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What’s Behind the Calls for “Democracy” in Israel?

Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in the last few weeks…

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Victory! ABA removes controversial definition of antisemitism

Proposed resolution targeted Palestinian rights advocacy In January, we sent letters urging the American Bar…

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You Can’t Save Democracy in a Jewish State

Protesters in Tel Aviv hold placards that say “Israeli students fighting for democracy” and “Without…

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‘Badge of Shame for Israel’

Palestinian Shot and Paralyzed by Israeli Forces Two Years Ago Dies of Wounds Harun Abu…

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‘It’s our home! Why would we leave?’

Qassam Muaddi, The New Arab, 10 February 2023

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Israel is Annexing the West Bank

Tamar Megiddo, Ronit Levine-Schnur and Yael Berda, Just Security, February 9, 2023

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160 Organizations Demand Congress Stop Funding Israel’s Massacres

160 organizations representing Palestinian communities, Palestinian solidarity organizations, and the racial justice movement have signed…

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Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice Spotlight

Dena Eakles, WNPJ Board Member, 1/30/23 This past week, nine Palestinians were murdered in the…

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Harvard Reverses Course on Advocate Who Criticized Israel

Blocking the former head of Human Rights Watch stirred debate over academic freedom and donor…

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2023.01.22: Kuffiyeh Contingent at the National March in Madison

Show your support for Palestinian women during the January 22 National Women’s March in Madison!…

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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…

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Distorted Definition: Redefining Antisemitism to Silence Advocacy for Palestinian Rights

Palestine Legal, Jan 18, 2023

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2023.01.22: Join the Kuffiya Contingent at the National March in Madison

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Rights Advocates Alarmed Over Israel’s New ‘Fascist, Racist, and Settler’ Government

“The occupation and apartheid in the occupied Palestinian territories have made Jewish supremacy the de…

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“International pressure is crucial to ending Israel’s rule over Palestinians”

Credit…Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times; photograph by Dan Balilty for The New York…

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Department of Education to investigate Berkeley Law School

MICHAEL ARRIA, MONDOWEISS, DECEMBER 16, 2022

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Salah Hamouri

Salah Hamouri photographed by Alain Bachellier Jonathan Kuttab, Friends of Sabeel North America, December 9,…

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How the Israeli government will turn its Jewish critics into dissidents

Edo Konrad, +972 Magazine, December 16, 2022

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Israel has deported Palestinian lawyer to France

Move constitutes a war crime Medjool, 2022-12-18 Ramallah, 18 December 2022 Today, Sunday, 18 December,…

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