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18 July, Vancouver: BOYCOTT TOUR: Come out for Palestine – Boycott ZIM Shipping, Israeli Wine, HP and more!

Sunday, 18 July
2:00 pm
Gather at ZIM Shipping Office Vancouver
1130 W Pender St (near Pender and Thurlow)
Vancouver, BC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/4765266150154912

Come out on Sunday, July 18 for a BOYCOTT TOUR for Palestine in downtown Vancouver! We will gather first at the ZIM Shipping offices in Vancouver to protest ZIM, apartheid Israel’s oldest and largest shipping company. ZIM is the target of the global #BlockTheBoat campaign and this protest is in solidarity with workers around the world (and in Prince Rupert) who have respected community pickets and/or themselves refused to handle ZIM’s cargo profiteering from Israeli occupation.

We will then go to the BC Liquor Store to protest the sale of Israeli wines, made on stolen and illegally occupied Palestinian and Syrian land in the West Bank and Golan Heights. The Boycott Tour will proceed to highlight other corporations complicit in Israeli war crimes and colonialism, from HP to Teva to SodaStream.

Bring your banners, chalk, signs and creative love for Palestine!

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.

Event organized by the Vancouver #BlockTheBoat organizers
BAYAN Canada
BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish
Canada Palestine Association
Independent Jewish Voices Vancouver
ILPS Canada
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid Vancouver
Palestinian Youth Movement
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Youth for Palestine Canada

This event is in support of the global #BlockTheBoat movement organized by AROC – Arab Resource and Organizing Center.
https://blocktheboat.org/

Imprisoned Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar writes new letter: Write to Khalida and call for her freedom

Khalida Jarrar, the imprisoned Palestinian political leader, feminist and parliamentarian, jailed by the Israeli occupation for her political activity, issued a new letter to her daughter Suha, who died on Sunday, 11 July of a heart attack at the age of 30.

Despite worldwide outrage and condemnation and considering that Jarrar has only two months remaining in her sentence imposed by an Israeli military court for her public political work to advance Palestinian rights and liberation, her lawyers’ appeals for early release were denied by the Israeli occupation. She was not even allowed a furlough or to see her daughter’s body by transferring it to the prison before Suha was buried in a mass funeral on Tuesday, 13 July. Suha Jarrar was herself a Palestinian human rights defender who worked with Al-Haq and spoke around the world about Palestinian rights and the Palestinia freedom struggle.

Jarrar’s first letter to Suha, read aloud at the funeral, was widely distributed in its original Arabic and translated into multiple languages. Her new letter, to her husband Ghassan, and her daughter Yafa, extends support to her loved ones from behind the bars of Damon prison where she is jailed with 40 fellow Palestinian women prisoners.

The text of the letter follows:

“Suha was born into this world while her father was imprisoned, and now she is departing this world while her mother is imprisoned. This is an intense and encapsulated human summary of the life of the Palestinian who loves life, hope and freedom and hates subordination and colonialism. This occupation robs us of everything, even the oxygen we breathe. I must bid my dear Suha farewell with a rose grown in the soil of the homeland: Rest in peace, soaring bird of my heart.

As for you, Yafa, my second bird, I love you with every beat of my heart as I loved the sister of your soul, Suha, so be strong so that I may draw my strength from you.

And I say to Ghassan, be strong, take care of yourself and of Yafa, and do not worry for me. I say to all of you, give Suha everything she deserves, talk about her, her character and her beauty, and plant an olive tree beside her grave so that its branches may always give her shade. I love you.”

Palestinians and supporters of Palestine inside Palestine and around the world are rallying for Jarrar’s immediate release from Israeli prisons. On Wednesday, 14 July, Palestinian community organizations in Berlin organized a protest to call for freedom for Khalida Jarrar and her fellow Palestinian prisoners, and members of Samidoun Deutschland attended and participated in the event.

In France, activists protested along the route of the Tour de France for the boycott of Israel and against the participation of the so-called “Israel Start-Up Nation” team. Organizers with Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member organization of the Samidoun Network, and other organizations, carried signs and took solidarity photos for Jarrar’s release.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network continues to urge friends of Palestine around the world to act to demand the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar and her fellow Palestinian prisoners.

Take action to support Khalida Jarrar:

Write letters of condolence, solidarity and support to Khalida Jarrar!

Send a postcard or letter to Khalida in Damon prison. Khalida should feel the love and support from everyone around the world who stands with her in this moment of tragedy and injustice. Write your letter and send it with appropriate international postage (With a stamp of 1.5 euros if sent from Europe, $1.20 from the USA, and $2.60 from Canada.)

to:

Khalida Jarrar
Damon Prison
PO Box 98
Daliat El-Carmel
Israel

Sign and Share the Petition!

We urge all supporters of Palestine sign the petition to demand Khalida Jarrar’s immediate release and seek worldwide support: https://www.change.org/p/human-rights-campaign-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1

Sign the petition to demand Khalida’s immediate release.

Update your Facebook profile with a frame demanding Khalida’s release.

Are you in Canada? Write to the Canadian government to demand Khalida’s immediate release.

This petition addresses the United Nations and calls on human rights organizations like Amnesty International to take a stand for Khalida’s immediate freedom.

Join the Social Media Campaign

Post with the #FreeKhalidaJarrar hashtag and join Palestinians and supporters of justice around the world!

Protest at the Israeli Embassy or Consulate in Your Country!

Join the many protests taking place around the world — confront, isolate and besiege the Israeli embassy or consulate in your city or country of residence. Make it clear that the people are with Palestine! Send us your events at [email protected].

Take to the streets: Organize a protest in solidarity with Palestine!

Hundreds of thousands – millions of people – around the world have marched and protested with Palestine, its people and its liberation over the past week. Your protest and organizing is also key to highlighting the campaign to free Khalida!  Take to the streets and join the actions on our full list of events, which is constantly being updated as new actions are announced! Organize your own if there is none in your area, and send us your events at [email protected].

Boycott Israel!

The international, Arab and Palestinian campaign to boycott Israel can play an important role at this critical time. Local boycott groups can protest and label Israeli produce and groceries. During Ramadan, Israeli dates from stolen Palestinian land are marketed around the world while Israel attempts to force Palestinians from Jerusalem, demolish homes, and imprisons thousands more. By participating in the boycott of Israel, you can directly help to throw a wrench in the economy of settler colonialism.

Demand Your Government Sanction Israel!

The racist, settler colonial state of Israel and its war crimes against the Palestinian people are enabled and backed extensively by the over $3.8 billion each year given to Israel by the United States — targeted directly to support the Israeli occupation military killing children, women, men and elders throughout occupied Palestine. From Canada to Australia to the European Union, Western governments and imperialist powers provide ongoing diplomatic, political and economic support to Israel as well as selling billions of dollars of weaponry to the settler-colonial state. Meanwhile, they also purchase billions of dollars in weaponry from the Israeli state. Governments in league with imperialist powers, such as in the Philippines, Brazil, India and elsewhere, also buy weapons and “security” services — all “battle-tested” on the Palestinian population. Call your representatives, MPs, political officials and demand your government sanction Israel now, cut off all aid, expel its ambassadors, and stop buying and selling weapons!

Protest confronts Israeli apartheid cycling “ambassadors” at the Tour de France 2021

On Wednesday, 14 July, in Boussan, on the 17th stage of the Tour de France international cycling race, approximately 20 people from Collectif Palestine Vaincra – a member organization of the Samidoun Network – the Campaign BDS Toulouse, and the Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique rallied along the route of the race to denounce the participation of the “Israel Start-Up Nation” team, a cycling team designed to whitewash the image of Israeli apartheid internationally, serving as “ambassadors” of Zionist colonialism.

Making themselves widely seen and heard by the participants and organizers, the demonstrators brought multiple banners, placards and a massive Palestinian flag, chanting slogans like “Israel assassin, Tour de France complice!”

https://twitter.com/CollectifPV/status/1415279105348620290

The Collectif Palestine Vaincra said that “The participation of an Israeli team in the Tour de France provides international support for colonialism and for the criminal practices of the Zionist state towards the Palestinian people.” A member of the Collectif from Gaza said, “When a Zionist team participates in an event like the Tour de France, it is providing support for the settler-colonial project and the theft of Palestinian land.”

This demonstration of solidarity with Palestine was also an occasion to demand the immediate release of Palestinian prisoners, particularly Georges Abdallah and Khalida Jarrar.

A Palestinian leftist, feminist and political leader, a representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, she is imprisoned by the Israeli occupation for her political activities in support of justice and liberation for Palestine.

She was denied early release on 12 July after the tragic death of her daughter, Suha, and Suha was buried without the presence of her mother despite widespread outrage. All of the participants in the event took solidarity photos to demand her immediate release.

Since the launch of the Tour de France with the presence of the “Israel Start-Up Nation” team, a wide-ranging and diverse mobilization has taken place along the route of the biggest cycling race in the world to denounce its promotion of colonialism, racism and apartheid. Let us intensiffy the mobilization everywhere to boycott Israel and support the Palestinian resistance!

Original source in French: Collectif Palestine Vaincra

Dozens of Palestinian students mass arrested after visiting home demolished by Israel #FreePalestinianStudents

On Wednesday, 14 July, 45 Palestinian Bir Zeit University students were subjected to a mass arrest after they went to meet with the family of Palestinian prisoner Montasser Shalabi and express their solidarity following the Israeli occupation military’s demolition of the Shalabi home in the village of Turmus’Ayya.

As the students left Turmus’Ayya in a chartered bus, undercover occupation forces in two vehicles blocked the bus at the entrance to the town, forcing the students to leave the bus, tying their hands, blindfolding them, making them sit or lay on the ground and then seized them, taking them to the Binyamin occupation military camp. The chartered bus was itself confiscated.

After several hours of detention, the women students were released, but the Israeli occupation forces have continued to detain 30 male students, who are still being held in the Binyamin camp. At least two of the students were severely beaten.

Bir Zeit University issued a statement on the students’ arrest by Israeli colonialists: “Bir Zeit University is following with concern the issue of the detention of a group of university students at the entrance to the village of Turmus’Ayya, where the Israeli occupation forces attacked them and detained the vehicle they were traveling in, to arrest them and later transfer them in a private vehicle from the entrance to the village to a different destination The university believes that the policies adopted by the Israeli occupation are a violation of all international laws and norms that guarantee students’ right of movement, and a violation of all international standards that protect their dignity and freedom.”

Students at the university protested today, Thursday, 15 July, demanding the release of their detained colleagues:

The solidarity delegation to the Shalabi home was organized by the Islamic Bloc and other student frameworks at Bir Zeit University, who, like students at other Palestinian universities, are subjected to constant repression. At Bir Zeit University alone, approximately 74 students were detained by occupation soldiers during the 2019-2020 academic year. The work of student organizing, from holding book fairs to organizing events and participating in student elections, is criminalized by the Israeli occupation. Still more students are detained for joining demonstrations or posting on their social media profiles.

One of the most common charges Palestinian students face in Israeli military courts is “membership in a prohibited organization,” typically referring to the student blocs. These represent the full spectrum of Palestinian politics. They organize lectures, book fairs, rallies and other campus events and participate in student elections. The charge sheets often refer to these standard activities of campus life, which are widely interpreted as a barometer for broader Palestinian political opinion.

Even the United States embassy to the Israeli occupation, based in the occupied Palestinian capital of Jerusalem, condemned Israel’s demolition of Montasser Shalabi’s home. Shalabi, a Palestinian-American man, is imprisoned by the Israeli occupation and accused of carrying out an armed attack on Israeli colonial settlers in the occupied West Bank in May. The demolition of Palestinian homes, leaving entire families homeless – in this case, Shalabi’s wife and children, who are also U.S. citizens – is an illegal policy of collective punishment targeting entire families and is routinely used by the Israeli occupation against the families of imprisoned or killed Palestinians.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands the immediate release of the detained Palestinian students and urges all friends of justice in Palestine to join the #FreePalestinianStudents campaignThis campaign brings organizations together in a global call to urge the immediate freedom of imprisoned Palestinian students and the protection of Palestinian students’ right to education, right to political expression and involvement and right to determine their own futures. The Israeli occupation has targeted Palestinian students and, specifically, the Palestinian student movement and Palestinian student organizations for harsh repression and political detention and imprisonment.

We join together to call for action and support for Palestinian students behind bars, including:

  • Boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel, including Israeli academic institutions, which are fully complicit in the systematic deprivation of Palestinian rights.
  • Ending all military and economic aid, military transactions, joint projects and direct funding to the Israeli occupation regime by governments around the world.
  • Challenging “normalization” programs that aim to legitimize Israeli occupation — this is an attempt to legitimize the criminalization and targeting of Palestinian students.
  • Organizing to build direct links of solidarity with Palestinian students and the Palestinian student movement, to ensure that they will not be isolated from their global community of support despite all attempts by the Israeli occupation.

For the full campaign statement, resources, posters, photos and more, including translations in eight languages, please visit: https://freepalestinianstudents.org/

Add your organization’s name to this statement: http://bit.ly/palstudentsignon

15 July, New York City: Hands Off Cuba!

Thursday, 15 July
5 pm
South Side Union Square
New York City

New York says: Hands off Cuba! Manos fuera de Cuba!

Join us to demand an immediate end to the genocidal US blockade on Cuba and all regime change efforts by the United States.

Organized by the New York Young Communist League

Endorsed by:

New York – New Jersey Cuba Si Coalition
Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Contact the YCL to add your name: [email protected].

Khalida Jarrar’s letter from Damon Prison on the tragic death of her daughter Suha

Khalida Jarrar, the imprisoned Palestinian feminist, leftist and parliamentarian, a Palestinian national leader and prominent representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, issued the statement below from her prison cell in Damon Prison on Tuesday, 13 July, mourning her daughter Suha.

Khalida Jarrar was denied early release or even furlough to attend her daughter’s funeral by the Israeli occupation. Suha, 30, died tragically of a heart attack on Sunday, 11 July. Hundreds of Palestinians joined in her funeral procession in Ramallah.

Letter of Khalida Jarrar from Damon Prison, Haifa, occupied Palestine, 13 July 2021

I am in so much pain, my child, only because I miss you.

I am in so much pain, my child, only because I miss you.

From the depths of my agony, I reached out and embraced the sky of our homeland through the window of my prison cell in Damon Prison, Haifa. Worry not, my child. I stand tall and steadfast, despite the shackles and the jailer. I am a mother in sorrow, from yearning to see you one last time.

This doesn’t happen except in Palestine. All I wanted was to bid my daughter a final farewell, with a kiss on her forehead and to tell her I love her as much as I love Palestine. My daughter, forgive me for not attending the celebration of your life, that I was not beside you during this heartbreaking and final moment. My heart has reached the heights of the sky yearning to see you, to caress and plant a kiss on your forehead through the small window of my prison cell.

Suha, my precious. They have stripped me from bidding you a final goodbye kiss, so I bid you farewell with a flower. Your absence is searingly painful, excruciatingly painful. But I remain steadfast and strong, like the mountains of beloved Palestine.

الأسيرة الأم خالدة جرار “أم يافا”
١٣ تمّوز ٢٠٢١:
موجوعة يا ماما بس لأنّي مشتاقة
موجوعة يا ماما بس لأنّي مشتاقة
من قوة هذا الوجع، عانقتُ سماء هذا الوطن من خلال نافذة زنزانتي في قلعة الدامون/ حيفا. أنا شامخة وصابرة، رغم القيد والسجّان. أنا الأم الموجوعة من الاشتياق. لا يحصل هذا كلّه إلّا في فلسطين. فقط أردتُ أن أودّع ابنتي بقبلةٍ على جبينها، وأقول لها أُحبّك بحجم حبّي لفلسطين. اعذريني يا ابنتي لأنّي لم أكُن في عرسك، لم أكُن بقربك في هذا الموقف الإنساني الصعب والمؤلم. ولكنّ قلبي وصل عنان السماء اشتياقاً، لامَس جسدك وطبَع قبلةً على جبينك من خلال نافذتي في قلعة الدامون.
سهى غاليتي..
حرموني من وداعك بقبلة، أودّعك بوردة. فراقك موجع، موجع.. ولكنّي قوية كقوة جبال وطني الحبيب.

Immediate actions: 

This latest attack on Jarrar and her family came as thousands of people around the world have signed a petitiondemanded their governments take action and expressed their outrage at the ongoing repression directed at Khalida Jarrar and her family, even at a moment of great tragedy. Suha Ghassan Jarrar, 30, was a committed Palestinian human rights defender who worked with Al-Haq and spoke around the world, defending and upholding Palestinian rights and liberation.

We mourn the loss of Suha Jarrar and express our deepest condolences to Khalida, Ghassan and Yafa Jarrar. We urge all supporters of Palestine to amplify and intensify the international call to demand freedom for Khalida Jarrar.

TAKE ACTION: 

Sign and Share the Petition!

We urge all supporters of Palestine sign the petition to demand Khalida Jarrar’s immediate release and seek worldwide support: https://bit.ly/FreeKhalidaJarrar

Sign the petition to demand Khalida’s immediate release.

Update your Facebook profile with a frame demanding Khalida’s release.

Are you in Canada? Write to the Canadian government to demand Khalida’s immediate release.

This petition addresses the United Nations and calls on human rights organizations like Amnesty International to take a stand for Khalida’s immediate freedom.

Join the Social Media Campaign

Post with the #FreeKhalidaJarrar hashtag and join Palestinians and supporters of justice around the world!

Protest at the Israeli Embassy or Consulate in Your Country!

Join the many protests taking place around the world — confront, isolate and besiege the Israeli embassy or consulate in your city or country of residence. Make it clear that the people are with Palestine! Send us your events at [email protected].

Take to the streets: Organize a protest in solidarity with Palestine!

Hundreds of thousands – millions of people – around the world have marched and protested with Palestine, its people and its liberation over the past week. Your protest and organizing is also key to highlighting the campaign to free Khalida!  Take to the streets and join the actions on our full list of events, which is constantly being updated as new actions are announced! Organize your own if there is none in your area, and send us your events at [email protected].

Boycott Israel!

The international, Arab and Palestinian campaign to boycott Israel can play an important role at this critical time. Local boycott groups can protest and label Israeli produce and groceries. During Ramadan, Israeli dates from stolen Palestinian land are marketed around the world while Israel attempts to force Palestinians from Jerusalem, demolish homes, and imprisons thousands more. By participating in the boycott of Israel, you can directly help to throw a wrench in the economy of settler colonialism.

Demand Your Government Sanction Israel!

The racist, settler colonial state of Israel and its war crimes against the Palestinian people are enabled and backed extensively by the over $3.8 billion each year given to Israel by the United States — targeted directly to support the Israeli occupation military killing children, women, men and elders throughout occupied Palestine. From Canada to Australia to the European Union, Western governments and imperialist powers provide ongoing diplomatic, political and economic support to Israel as well as selling billions of dollars of weaponry to the settler-colonial state. Meanwhile, they also purchase billions of dollars in weaponry from the Israeli state. Governments in league with imperialist powers, such as in the Philippines, Brazil, India and elsewhere, also buy weapons and “security” services — all “battle-tested” on the Palestinian population. Call your representatives, MPs, political officials and demand your government sanction Israel now, cut off all aid, expel its ambassadors, and stop buying and selling weapons!

Action for Canada — Write a letter to Canadian government: Unconditional release of Khalida Jarrar to attend the funeral of her daughter, Suha Jarrar

Family photo of Khalida, Ghassan and their daughters, Yafa and Suha.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is joining with Just Peace Advocates and Al-Haq to call on Canadian government officials to pressure Israeli occupation officials to release Khalida Jarrar immediately:

Write to Minister Garneau, Prime Minister Trudeau and UN Ambassador Bob Rae, calling them to work expeditiously to ensure from the Israeli authorities the immediate and unconditional release of Khalida Jarrar, so that she can attend the funeral of and mourn in dignity, her late daughter, Suha Jarrar.

Write:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/write-letter-to-canadian-government-unconditional-release-of-khalida-jarrar-to-attend-the-funeral-of-her-daughter-suha-jarrar/

Write to Canadian government to free Khalida Jarrar

Background

Death of Suha Jarrar, daughter of Khalida Jarrar

On 11 July 2021, Suha Jarrar, age 30, a senior legal researcher and advocacy officer with Al-Haq human rights organization and daughter of Ghassan and Khalida Jarrar, was unexpectedly found dead in her apartment near the Palestine Medical Complex, Ramallah, Palestine. She had been serving Al-Haq as a human rights advocate before the United Nations treaty-bodies and the Human Rights Council since February 2017, specializing in gender, environment and climate change.

Al-Haq has called on the UN Special Procedures to immediately and urgently intervene to exercise the authority associated with their mandate, to secure the immediate and unconditional release of Khalida Jarrar by the Israeli authorities, on humanitarian grounds so that she can attend the funeral of her daughter, and mourn in human dignity.

The Arbitrary Detention of Khalida Jarrar

#FreeKhalidaJarrar

Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian civil society leader, lawmaker, and human rights activist who calls for women’s rights and for the realization of Palestinians’ rights, notably the Palestinian right to return, has been constantly and systematically harassed and targeted by the Israeli occupying authorities for her human rights work, especially in her leading role with regards to work related to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Khalida is currently held at Damon prison, serving a two-year sentence.

Khalida was first detained by the Israeli occupying forces in 1989 on the occasion of a Women’s Day demonstration for one month without trial. She was subsequently detained three additional times, for an accumulated period of 57 months: from 2 April 2015 to June 2016, from 2 July 2018 to 28 February 2019, and since 31 October 2019. Furthermore, Khalida was issued a travel ban since 1998, which was only lifted once in 2010 to enable her to seek medical treatment in Jordan. On 20 August 2014, she was ordered by the Israeli military to forcibly transfer to Jericho for a period of six months, on the basis of so-called security threat, finally reduced to one month.

Most recently, Khalida Jarrar was detained on 31 October 2019, when 12 Israeli military vehicles surrounded her house in Al-Bireh, and around 20-armed Israeli Occupying Forces raided the house at approximately 3:00 am. On 1 March 2021, Ofer military court sentenced Khalida to 24 months in prison and a NIS 4,000 fine. During the hearing session, the military prosecutor amended Khalida’s indictment, limiting it to her political role and work with the Palestinian Authority. Further declaring that there are no charges against her relating to affiliation to any military, financial nor organizational activities.

Al-Haq has made an Urgent Appeal to United Nations Special Procedures Calling for the Immediate and Unconditional Release of Human Rights Defender Khalida Jarrar, to Attend the Funeral of her Late Daughter, Suha Jarrar. Read full submission from Al-Haq.  

Al-Haq has called on mandate holders to:

●      Work expeditiously to ensure from the Israeli authorities the immediate and unconditional release of Khalida Jarrar, so that she can attend the funeral of and mourn in dignity, her late daughter, Suha Jarrar;

●      Noting that in Islamic practice, funerals take place very closely after the deceased has passed, with the funeral of Suha Jarrar expected as early as Tuesday 13 July 2021. It is therefore imperative that the mandate holders intervene swiftly as a matter of urgency;

●      To make every effort to bring Israel, the Occupying Power, into compliance with its obligations under international humanitarian and human rights law.

Write:

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/write-letter-to-canadian-government-unconditional-release-of-khalida-jarrar-to-attend-the-funeral-of-her-daughter-suha-jarrar/

Also sign this international petition calling for Israel to release Palestinian leader and parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar.

Read more: Freedom for Khalida Jarrar! Appeal for immediate release upon the passing of Suha Jarrar, Samidoun.

We extend our deepest condolences to Khalida, Ghassan and Yafa Jarrar upon the tragic passing of Suha Jarrar, who died on Sunday, July 11.

www.justpeaceadvocates.ca

Joins with:

https://www.alhaq.org/

https://samidoun.net/

New outrage: Israeli occupation denies early release for Khalida Jarrar – take action to demand her freedom!

Palestinian lawyers reported on Monday, 12 July that the Israeli occupation rejected their legal appeal seeking the early release of imprisoned Palestinian feminist and national leader, Khalida Jarrar, to participate in the funeral of her daughter, Suha Jarrar, who passed away on Sunday in Ramallah.

The Israeli occupation wants to deny even this basic human need to Khalida Jarrar, to see her daughter one last time. She is imprisoned on political charges and has only two months remaining in her sentence, imposed by an illegitimate Israeli military court for her public activities and advocacy for Palestinian liberation.

Immediate actions: 

This latest attack on Jarrar and her family came as thousands of people around the world have signed a petition, demanded their governments take action and expressed their outrage at the ongoing repression directed at Khalida Jarrar and her family, even at a moment of great tragedy. Suha Jarrar, 30, was a committed Palestinian human rights defender who worked with Al-Haq and spoke around the world, defending and upholding Palestinian rights and liberation.

In occupied Palestine ’48 and the occupied West Bank of Palestine, protesters gathered outside Damon prison – where Khalida Jarrar is detained – and Ofer prison, demanding her freedom. They were attacked by Israeli occupation forces, who fired tear gas and sound bombs against the Palestinians calling for a mother to be allowed to attend her daughter’s funeral.

In Gaza City, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine organized a protest outside the International Committee of the Red Cross, demanding action from the ICRC to secure Jarrar’s release. Representatives of all Palestinian factions and prisoner support organizations joined the protest, and Palestinian child Nadine Abdel Latif spoke in English, demanding Khalida be free to say farewell to her beloved daughter.

Suha Jarrar is scheduled to be buried Tuesday afternoon, 13 July, with a funeral procession from the family home in Ramallah to the Al-Ain Mosque in Al-Bireh to the Ramallah cemetery.

Palestinian prisoners are routinely denied early release or even furlough to attend the funerals of their family members and loved ones, as well as being denied family visits with their living relatives behind bars. On the contrary, Israeli Jewish criminal prisoners (rather than “security prisoners,” the term used by the Israeli occupation to denote Palestinian political prisoners) are routinely given furloughs and early release to attend funerals or visit their families.

We urge all supporters of Palestine to amplify and intensify the international call to demand freedom for Khalida Jarrar.

TAKE ACTION: 

Sign and Share the Petition!

We urge all supporters of Palestine sign the petition to demand Khalida Jarrar’s immediate release and seek worldwide support: https://bit.ly/FreeKhalidaJarrar

Sign the petition to demand Khalida’s immediate release.

Update your Facebook profile with a frame demanding Khalida’s release.

Are you in Canada? Write to the Canadian government to demand Khalida’s immediate release.

This petition addresses the United Nations and calls on human rights organizations like Amnesty International to take a stand for Khalida’s immediate freedom.

Join the Social Media Campaign

Post with the #FreeKhalidaJarrar hashtag and join Palestinians and supporters of justice around the world!

Protest at the Israeli Embassy or Consulate in Your Country!

Join the many protests taking place around the world — confront, isolate and besiege the Israeli embassy or consulate in your city or country of residence. Make it clear that the people are with Palestine! Send us your events at [email protected].

Take to the streets: Organize a protest in solidarity with Palestine!

Hundreds of thousands – millions of people – around the world have marched and protested with Palestine, its people and its liberation over the past week. Your protest and organizing is also key to highlighting the campaign to free Khalida!  Take to the streets and join the actions on our full list of events, which is constantly being updated as new actions are announced! Organize your own if there is none in your area, and send us your events at [email protected].

Boycott Israel!

The international, Arab and Palestinian campaign to boycott Israel can play an important role at this critical time. Local boycott groups can protest and label Israeli produce and groceries. During Ramadan, Israeli dates from stolen Palestinian land are marketed around the world while Israel attempts to force Palestinians from Jerusalem, demolish homes, and imprisons thousands more. By participating in the boycott of Israel, you can directly help to throw a wrench in the economy of settler colonialism.

Demand Your Government Sanction Israel!

The racist, settler colonial state of Israel and its war crimes against the Palestinian people are enabled and backed extensively by the over $3.8 billion each year given to Israel by the United States — targeted directly to support the Israeli occupation military killing children, women, men and elders throughout occupied Palestine. From Canada to Australia to the European Union, Western governments and imperialist powers provide ongoing diplomatic, political and economic support to Israel as well as selling billions of dollars of weaponry to the settler-colonial state. Meanwhile, they also purchase billions of dollars in weaponry from the Israeli state. Governments in league with imperialist powers, such as in the Philippines, Brazil, India and elsewhere, also buy weapons and “security” services — all “battle-tested” on the Palestinian population. Call your representatives, MPs, political officials and demand your government sanction Israel now, cut off all aid, expel its ambassadors, and stop buying and selling weapons!

Freedom for Khalida Jarrar! Appeal for immediate release upon the passing of Suha Jarrar

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network extends its deepest condolences to Khalida, Ghassan and Yafa Jarrar upon the tragic passing of Suha Jarrar, who died on Sunday, July 11 at the age of 31.

Suha, Khalida and Ghassan’s daughter, Yafa’s sister, was a tireless advocate for Palestinian rights and liberation, speaking around the world to advance Palestinian freedom.

At this horrendous moment for her and her family, Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian leader, feminist, parliamentarian and organizer, remains imprisoned in Israeli jails as a political leader, denied even the comfort of her loved ones. We extend our condolences to all who knew, loved and honored Suha and demand the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar to be among her family at this time.

Sign the petition to demand Khalida’s immediate release.

Update your Facebook profile with a frame demanding Khalida’s release.

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Al-Haq, the Palestinian human rights organization, where Suha Jarrar worked, has filed an urgent appeal with UN Special Procedures for Khalida Jarrar’s immediate release.

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We are also joining in the below appeal circulated by many Palestinian groups and organizers:

Instead of surrendering to the belief that revolutionary leader and former Palestinian Legislative Council member Khalida Jarrar will be denied the right to bury her daughter Suha, whose death was announced this evening, let us work locally and internationally to form the necessary pressure that will make it possible.

Khalida is a Palestinian political prisoner, who was arrested for her national political activism. She has the right to participate in her daughter’s funeral.

Khalida has been incarcerated for nearly two years and is due for release within two months. She has been arrested by the Israeli regime on many occasions, during which time she has been subjected to various forms of abuse and persecution.

The Israeli regime’s prison administration should release Khalida as soon as possible so that she can bury and mourn her daughter and exercise her most fundamental human rights.

Freedom for Khalida Jarrar

 

TAKE ACTION: 

Sign and Share the Petition!

We urge all supporters of Palestine sign the petition to demand Khalida Jarrar’s immediate release and seek worldwide support: https://www.change.org/freekhalida

This petition addresses the United Nations and calls on human rights organizations like Amnesty International to take a stand for Khalida’s immediate freedom. Please note, if this petition site (Change.org) asks you to donate, any funds go to the petition site for promotion, not to Samidoun or to Khalida Jarrar’s family. We are not seeking publicity donations.

Join the Social Media Campaign

Post with the #FreeKhalidaJarrar hashtag and join Palestinians and supporters of justice around the world!

Protest at the Israeli Embassy or Consulate in Your Country!

Join the many protests taking place around the world — confront, isolate and besiege the Israeli embassy or consulate in your city or country of residence. Make it clear that the people are with Palestine! Send us your events at [email protected].

Take to the streets: Organize a protest in solidarity with Palestine!

Hundreds of thousands – millions of people – around the world have marched and protested with Palestine, its people and its liberation over the past week. Your protest and organizing is also key to highlighting the campaign to free Khalida!  Take to the streets and join the actions on our full list of events, which is constantly being updated as new actions are announced! Organize your own if there is none in your area, and send us your events at [email protected].

Boycott Israel!

The international, Arab and Palestinian campaign to boycott Israel can play an important role at this critical time. Local boycott groups can protest and label Israeli produce and groceries. During Ramadan, Israeli dates from stolen Palestinian land are marketed around the world while Israel attempts to force Palestinians from Jerusalem, demolish homes, and imprisons thousands more. By participating in the boycott of Israel, you can directly help to throw a wrench in the economy of settler colonialism.

Demand Your Government Sanction Israel!

The racist, settler colonial state of Israel and its war crimes against the Palestinian people are enabled and backed extensively by the over $3.8 billion each year given to Israel by the United States — targeted directly to support the Israeli occupation military killing children, women, men and elders throughout occupied Palestine. From Canada to Australia to the European Union, Western governments and imperialist powers provide ongoing diplomatic, political and economic support to Israel as well as selling billions of dollars of weaponry to the settler-colonial state. Meanwhile, they also purchase billions of dollars in weaponry from the Israeli state. Governments in league with imperialist powers, such as in the Philippines, Brazil, India and elsewhere, also buy weapons and “security” services — all “battle-tested” on the Palestinian population. Call your representatives, MPs, political officials and demand your government sanction Israel now, cut off all aid, expel its ambassadors, and stop buying and selling weapons!

إطلاق حملة #الحرية_لخالدة_جرار محلياً ودولياً
بدلاً من أن نسلّم بأن المناضلة القيادية عضو المجلس التشريعي سابقاً خالدة جرار لن تودّع ابنتها سهى، والتي أعلن عن وفاتها مساء اليوم، وإذ تقبع جرار في سجون الاحتلال منذ ما يقارب عامين، ومن المفترض أن تنهي حكمها خلال شهرين، لنعمل محلياً ودولياً لتشكيل الضغط اللازم على إدارة سجون الاحتلال لتطلق سراح جرار في أقرب موعد حتى يتسنّى لها وداع ابنتها، وممارسة أبسط حقوقها الإنسانية.
جرار مناضلة فلسطينية، معتقلة على خلفية نشاطها السياسي الوطني، اعتقلت لدى قوات الاحتلال عدة مرات وصدر بحقها أمر إبعاد وأوامر منع سفر، وتعرضت لأشكال مختلفة من التنكيل والاضطهاد بنّاءً على نشاطها السياسي ودورها الوطني.
لخالدة الحق في أن تشارك في مراسم تشييع جثمان ابنتها.
الحرية لخالدة جرار

Liberté pour Khalida Jarrar

Au lieu de nous rendre à l’évidence que la leader révolutionnaire et ancienne membre du Conseil législatif palestinien Khalida Jarrar se verra refuser le droit d’enterrer sa fille Suha, dont la mort a été annoncée ce soir, travaillons localement et internationalement pour créer la pression nécessaire qui rendra cela possible.

Khalida est une prisonnière politique palestinienne, qui a été arrêtée pour son militantisme politique national. Elle a le droit de participer aux funérailles de sa fille.

Khalida est incarcérée depuis près de deux ans et doit être libérée d’ici deux mois. Elle a été arrêtée par le régime israélien à de nombreuses reprises et a subi diverses formes d’abus et de persécutions.

L’administration pénitentiaire du régime israélien doit libérer Khalida dès que possible afin qu’elle puisse enterrer et pleurer sa fille et exercer ses droits humains les plus fondamentaux.

Liberté pour Khalida Jarrar !

En lugar de aceptar el hecho de que a la líder revolucionaria y ex miembro del Consejo Legislativo Palestino Khalida Jarrar se le negará el derecho a enterrar a su hija Suha, cuya muerte fue anunciada esta noche, trabajemos local e internacionalmente para formar la presión necesaria que lo haga. posible.

Khalida ha estado encarcelado durante casi dos años y será liberado dentro de dos meses.

La administración penitenciaria del régimen israelí debe poner en libertad a Khalida lo antes posible para que pueda enterrar y llorar a su hija y ejercer sus derechos humanos más fundamentales.

Khalida es una prisionera política palestina, que fue arrestada por su activismo político nacional. Tiene derecho a participar en el funeral de su hija.

Posters and Resources

Samidoun to launch delegation to Lebanon and Palestinian refugee camps: Support grassroots organizing!

In late July 2021, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will be launching a delegation to Lebanon and the Palestinian refugee camps. The delegation, announced on the 49th anniversary of the assassination of Palestinian writer, leader and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani, will include activists and organizers of the Samidoun Network based in Belgium, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Sweden and elsewhere.

“The delegation’s mission is primarily an expression of political and cultural solidarity and struggle, aiming to highlight the reality of Palestinians in the refugee camps today, as well as learning from and building upon the history of the Palestinian resistance movement and the Lebanese national movement.” – Mohammed Khatib, coordinator of Samidoun in Europe. 

The delegation will deliver the funds raised by supporters around the world to create the “People’s Ambulance” of Beddawi camp, in partnership with the Arab Palestinian Cultural Club. It will meet with a number of Palestinian and Lebanese organizations, institutions, and popular and youth centers in the camps, as well as the national campaign to liberate Georges Abdallah and the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon.

The delegation is self-funded by Samidoun Network and the participants taking part in the delegation and its meetings. However, the delegation also aims to support organizing and build resources in the Palestinian refugee camps and throughout Lebanon, which is currently experiencing an extreme financial crisis, the greatest burden of which is falling on the most marginalized.

Your contribution can help the delegation to support the work of grassroots organizers in the Palestinian refugee camps to sustain and build their work as well as launching new centers for organizing for liberation and return for Palestine. Make your donation below to support this important initiative. 

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Thank you for your solidarity and support!