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Apr 23, 2026
Israel Has Silenced Wisconsin!
Gov. Evers has signed Assembly Bill 446 into law, advancing an IHRA definition of antisemitism…
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Israel Silences Australia
Lana Tatour, Dec 20, 2025
Israel Silences the UK
Middle East Eye and Glenn Greenwald, Dec 18, 2025
Israel Apologists Hasten To Blame Bondi Shooting On Anti-Genocide Activists
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, DEC 14, 2025
Palestine Updates
Drop Site Daily, Oct 28, 2025
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What’s the Point of Recognizing the State of Palestine?
Joel Beinin, Sep 25, 2025
Israel bombs WHO facilities in Gaza as global outcry grows
Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, Jul 2025
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‘Death and hunger’: Evidence points to Israeli gunfire in Gaza aid site shooting
Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Jeremy Diamond, Abeer Salman, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Mohammad Al-Sawalhi and Madalena Araújo, CNN, June 5, 2025
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‘We’ll Own It’: Trump Floats US Takeover of Gaza after Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians
BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, Feb 04, 2025
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East Jerusalem, West Bank Palestinians displaced en masse
Home Demolitions spike to 15 year high Israel, like every other settler-colonial state, is premised…
Israeli bombing kills World Central Kitchen workers and aid-seekers
Meanwhile, a former Israeli defence minister says the army is ethnically cleansing northern Gaza By Ahmed…
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ICC Issues ‘Watershed’ Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant
The court rejected arguments by the U.S. and Israel that the ICC does not have…
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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…
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How Joe Biden lost his grip on Israel’s war for ‘total victory’ in Gaza
A conflict the White House once hoped to moderate has gone from “over the top”…
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New video, witnesses challenge Israel’s account of U.S. activist’s killing
The IDF said Aysenur Eygi was shot “unintentionally” during a “violent riot.” A Post analysis…
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Inside Israel’s war
Four Corners goes face-to-face with Israel’s powerful political and military voices. This article is 6…
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2024.08.20: Antiwar Film Series – “Soldiers Without Guns”
Madison Central Library 201 W Mifflin St, Room 302 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm The…
‘Israel always sold the occupation as legal. The ICJ now terrifies them’
Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu unpacks the ICJ opinion on Israel’s military regime, and the lessons…
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Caitlin Johnstone is an Australian independent journalist.
Will the Freedom Flotilla sail to Gaza?
Türkiye is under significant pressure from the US and Israel to block the flotilla from…
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The U.S. House on Saturday passed a bill including a prohibition on funding the agency,…
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Open Call for an Immediate Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel Movement: United for human…
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YUMNA PATEL, MONDOWEISS, DECEMBER 9, 2022
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David Luhrssen, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Oct 14, 2022
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Dear friends and supporters, We have some major news! Finally, after 10 years, the Israeli…
ISRAELI DIPLOMAT PRESSURED UNC TO REMOVE TEACHER WHO CRITICIZED ISRAEL
An Israeli consul general baselessly accused a graduate student of antisemitism and said she shouldn’t…
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In the South Hebron Hills, the southernmost region of the West Bank, there are about…
The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism
Introduction The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism Why the oldest hatred needs a new definition Jewish…
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We, the undersigned individuals and organizations, call on you to strongly oppose David Friedman’s nomination…
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Palestinian Rights Groups Cheer Berkeley’s Decision to Divest from Private Prisons Friends of Sabeel –…
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Women’s Boat to Gaza, July 20, 2016 Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for the…
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“ In our work with people in Gaza, we have been told repeatedly that the…
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Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association & Palestinian BDS National Committee, Apr 3, 2014
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Over 50 Palestinian organisations, representing a cross-section of Palestinian civil society, including women’s groups and…
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