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Jan 20, 2025
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Oct 19, 2024: Peacemaker of the Year Award to UW-Madison Professor Samer Alatout
Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice Fall AssemblyMadison Friends Meetinghouse, 1704 Roberts Ct, Madison10 am…
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Gaza Summer School!
This summer, we’re turning up the heat to demand an end to the genocide in…
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January 25, 2024
Madison Antiwar Film Series Presents Two Films about Israel and PalestineThe Occupation of the American Mind and My Neighborhood Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin Street, Room…
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In the Shadow of the Holocaust
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza…
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Free Sami Huraini
Started January 10, 2021 Petition to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and UN High…
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Winning Lawsuit Against Major Israeli Newspaper
We just won a defamation case against a major Israeli newspaper! We made Israel Hayom…
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Aug 26, 2022
Madison Peace Walk: Lisa Masri on PalestineA Madison Peace Walk on July 15. Peng Her gave a marvelous talk about Laos…
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No evidence from Israel that Palestinian NGOs are ‘terrorist organizations’
“In the absence of such evidence, we will continue our cooperation and strong support for…
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BREAKING: 200+ Palestinians, Israelis, and American Jews protest to #SaveMasaferYatta
Growing up, I was told over and over: “You need to take responsibility for Israel.…
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If Not Now on Masafer Yatta
On Sunday, we saw Jewish supremacists march through the streets of Jerusalem, shouting racist chants…
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A Palestinian shepherd peacefully resisted the Israeli occupation. And now he’s dead.
Ali Velshi, MSNBC, Jan. 22, 2022 Al Haj Suleiman al-Hathaleen was a shepherd in the…
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December 6, 2021
Webinar: “Teaching Hard Truths”Black and Palestinian Perspectives on the Power of Education and Action via Zoom Who: Dr.…
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Watch My Neighbourhood, the story of Sheikh Jarrah
A remarkable, nonviolent struggle against settlement expansion in East Jerusalem Watch the full movie online…
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Israeli Prison Denies Release For Daughter’s Funeral
Addameer, July 13, 2021 On 12 July 2021, following several communications submitted to the Israeli…
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Free Sami Huraini
Palestine Partners started this petition to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and UN High…
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Trump Plan Protests in the Jordan Valley
Operation Dove, January 29, 2020 Tubas, Jordan Valley — Today in response to the “Deal…
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Sister Cities
Invest in Justice by Building Genuine Connections Image via Sacramento to Bethlehem Cities for Palestine…
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Activists Reclaimed a Water Source for Palestinians, Showing Co-Resistance Works
A Palestinian activist sticks a sign bearing the Palestinian name of Ein Albeida spring over…
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To Prison, Again, for Protesting Against Israel’s Colonial Rule
Israeli activist Jonathan Pollack pens a powerful Op-Ed in Haaretz on his arrest, putting into…
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He Threatened Us, Now He Goes to Jail
Dr. James J. Zogby, August 17, 2019 Back in May, a jury found Patrick Syring,…
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Why Americans Should Support BDS
Demonstrators protest New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s McCarthyite executive order requiring state agencies to divest…
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Palestinian peace activist denied entry to U.S. for speaking tour
Edo Konrad, +972, March 4, 2019 Osama Iliwat was supposed to speak to synagogues, churches,…
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A Teenage War Resister in Israel
An Antiwar Story from the Embattled Middle East He is a rarity in his own…
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March 26 – April 14, 2019
Naila and the UprisingOn Wisconsin Public Television’s Women, War & Peace Tuesday, March 26 8:00 pm on WPT…
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South Hebron Hills Update
Expulsion by a thousand cuts Dear Friends, The last weeks have been busy and challenging…
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‘No to Apartheid’
Palestinians block Israel’s new ‘Apartheid Road’ Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss, January 23, 2019 Over a dozen…
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My grandfather Nelson Mandela fought apartheid
I see the parallels with Israel It took an international effort to end institutionalised racism…
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Why I March in Gaza
Palestinian demonstrators on a sand plateau during clashes with Israeli forces last Friday east of…
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A History of Boycotts: Israel, South Africa and California
Pacifica Radio Letters and Politics, 02.14.18 Listen Download Open in iTunes Today, Mitch Jeserich is in conversation…
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Kansas Doesn’t Even Try to Defend Its Israel Anti-Boycott Law
Brian Hauss, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, November 30, 2017 Ryan…
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Federal Court Strikes Down Kansas Anti-BDS Law
Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters confront each other in Jerusalem’s Old City on Dec.…
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Backlash in New Orleans: vote to rescind BDS resolution set for Thursday
Dear Friend, Last Thursday, the New Orleans City Council unanimously passed a historic human rights…
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Iyad Burnat’s Palestinian Center for Non-Violent Action
Iyad Burnat interview by the Jersey Palestine Solidarity Campaign (JPSC) Dear Friends, Many of…
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Israel Publishes BDS Blacklist:
20 Groups Will Be Denied EntryIsrael’s Strategic Affairs Ministry had for months refused to divulge the list Blacklisted American organizations:…
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Take Action: Palestinian leader’s son abducted by Israel
This is how Israel marked Human Rights Day. Please call the following (ask for the…
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December 12, 2017
Beyond One State, Two StateCreative Solutions to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Dr. Johan Galtung Professor and Founder of Transcend International…
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November 9, 2017
Kathy Kelly at Edgewood CollegeAnderson Auditorium Predolin Center Edgewood College 1000 Edgewood College Dr Madison, WI 7:00 PM…
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The Sumud Freedom Tour
This is our moment of unity, of coalition building Holy Land Trust Mission Holy Land…
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Update April 21-24, 2017
Juan Cole ProgramsApril 21, 2017 WORT 89.9 FM A Public Affair: Juan Cole On The Middle East…
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March 13, 2017
The impact of UN recognition on Palestinian public opinion206 Ingraham Hall UW-Madison [Map] 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. UW Middle East Studies Program presents…
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Update October 23, 2016
Israeli and Palestinian Parents Grieve, Work Together for JusticeIt Won’t Stop Until We Talk A Parents Circle Family Forum Presentation Sunday, October 23…
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GoFundMe Request by Rafah Filmmaker Fida Qishta
Fida Qishta, who visited us in Madison in 2014 and 2015 to show her powerful…
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Breaking Ground at Cinema Hebron
Rabbi Brant Rosen, Shalom Rav, July 17, 2016 This past Friday, I had the honor…
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Women’s Boat to Gaza
Women’s Boat to Gaza, July 20, 2016 Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for the…
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Ben Ehrenreich Writes a Love Letter to Palestine
Next we meet Hani Amer, whose farm lay on the route of the infamous wall.…
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Eleven signs that BDS continues to grow despite Israel’s war of repression
Palestinian BDS National Committee, July 7, 2016 Palestinian campaigners have launched popular boycott campaigns across…
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UW-Madison Graduate Teaching Assistants Call for Divestment from Israel
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AIPAC Anti-BDS Legislation
AIPAC and their right-wing allies are coming for our right to boycott — and they’re…
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Landmark G4S Boycott Victory
As anti-BDS forces are trying to get various levels of government to “outlaw” BDS, it…
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October 15, 2015
Non-Violent Responses to the Israeli Occupationhttp://madisonrafah.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Sequoya-JVP-10-15-Event-flyer.pdf
