The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: free speech
Mar 14, 2026
“Operation Wrath of Zion” in New York City
JACK POULSON, DROP SITE NEWS, JAN 30, 2025
They’re trying to deport vigils for murdered Palestinian kids
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, JAN 30, 2025
My imprisonment in Switzerland, with Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada, Jan 28, 2025
Switzerland deports EI’s Ali Abunimah
The Electronic Intifada, 27 January 2025
Release Ali Abunimah from Swiss jail
Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement (WiBOPM), January 26, 2025
A Fascist Salute, A Ceasefire, and Repression of Palestine Speech
Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University, Jan 23, 2025
Dwight Howard: ‘I tweeted Free Palestine.’
‘Less than 10 minutes later, I got a call from the NBA commissioner.’ By HoopsHype | January 7,…
UK police arrest Israeli academic Haim Bresheeth after pro-Palestine speech
MEE staff, Middle East Eye, 4 November 2024
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…
What we learned from UW-Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment
How this protest fits into recent history, what to carry moving forward, and what to…
‘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”…
Sign the UW faculty/staff-written petition
Sign the faculty/staff-written petition urging the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs (VCSA) drop the unjust sanctions that were…
UK police raid home, seize devices of Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, 17 October 2024
Two students will face disciplinary hearings for UW encampment
Students for Justice in Palestine-UW Madison asks that we email Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Lori…
2024.10.28: Film Boycott, on the anti-BDS movement
Madison Central Library 6:00 pm Over the past six years, unbeknownst to most Americans, 37…
Universities Act to Silence Pro-Palestinian Demonstrators
September 16, 2024 Dr. James J. Zogby President, Arab American Institute In the 1960s, social critic…
2024.09.17: Growing Repression of Dissent on Palestine
10 am CT Online Join this online briefing to learn more about growing repression of…
2024.09.11: Support student facing discipline for pro-Palestine actions
September 11, 2024 Please consider attending this rally and hearing as requested by UW-Madison Students…
Free speech expert, ACLU question new UW-Madison protest policy
Singing, distributing newspapers and more “expressive activities” could be banned within 25 feet of university…
UW-Madison admin, students for Palestine share status of last semester’s agreement
By Camberyn Kelley, WMTV, Sep. 5, 2024 MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) – UW-Madison students and administration share…
Nurse fired by NYU Langone Health after referring to Gaza ‘genocide’ in speech
BY KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press, May 29, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — A nurse was fired…
‘Dark Times’: Israeli Historian Ilan Pappé Detained, Interrogated by FBI
“The good news is—actions like this by the USA or European countries taken under pressure…
URGENT: Tell your senators to vote against speech-chilling legislation
Should college students who compare Israeli government policy with that of the Nazis be investigated by…
Tell Congress To Vote No on Four Anti-Palestine Bills
Washington, DC | www.adc.org | May 4, 2024 – Pro-Palestine protests are continuing to grow, and that…
ADC: Congress Passes Dangerous Bill to Silence Criticism of Israel
Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | May 1, 2024 — In response to the student-led, pro-Palestinian movement, the…
2024.04.29 & ongoing: SJP Protest for Divestment and Rally for Gaza
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Students for Justice in Palestine- UW…
Google fires 28 over protest of Israel contract
Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday after sit-ins at the company’s offices in protest of its…
2024.04.18: Israel Has Formed a Task Force to Carry Out Covert Campaigns at US Universities
William I. Robinson , TRUTHOUT, March 23, 2024
META REFUSES TO ANSWER ON GAZA CENSORSHIP
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on…
US Dept of Education could stifle criticism of Israel at UW-Madison
ARVIND DILAWAR, TONE MADISON, MARCH 25, 2024
The Right to Boycott Film Online
In five minutes, the video sounds the alarm on laws intended to take away Americans’…
Who Is Funding Canary Mission?
JAMES BAMFORD, THE NATION, DECEMBER 22, 2023
Meet Aida Touma-Sliman, Palestinian Knesset Member
DEMOCRACY NOW!, DECEMBER 28, 2023
Simone Zimmerman and Israelism with Mehdi Hasan
Rent Israelism through Jan 1, 2024: https://bit.ly/rentisraelism About the film When two young American Jews…
Critics say bill targeting anti-Zionism is new McCarthyism
HR 6578 would build a commission with subpoena authority to force Americans to testify and…
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and…
Call It Genocide, Pay the Price
Marchers carry Palestinian flags during a May Day celebration in Kreuzberg, Germany, 2017. (Montecruz Foto,…
The Harvard Law Review Refused to Run This Piece About Genocide in Gaza
The piece was nearing publication when the journal decided against publishing it. You can read…
Israeli History Teacher Arrested for Posts Opposing Killing of Palestinians
DEMOCRACY NOW! NOVEMBER 22, 2023 This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.…
New Israeli Law on the “Consumption of Terrorist Publications”
7amleh has published a position paper on a new Israeli law “Prohibiting the Consumption of…
Appalling: Columbia University suspends JVP and SJP student chapters
JVP is appalled at Columbia University’s decision to suspend JVP and SJP student chapters for…
James Zogby: Silencing Debate
October 30, 2023 Dr. James J. Zogby © President Arab American Institute In recent years,…
‘McCarthyite backlash’ to criticism of Israel
Civil rights groups say critics of the Israeli assault on Gaza have lost jobs and…
Senate suppression of pro-Palestinian voices
Donate Here October 27, 2023 – American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) expresses deep concern over…
Report: Blinken Urged Qatar to Censor Al Jazeera on Gaza
The outlet has been a crucial source of on-the-ground reporting from Gaza. Sharon Zhang, TRUTHOUT,…
Podcast with Jeff Halper & Huwaida Arraf censored
J.G. Michael, Producer and Host of Parallax Views, reports that his recent podcast with Jeff &…
Hilton Hotel Capitulates to Hate, Cancels Palestinian Voices
Houston, TX | www.uscpr.org | October 18, 2023 – Yesterday, the Hilton Houston Post Oak…
Emergency Fund to Protect Palestinian and Arab Students on College Campuses
In the past several days, ADC has received an endless barrage of complaints and…
Have the People Protesting a Palestinian Literary Festival Read Any Palestinian Literature?
PETER BEINART, The Beinart Notebook, SEP 26, 2023 Sources Cited in this Video The…
Jewish doctor denied payment for refusing Israel pledge
ANDREW LAPIN, JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY, MAY 3, 2023
Film Boycott Now Available to Stream
Watch Trailer More information from Just Vision
D.C. Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against Israeli Boycott
Court dismisses claims arising from 2013 Boycott Resolution as a SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public…
Victory! ABA removes controversial definition of antisemitism
Proposed resolution targeted Palestinian rights advocacy In January, we sent letters urging the American Bar…
Harvard Reverses Course on Advocate Who Criticized Israel
Blocking the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor…
U.S. Palestinian Rights Group in Federal Appeals Court
Confronts Challenge to Human Rights Advocacy Last week a U.S.-based Palestinian rights organization asked the…
Distorted Definition: Redefining Antisemitism to Silence Advocacy for Palestinian Rights
One of the primary tactics opponents of the movement for Palestinian freedom have used to…
Department of Education to investigate Berkeley Law School
MICHAEL ARRIA, MONDOWEISS, DECEMBER 16, 2022
The Case Against ALEC Lawmakers Continues in Arizona Supreme Court
On November 15, the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA), Black Lives Matter (BLM) Phoenix Metro,…
Rising up against Israel’s repression
Today across Palestine, we’re witnessing the Palestinian people rise up united once again. It is…
Anti-Palestinianism makes the misuse of antisemitism possible
MONA ABUAMARA, MONDOWEISS, AUGUST 20, 2022
2022.10.05-09: Acclaimed Film Boycott free online
An online film salon for the acclaimed film: BOYCOTT Sunday, 9 October 2022 1pm PT, 2pm…
President Biden: Stop Israeli Government’s Attacks on Palestinian Civil Society
(Final version, emphasis added) Dear colleagues and comrades, Thank you so much for signing on…
Rally for Google and Amazon workers against Israeli military
🚨ACTION ALERT🚨 Next Thursday, September 8th at 5pm at the Seattle Google campus (1000 Mercer…
Google’s anti-Palestinian worker retaliation
Huge news just broke. Today, tech worker organizer Ariel Koren, active in our #NoTechForApartheid campaign,…
Has the Fight Against Antisemitism Lost Its Way?
In a terrible irony, the campaign against “anti-semitism” has become a threat to freedom Peter…
President Biden: Stop Israeli Government’s Attacks on Palestinian Civil Society
The Honorable Joseph R. Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, DC 20500 Dear…
Mark Pocan: US should condemn this action
I’m with the nine countries in the EU on this. The US should condemn this…
Palestinian Rights Organizations Raided & Shut Down
American Friends Service Committee, August 18, 2022 Stand with Palestinian human rights defenders Early this…
Democracies don’t raid human rights offices
Democracies don’t raid human rights offices in the middle of the night. pic.twitter.com/kJZSVCl1Tx — IfNotNow🔥…
Breaking: Six Palestinian NGOs raided & closed
Just Vision, August 18, 2022 Early this morning, Israeli army forces raided the offices of…
If Not Now Says “#DropAIPAC”
Join the Movement of Jews, Orgs, and Politicians Pledging to #DropAIPAC AIPAC endorsed 109 insurrectionist…
ADC Welcomes Decision by Montgomery County Council
The Montgomery County Council was initially scheduled to consider a harmful and overly expansive definition…
ACLU Challenges Cancellation of Palestine Mural
Sarah Wright, The San Francisco Standard, July 14, 2022 A new letter from the American…
No evidence from Israel that Palestinian NGOs are ‘terrorist organizations’
“In the absence of such evidence, we will continue our cooperation and strong support for…
17 years of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), July 8, 2022 Today our movement celebrates 17 years. On…
Ben & Jerry’s sues parent company over Israeli deal
Complaint says Unilever sale of Israeli business to a local licensee to sell its ice-cream…
The right to boycott is heading to the Supreme Court
I’m writing with breaking news. Today the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that boycotts…
Montgomery Bus Boycott, December 5, 1955 to December 20, 1956
Rosa Parks sitting on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. (Encyclopedia Britannica) The boycott was…
AIPAC’s new tactic to unseat Rashida Tlaib
A new Super PAC aligned with AIPAC looks to undercut the only Palestinian Democrat ever…
San Francisco Library Censors Palestine
Demand the Reinstatement of the Wall + Response Exhibit Now! After four months of planning,…
American Bar Association questions Israel’s designation of six Palestinian organizations
JEFF WRIGHT, Mondoweiss, MAY 5, 2022
2022.04.25: Wisconsin Premiere of the Film Boycott
Just Vision’s new documentary, Boycott, will have its Wisconsin Premiere at the Milwaukee Film Festival…
Google, don’t punish your workers for standing with Palestinians!
Yesterday @latimes reported that @Google is punishing a worker who doesn't want her labor to…
They think we Arabs are uncivilized?
Amer Zahr, YouTube, 8 March 2022 Amer Zahr is a Palestinian Arab American comedian, speaker,…
Israel Uses Military Tech Industry to Spy on Americans
If Americans Knew, YouTube, Oct 6, 2021
#Palestine: Violations of Palestinian Digital Rights in 2021
The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media (7amleh), 2022-01-10 1,033 violations of Palestinian…
Human rights defenders targeted by Israel launch joint website
Online Hub Provides Information and Calls to Action Aimed at Reversing Ban on Six Palestinian…
‘I thought I was a free man’: the engineer fighting Texas’s ban on boycotting Israel
Erum Salam, The Guardian, 7 Dec 2021
New York Times Op-ed on BDS
November 22, 2021 I’m writing to share some news: a few hours ago, The New…
Statement on #StandWithThe6 by Madison-Rafah Sister City Project
Revised MRSCP Statement on #StandWithThe6
Vermonters for Justice in Palestine #StandWithThe6
Vermonters for Justice in Palestine, November 16, 2021 Our own Executive Director, Reverend Mark Davidson,…
Israel can monitor every telephone call in West Bank and Gaza, says intelligence source
Lubna Masarwa, Middle East Eye, 15 November 2021
Escalating surveillance calls for escalated action: #StandWiththe6
News broke today that NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware has been detected on phones of six Palestinian…
Human Rights Groups: ‘Israel targeted us for one reason’
Yuval Abraham, +972 Magazine, October 25, 2021
