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Israel pummels Lebanon and Gaza, killing dozens in fresh waves of airstrikes
BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND SALLY ABOU ALJOUD, Associated Press, November 1, 2024 BEIRUT (AP) — Israel launched dozens…
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How To Make Supporters of Israel’s Genocide Feel Safe on Campus
Emergency Teach-In S48 EP1, Jadaliyya, Nov 1, 2024 Featuring Sinan Antoon, Cultural Landscape Specialist; Adel Iskandar, Media…
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Israel has all but ended medical evacuations from Gaza
For the past 6 months, only 237 patients have been evacuated out of Gaza AMBA…
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What we learned from UW-Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment
How this protest fits into recent history, what to carry moving forward, and what to…
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This activist group chat has been blocking a weapons shipment to Israel for weeks
A South African WhatsApp group working with BDS has sparked a movement to block a…
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2024.11.03: Stop the Genocide Zoom
Stop the Genocide! Dear Friends, Please join the Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine Coalition…
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Recommend “The Message” by Ta-Nehisi Coates to UW-Madison
The University of Wisconsin–Madison invites us to participate in its common book program for 2025-2026,…
‘Project Esther’: A Plan to Crack Down on America’s Pro-Palestine Movement
The Trump-aligned Heritage Foundation is now going after what they call the “Hamas Support Network”…
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Israel claims there’s a secret Hezbollah bunker underneath a Beirut hospital
But no-one else can find it By Middle East correspondent Matthew Doran, Cherine Yazbeck, and Orly…
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Northern Gaza is what you imagine hell to be, and probably worse
We are being strangled. The only thing that can stop our suffering is an end…
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Eyewitnesses say the IDF is starving residents, targeting hospitals, bombing shelters, and murdering civilians in…
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“We Have Lost All Credibility”
Hala Rharrit on Quitting State Dept. & Ending U.S. Complicity in Gaza DEMOCRACY NOW! OCTOBER…
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The West’s support for Israel’s genocide is destroying the world as we know it
Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye, 21 October 2024
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We’ve Taught Our Children Well TOM BOSWELL, OCTOBER 20, 2024 On the afternoon of September 5,…
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‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’ Documentary
Link to Video ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’: Have You Watched Our Very Powerful Documentary Yet? by…
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US Can’t Decide if Israel Is Blocking Aid – But It’ll Send Bombs Either Way
Biden gives Israel 30 days to boost aid to Gaza or risk cuts in military…
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Progressives Say Only an Arms Embargo Can Stop Israel
A Year Since Their Ceasefire Resolution, Rep. Cori Bush says the Biden administration must stop…
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Shaaban Al-Dalou, Burned Alive in Gaza, Would Have Been 20 Today
Footage captured of his burning body has seared its way through the collective consciousness—an indelible…
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2024.10.19: Online: Implementation of International Law to Stop the Genocide
Start: Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 12:00 PM CTEnd: Saturday, October 19, 2024 at 1:30 PM CTVirtual…
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Israel ‘starting to implement’ north Gaza starvation plan, say rights groups
‘Generals’ Plan’ calls for closed military zone and evacuation, with those remaining treated as combatants…
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