The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: freedom
May 1, 2026
2025.11.17: Steadfast on Campus – A Century of Global Palestinian Student Activism
Online, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm CT
Netanyahu is preparing a way out
Elijah J Magnier, Oct 09, 2025
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2025.09.07: A Celebration of Culture, Resistance and Liberation in Oak Creek
Cherrie Hanson, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Sep 12, 2025
Updates from the ground: Gaza’s Water Crisis & Jenin’s Forced Erasure
Good Shepherd Collective, Jul 1, 2025
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Muslim Women’s Coalition Response to Archewell Foundation
Muslim Women’s Coalition, April 17, 2025
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2025.01.29 Update: Nakba Film “Tantura” in Madison
World Beyond War UW-Madison and Veterans for Peace – Madison
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The Gaza Ceasefire: Pharoah is Still Pharoah
Rabbi Brant Rosen, Shalom Rav, Jan 17, 2025
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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…
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As a former IDF soldier and historian of genocide, I was deeply disturbed by my recent visit to Israel
The Israeli public long ago became inured to the brutal occupation that has characterised the…
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No, Israel does not have a right to defend itself in Gaza. But the Palestinians do.
CRAIG MOKHIBER, MONDOWEISS, SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
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“Trying to Repeat the Nakba”
Israel Launches Largest Military Raids in West Bank in Two Decades DEMOCRACY NOW! AUGUST 28,…
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‘Israel always sold the occupation as legal. The ICJ now terrifies them’
Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu unpacks the ICJ opinion on Israel’s military regime, and the lessons…
Al-Aqsa Mosque, Al-Khalil, American, apartheid, Australia, BDS, Beita, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bezalel Smotrich, Canada, checkpoints, Diana Buttu, divest, economy, equality, Europe, freedom, Geneva Conventions (1949), Haifa, Hamas, human rights, Huwara, images, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, Israeli, Jerusalem, Jewish, journalists, Judea, justice, La Crosse, labor, land, law, Madison, Mahmoud Abbas, media, military, Nablus, Nakba, negotiations, occupation, October 7, Oslo Accords, Palestine, Palestinian, Palestinian Authority (PA), peace, podcast, protest, racism, Rafah, Ramadan, Ramallah, refugees, resistance, Samaria, sanction, self-defense, South Africa, terrorism, travel, two-state, United States, violations, vote, Wall, war, water, West Bank, WhatsApp, world, WORT 89.9 FM‘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…
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NETANYAHU’S WAR ON TRUTH
Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept, February 7, 2024
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In sufficient quantity, and distributed equitably to all civilians across Gaza Al Mezan Centre for…
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JUDITH LAITMAN AND TSELA BARR — GUEST COLUMN, JUNE 14, 2023 This year on April…
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Tamar Megiddo, Ronit Levine-Schnur and Yael Berda, Just Security, February 9, 2023
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Blocking the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor…
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Dr. James J. Zogby, Arab American Institute, October 17, 2022 During the past month Israel…
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David Luhrssen, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Oct 14, 2022
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A Palestinian girl lays roses on the grave of one of the children of Nijim…
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…
A Word from Jeff Halper on “Jerusalem Day”
Jeff Halper, ICAHD, May 29, 2022 Today, Sunday, May 29, the Jewish state of Israel…
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JEFF WRIGHT, Mondoweiss, MAY 5, 2022
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Alon-Lee Green with Hadash MKs Dov Khenin and Ayman Odeh on October 9, 2015 “Jews…
The US supports illegal annexations by Israel and Morocco. Why the hypocrisy?
Peter Beinart, The Guardian, 10 Mar 2022
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Aida Touma-Sliman, JewishCurrents, February 6, 2020 LAST WEEK, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu announced a…
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Gideon Levy, If Americans Knew, September 12, 2019
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Addameer, 16 October 2018 “Scars of Freedom” describes the Palestinian experience of arrest, interrogation, and…
Israeli Law Declares the Country the ‘Nation-State of the Jewish People’
A vote of 62 to 55 with two abstentions Arab lawmakers protesting as Parliament passed…
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Karama Fadel, The New Arab, 23 February, 2018
Israel sunk in ‘incremental tyranny’, say former Shin Bet chiefs
Peter Beaumont, The Guardian, 6 April 2017
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Palestinian BDS National Committee, July 7, 2016
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Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, June 27, 2016
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“A Public Affair” WORT 89.9 FM 12 noon “A Public Affair” will be previewing the…
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Jewish Voice for Peace – Madison, May 15, 2008 JVP’s Madison Chapter held a very…
Endless War
Mivtza Nikayon — Operation Cleaning Arab refugees in northern Israel on the road to Lebanon,…
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Al-Awda, 5 December 2003
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Jewish Peace News, 10 Aug 2003 [Israel’s new citizenship law, passed recently by a wide…
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