Sunday, 6 June
3 pm
Dam square
Amsterdam, Nederland
Info: https://www.facebook.com/
Join Samidoun Nederland and many more activists and organizers for Palestine to take the streets in Amsterdam and stand up for Palestine!
Sunday, 6 June
3 pm
Dam square
Amsterdam, Nederland
Info: https://www.facebook.com/
Join Samidoun Nederland and many more activists and organizers for Palestine to take the streets in Amsterdam and stand up for Palestine!
Saturday, 5 June
4 pm
Hauptbahnhof (Central train station)
Frankfurt, Germany
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/
The 54th anniversary of Naksa, the wound that will never heal.
The day the Zionist occupation annexed further parts of Palestine, the Naksa was the continuation of an illegal occupation, the continuation of the Nakba. Nineteen years earlier, in 1948, the Zionist occupiers unilaterally proclaimed the establishment of Israel, stole 78% of Palestine, and uprooted and displaced more than 800,000 Palestinians from their homeland.
The colonization of Palestine has continued to this day in a violent process of the ongoing displacement and genocide of Palestinians.
However, Palestine cannot be silenced; resistance against occupation, colonization and displacement continues to this day. Despite all attempts to criminalize, divide and weaken the resistance, the voice of Palestine can be heard loud and clear. Palestinians in the lands occupied in 1948 and 1967, in the refugee camps in neighboring countries, around the world, unite with one clear demand: Freedom for Palestine! Return for all Palestinian refugees, displaced persons and their descendants!
Side by side with them stand millions worldwide who support the just struggle of Palestine, the legitimate resistance to violent colonization. Everywhere, and especially in Germany, the struggle for a free Palestine is met by the state, media and politicians with repression and defamation. The oppressors, warmongers and racists are all concerned with one thing: to stifle the fight for truth, for justice. We recognize all the more that our freedom is closely linked to the freedom of our brothers and sisters in Palestine and around the world.
That is why we say: end the occupation of Palestine! Palestine will not be silent!
Be strong against the ongoing occupation and support our struggle and legitimate resistance.
Saturday, 5 June
12 pm
Cibeles to Callao, Madrid
Info: https://www.instagram.com/p/
On June 5, 1967, the Zionist entity, Israel, perpetrated one of the largest massacres in Palestine, condemning more than 400,000 Palestinians to join the rest of the displaced after the Nakba of 1948.
For this reason we will go out to the streets again in support of the Palestinian people confronting the ongoing Nakba and the genocide, ethnic cleansing and plunder still continuing.
For the right of return, to historical reparations, for the liberation of prisoners, and against international complicity, we call on you to join us:
El 5 de junio de 1967, el ente sionista de Israel perpetró una de las mayores masacres sobre Palestina condenando así a más de 400.000 palestinos a unirse al resto de desplazados tras la Nakba de 1948.
Por este motivo saldremos a las caes nuevamente en apoyo a la población palestina porque la Nakba no termina, por el genocidio, la limpieza étnica y el expolio aún continua.
Por el derecho al retorno, a la reparación histórica, por la liberación de los presos y las presas, y en contra de la complicidad internacional, te esperamos:
In this video (above), Isaías Barreñada, professor of international relations at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, speaks in solidarity with Palestinian organizers, including Jaldia Abubakra of Samidoun Espana, Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Mobilization and the Masar Badil, denouncing right-wing attacks and defending the right to resist occupation and oppression.
Video in Spanish with English and Arabic subtitles.
#BlockTheBoat NY Update: Be prepared to mobilize against Israel’s apartheid-profiteering ZIM company this Sunday at the Maher terminal, 1210 Corbin Street Elizabeth, NJ 07201. Please arrive by 6:30am for a lively picket line. Exact time will depend on when the ship docks. Bring signs, your voices, comfy shoes, water & snacks. For public transit, go to Newark Penn Station & grab ride share from there. If driving, park near EWR & grab ride share as well.
Join us and receive updates by texting your name to 833-320-1973.
Join #BlockTheBoatNYC as we stand with workers and community organizers of #BlocktheBoatOakland, California who have blocked cargo ships operated by ZIM – apartheid Israel’s largest and oldest shipping company – from docking for over 11 days.
Here in the NYC-NJ area, the ZIM Tarragona is scheduled to dock in the Port of New York and New Jersey on Sunday, June 6th. This week, as part of the Arab Resource & Organizing Center’s International Week of Action to #BlockTheBoat, we are going to send a clear message: Israeli apartheid is NOT welcome in New York and New Jersey ports! The specific time and location is TBD. Join us and receive updates by texting your name to 833-320-1973.
To Endorse this Action: bit.ly/BTBNYEndorse
After over a decade of grassroots organizing with dockworkers in the Port of Oakland in California, and multiple victories blocking container ships operated by the Israeli shipping company ZIM from unloading cargo , the Block the Boat campaign, led by Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC) had stopped Zim from returning to Oakland since 2014.
Zim is trying to return to the Port of Oakland for the first time since 2014.
AROC is currently leading another #BlockTheBoat campaign targeting ZIM, and calling for a #BlockTheBoat International Week of Action from June 2 to June 9.
Over the course of the past two weeks, the threat of AROC’s protest has kept a ZIM cargo ship from docking at the Port of Oakland. In AROC’s own words,
“We are winning! Our people power is working, and sending a clear message that Israel’s ongoing settler-colonialism, occupation, and violence against the Palestinian people will come with a heavy price. Every hour that ZIM cargo ships remain undocked and unloaded is a huge victory, as it means that the apartheid state of Israel is losing enormous amounts of money.”
AROC is now calling on communities everywhere to organize solidarity actions with Oakland and community picket lines to block ZIM-operated ships at your port during the week of action. https://blocktheboat.org/actions-by-city/
In the wake of the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza, this is a critical moment to build with port workers in solidarity, and encourage them to heed the call from labor unions in Gaza asking workers everywhere not to handle Israeli cargo or engage with Israeli businesses.
To Endorse this Action: bit.ly/BTBNYEndorse
**CALL TO ACTION**
Write to Global TV and demand an apology to the Palestinian community for airing an interview with an Israeli West End restaurant owner falsely accusing pro-Palestinian protesters of making threats against her. Samidoun endorses this call to action: read the original at this Google doc!
Send an email to Global at these addresses: jordan.armstrong@globalnews.ca, ViewerContactBC@globalnews.ca, tips@GlobalTVBC.com and/or call and leave a message at: 778-945-9399
Demand a retraction and an apology for the uncritical airing of baseless accusations by Ofra Sixto, the owner of Ofra’s kitchen on Denman, against Palestinian demonstrators and the Palestinian community, in a news segment on Friday, May 28.
Refer to the back story below and our eight points on the next page about Global’s violation of journalistic standards and ethics in this coverage to draft your letter. Feel free to copy and paste any parts of this document in your email!
For better effect, you can cc the following politicians on your email. You can look up the contact info for your own MLA and MP and send your email to them as well.rachna.singh.MLA@leg.bc.ca, info@bchumanrights.ca, Sonia.Furstenau.MLA@leg.bc.ca, jonina.campbell@greenparty.bc.ca, Adam.Olsen.MLA@leg.bc.ca, Jenny.Kwan.C1A@parl.gc.ca, don.davies@parl.gc.ca, Jagmeet.Singh@parl.gc.ca, info@annamiepaul.ca, PAUL.MANLY@PARL.GC.CA, kennedy.stewart@vancouver.ca, jean.swanson@vancouver.ca, christine.boyle@vancouver.ca, adriane.carr@vancouver.ca, stopihradefinitioncampaign@gmail.com
Share this page with your network and ask them to do the same!
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The Back story (also explained in this IG video — please share!)
On Friday night, May 28, Global TV aired an absolutely uncritical interview with Ofra’s Kitchen restaurant owner, Ofra Sixto, where she was given a platform to freely make abhorrent, baseless, and hateful accusations against Palestinians and Palestine supporters with no fact-checking, no evidence and no questions asked. The interview consisted of Sixto telling a one-sided and false version of events, playing on the sympathies of viewers and victimizing herself. The interview lacked journalistic integrity and ethics.
Ofra Sixto wrote a post on her business’s Facebook page earlier this week alleging that she was targeted outside of her shop by antisemitic hate from pro-Palestine demonstrators on Denman Street on Monday, May 24.
It turned out later that the only incident occurring outside her shop was one of Sixto being racist and Islamophobic and subsequently being rebuked by bystanders.
When her post went viral, eyewitnesses refuted her allegations, sharing video evidence of the rally on social media depicting exactly what had transpired outside her restaurant that day. It was not what she claims it to be (see the videos here).
One female eyewitness in the video notes that she heard Sixto comment to a passerby, referring to the protesters across the street, “Why are they so angry? This is how they behave in their own countries.” The eyewitness rebuked Sixto at the time for her comments and posted about the incident on Instagram. However, in consideration of Sixto’s anonymity at the time the eyewitness did not record her face or show the front of her business. However, the location of the video is identifiable as the front of Sixto’s restaurant.
Another male passerby also pushed back against Sixto’s remarks, calling her out for her overt racism. A white man who was not attending the rally, stood outside Sixto’s restaurant following the remarks as the car rally peacefully continued. He then told two women entering the restaurant that the owner was racist, saying they may want to consider their choice. He later wrote a review on a community page on Facebook regarding her racist behavior, and other passers-by also noted the event in Facebook reviews left only minutes after the original incident. These reviews contained no hatred, threats or vile language, but only called out Sixto’s racist remarks and behaviour.
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Please use any of the following points to write your own letter of complaint to Global TV against their biased and terrible reporting on this issue
Tuesday, June 8 – gather at 3 pm at Woodland Park (Woodland and Frances, Vancouver) — please stay alert through joining the text system for date and time changes!
Vancouver, BC, Occupied Coast Salish Territories
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Paris – Saturday, 9 October, 3 pm to 6 pm, Fontaine des Innocents (exit from the Forum des Halles via the Porte Lescot.) Support the Palestinian Resistance! Organized by CAPJPO-EuroPalestine https://europalestine.com/
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Tens of thousands took to the streets in Washington, DC, despite cold and rainy weather on Saturday, 29 May 2021, at the National March for Palestine organized by American Muslims for Palestine, the US Council of Muslim Organizations and their partner groups. They organized buses from up and down the East Coast, while Palestinians and supporters of Palestine flew in across the country to take a stand and demand the United States sanction Israel.
Speakers from partner organizations and endorsing groups demanded an end to the over $3.8 billion in aid given to the Israeli occupation regime every year, which is funneled directly into military support for the ongoing colonization, occupation and oppression of Palestine and the Palestinian people. The march launched AMP’s Sanction Israel campaign, which demands an arms embargo on the apartheid regime, an end to the U.S.-Israel free trade agreement, a ban on settlement products and an end to the “charitable” organizations fundraising millions of tax-exempt dollars to fund war crimes and illegal settlements in Palestine.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network was among 100+ organizations to endorse the march and rally. Joe Catron, U.S. coordinator of Samidoun, noted: “This broad outpouring, on such short notice, shows the tremendous political gains the Palestinian national movement has made in recent weeks.” Hundreds of thousands of people across the United States have taken to the streets during the previous several weeks, joining millions around the world marching for the liberation of Palestine.
While the U.S. has continued its funding and arming of Israeli war crimes without hesitation, a growing number of politicians in the Democratic Party – perhaps due to the overwhelming and visible positions of their voter base in support of Palestinian rights – have expressed hesitation over the role of the U.S. empire in the subjugation of Palestinians, including introducing legislation to condition U.S. aid to Israel or freeze certain weapons shipments.
The success of the demonstration, organized approximately one week in advance, points to the importance of ongoing popular mobilization for Palestine to escalate the pressure to cut off the U.S. relationship with the Israeli settler colonial regime.
Samidoun Deutschland, together with the Network for Freedom for all Political Prisoners and the Freedom Committee, organized an internationalist leftist march for Palestine that took to the streets of Berlin on Saturday, 29 May. Participants gave speeches about the struggle for the liberation of Palestine and played revolutionary music, while organizations from the Turkish, Kurdish and German left movements — as well as a delegation from the Netherlands — joined the event and provided statements and expressions of solidarity.
The march wound through the Neukölln district of Berlin with enthusiastic chants of support for the Palestinian people and the struggle for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. Participants denounced the role of the Palestinian Authority in acting as an agent for Israel, the United States and the European Union while saluting internationalist struggles for a liberated society.
As the call for the demonstration noted, “The Palestinian cause is an internationalist, anti-colonial, anti-Zionist, anti-fascist, anti-racist and anti-imperialist cause, and struggling peoples everywhere confronting oppression, exploitation, imperialism and capitalism stand with the Palestinian people in their struggle for a liberated Palestine from the river to the sea….
From Turkey to the Philippines to Colombia to occupied Palestine, people’s movements rising up for justice face severe repression, criminalization and imprisonment. The political prisoners behind bars are true internationalist militant and vanguard of our struggles for justice…We know that the Palestinian liberation struggle does not only confront the Zionist project in occupied Palestine, the Israeli regime. The Palestinian movement is confronting imperialism and the reactionary regimes that carry out its agenda, an internationalist alliance of fascist, racist, colonialist forces.
Here in Europe, the imperialist powers of the European Union — including Germany — further mete out repression against internationalist people’s movements. Palestinian communities are targeted for repression, demonstrations banned, and police attacks unleashed against Palestinian and Arab youth. Meanwhile, Turkish and Kurdish comrades are jailed as political prisoners from Turkey to Greece to Germany for struggling for liberation.
Today, we join together in a united mobilization for justice and liberation from Palestine to the Philippines, from Turkey to Colombia, to the streets of Europe.”
The march found strong support and reception from the Palestinian and Arab public — and other passers-by — in Berlin as it marched through Neukölln. Samidoun Deutschland is organizing further events and actions for Palestine throughout Germany, and will be joining many organizations in Frankfurt on 5 June as part of the demonstration for Palestine taking place at 4 pm outside the city’s central train station.