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Feb 22, 2026
2026.02.27: Gaza and the US Academy: Scholasticide and Educational Resilience in Palestine
UW-Madison Sewell Social Sciences Building, Room 8108, 12 – 1:30 pm. In-person and Zoom.
Sarah Lawrence Coalition for Palestine Newsletter
VOL. 5 NO. 5 : MONDAY FEBRUARY 16, 2026
Sarah Lawrence Coalition for Palestine Newsletter
VOL. 5 NO. 4 : MONDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2026
URGENT: Tell Congress to demand Leqaa Kordia’s release from ICE detention
Adalah Justice Project, February 10, 2026
Sarah Lawrence Coalition for Palestine Newsletter
VOL. 5 NO. 3 : MONDAY FEBRUARY 2, 2026
There Is No “After Gaza”
Sarah Aziza, The Nation, JAN 31, 2026
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Israeli forces fire live rounds and teargas as they storm Birzeit University
Mohammed Turkman in Birzeit, occupied Palestine and Mera Aladam, Middle East Eye, 6 January 2026
Israeli occupation forces raided the campus of Birzeit University
Government Communication Center, @pal_gcc_en, Jan 6, 2026
2025.12.13: Homemade Holiday Cookies and Crafts Sale
Memorial United Church of Christ, 5705 Lacy Rd, Fitchburg, 9 AM- Noon
UW Police Department’s careless assault on student protest
ROMAN FRITZ, TONE MADISON, DECEMBER 8, 2025
2025.11.17: Steadfast on Campus – A Century of Global Palestinian Student Activism
Online, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm CT
Sarah Lawrence Coalition for Palestine Newsletter
VOL. 4 NO. 8 : MONDAY OCTOBER 20, 2025
The keffiyeh and pro-Palestinian campus protests
Aariz Ahmed, Special to the Cap Times, Aug 25, 2025
Project Esther and the Palestine Solidarity Movement
Jewish Voice for Peace, August 20, 2025
Call on UW-Madison to Revoke the Suspension of Students for Justice in Palestine!
Students for Justice in Palestine at UW-Madison, July 25, 2025
More Americans Say Campus Protests Driven by Anger With Israel Than by Antisemitism
Shibley Telhami, Lawfare, Jun 11, 2025
Judge Orders Release of Tufts Student Rümeysa Öztürk from ICE Detention
PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, MAY 9, 2025
2025.05.05 Update: Film “The Encampments” at The Crossing
1127 University Avenue, Madison, 6:30-8:30 pm
Liberal militarism and Zionism started the latest McCarthyism
Jeet Heer, The Nation, April 2025
First they came for Mahmoud Khalil…
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action, Mar 11, 2025
Zionist organizations are taking down names
The Intercept, Apr 14, 2025
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In For Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested By ICE
Akela Lacy, The Intercept, April 14 2025
2025.04.23: Film “The Palestine Exception” on Campus Protests
UW Memorial Union, 6-8 pm
2025.04.21: Campus Speech, Antisemitism and Islamophobia
UW-Madison Pyle Center, Wisconsin Idea Lounge, 5:00 pm
The Low-Hanging Fruit of Canceled Student Visas
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, March 30, 2025
Rubio boasts of canceling more than 300 visas over pro-Palestine protests
Joseph Gedeon, The Guardian, 27 Mar 2025
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?
Rashid Khalidi, The Guardian, 25 Mar 2025
WATCH: Masked ICE Agents Arrest Tufts Graduate Student
PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, MAR 26, 2025
“First, They Came for Mahmoud Khalil”
MEGHNAD BOSE, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 23, 2025
Georgetown Postdoc Detained by ICE as Crackdown on Campus Speech Widens
ARCHIT AND MURTAZA HUSSAIN, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 19, 2025
Emergency Lawsuit Filed Challenging Trump’s Attack on Free Speech
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Mar 16, 2025
After Columbia arrests, international college students fall silent
JOCELYN GECKER, AP, March 15, 2025
Day 5 – Mahmoud Khalil News You Need To Know
Arab American Institute, March 13, 2025
Trump’s Disappearing Of Mahmoud Khalil Should Be A Warning For Us All
THE BIG PICTURE AND TODD BEETON, MAR 13, 2025
Almost 100 arrested during protest occupying Trump Tower over Mahmoud Khalil
Martin Pengelly, The Guardian, 13 Mar 2025
Congressional Letter to DHS on Mahmoud Khalil
14 Democratic House Members to Secretary Kristi Noem, Mar 11, 2025
Why we need a new free speech movement
ROBERT REICH, MAR 13, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention
JASON PALADINO, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 13, 2025
What is happening to Mahmoud Khalil is chilling
CHRIS GEIDNER, LAW DORK, MAR 12, 2025
Marco Rubio Detained Mahmoud Khalil on ‘Foreign Policy Grounds’
PREM THAKKER AND PABLO MANRÍQUEZ, ZETEO, MAR 11, 2025
The backstory on the government’s abduction of a Palestinian protester
Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2025
The Trump Administration kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil
Rep. Mark Pocan, Mar 10, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil’s hearing is 11:30 Wed
Qasim Rashid, Mar 10, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil Was Detained by ICE Agent Honored by Trump
JASON PALADINO, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 10, 2025
Arrest of Palestinian activist stirs questions about green card holders
REBECCA SANTANA, AP, March 10, 2025
2025.03.11: UW-Madison Protest for Mahmoud Khalil
UW-Madison Library Mall, 12 pm
DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Encampment
JANINE ALHADIDI AND MEGHNAD BOSE, DROP SITE NEWS, MAR 9, 2025
2025.03.19: “My Name is Rachel Corrie”
Winona State University, Minnesota
2025.02.14: Voices for Justice in Academia
Online, 10 am CT
They’re trying to deport vigils for murdered Palestinian kids
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, JAN 30, 2025
A Fascist Salute, A Ceasefire, and Repression of Palestine Speech
Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University, Jan 23, 2025
Why Is It So Hard for Senator Tammy Baldwin to Oppose Genocide?
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 19, 2024 At the very same time that…
Anti-war group says Baldwin noncommittal on blocking Israeli military aid
University of Wisconsin-Madison students and community members said talks with U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin’s military…
How To Make Supporters of Israel’s Genocide Feel Safe on Campus
Emergency Teach-In S48 EP1, Jadaliyya, Nov 1, 2024 Featuring Sinan Antoon, Cultural Landscape Specialist; Adel Iskandar, Media…
‘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”…
Universities Act to Silence Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators
September 16, 2024 Dr. James J. Zogby President, Arab American Institute In the 1960s, social critic…
Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war
Lee Fang and Jack Poulson, The Guardian, Mon 24 Jun 2024
Campus in Crisis
Jewish Currents, May 3, 2024 Eli Valley is a Jewish Currents contributing writer. His comics collection Diaspora Boy: Comics…
2024.04.08 Update: Madison Rally to Protest Biden
“Joe, Stop the Gazacide” Sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace — Madison, Students for…
BDS VIctory: Pomona College Students Divest from Occupation in Palestine
RE: BDS Victory: ASPC To Divest Funds From Occupation of Palestine Contact: Claremont Students for…
Trump strategy to stifle campus organizing for Palestinian rights
Josh Ruebner, Mondoweiss, December 12, 2019
Revealed: rightwing push to ban criticism of Israel on US campuses
Ed Pilkington, The Guardian, 17 Oct 2019
He got into Harvard. And now he finally got into the United States.
Ismail Ajjawi, a Harvard freshman who said he was was denied U.S. entry because of…
Students for Justice in Palestine call for Univ. of California to divest!
Anna Baltzer, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, 14 March 2018
Trump taps head of anti-Palestinian group for Education Civil Rights
Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 27 October 2017
2017.05.06: Amy Goodman Talk and Book Signing
1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Madison College – Downtown 211 N Carroll St, Room 240…
Unlearning apartheid apologism: A Jewish response to Israeli Apartheid Week
Stop conflating anti-Zionism and criticism of the State of Israel with anti-Semitism Rya Inman /…
Free speech triumphs over pro-Israel bullies in US universities
Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 20 October 2016
Breaking: Berkeley Divests from G4S
Palestinian Rights Groups Cheer Berkeley’s Decision to Divest from Private Prisons Friends of Sabeel –…
Miko Peled’s Speech for Palestine Awareness Week at San Diego State University
I want to begin by thanking the members of AIPAC the Jewish Zionist community who…
2011.04.14: Play We Belong to the Land
Anderson Auditorium Edgewood College Madison 7:00 pm A one-person drama based on the writings of…
2011.03.22: Ziad Abbas at MATC
MATC Downtown Education Center 211 N. Carroll Street, Room D240 Madison [Map] 1:30 pm –…
2011.03.17: Ziad Abbas on WORT 89.9 FM
Thursday, March 17 Noon Ziad Abbas will be the guest on WORT radio’s A Public…
2010.03.18: Momentum for Gaza: A report on the Gaza Freedom March
Edgewood College Predolin Humanities Center [Map], Room 307 Madison 7:00 pm Josh Brollier, co-coordinator of…
2009.04.05-07: Israel-Palestine from Bush to Obama: Health, Human Rights and Foreign Policy
The University of Wisconsin – Madison Middle East Studies Program April Lecture Series Prof. Noam…
Brandeis Donors Exact Revenge for Carter Visit
Major Givers Reportedly withholding Funds from School, Sparking Fierce Free-Speech Debate on Massachusetts Campus Larry…
2006.11.03: Anna Baltzer in Madison: “New Directions for Peace in the Middle East”
Edgewood College Anderson Auditorium 5 to 6:30 pm Anna Baltzer gives the keynote address of…
2006.04.06: DISCORDIA: When Netanyahu Came to Town
Humanities Building, Room 1111 455 N. Park St UW-Madison Thursday, 7:00 pm Al-Awda, the Madison-Rafah…
2005.09.22-12.01: Film Series Finding Hope in Unexpected Places
A Community Film Series September 22 – Uncovered: The War on Iraq October 20 –…
Professor says UC Press must publish Beyond Chutzpa
Two emails from Beshara Doumani June 28, 2005 Dear Friends, I want to alert you…
Pro-Israel Groups: Campuses Improving
But “Never in the modern history of the Jewish state has there been more outspoken…
Giving Chutzpah New Meaning
Alan Dershowitz is on the defensive over his research on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Jon Wiener,…
2004.08.18: Rev. Dr. Mitri Raheb
ICB sculpture The Segregation Wall, 09-Nov-03 Memorial United Church of Christ 5705 W. Lacy…
Wisconsin Bookstore’s Fight for Free Speech Victorious
David Grogan, American Booksellers Association, Nov 12, 2003
2003.09.19-21: Toward a Peaceful World
NONVIOLENCE EVENT WEEKEND How to Spread Nonviolence, Globally and Locally September 19-21, 2003 Hosted by…
