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Jul 20, 2026
Land Grab: Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West Bank
Michael D. Shear, Daniel Berehulak, Leanne Abraham and Fatima AbdulKarim, New York Times, Dec. 20, 2025
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Updates from the ground: Gaza’s Water Crisis & Jenin’s Forced Erasure
Good Shepherd Collective, Jul 1, 2025
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Israel just changed how land ownership works in the West Bank
QASSAM MUADDI, MONDOWEISS, JUNE 12, 2025
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2025.03.23: Update From Palestine
Madison Christian Community, 7118 Old Sauk Rd, 9:00 am
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2024.09.21: Film “Where Olive Trees Weep”
International Peace Day Viewing Friends Meeting House, 1704 Roberts Court, Madison 7 pm (social gathering…
An American was just shot in the West Bank.
The American press can’t be bothered. As waning global attention is on the war in…
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worldbeyondwar.uw Antiwar Film Series Central Library, 201 W Mifflin St, Room 302 Meet at 6:00…
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 272
Israelis urge Netanyahu to accept U.S. ceasefire deal as Hamas gives its response Hezbollah has…
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May 14, 2024 Online Premiere, June 6-27, 2024 “Where Olive Trees Weep” offers a searing…
The Army Has a New Strategy
Awdah Hathaleen, HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA, MAY 4 The occupation army has a new strategy:…
United Methodist Church votes to divest from Israel bonds
In the first such divestment action by a major Christian denomination, the General Conference of…
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Amnesty International, February 19, 2024
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Nevine El Nossery, Madison365, Nov 2, 2023
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Jeff Halper, ICAHD, May 29, 2022 Today, Sunday, May 29, the Jewish state of Israel…
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On Thursday Mar 31, 2022 a large Israeli force entered the tiny village of A…
