The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
May 20, 2025
International activists on two boats carrying food and medicine aim to break Israeli siege on…
Women’s Boat to Gaza, September 12, 2016 Barcelona, Spain – From September 12-14, the sailing…
The country must be held accountable for its human rights abuses. Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive director…
Fida Qishta, who visited us in Madison in 2014 and 2015 to show her powerful…
Our photo (above), taken by Mohammad Mansour, was selected as a finalist in Global Giving’s…
Women’s Boat to Gaza, July 20, 2016 Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for the…
Sara Roy, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, June 28, 2016 During a brief pause to…
Elizabeth Kucinich in Gaza (UNRWA USA) Elizabeth Kucinich, The Hill, June 23, 2016 This month,…
Gaza Mental Health Foundation At the request of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), the…
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Charlotte Silver, The Electronic Intifada, 18 June 2015 Palestinians queue at the Rafah crossing on…
Desolation and destiny in a land in limbo Banksy artwork on the ruins of a…
BBC News, 14 November 2014 Dr Gilbert, pictured here in 2009, has been a frequent…
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Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, 10 September 2014 Destruction everywhere UN Office for the Coordination…
Palestinians evacuate a survivor of an Israeli air strike that hit the Al Ghoul family…
The Lancet, Volume 384, No. 9941, p397–398, 2 August 2014 [pdf-embedder url=”http://madisonrafah.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Lancet-Mads-Gilbert-PIIS0140673614610448.pdf” title=”Lancet Mads Gilbert…
JUDITH LAITMAN, Cap Times, Jul 25, 2014 I’ve learned a few things during my more…
Broadcast on the WORT 89.9 FM program Third World View: Mahmoud Abu Rahma, the Communications…
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Anees Mansour says he loves everything about Madison — except our winter weather. Catherine Capellaro,…
Esraa Yaseen, Mondoweiss, November 5, 2013 The Rafah border crossing. (Image via RafahToday.org) I was…
Its legal status is contested, its land is divided and thousands of its citizens emigrate…
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Palestinians warm themselves by a fire inside a house, which witnesses said was damaged in…
WORT 89.9 FM 6:00-6:30 pm MRSCP member Michele Bahl will be interviewed about the struggle…
TSELA BARR AND MICHELE BAHL | members, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, Cap Times, Nov 22,…
Michele Bahl, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, November 14, 2012 Yesterday we visited the Gaza Community…
Interfaith Peace-Builders, November 5, 2012 November 5, 2012 – Interfaith Peace-Builders (IFPB) is pleased to…
Passengers Determined to Free Captain and Set Sail Again U.S. to Gaza, July 2, 2011…
Dear Members and Friends of MRSCP, Here is a special request regarding the upcoming Freedom…
Commercial traffic to pass through border points with Israel Adel Zaanoun, Agence France Presse, 28…
Alex Kane, December 21, 2010 The world is fed up with Israel, with its continued…
Gareth Porter, Truthout, 27 September 2010 Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent,…
Madison Area Peace Coalition, Cap Times, Jun 13, 2010 The Madison peace community condemns the…
President Hosni Mubarak caught between Arab solidarity and pragmatic approach to Israel, his country’s neighbours…
Israeli navy stormed the Mavi Marmara, the flagship of a flotilla of vessels crewed by…
Josh Brollier and Sister Pat Chaffee. Photo courtesy of Phil Haslanger. Phil Haslanger, Cap Times,…
Photo: Laura Durkay Edgewood College Predolin Humanities Center [Map], Room 307 Madison 7:00 pm Josh…
United Nations Association of Dane County Speaker: Jennifer Loewenstein Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:00 PM…
Mike Murray, Capital Times, Jan 8, 2010 Dec. 27 marked the one-year anniversary of Israel’s…
Voices for Creative Nonviolence, January 6, 2009 Rafah — Traffic on Sea Street, a major…
A Palestinian journalist’s life and work shed light on the violence in Israel’s “dual” society…
ACTION ALERTJuly 2, 2008 Contact: communications@wrmea.com Washington Report Correspondent Mohammed Omer Hospitalized Following Detention by…
Kathy Walsh, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, 03 March 08 People I know and love are…
All showings will be 7 pm at Escape Java Joint, 916 Williamson Street, Madison January…
December 12, 2007 Dear Members and Friends of MRSCP, As we approach the holiday season…
Barb Olson, The Capital Times, December 07, 2007 “After meeting their own low expectations for…
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