Saturday, 27 November
3 pm
Hermannplatz
Berlin, Germany
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network called for a public rally and gathering on Saturday, 27 November, to support the struggle of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and the hunger strikers. Gather at Hermannplatz at 3 pm to join the demonstration.
On Saturday, 20 November, Samidoun Deutschland carried out a media day in the streets of Berlin, hanging up posters and distributing flyers in Arab and popular neighborhoods. They also published calls on social media to the Palestinian and Arab community and supporters of Palestine to participate widely in the demonstration in order to support the prisoners on the front lines in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.
In September 2020, it has been 50 years since the International Forum was founded. In the 1970s, anti-imperialism was a central part of the activities of the left. Tens of thousands demonstrated against the Vietnam War outside the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen. The World Bank Congress held in September 1970 in Copenhagen led to street fights.
Later solidarity was shown towards Palestine, Chile, the liberation struggle in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, which also led to the formation of IF – a coalition of anti-imperialist solidarity groups in Denmark. Solidarity with different movements in Latin America has also been at the heart of IF for many years; these include Chiapas, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Peru.
Over the past 50 years, groups in IF have emerged as international struggles flared. Hundreds of activists have been a part of IF over the years. IF is thus created in continuity with international solidarity over half a century across generations. At the same time, IF has opened its premises to many small political groups that have not been able to afford their own premises and thus helped to strengthen the extra-parliamentary left in general.
Today, IF has an active Colombia-, Mexico-, Southeast Asia- and Middle East-group as well as a local group in Copenhagen, which is engaged in the Palestinian struggle i.a.. IF also operates a shop with books and solidarity goods. IF organizes meetings on anti-imperialist struggles around the world, conducts campaigns, carries out demonstrations and actions, and facilitates study groups on political theory.
All of this, we would like to celebrate with you on Saturday 20 November!
The program is divided into two parts.
First, we are inviting for a conference on anti-imperialist solidarity work including talks and debates with comrades from various international groups working with, among others, the Philippines and Palestine as well as an anti-imperialist front in Spain.
Later, the event will turn into a party as we will serve a delicious banquet and open up the dance floor with a blast of a concert from the ever so popular Trypical Cumbia!
Conference on anti-imperialist solidarity work (Language: English)
10.00-10.30 Welcome and introduction to IF
10.30-11.30 Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista, Spain
11.30-12.30 Gabriela, Germany/Phillipines
12.30-13.15 Lunch, food can be bought
13.15-14.15 SAC, Sweden
14.15-15.15 Collectif Palestine Vaincra, France
15.15-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-16.30 Josef Tarrak, Greenland
16.30-17.30 Plenary discussion
50 year anniversary party:
18.00-19.30 Dinner, food can be bought
20.00-21.00 Concert with Josef Tarrak
21.00-23.00 Concert with Trypical Cumbia
23.00-24.00 Local DJs will play music until the last dance of the night
We encourage everyone to show up with a valid corona passport, to make the risk of infection smaller.
We do not tolerate: Racism, homofobia, sexism or transfobia.
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Internationalt Forum – 50 års antiimperialistisk solidaritet
I september 2020 var det 50 år siden, Internationalt Forum blev dannet. I 1970’erne var anti-imperialisme en central del af venstrefløjens aktiviteter. I titusindvis demonstrerede mod Vietnam-krigen uden for US-ambassaden i København. Verdensbankens kongres i september 1970 i København førte til gadekampe.
Senere voksede solidariteten med Palæstina, Chile, befrielseskampen i Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, Zimbabwe og kampen mod apartheid Sydafrika, hvilket også førte til oprettelsen af IF – en koalition af antiimperialistiske solidaritetsgrupper i Danmark. Solidariteten med bevægelserne i Latinamerika har ligeledes været central i IF i mange år; det gælder Chiapas, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala og Peru.
Gennem disse 50 år er grupper i IF opstået, som internationale kampe er blusset op. I hundredvis af aktivister har været igennem IF i løbet af disse mange år. IF er dermed skabt i kontinuitet med den internationale solidaritet gennem et halvt århundrede på tværs af generationer. Samtidig har IF været åbent for at låne sine lokaler ud til mange små politiske grupper, der ikke har haft råd til egne lokaler og dermed været med til at styrke den udenomsparlamentariske venstrefløj generelt.
I dag har IF en aktiv Colombia-, Mexico-, Sydøstasien- og Mellemøst- gruppe samt en lokalgruppe i København, som bl.a. er engageret i den palæstinensiske kamp. IF driver desuden en butik med bøger og solidaritetsvarer. IF arrangerer møder om antiimperialistiske kampe verden over, laver kampagner, demonstrationer, aktioner og har studiekredse om teori.
Alt det vil vi gerne fejre sammen med jer lørdag den 20. november!
Programmet er delt op i to.
Først på dagen byder vi på konference om antiimperialistisk solidaritetsarbejde med deltagelse af kammerater fra forskellige internationale grupper med tilknytning til bl.a. Philippinerne og Palæstina samt en antiimperialistisk front i Spanien.
Om aften slår vi over til fest, server festmiddag og åbner op for dansegulvet med et brag af en koncert fra byens populære Trypical Cumbia!
Konference om antiimperialisme (Sprog: Engelsk)
10.00-10.30 Velkomst og intro til IF
10.30-11.30 Oplæg v. Frente antiimperialista, Spanien
11.30-12.30 Oplæg v. Gabriela, Tyskland/Filippinerne
12.30-13.15 Frokost. Mad kan købes
13.30-14.15 Oplæg v. SAC, Sverige
14.15-15.15 Oplæg v. Collectif Palestine Vaincra, Frankrig
15.15-15.30 Kaffepause
15:30-16:30 Oplæg v. Josef Tarrak, Grønland
16.30-17:30 Plenum diskussion
50 års jubilæumsfest for Internationalt Forum
18.00-19.30 Festmiddag. Mad kan købes
20.00-21:00 – Koncert med Josef Tarrak
21.00-23.00 – Koncert med Trypical Cumbia
23.00-24.00 – Lokale DJ’s spiller op til de sidste dansetrin
Vi opfordrer alle til at komme med et gyldigt coronapas, så risikoen for smitte bliver mindre.
Vi accepterer ikke: racisme, homofobi, sexisme eller transfobi.
Carleton Students for Justice in Palestine invite you to join us on on our hunger strike in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners facing administrative detention and join us the next day for a potluck to break our fasts together & reflect (limited space available) https://forms.gle/j3TPpR48AGK8vwhY9
Friday November 19 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Collectif Palestine Vaincra is organizing a Palestine Stand at the exit of the Bagatelle metro in Toulouse in support of the 5 Palestinian prisoners currently on hunger strike for their release and against administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. After Miqdad Qawasmeh’s victory over his jailers , we must step up the campaign of solidarity to defend their lives and their immediate release! On the program: distribution of flyers, photos of solidarity, free leaflets and stickers, etc.
This gathering is registered at the prefecture and respects the required health measures (masks, sanitizer etc.).
Samidoun supports this event organized by the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. Our international coordinator, Charlotte Kates, will be speaking:
Friday, 19 November 11 am Pacific (2 pm Eastern, 8 pm central Europe, 9 pm Palestine) Register here for updates: https://bit.ly/repressionevent
From the Israeli designation of Palestinian civil society organizations as “terrorist,” to San Francisco State University’s repression of Palestine in the classroom, to the repression student activists and faculty face on campus, the Palestinian liberation movement and Palestinian narratives face criminalization across borders. Join the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel for a discussion about how we can fight back against repression and build collective resistance.
Speakers:
Alum from SJP Butler
Rabab Abdulhadi, SFSU/AMED Studies
Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Defence for Children International – Palestine
Charlotte Kates, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network/USACBI
Tomomi Kinukawa, SFSU/WGS
Nerdeen Kiswani, Within Our Lifetime
David Miller, writer and scholar sacked from the University of Bristol
On Monday, 8 November, the Collectif visited the Palestinian Chess Club in the Shatila Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut. This independent community organization offers a social and educational framework to over 70 children. Founded in 2013, the chess club is led by Palestinian children and youth, who constitute a general assembly that makes decisions for the center. They are supported by the coordinator of the Chess Club, Mahmoud al-Hanoun, a Palestinian leftist activist.
The Chess Club takes inspiration from the ideas and vision of Palestinian and Lebanese revolutionaries like George Habash and Georges Abdallah, whose portraits are prominently displayed in the Club.
The day continued with a visit to the cemetery of the martyrs of the Palestinian revolution, which pays homage to the thousands of people who gave their lives for Palestine, whether Palestinian, Arab or international. Important political figures are buried there, such as Ghassan Kanafani and Maher Al-Yamani.
In the afternoon, delegates met with different members of Palestinian and Lebanese organizations, including the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Nasserite People’s Organization, the Lebanese Communist Party, the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon and the Youth Movement for Change.
The discussion addressed the campaign to support Georges Abdallah in Lebanon as well as the economic crisis, the dire situation of Palestinian refugees and regional policies in regard to the Zionist occupation. The delegates ended the first day in a bar called Red Night, run by former members of Jammoul, with decorations that pay homage to the long history of resistance to imperialism and Zionism.
On Tuesday, 9 November, the front page of the Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar, was dedicated to a complete report on Georges Abdallah. The issue included an article by the Collectif Palestine Vaincra as well as an interview with Collectif Vacarme(s) Films on “Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight” and an article by Robert Abdallah about Said Bouamama’s book, “The Georges Ibrahim Abdallah Affair.”
The day ended with the premiere of “Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight” in Lebanon, at the Al Madina Theater in Beirut’s Hamra district. Over 120 people participated in the event, which concluded with a discussion about the current situation of the mobilization to free the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, moderated by a representative of the film directors and Robert Abdallah, spokesperson of the Lebanese Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah.
On Wednesday, 10 November, the Lebanese tour continued in the city of Saida south of Beirut, a city with a long history of resistance to the Zionist invasion of Lebanon. The screening took place in the Maarouf Saad Center, named for a Lebanese Nasserist politician and supporter of Palestine, who died on 6 March 1975 from gunshot wounds sustained during a demonstration against a company’s attempt to monopolize the fishing industry and destroy the fishers’ labour organization.
Anwar Yassin, Lebanese resistance icon and communist activist, jailed in the Israeli occupation prisons from 1987 through 2004, was present at the screening to reaffirm his support for Georges Abdallah. He was liberated as part of a prisoner exchange organized by Hezbollah after over 17 years in Israeli prisons following various operations against the Zionist occupation of southern Lebanon.
Al-Mayadeen television station reported on the event, which was also covered by Al-Akhbar newpaper.
The next day, the delegation traveled to Tripoli in the north of Lebanon, where the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine organized a rally in support of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners and Georges Abdallah outside the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross. Several dozen people attended, including families from the Nahr el Bared Palestinian refugee camp.
After the rally, a new screening of “Fedayin” brought over 170 people to a cinema in the heart of Tripoli. The film was introduced by Robert Abdallah, who spoke about the importance of the film in developing and intensifying the campaign to free the Lebanese Communist imprisoned in France since 1984.
On Friday, 12 November, the delegation returned to Shatila camp to meet the people of the camp, who live in extreme poverty. Around 27,000 people live in the camp, including 14,000 Palestinian refugees fighting for their right to return to their homes in Palestine, which they have been denied for over 73 years. The camp was established in 1948 by Palestinian refugees expelled from Palestine by occupying Zionist forces during the Nakba, and was also the site of the infamous 1982 massacre perpetrated by Israeli occupation and local reactionary forces.
The Palestinian Chess Club organized a screening of “Fedayin,” bringing this historical documentary on Georges Abdallah and the Palestinian resistance to young people in Shatila. The event ended with a discussion of France’s role in the oppression of the Palestinian people and a dabkeh dance performed by the children of the Club.
Later on 12 November, the delegates visited Bourj al-Barajneh refugee camp; there, they visited the PFLP office and discussed the political and social situation in the camp and the prospects for Palestinian resistance in the region. They also visited the Al-Naqab Center, which organizes with Palestinian youth in the camp and is a partner of the Collectif and Samidoun as well as a participant in the Masar Badil.
An open-air screening of “Fedayin” followed at the Rawdat al-Qassam stadium of the camp, which was attended by dozens of people, including several heads of Palestinian and Lebanese organizations. The evening concluded with a letter-writing session to Georges Abdallah, who has become a true symbol of anti-imperialism for the residents of the camp.
On the delegation’s final day, participants traveled to the Ain el-Helweh refugee camp near Saida, where over 100,000 Palestinian refugees live in an area of one square kilometer. Ain el-Helweh is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Many banners in the streets and alleys of the camp saluted the Palestinian prisoners, especially the six heroes of the “Freedom Tunnel” that humiliated the Zionist state by escaping from Gilboa prison.
The delegates visited the Social Solidarity Center, a long-time partner of the Collectif in developing joint activities to support the right to return of Palestinian refugees and the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.
The Center organized a screening of “Fedayin” which brought together dozens of people, including members of the PFLP and the Popular Committee of the camp, as well as many youth. The discussion was led by a member of the directing team and youth from the camp and ended with a letter-writing session for Georges Abdallah.
Finally, a closing screening of “Fedayin” was organized by the Cine-Palestine Festival in a cultural cafe in Beirut, with the participation of Robert Abdallah, Anis Germany and Collectif Vacarme(s) Films.
The delegation offered a meaningful opportunity to connect with the Lebanese Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah and to affirm collective commitment to develop the campaign for his freedom. The mobilization is entering an important stage in France by enlarging significantly, with over 1,000 people marching to Lannemezan prison where he is held on 23 October. This delegation aimed to strengthen the international and anti-imperialist dimension of the struggle to free the longest-held political prisoner in Europe.
“Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight” is available with appropriate subtitles in French, Arabic, English, German, Italian, Catalan and Castilian Spanish. If you want to show Fedayin in your area, email us at samidoun@samidoun.net and contact the directors at vacarmesfilms@gmail.com. We will help you to get your screening organized, and the directors are available to attend your events in person or to join your in-person events via video link.
“Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s fight” retraces the course of an indefatigable Arab communist and fighter for Palestine. From the Palestinian refugee camps that forged his conscience, to the international mobilization for his release, we will discover the man who has become one of the longest-held political prisoners in Europe.
Wednesday November 17, 2021 at 8 p.m. / L’Epee de bois cinema – 100 rue Mouffetard, Paris 5
Organized by ACTA, a member organization of the Samidoun Network
Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, appeared on Press TV on 7 November to discuss the hunger strikes of Palestinian prisoners held without charge or trial. She appeared alongside Mick Napier of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign on the Spotlight show hosted by Marzieh Hashemi.
As of Sunday, 14 November, five Palestinian prisoners are continuing their hunger strikes, including Kayed al-Fasfous, now on his 123rd day of strike. Doctors have warned that he is at risk of sudden death at any time as symptoms of blood clots have become apparent in his body; a fitness enthusiast and bodybuilder, he is now emaciated, and he is experiencing intermittent loss of consciousness, low blood pressure, irregular heartbeat and severe pains throughout his body.
Fasfous is on hunger strike to demand an end to his administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial on the basis of so-called “secret evidence.” Administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable, and Palestinians are routinely jailed for years at a time under these orders. There are approximately 500 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial out of 4,650 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.
He is joined by four more hunger strikers, all demanding an end to their administrative detention: Alaa al-Araj, on strike for 98 days; Hisham Abu Hawash, on strike for 89 days; Ayyad Hraimi, on hunger strike for 52 days; and Louay al-Ashqar, on strike for 34 days.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine to take action to support these Palestinian hunger strikers and all Palestinian prisoners struggling for freedom, for their own lives and for the Palestinian people. They are confronting the system of Israeli oppression on the front lines, with their bodies and their lives, to bring the system of administrative detention to an end. Take these actions below to stand with the hunger strikers and the struggle for liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea!
Multiple Toulouse organizations are calling for mobilization around this common call:
On 18 October, Israel announced the revocation of the Jerusalem residency status of French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri, who works with the NGO Addameer, which defends Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
On 19 October, six Palestinian NGOs – Addameer, Al-Haq, Bisan Center, Defense International for Children – Palestine, Union of Agricultural Work Committees, Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees – were illegally designated by the Israeli colonial regime as “terrorist organizations”.
This is a gross lie. These organizations are targeted for the quality of their documentation and advocacy work to hold Israel accountable for crimes committed in Palestine or for their mobilization for women and agricultural workers in colonized lands.
Israel has infected Palestinian NGO workers’ phones with PEGASUS spyware and it is now rumored that it is spreading facial recognition to bolster its racist control over the entire Palestinian population.
Despite this policy much worse than that of other states targeted, the French government and most parties maintain a cowardly or complicit silence. It is high time to implement boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, an apartheid state.
STOP THE REPRESSION OF PALESTINIAN CIVIL SOCIETY SUPPORT FOR SALAH HAMOURI STOP THE IMPUNITY OF THE ISRAELI STATE
First signatories: ATTAC Toulouse, BDS France Toulouse, Collectif Palestine Vaincra, NPA 31, CGT Educ’Action 31, POI 31, Révolution Permanente 31, UNEF Toulouse, etc.
As the film “Fedayin,” focusing on Georges Abdallah’s struggle for liberation from 37 years of French imprisonment, debuts in Lebanon, the imprisoned Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine sent a message of solidarity to Dr. Samah Idriss, the Arab revolutionary intellectual struggling with illness in Beirut. Samah Idriss is one of the founders of the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon and the editor-in-chief of Al-Adab magazine.
Below is the text of the letter (originally in Arabic):
Dear comrade Samah,
Greetings of steadfastness and continuous struggle, and warm greetings filled with hope to meet you in complete health. All of the beloved ones and dear comrades around you strengthen your solid will with their love, appreciation and affection for you.
Dr. Samah, the echo of the setbacks in your health weighs heavily in our detention cells, but our confidence is great in your recovery. Stay safe, stubborn comrade, and remain a beacon for the path to liberate Palestine and the masses of our Arab nation.
With sincere solidarity and appreciation to you and all of your loved ones, for continuous struggle and revolution
Your friend,
Georges Abdallah
Lannemezan Prison
“Georges Abdallah is our high example, and no matter how insufficient our efforts have so far been to obtain his liberation, Georges remains a trust in our soul until the last moment…and beyond the last moment,” Samah Idriss said, responding to the solidarity message and expressing his commitment to see the liberation of Abdallah and his return to his homeland, Lebanon.
Saturday, 27 November
Saturday, 20 November
Friday, 19 November
Friday 19 November 2021
Friday, 19 November
On Monday, 8 November, the Collectif visited the 
The Chess Club takes inspiration from the ideas and vision of Palestinian and Lebanese revolutionaries like George Habash and Georges Abdallah, whose portraits are prominently displayed in the Club.
The discussion addressed the campaign to support Georges Abdallah in Lebanon as well as the economic crisis, the dire situation of Palestinian refugees and regional policies in regard to the Zionist occupation. The delegates ended the first day in a bar called Red Night, run by former members of 
On Tuesday, 9 November, the front page of the Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar, was dedicated to a complete report on Georges Abdallah. The issue included an article by the 
The day ended with the premiere of “Fedayin: Georges Abdallah’s Fight” in Lebanon, at the Al Madina Theater in Beirut’s Hamra district. Over 120 people participated in the event, which concluded with a discussion about the current situation of the mobilization to free the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, moderated by a representative of the film directors and Robert Abdallah, spokesperson of the Lebanese Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah.
Anwar Yassin, Lebanese resistance icon and communist activist, jailed in the Israeli occupation prisons from 1987 through 2004, was present at the screening to reaffirm his support for Georges Abdallah. He was liberated as part of a prisoner exchange organized by Hezbollah after over 17 years in Israeli prisons following various operations against the Zionist occupation of southern Lebanon.
After the rally, a new screening of “Fedayin” brought over 170 people to a cinema in the heart of Tripoli. The film was introduced by Robert Abdallah, who spoke about the importance of the film in developing and intensifying the campaign to free the Lebanese Communist imprisoned in France since 1984.
The Palestinian Chess Club organized a screening of “Fedayin,” bringing this historical documentary on Georges Abdallah and the Palestinian resistance to young people in Shatila. The event ended with a discussion of France’s role in the oppression of the Palestinian people and a dabkeh dance performed by the children of the Club.
An open-air screening of “Fedayin” followed at the Rawdat al-Qassam stadium of the camp, which was attended by dozens of people, including several heads of Palestinian and Lebanese organizations. The evening concluded with a letter-writing session to Georges Abdallah, who has become a true symbol of anti-imperialism for the residents of the camp.
The delegates visited the 
The delegation offered a meaningful opportunity to connect with the Lebanese Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah and to affirm collective commitment to develop the campaign for his freedom. The mobilization is entering an important stage in France by enlarging significantly, with over 
Wednesday, 17 November 2021
