The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: Chicago
Mar 17, 2026
2025.10.08: Hands Off Chicago Protest in Madison
Capitol Square at King St, 5:30 pm
Egypt Cracks Down on the “Global March to Gaza”
Emad Mekay, Jewish Currents, Jun 23, 2025
Mennonite Action Madison Speaks Out Against Christian Nationalism And U.S. Policy In Palestine
Ben Slowey, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, May 23, 2025
Madison-Based Palestine Partners Supports Women And Youth In The West Bank
Ben Slowey, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Jan 21, 2025
After the destruction of Gaza, Israel turns to West Bank
WEEKLY REPORT, Good Shepherd Collective, Jan 21, 2025
The Gaza Ceasefire: Pharoah is Still Pharoah
Rabbi Brant Rosen, Shalom Rav, Jan 17, 2025
The Scramble To Find The Gaza Doctor In The White Coat
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is one of six medical workers with the Chicago-based organization MedGlobal…
Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Me
‘The Message’ cuts to the human heart of the situation in Israel-Palestine, refusing to contort…
What we learned from UW-Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment
How this protest fits into recent history, what to carry moving forward, and what to…
Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth
DEMOCRACY NOW! OCTOBER 08, 2024 Watch Full ShowImage Credit: Courtesy of Ta-Nehisi Coates As the…
‘It’s heartbreaking’: Israel-Hamas war reaches one-year mark
By: Chloe Morrissey, WKOW27, Oct 7, 2024 MADISON (WKOW) — October 7, 2024 marks one…
We Charge Genocide: The Shofar Calls Us to Account on Rosh Hashanah
In the Jewish new year, we must confront the carnage that Zionism has wrought. By Brant…
Senator Bernie Sanders attempts to block a $20 billion arms sale to Israel
More than half a million Democratic voters selected “Uncommitted” on their primary ballots, and the…
Wisconsin Ceasefire-in-Gaza Advocates to DNC: “No More Bombs”
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Aug 27, 2024 About 150 Wisconsin Ceasefire-in-Gaza advocates joined tens…
Palestine Won at the Democratic Convention
Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, August 26, 2024 The 2024 Democratic National Convention…
Palestinian American Lawmaker Gives Speech the DNC Wouldn’t Allow
Democracy Now!, Aug 23, 2024 Vice President Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic nomination Thursday after…
What I Saw Was “Unfathomable”
Doctor Who Worked in Gaza Speaks Out Against U.S. Arming of Israel Democracy Now!, Aug…
DNC Faces Backlash After Organizers Deny Request for Palestinian Speaker
Elected Officials, celebrities, and community leaders speak out against the DNC’s decision to silence Palestinians…
CODEPINK Disrupts “Democratic Majority for Israel” DNC Event
Challenging U.S. Support of Israel The event featured Gov. Tim Walz who is “supposedly” sympathetic…
Wisconsin Palestinians have felt isolated from politics
The upcoming election has made it worse After watching the U.S. fund Israel’s war on…
Wisconsin ‘uninstructed’ voters among DNC protests
THEY say Vice President Kamala Harris needs to take a more forceful stand to end…
2024.08.19-22: March on the DNC 2024
More information There is a bus from Milwaukee, loading 8:15 am, leaving 8:30 am, and returning…
Israel Has Lost the Gaza War, and Much Else as Well
Joel Beinin, 7/19/24 Growing numbers of Israeli observers have been saying publicly that Israel cannot…
National Mobilization to Arrest Netanyahu in DC
and petition to boycott Netanyahu’s speech July 24, 2024 US Capitol Building 10 am to…
After a ceasefire resolution, the City of Madison played host to some of Israel’s largest weapons suppliers
BY MARIAMA SIDIME ● TONE ● JULY 3, 2024 A recent defense-industry conference at Monona Terrace highlights the gap between…
Echoes of Standing Rock and Climate Change in Backlash to Pro-Palestine Protests on Campus
By Alleen Brown, Center for Media and Democracy, May 3rd, 2024 This story is co-published with Drilled.…
U of Chicago protesters respond to campus police tearing down encampment
FOX 32 Chicago, May 7, 2024 Demonstrators at the University of Chicago were given a…
The lessons from colleges that didn’t call the police
Deescalating conflict around protests was possible, but many colleges turned to law enforcement instead. By Abdallah…
2024.04.28: Challenging Empire – Israel, USA & Imperialism
Goodman Community Center Hicks Room 149 Waubesa St, Madison 4-5:30 pm Israel’s genocidal invasion of…
41,000 FLAGS TO HONOR PALESTINIAN LIVES LOST
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Apr 9, 2024
2024.04.08: Biden visits Wisconsin after primary warning signs
“I was surprised to see the intensity on the issue of Gaza coming not from…
“This Is a Movement of Hope”: Wisconsin’s Uninstructed Campaign Has Momentum
As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project cannot support or oppose specific…
Islamophobia Will Poison This Country
Alex Skopic and Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs, 07 February 2024
Tammy Baldwin should join Bernie Sanders in questioning military aid to Israel
Cap Times Editorial, Jan 31, 2024
Minneapolis City Council passes cease-fire resolution for Israel-Hamas war
Calls for an immediate and permanent cease-fire; humanitarian aid; an end to U.S. military funding…
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in D.C. march to demand cease-fire in Gaza
Tyrone Turner and Emma Bowman, NPR, JANUARY 13, 2024 At the March on Washington for…
2024.01.13: National March on Washington for Gaza
This call has now been endorsed by over 100 organizations. More information. Bus from Milwaukee…
Israel-Palestine Scholar Norman Finkelstein’s Long Crusade
A cantankerous Israel critic takes a rare turn in the limelight. Zak Cheney-Rice, Intelligencer, Dec.…
Critics say bill targeting anti-Zionism is new McCarthyism
HR 6578 would build a commission with subpoena authority to force Americans to testify and…
C’mon Madison, take a stand against the slaughter
Tariq Saqqaf, The Cap Times, 12/15/23 Members of international humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders hold…
‘Huge Loss’ as Gaza Luminary Refaat Alareer ‘Assassinated’ by Israel
BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, Dec 07, 2023
Man arrested after three Palestinian American students injured in Vermont shooting
Police are investigating the incident as a potential hate crime Abigail Hauslohner and Hannah…
3 Palestinian students were shot in Vermont
Celina Tebor, Eva McKend, Khalil Abdallah and Zoe Sottile, CNN, Nov 27, 2023
2023.11.17: The Genocidal Assault On Palestine
A TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST CALL TO END COLONIALISM AND WAR FRIDAY – NOVEMBER 17, 2023…
Debunking The Myth That Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic
This article was first published in 2019 Photo: Gili Getz Peter Beinart, The Forward,…
Wisconsinites Join D.C. Protest Against U.S. Support for Israel’s War on Gaza
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Nov 7, 2023 Aerial drone photo of the protesters in…
‘McCarthyite backlash’ to criticism of Israel
Civil rights groups say critics of the Israeli assault on Gaza have lost jobs and…
Anti-Arab Hate Rhetoric Leads to Murder of 6-year-old Chicago Boy
October 16, 2023 Washington, D.C. | October 16, 2023 – The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)…
All eyes on Gaza. We can’t look away now.
October 16, 2023 For the past week, the Israeli military has been making good on…
Statement by American Muslims for Palestine & Americans for Justice in Palestine Action
Israeli Violence is the Root Cause of Violence and Unrest in the Region Washington, DC…
The Shift: Oslo at 30
MICHAEL ARRIA, Mondoweiss, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Dixon Hopes Israeli Settler’s Trial Draws Attention to Attacks on Palestinians
Jerry Windley-Daoust, The Catholic Worker Movement, September 2, 2023 “These settlers act with impunity because…
I saw Israel’s ‘final solution to the Palestinian problem’ in Lebanon 41 years ago, and I see it again today
REV. DR. DON WAGNER, MONDOWEISS, JUNE 13, 2023
Jewish Voice for Peace: What is Zionism?
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jewish Voice for Peace (@jewishvoiceforpeace) Jewish…
2023.03.21-04.01: March & April Events
Tuesday, March 21: No Way to Treat a Child Webinar Tuesday, March 21: Another chance…
160 Organizations Demand Congress Stop Funding Israel’s Massacres
160 organizations representing Palestinian communities, Palestinian solidarity organizations, and the racial justice movement have signed…
An open letter to UW-Madison regarding anti-Zionist chalking
Stepha Velednitsky, Ri J. Turner, Joshua Garoon, Tsela Barr, and Annie Sommer Kaufman, The Daily Cardinal,…
2022.10.29: “You Can Be the Last Leaf” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat directs the Palestine Writing Workshop on the West Bank. She’ll read poems…
President Biden: Stop Israeli Government’s Attacks on Palestinian Civil Society
(Final version, emphasis added) Dear colleagues and comrades, Thank you so much for signing on…
“Cancel the F-35”: Organizations Sign Letter to President & Congress
Rep. Francesca Hong addresses concerns for the arrival of F-35 jets in Truax Field, surrounded…
Chicago synagogue officially designates itself ‘anti-Zionist’
Arno Rosenfeld, The Forward, March 31, 2022
Inside the Illinois state pension board seeking to promote Israeli control over the West Bank
FRAN ZELL, MONDOWEISS, FEBRUARY 10, 2022
2021.12.06: Webinar: “Teaching Hard Truths”
Black and Palestinian Perspectives on the Power of Education and Action via Zoom Who: Dr.…
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN RETRACTED PRO-PALESTINE ARTICLE WITHOUT ANY FACTUAL ERRORS
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept, July 1 2021 After right-wing outrage, the esteemed journal removed an…
This Must End
Dr. Yasser Abu Jamei, American Friends Service Committee, May 13, 2021
The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism
Introduction The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism Why the oldest hatred needs a new definition Jewish…
Illinois faculty rejects efforts to suppress Palestinian freedom
OPEN LETTER, Mondoweiss, DECEMBER 23, 2020
Biden needs to reverse Pompeo on Israel/Palestine
Tsela Barr and Jeff Spitzer-Resnick, The Cap Times, Dec 4, 2020
Letter to Biden (and Trump) Campaigns Regarding Israel and Palestinian Rights
This letter, signed by more than 100 progressive, anti-war, and faith-based U.S. organizations, urges presumptive…
Barbara Olson and Tsela Barr: Congress needs to stand against Israeli travel bans
TSELA BARR AND BARB OLSON, The Cap Times, August 23, 2019
“You married a Palestinian. You cannot enter Israel”
Israel’s family reunion practices are gravely offensive This time; Palestine Updates brings you two powerful…
I co-founded the BDS movement. Why was I denied entry to the US?
Omar Barghouti, The Guardian, 16 Apr 2019
How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism Is Fracturing American Politics
Nathan Thrall, New York Times, March 28, 2019
A Teenage War Resister in Israel
An Antiwar Story from the Embattled Middle East He is a rarity in his own…
2019.03.03: Hashtag to Headlines: How the Gaza Great March of Return Challenged the World
Join us for the 2019 tribute to Rachel Corrie with Ahmed Abu Artema, writer, refugee…
A Speech Pathologist Refused to Sign a Pro-Israel Oath
So She Lost Her Texas Elementary School Job Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept, December 17 2018…
Pittsburgh Shooting Is A Reminder: Jews And Muslims Are In This Together
Alex Kane, The Forward, October 27, 2018
As daughter of Holocaust survivors, I decry occupation of Gaza
Jenny Pressman, The Cap Times, May 30, 2018
Standing with my Muslim neighbors in the wake of Jerusalem and Gaza
Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman, The Cap Times, May 17, 2018
Judith Laitman and Tsela Barr: On Israel’s 70th anniversary, we remember the Nakba
Judith Laitman and Tsela Barr, Jewish Voice for Peace – Madison, The Cap Times, May…
Protect the right to boycott Israel in Wisconsin
Barbara Olson and Tsela Barr, Wisconsin State Journal, November 11, 2017 Barbara OlsonTsela Barr Gov.…
Condemn, don’t celebrate, 50 years of occupation of Palestine
Barbara Olson, The Cap Times, Jun 11, 2017
2017.03.29: Islamophobia in America with Reza Aslan
Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm Location: Wisconsin Union Theater Cost: Free…
Activists pull out of Chicago LGBTQ conference over Israel pinkwashing
Jimmy Johnson, THE ELECTRONIC INTIFADA, 22 January 2016
2016.05.04: An Evening with Jeff Halper
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 7:00 pm DeLuca Forum, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery 330 N. Orchard…
