The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: colonialism
Apr 8, 2026
2026.03.15: Beyond Border Walls with Jamal Juma
Online, 12 PM CT
Don’t Forget Gaza and the Palestinians
DIANA BUTTU, ZETEO, MAR 09, 2026
International Women’s Day: The Inspiring Resistance Of Palestinian Women
BDS National Committee, 8-Mar-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.
A Day for Gaza
The Nation, February 3, 2026
Israeli security cabinet approves rules to increase control over West Bank
Al Jazeera Staff and News Agencies, 8 Feb 2026
There Is No “After Gaza”
Sarah Aziza, The Nation, JAN 31, 2026
annexation, arms, assassination, blockade, Board of Peace, censorship, civilians, colleges & universities, colonialism, Donald Trump, encampments, ethnic cleansing, Europe, exposure, free speech, Freedom Flotilla, Gaza War, genocide, Ghassan Kanafani, Global Sumud Flotilla, Hannibal Directive, hasbara, Hiba Abu Nada, hospitals, hostages, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Israel Lobby, Jared Kushner, journalists, Mahmoud Khalil, Ms. Rachel, Nakba, October 7, Palestine, prisoners, propaganda, Refaat Al-Areer, Rumeysa Ozturk, starvation, UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), war crimes, West Bank, Zionism
Israeli Cabinet Approves 19 New Apartheid Colonies in Occupied West Bank
BRETT WILKINS, Common Dreams, Dec 21, 2025
A smaller cage: Israel’s ‘two-state solution’ on Gaza’s ruins
Muhammad Shehada, The New Arab, 11 December 2025
Freedom Flotilla Coalition Announces Expanded 2026 Sailings to Gaza
Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), Dec 10, 2025
Israel is recycling an old colonial plan in Gaza
QASSAM MUADDI, MONDOWEISS, DECEMBER 14, 2025
How Israel Organizes and Arms Settler Militias to Terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank
David Schutz, DROP SITE NEWS, DEC 10, 2025
Trump, Gaza, and Oslo Déjà Vu
JEREMY SCAHILL AND JAWA AHMAD, DROP SITE NEWS, DEC 01, 2025
Israeli Knesset Advances Bill to Annex West Bank as JD Vance Visits Israel
Sharon Zhang, Truthout, October 22, 2025
Hamas’s Strategic Gamble
JEREMY SCAHILL, DROP SITE NEWS, OCT 05, 2025
2025.12.04: Palestine on Screen – Stories of Survival and Resistance
UW-Madison Memorial Library, Room 126, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
‘This Place is Ours’
Prime Minister of Israel, Sep 11, 2025
Israel PM vows ‘there will be no Palestinian state’
Agence France-Presse, 11 Sep 2025
In Israel, ‘animals in human form’ may be killed
TAMIR SOREK, MONDOWEISS, AUGUST 31, 2025
2025.08.12: The Judaization of the Holy City
Online, 12 Noon CT
2025.08.02: Feed Gaza Protest
Capitol Square at State St, 10-11 am
2025.06.25: ‘Global Palestine: What is Happening to the Middle East and Where is it Headed?’
Online, 12-1:30 pm CT
Abdel Razzaq Takriti, Abraham Accords, American, American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Arab, Bertrand Russell, blockade, calendar, colonialism, democracy, digital, doctors, Donald Trump, education, Gaza War, Hezbollah, human rights, Iran, Israeli, Issa Amro, Jeff Halper, Madison, Middle East, military, Mouin Rabbani, online, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, Rafah, revolutions, Rice University, solidarity, stories, Syria, Tel Aviv, Turkey, United Nations (UN), war, world, Zionism
This Is Israel
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, JUN 03, 2025
Amazon, apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu, Caitlin Johnstone, civilians, colonialism, Gaza War, hospitals, images, immigrants, indigenous, Israel, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli, journalists, land, media, Palestinian, peace, Progressives, settlers, terrorism, two-state, video, war, West Bank, world, Zionism
Gaza Stripped: The Colonial Isolation Of Gaza
Visualizing Palestine, May, 2025
“No Other Land” centers the resilience of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation
DAVID BOFFA, TONE MADISON, MAY 21, 2025
aid, American, apartheid, Basel Adra, civilians, colonialism, documentary, donate, ethnic cleansing, film, Hamdan Ballal, human rights, Israel, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli, journalists, labor, land, Madison, Masafer Yatta, media, military, No Other Land, occupation, Oscar, Palestine, Palestinian, racism, Rafah, settlers, stories, tech, terrorism, United States, video, vigil, war, West Bank, Wisconsin
2025.05.25 & 06.08 Updates: Oscar-Winning Film “No Other Land” in Madison
May 25: Bartell Theater 5 pm & 7 pm | Jun 8: Christ Presbyterian Church…
2025.05.07-08: Last 2 Days to Stream “No Other Land”
Watch Online, Support Masafer Yatta!
2025.04.14-18: UW Against Apartheid Week
Students for Justice in Palestine UW-Madison
2025.03.13: A Conversation with Mazin Qumsiyeh
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) – USA, Mar 4, 2025
2025.03.12: A Conversation with Issa Amro and Jeff Halper
Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) – USA, Mar 4, 2025
apartheid, calendar, colonialism, democracy, detainees, equality, ethnic cleansing, Freedom Flotilla, genocide, Hebron, home demolition, human rights, Israeli, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), Issa Amro, Jeff Halper, Jewish, justice, Madison, Muslim, occupation, online, Palestinian, Palestinian Authority (PA), peace, Rafah, sanction, settlers, terrorism, travel, war, West Bank, Zionism
2025.03.12: #BoycottChevron for Human Rights and Planet Earth
Online, 12 PM Central, 8 PM Palestine
apartheid, BDS, boycott, calendar, California, Chevron, climate, colonialism, Congress, corporations, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), divest, environment, genocide, Grassroots, human rights, indigenous, Israel, Israeli, Jewish, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), justice, land, Madison, Methodist, occupation, online, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, Rafah, resources, terrorism, torture, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), war, women, world
How To Erase a People
uncivilized, Feb 17, 2025
2025.03.21-30: Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), February 10, 2025
Trump Halts Sanctions On Israeli Settlers
Jonah Valdez, The Intercept, January 22 2025
allies, annexation, Arab, Bedouin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Christian, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), colonialism, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Donald Trump, drones, Elon Musk, ethnic cleansing, Gaza War, Hamas, healthcare, hostages, human rights, Indonesia, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Criminal Court (ICC), Iran, Iron Wall, Israel, Israeli, Jared Kushner, Jenin, Joe Biden, journalists, Judea, justice, land, law, Madison, Mike Huckabee, military, nurses, occupation, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, prison, prisoners, Rafah, Samaria, sanction, Saudi Arabia, schools, settlers, State Department, terrorism, two-state, United Nations (UN), vote, Wall, war, war crimes, West Bank, world
Jared Kushner’s New Investments in Israeli Settlements
FREDDY BREWSTER & KATYA SCHWENK, THE LEVER, JAN 16, 2025
Beita, benefit, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ceasefire Jan 15 2025, colonialism, Donald Trump, Gaza War, Golan Heights, Haaretz, Hamas, Israeli, Jared Kushner, Jerusalem, Joe Biden, land, law, Madison, Middle East, negotiations, occupation, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Palestine, Palestinian, Rafah, sanction, Saudi Arabia, settlers, Steve Witkoff, Syria, terrorism, United Nations (UN), war, water, West Bank
East Jerusalem, West Bank Palestinians displaced en masse
Home Demolitions spike to 15 year high Israel, like every other settler-colonial state, is premised…
GAZA IN CONTEXT Series: The Colonial History that Shaped the Modern Middle East
OnlineJan 5, 12, 26 and Feb 2, 2024 2:00 – 3:30 pm CT Massachusetts Peace…
Arab, Balfour Declaration, colonialism, Congress, education, ethnic cleansing, freedom, Gaza, history, IBM, indigenous, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Iraq, Israel, Israeli, Jordan, Lebanon, Madison, Middle East, Nakba, nationalism, October 7, online, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, Peace Action, Rafah, resistance, Syria, terrorism, travel, United Kingdom, video, war, world, Zionism
Report: We Will Return
An analysis of the escalating forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the West Bank since…
aid, annexation, apartheid, BDS, Bedouin, Benjamin Netanyahu, boycott, colonialism, corporations, divest, Donald Trump, education, Egypt, Eli Valley, ethnic cleansing, Francesca Albanese, Gaza War, ghetto, Grassroots, healthcare, Hebron, human rights, indigenous, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli, Jordan, Judea, justice, land, law, Madison, Madison Common Council, military, Nakba, Netzarim, occupation, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, petition, racism, Rafah, refugees, resistance, resources, Samaria, sanction, settlers, solidarity, South Africa, spying, Sudan, Syria, take action, tech, terrorism, UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), unions, United Nations (UN), violations, vote, Wall, war, war crimes, water, West Bank, women, world
Challenging Israeli ‘Hasbara’ and ‘Conventional Wisdom’ on Palestine
An Anti-Colonial Reframing Jeff Halper, Director, ICAHD, October 30, 2024 Israel’s success in “selling” its…
American, American Bar Association (ABA), apartheid, Arab, blockade, colonialism, democracy, disinformation, ethnic cleansing, Hamas, hasbara, human rights, indigenous, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, Israel Lobby, Israeli, Jeff Halper, Jerusalem, Jewish, journalists, justice, land, law, Madison, military, Muslim, negotiations, New York Times, occupation, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, prison, propaganda, Rafah, refugees, resistance, settlers, terrorism, two-state, war, West Bank, Zionism
2024.11.16: Live from Palestine: Ongoing Israeli Genocide and Nakba
Online 12 Noon – 1:30 pm Central As the Israeli Genocide surpasses the 1-year mark,…
2024.10.18: Rev. Prof. Mitri Raheb on WORT
A Public Affair with Esty Dinur NoonLive at 89.9 FM or streaming, and archived Esty…
“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…
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2024.10.15: Voice Matters: Writing and Speaking for a World BEYOND War
Honoring Indigenous Peoples Day Central Library, 201 W Mifflin, Room 104 6 – 8 pm…
2024.09.18: Visualizing Palestine Virtual Book Launch
10 am CT This Wednesday, September 18th we hope you’ll join us for a virtual…
2024.09.09: Infrastructures of Revolt
Mass Politics and Anti-Colonial Revolutions in the Middle East Ingraham 206UW-Madison12:00 pm – 1:15 pm …
Israel Using Ceasefire Talks to Expand Colonization of Palestine
Israel’s insistence on controlling two key corridors shows its intention to carry out land grabs,…
annexation, Benjamin Netanyahu, colonialism, Egypt, ethnic cleansing, Francesca Albanese, Gaza City, Gaza War, genocide, Hamas, images, Intifada, Israel, Israeli, Joe Biden, Jordan, land, law, media, military, Mouin Rabbani, negotiations, Netzarim, occupation, Palestine, Palestinian, war, water, West Bank2024.06.20: Jeff Halper on WORT
Noon – 1 pm Anthropologist, author and anti-occupation activist Jeff Halper will be interviewed by A…
“A Racist, Criminal Project”
Palestinian Historian Abdel Razzaq Takriti on the 1948 Nakba, Zionism, and U.S. Policy Democracy Now!,…
2024.05.23: Join a conversation on land and solidarity
7 p.m. CT online My name is Amy Yoder McGloughlin. I am the pastor at…
Settler Colonialisms and Deadly Violence: Algeria and Israel/Palestine
Joel Beinin, Professor of History and Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University, Apr 17, 2024
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…
Maps: Loss of Land
PalestinePortal.org, March 15, 2024
American, apartheid, Bethlehem, Black, colonialism, Eli Valley, ethnic cleansing, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), history, images, indigenous, Israeli, Jerusalem, Jordan, land, law, maps, Methodist, Middle East, occupation, online, Palestine, Palestinian, racism, schools, solidarity, South Africa, United Nations (UN), video, water, West BankIncreasingly Bold Israel Begins Building Settlements In Downtown Albuquerque
The Onion, January 27, 2021
A Palestinian writer’s damning dispatches from Israel
Sarah Irving, The Electronic Intifada, 7 July 2016
2014.09.25-11.13: The Joe Deane Memorial Series on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Madison Central Library, Rm. 104 201 W. Mifflin Thurs. Sept. 25th 6:30 pm The Zionist…
Israeli Intransigence Lets BDS Into the Mainstream
Alex Kane, December 21, 2010 The world is fed up with Israel, with its continued…
2010.11.10: John Mearsheimer to Speak in Madison
Student Progressive Dane and the Middle Eastern Law Student Association present Greater Israel’s Bleak Future…
The Map: The Story of Palestinian Nationhood Thwarted
Juan Cole, Informed Comment, March 16, 2010
Algeria, apartheid, Arab, Avi Shlaim, Avigdor Lieberman, Balfour Declaration, Bedouin, Benjamin Netanyahu, charities, Christian, Christians United for Israel (CUFI), civilians, colonialism, Egypt, Europe, Germany, human rights, images, immigration, Intifada, Iraq, Islamic, Israel, Israeli, Jerusalem, Jewish, Joe Biden, Jordan, Juan Cole, land, law, Lebanon, Madison, Mahmoud Abbas, maps, negotiations, occupation, Palestine, Palestinian, prison, prisoners, racism, Rafah, Russia, Syria, training, United Kingdom, United Nations (UN), United States, war, West Bank, world, ZionismNetanyahu defies U.S. over Jerusalem settlement
Jeffrey Heller, Reuters, 15 March 2010 JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday rejected…
Diagnosing Benny Morris: the mind of a European settler
Gabriel Ash, The Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2004
The Reality of the “Geneva Accord”
Al-Awda, 5 December 2003
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