Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all Palestinian, Arab and international supporters of Palestine to escalate their organizing and struggle to confront massacres and ethnic cleansing and support Palestinian resistance throughout the entire land of Palestine.
(The list below will be constantly updated – please share the link with your friends and comrades!)
These events are organized by many groups around the world — wherever possible, we link to the original organizers so that you can be in direct contact! Please note: this list is for action-oriented/outdoor/protest actions specifically.
Check out our events listings for the webinars, discussions and meetings we’re involved in!
TO ADD YOUR EVENT TO THE CALENDAR: Email us at samidoun@samidoun.net, message us on WhatsApp at +32466904397 or tag us on social media! We know that these events are mainly international and that the Arab people are marching everywhere for Palestine — we will be honored to add Arab events.
PLEASE NOTE: Times and details may change. Wherever we have it, we have linked to the original organizers’ accounts, posters and pages. Please follow these for the latest info – and don’t hesitate to send us updates!
Paris – Saturday, 19 February, at 2:30 p.m. at the Fontaine des Innocents in the center of Paris (Corner of Rue Berger and Rue Pierre Lescot. Metro-RER Châtelet Les Halles, exit Forum – Porte Lescot). For more info: https://europalestine.com/
VANCOUVER, WE WILL NOT STOP. After the assassination of Nizar Banat by the PA, the destruction of the Rajbi shop in Silwan and the ongoing attempts to ethnically cleanse Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan, Beita, Gaza, Sbeih mountain, our voices need to be louder than ever. The PA and the Zionist regime are roadblocks to Palestinian liberation and are funded with your taxpayer dollars via arms sales & military police training. We’re demanding an end to Canadian complicity in Palestinian genocide. Bring your kuffiyehs and masks Saturday for some calls to action. Our voices bring visibility to our political campaigns, they compliment organizing change. Our fight never ends, we need to use the momentum and need your support.
Protest the Friends of Ir David, funders of an illegal Israeli settlement park in the occupied Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, Jerusalem, then march on the office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
Collectif Palestine Vaincra is organizing a Palestine Stand at the exit of the Capitole metro station on Saturday, 3 July, from 4 pm to 6 pm. After the Palestinian resistance imposed a defeat on the Israeli occupation last May in Gaza, the Palestinian people continue to mobilize in defense of their rights. In Jerusalem, protests continue in the neighborhoods of Silwan and Sheikh Jarrah against the policy of ethnic cleansing.
In the West Bank, thousands of people are mobilizing following the assassination of Nizar Banat by the Palestinian Authority security forces and the dismantling of the Oslo institutions. In Gaza, the population continues to face regular bombardments and a criminal blockade. In the ’48 territories, the coming to power of fascist Naftali Bennett promises to intensify the segregationist policy against the Palestinians. In the refugee camps and the diaspora, Palestinians continue to mobilize to defend their right of return. Now more than ever, we must support the Palestinian people and their resistance until the return and liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.
On the program: interventions, Palestinian music and dances, exhibitions, photos of solidarity, free leaflets and flyers, etc.
This gathering has been registered at the prefecture and respects the required health measures (masks, sanitizer, etc.)
Justice for Nizar Banat! Freedom for Palestine – down with the PA coordination and collaboration with the Israeli occupation!
Join us to demand an end to the Oslo regime of security coordination that works in the interests of the Israeli colonial occupation. Demand justice for Nizar Banat, brutally murdered by Palestinian Authority “security forces,” trained by Canada, the U.S. and the European Union to serve Israeli interests. We struggle for a free Palestine, from the river to the sea!
Protest at the Israeli Consulate – Montreal, 1 Westmount Square
العدالة للشهداء والقصاص للقتلة المجرمين
إلى شعبنا الفلسطيني
وكل أبناء وبنات الجاليات العربية وأصدقاء فلسطين في مدينة موريل
آن الآوان أن نلبي نداء الوجب الوطني ونستجيب إلى صرخات شعبنا في فلسطين المحتلة ..
لا مكان اليوم للصمت، فالصمت على جرائم الاحتلال والجريمة البشعة التي ارتكبتها عصابات التنسيق الأمني بحق المناضل نزار بنات مشاركة في الجريمة وتواطيء مع المحتل ومع نهج أوسلو التصفوي..
ندعوكم للمشاركة في وقفة الغضب على اغتيال المناضل “نزار بنات” وانتصاراً لشعبنا وكرامته الوطنية.
الأربعاء 30 يونيو حزيران، الخامسة والنصف مساءً
أمام سفارة الكيان الصهيوني
Justice pour Nizar Banat ! Liberté pour la Palestine – à bas la coordination et la collaboration de l’AP avec l’occupation israélienne !
Rejoignez-nous pour exiger la fin du régime d’Oslo de coordination sécuritaire qui travaille dans l’intérêt de l’occupation coloniale israélienne. Demandez justice pour Nizar Banat, brutalement assassiné par les “forces de sécurité” de l’Autorité palestinienne, formées par le Canada, les États-Unis et l’Union européenne pour servir les intérêts israéliens. Nous luttons pour une Palestine libre, de la mer au Jourdain !
Manifestation devant le Consulat d’Israël – Montréal, 1 Westmount Square
Saturday, 26 June Online Event (Live translation: Arabic and Spanish) 12 pm Pacific -3 pm Eastern – 9 pm central Europe – 10 pm Palestine Join on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577264737
Many people may not know why so many Palestinians are imprisoned in Israeli jails. We must understand that, when living under occupation, any reason or no reason (for example, in the case of administrative detention) may be used to imprison those who fight for their natural, human and political rights.
In the Zionist occupation prisons and interrogation rooms, systematic torture is considered routine and legal, especially through the mechanism of denial of medical care to injured and ill Palestinian detainees, a process of “slow death.” Thus, Israa Jaabis has spent years living the pain of burns over 50% of her body and the daily torment of the deterioration of her health due to denial of treatment. This is the type of unjust pain inflicted on Palestinian prisoners, who are fighting for a more just world — they are not terrorists, as they are often smeared by Israeli and Western media and officials.
Today, Saturday, June 26, we will hear the testimony of the family of Israa Jaabis, and we urge all to join us to hear the voice of the Palestinian women detained in Israeli jails. It is urgent to support their resistance. This is the duty of all free people in the world.
This event will take place in Arabic, with live simultaneous translation to Spanish via Zoom. Join us on Zoom:
في كثير من الأحيان عند الإشارة إلى الأسرى الفلسطينيين، يصعب علينا إيجاد التعاطف اللازم لإظهار التضامن معهم ، ربما لأننا اعتقدنا أن السجناء في أي مكان في العالم موجودون في السجن لأنهم فعلوا شيئًا يستحقونه !.
لكن يجب ألا ننسى أنه عند العيش تحت الاحتلال، فإن أي سبب أو بدون سبب (ونحن نشير إلى الاعتقال الإداري) يكفي لحبس الأشخاص الذين لا يقاتلون إلا من أجل حقوقهم الطبيعية والانسانية والسياسية…
في سجون الاحتلال الصهيوني التعذيب المنهجي يعتبر ” قانوني” ، وهكذا قضت إسراء جعابيص سنوات تعيش آلام الحروق في 50٪ من جسدها ، وعذاب التدهور اليومي في صحتها بسبب حرمانها من العلاج، لا أحد يستحق هذا الألم ، فالاسرى الفلسطينيون يقاتلون من أجل عالم أكثر عدلاً .
نستمع إلى شهادة عائلة إسراء جعابيص.. وننتظر منكم أن تسمعوا صوت المعتقلين في السجون الاسرائيلية.
حان الوقت لدعم مقاومتهم .. هذا واجب كل أحرار العالم. .
Pero no debemos olvidar que cuando se vive bajo ocupación, cualquier motivo, o ninguno (y nos referimos a la detención administrativa) es suficiente para encerrar a personas que lo único que hacen es luchar por sus derechos.
EN LAS CÁRCELES DE LA OCUPACIÓN SIONISTA LA TORTURA ES LEGAL, y así es como Israa Jaabis lleva años viviendo el dolor constante de las quemaduras en el 50% de su cuerpo, y la agonía del empeoramiento diario al no tener derecho a tratamiento.
Ninguna persona merece ese dolor, y los presos palestinos son personas que luchan por un mundo más justo, NO SON TERRORISTAS.
Hoy tendremos la oportunidad de escuchar el testimonio de la familia de Israa.
Os esperamos para escuchar la voz de las presas políticas.
Ya es hora de alzar la voz y apoyarlas.
From June 26 to July 18, the 2021 edition of the Tour de France welcomes an Israeli team called “Israel Start-Up Nation” . Supported by the pro-Israeli far right, the participation of this team in one of the biggest sports competitions in the world serves a clear objective: to promote and normalize Israeli apartheid. Faced with this blatant attempt to sports-wash Israeli crimes, many organizations are mobilizing and calling for a twitterstorm on Saturday June 26 at 12 p.m. using the hashtags #IsraelApartheidNation and #TDF2021!
If you already have a Twitter account, Tweet multiple times now with the hashtags #IsraelApartheidNation and #TDF2021 . Talk to your friends and comrades and invite your contacts so that there are more of us. Every tweet counts!
If you don’t have a Twitter account yet, you can create one first. It’s very simple, and even if you have few subscribers, every tweet will help the campaign!
If you’re not available at the scheduled time, you can schedule your tweets on the desktop version of Twitter. For example, we suggest you use this one.
Do not hesitate to retweet the other accounts that mobilize and use the different visuals below.
From Austin to Paris, Toulouse to Gaza, Vancouver to Tunis, organizations and activists protested, marched and organized to free Georges Abdallah between 12 and 19 June. The International Week of Action to Free Georges Abdallah, called for by the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah, included film screenings, demonstrations and other events to free the imprisoned Lebanese Communist revolutionary and struggler for Palestinian liberation. Imprisoned in France since 1984, he is today Europe’s longest-held political prisoner.
Georges Abdallah himself delivered a statement for the Week of Action, saluting the ongoing struggle in Palestine, including among Palestinian political prisoners. Abdallah has regularly participated in the actions of imprisoned Palestinians while behind bars in France, including refusing meals in support of collective hunger strikes in Israeli jails.
His story is chronicled in the new film, Fedayin: The Struggle of Georges Abdallah, screened in cities across France, Switzerland, Italy and Tunisia as part of the Week of Action.
Fedayin is available in French, English, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, and German (with subtitles). The film is available for screening — to organize a screening, please contact Vacarmes Films at vacarmesfilms@gmail.com. Please also feel free to reach out to Samidoun at samidoun@samidoun.net if you are interested in organizing a screening of Fedayin.
These are some of the many events that took place around the world as part of the week of action.
France
On Saturday, 19 June, hundreds marched in Paris for a national demonstration for Georges Abdallah’s liberation. Organized by the Unitary campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah, Palestinian and Palestine solidarity activists, organizations fighting repression and revolutionary leftists marched together to demand Abdallah’s immediate release.
The march, from Place des Fêtes to République, went through working-class neighborhoods and received a strongly supportive reception from the public.
Many people stepped onto their balconies to show support for the march. Participants handed out over 1000 leaflets and collected hundreds of signed cards calling for Abdallah’s liberation.
Also on Saturday, 19 June, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra in Toulouse organized a Palestine Stand at the Capitole metro station. Large crowds of supporters joined the stand, distributing French and Arabic flyers demanding Georges Abdallah’s release. Participants delivered a number of speeches highlighting Georges Abdallah’s struggle and history as well as solidarity with Palestine and the Palestinian resistance.
Dozens of people took solidarity photos to show their support for Abdallah and expressed enthusiasm for joining campaigns to boycott Israel and complicit corporations like Teva, Puma and AXA. The event concluded with Palestinian music and dabkeh performances.
On 19 June in Aix-en-Provence, Jeunes Communistes, Resistance and Solidarity, and BDS France Marseille organized an evening of solidarity with Palestine, focusing on Georges Abdallah. The event included a screening of “Fedayin” followed by a discussion on Palestinian resistance.
Also on 19 June, the Campaign BDS France Montpellier organized a stand and literature distribution urging freedom for Georges Abdallah and justice and liberation for Palestine.
In Vic-en-Bigorre on 19 June, activists posted an information display highlighting the case of Georges Abdallah and calling for his immediate liberation. Activists in Istresalso organized a Facebook live event in solidarity with Abdallah.
These events built on actions and interventions throughout the week in France. On 17 and 18 June in La Clusaz, union activists at the 37th Congress of the CGT Haute-Savoie trade union federation spoke, calling for the liberation of Georges Abdallah. The CGT local in Annecy and the surrounding region also endorsed the national demonstration in Paris and the call for the week of action.
In Toulouse on 18 June, Collectif Palestine Vaincra showed solidarity with Georges Abdallah and Palestinian political prisoners with tagged messages demanding their liberation as well as guerilla bus station posters highlighting Georges Abdallah.
This followed the Collectif’s delegation to visit Georges Abdallah in Lannemezan prison on 17 June, where he expressed his support to the Palestinian resistance and political prisoners.
In Paris on Saturday, 12 June, after participating in an antifascist demonstration, an evening in support of Georges Abdallah was held at the Librarie Resistances. Said Bouamama presented his book, L’Affaire Georges Abdallah, followed by a screening of “Fedayin”.
Meanwhile in Annecy on 12 June, 250 people joined a march against fascism, austerity and repression, while many participants declared their support for Georges Abdallah.
The week also included multiple additional screenings of “Fedayin” in several French locations. In Tremblay-en-France, the Festival Cine-Palestine organized a screening of Fedayin on 12 June. On 11 June, organizations in Port-de-Bouc organized a screening, accompanied by a Lebanese meal and discussions.
On 10 June, the activities of the week kicked off in Marseille with a screening of Fedayin organized by the ANC and Cercle Manouchian.
Italy
In various Italian cities, members of the Rete dei Comunisti (Network of Communists) took solidarity photos to accompany a statement issued by the network demanding Georges Abdallah’s liberation. Communists in Rome, Napoli, Turin, Milan and Bologna participated in the solidarity actions.
The week of action in Italy launched on 10 June with a screening of “Fedayin” in Naples. The screening was organized by Mensa Occupata and over 80 people joined the outdoor screening, including activists from the Naples-Palestine Coordination and the Handala Ali Cultural Center.
Speakers highlighted the struggle of Palestinian prisoners and the case of Georges Abdallah, emphasizing that these cases are linked. Representatives of Collectif Palestine Vaincra also emphasized the importance of strengthening the international Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network to support the Palestinian struggle for liberation from Zionism and colonialism.
Palestine
The call to free Georges Abdallah was also heard from occupied Palestine, including from the heart of the resistance in Gaza. On Saturday, 19 June, an event in Gaza was organized to raise the call to free Georges Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners while supporting children whose homes were destroyed during the Israeli attacks on besieged Gaza.
Participants carried images of Palestinian prisoners like Ahmad Sa’adat, Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin while a large placard calling for Georges Abdallah’s freedom stood at the head of the event, supported by Collectif Palestine Vaincra.
Earlier, on 14 June, the National and Islamic Forces organized a protest in Gazaoutside the UN office, demanding international action to free hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners. They also joined in the call to free Georges Abdallah, imprisoned in France for 37 years, alongside his fellow prisoners of the Palestinian cause.
Belgium
On Saturday, 19 June, members of Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine visited the Châtelineau market in Charleroi to take action to free Georges Abdallah. They distributed numerous flyers calling for solidarity with Abdallah and called on people to join the upcoming Palestine stand on Saturday, 17 July at 3 pm at Place Verte. The stand will feature solidarity cards for Georges Abdallah, actions for the boycott of Israel and solidarity with Gaza.
In Brussels, on 16 June, a flash rally was organized in front of the AXA headquarters in Brussels. Around 20 activists gathered to unfurl a giant banner demanding the boycott of AXA for its role in supporting the colonization of Palestine and demanding liberation for Georges Abdallah.
Axa is one of the main accomplices in the oppression of the Palestinian people. Not only does this company collaborate with the Israeli state and its war industry (notably through its investment in the company Elbit Systems), but it is involved in the financing of settlements in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. The action was organized as part of the week of solidarity for Georges Abdallah.
Spanish State/Spain
On 19 June, after a day of meetings and organizing, Samidoun España organized a solidarity video with Georges Abdallah to mark the Week of Action.
This followed the visit of the Samidoun España delegation to the French Embassy in Madrid on 17 June, where a delegation of Jaldia Abubakra and Liliana Cordova Kaczerginski delivered a letter signed by dozens of organizations, including the Izquierda Unida (United Left), Communist Party of Spain, the Women’s Democratic Movement of Spain, MEP Manu Pineda, and many international solidarity and Palestine solidarity organizations, including Alkarama, Alyudur, BDS Gasteiz, Unadikum, Palestina Libre Murcia, SODePAZ in three regions, and many more.
Tunisia
On Saturday, 19 June, the Tunisian Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah gathered to protest outside the French embassy in central Tunis and took solidarity photos at the front entrance. They then organized a presentation of “L’Affaire Georges Abdallah” by Said Bouamama before the evening screening of “Fedayin” at the Al Rio Theatre.
Switzerland
In Lausanne, Secours Rouge Genève joined the march to support Palestinian resistance on Saturday, 19 June, carrying large banners and signs highlighting the campaign to free Georges Abdallah.
On 16 June in Geneva, Palestine: Filmer C’est Exister festival organized a screening of Fedayin at the Cinélux theater to a very full audience. The success of the event has led to a second screening for those who could not get tickets to the first screening, coming up on 1 July in Geneva.
Germany
On Saturday, 19 June, Samidoun Deutschland joined with progressive Turkish and Kurdish organizations to organize a concert for Grup Yorum, the revolutionary musical band whose participants have been repeatedly subjected to political imprisonment in Turkey, including members who have lost their lives on hunger strike.
Mohammed Khatib, Samidoun Europe coordinator, spoke at the event with a strong call for the liberation of Palestine and all of the prisoners of the Palestinian cause, as well as all revolutionary political prisoners in Europe, including a salute to Georges Abdallah imprisoned in France, concluding with Abdallah’s famous quote: “We win together, and we win only together.”
United States
As part of an international week of action for political prisoner Georges Abdallah taking place from June 12-19, activists with the Palestine Solidarity Committee and Red Aid recorded a video statement on 15 June in Austin, Texas, to echo the demand for his immediate release from the French prison where he has been held since 1984.
They emphasized U.S. involvement in the imprisonment of Georges Abdallah, noting: “The United States government clearly understands that Georges Abdallah’s anti-imperialist politics are a threat to our government’s stranglehold on the oppressed people of the world. This is why they’ve blocked his release, and this is exactly why we must play our part in mobilizing mass support in the U.S. for political prisoners who fought for Palestinian liberation.”
Canada
On 15 June, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network participated in an emergency demonstration for Palestine organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement, marching from the Vancouver Art Gallery to the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver. Samidoun speakers urged solidarity and action to support the Palestinian people and their resistance, free Palestinian prisoners and free Georges Abdallah, imprisoned in France for 37 years. Participants in the demonstration carried posters and signs demanding the liberation of Abdallah and the liberation of Palestine.
Britain
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! and the Revolutionary Communist Group mobilized in Manchester on Saturday, 19 June in solidarity with Palestinian political prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, including Ghadanfar Abu Atwan, Khader Adnan and Jamal al-Tawil.
Participants carried signs calling for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners and of Georges Abdallah, prisoner of the Palestinian cause jailed in France for 37 years.
We urge all friends of Palestine to join in the ongoing actions to free Georges Abdallah and prepare for the week of action in October 2021. Georges Abdallah will be free, and Palestine will be victorious!
On Friday June 25 from 11am to 1pm, Collectif Palestine Vaincra is organizing a Palestine Stand at the exit of the Bagatelle metro in Toulouse to promote the boycott of Teva and the boycott of Israel Israel. Israeli pharmaceutical firm Teva pays Israel millions of dollars in taxes every year. We call for a boycott of Teva and a boycott of Israel because we are anti-colonial and anti-racist activists!
Do not hesitate to come and participate in this initiative with us, collect free stickers and flyers, stick “boycott Teva” stickers on your health card, sign the petition card for the release of Georges Abdallah, etc.
This gathering is dropped off at the prefecture and respects the required health measures (masks, sanitizer, etc.).
Vendredi 25 juin de 11H à 13H, nous tenons un Stand Palestine à la sortie du métro Bagatelle à Toulouse afin de promouvoir le boycott de Teva et d’Israël. La firme pharmaceutique israélienne Teva verse chaque année des millions d’euros d’impôt à Israël. Nous appelons au boycott de Teva et au boycott d’Israël parce que nous sommes des militants anticolonialistes et antiracistes ! N’hésitez pas à venir participer à cette initiative à nos côtés, récupérer des autocollants et flyers gratuits, coller des stickers « boycott Teva » sur votre carte vitale, signer la carte-pétition pour la libération de Georges Abdallah, etc. Ce rassemblement est déposé en préfecture et respecte les mesures sanitaires requises (masques, gel, etc.).
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