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28 November, Toulouse: Mayor Moudenc, we do not endorse Israeli Apartheid!

Wednesday, 28 November
5:30 pm
Place du Capitole
Toulouse, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2192617737664021/

Moudenc, do not support Israeli apartheid! Build the boycott!

On Wednesday, 28 November at 6:00 pm, the Mayor of Toulouse invites his friends in City Hall to celebrate the conclusion of the France-Israel Season. We will be there to tell him that he could have avoided this closing ceremony (at the expense of the taxpayers) if he had the dignity to never start these scandalous festivities.

Let us recall. The blood of the Palestinians was not yet dry as the France-Israel Season was inaugurated in Paris in early June, three weeks after the bloody suppression of the Great Return March in Gaa. This whitewashing operation of the Israeli state is indecent and outrageous.

The Toulouse City Council encouraged the Garonne Theater and the Cinematheque to join them in celebrating the “France-Israel Season.” It thus participated in this attempt to burnish the image of the Israeli apartheid state as it has been tarnished by its harsh daily repression against the Palestinians and its status as a “security start-up nation.”

Mayor Moudenc thus once again gives his unconditional support to:
* a state that has dispossessed the Palestinian people of their land for 70 years and continues relentlessly its occupation, colonization and siege of Gaza,
* a state that reaffirmed its apartheid status in July by passing the “Nation-State Law,” claiming to represent all Jews in the world by excluding Palestinians, stripping their language of its official character. This made even the conductor Daniel Barenboim declare that he was “ashamed of being Israeli!”

Mayor Moudenc and the Directors of the Garonne Theater and the Cinematheque: How can you act as if nothing had happened? As if more than 200 young people had not been murdered with premeditation? As if thousands of protesters demanding only respect for their fundamental rights have not been permanently disabled? As if the Gaza ghetto did not run the risk of being liquidated, with the active or passive complicity of the international community?

For our part, we will continue to stand with the Palestinian people, who need our solidarity more than ever.

M. MOUDENC, ON NE CAUTIONNE PAS L’APARTHEID ISRAELIEN ! ON LE BOYCOTTE !

Mercredi 28 novembre à 18h le Maire de Toulouse invite ses amis en Mairie (dans la salle des Illustres) pour clôturer la Saison France Israël. Nous serons là pour lui dire qu’il aurait pu éviter cette cérémonie de clôture (aux frais des contribuables) s’il avait eu la dignité de ne jamais entamer ces scandaleuses festivités.

Revenons en arrière. Le sang des Palestiniens n’était pas encore sec, que la saison France Israël était inaugurée à Paris début juin soit trois semaines après la répression sanglante de la « Grande Marche du Retour » à Gaza. Cette opération de blanchiment de l’État d’Israël est indécente et scandaleuse.

La Mairie de Toulouse a encouragé en particulier le Théâtre Garonne, la Cinémathèque à s’inscrire à ses côtés dans la « saison France Israël ». Elle a participé ainsi à la tentative de redorer le blason de l’État d’apartheid israélien, passablement terni par sa politique chaque jour plus dure à l’encontre des Palestiniens et son statut de start-up nation du sécuritaire.

M. Moudenc apporte ainsi une nouvelle fois son soutien inconditionnel à :
un Etat qui dépossède le peuple palestinien de sa terre depuis 70 ans, poursuit sans freins l’occupation, la colonisation, le blocus de Gaza,
un Etat qui a officialisé en juillet son statut d’État d’apartheid, par la loi « Israël-Etat nation du peuple juif » qui recrute tous les juifs du monde en excluant les Palestiniens d’Israël, dont la langue est déchue de son caractère officiel. Ce qui a fait déclarer au chef d’orchestre Daniel Barenboim qu’il avait « honte d’être israélien » !

M. Moudenc, MM. Les Directeurs du Théâtre Garonne, de la Cinémathèque, comment avez-vous pu faire comme si de rien n’était ? Comme si plus de 200 jeunes n’avaient pas été assassinés de manière préméditée ? Comme si des milliers de manifestant.e.s demandant seulement le respect de leurs droits fondamentaux n’avaient pas été estropiés à vie? Comme si le ghetto de Gaza ne courait pas le risque d’être purement et simplement liquidé, avec la complicité, active ou passive, de la communauté internationale ?

Comment avez-vous pu vous engager dans ce parrainage déshonorant !
Pour notre part, nous continuerons à être aux côtés du peuple Palestinien qui a plus que jamais besoin de notre solidarité.

26 November, Brussels: Yallah! Yallah! Film Screening

Monday, 26 November
7:30 pm
Les amis du Steki
Rue Defnet 4 & 6
Brussels, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/203550033901916/

Synopsis: Slices of life of 7 people linked to football in Palestine, whose daily lives are constantly affected by the Israeli military occupation. 7 people who still try to overcome their conditions with dignity, facing all obstacles in their path, in order to make the most of their greatest passion: Football.

This documentary and its co-director Fernando Romanazzo will be touring Europe from 26 November 2018 to 31 January 2019. For any information or a screening request, contact the Yallah Yallah Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/YallahYallahDoc/?ref=br_rs

Synopsis: Tranches de vie de 7 personnes liées au football et dont le quotidien est constamment affecté par l’occupation militaire israélienne. 7 personnes qui tentent malgré tout de dépasser leur condition et surmonter avec dignité tous les obstacles sur leur chemin, et cela afin de profiter au maximum de la plus grande de leurs passions: le Football.

Le documentaire et son coréalisateur Fernando Romanazzo seront en tournée en Europe du 26 Novembre 2018 au 31 Janvier 2019. Pour toute info ou demande de projection contactez l’équipe du film via la page Facebook de Yallah Yallah!

Sinopsis: El día a día de siete personas ligadas al fútbol se ven constantemente afectadas por el sometimiento que vive Palestina por parte de Israel. Sin embargo, cada una de estas personas se las arregla para poder vivir y sobrellevar todo tipo de problemas de la manera más digna posible, y así, seguir disfrutando de una de sus pasiones más grandes: el fútbol.

Synopsis: The daily lives of seven people connected to football are constantly affected by Israel’s subjugation of Palestine. However, these individuals manage to survive and endure all sorts of problems with dignity in order to enjoy one of their biggest passions: football.

FESTIVALS

2018 Special Selection FCF – Football Fans Film Festival – Third Time (Bogotá – Colombia)

2018 Official Selection AFF – The Arab Film Festival (Tübingen – Germany)

2018 Official Selection FdlCSMdLA – 5° International Film Festival with Teen Jury (San Martín de los Andes – Argentina)

2018 Official Selection MMCA – 13° Arabic World Film Festival (São Paulo-Brazil)

2018 Official Selection SEFF – Cinema and Sports Focus (Santiago del Estero Film Festival – Argentina)

2018 Official Selection EDOC – Section Doors Inside (Encuentros de Otros Cines – Ecuador)

2018 Official Competition Selection FEMUCIQ – Documentary Feature Film (Quito Independent World Film Festival)

2017 Official Competition Selection DAYS OF CINEMA – Sunbird Award (Palestine)

2017 Official Competition Selection BAFICI – Human Rights category (Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival – Argentina)

AWARDS

2014 Award LatinArab – Win Best Work in Progress (International Cinema Latino Árabe Festival – Argentina)

6 December, Ghent: Cafe Palestine – Free Mustapha

Thursday, 6 December
6:00 pm
Cafe Molotov
Voetweg 48
Ghent, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/413438769192134/

The political and social sciences group of Comac-Ghent organizes Cafe Palestine to show solidarity with the Palestinian people. Proceeds of the evening will benefit the Free Mustapha Awad campaign.

Speakers (8:00 pm)
Ludo de Brabander (Vrede vzw)
Matilde de Cooman (Comac-Ghent)

Food and Henna
Delicious and fresh falafel by Hashtag Falafel
Henna Treasure offers beautiful henna tattoos

Book stands
Book stands offer a wide selection of books on the Middle East and Palestine as well as Palestinian flags and keffiyehs.

Proceeds
The proceeds will benefit the Free Mustapha Awad collective. Mustapha is a Belgian artist unjustly imprisoned by Israel now. His legal fees are over 15000 EUR, and our proceeds will go to reduce this burden for his friends and family.

De basisgroep politieke en sociale wetenschappen van Comac-Gentorganiseert een Café Palestina. Op deze manier willen we het semester gezellig afsluiten, onze solidariteit tonen met het Palestijnse volk en enkele kenners van de solidariteitsbeweging aan het woord laten. #FreePalestine ️

De opbrengsten van de avond gaan naarAwad الحرية لمصطفى Free Mustapha عوض

➡️SPREKERS (20u)
Ludo De Brabander (Vrede vzw)
Matilde De Cooman(Comac-Gent)

➡️ETEN & HENNA
Er wordt overheerlijke en verse falafel gebakken door Hashtag Falafel
Henna Treasure voorziet de mogelijk om prachtige Henna tattoos te plaatsen.

➡️BOEKENSTAND (doorlopend)
Er wordt een boekenstand voorzien met een uitgebreide selectie van boeken over het Midden-Oosten en Palestina. Er zal ook de mogelijkheid zijn om Palestijnse vlaggen te kopen en Palestijnse sjaals(keffiyeh of Arafat sjaals genoemd).

➡️OPBRENGSTEN
De opbrengsten gaan naar ‎Free Mustapha Awad collectief. Mustapha is een Belgische artiest die op dit moment onterecht gevangen wordt gehouden door Israel. Er werd voor het hem een advocaat ingehuurd die meer dan 15000euro kost, hopelijk kan onze opbrengst deze last verkleinen voor zijn vrienden en famillie. #FreeMustapha

1 December, Brussels: Great march against oppression and state racism

Saturday, 1 December
2:00 pm
Trone
Brussels, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2246017385676013/

Large national demonstration against Hogra (oppression) and state racism

On 1 December, we will reappear and march to demand equality and dignity for all!

On 1 December, we hope we will be many to join this historic march for justice and dignity. A great mobilization to say no to state racism is the only way to create a real balance of political power, able to change course from our unjust societies.

Gather at 2:00 pm in front of the statue of the genocidal King Leopold II at Trone Square, Brussels.

Collectif Rosa Parks Belgique

Grande manifestation nationale contre la Hogra et le Racisme d’État.

Le 1er décembre, nous réapparaitrons et marcherons pour exiger Égalité et Dignité pour toutes et tous !

Le 1er décembre, nous allons, et nous espérons que vous en serez aussi nombreuses et nombreux, à participer à cette Marche historique pour la Justice et la Dignité. Une grande mobilisation pour dire stop au Racisme d’État est le seul moyen de créer un vrai rapport de force Politique, seul capable de faire changer de cap à nos iniques socialisations et donc à notre inique civilisation.

Rendez-vous à 14h00 devant la statue du Roi génocidaire Léopold II à la place du Trône, à #Bruxelles.

#AvecNousOuRien

Collectif Rosa Parks Belgique

30 November, Vancouver: Resistance is Not Terrorism

Friday, 30 November
7:00 pm
Centre for Socialist Education
706 Clark Drive
Vancouver, BC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/253187008641724/

Around the world people are resisting and rebelling against an increasingly corrupt, violent and barbaric imperialist system. With the positive arguments in favour of the system largely discredited, the propagandists of imperialism have turned to labeling peoples legitimate struggles for justice and liberation as ‘terrorist’. And repressive states from Canada to Israel to the Philippines have passed legislation to criminalize people’s movements, mass struggles and solidarity efforts. Terrorist tagging and criminalization are then used to justify state sponsored extrajudicial killings, arrests, incarceration and other forms of repression.

Join International League of Peoples Struggle for a discussion of resistance and repression in the Philippines, India, Palestine, Latin America and on Turtle Island.

30 November, NYC: Launch Party for 2019 Certain Days calendar

Friday, 30 November
7:30 pm
Interference Archive
314 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/181930972745311/

Join us for the Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar launch party! The calendar is in its 18th year and is a joint fundraising and educational project between outside organizers in Montreal, Hamilton, New York and Baltimore, in partnership with a political prisoner being held in maximum-security prison in New York State, David Gilbert.

This year’s theme is “Health/Care,” and features art and writings by David Gilbert, Bec YoungRadical IndumentariaAviva Stahl, Debbie, Mike and Chuck Africa, Roger PeetAddameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights AssociationLeah Jo CarnineSuzy Subways, Farha Najah, Ashanti Alston OmowaliAlec Ixnay Dunn, Barbara Zeller, Hikaru Ikeda, Giselle Dias, Micah BazantJustice for Alisha WalkerFernando Martí, Sins Invalid, Tom Manning, Dave George, Laura Whitehorn, Frizz KidAbolitionist Law Center,Cindy Milstein and more.

Local contributors to this calendar Aviva Stahl, Barbara Zeller and Suzy Subways will be speaking about their articles printed in this year’s calendar. We will also have copies of the calendar for sale and holiday cards for political prisoners for you to sign.

This event will take place on the 19th anniversary of the Seattle protests that successfully shut down the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in 1999. We will have some audio and images playing from that historic moment.

This event is co-sponsored by NYC Jericho, ProLibertad FreedomCampaignNYC Anarchist Black CrossNYC Free Peltier & Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

More info via certaindays.org
Order the calendar via https://burningbooks.com/products/certain-days-2019-calendar-awakening-resistance

29 November, Dijon: Samouni Road – film screening and discussion with Hisham Abu Shahla

Thursday, 29 November
7:30 pm
Devosge Cinema
4-6 rue Devosge
Dijon, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/197154984519619/

As part of the festival, “Les Nuits d’Orient”

Samouni Road, a fim by Stefano Savona
(Prize for best documentary at the Cannes Film Festival 2018)
France, Italy – 2018 – duration 2h08

Discussion following the screening led by Hisham Abu Shahla, PhD student in political science who is conducting research on Palestine and was part of the film’s team.

In the rural outskirts of Gaza, the Samouni family is about to celebrate a wedding. This is the first party since the last war. Amal, Fouad, their brothers and their cousins have lost their parents, their homes and their olive trees. The neighborhood where they live is under reconstruction. They replant trees and plow fields, but a more difficult task still lies with these young survivors: rebuilding their own memoy. Through their memories, Samouni Road paints a portrait of this family before, during and after the event that changed their lives forever.

Evening organized by the French Jewish Union for Peace UJFP and France-Palestine Solidarity Association AFPS.

Dans le cadre du festival “Les Nuits d’Orient”

Samouni Road, un film de Stefano Savona
(Prix du Meilleur documentaire au Festival de Cannes 2018)
France, Italie – 2018 – durée 2h08 – VOSTFR

?? Débat, à l’issue de la projection, animé par Hisham Abu Shahla, doctorant en science politique qui effectue ses recherches sur la question palestinienne et a fait partie de l’équipe de travail du film.

Dans la périphérie rurale de la ville de #Gaza, la famille Samouni s’apprête à célébrer un mariage. C’est la première fête depuis la dernière guerre. Amal, Fouad, leurs frères et leurs cousins ont perdu leurs parents, leurs maisons et leurs oliviers. Le quartier où ils habitent est en reconstruction. Ils replantent des arbres et labourent les champs, mais une tâche plus difficile encore incombe à ces jeunes survivants : reconstruire leur propre mémoire. Au fil de leurs souvenirs, Samouni Road dresse un portrait de cette famille avant, pendant et après l’événement qui a changé leur vie à jamais.

Soirée organisée par l’Union Juive Française pour la Paix UJFP et l’AFPS – Association France Palestine Solidarité

25 November, Zurich: Cafe Palestine – Razan al-Najjar

Sunday, 25 November
5:00 pm
Hohlstrasse 67
Zurich, Switzerland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1220392108112359/

With book table and products from Palestine

Palestinian food from 5 pm, Film and discussion 6 pm

Our guests are: Sabreen and Ashraf al-Najjar and director Iyad Alasttal

Cafe Palestine is dedicated to Razan al-Najjar. The 21-year-old volunteer paramedic was shot dead in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on 1 June 2018 by an Israeli army sniper. Razan wore the white coat of the health service, and should have been protected under international law.

Razan was shot deliberately because she was part of the Great Return March, which has been taking place every Friday since 30 March for Palestinians’ right to return to their homes. Photos show her as a young woman who tried to save lives despite the danger, whose colorful headscarf stood out in the march.

We will screen the documentary, “Razan, Trace of a Butterfly,” by Iyad Alasttal (30 min, Arabic/English subtitles). The film follows Razan’s mother and family in their home. We meet the neighbors, get to know the life of this young woman and see these peaceful marches.

Mother Sabreen and father Ashraf al-Najjar will tell us about their daughter, the situation in Gaza and the marches.

Mit Büchertisch und Produkten aus Palästina

Palästinensisches Essen ab 17 Uhr / Film, Gespräch und Diskussion 18 Uhr

Unsere Gäste sind :

Sabreen und Ashraf al-Najjar
sowie der Regisseur Iyad Alasttal

Das Café Palestine ist RAZAN AL-NAJJAR gewidmet. Die 21-jährige freiwillige Sanitäterin, wurde am 1. Juni 2018 bei Khan Younis im Gaza-Streifen von einem Scharfschützen der israelischen Armee erschossen. Razan trug die weisse Weste des Gesundheitsdienstes, wäre damit durch internationales Recht geschützt.

Razan wurde gezielt erschossen, denn sie war ein Idol des „Marsches der Rückkehr“, der seit dem 30. März jeden Freitag stattfindet, um an das Recht der Palästinenser zur Rückkehr an ihre Wohnorte zu erinnern. Bilder zeigen sie als junge muslimische Frau, als unerschrockene Samariterin, die – ungeachtet der Gefahr, in die sich dabei bringt – versuchte, Leben zu retten. Ihr Kennzeichen waren die farbigen Kopftücher.

Wir zeigen den Dokumentarfilm „Razan, a Track of a Butterfly” von Iyad Alasttal (30 min, arabisch, englisch untertitelt). Wir folgen darin der Mutter von Razan und ihrer Familie in ihrem Haus, im Quartier. Wir begegnen den Nachbarn, lernen das Leben der jungen Frau kennen und sehen Bilder von diesen friedlichen Märschen.

Mutter Sabreen und Vater Ashraf Al-Najjar werden uns über ihre Tochter erzählen, über die Situation in Gaza und von den Märschen. Zum Leid, das sie durch den Tod ihrer Tochter erlitten haben, kommen die Verleumdungen durch Israel.

‘As long as there’s occupation, there’ll be resistance’

The following article by Jehan Alfarra and Shatha Khalil is reprinted from Middle East Monitor.

Former Palestinian prisoner Taysir Suleiman has lived in Turkey since his 2011 release from Israeli detention as part of the prisoner swap deal negotiated by Hamas and occupation forces.

As a Jerusalemite, Suleiman’s release was conditional on his being sent into exile. He has been living in Istanbul since.

In Jerusalem, Suleiman tells MEMO at the Palestine Media Forum in the Turkish city, “there was a large number of Israeli occupation controls and we lived under their grip”.

After a couple of years of carrying out resistance operations which saw them take control of a number of weapons from Israeli forces, Suleiman was arrested and handed a life term.

Over a period of 18 and a half years, he was transferred between 24 prisoners across Israel and the occupied territories. He says during this time occupation forces worked to break the prisoners’ morale. “Life in prison is built on morale. In prison, the occupation works to break your morale which led you to resist it. It doesn’t want you to be a revolutionary or to rebel against the occupation’s actions.” But the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement operates in every prison, he explains, and its purpose is to “raise people’s morale so when prisoners are released they become like we are now, fighting by every means available to us in the countries that we are in to regain our rights as Palestinians and to continue our armed struggle in our Palestinian lands because if we are not strong on the ground we will not be able to free it.”

Since his release, Suleiman has been working to keep the stories of the resistance in the media. “The resistance needs a media arm to defend it,” he says.

“As long as there’s an occupation then there must be resistance,” Suleiman adds.

“If there are those in the world who wish to free the Palestinian people without spilling a drop of blood then we are with them, but we hope that a cascade of Palestinian blood will not continue while such efforts are being exerted,” he says of the criticism levelled at Palestinian fighters who are battling Israel’s army. “We in Palestine have been forced to use weapons because the occupation is killing us with its weapons.”

27 November, Providence: The Palestinian Prisoners’ Struggle with Joe Catron

Tuesday, 27 November
5:30 pm
Smith-Buonanno Hall 106
Brown University
Providence, RI
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/668437233559633/

Palestinian prisoners play a very important role in the Palestinian struggle for liberation ever since Israel has criminalized all forms of Palestinian existence and resistance. Arbitrary arrests and the imprisonment of Palestinians who peacefully demonstrate against the Israeli occupation happen on a daily-basis and, today, there are around 6,500 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, out of which approximately 250 are children.

Joe Catron is a journalist who has lived in Gaza for over three years, where he worked directly with prisoners’ families and former prisoners. He is now the U.S. coordinator of Samidoun, the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. Come hear from him more about the Palestinian Prisoners’ Struggle!