The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: New York City
Apr 13, 2026
Mamdani revokes IHRA antisemitism definition on day 1
LUKE TRESS, TIMES OF ISRAEL, JAN 2, 2026
Trump’s Plan for Gaza
DROP SITE NEWS, NOV 18, 2025
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Update: Senate votes on weapons to Israel
Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), July 30, 2025
Iron Dome Is Not a Defensive System
Dylan Saba, Jewish Currents, May 25, 2023
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Veterans and Allies End 40-day Fast for Gaza with Dramatic Direct Actions
Veterans for Peace, July 4, 2025
What Zohran’s Victory Means
Peter Beinart, Jun 25, 2025
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2025.05.22-06.30: 40-day Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza
Veterans For Peace, May 23, 2025
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2025.05.22-06.30: 40 Days Solidarity Fast For Gaza
Sami Awad, Nonviolence International, May 20, 2025
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Liberal militarism and Zionism started the latest McCarthyism
Jeet Heer, The Nation, April 2025
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After Columbia arrests, international college students fall silent
JOCELYN GECKER, AP, March 15, 2025
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Martin Pengelly, The Guardian, 13 Mar 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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REBECCA SANTANA, AP, March 10, 2025
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‘No Other Land’ is a shocking look at Palestinian life under occupation
MARK KENNEDY, AP, February 5, 2025
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“Operation Wrath of Zion” in New York City
JACK POULSON, DROP SITE NEWS, JAN 30, 2025
2025.01.29 Update: Nakba Film “Tantura” in Madison
World Beyond War UW-Madison and Veterans for Peace – Madison
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Between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Me
‘The Message’ cuts to the human heart of the situation in Israel-Palestine, refusing to contort…
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‘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”…
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How American media incited genocide
Commentaries published by US media outlets have openly demonised Palestinians and justified the mass killings…
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Progressives Say Only an Arms Embargo Can Stop Israel
A Year Since Their Ceasefire Resolution, Rep. Cori Bush says the Biden administration must stop…
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2024.10.19: Online: Implementation of International Law to Stop the Genocide
Start: Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM CTEnd: Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 1:30 PM CTVirtual…
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated. Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth
DEMOCRACY NOW! OCTOBER 08, 2024 Watch Full ShowImage Credit: Courtesy of Ta-Nehisi Coates As the…
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We Charge Genocide: The Shofar Calls Us to Account on Rosh Hashanah
In the Jewish new year, we must confront the carnage that Zionism has wrought. By Brant…
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BY KAREN MATTHEWS, Associated Press, May 29, 2024 NEW YORK (AP) — A nurse was fired…
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Google fired 28 employees on Wednesday after sit-ins at the company’s offices in protest of its…
I’m Jewish, and I’ve covered wars. I know war crimes when I see them.
Opinion By Peter Maass April 9, 2024 at 5:45 a.m. EDT Palestinians view the…
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If you live in the U.S., tell the Senate to hold Israel accountable! TAKE ACTION!…
Anniversary of the Alex Odeh Assassination
Washington, D.C. | www.adc.org | October 11, 2023 – Today, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)…
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Backed by hundreds of community members, Google workers protested yesterday outside Google’s biggest cloud conference…
Google’s anti-Palestinian worker retaliation
Huge news just broke. Today, tech worker organizer Ariel Koren, active in our #NoTechForApartheid campaign,…
US Rabbis Call for End to Jewish Funding of Israeli Extremism
The Palestine Chronicle, April 8, 2022
Across The U.S., People Protest The Violence In Gaza And Israel
Jason Breslow, NPR, May 19, 2021
Palestinians call for a boycott of Israeli diamonds
Over 50 Palestinian organisations, representing a cross-section of Palestinian civil society, including women’s groups and…
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Annie Robbins, Mondoweiss, January 10, 2013
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The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January 9, 2013 Saturday, January 19th 2013, 4-6 pm,…
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Adrian Pijoan, Badger Herald, Mar 7, 2008 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist, was…
