The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)

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Mar 19, 2026

2026.03.03: Seen and Unseen: A Homeless Awareness Experience
Capitol Square, 12-5 pm
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2026.01.28: Homelessness Among Students & Families In Madison
Linden CoHousing Great Room, 107 Sutherland Ct, Madison, 8-9:30 am
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2025.12.21: Longest Night Homeless Persons’ Memorial Service
Capitol Square at King St, 3 pm
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Wave of Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon; Unprecedented number of settler attacks in the West Bank
DROP SITE NEWS, NOV 7, 2025
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2025.09.01: Join MRSCP at Labor Fest!
Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S Park, 12-5:30 pm
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In Gaza, U.S. Mercenaries Advance Israeli War Aims
Kelley Beaucar Vlahos, The American Conservative, Jul 11, 2025
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The Global March to Gaza advances towards the Rafah Crossing
GAZA, Palestinian Information Center, 9-June-2025
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Drones strike ship carrying aid to Gaza
SAM MEDNICK AND RENATA BRITO, AP, May 2, 2025
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U.N. Commission and U.S. Surgeons Accuse Israel of Genocide and Torture
Democracy Now!, March 13, 2025
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The Oscar went to ‘No Other Land,’ but that might not save Masafer Yatta
Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, March 8, 2025
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Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Rev. J. Mark Davidson, Voices For Justice in Palestine, Feb 21, 2025
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2024.12.21 Update: Interfaith “Longest Night” Gaza Vigil
Around 75 people braved the cold weather and joined the longest night vigil and service…
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Killing Underscores ‘War-Like’ Israeli Assault on West Bank Olive Growers
“The olive season has turned into a season of killing for the Palestinian people, whether…
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42 Years Later: The Massacre of Sabra and Shatila Still Haunts Us Amid Gaza’s Ongoing Genocide
Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | September 15, 2024 – Today marks the 42nd anniversary of one of…
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2024.09.02: Madison LaborFest
Madison-Rafah Sister City Project and Jewish Voice for Peace will be tabling at this Labor…
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‘I’m bored, so I shoot’: The Israeli army’s free-for-all violence in Gaza
Israeli soldiers describe the near-total absence of firing regulations in the Gaza war, with troops…
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2024.05.04: Challenging Christian Silence Regarding the Gaza Genocide
The Palestinian Christian Alliance for Peace (PCAP), Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA) and a…
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In Memoriam: Aaron Bushnell, 1999-2024
Radha Surya, Znet, March 22, 2024
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Israel hits landmark residential tower as truce talks stall
Al Jazeera, 9 Mar 2024
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2024.02.14: Launching a year-long Grassroots for Gaza aid campaign
with a Valentines Day to Leap Year Silent Auction Gaza is now the deadliest place…
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The shocking inhumanity of Israel’s crimes in Gaza
Survivors of Israel’s ground invasion in northern Gaza tell chilling stories of kidnappings, torture, and…
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They’re Calling Ethnic Cleansing “Voluntary Migration” Now
Violently coercing someone to do something and killing them if they don’t is the opposite…
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In the Shadow of the Holocaust
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and…
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Three Views of Bernie Sanders and the Palestine-Israel Conflict
The three articles below, Bernie Sanders essay in the New York Times, the letter from…
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Nakba 2.0: Israeli Gov’t Minister Describes War on Gaza as another Ethnic Cleansing
JUAN COLE, INFORMED COMMENT, 11/13/2023 Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – As Maya Angelou wisely…
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In Gaza, Catastrophic Violence of War and Slow Violence of Oppression Collide
People search through buildings, destroyed during Israeli air raids in the southern Gaza Strip on…
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Thousands of Palestinian Workers Have Gone Missing in Israel
‘We Don’t Know if They Are Dead or Alive’ TAJ ALI, Tribune, Oct 23, 2023…
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What More Must the Children of Gaza Suffer?
(Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times) Fadi Abu Shammalah, The New York Times,…
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Umm Alkhair is in a big danger..
Awdah Hathaleen, HUMANS OF MASAFER YATTA OCT 1, 2023 On the outskirts of the foothills…
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End-of-Year Appeal: Help with Rafah Family Home
Dear Friends of MRSCP, We hope you will consider contributing to our year-end fundraising drive…
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Watch now: United for Justice Across Palestine
United for Justice Across Palestine: Defund Israel’s Bombs, Blockade, and Bulldozers Featuring Walaa Sabah from…
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Demolitions in Masafer Yatta
Occupation forces carried out the demolition of homes and agricultural facilities Alliance for Human Rights,…
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Paul Beckett, 1938 – 2022
Legacy.com MADISON – Paul Anthony Hamilton Beckett, 83, a long-time resident of Madison, WI, died…
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Rights groups slam Israeli ruling that allows razing of villages
Israel’s top court rejects the petition against the expulsion of Palestinian residents from villages in…
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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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Our Tax Dollars at Work: Destroying a Palestinian Family’s Home and Livelihood
Al Fakheit is one of 12 villages located in the Masafer Yatta area that Israel…
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Gaza Is Still Under Attack — but You Wouldn’t Know It From the Media
A young medical student speaks out about life in the besieged Strip, the persistence of…
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Life Under Occupation: The Misery at the Heart of the Conflict
An eviction in East Jerusalem lies at the center of a conflict that led to…
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Urgent news from Sheikh Jarrah
November 13, 2020 I’m writing with some urgent news from East Jerusalem that hits very…
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Homes Demolished in South Hebron Hills
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Israeli house demolitions are the true crime — not BDS
Mohamed Mohamed, Mondoweiss, July 26, 2019
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2018.03.09: Samira Remedial Education
GAZA KIDS NEED YOUR HELP! Barb Olson, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, March 9, 2018 For…
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Book talk: “Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom”
with Norman Finkelstein Monday, March 12, 2018 12:00 p.m CDT Livestream Here The Gaza Strip…
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2018.04.08: Annual Rachel Corrie Commemoration
Mark Your Calendars for Sunday Afternoon Annual Rachel Corrie Commemoration Featuring Dessert and a Program…
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Demolishing Palestinian schools ‘a quiet population transfer’
Orly Noy, +972, January 24, 2018
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#ObliteratedFamilies –
Gaza: A Gaping Wound
July 2, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Majdalawi Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, June 27, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Al-Louh Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, June 19, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Maadi Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, May 29, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Balata Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, May 26, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Al-Khalili Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, May 19, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Al-Hashash Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, May 15, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Al-Najjar Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, May 7, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Siyam Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, April 27, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Al-Kilani Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, April 22, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Shuheibar Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, April 17, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Foreword by Rajah Shehadeh
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, April 11, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Introduction by Amira Hass
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, April 7, 2017
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Bernie Sanders: On Anti-Semitism, Israel, and the Palestinians
Bernie Sanders, Common Dreams, February 28, 2017 Speech to this year’s J Street conference Thank…
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Gaza’s Kids Need Your Help
Rafah Children in the Samira Project at the Rachel Corrie Memorial Library. (Photo: Jeff Bright)…
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U.S. criticizes Israeli settlement expansion, demolitions
Ruth Eglash and Carol Morello, The Washington Post, July 28, 2016 JERUSALEM — The Israeli…
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Gaza: Abandoned in the Middle of Nowhere
Sara Roy, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, June 28, 2016 Palestinians in Gaza are largely…
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Andrew Cuomo’s Anti-Free Speech Move on BDS
Alex Nabaum As a Jew who has lived in Israel and has many relatives there,…
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Samira Project Children’s Counseling
Gaza Mental Health Foundation At the request of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), the…
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‘Gaza Is Hell’
Desolation and destiny in a land in limbo Banksy artwork on the ruins of a…
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Rachel Corrie’s Rafah Legacy
Ramzy Baroud, CounterPunch, March 21, 2013
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Muralists bring Palestinian experience to Olympia
Chris Allert, Works in Progress, February 2008 The Olympia-Rafah Mural Project is an official recognition…
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NEW BARK BUT OLD BITE FOR ISRAEL’S SHARON
GEORGE ARIDA, Madison.com, Dec 9, 2005 Despite appearances to the contrary, Ariel Sharon is one…
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The settlers’ retreat was the theatre of the cynical
There was no ‘sensitivity training’ when bulldozers went into Rafah Jonathan Steele, The Guardian, August…
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A Message from Bertrand Russell …
… to the International Conference of Parlimentarians The New York Times, February 23, 1970 “The…
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They Broke the Public’s Heart
For years, the news media ignored the injustices the settlers inflicted on their neighbors. Gideon…
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A Gift to Rafah
How Madisonians helped create a respite from violence for Palestinian children Kathy Walsh, Isthmus, April…
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Inside scarred minds
On his first visit to the Gaza Strip, Daniel Day-Lewis meets the Palestinian families living…
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Rafah and Gaza emergency
Gila Svirsky, May 18, 2004 Friends, We need your help. There is an emergency situation…
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In Gaza, Israeli brutality on display daily
Rana El-Khatib, Arizona Republic, January 25, 2004 “Israel good!” were the last words my husband…
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