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Is It True That Not a Single Senator – Including Progressive Dems – Cares About Palestine?
The pro-Israel letter 100 U.S. senators sent to the U.N. fails to mention Israel's illegal…
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ASM unanimously approves contentious divestment proposal to mixed reactions from campus
Peyton David, The Badger Herald, Apr 27, 2017
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#ObliteratedFamilies – Shuheibar Family
#ObliteratedFamilies Project, April 17, 2017
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2017.03.29: Islamophobia in America with Reza Aslan
Wednesday, March 29th, 2017 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm Location: Wisconsin Union Theater Cost: Free…
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Unlearning apartheid apologism: A Jewish response to Israeli Apartheid Week
Stop conflating anti-Zionism and criticism of the State of Israel with anti-Semitism Rya Inman /…
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Banksy’s Murals Turn Up In The Gaza Strip
Krishnadev Calamur, NPR, February 26, 2015
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Bernie Sanders: On Anti-Semitism, Israel, and the Palestinians
Bernie Sanders, Common Dreams, February 28, 2017 Speech to this year’s J Street conference Thank…
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Israel Bulldozes Democracy
AYMAN ODEH, The New York Times, February 11, 2017 A Bedouin woman reacts to the…
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Israel passes bill to seize private Palestinian land for Jewish settlements
William Booth, The Washington Post, February 6, 2017 JERUSALEM — Israel’s parliament passed a contentious…
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New Senate bill threatens free speech
Instead of fighting antisemitism, new Senate bill threatens free speech Jewish Voice for Peace, 06…
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How to See Palestine: An ABC of Colonialism
Nicholas Mirzoeff, Critical Inquiry, November 28, 2016
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Palestinians Blamed for Forest Fires Across Palestine
But fires are raging across Western Asia Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh, November 25, 2016 Middle East…
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A letter from Gaza to the Natives of Standing Rock
Israa Suliman, WE ARE NOT NUMBERS, November 15, 2016 Dear Native Americans, Although we are…
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2016.11.30: Living in Limbo: East Jerusalem Behind the Separation Wall
Wednesday, Nov. 30 Online Livestreaming at The Jerusalem Fund 12:00 – 1:00 pm CST A…
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Israeli Military Blocks Female Flotilla From Reaching Gaza
Andrea Germanos, Common Dreams, October 05, 2016 Group including Nobel laureate Mairead Maguire aimed ‘to…
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SOS Women’s Boat to Gaza – Contact Lost
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Zaytouna-Oliva leaves Corsica for Italy
Women’s Boat to Gaza, September 20, 2016
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2016.08.23 Update: Discussion with U.S. Representative Mark Pocan
Following his recent trip to Israel and Palestine Fellowship Hall, First United Methodist Church 203…
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Ben Ehrenreich Writes a Love Letter to Palestine
“Next we meet Hani Amer, whose farm lay on the route of the infamous wall.…
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Poetry is not a Crime
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