The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
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Dec 5, 2025
Jun 29, 2025: “The Moral Issue of Our Time: Palestine”
Online, 2:30-4:00 PM CT
Jun 12-19, 2025: Global March to Gaza
Egypt to Gaza
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 PalestineThe 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 PalestineA 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 UprisingOn 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 EntryIsrael’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 StateCreative Solutions to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Dr. Johan Galtung Professor and Founder of Transcend International…
November 9, 2017
Kathy Kelly at Edgewood CollegeAnderson 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 ProgramsApril 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 opinion206 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 JusticeIt 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
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…
