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May 13, 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…
2022.04.01: March is a month of resilience and bravery for the Palestinian people
As Americans Muslims for Palestine commemorates Land Day on March 30th, we concurrently remember the…
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Shatha Hammad, Middle East Eye,17 January 2022
Channel 12 News report: Settler violence in the South Hebron Hills
Breaking the Silence, Jul 26, 2021 Last Friday night, 15 minutes of the main evening…
Fact Sheet: Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Palestinian citizens of Israel protesting the passage of the Jewish nation-state law. Tel Aviv, August…
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Help Harun Abu Aram Heal Rebuilding Alliance is organizing this fundraiser and will be working…
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Video Link Good Shepherd Collective, February 19, 2020 This morning, the Israeli military entered the…
Why We Sail, Sail, and Sail Again: Freedom Flotilla 2020
Canadian Boat to Gaza, December 20, 2019 Freedom Flotilla sailors and participants are sometimes asked:…
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Operation Dove, 2/13/19 Facebook video: Israel Destroys South Hebron Hills Water Piping Today Israeli forces…
‘No to Apartheid’
Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss, January 23, 2019
Why I March in Gaza
Palestinian demonstrators on a sand plateau during clashes with Israeli forces last Friday east of…
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A program for Civil International Solidarity with Palestinians October 13th (arrival) – 22nd (departure), 2018…
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Whitney Webb, MintPress News, October 6, 2016
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Devorah Manekin and Guy Grossman, The Washington Post, February 13, 2017 An Israeli soldier stands…
Palestinians protest moving US embassy to Jerusalem
Israeli forces suppress weekly marches in Bilin, Kafr Qaddum Ma’an News Agency, January 21, 2017…
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· Seizure would allow huge expansion of settlements · Move seen as rush to make…
Apartheid Reigns In Israel, Activist-author Says
He Claims Nation Is Hurting Self With Its Policies SAMARA KALK DERBY, The Capital Times,…
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Jennifer Loewenstein, CounterPunch, 23 september, 2007
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NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, CounterPunch, NOVEMBER 13, 2006
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