As the Olympic Games opened in Paris — amid widespread protests demanding that the Zionist regime be excluded from the Games for its ongoing genocide in occupied Palestine — Samidoun Paris Banlieue posted new posters in the streets of Ménilmontant on Friday, 26 July to demand the release of Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab communist struggler for Palestine detained in France since 1984, although he has been eligible for release since 1999.
The poster campaign also highlighted the ongoing genocide in Gaza, calling for widespread support and solidarity with the Palestinian people, and expressed solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat, general secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, imprisoned since 2006 by the Zionist state and sentenced to 30 years in prison, and all of the over 9,700 Palestinian prisoners in occupation jails. Sa’adat, along with other leading prisoners with lengthy sentences, such as Marwan Barghouthi, Abdullah Barghouthi, Ibrahim Hamed and Abbas al-Sayyed, is one of the most prominent detained Palestinians that the Zionist regime has attempted to avoid releasing in a prisoner exchange with the Palestinian resistance.
These posters were especially apt on 26 July, as Ahmad Sa’adat and his comrades were first imprisoned by the PA before being imprisoned by the colonial occupation forces. This policy of betrayal continues to the present day, as took place on 26 July in Tulkarem where the Palestinian Authority “security forces” tried to arrest the leader of the Tulkarem Brigades, Abu Shujaa, before being chased away by the Palestinian masses, who know well which guns protect them: those of the resistance, and who collaborates and betrays: the “Palestinian Authority” of Oslo.
The poster campaign also expressed solidarity with the Kanak independence struggle in Kanaky/New Caledonia, and called for the freedom of Kanak political prisoners in French prisons.
Samidoun Paris Banlieue regularly participates in poster campaigns, demonstrations, political education and actions throughout the Paris area in support of Palestinian prisoners and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. Follow their work on Telegram at https://t.me/samidounparisbanlieue
