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#FreeIssamHijjawi: Join the Twitterstorm and Attend Court (Virtually) to support Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat!

Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat, Palestinian activist in Scotland and a medical doctor, is today a Palestinian political prisoner in British jails. On Wednesday, 13 October, he is going back to court (virtually) in a request for bail. His bail applications have been denied repeatedly in the past — despite the length of his detention — and now, new circumstances make it more urgent than ever that he be released.

On 13 October at 12 noon (7 am Eastern time, 1 pm in central Europe, 2 pm in Palestine), Issam’s bail application will be heard at the Magistrates Court, Dungannon Courthouse, in the occupied north of Ireland. Just like when political prisoners go to court in person, it is important for people to show up in court to show their support and solidarity and make it clear that this case is the subject of national and international scrutiny.

Please write to us at [email protected] to receive the link to attend the virtual court hearing on Wednesday, 13 October. Note that during the court hearing, please keep your sound off and display your name, and do not make an audio or video recording of the hearing. Let’s show up in court for the release of Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat! 

One day before the court hearing, you can join the Twitterstorm to publicize Issam’s case! Palestinian virtual collectives and social media action groups are urging people everywhere to Tweet #FreeIsamHijjawi on Tuesday, 12 October: 

#FreeIssamHijjawi Twitterstorm

Tuesday, 12 October 2021

9 am Pacific – 12 pm Eastern – 5 pm British time – 6 pm central Europe – 7 pm Palestine

Who is Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat?

Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat is a Palestinian political prisoner in British jails. He has been targeted for his commitment to international solidarity and as a political means of repressing both the Palestinian and Irish movements.

Alongside his fellow detainees, the Saoradh 9, he was detained in “Operation Arbacia,” a series of political arrests carried out by British authorities. Today, he remains jailed in the Maghaberry high security prison, in the British-occupied north of Ireland. We call for the immediate release of Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat and all political prisoners in British jails.

He was targeted by an MI5 infiltrator, Dennis McFadden, to attend a bugged meeting with members of Saoradh, an Irish republican socialist political party that advocates for an end to British colonialism and a united Ireland. He was detained on 22 August at Heathrow Airport on the same day that nine members of Saoradh were also arrested by British forces. Throughout the past year, his bail applications have been repeatedly denied, despite serious health issues and the damaging effects of incarceration on his and his fellow detainees’ well-being.

Dr. Hijjawi Bassalat, 62, came to the UK in 1995 to work as a doctor, and he is a well-known, respected member of the Palestinian community in Scotland and the father of four. He previously served as chair of the Association of Palestinian Communities in Scotland (today, the Scottish Palestinian Society) and has been active throughout Europe in advocating for Palestinian rights to return, freedom and justice, speaking frequently at meetings, conferences and events.

Infiltration and MI5 Attacks

“Operation Arbacia” sprang from the decades-long infiltration of Irish republican movements by MI5 agent Dennis McFadden, detailed in a Channel 4 News report. Issam was entrapped into a meeting with McFadden on false pretenses after he was told by British officials that he had to pick up his daughter’s passport renewal in Belfast instead of Glasgow. There, he was invited to what was presented to him as a Saoradh meeting to discuss international solidarity and the Palestinian cause; he had previously spoken to a Saoradh Ard Fheis (annual meeting) about Palestine, an open, public event.

He is charged with “preparatory acts of terrorism” under the 2006 Terrorism Act, based on his attendance at this meeting engineered by MI5. Issam’s solicitor, Gavin Booth, has seen the transcript of the meeting Issam was compelled to attend, noting that “Everything that’s contained within the transcripts and the recordings is about Palestine, is about peaceful and democratic change. There’s nothing in the transcripts from Dr Bassalat that would support violence in any way.” Despite these facts and the presumption of innocence that is supposed to apply, he has been held on remand for a full year.

Targeting Issam’s Bank Account and Medical License

In addition to his ongoing, unjust imprisonment, pre-trial detention and denied bail, Dr. Hijjawi Bassalat has suffered further injustice. During his detention, his medical care was initially delayed, and then after he finally received necessary surgery, he was denied pain relief and proper therapy. Despite his condition, he continued to be denied bail.

His bank account was frozen, denying him access to funds and creating even more inconvenience and trauma for his family — again, all while he ostensibly retains the presumption of innocence. Issam’s licence to practise medicine was suspended by the General Medical Council (GMC) on 26 October 2020 after the charges filed against him, despite the fact that he has been convicted of nothing and that the charges in no way relate to his fitness to practise medicine or his treatment of his patients.

Issam is being targeted as a Palestinian in an attempt to justify the MI5 infiltration of public political parties and to smear both the Palestinian and Irish struggles through entrapment and misrepresentation. The presumption of innocence is being cast aside for political gamesmanship. We urge the immediate release of Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat and all political prisoners, including the Saoradh 9, detained in British jails.

Video: Channel 4 Report on MI5 Entrapment and Infiltration

Video Webinar on Dr. Issam Hijjawi Bassalat and the Saoradh 9

International Month of Action for the Release of Georges Abdallah

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is an endorser of the following call to action, initiated by the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah. We encourage all to join the campaign by organizing a screening of Fedayin, hosting an event or action in solidarity with Georges Abdallah, and sharing this call and other information:

September 24 to October 23, 2021

On 19 September 2020, the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah called for an international month of actions for the release of our comrade. Guided by the firm conviction that this fight had to be waged on political grounds, since the refusal by the French State to release Georges Abdallah is indeed a political decision, many organizations and collectives supported this call to “concretely engage in the field of struggle, everywhere in France and internationally, in order to build the mobilization and help to publicize the case and the struggle of Georges Abdallah.”

This call was based on a clear political line and a clear line of defense of our comrade: the political identity that Georges Abdallah himself enunciates in his statements. A line recalling that:

1. Georges Abdallah is an Arab resistance fighter, a Lebanese communist, today a symbol of the fight against imperialism, Zionism, capitalism and reactionary Arab states.

2. Georges Abdallah is a fighter for the Palestinian cause who fought against the invasion and war imposed on Lebanon by the Zionists and continues to fight for the liberation of all of Palestine.

3. Georges Abdallah has been a political prisoner of the French state for over 37 years now, to the applause of the United States and the Zionist entity.

4. We fully recognize ourselves in the struggle of Georges Abdallah. We recognize ourselves in his unwavering revolutionary internationalist commitment during his four decades of incarceration for the end of colonialism throughout the world, in all its forms, for the end of capitalism and exploitation and in support of the struggle of the peoples against all oppressions.

5. We recognize ourselves in his fierce determination and his unwavering conscience to lead the fight for his liberation not on the ground of the “judicial quibbles” of class justice but at the level of the political authorities – where decisions are truly made, outweighing the place and weight of the judicial ritual when it comes to political prisoners.

6. We share his line of conduct regarding the support to be given to him for his release: ” It is in the field of struggle that we can and must provide the most significant support to our comrades.” And in his case, as he himself puts it very clearly, “it is not enough that the State of Lebanon ‘demands’ or rather ‘requests’ my release, it is also necessary that the really existing balance of power can make the representatives of French imperialism understand that my imprisonment begins to weigh more heavily than the possible threat inherent in my release. It is only in this case that the order of my expulsion towards Lebanon will not meet any more opposition. This is why, dear Friends and Comrades, the most appropriate solidarity that we can bring to any imprisoned revolutionary protagonist, is that which we develop more and more in the field of struggle. against the system of exploitation and domination”. (Lannemezan, October 19, 2019).

This line of defense of our comrade, on his political basis, was ours in the past years and remains so today.

It is more relevant than ever at a time when the French State continues to keep Georges Abdallah in prison, without the extradition notice being signed by the Minister of the Interior as per the condition of his release. It is also more relevant than ever at a time when Georges Abdallah continues to confront his jailers, not to give in, to resist and where the mobilization for his release is growing ever stronger, day after day: everywhere in France, the initiatives to demand his release are carried out with elected officials, in the heart of cities and in front of the authorities of the State, with poster campaigns, gatherings and tables, during meetings, meals and solidarity celebrations, by calls for signatures and letters sent to the highest representative of the State, during political party events, and naturally within the process of all social and political struggles. Georges Abdallah, on a daily basis, is part of our struggles and no action is carried out without our reaffirming that we are part of his fight. This commitment in the region and at the national level is now also broad at the international level where Georges Abdallah has supporters on almost all continents (in Latin America – in Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, the United States, in the Maghreb and in the Arab East – in particular in Palestine and Lebanon, India, Europe).

The time has now come to ensure that Georges Abdallah is not only, as Leïla Khaled said, “a symbol for revolutionaries around the world” but a symbol of the unanimously recognized resistance, in  which everyone demands his release in the name of the just and legitimate right to revolt and to resist. The time has come to have Georges Abdallah recognized as a unanimously recognized symbol of resistance at a time when everywhere in the world, contradictions are certainly sharpening but also the resistance of the peoples, who now come into direct confrontation with power and claim by revolt what is due to them; at a time when the resistance of the Palestinian people, in their struggle for national liberation, leads an offensive on the Zionist occupier, bringing its blows to the very heart of the most secure settlements or high security prisons; at a time when it is high time to demand accountability and ensure that fear changes sides!

While in Lebanon a new government has just been formed with at its head as Prime Minister Mr. Najib Mikati who, in 2012, had demanded the release of Georges Abdallah and called for his return to the country as a Lebanese citizen, time has therefore come to harden the balance of power by increasing the mobilization for the liberation of our comrade.

It is in this sense and for all these reasons – while remaining faithful to the principles of action and the political line recalled here – that we are calling today for a new month of action, from 24 September to 23 October 2021, so that all of us, the supporters of our comrade, do not leave a free political space at the local, regional, national and international level without putting the demand for his release on the agenda.

In Albertville, Amiens, Annecy, Aubagne, Aubervilliers, Besançon, Bordeaux, Clermont-Ferrand, Gennevilliers, Grenay, Grenoble, Lannemezan, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Montauban, Montpellier, Morlaix, Nanterre, Nîmes, Paris, Pau, Saint-Denis , Saint-Etienne, Tarbes, Thionville, Toulouse, Troyes; in  the  Alpes-Maritimes, in Corsica, in Finistère, Gers, in Gironde, in Haute-Marne, in Hautes-Pyrénées, Hérault, Ile de France, Lot-et-Garonne, in the North and Pas-de-Calais, in the Pays de Cornouailles, in Poitou-Charentes, in Puy-de-Dôme, in the Rhône-Alpes region, in Seine-Maritime and in Tarn-et-Garonne; in Algeria, Germany, England, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Spain, Greece, India, Italy, Kurdistan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Morocco, occupied Palestine, Peru, Poland, Romania, Tunisia, Turkey –  everywhere in France and in the world where the struggle of Georges Abdallah is relayed and the demand for his release carried, wherever we are engaged in active solidarity support for our comrade, increase the mobilization actions and intensify the pressure on the representatives and places of power of the French State so that the current Minister of the Interior can finally sign the expulsion notice on which the release of our comrade is conditioned, and so this fight to end this iniquitous life sentence is won.

All of us –  anarchists, autonomists, anti-fascists, anti-imperialists, anti-Zionists, communists, democrats, environmentalists, internationalists, libertarians, Marxist-Leninists, Marxist-Leninists-Maoists, rebellious republicans, revolutionaries, Trotskyists; involved in parties, unions, fronts, campaigns, associations, collectives, committees, movements and multiple networks; engaged alongside our comrade in political struggles for Palestine, in support of the Intifada and against Normalization; for the defense of peoples’ struggles and their resistance; for the defense of political prisoners and revolutionary prisoners; against imprisonment; against police violence; for the defense of immigration and working-class neighborhoods; against racism ; for the defense of workers, their achievements and their rights;  in the Gilets Jaunes campaigns; for the fight for the emancipation of women; against torture and the death penalty  – let us mobilize once again, all together where we are, in this diversity that is ours, from 24 September 2021 to 23 October 2021 so that by this date, the eleventh demonstration in Lannemezan is the last and that we can finally be at his side to continue the struggle.

One, two, three, a thousand initiatives for the release of Georges Abdallah!

He is part of our struggles, we are part of his fight!

Palestine will live, Palestine will win!

Victory or victory!

Paris, 19 September 2021 

[email protected]

First signatories :Unitary campaign for the liberation of Georges Abdallah – Collective for the liberation of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah (CLGIA) – ANC (National Association of Communists) – The Workers’ Party of Turkey (DIP) – The Red Internationalist Collective for the Defense of Revolutionary Prisoners ( Le CRI Rouge) – Friends of Palestine against imperialism and Zionism (Turkey) – Committee of actions and support for the struggles of the Moroccan people – Committee for Popular Defense of Tunisia – Committee for the Respect of Freedoms and Rights de l’Homme en Tunisie – Secours Rouge International – Secours Rouge de Belgique – Secours Rouge arabe – The Belgian Appeal for the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah – Union syndicale solidaire – Collectif 65 for the release of Georges Abdallah – Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity NEtwork – UL CGT Paris 18e – Collectif Palestine Vaincra – The Couserans-Palestine Association – Dimitri Konstantakopoulos, journalist and writer, former member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of SYRIZA (Greece) – International Committee in Support of the People’s War in India (Italy) – Proletari comunisti (Italy) ) – Soccorso rosso proletario (Italy) – Aline Pailler – AFPS 63 – Solidaire 31 – Revolutionary Youth League – A2C (Class autonomy) – Dominique Grange (Committed singer) – Tardi (Cartoonist) – Jean-Pierre Bastid and Emmanuelle de Bagnolet – Alima Boumediene Thiéry – Association Femmes Plurielles – Marie-France Pelletan (Ajaccio) – Helmuth Rudloff (Geneva) – René Naba, journalist-writer – Lise Bouzidi Vega, radio host and activist – Association Terre et Liberté pour Arauco – Ismaël Dupont,elected communist in Morlaix and in the department of Finistère, secretary of the PCF Finistère – José Navarro – Annick Weiner, professor emeritus – The International Support Network for Political Prisoners in Chile, (RIAPPECH) – the Charleroi-Palestine Platform – Youssef Boussoumah (decolonial HQ) and Houria Bouteldja (decolonial HQ) – Poitevin Palestine Committee – United Front for Immigration and Popular Quarters (FUIQP) – Association of Residents of Nanterre (ARENE) – Tunisian Solidarity Committee for Liberation by Georges Abdallah – Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) – Union Prolétarienne ML (UPML) – AFPS d’Albertville – AFPS Paris 14-6 -Arab Commission for Human Rights-professor emeritus – The International Support Network for Political Prisoners in Chile, (RIAPPECH) – the Charleroi-Palestine Platform – Youssef Boussoumah (decolonial HQ) and Houria Bouteldja (decolonial HQ) – Poitevin Palestine Committee – United Front of Immigration and Popular Quarters (FUIQP) – The Association of Residents of Nanterre (ARENE) – Tunisian Solidarity Committee for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah – Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) – Union Prolétarienne ML (UPML) ) – AFPS d’Albertville – AFPS Paris 14-6 -Arab Commission for Human Rights-professor emeritus – The International Support Network for Political Prisoners in Chile, (RIAPPECH) – the Charleroi-Palestine Platform – Youssef Boussoumah (decolonial HQ) and Houria Bouteldja (decolonial HQ) – Poitevin Palestine Committee – United Front of Immigration and Popular Quarters (FUIQP) – The Association of Residents of Nanterre (ARENE) – Tunisian Solidarity Committee for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah – Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP) – Union Prolétarienne ML (UPML) ) – AFPS d’Albertville – AFPS Paris 14-6 -Arab Commission for Human Rights-(RIAPPECH) – the Charleroi-Palestine Platform – Youssef Boussoumah (decolonial HQ) and Houria Bouteldja (decolonial HQ) – Poitevin Palestine Committee – United Front for Immigration and Popular Quarters (FUIQP) – Association of Residents of Nanterre (ARENE) – Tunisian Solidarity Committee for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah – French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP) – Union Prolétarienne ML (UPML) – AFPS d’Albertville – AFPS Paris 14-6 – Arab Commission for Human Rights(RIAPPECH) – the Charleroi-Palestine Platform – Youssef Boussoumah (decolonial HQ) and Houria Bouteldja (decolonial HQ) – Poitevin Palestine Committee – United Front for Immigration and Popular Quarters (FUIQP) – Association of Residents of Nanterre (ARENE) – Tunisian Solidarity Committee for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah – French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP) – Union Prolétarienne ML (UPML) – AFPS d’Albertville – AFPS Paris 14-6 – Arab Commission for Human Rights

Anti-Racist Groups’ Joint Submission Criticizing Canada’s proposed “Online Harms” Legislation

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network joined dozens of anti-racist and human rights groups across Canada in a joint statement warning of the dangers to freedom of expression, particularly to oppressed communities, posed by the Canadian government’s “online harms” proposal. The statement notes that, “as currently formulated, it risks exacerbating the existing, well-documented pattern of online speech policing and removal targeting Indigenous, Black, Palestinian, and other colonized and racialized communities.” Palestinian pages and other content are routinely deleted by Big Tech social media companies and targeted for suppression by Israel and Western states. Palestinians have been repeatedly imprisoned inside occupied Palestine for posting on social media, including poet Dareen Tatour, who was imprisoned for posting her poem, “Resist, My People, Resist Them,” on Facebook and YouTube. Read the full statement below:

Subject: Joint submission re: Online harms legislation

To whom it may concern,

As organizations and individuals with expertise in anti-racism, we are profoundly concerned by the government’s proposed “online harms” legislation – purporting to address “terrorist content,” “content that incites violence,” “hate speech,” “non-consensual sharing of intimate images,” and “child sexual exploitation content.”

While the proposal is billed as protecting marginalized groups from “hate, harassment, and violent rhetoric online,” we fear that, as currently formulated, it risks exacerbating the existing, well-documented pattern of online speech policing and removal targeting Indigenous, Black, Palestinian, and other colonized and racialized communities.

Particular aspects of concern regarding the proposed legislative framework from an anti-racism perspective include:

  1. Incentivization of over-removal produced by: the short timeline for required response after content being flagged (24 hours); the obligation for online communication service providers (OCSPs) to take proactive measures to identify harmful content, including through use of automated systems (repeatedly shown susceptible to amplifying existing biases); vague definitions that will lead platforms to be over-inclusive in order to be “safe;” and significant financial penalties for non-compliance.
  1.  Conflation of very different types of online harms – for example, “hateful” or “terrorist” content with “child sexual exploitation” or “non-consensual sharing of intimate images” – under a single regulatory regime. This is particularly problematic given the existing deployment of categories of “hate speech” and “terrorist speech” to censor Black and Palestinian content online; abetted, in the Palestinian case, by efforts to institutionalize the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, widely critiqued for conflating criticisms of Israeli policy with antisemitism.
  1. Increased information-sharing with law enforcement and security agencies regarding possibly harmful content. As law and technology scholar Michael Geist observes, this may “lead to the prospect of [artificial intelligence] identifying what it thinks is content caught by the law and generating a report to the RCMP” – likely intensifying the current state of over-policing and -surveillance of colonized and racialized communities.
  1. Sweeping search powers for “inspectors” to verify compliance with the legislation, secret hearings, and new information-gathering powers for CSIS – allocating further police-like capacities to CSIS.
  1. Absence of adequate transparency, accountability, and redress measures with no clear mechanisms for publicly assessing whether Internet companies are fulfilling their obligation to prevent discriminatory treatment in content removal and reporting to law enforcement and CSIS; the protection of companies from criminal and civil liability for notifications to law enforcement and CSIS made in “good faith”; and no requirement to restore content found to be wrongfully removed, deferring to Internet companies’ own community standards. As three UN Special Rapporteurs recently noted, “such terms of service or community standards do not reference human rights and related responsibilities, thereby creating the possibility of an ‘escape route’ from human rights oversight.”

According to Daphne Keller, Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center, Canada’s proposal is “like a list of the worst ideas around the world – the ones human rights groups … have been fighting in the EU, India, Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, and elsewhere.”

Our concerns are compounded by troubling deficiencies in the government’s ongoing consultation process organized to validate the proposed legislation. Expert perspectives on addressing harmful speech online while protecting civil liberties have reportedly been disregarded. Planned consultation meetings with community representatives have been cancelled due to the election, yet the deadline for the consultation period remains as previously advertised, September 25 – just five days after the election.

Given the serious risks posed by the proposed “online harms” legislation – including to the very communities it is represented as protecting – we call for the government to suspend any implementation, until a full, fair, open, and responsive consultation with anti-racism, human rights, and civil liberties experts has taken place, and the problems and pitfalls identified have been rectified.

Click here to sign as an individual or organization. The list of signatories will be periodically updated.

Organizational signatories

Arab Canadian Lawyers Association
British Columbia Civil Liberties Association
Canada Palestine Association
Canada Palestine Support Network – CanPalNet
Canadian BDS Coalition
Canadian Arab Federation
Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)
Canadian Foreign Policy Institute
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)
Canadians for Peace and Justice in Kashmir (CPJK)
Canadians United Against Hate
Catholics for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land
Community Coalition Against Racism (Hamilton)
Continuing Education Students’ Association of X University (CESAX)
Independent Jewish Voices Canada / Voix juives indépendantes
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group (ICLMG)
Islamic Social Services Association
Jewish Liberation Theology Institute
Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste
Ligue des droits et libertés
Mathabah Institute
Niagara Movement for Justice in Palestine-Israel (NMJPI), ON Canada
Oakville Palestinian Rights Association
PAJU (Palestinian and Jewish Unity)
Palestinian Canadian Congress
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Sisters Dialogue
Socialist Action / Ligue pour l’Action socialiste
South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario
Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project

Individual signatories

Aman Sium, Eritreans for Peace and Justice
Anna Lippman, PhD candidate
Anne Dagenais, activist
Rev. Anne Hoganson, clergy
Annette Lengyel, Human Rights for Palestinians Activist
Aron Rosenberg, PhD Candidate, McGill University
Dr Arun Kundnani, writer
Azeezah Kanji, journalist and legal academic
Bill Skidmore, Human Rights professor, Carleton University (retired)
Dr Chandni Desai, Assistant Professor, Critical Studies of Equity and Solidarity, University of Toronto
Cheryl Gaster, Human Rights Lawyer (Retired)
Claudia K. Keller, Clergy
Corey Balsam, National Coordinator, Independent Jewish Voices
Dania Majid, Arab Canadian Lawyers Association
Dr David Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor, Stanford University., US
D Nashid, Barrister and Solicitor
Doug Hewitt-White, Conscience Canada
Dr. Adnan A. Husain (Department of History and Director, Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives Project, Queen’s University)
Dr. James Deutsch, Div. of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Univ. of Toronto
Dr. Sujith Xavier, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law University of Windsor
Ed Corrigan, lawyer
Elizabeth Block, member of Independent Jewish Voices and CFSC
Elizabeth-Anne Malischewski, Independent Jewish Voices
Emo Yango, The United Church of Canada
Ernest Dalymple-Alford, retired university professor
Faisal Bhabha, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Fareed Khan, Human Rights & Anti-Racism Activist
Gail Nestel, Educator
Gordon Doctorow, Ed.D.
Dr. Greg Bird, Associate Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
Greg Starr, College Instructor
Helga Mankovitz, member, Independent Jewish Voices
Jeannette Schieck, BA MSc retired OCT
Dr Jeffrey Monaghan, Associate Professor, Carleton University
Jenny Stimac, Independent Jewish Voices
Jeremy Wildeman, PhD
Jillian Rogin, Assistant Professor, University of Windsor, Faculty of Law
Karen Rodman (Rev), ordained minister and human rights advocate
Karin Brothers, writer and activist
Khaled Loutfi Mouammar, Former Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Kikélola Roach, Unifor National Chair in Social Justice and Democracy at X University (formerly Ryerson)
Lev Jaeger, United Jewish People’s Order member, Independent Jewish Voices member
Dr Mark Ayyash, Associate Professor of Sociology, Mount Royal University
Mark Robert Brill, member, Independent Jewish Voices, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, long time activist
Mary Girard, human rights and justice activist
Murray Lumley, retired teacher
Michael Keefer, Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph
Dr Nahla Abdo, Professor, Carleton University
Nicholas Sammond, Director, Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto
Omar Burgan, Labour researcher
Dr Paola Bacchetta, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Parker Mah, artist/producer and community activist
Rabbi David Mivasair, emeritus, Ahavat Olam Synagogue
Rachel Small, World BEYOND War
Dr Randa Farah, Associate Professor, WesternU
Rashmi Luther, Lecturer (retired), School of Social Work, Carleton University
Ria Heynen, activist
Richard Marcuse, Arts Consultant
Dr Rinaldo Walcott, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Sam Arnold, Independent Jewish Voices
Shawn Nock, human rights activist
Sid Shniad, solidarity activist, member Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Smadar Carmon, activist
Suzanne Berliner Weiss, activist and author
Sydney Nestel, IT consultant, retired
Tim McSorley, National Coordinator, International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group
Vicki Obedkoff, United Church of Canada minister
Wolfe Erlichman, Independent Jewish Voices
Stephen Aberle, Independent Jewish Voices
Will Reed, activist
Yom Shamash, Independent Jewish Voices
Zainab Amadahy, author and community activist
Zayd Ghunaim, community organizer

“Boycott Tour” demands justice and liberation during Vancouver Palestine Action Week

On Wednesday, 6 October, activists marched through downtown Vancouver, Canada, as part of the Boycott Tour, drawing attention to the complicity of corporations, universities and government institutions in Canada in the ongoing colonization, occupation and apartheid throughout occupied Palestine.

The march took place as part of Palestine Action Week, five days of collective action in solidarity with Palestinians and their fight for liberation, and against settler-colonialism, apartheid, and imperialist violence. Palestine Action Week was organized by a coalition of Vancouver-area groups, including Palestinian Youth Movement, National Students for Justice in Palestine, Canada Palestine Association, UBC Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, SFU Students for Justice in Palestine, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, BDS Vancouver, Anti-racism coalition Vancouver, Independent Jewish Voices, Rise SFU, Sulong UBC, and the Caucus.

Protesters gathered outside London Drugs, a large Canadian drugstore chain that, among other products, markets SodaStream (created in an Israeli occupation factory exploiting Palestinian land and labour), Teva Pharmaceuticals (Israel’s largest taxpaying company and a global pharmaceutical giant) and HP computers, printers and accessories (HP entities have contracts with Israeli security and identity agencies used to enforce colonization, imprisonment and the siege on Gaza.) Dalya al-Masri of the Palestinian Youth Movement spoke, highlighting the harms that these corporations’ actions cause to the Palestinian people through their profiting from colonialism.

The marchers then proceeded past Best Buy, which also sells HP products, toward SportChek, which markets Puma sportswear, where they highlighted the international #BoycottPuma campaign. Global sportswear manufacturer Puma is involved in violations of international law and human rights. Puma is the main sponsor of the Israel Football Association (IFA). Not only is this a direct sponsorship of an institution of Israeli apartheid and colonialism throughout Palestine, the IFA even includes teams based directly inside Israel’s illegal colonial settlements in the West Bank of occupied Palestine.

Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Network, spoke about Puma’s role in funding and sponsoring Israeli apartheid and colonialism. She also spoke about the various forms of repression targeting Palestinian athletes, including multiple imprisoned football players. She urged all to take action and show solidarity with the six Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike — three facing a severe health crisis — against their administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, and to organize to free all 4,650 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Demonstrators, proceeding by the University of British Columbia Robson Street campus, denounced ongoing silence and complicity in the crimes committed against the Palestinian people. They expressed their solidarity with Indigenous peoples continuing to confront genocide, colonialism and settler colonialism on this land, the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Watuth peoples, and throughout Turtle Island, pausing for a moment of silence outside the Vancouver Art Gallery, where Indigenous communities have set up a memorial for the lives of Indigenous children taken through residential schools and other acts of genocide.

Marchers then proceeded to the BC Liquor Store, a government-owned liquor store that continues to market wines, marked “Product of Israel,” which are overwhelmingly created in illegal settlements on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank of Palestine and the Syrian Golan Heights. As they marched through the streets, they chanted: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! Boycott apartheid, boycott Israel! From Turtle Island to Palestine, colonialism is a crime!”

Outside the BC Liquor Store, Kathy Copps of BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish and the Canada Palestine Association demanded that these government-owned stores stop aiding in the violation of international law. She spoke about the history of this long-running campaign and urged people to contact the BC government and specifically Finance Minister Selina Robinson to end the BC Liquor Stores’ complicity in Israeli war crimes.

The protest then wound its way to Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre. Parsa, an SFU student with The Caucus, spoke about the importance of student involvement in the struggle for a free Palestine. He spoke about the words they had heard from Palestinian students one day earlier, during the “Palestinian Students Struggle for Freedom” webinar with former prisoner Layan Kayed and Samidoun Palestine coordinator Hadeel Shatara.

He emphasized the way that SFU and other universities act to quell student activism and separate students from the broader community, alongside ongoing complicity in colonialism here and in Palestine. He noted that SFU security had torn down all of the posters promoting Palestine Action Week only minutes after they were posted, focusing on silencing student voices rather than addressing ongoing colonial war crimes.

Palestine Action Week concluded on Friday, 8 October with a powerful event sponsored by the Palestinian Youth Movement and BAYAN Canada. Representatives of PYM and Sulong UBC delivered informative presentations on the history of the peoples’ struggles in Palestine and the Philippines, focusing on the struggle of political prisoners, followed by a discussion with Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat and Lengua de Guzman, trade unionist and wife of political prisoner Maoj Maga in the Philippines.

Organizers pledged to continue to build this week of action and further organizing for Palestine in Vancouver, across North America and internationally. The next Vancouver protest will take place on Saturday, 16 October, at 2 pm outside the French consulate at 1130 W. Pender Street, part of the Month of Action to Free Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for 37 years.

30 organizations, many actions in Toulouse join call to free Georges Abdallah

The following report is translated from the original French at Collectif Palestine Vaincra:

Since Friday, 24 September, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra — a member organization of the Samidoun Network — has been actively organizing for the international month of action to free Georges Abdallah. Georges Abdallah is a Lebanese Communist imprisoned in France since 24 October 1984, despite being eligible for release since 1999. Today, broad support continues to grow to demand the immediate release of this man, who has become the longest-held political prisoner in Europe.

In Toulouse, France, 30 organizations, including major trade unions and left-wing parties, have joined their voices to call for the national demonstration on Saturday, 23 October at 2 pm outside the gates of Lannemezan prison, where he is jailed. Read below for the full statement from Toulouse.

At the same time, the Collectif is mobilizing a campaign of information throughout the city to make this appalling situation known to as many people as possible.

On Sunday, 10 October, the Collectif held a Palestine Stand at the Jeanne d’Arc metro station during an outdoor market. The stand was met with a very warm welcome, as many people stopped to discuss Palestine, the case of Georges Abdallah, or sign petitions for his release. Activists displayed a large banner reading “Freedom for Georges Abdallah! Freedom for Palestine!” across the main street, attracting attention from many people.

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1447123925159354372

Earlier on Thursday, 7 October, the Collectif held a stand at the University of Mirail, receiving widespread attention from students, who stopped to learn more about the campaign. They received 77 petition cards signed to demand Georges Abdallah’s immediate release.

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1446068982541426689

They met Leopold Lambert, editor-in-chief of The Funambulist magazine and author of multiple books, including “États d’urgence. Une histoire spatiale du continuum colonial français”. He reaffirmed his support for the campaign to free Georges Abdallah and for anti-colonialist struggles around the world.

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1446002523257573377

On Tuesday, 5 October, the Collectif participated in the large trade union demonstration which brought 5,000 people to the streets of Toulouse. They distributed thousands of flyers and received wide support from participants.

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1445325015080181760

Activists hung posters and signs throughout the city, including in the Arnaud Bernard, Bagatelle, Minimes and Saint-Cyprien neighborhoods, where community members and small businesses showed their support for Georges Abdallah as a symbol of Palestinian resistance against colonialism, racism and apartheid.

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1445732885785456642

On Monday, 4 October, the Collectif distributed hundreds of flyers at the Jean Jaures and Arenes metro stations, discussing with hundreds of people about the current situation in Palestine. Many people learned this May — if they were previously unaware — about the deeply reactionary colonial nature of the Zionist project.

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1445096827536252928

These followed a busy weekend on 2-3 October in Gémenos, where a delegation from Collectif Palestine Vaincra participated in the annual event of the National Association of Communists (ANC), which took place at SCOP-TI cooperative, the former Falib factory taken over by its workers after a mobilization against its closure.

During the ANC’s weekend event, the film “Fedayin: The Struggle of Georges Abdallah” was screened, and there was wide support for the Palestinian resistance. Many organizations participated in the event, including the Unitary Campaign for the liberation of Georges Abdallah, committees for the liberation of Georges Abdallah from PACA and Bordeaux, the Collectif Solidarité Palestine Ouest Étang de Berre, the BDS Marseille Campaign, and the United Front for Immigrants and Popular Neighborhoods (FUIQP).

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1444320520615432194

During the event, participants received a message of solidarity from Georges Abdallah. In his comments, he affirmed “the Palestinian cause, as one of the main levers of the Arab revolution, is completely in line with this dynamic. To face all the ‘liquidationist’ proposals, the Palestinian Resistance has and will have to face the ‘Arab-Zionist reactionary bloc’ led by the imperialist powers. Quite naturally the Palestinian popular masses, as well as their fighting vanguards in captivity, can count more than ever on your active solidarity.”

The Collectif organied solidarity photos to free Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

In appreciation for this effort, Sa’adat sent a message of solidarity: “In my name and in the name of all the prisoner comrades, I salute you for your continued solidarity with the prisoners and with the struggler Georges Abdallah, in particular the comrades of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and the National Association of Communists.”

Toulouse Statement to Free Georges Abdallah

Through a common appeal, 30 organizations in Toulouse and the area are calling for action to liberate Georges Abdallah, especially by joining the demonstration on Saturday, 23 October outside Lannemezan prison, where he is held. There is a free bus from Toulouse: to join, meet at 11:30 am at the Basso Cambo metro. Register for tickets by emailing [email protected]

Freedom for Georges Abdallah!
Solidarity with the Palestinian people!

Georges Abdallah is a Lebanese communist and struggler for the Palestinian cause. From his youth, he was committed to struggle against the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in 1978 and 1982. These military assaults left thousands of civilian victims, as during the massacre of the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Beirut in September 1982.

In this context, Georges Abdallah co-founded the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Fraction (FARL) which claimed several operations on French soil, including the executions in 1982 of Yacov Barsimentov and Charles Ray, agents of the Mossad and the CIA.

Arrested in Lyon on October 24, 1984, Georges Abdallah was sentenced to life imprisonment for complicity in murder. But this conviction is the site of many irregularities, in particular direct pressure from Reagan on Mitterrand, and even his first lawyer, Jean-Paul Mazurier, who later revealed that he had worked for the French intelligence services at the time.

Eligible for release under French law since 1999, Georges Abdallah has made eight requests for release. In 2013, his release was accepted by the sentencing court and made conditional on deportation to Lebanon. However, his deportation was blocked by a political decision by Manuel Valls, Minister of the Interior at the time, who refused to sign the document needed for his release and return home. In March 2020, Georges Abdallah received for the third time a visit from Mr. Rami Adwan, Ambassador of Lebanon to France, this time accompanied by Mrs. Marie-Claude Najm, Minister of Justice of the resigned Lebanese government. During this meeting, they reaffirmed the support of the Lebanese state for the release of Georges Abdallah.

Today, he has become one of the longest-held political prisoners in Europe and a symbol of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. Alongside them, he regularly goes on hunger strikes or makes statements of support for the release of 4,650 Palestinian political prisoners.

On October 24, 2021, Georges Abdallah will have spent 37 years in French prisons. A broad international campaign demands his immediate release and his return to his country, Lebanon.

In Toulouse, we call for a large participation in the national demonstration Saturday, October 23, 2021 from 2 p.m., which will march from the train station to the prison of Lannemezan (65) where he is being held.

First signatories: Collectif Palestine Vaincra, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, BDS France Toulouse, Secours Rouge Toulouse, CGT Éducation 31, Poing Levé Mirail, Révolte Décoloniale, Couserans-Palestine, Union Antifasciste Toulousaine, UD CGT 31, Student CGT Tarn, Freedom Committee for Musa Asoglu Toulouse, Anti-Imperialist Front Toulouse, Popular Front (Turkey) Toulouse, ASOMP – Amitié Sahara Occidental Midi Pyrénées, Permanent Revolution, Union Syndicale Solidaires 31, Center of the Kurdish Democratic Community of Toulouse, South Education 31/65, Attac Toulouse, Comité 31 du Mouvement de la Paix, NPA 31, UNEF Toulouse, FSU 31, PCF 31, UJFP, Union des Etudiants de Toulouse, Parti de Gauche 31, UCL Toulouse & Alentours, PCOF 31

16 October, Vancouver: Free Georges Abdallah! Free Palestine! Protest

Saturday, 16 October
2 pm
Consulate of France in Vancouver
1130 W Pender 
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/622303178937164/

Georges Abdallah, Lebanese Communist and struggler for Palestine, has been imprisoned in French jails for nearly 37 years, despite being eligible for release since 1999.

Even when he has obtained rulings for his freedom through judicial processes, the highest levels of the French state — amid U.S. and Israeli pressure — have blocked his return to his homeland, Lebanon.

Georges is part of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, greeted by the 4,650 Palestinians jailed in Israeli prisons as one of their own. Join us in Vancouver as we mark the International Month of Solidarity to Free Georges Abdallah on Saturday, Oct. 16.

We will protest at the French consulate and the U.S. consulate and demand an end to the imperialist French, U.S. and Canadian policies that continue to support, sponsor and sustain Zionist occupation, apartheid, settler colonialism and mass imprisonment throughout occupied Palestine and internationally. We will also campaign to build the boycott of Israel and Israeli products, including the settlement wines sold in government-operated BC Liquor Stores.

Free Georges Abdallah, and Free Palestine from the river to the sea!

This event is taking place on the unceded and occupied territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. The organizers stand in full solidarity and support of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination and with the ongoing movements to defend land, water and Indigenous peoples from plunder and settler colonialism.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Canada Palestine Association, Palestinian Youth Movement, BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish, ILPS Canada

To endorse this event email [email protected]

11 October, Milan: Demonstration to support 4 accused anti-Zionist protesters

Monday, 11 October
9:00 am
Tribunal of Milano
Milan, Italy
Info: https://www.facebook.com/panetteriaoccupata.noblogs.org/photos/a.183546272364800/872777930108294

The 3rd hearing of the trial against the four anti-Zionist comrades was held on 27/9, which ended with a request for sentences ranging from 3 to 8 months. The last hearing is scheduled for Monday 11/10 , during which the sentence should be pronounced.

For this reason it is important to have a massive presence of comrades and companions at the protest that will be held in front of the Court of Milan at 9.00 .

Solidarity with the 4 anti-Zionist comrades!

Against the role of Italy in support of the Zionist entity!

Support for the struggle of the Palestinian people and the resistance of the prisoners!

Collective Against Repression – International Red Aid (CCRSRI)

CONTRO IL SIONISMO – CONTRO L’IMPERIALISMO

Il 27/9 si è tenuta la 3^ udienza del processo contro i 4 compagni antisionisti, conclusasi con la richiesta di condanne da 3 a 8 mesi. Lunedì 11/10 è prevista l’ultima udienza, durante la quale dovrebbe essere pronunciata la sentenza.

Per questo è importante una massiccia presenza di compagni e compagne al presidio che si terrà davanti al Tribunale di Milano alle ore 9.00.

Solidarietà ai 4 compagni antisionisti!

Contro il ruolo dell’Italia a fianco dell’entità sionista!

Sostegno alla Lotta del popolo palestinese e alla Resistenza dei prigionieri!

Collettivo Contro la Repressione per un Soccorso Rosso Internazionale (CCRSRI)

U.S. Palestinian Community Stands Against the Palestinian Authority’s Attacks on Palestinian Leaders

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is an endorser of the following statement, which condemns attacks and smear campaigns perpetrated by institutions and outlets linked to the Palestinian Authority against Palestinian organizers. In this case, these smears targeted Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid of American Muslims for Palestine (pictured above). We view such campaigns as a natural counterpart of the “security coordination” in which the Palestinian Authority engages with the Israeli occupation, at the expense of Palestinians inside Palestine and in exile, as well as the imprisonment of Palestinian activists inside occupied Palestine in a “revolving door” with Zionist prisons. To sign the statement, please add your name at this link. 

We, the undersigned Palestinian community members, leaders and organizations condemn the recent attacks and threats made against Palestinian-American leader and Executive Director of American Muslims for Palestine, Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid.

On September 30th, Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid revealed that he had received threats to his life from other Palestinian-Americans acting on behalf of the Palestinian Authority (PA) due to his positions critical of the PA’s policies of repression and the assassination of activist Nizar Banat.

Dr. Osama also revealed that operatives in the US working on behalf of the PA placed the American Muslims for Palestine logo on a forged letter with a forged signature of Dr. Abu Irshaid oddly addressed to the Honorable Patricia Lynn. The letter was designed to create suspicion and confusion of Dr. Osama’s and American Muslims for Palestine’s intentions and work for Palestine in the US. Furthermore, based on the forged document written by PA proxies, a video made by a media outlet affiliated with the Palestinian Authority security services maligned and demonized Dr. Osama Abu Irshaid as an enemy of the Palestinian people. The video and the letter falsely accuse Dr. Osama and American Muslims for Palestine of lobbying the US government to cut aid to Palestinian prisoners, refugees and families.

These tactics of harassment, intimidation and threats toward Palestinian leaders are unacceptable and are wholly rejected by the Palestinian community in the United States. We demand that the PA and those affiliated with it in the U.S. cease immediately and to stop disrupting the work for Palestine in America. The PA’s ineptitude and incompetence in managing the affairs of Palestinians has never been clearer. It is also clear from this experience and that of so many others, that those who work on behalf of the PA in the US are only interested in disrupting the incredible work of Palestinian-Americans working to uplift this cause and people.

We call on the Palestinian Authority, those who represent it and act as proxies of it in the United States to immediately end their intimidation, harassment and threats to Palestinian-American leaders and organizations. We demand an outing of these individuals and an end to community collaboration with the PA in the U.S. Our work for Palestine in the US is non-factional and we will not accept any attempts by those committed to factionalism to coerce our work for their own benefit. As such, no Palestinian activist or organization in the US should operate as unregistered foreign agents. It is detrimental to our work, makes us vulnerable to attacks and undercuts the decades of work that has built a vibrant and effective movement for Palestine in America.

The Palestinian community’s work to advance Palestinian rights and freedom in the US over the past several decades has been nothing short of incredible. One of the biggest obstacles we face in our work is the PA, its security collaboration with the Israeli occupation and its inability to understand the value and importance of our advocacy. We will not allow the PA to disrupt our work, hijack it, or factionalize it. We will not allow the PA and those affiliated with it to turn Palestinian communities against each other.

Signed,
Organizations
Al Awda Palestinian Right to Return Coalition
Palestinian Youth Movement
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
National Arab American Women’s Association
Palestinian Assembly for Liberation
Yalla Indivisible
New Generation for Palestine
Nablus Association in USA
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
Eyewitness Palestine
Palestinian American Women’s Association
Council on American Islamic Relations
US Palestinian Community Network
NY Muslims United for Civic Engagement
Palestinian American Women’s Association – Southern California
Arab Organizing and Resource Center
Union of Palestinian American Women
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

Individuals
Amani Barakat, Al Awda PRRC
Hatem Mohtaseb, Palestinian Youth Movement
Joe Catron, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Ahmad Abuznaid, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
Ghada Barakat, National Arab American Women’s Association
Ibraheem Samirah, Virginia State Delegate, 86th District
Lamis Deek, Palestinian Assembly for Liberation, Al Awda NY
Noura Khouri, Al Awda
Lubna Hammad, Yalla Indivisible
Khaled Saffuri, ADC
Nihad Awad, Council on American Islamic Relations
Husein Mihyar, Nablus Association in USA
Nesreen Salamh, PAWA
Monadel Herzallah, USPCN
Nada El-Eryan, Eyewitness Palestine
Amer Zahr, New Generation for Palestine
Mary Harb, PAWA – Southern California
Mir Masum Ali, NYMUCE
Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb, Cal State San Bernardino
Lara Kiswani, Arab Resource and Organizing Center
Wardeh Abdelmuti, Union of Palestinian American Women
Mohammed Nabulsi
Bashir Alfadda
Lori Ajlouny
Lauren Harb
Ali Diab
Hannan Wazwaz
Musa Al-Hindi
Ahmed Saleh
Arshad Ameen
Bassam Imam

Huwaida Arraf
Arwa Alkhawaja
Linda Amin Badwan
Mohammad Dalbah
Naila Ali
Fatmeh Atieh, Alenteshar Newspaper
Reverend Dr. David M Hindman, Retired Clergy, The United Methodist Church
Ayman Balshe
Jim Best, Virginia Coalition for Human Rights
Sayel Kayed, AMP New Jersey
Fadya Risheq
Sana Daoud
Amira Daoud
Abdelbaset Hamayel
Rama Atieh, AMP Chicago
Issam Saadeh, AMP Chicago
Osama Ahmad
Naeem Raja
Naser Doleh
Ruba Akel
Mariam El-Khatib, AMP Minnesota
Nida Ali
Nadia Hannoun, Islamic Center of Wheaton
Haitham Abulhaija
Mohammad Hamdan
Dana Alhasan
Deyaedden Elghassein
Dr. Khaled Zayed
Haithem El-Zabri
Sara Hammouri
Tarek Khalil
Wafa Elhindi
Mohammad Abdelhadi
Hebh Jamal
AbdelRahman Alrazzi
Nazia Shaheed
Huda El-Khatib
Jafar Ahmad, AMP Chicago
Wajeeh Abushawish, Rutgers Students for Justice in Palestine
Ismail Qaddoura
Othman M Mohammad
Bill Slaughter
Ibrahim Mossallam
Foad Salem
Ramzi Khoursheed
Nancy Wein
Hisham Morgan
Rajaa Baladi
Mohamed Sadeia
Taher Herzallah, American Muslims for Palestine
Ahmad Abdelrahim
Jomana Al-hinti
Abder Ghouleh
Nael Areigat
Lily Karam
Zuhair Al-Atwi
Barehan Qaisi
Helmy Mostafa
Reverend Fahed Abuakel
Nour Aboughoush
Paul Norsi
Dean Salem
Adam B Kandil
Isabel Anwar
Amaney Samad
Rosemary Sayigh
Linda Mansour
Mustapha Ahmad
Wegdan Ashkar
AbdelHamid Siyam
Bassam Mohammad
Younes Zayyad
Ayatullah Mohammad

To sign the statement, please add your name at this link. 

10 October, Toulouse: Palestine Stand — Free Georges Abdallah!

Sunday, 10 October
11 am – 1 pm
Metro Jeanne d’Arc
Toulouse, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/374039744171598/

On Sunday, 10 October, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra is organizing a Palestine Stand by the Jeanne d’Arc metro station in Toulouse, France as part of the month of mobilization for the liberation of Georges Abdallah. A Lebanese communist and Palestinian resistance fighter, Georges Abdallah has been imprisoned in France since 1984 despite being eligible for release since 1999. He has become the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, and supporting him is part and parcel of supporting the Palestinian people and their right to resist against colonialism, racism and apartheid.

On the program: distribution of flyers, signature of petition cards, solidarity photos, free leaflets and stickers, registrations for the bus to the national demonstration on Saturday 23 October in front of Lannemezan prison, etc.

This gathering is registered at the prefecture and respects the required health measures (masks, sanitizer, etc.).

9 October: Analysis and Perspectives on the Sociopolitical Reality in Chile and its Relations with the Struggle for the Liberation of Palestine

INTERNATIONAL CONVERSATION:

Analysis and Perspectives on the Sociopolitical Reality in Chile and its Relations with the Struggle for the Liberation of Palestine

Saturday, October 9
15:00 hrs. in Chile
21:00 hrs. in Palestine
20:00 hrs. in Spain

Daniel Jadue Jadue
Mayor of Recoleta, Chile

Jaldia Abubakra
Coordinator of the Masar Badil, Spain

Nicolas Eltit Misleh
President, Juventud Palestina de Valdivia, Chile

Organized by: Masar Badil – Alternative Palestinian Path and the Juventud Chileno Arabe de Valdivia por Palestina

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83835217429

Meeting ID: 838 3521 7429

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