Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network wishes all those who celebrate, especially Palestinian prisoners inside the occupation prisons and imperialist and reactionary jails, a happy Ramadan, toward a future of a liberated Palestine.
Thousands of Palestinian prisoners are marking Ramadan inside Israeli prisons, deprived of their families and loved ones, while their communities and loved ones are kept from these strugglers for freedom by iron bars and prison walls of the occupation. Millions more Palestinians mark the holiday facing home demolitions, land confiscation, systematic racism and apartheid, a killer siege, extrajudicial executions, military occupation, and settler colonialism. For 73 years, Palestinian refugees have been denied their right to return to their homes, lands and properties by the Zionist occupation. Visit our resource on boycotting Israeli dates!
At the same time, Israeli occupation companies are marketing the products of Palestinian land around the world – medjoul dates. 75% of Medjoul dates around the world are marketed as “products of Israel,” grown on stolen Palestinian land. Of those, the large majority are themselves grown on illegal Israeli settlements inside the West Bank. Up to 80% of all of these illegally settlement-produced dates are exported around the world. Israel is the world’s third-largest date exporter, with exports worth $181 million in 2017.
In most cases, these huge Israeli corporations exploit Palestinian labor as well as Palestinian land to bring these dates to market internationally, while the Palestinians who farm these dates and on whose land these dates are grown are denied access to, control over and the proceeds of their resources by the colonial occupation.
Israeli settlement date producers often hire Palestinian child labor to produce and package dates in backbreaking, hazardous conditions. For workers of all ages, they often must stay 12 meters above the ground in the date palm trees throughout the day, denied even toilet breaks.
This Ramadan, be sure to not break your fast with apartheid: Boycott Israeli dates! Stand with the Palestinian people. Keep these tips in mind:
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Legitimate Palestinian Dates:
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