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Palestinians fear razing of villages in West Bank, as settlers circle their homes
William Christou and Quique Kierszenbaum in Masafer Yatta, The Guardian, 7 Jul 2025
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Updates from the ground: Gaza’s Water Crisis & Jenin’s Forced Erasure
Good Shepherd Collective, Jul 1, 2025
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2025.06.29: “The Moral Issue of Our Time: Palestine”
Online, 2:30-4:00 PM CT
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Madison’s Andaleeb Cartonera Honors Palestinian Endurance With Handmade Books
Ben Slowey, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Jun 6, 2025
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No Muslim Ban Ever Campaign
June 4, 2025
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As Israel Slaughters Gazans, US House Progressives Push ‘Block the Bombs Act’
JESSICA CORBETT, COMMON DREAMS, Jun 05, 2025
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Video Shows Girl Trying to Escape Inferno
BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, May 26, 2025
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This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza
Sean Carroll, New York Times, May 6, 2025
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Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha amongst 2025 Pulitzer winners
Middle East Eye Staff, 6 May 2025
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Democrats Push To Censor Palestine Lessons In California
Shaanth Nanguneri, The Intercept, April 28, 2025
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Liberal militarism and Zionism started the latest McCarthyism
Jeet Heer, The Nation, April 2025
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Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In For Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested By ICE
Akela Lacy, The Intercept, April 14 2025
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2025.04.21: Campus Speech, Antisemitism and Islamophobia
UW-Madison Pyle Center, Wisconsin Idea Lounge, 5:00 pm
The Low-Hanging Fruit of Canceled Student Visas
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance, March 30, 2025
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Settler Attack on Jinba School
mahmoud.photography97, Mar 28, 2025
Does Columbia still merit the name of a university?
Rashid Khalidi, The Guardian, 25 Mar 2025
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Tell your Senators: No More Weapons to Israel!
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), March 19, 2025
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ADC Statement on the Collapse of a Ceasefire That Never Was
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), March 18, 2025
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