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Palestinian, international organizations support Samidoun against Israeli “terrorist” designation

Organizations and activists in Palestine and around the world have expressed solidarity with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in response to the Israeli regime’s designation of Samidoun as a “terrorist organization” for its public work advocating for freedom for the nearly 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.

In our response statement, Samidoun emphasized that “we will continue to organize and mobilize internationally in defense of Palestinian rights and liberation. This is the latest manifestation of a smear campaign that is intended to silence international support for the Palestinian people and especially the nearly 5,000 Palestinians jailed by the Israeli occupation. This is an attack on the Palestinian prisoners’ movement as well as the right of Palestinians in exile and diaspora to organize. We affirm that we will not be silenced or deterred by Israel’s smear campaigns.”

Samidoun has received widespread support in response to this repressive attack, with many different organizations and individuals in Palestine and around the world sharing and republishing the statement in English, Arabic, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Swedish, Greek and Dutch. A number of organizations have also issued statements of their own condemning this action. We know that this list is incomplete and we will provide further updates about upcoming statements. Several of these were published in French at the Collectif Palestine Vaincra website.

In one statement, Al-Qutob, the Democratic Progressive Student Pole at Bir Zeit University, “announced our full solidarity with the Samidoun Network, which supports the prisoners in occupation prisons, after being classified as a ‘terrorist’ organziation by the so-called Occupation Ministry of War. In this regard, we affirm that the brutal occupation attempts repeatedly to suppress the spirit of commitment and struggle among Palestinian youth through killing, arrest and oppression, but we affirm that all of their attempts will not undermine our resolve and will only increase our insistence.”

The Ministry of Prisoners in Gaza “denounced the classification of the Samidoun Network defending Palestinian prisoners as a ‘terrorist’ organization by the Israeli Ministry of War….The network’s members, active in European countries and North America, are working to help Palestinian prisoners in their struggle for freedom, and the network plays an important role in efforts to expose the occupation internationally.”

The prison branch of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine issued a statement, in which it said “The prisoners’ movement is following with great interest and pride the strong efforts made by the Samidoun Network in support of the just cause of the prisoners, exposing the violations og the occupation and the prison administration against them, and all of them are firmly convicnced that the Zionist decision will be an even greater motivation for the network and an inspiration for its members and all of the solidarity activists around them to continue their efforts to uphold the prisoners’ cause.”

In a statement, the Preparatory Committee of the Palestinian Alternative Path Conference (Masar Badil), stated “its solidarity and principled stand with the comrades in Samidoun Network and emphasizes that this racist and unjust Zionist decision demonstrates the effectiveness of Samidoun’s role in advancing the cause of Palestinian prisoners and detainees and in defending the rights of our Palestinian people in the face of the crimes of the occupation and its colonial racist policies throughout occupied Palestine. The Preparatory Committee considers this Zionist decision as one targeting the Alternative Palestinian Path but also all forces, organizations and institutions participating in it, and all of the voices that defend the prisoners’ movement and the rights of the Palestinian people everywhere…The Samidoun Network, which has become one of the arms of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement and an active voice in the service of the cause of Palestine and its people, has constituted a source of inconvenience to the governments and parties of the racist fascist right in the West and disturbed the comfort of the Zionist occupation, its leaders and embassies through continuous action and organizing. Accordingly, we call for joining its membership and participating in its activities, as this is the strongest response to the Zionist entity’s decision and the revolutionary way to thwart and defeat it.”

In a statement, the Palestinian Youth Movement affirmed that “Israel has long used “terrorism” as a vehicle for criminalizing any resistance to Zionism, including political advocacy on behalf of prisoners, the exact work in which Samidoun engaged and for which it has received international recognition and acclaim. As a grassroots, Palestinian, Arab and internationalist institution, Samidoun has been a critical lifeline of support for incarcerated Palestinians who are tried in Israeli military court, which has a 99% conviction rate for Palestinians and incarcerates children as young as 12 years old. The ‘terrorist’ designation is nothing more than collective punishment for the brave and tireless work of the organization’s members to ensure that our prisoners’ struggle remains at the fore of public consciousnesses and at the root of our people’s collective resistance against the Zionist regime…As Palestinian youth, we affirm that Israel can add every Palestinian to its list without for a second changing our determination to continue resisting and fight for our land and our people’s right of return.”

The US Palestinian Community Network affirmed that it “dismisses ridiculous charges of “terrorism” from the racist, white-settler-colonialist, terrorist state of Israel. Samidoun organizes in support of Palestinian political prisoners, and the liberation of Palestine. We defend Samidoun!”

Wa’ed Association for Prisoners and Freed Prisoners in occupied Palestine denounced the designation of Samidoun Network as “an attempt to neutralize and block any window that supports the cause of the prisoners in occupation prisons, and confirms the importance of popular and media efforts in exposing occupation crimes…Wa’ed declares its full solidarity and support to the Samidoun Network against the occupation decision, praising its work in support of the rights of the prisoners.”

The Free Democratic Palestine Movement issued a statement, declaring: “An attack on one is an attack on all!.. We in the Free Democratic Palestine Movement (FDPM) stand with (Samidoun) against this attack on their freedom of speech and political fight. We demand the immediate release of all Palestinian political prisoners and call on the world progressive and democratic forces to join their struggle. We condemn in the strongest possible terms all the assaults by Israel or anyone else on freedom of speech and any attempt to stifle debate on the Palestinian cause for it is a civil and human right enshrined by International law and treaties.”

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“Palestinian prisoners are a major pillar of the Palestinian movement for liberation. More than 5,000 political prisoners languish in Israel’s jails today. Israel seeks to punish prisoners and those who support them and by extension, seeks to break a major pillar in the Palestinian liberation struggle,” said American Muslims for Palestine Director of Outreach Taher Herzallah. “We stand firmly against Israel’s criminalization of Palestinian civil society groups working in defense of Palestine’s political prisoners.”

The Global Campaign to Return to Palestine issued a statement in response to the designation, declaring that “It is not surprising that the resistance fighters and the honorable people are accused of terrorism by the criminals against humanity, nor for the Zionist Ministry of War to classify Samidoun as a terrorist organization, especially after the continuous successes of the Samidoun network in revealing the true terrorist face of the occupation. We consider solidarity with Samidoun an obvious matter and one of the basics of solidarity with free prisoners and with the Palestinian people.”

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle Commission 3 – focusing on political prisoners – affirmed in its statement that “The real terrorists are States such as Israel’s which has brought much terror through killings, arrests, detention and other human rights violations against the Palestinian people and through its Zionist occupation of Palestinian land and territories. We salute Samidoun and the Palestinian people for their bravery in standing up against Israel’s multitiered system of oppression – colonisation, occupation and apartheid. No designation of an oppressive government can stop the advocacy for and struggle of the Palestinian political prisoners. Hands off Samidoun! Long live the Palestinian struggle for freedom and liberation!”

Decolonize This Place, an action-oriented decolonial movement in New York City, declared: “Israel recently designated Samidoun a ‘terrorist’ organization; and our response is anti-colonial and unequivocal: Israel is a settler-colonial project and thus has no standing or legitimacy in our eyes. It must be dismantled.”

UPOTUDAK, the International Committee for Solidarity with Political Prisoners, declared that “Samidoun is not alone! Samidoun is legitimate and cannot be inhibited!…We know that the state of Israel and the reactionary imperialist powers..have no tolerance for any democratic demands and democratic struggle. But no matter what decision they take, no matter how much they denigrate, they were and will never be able to remain standing in front of the legitimate and just struggle of the peoples.”

The Friends of Palestine Against Imperialism and Zionism in Turkey declared, “We stand with Samidoun! Resistance is not terrorism. Supporting the rights of captives captured by a colonizer is not terrorism. Building an apartheid stae by exiling and murdering the inhabitants of a land IS terrorism.”

Palästina Antikolonial in Germany denounced Gantz’s action as a “continuation of the road of criminalization and suppression of any Palestinian self-organization and solidarity work. This attempt to isolate Palestinian organizations through defamation comes just a few days after the launch of the campaign for the freedom of numerous Palestinian students.

Alfred de Zayas, the first UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order, affirmed that “Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, is certainly not a “terrorist organization”, but one that can invoke the ICCPR and self-determination.”

These expressions of solidarity indicate the broad rejection of Israeli attempts at repression and silencing as well as the importance of redoubling our efforts without intimidation by the threats of a racist, settler colonial state. In response to these actions, now is the time to escalate our solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners — especially the international campaign to release Palestinian student prisoners, endorsed by over 325 groups, political parties, social movements, trade unions, associations and student organizations  — and our efforts for a liberated Palestine from the river to the sea.

To contact Samidoun Network and discuss how we can work together, please contact us at samidoun@samidoun.net.

Basil al-Araj lives: Media action in the streets of Berlin

Samidoun Deutschland launched a postering campaign on the streets of Berlin, Germany, especially in Palestinian and Arab neighborhoods, on 6 March 2021, the fourth anniversary of Basil al-Araj‘s assassination by Israeli occupation forces.

The posters salute al-Araj and his contributions to the Palestinian struggle, accompanied by a quote from al-Araj underlining the effects of the Nakba of 1948, the dispossession of the vast majority of the Palestinian people and the establishment of the Zionist settler-colonial state of Israel, upon Palestinians and the Arab people more broadly.

Basil al-Araj, born on 27 January 1984 in al-Walaja village near Bethlehem, occupied Palestine, studied pharmacy in Egypt and became active in the Palestinian youth movement, standing against Zionist occupation and the collaboration of the Palestinian Authority. As an “engaged intellectual,” he was a talented speaker and writer who organized a range of cultural and educational programs in different spheres, from the boycott movement to the Sulaiman al-Halabi Colonial Studies Department. He organized seminars and tours highlighting the history of the Palestinian liberation movement from 1936 to the present and various aspects of resistance to Zionist colonialism. His many articles, revolutionary thoughts and slogans have had a lasting impact on Palestinian youth.

He took part in many demonstrations and protests and was detained for several months in 2016 by the Palestinian Authority under its “security coordination” with Israel. After his release, he was pursued by the Israeli intelligence services and occupation forces, who attacked him in an assault on the home where he stayed in El-Bireh, occupied Palestine, on 6 March 2017. He battled with the occupation forces for over two hours before he was assassinated in a hail of bullets. Thousands of Palestinians joined his funeral and many artists, writers, activists and intellectuals continue to admire the power of his words and legendary will, inspiring new generations of strugglers.

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Remembering Basil al-Araj and continuing his legacy of struggle

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network remembers Basil al-Araj, the engaged intellectual and Palestinian revolutionary assassinated by Israeli occupation forces as he continued to resist, refusing to surrender, four years ago today: 6 March 2017. He put into practice his vision of the “struggling intellectual,” writing, thinking and acting, engaging in all aspects of Palestinian struggle, from the boycott movement to the armed struggle. Today, Basil al-Araj is a symbol and a living example of struggle for millions of Palestinians, Arabs and internationalists looking towards a vision of return, liberation and victory in Palestine and around the world.

Basil al-Araj’s life was defined by his commitment to liberation. A prominent writer, thinker and youth activists in protest campaigns and boycott movements throughout occupied Palestine, he was seized by the Palestinian Authority under its security coordination with Israel. In fact, the abduction of Basil al-Araj and five of his comrades was touted by PA President Mahmoud Abbas as an important achievement for PA/Israel security coordination. There, Basil and his comrades were tortured and imprisoned for five months without charge before being released after their hunger strike in September 2016.

After his release, Basil went underground. His family’s home was attacked and invaded over 10 times by Israeli occupation forces before he was assassinated in a hail of bullets on 6 March 2017 in the home where he was staying in El-Bireh, occupied Palestine. He resisted until the end, always refusing to surrender, rejecting the path of Oslo and the dismantlement of the Palestinian cause physically and intellectually.

Basil al-Araj’s final statement was issued after his assassination, as demonstrations took place in Palestinian, Arab and international cities, with marches and protests in New York, Washington, DC, Brussels, Berlin, Vienna, London, Rabat, Tunis, Cairo, Amman, Beirut, Nahr el-Bared refugee camp, Gaza City, Ramallah, Haifa, Dheisheh refugee camp and elsewhere. In Ramallah, Palestinian demonstrators were attacked and beaten by the Palestinian Authority’s security forces.

“Greetings of Arab nationalism, homeland, and liberation. If you are reading this, it means I have died and my soul has ascended to its creator. I pray to God that I will meet him with a guiltless heart, willingly, and never reluctantly, and free of any whit of hypocrisy. How hard it is to write your own will. For years I have been contemplating testaments written by martyrs, and those wills have always bewildered me. They were short, quick, without much eloquence. They did not quench our thirst to find answers about martyrdom. Now I am walking to my fated death satisfied that I found my answers. How stupid I am! Is there anything which is more eloquent and clearer than a martyr’s deed? I should have written this several months ago, but what kept me was that this question is for you, living people, and why should I answer on your behalf? Look for the answers yourself, and for us the inhabitants of the graves, all we seek is God’s mercy.”

Ahmad Sa’adat, imprisoned Palestinian leader and the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, described Basil Al-Araj:

“with his gun in one hand and his pen in the other, a solid, conscious fighter who would not compromise one iota on principles or constants and who did not melt like some intellectuals in the acid of temptations or acceptance of the status quo…He gave his life for Palestine at a time when some traders seek to sell it piece by piece. He never fell or wavered before the rubble of reality, the enormous challenges, the attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause or divert it from its natural course…His experience of struggle and rich cultural work is an inspiration and compass for revolutionary Palestinian youth, and his luminous flame illuminates their struggle and uprising.”

Khaled Barakat, Palestinian writer and activist, said:

“He saw the relationship between all forms of struggle, and he recognized the right and the duty to participate in all forms of struggle when possible…For him, to be a Palestinian revolutionary intellectual, you must be in confrontation with occupation and struggle to bring down all internal Palestinian chains and blockades, as represented by the PA. Basil studied in Cairo and visited Amman, Beirut and other Arab cities on many occasions. He was working to build bridges between Palestinians inside and outside. That’s why the first demonstrations after his assassination were in Nahr al-Bared refugee camp and in the other camps in Lebanon, as well as in Ramallah. Basil is a representation of an entire Palestinian generation that finds itself today entering 100 years of struggle against colonization, occupation and oppression. And I have no doubt in my mind that they will succeed in liberating their cause and their voice.”

“Basil was alert and aware of the struggles taking place outside Palestine. He participated in the boycott campaigns, actions against the apartheid wall, against normalization, led a campaign called ‘youth for dignity,’ confronted PA policies, negotiations and security coordination in the streets, presented in colleges and universities, worked to build research institutions, and he also carried a gun. These forms of struggle do not contradict each other; in fact, they complement each other…It is revolutionary knowledge that directs the guns, and not the other way around.”

Thousands of Palestinians marched in Basil al-Araj’s funeral of resistance in al-Walaja village, saluting and pledging to continue Al-Araj’s legacy of struggle, chanting against Zionist colonization, the Israeli assassination policy, and the Palestinian Authority’s complicity and security coordination with the occupation regime.

Today, Basil al-Araj remains a towering representative of justice and of the Palestinian liberation struggle. His commitment and vision lives on in the ideas, organizing and action of Palestinian, Arab and international youth organizing and struggling to confront colonialism and achieve victory. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the living legacy of Basil al-Araj, revolutionary intellectual, freedom fighter and Palestinian, Arab and international symbol of justice and liberation.

 

Samidoun stands with Dimitris Koufontinas in Greece as Georges Abdallah launches solidarity strike

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses its solidarity with Greek political prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, on hunger strike since 8 January 2021 – and refusing water since 22 February 2021 – in protest of his treatment by the Greek government. We further salute Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Arab struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for over 36 years, for his material solidarity with Dimitris Koufontinas, undertaking a full-day solidarity hunger strike on Saturday, 6 March 2021.

Koufontinas has been jailed since 2002 for his role in the Revolutionary Organization 17 November, and today he is confronting a “war” upon him waged by the Greek government. The movement took its name from the infamous massacre of 17 November 1973 conducted by the Greek fascist military junta against a student uprising.

The government amended the Greek penal code specifically to target revolutionary prisoners in Greek prisons, elder detainees like Koufontinas who were jailed on charges of “terrorism” for their involvement in armed left and revolutionary movements. These changes established that those convicted on “terrorism” charges may not access “agricultural prisons,” more rural institutions for long-term prisoners with exemplary disciplinary records.

Upon the approval of this law, Dimitris Koufontinas was immediately transferred from the agricultural prison of Kassevitia. However, going beyond the law, which specified that a transferred prisoner should be returned to the previous institution where they were held, Koufontinis was instead transferred to the “hard prison” in Domokos rather than Korydallos prison in Athens. He had been held in Korydallos prison for 16 years, accessible for visitation by his family members.

Today, Dimitris Koufontinas is in critical condition. He is in the intensive care unit at Lamia hospital and has developed acute renal failure; the hospital later announced that he had lost all kidney function. In a statement, Koufontinas said, “I don’t want to die, but I don’t want to be treated like human garbage either! I am not threatening to kill myself. As long as they do not comply with a just and legitimate request, I have no choice but to walk with dignity and pride until death. If the Mitsotakis government does not do what is lawful and if it does not listen to those who bring the issue on the basis of humanity it will remain a state assassination.”

Protests and actions have been organized in Athens and throughout Europe, with thousands taking to the streets in Athens and large mobilizations in Berlin:

During his time behind bars, Koufontinas has remained active, writing two books. He has also expressed his solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and Palestinian political prisoners, issuing a letter in 2018 with fellow Greek political prisoners:

“The Palestinian people that in the last decades is under the imperialists’ grip, and before that the colonists’ grip as well, have proved that they know how to resist firmly and tirelessly….with their thirst for freedom but also the memory of the thousands of Palestinians whose blood has been spilled in the struggle…. After the announcement of the USA that recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and Netanyahu’s veto which posed this as a condition for any peace making process, the intensification of Intifada is a fact.

The Greek government, as a member of the imperialist coalition between the EU, the NATO and recently the peripheral block of Greece-Cyprus-Israel-Egypt that forwards the geostrategical interests of the bourgeoisie, has the Middle East peoples’ blood in its hands.” The letter was signed by Dimitris Koufontinas, Kostas Gournas, Kostas Sakkas, Marios Seisidis, Panagiotis Aspiotis and Gregoris Sarafoudis.

Samidoun joins people around the world in urging immediate action to save the life of Dimitris Koufontinas by transferring him to Korydallos prison in Athens and ending the war against him. We express our strongest solidarity with Koufontinas and all of those around the world — especially imprisoned struggler for Palestine, Georges Abdallah — who continue to uphold their principles despite the most violent repression of imperialist powers and complicit regimes.

Palestinian students continue to face new Israeli attacks as the campaign to #FreePalestinianStudents grows

Banner drop by the Palestine Solidarity Committee – Austin, TX

Palestinian students continue to come under attack by Israeli occupation forces, even as the international campaign to free Palestinian students is escalating. Over 325 organizations have now signed on to support the campaign, including the All Nepal Peasants’ Federation, the American Association of Jurists, the Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe – ATIK, the National Lawyers Guild in the U.S., and the Landless Workers Movement/Movimento Sem Terra in Brazil, among a wide range pf political parties, Palestinian and solidarity organizations, churches, labor unions and social justice groups. (See the full list of endorsers below.)

Join the campaign for a social media storm on Thursday, 11 March, using the hashtag #FreePalestinianStudents. A list of sample tweets and images you can use is available at https://bit.ly/FreePalestinianStudents.

In Austin, Texas, the Palestine Solidarity Committee displayed banners over a major highway in support of Palestinian students and a demand to end U.S. aid to Israel as part of the campaign launch on 25 February.

In Toulouse, France, members of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra along with fellow campaign endorsers Le Poing Levé et l’Union des Etudiant·e·s de Toulouse organized a photo campaign and solidarity signs in support of Palestinian students as part of a day of student action against economic and social precarity on 3 March.

Many more organizations are planning actions, events and interventions. For more information, suggested actions and resources, please reach out to us at samidoun@samidoun.net.

The importance of this campaign is highlighted by the ongoing attacks on Palestinian students. At Al-Quds University in Abu Dis, occupied Palestine, Israeli occupation forces invaded the campus on 26 February in an attempt to launch a campaign of terror against Palestinian students, threatening students’ education with a “hit list” of students targeted for arrest and political persecution. Armed occupation soldiers posted signs with the photos of arrested Palestinian students with a red “X” through each of their pictures, leaving blank outlines at the bottom with question marks to ask, “who will be arrested next?”

The posters bore the title, “Graduation of the Islamic Bloc 2021,” boasting of students being denied their right to education because of their involvement in student activity on campus, and hung on the gates of the university and gathering locations in and around the university.

Only days later, on 3 March, many students at Al-Quds university received text messages from the Shin Bet — Israeli occupation intelligence — on their mobile phones, offering funds for collaboration. The message reads:
“Dear university students, your future is in your own hand. To whomever needs support to finish their education. Contact Captain Shaker,” followed by the agent’s phone number. This is another blatant attempt to intimidate, terrorize and coerce Palestinian students and undermine their right to education.

Occupation forces continued to detain Palestinian students. Majd Jarrar and Waleed Hamad, two students from Bir Zeit University, were seized and taken to the notorious Al-Moskobiyeh interrogation center after heavily armed Israeli soldiers invaded the two students’ homes on 2 March. Three students at Al-Najah University in Nablus, Asim Shtayyeh, Malik Shtayyeh, both engineering students, and Musa Dweikat, a medical student, were seized by occupation forces on 2 March, while at the University of Hebron, Ezz-el-Din Abu Hussein, Muthanna al-Qawasmi and Thameen Halaika were all seized by occupation forces on 1 March.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all friends of justice in Palestine to join the #FreePalestinianStudents campaign. This 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

List of endorsing organizations:

  • 100 Idee per la Pace Siena – Italy
  • Action Antifasciste Paris Banlieue
  • ADDICTED To WAR
  • AFPS 0726 (Association France Palestine Solidarité Groupe local Ardèche Drôme)
  • AFPS 63 (France)
  • AFPS Douai
  • AFPS Nord- Pas de Calais
  • AFPS Paris 14-6
  • AFPS PARIS-SUD
  • Africa4Palestine
  • Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
  • Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
  • Alkarama Palestinian women’s movement)
  • All Nepal Peasants’ Federation (ANPFa)
  • Alliance for Global Justice
  • Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
  • Allt åt Alla Kvinnofront
  • القطب الطلابي الديمقراطي التقدمي Al Qutob – Progressive Democratic Student Pole at Bir Zeit University
  • Al-Yudur Juventud Palestina | Al-Juzour Palestinian Youth
  • Amis des Arts et de al Culture de Palestine
  • AMP-NJ
  • Anakbayan-USA
  • Anti Imperialist Action Ireland
  • Anti-Imperialist Alliance – Ottawa
  • Anti-Imperialist Alliance Youth (AIA Youth – Ottawa)
  • Anti-Imperialist Front – France (AIF)
  • Antirasistiska Akademin
  • Arbetarmakt (Workers Power) – Swedish Section of The League for the Fifth International
  • ARENE (Association des ResidEnts de NanterrE)
  • Asamblea Plaza de los Pueblos Madrid
  • Asociación Brasileña Maloka
  • Asociación Estudiantil Madrid
  • Asociación Palestina Biladi
  • Asociación Punto Feminista Alcorcón
  • Asociación Teatro de la Tierra
  • Asociación Unadikum
  • Associación Americana de Juristas
  • Association Car t’y es libre
  • Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine (AURDIP)
  • Association Eunomia
  • Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité d’Albertville
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité Nîmes
  • Association Nationale des Communistes – ANC
  • Association of Palestinian Students – University of Toronto Mississauga
  • Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina
  • Associazione Senza Paura Genova
  • Australia Solidarity with Latin America
  • Bahraini Society to Resist Normalization with Zionism
  • Bathurst Street United Church
  • BAYAN Canada
  • BAYAN USA
  • BDS France Marseille
  • BDS France Montpellier
  • BDS Genova
  • BDS Mexico
  • BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish Territories
  • Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI)
  • Bloque Nacionalista Galego (BNG)
  • Boycott, Divest, Sanction, on CATerpillar
  • Bündnis gegen Krieg / Hände weg von Syrien
  • California Scholars for Academic Freedom
  • Campagne Unitaire pour la Libération de Georges Abdallah
  • Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
  • Canada Palestine Association
  • Canada Palestine Support Network (CanPalNet)
  • Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights (CPSHR)
  • Canadian BDS Coalition
  • Canadian Union of Public Employees, Local 3902 BDS Committee
  • Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)
  • CAPJPO-EuroPalestine
  • Catholics for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land (Canada)
  • Center for Study and Preservation of Palestine
  • Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
  • Centro Culturale Handala Ali – مركز حنظله علي الثقافي
  • Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
  • Claremont Students for Justice in Palestine
  • Coletivo pelos direitos no Brasil
  • Collectif 65 pour la liberation de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
  • Collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien
  • Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine
  • Collectif Palestine Vaincra
  • Collettivo Palestina Rossa
  • Comité Antifa Saint Etienne
  • Comité d’actions et de soutien aux luttes du peuple marocain
  • Comité de Défense des Internés des Camps du Sud (Algérie)
  • Comite de Liberté pour Musa Aşoğlu!
  • Comité de solidarité tunisien pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
  • Comité justice et vérité 31
  • Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche Orient (CPJPO)
  • Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran (CASI)
  • Communist Organization of Greece (KOE)
  • Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninst) Liberation
  • Communist Workers League
  • Comunidad Palestina de Chile
  • Confederación Intersindical Galega (CIG)
  • Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe – ATIK
  • Cordillera Peoples Alliance
  • CRED-GIGI
  • Cultura è Libertà, una campagna per la Palestina
  • Dallas Palestine Coalition
  • Deutsch-Palästinensischer Frauenverein e.V.
  • Droit Solidarite
  • DSA BDS & Palestine Solidarity Working Group Steering Committee
  • East Los Angeles Revolutionary Action Party
  • Éirígí- for A New Republic
  • End the Deadly Exchange Seattle
  • Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival
  • Fédération Syndicale Étudiante (FSE)
  • Femmes de diverses origines/Women of Diverse Origins
  • Festiclown
  • Finnish-Arab Friendship Society, FAFS
  • FIRMES: Federación Internacional de Resistencia Migrante en España
  • Fordham SJP
  • Framåt kamrater
  • Free CUNY!
  • Free Palestine Movement
  • Freedom Road Socialist Organization
  • French Friends of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin (ATL Jénine)
  • Friends of Palestine Against Imperialism and Zionism (Filistin Dostlari)
  • Friends of Sabeel North America
  • Front Populaire France (Turquie)
  • Front Uni des Immigrations et des Quartiers Populaires de Grenoble (FUIQP 38)
  • GABRIELA Alliance of Filipino Women
  • GABRIELA BC
  • Galizan People’s Union-UPG
  • GATS
  • Gazainfo
  • Giovani palestinesi d’Italia
  • Giuristi Democratici
  • GMB union z60 branch Lincoln
  • Green Mountain Solidarity With Palestine
  • Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN
  • GUPS Aix-Marseille
  • Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers
  • Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War
  • HRA:PI/CD3-IP (Human Rights Awareness: Palestine Israel/CD3 Israel Palestine
  • Human Rights March, Denmark
  • ILPS Commission on Children
  • Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
  • Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL)
  • Inminds Human Rights Group
  • International Action Center
  • International Association of Democratic Lawyers
  • International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)
  • International League of Peoples’ Struggle – Australia Chapter
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  • Sulong UBC
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  • The Palestine Committee of Norway
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  • The Rachel Corrie Foundation
  • Theorie und Praxis Verlag
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  • Tunisian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (TACBI)
  • UCL (union communiste libertaire)
  • UJFP
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  • Youth and Students Section of the Lebanese Communist Party

Students at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès support imprisoned Palestinian students!

See the original report in French from Collectif Palestine Vaincra: 

On Wednesday, 3 March, a number of youth and student organizations in Toulouse, France, organized a day of solidarity against student precarity. All day long, dozens of students gathered on the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès campus around open stages, events, speeches, solidarity food and various information tables.

The Collectif Palestine Vaincra was present to promote the international solidarity campaign in support of imprisoned Palestinian students, supported by hundreds of organizations around the world, including the two largest student organizations at the university,  Le Poing Levé and the Toulouse Student Union. Collectif Palestine Vaincra members distributed a hundred flyers with information about the Palestinian student prisoners, finding a warm welcome and strong support for the campaign.

Many students and staff members at the university stood with signs supporting the campaign and urging freedom for imprisoned Palestinian students.

This successful initiative testifies to the important internationalist solidarity that continues to exist on French campuses — and on campuses around the world — with Palestine and its imprisoned youth.

We encourage supporters to organize similar activities around the world. To organize an event on your campus, download these materials and send us your photos via email at samidoun@samidoun.net. Please reach out to us for any further information or resources. In France (or for Francophone events), please contact collectifpalestinevaincra@gmail.com.

Learn more and endorse the campaign at https://freepalestinianstudents.org/

International action in Brussels and Murcia demand freedom for Khitam Saafin, Palestinian prisoners

On Sunday, 28 February, activists in Brussels, Belgium, protested the renewal of the arbitrary Israeli administrative detention order – for imprisonment without charge or trial — against Palestinian feminist and president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees Khitam Saafin.

They displayed a banner in front of the Israeli embassy and the soldiers stationed outside, while the stone wall surrounding the building was tagged with “BDS” slogans promoting the boycott of Israel and divestment and sanctions against it, in support of freedom, justice and equality for Palestinians.

On 25 February, an Israeli military court extended Saafin’s administrative detention for an additional four months; she has already been jailed without charge or trial since 2 November 2020. This is not the first time she has been detained by the Israeli occupation; in 2017, she was jailed for three months without charge or trial under an administrative detention order.

Administrative detention was first introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate and then adopted by the Zionist state. Palestinians may be jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention orders of up to six months, which are then indefinitely renewable. Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention.

Saafin is among approximately 40 imprisoned Palestinian women — out of nearly 5,000 total Palestinian political prisoners — including several fellow administrative detainees, imprisoned Palestinian student activists like Shatha Tawil, Layan Kayed, Elia Abu Hijleh and Ruba Assi, and political leaders, including feminist and leftist parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar.

In a statement, the activists in Brussels affirmed: “All of this is made possible by the complicit silence of the international community. We demand the immediate release of Khitam Saafin and all other Palestinian prisoners, the end of the occupation, the application of the right of return for Palestinian refugees and the dismantling of the wall.

Stop colonization in Palestine and everywhere;
Stop imprisonment;
Stop patriarchy;
Palestine will live!”

Read the full report in French on Brussels Indymedia.

In addition, Samidoun in Murcia, Spain — part of Samidoun España — created posters as part of a call to raise the demand for the liberation of Palestinian women prisoners as part of 8 March in Murcia:

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network condemns the unjust, unlawful extension of Khitam Saafin’s administrative detention by the Israeli occupation and urges people of conscience around the world to join in the call for her freedom and the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

Follow and share our campaign page at https://freekhitamsaafin.org/

Download resources at: https://bit.ly/KhitamResources

We urge women’s organizations, student organizations and people of conscience everywhere to raise their voices and act in solidarity with Khitam Saafin and her fellow Palestinian prisoners targeted by the Israeli occupation – including by building the movement for the boycott of Israel, its institutions and complicit corporations like HP, Puma, Teva Pharmaceuticals and G4S. The Israeli occupation wants to continue its colonization of Palestine unchecked by isolating and detaining the leaders of the Palestinian people’s movement. Join us to act and urge their immediate release and the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and of Palestine, from the river to the sea!

TAKE ACTION:

1. Post pictures and graphics on your social media accounts urging the release of Khitam Saafin and all Palestinian prisoners. Send your photos to us at Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network on Facebook, @SamidounPP on Twitter, and at samidoun@samidoun.net.

2. Issue a statement from your group, association, women’s organization or union demanding freedom for Khitam Saafin. In 2017, dozens of organizations around the world joined in the call for her release, making her detention – and that of Khalida Jarrar – an international issue. Send your statements to us at samidoun@samidoun.net

3. Organize protests, demonstrations creative actions. Ad hacks, postering and other outdoor actions – especially near an Israeli embassy or consulate – can draw a significant amount of attention to Khitam Saafin and the Palestinian cause at this critical time.

4. Build the boycott of Israel! Join the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel. Highlight the complicity of corporations like Hewlett-Packard and the continuing involvement of G4S in Israeli policing and prisons. Build a campaign to boycott Israeli goods, impose a military embargo on Israel, or organize around the academic and cultural boycott of Israel.

Σαμιντούν: Δεν θα μας φιμώσει ο χαρακτηρισμός μας από το Ισραήλ ως «τρομοκράτες»

Απαντώντας στον Ισραηλινό υπουργό Άμυνας – εγκληματία πολέμου, τον Μπένυ Γκάντς, τον χαρακτηρισμό του “Σαμίδουν” ως «τρομοκρατική οργάνωση», το Δίκτυο Αλληλεγγύης Παλαιστινίων Κρατουμένων “Σαμιδούν”επιβεβαιώνει ότι θα συνεχίσουμε να οργανώνουμε και να κινητοποιούμε διεθνώς για την υπεράσπιση των δικαιωμάτων και της απελευθέρωσης των Παλαιστινίων.  Αυτή είναι η τελευταία εκδήλωση μιας εκστρατείας επιχρίσματος που αποσκοπεί στη σιωπή της διεθνούς υποστήριξης για τον παλαιστινιακό λαό και ιδιαίτερα των σχεδόν 5.000 Παλαιστινίων που φυλακίστηκαν από την ισραηλινή κατοχή.  Πρόκειται για επίθεση στο κίνημα των Παλαιστινίων κρατουμένων καθώς και στο δικαίωμα των Παλαιστινίων στην εξορία και στη διασπορά να οργανώνονται.  Επιβεβαιώνουμε ότι δεν θα σιωπήσουμε ούτε θα αποθαρρυνθούμε από τις εκστρατείες του Ισραήλ.

Οι Ισραηλινοί ισχυρισμοί είναι γεμάτοι με ψευδείς, παραπλανητικούς και απρόσεκτους ισχυρισμούς, ξεκινώντας από την απαρίθμηση μιας λανθασμένης ημερομηνίας για την ίδρυση του Samidoun (σηματοδοτούμε την 10ετή επέτειο μας φέτος, το 2021, όπως μαθαίνεται εύκολα από τον ιστότοπό μας)  Ο Παλαιστίνιος συγγραφέας Khaled Barakat έχει εκφράσει την υποστήριξή του στο έργο του “Σαμιδούν” σε πολλές περιπτώσεις και είμαστε περήφανοι που μοιραζόμαστε τις σκέψεις του.  Ωστόσο, η πλήρης αδιαφορία του Ισραήλ για γεγονότα μπαίνει για άλλη μια φορά εδώ: Ο Khaled Barakat δεν είναι τώρα, ούτε υπήρξε ποτέ, σκηνοθέτης ή «επικεφαλής συντονιστής» του Σαμιδούν .

Είμαστε ένας λαϊκός οργανισμός χωρίς αμειβόμενο προσωπικό πλήρους απασχόλησης και δεν συγκεντρώνει χρήματα για κανέναν οργανισμό εκτός από τη διατήρηση των εκστρατειών υποστήριξής μας.  Έχουμε κεφάλαια στις ΗΠΑ, τον Καναδά, τη Γερμανία, τις Κάτω Χώρες, την Ισπανία, τη Σουηδία, τη Βραζιλία, την Ελλάδα και την κατεχόμενη Παλαιστίνη, καθώς και ένα δίκτυο οργανώσεων μελών, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του Collectif Palestine Vaincra στη Γαλλία.  Αυτή είναι μια κατάφωρη προσπάθεια να διαταράξει και να υπονομεύσει αυτήν την αυξανόμενη κινητοποίηση υποστήριξης προς την Παλαιστίνη σε όλο τον κόσμο.

Διεξάγουμε τη δουλειά μας ανοιχτά, ορατά και δημόσια, όπως είναι ορατό στον ιστότοπό μας, samidoun.net, και είμαστε υπερήφανοι που ζητούμε την ελευθερία των Παλαιστινίων πολιτικών κρατουμένων όπως ο Ahmad Sa’adat, η Khalida Jarrar και χιλιάδες Παλαιστίνιοι διαφορετικών πολιτικών  υπόβαθρα.  Ολόκληρη η ισραηλινή εκστρατεία βασίζεται σε πλήρη παραβίαση των γεγονότων και της πραγματικότητας.

Στην πραγματικότητα, τα περισσότερα από τα αναφερόμενα σημεία φαίνεται να προέρχονται απευθείας από τη δεξιά οργάνωση προπαγάνδας ΜΚΟ Monitor, η οποία στοχεύει να προστατεύσει το Ισραήλ από τη διεθνή υπευθυνότητα για εγκλήματα πολέμου, λεηλατώντας υπερασπιστές των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων στην Παλαιστίνη και σε όλο τον κόσμο.  Και οι πραγματικές ανακρίβειες »είναι ένα μακροχρόνιο χαρακτηριστικό της υπεράσπισης του ισραηλινού απαρτχάιντ, εξωδικαστικών δολοφονιών, δήμευσης γης, αυθαίρετης κράτησης, στρατιωτικής κατοχής, πολιορκίας και αποικιοκρατίας.

Το Samidoun είναι ένας ανεξάρτητος διεθνής, αραβικός και παλαιστινιακός οργανισμός που κινητοποιείται για την απελευθέρωση σχεδόν 5.000 παλαιστινίων πολιτικών κρατουμένων στις ισραηλινές φυλακές.  Υποστηρίζουμε το μποϊκοτάζ του Ισραήλ και υποστηρίζουμε το δικαίωμα των Παλαιστινίων να αντιστέκονται στην κατοχή, το απαρτχάιντ και την καταπίεση, καθώς και το δικαίωμα όλων των Παλαιστινίων προσφύγων να επιστρέψουν στα σπίτια και τα εδάφη τους.  Υποστηρίζουμε μια ελεύθερη Παλαιστίνη, από τον ποταμό μέχρι τη θάλασσα.

Για αυτούς τους λόγους, το Υπουργείο Άμυνας του Ισραήλ, που ασχολείται καθημερινά με εγκλήματα πολέμου και εγκλήματα κατά της ανθρωπότητας εναντίον του Παλαιστινιακού λαού που βρίσκεται υπό κατοχή, επιτίθεται στο έργο του Σαμίδουν.  Πρόκειται για μια περαιτέρω προσπάθεια να χρησιμοποιηθεί η καταστολή και οι απειλές εναντίον του παλαιστινιακού λαού και των διεθνών συμμάχων τους ως δραστηριότητα εκστρατείας για το κόμμα του Benny Gantz στις ισραηλινές εκλογές.  Πρόκειται επίσης για μια προσπάθεια να αποσπάσει την προσοχή από το σοβαρό πρόβλημα που αντιμετωπίζουν εκατοντάδες Σιωνιστές αξιωματούχοι – συμπεριλαμβανομένου του ίδιου του Γκάντς – που φοβούνται τα επόμενα βήματα των ερευνών του Διεθνούς Ποινικού Δικαστηρίου (ΔΠΔ) μετά την τελευταία ανακοίνωσή του στις 5 Φεβρουαρίου 2021 που επιβεβαιώνει ότι  έχει την εξουσία να ερευνά εγκλήματα πολέμου στα κατεχόμενα παλαιστινιακά εδάφη.

Αυτό δεν πρέπει να εκληφθεί ως επίθεση εναντίον του Samidoun μόνο: αντίθετα, έρχεται σε συνδυασμό με μια σειρά εκστρατειών επιχρίσματος που απευθύνονται σε Παλαιστίνιους υπερασπιστές των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων και σε εκείνους που υπερασπίζονται τα Παλαιστινιακά δικαιώματα σε όλο τον κόσμο – και τους Παλαιστίνιους κρατουμένους και  τον ίδιο τον παλαιστινιακό λαό.  Η ίδια ονομασία έχει επιβληθεί σε διάφορους διεθνείς οργανισμούς που ασχολούνται με τη δημόσια υπεράσπιση των παλαιστινιακών δικαιωμάτων και ελευθερίας.  Αυτή η επίθεση είναι μια προσπάθεια απομόνωσης των Παλαιστινίων κρατουμένων, όχι μόνο πίσω από τα κάγκελα, αλλά και από τη διεθνή βάση υποστήριξης και αλληλεγγύης.  Πρόκειται περαιτέρω για μια απόπειρα σιωπής της υποστήριξης για τη νόμιμη αντίσταση του παλαιστινιακού λαού, με στόχο την αντίθεση στους ιμπεριαλιστικούς πολέμους, τη διαδικασία του Όσλο και τον συνεχιζόμενο αποικισμό της Παλαιστίνης.

Είμαστε μεταξύ πολλών ακτιβιστών και οργανώσεων που δέχτηκαν επίθεση από το Ισραήλ – πολλοί από τους οποίους έχουν πληρώσει πολύ υψηλότερο τίμημα, συμπεριλαμβανομένων εκείνων των Παλαιστινίων, των Αράβων και των διεθνιστών που έχουν φυλακιστεί, βασανιστεί και δολοφονηθεί από το Ισραήλ.  Πάντα, ο στόχος είναι ο ίδιος: μια προσπάθεια υπονόμευσης της αυξανόμενης διεθνούς υποστήριξης για τον παλαιστινιακό λαό και τη δίκαιη αιτία τους.

Σχεδόν κάθε οργάνωση, κίνημα, ακόμη και μεμονωμένος ακτιβιστής που υπερασπίζεται την παλαιστινιακή ελευθερία στοχεύεται από την ισραηλινή κατοχή και τους κορυφαίους εγκληματίες πολέμου για παρενόχληση, απειλές και προσπάθειες κινητοποίησης της κρατικής εξουσίας για την καταστολή ενός αντι-αποικιακού, αντιρατσιστικού κινήματος για δικαιοσύνη και απελευθέρωση  .  Είμαστε περήφανοι που στέκουμε με όλους εκείνους που αντιμετωπίζουν τέτοιες εκστρατείες επιχρίσματος και καταπιεστικές επιθέσεις – εντείνοντας το έργο μας και ενώνοντας μαζί για να αντιμετωπίσουμε το ισραηλινό απαρτχάιντ, την κατοχή, τα εγκλήματα πολέμου και τον αποικισμό και οργανώνοντας για την απελευθέρωση της Παλαιστίνης.

Palestinian feminist Khalida Jarrar sentenced to 2 years in prison by illegitimate Israeli military court

In the latest injustice perpetrated in the illegitimate Israeli military courts, Palestinian feminist, leftist, parliamentarian and defender of prisoners’ rights, Khalida Jarrar, was sentenced to two years in Israeli prison on Monday, 1 March 2021. This means she will be released at the end of October 2021, two years after her most recent arrest by over 70 armed Israeli occupation soldiers, who invaded her home on 31 October 2019. This comes only days after Palestinian feminist Khitam Saafin was ordered to four more months in Israeli administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the unjust sentence imposed upon Khalida Jarrar and calls for her immediate release and that of her fellow Palestinian women behind bars.

The internationally known political leader had been charged with “holding a position in a prohibited organization,” the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, before an Israeli military court. Like all major Palestinian political parties, the leftist PFLP is labeled a “prohibited organization” by the Israeli occupation. These charges came after earlier sensationalist, anti-Palestinian media attacks on Jarrar and her comrades.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges women’s organizations, social movements and all people of conscience to highlight the struggles, experiences and resistance of Khalida Jarrar, Khitam Saafin and all Palestinian women – including those held in Israeli prisons – as part of International Working Women’s Day activities on 8 March 2021. This includes working — on International Women’s Day and beyond — to build the boycott of Israel, its academic and cultural institutions and complicit corporations like HP, Puma, Teva Pharmaceuticals and G4S.

The Israeli occupation seeks to expand and consolidate its colonization of Palestine by imprisoning Palestinian people’s leaders like Khalida Jarrar and by its attacks on organizations that defend the Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

Jarrar was arrested only eight months after her release from 20 months in Israeli administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial – after her last arrest by occupation forces in 2017. During her detention from 2017 to 2019, over 275 organizations signed onto an international call for her release. The 2019 attack by Israeli occupation forces also came as she prepared to teach at Bir Zeit University on international law and the Palestinian movement, the forced cancellation of her class accompanying the targeting of students for their own political and student activity on campus.

Jarrar is a longtime advocate for the freedom of Palestinian prisoners and has served as the former Vice-Chair and Executive Director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. She is also a member of the Palestinian committee that acceded to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and presented evidence to the international body about ongoing Israeli crimes.

Her arrest – and a slew of Israeli media propaganda targeting her – escalated just as the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Fatou Bensouda, announced that she recommended the ICC launch a formal investigation of Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine. Today, her sentence comes only weeks after the ICC affirmed its jurisdiction over occupied Palestine over the objections of the Israeli occupation and its global imperialist backers.

Since her most recent detention in 2019, Khalida Jarrar has continued to resist and to speak, breaking the isolation that the Israeli regime attempted to impose upon her. She wrote the Foreword to Ramzy Baroud’s book, “These Chains Will Be Broken,” which tells the stories of Palestinian political prisoners and detainees:

“In actuality, these are not just prison stories. For Palestinians, the prison is a microcosm of the much larger struggle of a people who refuse to be enslaved on their own land, and who are determined to regain their freedom, with the same will and vigor carried by all triumphant, once-colonized nation.”

Jarrar’s daughters, Suha and Yafa, delivered a special message from Jarrar to the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, held in December 2020. Her letter discusses the surveillance regime and denial of access to literature and cultural works perpetrated against Palestinian prisoners as well as their self-organized educational work, creativity and ongoing resistance. She writes:

“From the Israeli Damon prison located at the top of Mount Carmel in Haifa, I extend my greetings to you on behalf of myself and my 40 fellow women Palestinian freedom fighters in Israeli prisons. We extend our salute and due respect is to all writers, scholars, intellectuals and artists who speak the truth and call for the freedom and justice of all people and who defend people’s right to self-determination and oppose the colonial racist domination.

On this occasion, please allow me to also send our greetings and support to all Arab writers, scholars, intellectuals and artists who reject normalization with Israel’s settler colonial system and who have refused to accept the Emirati, Bahraini and Sudanese normalization agreements with the Zionist entity. It is stands such as these that represent the true ties between our people in the Arab world and empower us, prisoners, from within. Although physically we are held captive behind fences and bars, our souls remain free and are soaring in the skies of Palestine and the world. Regardless of the severity of the Israeli occupation’s practices and imposed punitive measures, our free voice will continue to speak out on behalf of our people who have suffered horrendous catastrophes, displacement, occupation and arrests. It will also continue to let the world know of the strong Palestinian Will that will relentlessly reject and challenge colonialism in all its forms. We work to establish and consolidate human values and strive to obtain social and economic liberation that bind the free people of the world together….”

In 2014, she resisted – and defeated – an Israeli attempt to forcibly displace her from her family home in el-Bireh to Jericho. Only nine months later, in April 2015, she was seized by Israeli occupation forces and ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. After a global outcry, she was brought before Israeli military courts and faced 12 charges based on her political activity, from giving speeches to attending events in support of Palestinian prisoners. She served 15 months in Israeli prison – and was then free for only 13 months before her 2017 arrest.

We demand the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar and pledge to organize for the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and of Palestine, from the river to the sea!

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#Justice4ElHalabi Twitter Storm and Social Media Campaign – Join Us Now! Sunday, February 28

#Justice4ElHalabi Twitter Storm and Social Media Campaign
Sunday, February 28
10 am Pacific – 1 pm Eastern – 7 pm central Europe – 8 pm Palestine
Use the hashtag: #Justice4ElHalabi

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Mohammed El-Halabi is the former director of World Vision in Gaza. A Palestinian “humanitarian hero,” Mohammed El-Halabi, 42, was detained by Israel in 2016. In a widely promoted press campaign, El-Halabi was accused by Israeli officials of financing Hamas using funds from the charity. However, audits by World Vision and the Australian government found not only that there was no misuse of funds but that, further, the Israeli charges were fundamentally impossible — World Vision’s budget over multiple years never reached the sums of money cited by Israeli officials.

Join Just Peace Advocates, Canada Palestine Association, Palestine House and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in a social media storm on Sunday, February 28.

On March 3, 2021, Mohammed El-Halabi will face his 156th court hearing. All of his hearings have taken place behind closed doors, and UN experts noted that el-Halabi’s “arrest, interrogation and trial is not worthy of a democratic state.” He refused a plea bargain after being warned by the judge in his case that he will likely be convicted and that, “You’ve read the numbers and the statistics,” the judge told el-Halabi, according to ABC. “You know how these issues are handled.” The plea bargain offer would have seen him imprisoned for three years. He has now been imprisoned without conviction for four and one-half years.

Mohammed El-Halabi is a protected person under international humanitarian law, yet he has been subjected to gross violations of his fundamental rights. Mohammed El-Halabi’s case has been used to intimidate international NGOs away from working in Gaza, further tightening the siege on over 2 million people living under daily Israeli siege, occupation and ongoing bombing raids — most of them refugees denied their right to return to their original homes and lands in Palestine. On February 28, join us to demand #Justice4ElHalabi.

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