The Madison-Rafah Sister City Project (MRSCP)
Tag: world
Apr 24, 2026
2025.06.12-19: Global March to Gaza
Egypt to Gaza
This Is Israel
CAITLIN JOHNSTONE, JUN 03, 2025
Amazon, apartheid, Benjamin Netanyahu, Caitlin Johnstone, civilians, colonialism, Gaza War, hospitals, images, immigrants, indigenous, Israel, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli, journalists, land, media, Palestinian, peace, Progressives, settlers, terrorism, two-state, video, war, West Bank, world, Zionism
‘The World’s Silence Is Deadly’
TEAM ZETEO AND GRETA THUNBERG, MAY 31, 2025
Why Did Burning Girls Matter in Vietnam but Not in Gaza?
JEHAD ABUSALIM, ZETEO, MAY 27, 2025
Video Shows Girl Trying to Escape Inferno
BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, May 26, 2025
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2025.05.22-06.30: 40-day Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza
Veterans For Peace, May 23, 2025
aid, allies, apartheid, blockade, calendar, ethnic cleansing, Gaza War, hunger strikes, International Court of Justice (ICJ), Iraq, Israel, Israeli, Jenin, Kathy Kelly, law, Lebanon, Madison, Middle East, military, New York City, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, protest, Rafah, sanction, solidarity, starvation, travel, United Nations (UN), veterans, Veterans for Peace (VFP), Wall, war, war crimes, water, West Bank, world, World Beyond War
Mennonite Action Madison Speaks Out Against Christian Nationalism And U.S. Policy In Palestine
Ben Slowey, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, May 23, 2025
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2025.05.22-06.30: 40 Days Solidarity Fast For Gaza
Sami Awad, Nonviolence International, May 20, 2025
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2025.05.22 & 29: Vigils for Palestine & Beyond
SE corner of Williamson & Blair Streets, 4:15-5:45 pm
Civil Society Groups Call for Diplomatic Convoy to Get Aid Into Gaza
JULIA CONLEY, COMMON DREAMS, May 19, 2025
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All Eyes on Deck: Demand An Independent Investigation into the Attacks on the ‘Conscience’
THE FREEDOM FLOTILLA COALITION, MAY 14, 2025
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The 1948 Nakba and Today’s Gaza Genocide Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
DIANA BUTTU, ZETEO, MAY 15, 2025
2025.05.29: Gaza and the West Bank, A Struggle for Survival Amid Genocide
Midvale Community Lutheran Church, 4329 Tokay Blvd, 7:00 pm
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2025.05.25 & 06.08 Updates: Oscar-Winning Film “No Other Land” in Madison
May 25: Bartell Theater 5 pm & 7 pm | Jun 8: Christ Presbyterian Church…
2025.06.10: 2025 Summer Silent Auction for Gaza Aid Donations
Donations open until Jun 10, 2025
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If you were shocked by my film on Israeli settlers in the West Bank, you haven’t been paying attention
Louis Theroux, The Guardian, 10 May 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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New Watermelon+ Streaming Platform
Wisconsin Muslim Journal, May 6, 2025
“Conscience” blast was ‘external strike with loitering munition’, experts believe
Herman Grech, Matthew Bonanno, Times of Malta, May 5, 2025
Netanyahu announces Gaza occupation plan
Jason Burke, The Guardian, 5 May 2025
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A Message on the Freedom Flotilla Attack
Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition, May 2, 20225
Democrats Push To Censor Palestine Lessons In California
Shaanth Nanguneri, The Intercept, April 28, 2025
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Israel Faces World Court Hearings Over Gaza Aid
Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, April 28, 2025
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World Food Programme warns of mass starvation in Gaza
Jon Shelton with AFP, Reuters, April 25, 2025
2025.04.20 Update: Cassandra Dixon on her recent trip to Masafer Yatta
WORT 89.9 FM, World View, 5:30 – 6:00 pm
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Liberal militarism and Zionism started the latest McCarthyism
Jeet Heer, The Nation, April 2025
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News Graveyards: How Dangers To War Reporters Endanger The World
Nick Turse, Watson Institute For International And Public Affairs, April 1, 2025
Muslim Women’s Coalition Response to Archewell Foundation
Muslim Women’s Coalition, April 17, 2025
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BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, Apr 09, 2025
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2025.04.22: Indigenous Water Defenders Paul DeMain and Gracie Waukechon
Social Justice Center, 1202 Williamson Street, Madison, 7-9 pm
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Lorenzo Tondo, Malak A Tantesh, and Julian Borger, The Guardian, 31 Mar 2025
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2025.04.03: ZOOM with WNPJ on the WI Right to Boycott campaign
Online, 12 noon – 1 p.m.
Hard days in Masafer Yatta
Mar 27, 2025
aid, arms, Cassandra Dixon, donate, ethnic cleansing, Hamdan Ballal, home demolition, hospitals, Israeli, Jewish, land, Madison, Masafer Yatta, military, No Other Land, olive trees, Oscar, Palestine, Palestinian, police, Rafah, resources, settlers, sheep, surgery, Susiya, terrorism, travel, victims, war, water, West Bank, worldRubio boasts of canceling more than 300 visas over pro-Palestine protests
Joseph Gedeon, The Guardian, 27 Mar 2025
colleges & universities, deportation, doctors, Donald Trump, free speech, Fulbright Scholar, Gaza War, green cards, Hamas, Homeland Security (DHS), images, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Jamaica, land, Madison, Marco Rubio, media, Palestine, Palestinian, protest, Rafah, refugees, Rumeysa Ozturk, State Department, students, Tufts, United States, visas, war, worldDoes Columbia still merit the name of a university?
Rashid Khalidi, The Guardian, 25 Mar 2025
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Israel creates new military body to encourage ‘voluntary emigration’ from Gaza
Joshua Marks, Jewish News Syndicate, March 23, 2025
Israel’s return to war is a prelude to mass expulsion
Ben Reiff, +972 Magazine, March 18, 2025
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2025.03.20: Vigil for Gaza & Palestine
SE Corner of Williamson Steet and Blair, 4:15 to 5:45 pm
ADC Statement on the Collapse of a Ceasefire That Never Was
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), March 18, 2025
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Israel shatters Gaza ceasefire as more than 400 Palestinians killed in IDF strikes
Tom Ambrose, Yohannes Lowe, Martin Belam, Kate Lamb and Helen Livingstone, The Guardian, 18 Mar 2025
aid, Al Jazeera, allies, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ceasefire Jan 15 2025, civilians, Donald Trump, Gaza City, Gaza War, Hamas, healthcare, hospitals, hostages, Houthis, images, Iran, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli, media, military, negotiations, Palestine, Palestinian, prison, protest, Qatar, Shin Bet, victims, vote, war, WhatsApp, women, world, YemenThe Lives Lost in Gaza
Sudev Kiyada, Simon Scarr and Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters, March 1, 2025
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JILLIAN C. YORK AND PAIGE COLLINGS, ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, MARCH 17, 2025
Day 5 – Mahmoud Khalil News You Need To Know
Arab American Institute, March 13, 2025
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US and Israel look to Africa for resettling Palestinians from Gaza
JOSEF FEDERMAN, MATTHEW LEE AND SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 14, 2025
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Martin Pengelly, The Guardian, 13 Mar 2025
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U.N. Commission and U.S. Surgeons Accuse Israel of Genocide and Torture
Democracy Now!, March 13, 2025
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Will Bunch, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 11, 2025
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MELANIE LIDMAN AND SAMY MAGDY, AP, March 9, 2025
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Jason Burke, The Guardian, 9 Mar 2025
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The Oscar went to ‘No Other Land,’ but that might not save Masafer Yatta
Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, March 8, 2025
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2025.03.12: #BoycottChevron for Human Rights and Planet Earth
Online, 12 PM Central, 8 PM Palestine
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‘Stop the Ethnic Cleansing’: the Most Powerful Oscars Speech in Years
MEHDI HASAN, ZETEO, MAR 02, 2025
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‘No Other Land’ wins Oscar for best documentary
HANNAH SCHOENBAUM, AP, March 2, 2025
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Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza to change ceasefire deal
Julian Borger, The Guardian, 2 Mar 2025
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Families rejoice as hundreds of Palestinian hostages are freed
Lara Kilani, Good Shepherd Collective, Feb 27, 2025
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2025.03.16: Israeli Conscientious Objectors Share Their Stories
11:00 am CT
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Netanyahu only ever saw the hostages as his path back to genocide
Jonathan Cook, Middle East Eye, 26 February 2025
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The Gaza “Ceasefire” Is at a Crucial Crossroads
JEREMY SCAHILL, DROP SITE NEWS, FEB 24, 2025
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A Letter to Donald Trump From Gaza
ABUBAKER ABED, ZETEO, FEB 23, 2025
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Israel drops genocidal leaflets on Gaza
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, FEB 22, 2025
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Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Rev. J. Mark Davidson, Voices For Justice in Palestine, Feb 21, 2025
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2025.03.08: AFRICaide and 4W International Women’s Day
Madison, 10am – 4pm CT
MECA Feb 14, 2025 Update: Clean Water for Rafah
Israel destroyed all but one of the Maia water filter units in Rafah
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2025.03.21-30: Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW)
Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), February 10, 2025
2025.02.23: Screening of “Burin Under Fire”
Online 12 PM CT
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Hamas Says It Will Release Israeli Captives After Aid Surge
Sharon Zhang , TRUTHOUT, February 13, 2025
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‘No to ethnic cleansing’
Maya Yang, The Guardian, 13 Feb 2025
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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Details Torture in Israeli Detention
The Palestine Chronicle, February 12, 2025
2025.04.03: “They Called Me a Lioness” Book Discussion
Online, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Ahed Tamimi, apartheid, books, calendar, Dena Takruri, Israeli, justice, literature, Madison, MRSCP, Nabi Salih, Nakba, occupation, online, Palestine, Palestinian, peace, prison, prisoners, project, Rafah, Ramallah, Read Palestine!, resistance, sister cities, West Bank, women, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), world2025.02.23: Global Day of Action to #CloseBases
Truax Field/Dane County Regional Airport, 2002 Pankratz St, 1 pm
After Gaza ceasefire, Israel turns its firepower on the West Bank
Basel Adra, +972 Magazine, January 28, 2025
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Israel’s secret plan to transfer Palestinians more than 50 years ago
Amer Sultan, Middle East Monitor, February 2, 2025
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Jabaliya Is Now a City of Rubble
ABUBAKER ABED, DROP SITE NEWS, FEB 05, 2025
From Greenland to Gaza: The New American Imperialism
Peter Beinart, Feb 5, 2025
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‘We’ll Own It’: Trump Floats US Takeover of Gaza after Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians
BRETT WILKINS, COMMON DREAMS, Feb 04, 2025
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2025.02.10: Elastic Empire: Refashioning War Through Aid in Palestine
UW Madison Ingraham Hall, Room 206, 12 – 1:15 pm
Trump, in shock announcement, says U.S. wants to take over Gaza Strip
Reuters, February 4, 2025
They’re trying to deport vigils for murdered Palestinian kids
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, JAN 30, 2025
Holy Redemption: Stealing Palestinian Land
TRT World, Sep 18, 2024
Madison-Based Palestine Partners Supports Women And Youth In The West Bank
Ben Slowey, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Jan 21, 2025
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Update: Replace Palestinian Families’ Sheep
Jan 30, 2025 Update
‘$50m condoms for Gaza’: the US promotes deranged lie
OWEN JONES, BATTLELINES, JAN 29, 2025
’Colossal Failure:’ Israel Made Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza Worse
TEAM ZETEO, JAN 28, 2025
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Ali Abunimah Statement after Release by Switzerland
Twitter, Jan 27, 2025
2025.01.29 Update: Nakba Film “Tantura” in Madison
World Beyond War UW-Madison and Veterans for Peace – Madison
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Wisconsin Coalition For Justice In Palestine Looks Beyond The Ceasefire
Sandra Whitehead, Wisconsin Muslim Journal, Jan 24, 2025
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Trump suggests Palestinians leave Gaza and ‘we just clean out’ territory
Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian, 26 Jan 2025
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ADC Calls on Swiss to Release Journalist Ali Abunimah
Jan 25, 2025
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Israel Is Blocking 11 American Doctors and Nurses From Leaving Gaza
PREM THAKKER, ZETEO, JAN 25, 2025
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The New York Times Refused to Run Our Ad About the Gaza Genocide
JOYCE AJLOUNY, THE NATION, JANUARY 24, 2025
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MECA Statement on the Gaza Ceasefire
Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch, Executive Director, Jan 22, 2025
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2025.01.25: “War Isn’t Over When It’s Over” Online with Kathy Kelly
The stories of lives forever altered by U.S. “forever wars”
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A Fascist Salute, A Ceasefire, and Repression of Palestine Speech
Joel Beinin, Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus, Stanford University, Jan 23, 2025
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