Free Salah Sarsour: Muslim & Jewish Communities Demand ICE Release Milwaukee Mosque Leader

Salah Sarsour, a prominent Palestinian immigrant, green card holder and president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, has been locked up in an ICE jail since late March. Despite his lawful permanent resident status, the government says he could be subject to deportation for failing to disclose a conviction by Israeli military authorities when he was a teenager in the occupied West Bank. Sarsour says he never understood the charges presented against him in Hebrew and that he was tortured in Israeli custody. Supporters view the case as an escalation of the Trump administration’s crackdown on Pro-Palestinian speech. Munjed Ahmad, a member of Salah Sarsour’s legal team, says, “Salah’s case will be a litmus test. Will we allow the administration to gut those rights and to strip people from their free speech?” Ahmad is joined by Sarsour’s son Kareem, who calls Trump’s federal immigration agents “kidnappers” and says his family initially had no idea what had happened to his father. While incarcerated, Salah Sarsour missed the birth of his ninth grandchild. “He’s a community pillar,” says Kareem Sarsour. “The entire thing shook us as a family.”

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This is dismaying. Jewish Voice for Peace is using tracking pixels. This is the second such message I've received from them, and they're making decisions based on my not complying with their surveillance technology. No good.

#jvp #jewishvoiceforpeace

More than 300 people protested outside of the New York offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand Monday to oppose sending U.S. weapons to Israel.

At least 90 protesters were arrested,
among them Chelsea Manning, a former U.S. soldier and whistleblower who leaked hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks in 2011,
as well as New York City Council Member Alexa Avilés and actor Hari Nef.
The protests were organized by
"Jewish Voice for Peace" and the "Sunrise Movement".
According to JVP, the protesters consisted of U.S. military veterans as well as Jewish, Palestinian, Iranian, and Lebanese New Yorkers.

The protesters were calling on the New York Democrats to support resolutions proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders last month
that would block nearly $660 million in weapons sales to Israel.
Sanders has attempted to block weapons to Israel before, and 19 Senate Democrats,
including Gillibrand and Schumer, voted against his last effort in July.

Israel is bombing Lebanon and Iran with U.S. support and aid, and continues to kill Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank despite a ceasefire.
The war in Iran is overshadowing an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and Israel is also accused of encouraging ethnic cleansing against Shia Muslims in southern Lebanon.

“This is the moment when Schumer and Gillibrand must listen to their constituents,”
Sonya Meyerson-Knox, the communications director with Jewish Voice for Peace, told the Associated Press Monday.
“The majority of Americans and New Yorkers want a resolution to what the Israeli government is doing.”
#ChelseaManning #JewishVoiceforPeace #SunriseMovement
#BernieSanders
https://newrepublic.com/post/209013/protest-schumer-gillibrand-democrats-block-israel-bombs

Nearly 100 Arrested After Demanding Democrats Block Bombs to Israel

The anti-genocide, anti-war protesters were arrested outside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s office.

The New Republic

"The irony of becoming what you once hated"

A rabbi and his son received probation and fines for vandalizing a mural that depicted an intertwined Star of David and swastika, with a judge emphasizing that the destruction of property, not the content, was the issue.

https://wtmj.com/news/2026/03/26/rabbi-and-son-get-probation-fines-for-vandalizing-swastika-mural/

Also

[2024] Jewish Voice for Peace Milwaukee addressed the controversy stating that organization views the mural as a provocative piece intended to spark urgent conversation about the ongoing situation in Israel-Palestine, which they describe as a "well-documented genocide in modern history" funded by U.S. tax dollars. They conclude by stating that Zionism promotes racist Jewish nationalism, which they reject, and that criticizing existing Jewish institutions for espousing revisionist narratives or endorsing genocidal rhetoric does not constitute antisemitism.

https://wibailoutpeople.org/2024/09/16/press-release-the-irony-of-becoming-what-you-once-hated-mural-milwaukee-jewish-voice-for-peace/

#AntiZionism #gazagenocide #JewishVoiceforPeace #Milwaukee

Rabbi and son get probation, fines for vandalizing swastika mural

MILWAUKEE -- A rabbi and his son who were accused of vandalizing a mural that intertwined a Star of David with a swastika get probation and fines.

"Le #Génocide n’est pas terminé.

Bien que le gouvernement israélien ait étendu son scénario de Gaza à l’ #Iran et au #Liban, l’armée israélienne continue de mener un génocide contre les Palestiniens à #Gaza. Malgré le soi-disant cessez-le-feu, les forces israéliennes continuent de larguer des bombes sur Gaza, visant les tentes et les abris des Palestiniens déplacés, comme hier à Deir al-Balah. L’armée israélienne a réduit à un filet les camions d’aide humanitaire grâce à son blocus, provoquant une grave crise alimentaire et énergétique.

Des centaines de milliers de Palestiniens ont été déplacés, souvent à plusieurs reprises. L'armée israélienne occupe Gaza jusqu'à une « ligne jaune » qui ne cesse de s'étendre, ce qui a contraint des centaines de milliers de personnes à se regrouper dans une zone représentant moins de la moitié de la superficie de Gaza, qui, avant 2023, était déjà l'endroit le plus densément peuplé de la planète.

Au #Liban, on voit aujourd’hui l’armée israélienne préparer le terrain pour la même destruction totale des infrastructures qu’elle a menée à Gaza. Des villages entiers ont déjà été détruits dans le sud du Liban. Plus d’un million de personnes ont été déplacées à la suite des frappes aériennes israéliennes dans tout le pays, de Beirut à Baalbek en passant par Tyr. Les responsables israéliens ont annoncé leur intention d’annexer le sud du Liban et de redessiner les frontières, comme ils l’ont déjà fait à maintes reprises avec les Palestiniens, y compris tout récemment avec la ligne jaune à Gaza.

À chaque étape de ces deux ans et demi de génocide, ainsi que durant ce dernier mois de guerre régionale totale, le gouvernement israélien a bénéficié d’un soutien sans faille et d’un financement illimité de la part du gouvernement américain. Même si la vague de violence déclenchée par les gouvernements américain et israélien semble sans fin, nous gardons les yeux grands ouverts. Nous ne détournerons pas le regard et nous ne cesserons pas de lutter pour une #Palestine libre.

Cessez d’armer Israël."

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWWiFCZgTGt/?igsh=OW0zZm95cTVyYXJm

#JewishVoiceforPeace

#JVP Detroit expresses love and care in wake of horrible attack on Temple Israel
https://mailchi.mp/c72f6dc4cdc9/stopstarvinggaza-6751479?e=7085bb33b2

#JewishVoiceForPeace
March 13, 2026

We are saddened in the wake of a horrible attack on a #synagogue in W.Bloomfield. We are sending love and care to #Jewish communities throughout #Michigan, including our own members who were raised in #TempleIsrael and have family who attend there.[...] Jewish communities, like all people, deserve to be safe in our houses of worship and schools.

The person who reportedly carried out this attack was a man whose siblings, niece, and nephew were just murdered in #Lebanon by #Israeli bombs. This is grief upon grief. War always begets trauma and further violence. It is clear that the Israeli government’s atrocities make all of us-including Jews-less safe. #Israel carries out brutal wars and #genocide against families and children, then falsely claims these war crimes are done in the name of #Jews. This leads to more #antisemitism.

#Palestine

Els jueus nascuts o residents als Estats Units van organitzar moltes protestes pacífiques als carrers, universitats i institucions nordamericanes durant els dos primers anys del genocidi a Gaza.

Què faran els iranians o estatunidencs-iranians?

#JewishVoiceForPeace #Gaza #Israel

The reality in Gaza
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2026/02/26/the-reality-in-gaza/

from #TheWire
[online publication of #JVP #JewishVoiceForPeace]
Feb 26, 2026

For over 28 months, #Israel's military has not only murdered #Palestinians en masse, but also systematically destroyed and restricted Palestinians’ access to their homes, to clean water, food, medical care, schools, Internet, fuel, and electricity. These are all tactics of genocide: destroying the conditions required for life.

Despite the so-called “ceasefire,” the Israeli government is continuing to use the creation of unlivable conditions as a tool of ethnic cleansing and #genocide. Right now, the reality for millions of #Palestinians in #Gaza is one of decimated homes and unlivable conditions, trapped between a militarized border and open gunfire.

Also

  • Tell Congress: Free Leqaa from #ICE detention!
  • From #Minneapolis to Gaza, Purge #Palantir!
  • What we’re reading: Investigating the massacre of aid workers in Gaza.

#news #politics #Palestine

The reality in Gaza. - JVP

Right now, the reality for millions of Palestinians in Gaza is one of decimated homes and unlivable conditions, trapped between a militarized border and open gunfire.

JVP

APA Rewrites Antisemitism Guidelines to Protect Speech on Palestine

“The weaponization of antisemitism…creates significant adverse consequences for Jews and non-Jews,” the APA wrote.

https://murica.website/2026/02/apa-rewrites-antisemitism-guidelines-to-protect-speech-on-palestine/

APA Rewrites Antisemitism Guidelines to Protect Speech on Palestine – The USA Potato