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Jun 6, 2026
Israel Has Silenced Wisconsin!
Gov. Evers has signed Assembly Bill 446 into law, advancing an IHRA definition of antisemitism…
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2026.03.25: Proposed Resolution to Ensure UW Investments Comply with Wisconsin Anti-Discrimination Law
Student Activities Center (SAC), 4th floor Hearing Room, 333 E Campus Mall, 6:30 PM
Thank the ‘No’ Votes on IHRA
SB445 Committee Vote, Feb 2, 2026
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2025.10.25-11.07: Fish for the Future Display at the State Capitol
1st Floor Rotunda, Mon-Fri, 8 AM to 6 PM, Sat-Sun 8 AM to 4 PM
2025.10.22 Update: Public Hearing on Assembly Bill 446 on a Definition of Antisemitism
State Capitol, Room 417 North (GAR Hall), 9 am
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MRSCP, CODEPINK Madison, JVP-Milwaukee & Wisconsin Muslim Civic Alliance, Sep 11, 2025
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After Columbia arrests, international college students fall silent
JOCELYN GECKER, AP, March 15, 2025
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2024.11.21: The House Just Blessed Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook by Passing Nonprofit-Killer Bill
Democratic support for the bill dwindled as critics warned it would let Donald Trump crack…
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Two students will face disciplinary hearings for UW encampment
Students for Justice in Palestine-UW Madison asks that we email Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori…
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2024.09.11: Support student facing discipline for pro-Palestine actions
September 11, 2024 Please consider attending this rally and hearing as requested by UW-Madison Students…
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Free speech expert, ACLU question new UW-Madison protest policy
Singing, distributing newspapers and more “expressive activities” could be banned within 25 feet of university…
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The upcoming election has made it worse After watching the U.S. fund Israel’s war on…
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BY KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press, May 29, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — A nurse was fired…
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“The good news is—actions like this by the USA or European countries taken under pressure…
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By Alleen Brown, Center for Media and Democracy, May 3rd, 2024 This story is co-published with Drilled.…
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Deescalating conflict around protests was possible, but many colleges turned to law enforcement instead. By Abdallah…
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MICHAEL ARRIA, MONDOWEISS, FEBRUARY 21, 2023
2022.12.02: Israel/Palestine on WORT
A Public Affair 89.9 FM at 12:00 pm Listen Live Esty Dinur on A Public…
ACLU Challenges Cancellation of Palestine Mural
Sarah Wright, The San Francisco Standard, July 14, 2022 A new letter from the American…
Pompeo Labels BDS Antisemitic, Threatens Blacklist
This week Pompeo broke with longstanding U.S. policy and visited illegal Israeli settlements. On his…
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Omar Barghouti, The Guardian, 16 Apr 2019
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First Bipartisan Bill in the Midst of the Shutdown Ryan Grim and Glenn Greenwald, The…
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So She Lost Her Texas Elementary School Job Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, December 17 2018…
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Senator Richard C. Shelby, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, has objected to unrelated bills clinging…
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A Senate bill aims to punish those who boycott Israel over its settlement policy. There…
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Palestinians walk past a sign painted on a wall in Bethlehem, in the West Bank,…
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Dr. James Zogby, Arab American Institute (AAI), June 09, 2018 Back in 2016, without debate…
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Sign up for a June 30 Event! Saturday, June 30 at 3 p.m. State Capitol,…
2018.03.05: Stop AIPAC: National Call-In Day
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights CALL CONGRESS ON MONDAY, MARCH 5 – (202) 224-3121 –…
Wisconsin should reject boycott bill; it is not anti-Semitic
State Sen. Leah Vukmir (Megan Papachristou Photography) Sandy Pasch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Feb. 6, 2018…
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Brian Hauss, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, November 30, 2017
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Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, January 31 2018 A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that a…
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Havens Center Award for Lifetime Contribution to Critical Scholarship Tariq Ali: Writer, Journalist, Filmmaker Thursday,…
ACLU slams Israel lobby group’s backing for anti-BDS bill
Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 11 August 2017
Congress’s Anti-Boycott Act Threatens More Than Free Speech
Churches for Middle East Peace, July 28, 2017 In The News Democratic Senators Rethink Bill…
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CODEPINK, August 28, 2016 California’s AB 2844 is an attack on the First Amendment right…
Eleven signs that BDS continues to grow despite Israel’s war of repression
Palestinian BDS National Committee, July 7, 2016
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Aidan Quigley, The Christian Science Monitor, June 27, 2016
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Sunday, June 8 7 pm Escape Java Joint, 916 Williamson St. This film about U.S.…
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Wisconsin Bookstore’s Fight for Free Speech Victorious
David Grogan, American Booksellers Association, Nov 12, 2003
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