crimes committed by the Israeli military, we speak to the only…
“Our Job Is to Flatten Gaza. No One Will Stop Us.”
Inside one Israeli battalion’s yearlong mission of destruction YOUNIS TIRAWI AND SAMI VANDERLIP, DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 22, 2024 In mainstream Western media, the coverage of Israel’s year of scorched-earth destruction often touches on the victims and events happening in Gaza in the passive voice. Death and destruction befall Palestinians the way a city suffers from a…
‘Destructive Impact’ – Israeli War Destroys 75% of Olive Trees in Gaza
Palestine Chronicle Staff, October 20, 2024 Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip were only able to have access to their fields during the one-week temporary ceasefire last November. The National Office for the Defense of Land and Resistance to Settlement said on Saturday that Israel’s raging war on Gaza has destroyed 75 per cent of…
Oct 24, 2024: Surviving Gaza: Experiences from Al-Shifa Hospital
UW-Madison, Grainger 11856 pm For more information visit Students for Justice in Palestine Madison.
Oct 24, 2024: Christian Zionism in Our Churches
Online2:30 – 3:30 pm CT Over the past century, Christian Zionism has been used to justify first the immigration of Jews to Palestine and then, with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, justification for the unquestioning support of Israeli policies of occupation and apartheid. So what even is Christian Zionism? How does…
The West’s support for Israel’s genocide is destroying the world as we know it
The old world is dying once again, but the US-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster. Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye, 21 October 2024 The horrifying images from Gaza last week of fire consuming a Palestinian teenager confined to his hospital bed with an intravenous drip may come to define Israel’s genocide,…
School Shootings & the Violence of Empire
We’ve Taught Our Children Well TOM BOSWELL, OCTOBER 20, 2024 On the afternoon of September 5, I was one of a handful of pro-Palestinian activists in Southwest Wisconsin who drove out to the little town of Westby for an appearance by President Joe Biden. Some of us carried signs about the ongoing genocide in Gaza. I…
‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’ Documentary
Link to Video ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’: Have You Watched Our Very Powerful Documentary Yet? by Mehdi Hasan With your support, Zeteo produced this original film featuring exclusive interviews with the Israeli soldiers behind those horrific TikToks from Gaza. Read on Substack MEHDI HASAN, ZETEO, OCT 20, 2024 Northern Gaza is under brutal assault right now.…
Killing Underscores ‘War-Like’ Israeli Assault on West Bank Olive Growers
“The olive season has turned into a season of killing for the Palestinian people, whether at the hands of the Israeli army or armed settlers,” said one observer. BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, OCT 18, 2024 The killing of a 59-year-old woman who eyewitnesses said was shot in the back by a member of the Israel Defense Forces…
UK police raid home, seize devices of Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 17 October 2024 British counterterrorism police on Thursday raided the home and seized several electronic devices belonging to The Electronic Intifada’s associate editor Asa Winstanley. Approximately 10 officers arrived at Winstanley’s North London home before 6 am and served the journalist with warrants and other papers authorizing them to search his house and…
Discontent at The Guardian Over Palestine ‘Double Standard’
‘Please pass on my deepest fuck you.’ by Rivkah Brown, Novara Media, 18 October 2024 Susan Abulhawa saw the censor’s hand before it even touched her piece. “As the Guardian doesn’t typically publish people like me,” she cautioned her editor at the paper, “I want to be sure the edits don’t ‘dilute’ the piece to make it…
Oct 25, 2025: Ta-Nehisi Coates & Dena Takruri in Oakland Live Online
Join us for a community conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates on white supremacy and the long fight for Palestinian liberation. By AROC Action Date: Friday , October 25Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM PT, 9:00 – 11:00 PM CTLocation: Oakland, CA For more information: bit.ly/tncoakEvent will be livestreamed and lasts 2 hours “When you live as we have, among a people whose humanity…
US Can’t Decide if Israel Is Blocking Aid – But It’ll Send Bombs Either Way
Biden gives Israel 30 days to boost aid to Gaza or risk cuts in military assistance. Will it be another empty threat? PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, OCT 18, 2024 Early Thursday morning, I was woken by a distressed call from a doctor in Gaza, telling me of an Israeli strike on a school in the Jabalia refugee camp…
Progressives Say Only an Arms Embargo Can Stop Israel
A Year Since Their Ceasefire Resolution, Rep. Cori Bush says the Biden administration must stop enabling Israel’s violence. Akela Lacy and Jessica Washington, The Intercept, October 16 2024 ONE YEAR SINCE she introduced a resolution for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., said she hasn’t seen any indication that a Kamala Harris presidency would result in…
Shaaban Al-Dalou, Burned Alive in Gaza, Would Have Been 20 Today
Footage captured of his burning body has seared its way through the collective consciousness—an indelible image of the horrors Israel has wrought in Gaza. ABUBAKER ABED, DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 16, 2024 Over the past two weeks, Israel has ratcheted up its killing operations in northern and central Gaza. Multiple journalists have been maimed and killed. And…
Oct 19, 2024: Implementation of International Law to Stop the Genocide Online
Implementation of International Law to Stop the Genocide Start: Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM CT End: Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 1:30 PM CT Virtual event Host Contact Info: David, david@worldbeyondwar.org Register to sign up and get the Zoom link for the event! This 90-minute, live event is free and open to the public. We will…
Israel ‘starting to implement’ north Gaza starvation plan, say rights groups
‘Generals’ Plan’ calls for closed military zone and evacuation, with those remaining treated as combatants and denied aid. Senior Israeli security officials are unwilling to approve the plan, considering parts of it to be violations of international law. But Israeli media reported last month that Netanyahu was considering the scheme. By: James Shotter in Jerusalem,…
Oct 18, 2024: Rev. Prof. Mitri Raheb on WORT
A Public Affair with Esty Dinur NoonLive at 89.9 FM or streaming, and archived Esty Dinur will be talking with Rev. Prof. Mitri Raheb, Founder and President of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem. The most widely published Palestinian theologian to date, Dr. Raheb is the author and editor of 50 books including his latest, Decolonizing…
As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
The Israeli public long ago became inured to the brutal occupation that has characterised the country for 57 out of the 76 years of its existence. But the scale of what is being perpetrated in Gaza right now by the IDF is as unprecedented as the complete indifference of most Israelis to what is being…
Oct 16, 2024: “The Night Won’t End” Film Discussion
7 pm CT Online Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines team has investigated the killings of Palestinian civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the role of the United States in the war. Their new documentary “The Night Won’t End: Biden’s War on Gaza” examines their findings. It also explores the human stories behind them. Join…
Oct 16, 2024: Challenging US Weapons Transfers to Israel . . .
. . . Increasing Humanitarian Aid to Gaza, and Stopping a Wider Regional War Online6 pm CTRegister Here This webinar by Massachusetts Peace Action and others features: Max Hoffman, Senior Foreign Policy Advisor, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Senator Sanders is the main sponsor of the Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRD) on the proposed $20 billion+ US…
Building Unity Walking Vigils for Peace
Mondays through Fridays along State St All who are outraged by the U.S. support for Israel’s horrific, genocidal war are welcome to meet us at any of the places outlined in the schedule below. Daily Walking Peace Vigil Schedule: 12:00 Noon – State St. corner of the Capitol Square 12:05 PM – Depart for a walk…
Oct 19, 2024: Democracy and Freedom for All Rally
Capitol Square at State St2:30 – 5:00 pm Palestine is on the rally agenda, so bring your flags, signs and kuffiyehs!
Oct 19, 2024: Peacemaker of the Year Award to UW-Madison Professor Samer Alatout
Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice Fall AssemblyMadison Friends Meetinghouse, 1704 Roberts Ct, Madison10 am – 1 pm, in-person or onlineRegister Here
Israel is turning northern Gaza into a killing cage
With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza JEREMY SCAHILL AND SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS, DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 14, 2024 With the full support of the Biden administration, Israel is waging a merciless war of extermination against the 400,000 Palestinians remaining in the northern…
“No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine”
“The US and Israel’s unflinching and ongoing televised genocide in Gaza and now Lebanon in defence of a colonial occupation and an Apartheid state.” Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech Arundhati Roy, The Wire, 11/Oct/2024 Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by…
