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“The Cruelty is Staggering”: Jasper Nathaniel on Reporting from the West Bank
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Democratic National Committee Votes Down Weapons Embargo on Israel
Institute for Middle East Understanding, Aug 28, 2025
Democratic National Committee Resolution 18
Barb Olson, Aug 26, 2025
A DNC Member Is Calling for an Arms Embargo on Israel. Will the Party Leadership Listen?
ZOYA ALAM, THE NATION, AUG 26, 2025
What Zohran’s Victory Means
Peter Beinart, Jun 25, 2025
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Liberal militarism and Zionism started the latest McCarthyism
Jeet Heer, The Nation, April 2025
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Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Me
‘The Message’ cuts to the human heart of the situation in Israel-Palestine, refusing to contort…
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“We Have Lost All Credibility”
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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…
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How Joe Biden lost his grip on Israel’s war for ‘total victory’ in Gaza
A conflict the White House once hoped to moderate has gone from “over the top”…
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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…
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2024.09.08: Rejecting AIPAC: the Israel Lobby and the Democratic Party
12 noon CT Online Hear from Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, Palestinian academic Rami G. Khouri,…
Netanyahu Prefers Risking a Regional War
to a Hostage Deal and an End to the Gaza War Joel Beinin, September 1,…
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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…
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DNC Faces Backlash After Organizers Deny Request for Palestinian Speaker
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#LetPalestineSpeak
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CODEPINK Disrupts “Democratic Majority for Israel” DNC Event
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Wisconsin Palestinians have felt isolated from politics
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Wisconsin ‘uninstructed’ voters among DNC protests
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2024.08.19-22: March on the DNC 2024
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“Gaza Votes” May Determine November Election
According to Polls in Five Battleground States Today, Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action) released the…
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Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Mar 19, 2024
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CALL Pocan’s offices and insist on a pledge not to vote for any further military…
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Pro-Palestinian protesters in Milwaukee call for Gaza ceasefire
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Gaza, Biden, and a Path Forward
The president’s approach to Gaza has been a moral and political catastrophe that has made…
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Wisconsin Democrats’ silence on Gaza is predictable and unconscionable
SCOTT GORDON, TONE MADISON, OCTOBER 18, 2023 After condemning the killing of Israeli civilians, Tammy…
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REV. DR. DON WAGNER, MONDOWEISS, JUNE 13, 2023
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Chris McGreal, The Guardian, 3 Nov 2022
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Here we go again! Super PACs are trying to buy Democratic elections and taint the…
How a West Bank Trip Turned This Congressman Into One of Israel’s Strongest Critics
Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan tells Haaretz why he welcomes a new Israeli government, even one…
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Isabel Kershner, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Peter Baker, New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019 JERUSALEM…
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Dr. James J. Zogby, July 13, 2019 In the coming week, the House Committee on…
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CODEPINK, March 21, 2019 You did it! Just moments after we emailed you that Sen.…
Call NOW to stop resolution targeting Rep. Omar Ilhan
#StandWithllhan Please consider calling or emailing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and your own Representative: Speaker…
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Palestinians walk past a sign painted on a wall in Bethlehem, in the West Bank,…
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Gay Liberation Network declares ‘We Stand With Palestine’ during Chicago’s Gay Pride Parade
Mondoweiss, June 24, 2018
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Aiden Pink, Information Clearing House, June 13, 2018 Not many in the media are noticing,…
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Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz, June 05, 2017 Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid for the U.S. presidency…
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Democracy Now!, December 30, 2016
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9:00 am – 6:00 pm Breese Stevens Field, Madison MRSCP has activities planned for Fighting…
Clinton to Palestine: Drop dead
Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, June 27, 2016
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Josh Ruebner & Tamar Ghabin, US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, June 16th, 2016…
Urge the Democratic Platform Committee to call for ending the occupation of the West Bank
Just Foreign Policy, 6/16/16 The Forward reports that former Congressman Robert Wexler is putting pressure…
