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AIPAC’s Colossal Own Goal

RYAN COOPER, ZETEO, FEB 15, 2026

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URGENT: Tell Congress to demand Leqaa Kordia’s release from ICE detention

Adalah Justice Project, February 10, 2026

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Columbia protester Mahmoud Khalil freed from immigration detention

SOPHIE BATES AND PHILIP MARCELO, AP, June 20, 2025

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The backstory on the government’s abduction of a Palestinian protester

Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2025

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New video, witnesses challenge Israel’s account of U.S. activist’s killing

The IDF said Aysenur Eygi was shot “unintentionally” during a “violent riot.” A Post analysis…

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Israeli Forces Shot an American in the West Bank

The U.S. Government Doesn’t Seem to Care “The money I pay in my taxes as…

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An American was just shot in the West Bank.

The American press can’t be bothered. As waning global attention is on the war in…

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The Unpunished: How Extremists Took Over Israel

After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalists,…

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“This Is a Movement of Hope”: Wisconsin’s Uninstructed Campaign Has Momentum

As a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization the Madison-Rafah Sister City Project cannot support or oppose specific…

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The Israeli Settlers Attacking Their Palestinian Neighbors

With the world’s focus on Gaza, settlers have used wartime chaos as cover for violence…

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NETANYAHU’S WAR ON TRUTH

Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept, February 7, 2024

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Israel does not have a right to self-defense for its occupation

MITCHELL PLITNICK, MONDOWEISS, JULY 6, 2023

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2023.07.16: Film My Tree & Discussion

Event Date: July 16, 2023 Time: 3 pm ET/ 2 pm CT/ 12 noon PT…

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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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Extreme Israeli group takes root in US with fundraising bid

Jewish radicals convicted of hate crimes are collecting tax-exempt donations from Americans Yosef Haim Ben…

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An open letter to UW-Madison regarding anti-Zionist chalking

Stepha Velednitsky, Ri J. Turner, Joshua Garoon, Tsela Barr, and Annie Sommer Kaufman, The Daily Cardinal,…

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Israel’s Far-Right Draw on U.S. Funding Despite Terror Labels

Daniel Boguslaw, The Intercept, November 2 2022

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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…

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Democratic candidates on Israel/Palestine – a guide

If Americans Knew, June 26, 2019

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