Madison-Rafah Sister City Project

06/02/2026

06/02/2026

Craft Sale / Yard Sale / Bake Sale / Plant Sale! to benefit Palestinian families in the West Bank and Gaza: Friday June 5th and Saturday June 6th, 9 am - 4 pm, at 1 Judy Circle, on Madison’s Northside. All proceeds will go to Palestine Partners, the Women in Hebron Cooperative and MECA.

This craft sale includes beautiful jewelry, clothing and embroidered items from the Women in Hebron Cooperative; also art, jewelry, and hand knitted items from local Madison artists.

The pay-what-you-can yard sale includes good quality clothing, books, craft supplies, jewelry, kitchen items and more.

Tasty baked goods will be sold, and also perennial plants for your garden—including raspberries, wineberries, peppermint, sweet woodruff, creeping phlox, yuccas, hazelnuts, wild rose, and red bee balm.

Please come to the sale if you can!

Can you help out in other ways? If you’d like to donate items you can let us know through this online form and we’ll gladly get in touch: https://forms.gle/wjoqbnTW4vm9deEG6. We can use things like: handmade crafts, nice used things for the yard sale, baked goods, or plants.

05/30/2026

Sea of G4Z@ 2026
Water Colours
45.7x61cm

05/30/2026

Across the West Bank, ongoing violence is increasing humanitarian needs.

Palestinians face casualties, property damage and displacement linked to actions by Israeli forces or settlers.

See our latest snapshot: ochaopt.org/content/west-bank-monthly-snapshot-casualties-property-damage-and-displacement-april-2026

05/30/2026

BDS VICTORY!

Last night, the Park Slope Food Coop ratified a boycott of all Israeli goods, passing the vote with a wide margin of 2 to 1 at a meeting that saw record-breaking turnout. Congratulations to the years of organizing by members which made this historic win possible!

The PSFC is the oldest coop in the country and was founded in 1973 with the goal of building an ethically run grocery store. Over its many decades, members have enacted numerous boycotts responding to issues both in the US and abroad, from boycotting South African goods during apartheid to boycotting UFW gr**es in support of workers. Now, after nearly two decades of organizing, members have voted to enact another boycott, this time against all Israeli goods, in line with the BDS movement’s call.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement is a call from Palestinian civil society to those outside of Palestine to fight Israel’s apartheid regime with strategic economic and cultural boycotts, divestment (cutting financial ties and ending collaboration), and sanctions (penalties) to pressure the Israeli government to end their ongoing crimes of apartheid and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians. Boycotts are a time-honored and effective non-violent tactic, allowing consumers to leverage their power and raise their collective voices.

Organizers at the Park Slope Food Coop wrote, “We are honored to act decisively in solidarity with the Palestinian people, and to align our Coop with its mission to be a ‘responsible and ethical employer and neighbor,’ and ‘to avoid products that depend on the exploitation of others.’”

Our movements are growing and we will not stop here. We reaffirm our unwavering commitment to BDS—until the siege and genocide end, the occupation is dismantled, and Palestine is free, from the river to the sea.

JVP Action, our 501c4 organization, is now doing business as JVP; JVP Lab, our 501c3 organization, continues separately and remains focused on our nonpartisan educational and cultural work.

05/30/2026

05/30/2026

UN demands 100% of Gaza for Gazans ■ Israel closes Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron, no reason given ■ Corruption in Israeli politics ■ Palestine in US politics

05/30/2026

Israel tried to hide this