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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…
Gaza Summer School!

This summer, we’re turning up the heat to demand an end to the genocide in…
January 25, 2024
Madison Antiwar Film Series Presents Two Films about Israel and Palestine

The Occupation of the American Mind and My Neighborhood Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin Street, Room…
In the Shadow of the Holocaust

How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza…
Free Sami Huraini

Started January 10, 2021 Petition to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and UN High…
Winning Lawsuit Against Major Israeli Newspaper

We just won a defamation case against a major Israeli newspaper! We made Israel Hayom…
Aug 26, 2022
Madison Peace Walk: Lisa Masri on Palestine

A Madison Peace Walk on July 15. Peng Her gave a marvelous talk about Laos…
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…
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.…
If Not Now on Masafer Yatta

On Sunday, we saw Jewish supremacists march through the streets of Jerusalem, shouting racist chants…
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…
December 6, 2021
Webinar: “Teaching Hard Truths”

Black and Palestinian Perspectives on the Power of Education and Action via Zoom Who: Dr.…
Watch My Neighbourhood, the story of Sheikh Jarrah

A remarkable, nonviolent struggle against settlement expansion in East Jerusalem Watch the full movie online…
Israeli Prison Denies Release For Daughter’s Funeral

Addameer, July 13, 2021 On 12 July 2021, following several communications submitted to the Israeli…
Free Sami Huraini

Palestine Partners started this petition to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and UN High…
Trump Plan Protests in the Jordan Valley

Operation Dove, January 29, 2020 Tubas, Jordan Valley — Today in response to the “Deal…
Sister Cities

Invest in Justice by Building Genuine Connections Image via Sacramento to Bethlehem Cities for Palestine…
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…
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…
He Threatened Us, Now He Goes to Jail

Dr. James J. Zogby, August 17, 2019 Back in May, a jury found Patrick Syring,…
Why Americans Should Support BDS

Demonstrators protest New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s McCarthyite executive order requiring state agencies to divest…
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,…
A Teenage War Resister in Israel

An Antiwar Story from the Embattled Middle East He is a rarity in his own…
March 26 – April 14, 2019
Naila and the Uprising

On Wisconsin Public Television’s Women, War & Peace Tuesday, March 26 8:00 pm on WPT…
South Hebron Hills Update

Expulsion by a thousand cuts Dear Friends, The last weeks have been busy and challenging…
‘No to Apartheid’

Palestinians block Israel’s new ‘Apartheid Road’ Yumna Patel, Mondoweiss, January 23, 2019 Over a dozen…
My grandfather Nelson Mandela fought apartheid

I see the parallels with Israel It took an international effort to end institutionalised racism…
Why I March in Gaza

Palestinian demonstrators on a sand plateau during clashes with Israeli forces last Friday east of…
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…
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…
Federal Court Strikes Down Kansas Anti-BDS Law

Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters confront each other in Jerusalem’s Old City on Dec.…
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…
Iyad Burnat’s Palestinian Center for Non-Violent Action

Iyad Burnat interview by the Jersey Palestine Solidarity Campaign (JPSC) Dear Friends, Many of…
Israel Publishes BDS Blacklist:
20 Groups Will Be Denied Entry

Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry had for months refused to divulge the list Blacklisted American organizations:…
Take Action: Palestinian leader’s son abducted by Israel

This is how Israel marked Human Rights Day. Please call the following (ask for the…
December 12, 2017
Beyond One State, Two State

Creative Solutions to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Dr. Johan Galtung Professor and Founder of Transcend International…
November 9, 2017
Kathy Kelly at Edgewood College

Anderson Auditorium Predolin Center Edgewood College 1000 Edgewood College Dr Madison, WI 7:00 PM…
The Sumud Freedom Tour

This is our moment of unity, of coalition building Holy Land Trust Mission Holy Land…
Update April 21-24, 2017
Juan Cole Programs

April 21, 2017 WORT 89.9 FM A Public Affair: Juan Cole On The Middle East…
March 13, 2017
The impact of UN recognition on Palestinian public opinion

206 Ingraham Hall UW-Madison [Map] 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. UW Middle East Studies Program presents…
Update October 23, 2016
Israeli and Palestinian Parents Grieve, Work Together for Justice

It Won’t Stop Until We Talk A Parents Circle Family Forum Presentation Sunday, October 23…
GoFundMe Request by Rafah Filmmaker Fida Qishta

Fida Qishta, who visited us in Madison in 2014 and 2015 to show her powerful…
Breaking Ground at Cinema Hebron

Rabbi Brant Rosen, Shalom Rav, July 17, 2016 This past Friday, I had the honor…
Women’s Boat to Gaza

Women’s Boat to Gaza, July 20, 2016 Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for the…
Ben Ehrenreich Writes a Love Letter to Palestine

Next we meet Hani Amer, whose farm lay on the route of the infamous wall.…
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…
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…
Landmark G4S Boycott Victory

As anti-BDS forces are trying to get various levels of government to “outlaw” BDS, it…
October 15, 2015
Non-Violent Responses to the Israeli Occupation

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