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5 January, Vancouver: No war on Iran!

Sunday, 5 January
1:00 pm
U.S. Consulate
1095 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2706523262761894/

On Thursday, January 2, 2020 the US bombed Iraq’s Baghdad international airport, killing an Iranian General and Iraqi military leader, sparking instability in the region and inching the world closer to another disastrous war in the Middle East.

This is another act of imperialism and militarism that threatens the lives of millions of people across Iran, Iraq and beyond. Escalated attacks from the United States military have detrimental impacts for the people of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen who are already struggling under ongoing imperial proxy wars, colonial occupation, unjust sanctions, and border violence.

Join us Sunday, 5 January at 1pm at the U.S. Consulate in Vancouver to say:

No war with Iran!
U.S. out of Iraq!
Resist U.S. imperialism and War!
Long Live International Solidarity!

Organized by: ILPS in Canada, Vancouver Peace Council, Just Peace Committee and local member organizations of the International League of Peoples’ Struggle.

Large march in Athens confronts Netanyahu, demands end to Greece-Israel gas pipeline deal

Photo: Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη

Large crowds marched through the streets of Athens to the Israeli embassy on Thursday, 2 January 2020 to declare that Israeli Prime Minister, war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, was not welcome in Greece and to demand the cancellation of the “EastMed” pipeline deal. This pipeline, which aims to ship natural gas, extracted – and stolen – by the Israeli occupation from the natural resources of the indigenous Palestinian people, to Europe via Greece and Cyprus, chaining the Greek economy to the Israeli state.

Samidoun Network – Greece organized the protest with many other Greek organizations who joined in the demonstration, including the Network of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, EEK, NAR, KKE (M-L), Intifada Front and the Network to Support Palestinian Resistance.

 

The Ghassan Kanafani Front for Palestine launched a protest call that was supported by Open Road, OPAM, LAE and more.

All of these organizations came together to confront Netanyahu and the Greek and Cypriot governments on the creation of a dangerous axis in the region that aims to break the historical solidarity between the Greek and Palestinian people by placing Greece as a partner in the theft of Palestinian resources for the benefit of Israeli and U.S. corporations.

Photo: Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη

“Continuing on the actions of its predecessor, the ND government is tightening even more the military, cultural and political relationship of the Greek state with Israel, playing an allied role in its geopolitical games in the eastern Mediterranean. Greece’s participation in the agreement for the EastMed gas pipeline strengthens the Greece-Cyprus-Israel-Egypt axis, making the Greek state a leader in the oppression, destruction and apartheid Israel is exercising against the Palestinian people,” the Network of Solidarity with the Palestinian People and Samidoun Network – Greece said.

Hundreds marched in an angry demonstration, chanting slogans like “Victory to the Intifada – Liberation for Palestine,” “Netanyahu Kills – Mitsotakis consents,” “No gas deals with Zionism” and more. Participants carried Palestinian flags and banners with the slogans of the demonstration. Outside the Israeli embassy, some demonstrators burned a European Union flag, denouncing the role of the EU in driving Greece into economic crisis and encouraging the construction of the EastMed pipeline.

Photo: Kanafani Front of Resistance and Solidarity for Palestine

From Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine urged the Greek movement to stand up against Netanyahu and block the gas deal. “The intensified political, military and economic ties between the Zionist entity and Greece, strengthened by the Syriza government and now heartily embraced by the right-wing regime, come at the expense of the Palestinian and Arab people whose natural resources are being confiscated, stolen and marketed by the illegal occupation….Netanyahu’s visit is an attack on the Palestinian people and the Greek people, their sovereignty and their wealth and resources. The Zionist project provides no solution to economic crisis – only more misery for Greece, Palestine and the world. Indeed, the occupation, allied with the United States, wants to impose hegemony and domination over the entire region of the Mediterranean, opening its resources to plunder and using it as an advance base for expansionist attacks throughout the region.”

Photo: Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη

“The Palestinian people stand together with the Greek people in confronting fascism, attacks on your sovereignty, economic devastation and austerity. Independent development for Greece is only strengthened by building the boycott of Israel and the corporations and institutions that sustain this illegitimate, apartheid, settler-colonial racist project. Zionism wants to cement itself in the region through these pipelines of theft and destruction. Make it clear that Greece will not become a bloodstained pathway for the transport of stolen Palestinian gas!” the statement urged.

Photo: Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη

Mohammed Khatib, Europe coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, said that ”
We salute the Greek progressive and left movement for their unconditional solidarity with the Palestinian people’s struggle for liberation and return, not only in their vision and politics, but marching in the street while confronting and struggling against the extreme right wing government.”

“Confronting the so-called EastMed gas deal between Israel, Greece and Cyprus – funded by the EU and supported by the US – is confronting the clearest example of Western colonialism in our region. The plunder of our people’s resources is part of the brutal imperialist war against our people. Each drop of gas from Israel means killing Palestinians,” Khatib said.

Photo: Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη

He drew attention to the ongoing campaign to stop another dangerous gas deal in Jordan. “We have to note that Arab reactionary regimes such as Jordan and Egypt are involved in this dirty deal also. They have started pumping Palestinian stolen gas to Jordan while pumping millions of dollars to Israel for these stolen resources, extorted from the Arab popular classes.”

Photo: Εργατική Αλληλεγγύη

Large crowds of thousands in Jordan also joined the demonstration against the gas deal there on Friday, 3 January, demanding that Jordan reject normalization with the Israeli occupation and declaring that the gas deal puts Jordan in a position of support for the occupation army attacking Palestinians on a daily basis. They also demanded the end of the Wadi Araba agreement with the Israeli occupation.

“This deal should be confronted and stopped by all means and it is the responsibility of the social movements and the resistance,” Khatib emphasized.

Jordan protest confronts gas deal, 3 January. Photo: Hadf News

Samidoun: Resist U.S. imperialism: U.S. out of Iraq! No war on Iran!

Source: Hawaii Independent

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses our strongest condemnation of the latest crime by the United States against the people of Iran and Iraq, the assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike near the Baghdad International Airport on 2 January 2020. 

For over three decades, the United States has been engaged in a series of ongoing wars and occupation of Iraq, which has encompassed sanctions, invasion, occupation, bombing, the starvation of civilians, the destruction of infrastructure and the fomenting of civil war. This latest attack – on Iraqi soil, in apparent “revenge” for Iraqis demanding the U.S. occupation out of their country – cannot be separated from the continuing war on and occupation of Iraq.

Of course, this attack is also a massive escalation in the ongoing threats of war on Iran. The assassination of a major military – and political – leader is a blatant act of war and aggression that comes atop the ever escalating use of the economic weapon of sanctions against Iran, a project in which U.S. imperialism is fully allied with Israel in order to target the Iranian people in order to prevent any challenge to the imperialist-Zionist-reactionary hegemony and domination in the region. 

This assassination puts millions of lives at risk throughout the region, primarily the lives of working people and the popular classes in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Palestine. It is a blatant act of imperial aggression with massive implications. We note that the goal of this assassination appparently seeks to threaten the resistance to imperialism more broadly throughout the region and extend the precedent of U.S. impunity for war crimes. 

In particular, we note the particularly dangerous role played by U.S. “anti-terrorism” legislation. Nearly every Palestinian resistance organization is labeled a “foreign terrorist organization” by the United States. This designation is used to imprison charity workers like the Holy Land Five, to divide Palestinian communities in exile from those fighting inside occupied Palestine and struggling in the refugee camps, to threaten activists and organizers around the world with criminalization. In the case of the assassination of Qassem Soleiman and the extraordinary action of the U.S. in declaring a state’s armed forces to be a “foreign terrorist organization,” we recognize that these laws are also a threat of death. 

We know that the real force of terror in the world is that of U.S. imperialism and its partners, the Zionist project and Arab reactionary regimes. In Palestine, 5,000 Palestinian prisoners – and indeed, a whole people – are labeled as “terrorists” by the perpetrators of ethnic cleansing, colonialism, mass arrests, extrajudicial killing, torture, land theft, home demolition, decades of assassinations: That is, they are labeled by the perpetrators of over 100 years of terror. For all of that time, a war has been waged on Palestinian resistance and on the resistance and self-determination of peoples throughout the region. Despite the atrocities and the military might of the perpetrators, that resistance has continued to fight for justice, return and liberation, to make it clear that the Palestinian people, the Arab people, the Iranian people and all peoples in the area hold the promise of a society liberated from oppression.

Imperialist wars anywhere are always wars on the people everywhere.We urgently call on friends and supporters of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian resistance, especially within the United States and its allied imperialist states (Canada, the European Union and others) to take action to build a real anti-war movement to confront the crimes of empire. Now is the time to stand up and say clearly: US out of Iraq! No war on Iran! We stand with the resistance! 

For a first practical step, there will be a series of demonstrations across the U.S. on Saturday, 4 January. Get details and join in the action near you here: answercoalition.org/national_action_us_troops_out_of_iraq

 

4 January, U.S. (See cities): National Day of Action – US Troops Out of Iraq

On Saturday, January 4 the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK and others are calling on people from around the United States to organize local demonstrations to demand: NO MORE U.S. TROOPS TO IRAQ OR THE MIDDLE EAST! U.S. OUT OF IRAQ NOW! and NO WAR/NO SANCTIONS ON IRAN!

SIGN ON AS AN ENDORSER HERE! Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is an endorser of this call.

In response to the massive protests in Iraq following the latest U.S. aerial assault that killed scores of Iraqis, Donald Trump has ordered 750 more U.S. troops to the Middle East and potentially 3,000 more. This is in addition to the 5,200 U.S. troops already stationed in Iraq. Every U.S. president over the last 28 years has ordered the bombing of Iraq. The decision by Donald Trump and the Pentagon to launch new air assaults against Iraqis in the past week ignited nationwide resistance by Iraqis who want to reclaim their full sovereignty and do not want Iraq to be used in a U.S. war on Iran.

More than a million Iraqis have died during the past 28 years as a consequence of U.S. occupation, bombings and sanctions. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have either been killed or suffered life-changing wounds. The U.S. government has spent more than $3 trillion dollars in the on-going occupation and bombing of this oil-rich country. Instead of taking the United States out of this endless war, Trump is building up U.S. forces in the region and threatening a war with Iran.

Initiators for this call include the ANSWER Coalition, CODEPINK, Popular Resistance, World Beyond War and many other anti-war and peace organizations. If you want to add your name as an endorser click here.

Demonstrations will also take place on Saturday, January 4 in the following cities.

Below is an initial list of events to stop the U.S.’ ongoing wars – mostly in the U.S. but a few international events as well (including one in Berlin). Please see the ANSWER website for the most up-to-date list of actions.

We also urge people in Edinburgh, Scotland, to join the comrades of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign for an important Saturday stand to support Palestinian prisoners at 1:00 pm at Waterloo Place! Click here for details. 

To have an event organized in your city listed above click here!

Palestinian student Mays Abu Ghosh speaks out on Israeli abuse and torture under interrogation

Mays Abu Ghosh. Source: Quds News

Palestinian journalism student Mays Abu Ghosh spoke with lawyers from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission, discussing her torture and mistreatment under interrogation for over 30 days. A student at Bir Zeit University from Qalandiya refugee camp, Mays Abu Ghosh, 22, is a writer and student activist who has worked to publicize the struggles of Palestinian political prisoners and Palestinian refugees.

Mays Abu Ghosh seized by Israeli occupation forces

In her statement to the lawyers, Abu Ghosh recalled that she was seized by Israeli occupation forces in a violent raid on 29 August 2019, when the armed soldiers removed the door of her family home and invaded it, ransacking her and her family’s belongings, blindfolding and cuffing her and then taking her to an occupation military camp near Qalandiya checkpoint. While she was held there, the soldiers dragged her violently as she was handcuffed and blindfolded while cursing at her and screaming in her face.

Later, Mays was transferred to the Moskobiyeh interrogation center. She was strip-searched and then transferred to the interrogation cells. She recalled that her interrogations lasted for many hours at a time while she was shackled to a small chair inside a very cold cell. After six days, the “military interrogation” began with her, which included the use of stress positions like the “banana” and “squatting” or the “false chair” for long periods of time, in an attempt to coerce a false confession from her.

Illustration of the “banana” position. Source: Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association

She was slapped, beaten and deprived of sleep. This “military interrogation” continued for three days, during which all of these torture tactics continued. Abu Ghosh said that at one time, she tried to escape from the interrogators and sit in one of the corners of the cell, but the interrogator began slamming her head against the wall, kicking her while yelling obscenities. Next, interrogators deliberately brought her brother and her parents in an attempt to coerce her into confessing by threatening to detain them. Her 17-year-old brother was later ordered to administrative detention, without charge or trial, despite being a minor.

Mays said that the interrogation cells have extremely harsh conditions, lacking the basic elements for human life. The walls are concrete and rough, the mattress is thin, without a cover or a pillow, and the lights are kept on 24/7 even as loud sounds constantly disturb the prisoners. She also noted that the meals provided were very poor and that wastewater would enter her cell and flow onto the mattress.

Images of Shatha Hassan and Mays Abu Ghosh at the march in Ramallah in support of Ahmad Zahran, on hunger strike for 99 days. Photo: Quds News

She said that at one time, a large rat entered her cell, which she believes was intentionally entered by the interrogators in order to further torment her. They repeatedly delayed in responding to the simplest requests, for example to access the bathroom, and was repeatedly provoked and ridiculed. After 30 days of this treatment under interrogation, she was transferred to the Damon prison, where she remains today, with her fellow Palestinian women prisoners. She is charged in the Israeli military courts – which convict over 99% of Palestinian detainees – with involvement in student activities on the Bir Zeit University campus. Her brother’s administrative detention has been renewed again and he continues to be jailed without charge or trial.

Mays’ family earlier spoke about their experience in being brought to see her under interrogation, noting that the signs of torture were visible on her face and body. “Her face was full of bruises and her body is very pale. I could not hug her due to the pain hurting all of her body,” said her mother. Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association convened a press conference on 23 December highlighting the torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, including Abu Ghosh.

Palestinian imprisoned student Mays Abu Ghosh supports freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Mays Abu Ghosh and Samah Jaradat are two of many Palestinian students who are being targeted by the Israeli occupation for arrest and imprisonment for their involvement in student activities on campus. Shatha Hassan, chair of the Bir Zeit University student council board, has been ordered to four months of administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. There are hundreds of Palestinian university students held in Israeli jails, including approximately 80 from Bir Zeit alone.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges the broadest possible action and mobilization to support Mays Abu Ghosh and Palestinian students jailed by the Israeli occupation forces. We urge students around the world to hold events, vigils and informational actions to highlight the struggle of Palestinian students under occupation and all people of conscience to develop the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Freedom for Mays Abu Ghosh and all Palestinian students! 

Arabic source for this article: http://hadfnews.ps/post/63496/

Solidarity strikes expand as Ahmad Zahran approaches 103rd day of hunger strike

Protest to free Ahmad Zahran. Photo: Hadf News

As Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Zahran prepares to enter his 103rd day of hunger strike, a growing number of Palestinian prisoners are on strike in solidarity with him to demand his freedom. Zahran, 42, from the village of Deir Abu Mishaal, is jailed without charge or trial under Israeli administrative detention. He previously conducted a 39-day hunger strike that ended with a promise for his release – but launched his current strike when, instead, his detention was renewed once more on 22 September 2019.

Jamil Saleh Ankoush, 37, also from Deir Abu Mishaal, has been on open hunger strike for eight days to demand Zahran’s freedom. He has been imprisoned since 2003 and was sentenced to 20 years in Israeli prison; he has completed 17 years of his sentence and is engaged to former Palestinian political prisoner Sumoud Karajah. Two more prisoners have also launched open strikes to support Zahran’s freedom, even as dozens are joining one-day rolling solidarity actions.

Mohammed Nidal Abu Ghazi, 19, from Al-Aroub camp has been on hunger strike for three days in the Negev desert prison in support of Zahran; he is serving a four and a half year sentence in Israeli prison and has been detained by the occupation since September 2016. Maher al-Maarin, also from al-Aroub refugee camp, is on his second day of hunger strike with Zahran; he is serving 17 months in Israeli prison and has been jailed since April 2019. Earlier, he joined the collective hunger strike in support of Huzaifa Halabiya against his detention without charge or trial.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s Prison Branch announced the names of the prisoners in Ofer prison who launched a one-day hunger strike on Thursday, 2 January in support of Zahran, following on the initial solidarity strike on 31 December 2019. The names of the solidarity strikers are: Khaled al-Qad, Mohammed Fararjeh, Khaled Taha, Fathi Arar, Ribhi Karajah, Hassan Hashem, Amir Shajboun, Jamal al-Eidah, Raghad Shamroukh, Nizam Mutair, Imad Salah, Anan Sharif, Basil Daamseh, Ahmed Shajboun, Abed Khawaja, Yazan Mohsen, Suleiman al-Deek, Mohammed Ghatasheh, Mohammed al-Khamour and Wadie Jaber.

The PFLP prison branch also announced that 10 more prisoners will join the rolling series of one-day hunger strikes on Sunday, 5 January, in Gilboa prison. In a statement, they warned the Israeli prison administration and intelligence services against any harm to Zahran, noting that they are fully responsible for the consequences of further injury to the striking Palestinian prisoner. “Our steps of solidarity and support are continuous, and may take various forms in the coming days and weeks,” the statement emphasized.

Zahran is facing severe health deterioration in the Ramleh prison clinic. Occupation forces are attempting to break his strike through delaying his appeal in the military courts and transferring him back to interrogation despite his weakness and fatigue after over three months without food. He has lost 35 kilograms (77 pounds) of weight and has a slow heartbeat, pain throughout his body and acute vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

Administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable and can be issued for up to six months at a time. Palestinians have spent years in Israeli prison under these orders. Currently, around 450 of over 5,000 Palestinian political prisoners are detained under administrative detention orders, initially introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate and then adopted by the Zionist state.

Israel’s practice of administrative detention, which is used systematically to imprison Palestinians without charge or trial, comes in violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and is also a form of psychological torture for the detainees and their families: They never know when and how they may be released, if ever.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network reiterates our full and unconditional solidarity with Ahmad Zahran and all Palestinian prisoners struggling for freedom. We urge all supporters of justice around the world to take a stand with Ahmad Zahran, whose life is on the line as he struggles to bring an end to administrative detention. International solidarity can be important to show Palestinian prisoners like Ahmad Zahran that they are not forgotten and to put pressure on the Israeli state – and the governments that support it – to support Zahran in achieving victory for justice and freedom.

Join the call to action: https://samidoun.net/2019/12/ahmad-zahran-heads-toward-100-days-of-hunger-strike-demand-his-freedom/

Israel jails Palestinian intellectual Ahmed Qatamesh without charge or trial

Dr. Ahmed Qatamesh. Source: Hadf News

Palestinian leftist intellectual Ahmed Qatamesh was ordered jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention by Israeli occupation forces on 1 January 2020, only days after the 68-year-old writer and thinker was seized from his home in al-Bireh by armed occupation soldiers. He has spent over 13 years in Israeli jails, mostly under administrative detention.

Qatamesh has been jailed repeatedly by Israeli occupation forces, including in 1969 and in 1972, when he was jailed for four years. He was arrested again in 1992 after 17 years successfully remaining underground from the occupation forces. Upon his arrest, he was subjected to severe torture and jailed for over a year; despite an order for his release, he was sent to administrative detention in October 1993. The administrative detention orders were renewed against him with no charge or trial for a full five and a half years before his release in 1998; he remains one of the longest-held Palestinian administrative detainees.

He was seized again in 2011 and had his administrative detention again extended seven times until his 2013 release. Amnesty International declared Qatamesh to be a prisoner of conscience jailed for his political writings, noting that it “believes he is being held to suppress his views and to deter political activities by other Palestinian left-wing activists.” In 2017, he was once again jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention for three months.

He has written more than 10 books, including his approach to the the one democratic state in Palestine, translated in English in 2007. His book, “I Shall Not Wear Your Tarboush,” recalls his time in prison as well as the 100 days of torture he underwent during interrogation in 1992. He recently began distributing a new book, “Current Intellectual Approaches,” prior to his arrest on 24 December.

Qatamesh joins approximately 450 Palestinians held in administrative detention, of around 5,000 total Palestinian political prisoners held in Israeli jails. These detention orders, introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate and then adopted by the Zionist project, are issued for up to six months at a time but are indefinitely renewable on the basis of “secret evidence.” Qatamesh’s years of imprisonment without charge or trial reflect the fundamental injustice of administrative detention. Fellow Palestinian prisoner and administrative detainee Ahmad Zahran is currently on his 103rd day of hunger strike against his imprisonment without charge or trial, demanding an end to the practice.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the administrative detention of Dr. Ahmed Qatamesh and demands his immediate release. The targeting of this Palestinian writer and historic figure of the Palestinian liberation movement is part and parcel of the ongoing Israeli assault on Palestinian culture and resistance that predates the Nakba. Palestinian writers from Mahmoud Darwish to Samih al-Qasem to today’s young poets like Dareen Tatour have been targeted alongside countless Palestinian intellectuals and academics for imprisonment. It also comes as part of a comprehensive assault on the Palestinian left and progressive forces struggling for the liberation of Palestine. We urge international support and solidarity to free Dr. Ahmed Qatamesh, put an end to the policy of administrative detention and free all Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

Palestinian organizer Hassan Karajah jailed without charge or trial after Israeli prison sentence ends

Palestinian youth activist and organizer and human rights defender Hassan Karajah has been ordered to administrative detention – Israeli imprisonment without charge or trial – rather than being released at the end of his 16-month sentence. Karajah, 39, from the village of Saffa near Ramallah, has been imprisoned by the Israeli occupation forces since 11 September 2018.

After his arrest, he was denied access to a lawyer and held under harsh interrogation for nearly a month. At one point during his interrogation, on 9 October 2018, he was forced by armed Israeli soldiers to return to his family home as they came from the Moskobiyeh interrogation center and ransacked the property. He has repeatedly been jailed on charges related to his political and social activities and jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention.

Hassan Karajah with his daughters, Sarai and Kinza.

He was jailed for 23 months after being arrested in 2013 on charges related to his political and social activity. After his release, he was re-arrested once again in July 2016 and ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. His detention was repeatedly extended for 16 months until he was released in November 2017.

Hassan Karajah is the father of twin daughters, Sarai and Kinza, born during his previous administrative detention. He was only allowed to see his daughters for the first time six months after their birth. His wife, Thameena Husary, said that shortly before her husband was scheduled to be released, he was instead ordered by the Ofer military court to administrative detention for four months, on the basis of so-called secret evidence.

Hassan Karaja, Thameena Husary and their daughters

Karajah is well-known internationally. An activist with the Stop the Wall Campaign, he was a member of the Arab Youth Forum and traveled to speak about the Palestinian cause, the struggle of Palestinian prisoners and the urgent need to defend Palestinian land from settlements and the apartheid wall. Indeed, he was targeted for traveling abroad, accused of “contact with an enemy state” during his 2013 arrest, a charge frequently used to target Palestinians who travel to Lebanon for Arab and international conferences and events.

Karajah is a trainer at the Handala cultural center in Saffa and director of its annual arts and cultural festival in the village. He is well known for his work in a number of civil society organizations, including the Stop the Wall Campaign and the Partnership for Development Project, and his advocacy for boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.

Hassan Karajah’s mother protests for his freedom

He is also involved in a grassroots project called Tijwal Safar, which organizes political tours in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and occupied Palestine ’48 of Palestinian villages, especially those threatened by Israeli land grabs, settlements and racist policies; operating under the slogan, “If you walk the land, you own it,” it has brought hundreds of Palestinians to targeted villages and farmland.

There are currently approximately 450 Palestinians held in administrative detention, of around 5,000 total Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. These detention orders, introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate and then adopted by the Zionist project, are issued for up to six months at a time but are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians spend years at a time jailed under administrative detention. Fellow Palestinian prisoner and administrative detainee Ahmad Zahran is currently on his 103rd day of hunger strike against his imprisonment without charge or trial, demanding an end to the practice.

The use of administrative detention against prisoners whose sentences have been completed has escalated in recent years and has sparked several hunger strikes, including those of Bilal Kayed and Jafar Ezzedine. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine to join the campaign to end administrative detention and build the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel for its violations of Palestinian rights, including the ongoing practice of administrative detention.

4 January, Edinburgh: Saturday Stand in Solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners

Saturday, 4 January
1:00 pm
Waterloo Place
Edinburgh, Scotland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/478986972799576/

Join with SPSC Edinburgh this Saturday to support the Palestinian hunger strikers.

Meet at 1.00pm for our monthly stall next to the Wellington statue in Waterloo Place at the east end of Princes St.

Palestinian detainee Ahmad Zahran has endured over 100 days of hunger strike, demanding freedom from his Israeli imprisonment, conducted without charge or trial,

Since launching his strike he has suffered from a serious deterioration in his health and has suffered from mistreatment by his Israeli jailers.

Read more here : https://samidoun.net/2019/12/palestinian-prisoners-leader-isolated-struggle-grows-as-zahran-reaches-99-days-of-hunger-strike/

Join in our call for ‘Dignity and Freedom’ for Palestinian prisoners in the face of injustice.

6-10 January, France: “Behind the Fronts” screenings and discussion with director and Dr. Samah Jabr

Schedule and details at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/525341364726458/

Monday, 6 January
11:00 am
Secours populaire
Marseille, France

Tuesday, 7 January
8:15 pm
Cinema Utopia-Avignon
Avignon, France

Wednesday, 8 January
8:00 pm
Cinema les 3 Casinos
Gardanne, France

Thursday, 9 January
8:00 pm
Cinema Le Renoir
Martigues, France

Friday, 10 January
8:30 pm
Cinema Les 3 Luxembourg
Paris, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/591972398247995/

Screening of the film, “Behind the Fronts” and a discussion with director Alexandra Dols and Dr. Samah Jabr, Palestinian psychiatrist and writer. Events in Marseille, Avignon, Gardanne, Martigues, Paris

Behind the fronts, we propose a journey through our minds and on the roads of Palestine, in the company of the Palestinia psychotherapist and writer, Dr. Samah Jabr. In the path of Dr. Frantz Fanon, anti-colonial psychiatrist, she speaks to the strategies and psychological consequences of the occupation and the tools of the Palestinians to deal with it. The film features multiple voices, extracts from chronicles, interviews and poetic escapades with the invisible Palestinian streets and landscape. On this fragmented land of Palestine, women and men of many identities (social, geographic, political, cultural, sexual orientation and faith) share their resistance and resilience. Everyday colonization is not only that of land, housing and water, it does not simply seek to impose itself by force, but also operates on the mind, behind the fronts!

Vous nous le demandiez et bien voici :

REPRISE EXCEPTIONNELLE
de Derrière les fronts, le film

Projection-débat du film avec la présence exceptionnelle de la psychiatre et écrivaine Dr. Samah Jabr – د. سماح جبر qui nous arrivera de Jérusalem et celle de la réalisatrice Alexandra Dols.

du 6 au 10 janvier 2020

Marseille, Avignon, Gardanne, Martigues, Paris.

SYNOPSIS
« Derrière les fronts, propose un cheminement dans nos esprits et sur les routes de Palestine, en compagnie de la psychiatre psychothérapeute et écrivaine palestinienne Dr. Samah Jabr. Dans l’héritage du Dr. Frantz Fanon, psychiatre anticolonialiste, elle témoigne des stratégies et conséquences psychologiques de l’occupation et des outils des palestinien-nes pour y faire face. Dans ce film aux multiples voix, des extraits de chroniques, d’interviews et d’échappées poétiques dansent aux corps-à-corps avec l’invisible des rues et paysages palestiniens. De cette Palestine fragmentée, des femmes et des hommes aux identités plurielles (sociales, géographiques, de culture politiques, d’orientation sexuelles, ou encore de confessions) partagent leurs résistances et résiliences. Parce que la colonisation au quotidien n’est pas seulement celle des terres, du ciel des logements et de l’eau, elle ne cherche pas simplement à s’imposer par les armes, mais travaille aussi les esprits, derrière les fronts ! »

lundi 6 – Marseille : 11h rencontre au Secours populaire

mardi 7 – Avignon : 20h15 Cinema UTOPIA Avignon
en collaboration avec Présences palestiniennes discussion co-animée par l’association SERPSY (Soins Études et Recherche en PSYchiatrie).

mercredi 8- Gardanne : 20h @Cinéma les 3 casinos

jeudi 9 – Martigues : 20h @Cinéma le Renoir
en collaboration avec le collectif @Palestine de Martigues

vendredi 10 – Paris : 20h30 Cinéma Les 3 Luxembourg
Table de presse de Éditions Pmn
Infos et billetterie: https://www.facebook.com/events/591972398247995/

« Dr Samah Jabr est une femme sage et réfléchie. Elle pense les effets subtils et dévastateurs de plusieurs années d’occupation brutale sur le peuple palestinien. Le film d’Alexandra Dols partage ses visions avec nous, d’une manière généreuse, humaine et profondément dérangeante.
PLEASE SEE THIS FILM. »
Ken Loach

On vous attend nombreux.ses !

Communiqué de presse ci-joint.

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