The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: violence
Mar 11, 2026
Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian, 65, in His Bedroom
Afterward they asked for his identity card Subhiya Awad al-Qawasmeh placed a picture of her…
2010.11.11: USS Liberty Film and Discussion
Thursday November 11 Madison Central Library 201 W. Mifflin St. [Map] 6:30 pm Film screening…
2010.11.17: Gilbert Achcar on “The Arabs and the Holocaust”
Gilbert Achcar “The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives” Wednesday, November 17…
2010.10.21: Ann Wright to speak in Madison
From Afghanistan to Gaza: Obama’s Middle East Policy in Crisis 180 Science Hall UW-Madison 550…
2010.10.13: Film Life in Occupied Palestine
Life in Occupied Palestine provides an excellent introduction — in a down-to-earth, non-alienating way —…
UN Fact-Finding Mission Says Israelis Executed US Citizen Furkan Dogan
Gareth Porter, Truthout, 27 September 2010 Furkan Dogan, a 19-year-old US citizen of Turkish descent,…
2010.09.19: PALESTINE: DANGEROUS PASSAGE TO SCHOOL
Goodman Community Center 149 Wabesa St, Madison Room Bolz B 5 7 pm [Map] Free…
Madison Area Peace Coalition: Flotilla attack shows need to end Gaza siege
Madison Area Peace Coalition, Cap Times, Jun 13, 2010
Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla sparks international outrage
Robert Booth, The Guardian, 31 May 2010
2010.01.12: Gaza one year on: Operation Cast Lead and the Goldstone Report
United Nations Association of Dane County Speaker: Jennifer Loewenstein Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:00 PM…
Mike Murray: Baldwin displays compassion for Gaza
Mike Murray, Capital Times, Jan 8, 2010
2009.11.14: Seven Jewish Children at the Wilmar Center
Seven Jewish Children: A Play for Gaza Written by Caryl Churchill & directed by Andy…
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: the Goldstone Report
Decision an Insult to the Victims Al Mezan Center For Human Rights, 3 October 2009…
An Interview with Simone Bitton on Her New Movie Rachel
“I think they had a pro-Palestinian agenda, and I don’t think that having a pro-Palestinian…
2009.02.08: Kathy Kelly on Gaza
Sunday, February 8 Dardanelles Restaurant 1851 Monroe Street, Madison (Directions) 6:30 pm: Snack bar reception,…
2009.01.24: Emergency Fundraiser for Gaza
Saturday, January 24, 4-7 pm Wil-Mar Neighborhood Center 953 Jenifer Street, Madison MRSCP will mark…
Local Protesters Criticize U.S. Lawmakers For Silence On Military Aggression
Steve Elbow, The Capital Times, January 6, 2009 Violence in Gaza prompted local activists Tuesday…
Kathy Kelly on Gaza
Voices for Creative Nonviolence, January 6, 2009 Rafah — Traffic on Sea Street, a major…
2009.01.24: Emergency Fund-Raising/March of the Dead Protest
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: MRSCP WILL HOLD AN EMERGENCY FUND-RAISING EVENT AND MEETING ON SATURDAY, JANUARY…
2009.01.01-02: WORT Programs on Gaza
“A Public Affair”, WORT 89.9 FM, Thursday, January 1, 2009 at noon, call in 256-2001…
Truth and Consequences Under the Israeli Occupation
A Palestinian journalist’s life and work shed light on the violence in Israel’s “dual” society…
From triumph to torture: John Pilger on Mohammed Omer
John Pilger, The Guardian, 1 Jul 2008
Remembering The Nakba On Israel's 60th Anniversary
JUDITH LAITMAN and TSELA BARR, Wisconsin State Journal, May 16, 2008 This month, Jews around…
2008.05.08: “No Time to Celebrate” protest at UW-Madison
Jewish Voice for Peace – Madison, May 15, 2008 JVP’s Madison Chapter held a very…
Endless War
Mivtza Nikayon — Operation Cleaning Arab refugees in northern Israel on the road to Lebanon,…
2008.04.06-27: O-LIVE! O-LIVE! Events to benefit Augusta Victoria Hospital, Jerusalem
O-LIVE! O-LIVE! Silent art auction and other events to benefit Augusta Victoria Hospital, Jerusalem. Location:…
2008.03.22: Ilan Pappe Reading-Discussion Series
March 22, 2008 2 – 4 p.m. Escape Java Joint 916 Williamson St. Paul Beckett,…
Corries deliver daughter’s message of hope
Adrian Pijoan, Badger Herald, Mar 7, 2008 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American peace activist, was…
People I Love Are Dying
Kathy Walsh, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, 03 March 08 People I know and love are…
Muralists bring Palestinian experience to Olympia
Chris Allert, Works in Progress, February 2008 The Olympia-Rafah Mural Project is an official recognition…
Summit’s Goal: Perpetuate Repression of Palestinians
Barb Olson, The Capital Times, December 07, 2007 “After meeting their own low expectations for…
Beneath the Hideous Veneer of ‘Security’
Jennifer Loewenstein, CounterPunch, 23 september, 2007
Brothers in Arms: The Triumph of U.S.-Israeli Policy in Palestine
Jennifer Loewenstein, The Progressive, June 26, 2007
SIX DAYS OF WAR, 40 YEARS OF OCCUPATION
MIKE MURRAY, Cap Times, Jun 9, 2007 This week marks the 40th anniversary of the…
Nightmares – How Gaza offends us all
Jennifer Loewenstein, Islamic Human Rights Commission, 06 June 2007 Jennifer Loewenstein brilliantly illustrates the horrors…
2007.04.12-05.03: “A Bitter Harvest” Speaker and Film Series
Palestine, Israel and Lebanon 40 Years after 1967 “Hizbullah, Israel and Lebanon: The Summer War,…
Its Time to Visit Gaza
Miko Peled, The Electronic Intifada, 13 February 2007
A Plea for Peace From a Bereaved Palestinian Father
Bassam Aramin, The Forward, February 9, 2007
The Gaza Strip Situation Report, 30 Jan 2007
Ceasefire between Palestinian factions enters into force after five days of intense inter-factional fighting United…
B’Tselem: Israeli Security Forces Killed 660 Palestinians During 2006
Haaretz Service, Dec 28, 2006 Report: Threefold increase in number of Palestinians killed compared to…
Worse Than Apartheid
Chris Hedges, Truthdig, Dec 18, 2006
ACTION ALERT: Stop Israel’s Attacks on Gaza & Lebanon
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, July 13th, 2006 BACKGROUND:Israel is using weapons supplied…
A Black Flag
From: Jennifer Loewenstein Subject: Resuming Emails: Gideon Levy – A Black Flag Date: Mon, 3…
Girl’s Grieving Palestinian Mother Was Not Celebrating Her Martyrdom
Kathy Walsh, Capital Times, November 19, 2005 The photographs titled “Faces of grief in Palestine…
2006.04.06: DISCORDIA: When Netanyahu Came to Town
Humanities Building, Room 1111 455 N. Park St UW-Madison Thursday, 7:00 pm Al-Awda, the Madison-Rafah…
Play About Demonstrator’s Death Is Delayed
JESSE McKINLEY, New York Times, February 28, 2006 Potential Off Broadway production of play My…
Re Isthmus article on Camp Shalom
Kathy Walsh, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, December 5, 2005 Regarding Robert Ablove’s letter about the…
Re: Regents urged to divest from Israel
Kathy Walsh, Madison-Rafah Sister City Project, November 11, 2005 In the Capital Times article on…
Ain’t gonna study war no more
Bill Lueders, Isthmus, September 1, 2005 Camp Shalom had children pretend to be Israeli soldiers…
The settlers’ retreat was the theatre of the cynical
There was no ‘sensitivity training’ when bulldozers went into Rafah Jonathan Steele, The Guardian, August…
Twilight Zone: They said they’d kill me
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, July 10, 2005 Here he is – the survivor. His head and…
The reflection in the mirror
Two weeks later, I was at the Aaskar refugee camp, near Nablus. That day, the…
Amira Hass: There’s a Settler in Every Israeli
Amira Hass, Haaretz, July 6, 2005 The hunting season is at its height, and the…
Simon Wiesenthal Center Says United Church of Christ’s Resolution Is Immoral
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 4, 2005–A United Church of Christ (UCC) resolution demanding that Israel dismantle its…
They Broke the Public’s Heart
For years, the news media ignored the injustices the settlers inflicted on their neighbors. Gideon…
05.06.25: Rebuilding Homes in Rafah, Rebuilding Hope in Palestine
Panel Discussion with Craig and Cindy Corrie and Khaled and Samah Nasrallah Saturday, June 25,…
Israeli Extremists Lose, as a New Generation of Palestinians Wins
Mohammed Omer, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May/June 2005 THEY BREATHE the same air,…
A Gift to Rafah
How Madisonians helped create a respite from violence for Palestinian children Kathy Walsh, Isthmus, April…
Know When To Say “No”: A Call For Divestment From The Israeli Occupation
Shamai Leibowitz, The Electronic Intifada, 24 March 2005
Inside scarred minds
On his first visit to the Gaza Strip, Daniel Day-Lewis meets the Palestinian families living…
2005.03.05: An Israeli Refuser’s Message for Peace
Ruth Conniff, The Progressive, March 7, 2005 On Saturday I sat with other members of…
Board of Regents must support divestment
FAYYAD SBAIHAT, Badger Herald, Mar 3, 2005
2005.03.04-05: Yonatan Shapira, Israeli Refusenik
March 4, 6:00 PM, Congregation Shaarei Shamayim, Prairie Unitarian Universalist Society building, 2010 Whenona Drive,…
From churches, a challenge to Israeli policies
Jane Lampman, The Christian Science Monitor, DECEMBER 6, 2004
2004.11.10: IDF Refuseniks Noam Bahat and Shimri Zameret
First Unitarian Church University Bay Drive 7:00 pm We will be hosting a program with…
2004.10.23: Film The Fourth World War
UW-Madison Humanities, Rm 3650 7:00 pm The Fourth World War will have its Madison premiere…
Palestine: the Assault on Health and Other War Crimes
Derek Summerfield, British Medical Journal, October 16, 2004
Israeli troops probed for killing child
Israeli troops who killed a Palestinian schoolgirl in the Gaza Strip have come under investigation…
2004.09.20-24: WHEELS OF JUSTICE TOUR
BRINGING THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AND PALESTINE TO MADISON On September 20th and 24th, the…
US bulldozer firm in Mid-East row
A leading UN official has warned US manufacturer Caterpillar that it may be complicit in…
Gila Svirsky: Working to break the silence
Gila Svirsky, June 6, 2004 Friends, Last week probably set a record for demonstrations…
Statement by European Jews for a Just Peace
Paris, 22 May 2004 We, European citizens from ten European countries gathered in Paris for…
Mazin Qumsiyeh: Sleeping on a bus and more
Mazin Qumsiyeh, 5/9/2004 Here is something to inspire you. Read this. It will help you…
Photos of Rafah Damage
Rika Fujiya, Japan International Volunteer Center (JVC), May 25, 2004 Rika Fujiya is an Assistant…
2004.05.25: SILENT VIGIL & MARCH FOR ATROCITIES IN RAFAH!
Please check out this site for the latest news on Rafah: www.palestinemonitor.org The Madison chapter…
RAFAH DAILY UPDATE (Volume 5) during Operation Rainbow
May 20, 2004 Attached is the Rafah Update Volume 5. The situation is worsenning so…
Some of the bodies were put two to a box
Amira Hass, Haaretz, 5/20/04 RAFAH — Suddenly there was a shout from outside: “Leave…
Rafah and Gaza emergency
Gila Svirsky, May 18, 2004 Friends, We need your help. There is an emergency situation…
Appeal for Rafah City
Dr. Emad S. Sha’at, Deputy Mayor Rafah City, 18 May 2004 Dear Madam/Sir, I write…
Israelis Call for Gaza Pullout at Peace March
Julie McCarthy, NPR, May 16, 2004 Israelis gather for a peace march to urge a…
Wake up, world! Hear O Israel, wake up!
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:30:43 +0200 From: “Gila Svirsky” (gsvirsky@netvision.net.il) Subject: Anarchy in our…
