Wednesday, 14 November 7:30 pm Placa Sant Jaume Barcelona
Boycott Israel! Stop Apartheid against the Palestinian People!
Israel, which has maintained a blockade of Gaza since 2006, has been bombing, asassinating Palestinians and destroying buildings for days, including homes and universities.
We call for isolation and boycott of the Israeli apartheid regime until it respects the rights of the Palestinian people. It is necessary to stop the sale of weapons to Israel and apply a military embargo. We must end complicity with colonization, occupation and Israeli apartheid.
Join us at Placa Sant Jaume, Barcelona at 7:30 pm to demand an end to the bombing of Gaza!
Long live free Palestine!
Israel, que manté un bloqueig a Gaza desde l’any 2006, porta dies bombardejant; assassinant palestines i destruïnt edificis, entre ells cases i Universitats.
Demanem que s’aïlli i es boicotegi el règim d’apartheid israelià fins que es respectin els drets del poble palestí. Cal que s’aturi la venta i compra d’armes a Israel i s’apliqui un embargament militar. Cal acabar la complicitat amb la colonització, l’ocupació i l’apartheid israelià.
Demà us esperem a totes a Plaça Sant Jaume, Barcelona ales 19.30h per demanar que s’acabin els bombardejos a Gaza!
Note: Just moments ago, the Palestinian Resistance announced the successful conclusion of a ceasefire brokered by Egypt. We urge all supporters of Palestine to continue to plan events and actions to support the Palestinian struggle. We know all too well that Israel regularly violates its ceasefires and vigilance is always necessary. We salute the steadfastness and strength of the people and their heroic, brave resistance, which secured this ceasefire today and continues to break the siege and fight for freedom. Towards victory for Palestine!
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestinian liberation to stand with Palestinians in Gaza under Israeli attack and support the Palestinian resistance struggling for return and liberation.
In the past two days, Israeli occupation forces have engaged in repeated attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, bombing Al-Aqsa TV as it broadcasted, the University College of Applied Sciences and residential buildings. The latest attack on Gaza – following the wars of 2009, 2012 and 2014 and the murder of hundreds in the Great March of Return – began after an Israeli special forces group attempted to infiltrate the Gaza Strip to near Khan Younis. There, they were discovered and confronted by the Palestinian resistance.
The gang of heavily armed, disguised occupation soldiers opened fire on Palestinian resistance leader Nour Barakeh, a commander in the Al-Qassam Brigades who had come to confront the infiltrators. Reports indicate that the occupation military forces had been sent to kidnap or kill Barakeh before they were discovered by the Palestinian resistance.
F-16s, drones and Israeli military hardware took to the air over Khan Younis, striking the city 40 times in an attempt to allow the Israeli forces to escape. Still, Barakeh and his fellow resistance fighters refused to stop chasing the infiltrating soldiers’ van. Barakeh, 37, was killed as they opened fire, and resistance fighters killed one Israeli soldier. The occupation forces also shot dead Naji Abu Khater, 21; Mohammed Majid Moussa al-Qara, 23; Alaa al-Din Mohammed Qwaider, 22; Mustafa Hassan Mohammed Abu Odeh, 21; Mahmoud Attallah Musabeh 25, and Alaa Fawzi Mohammed Fseifes, 19.
On Monday, occupation forces targeted two strugglers of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Mohammed al-Tatari, 27, and Mohammed Odeh, 22, striking them down as they fought to defend Palestine. The PFLP issued a statement urging action to support Palestinians under attack, declaring:
“Palestinians in Gaza are not alone! And they must not be left alone. This attack is not only carried out by the Israeli occupation alone, but by the imperialist powers like the United States, France and Britain that arm and support the settler colonial racist state to the hilt. The reactionary Arab regimes that plot how to dismantle Palestinian rights and existence while raining destruction and death on Yemen are also complicit in this onslaught.
Now is the time to act. Take to the streets and the squares, organize, demonstrate, protest and mobilize to stand with the Palestinian people in Gaza under attack, yet who continue to resist despite all odds. Build the boycott of Israel and confront imperialism everywhere it exists. Stand with the Palestinian people, the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian cause – the struggle for return and the fight for liberation, from the river to the sea!”
Four more Palestinians were killed by the occupation forces between Monday night and Tuesday morning: Hamad Mohammed al-Nahhal, 23; Mousa Iyad Abdel-Aal, 22; Khaled Riyad al-Sultan, 26; and Musab al-Hoss, 20.
The Palestinian resistance has refused to give ground to the occupation attacks. Instead, it is continuing to fight back and display its increased capabilities to struggle against one of the most heavily armed forces in the world. It faces a settler colonial power that uses its assaults on Palestinians as a means to market its weapons of warfare, surveillance and repression around the world.
When resistance fighters targeted a soldiers’ military transport vehicle, striking it just as the occupation forces evacuated, Israeli officials attempted to lie to the world. They presented their military vehicle involved directly in the killings in Gaza as a “commuter bus.” In fact, some have speculated that the massive bombing of Al-Aqsa TV was a failed attempt to prevent Palestinian footage from reaching the airwaves. The attack failed, however, as the station resumed broadcasting only minutes later.
These attacks do not come from nowhere, of course; they are a clear continuation of the ongoing and brutal assault on the Great March of Return, in which tens of thousands of Palestinians have participated. Despite sniper fire taking the lives of over 200 Palestinians as they marched in popular demonstrations to the colonially imposed “border” or armistice line, marchers have continued to return each Friday. They demand an end to the 11-year-long siege on Gaza and, most fundamentally, their right to return home to Palestine.
Over 70 percent of the 2 million people in Gaza are Palestinian refugees, denied their right to return home by Zionist settler colonial occupation for over 70 years. Despite years of siege and hardship that has meant environmental devastation, health crisis, a lack of electricity and increased unemployment, impoverishment and devastation, Palestinians in Gaza have refused to give up their rights or their resistance. The Palestinian masses have confronted attempts to liquidate the Palestinian cause backed by the world’s most powerful imperialist forces and reactionary Arab regimes by returning the focus to their fundamental rights, the core of the cause: the return of the refugees and the liberation of the land of Palestine.
In addition, these occupation attacks clearly evidence the climate of international impunity and support for Israeli war crimes fostered by United States, French, British, German and other imperialist support. While reactionary Arab regimes in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and others push for normalization with the Zionist project, the Palestinian resistance continues to stand on the front lines against the colonial onslaught.
We must not be silent in the face of these latest Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza. We remember Mohammed al-Tatari, Nour Barakeh, Mohammed Odeh, Naji Abu Khater, Mohammed al-Qara, Alaa al-Din Qaider, Mustafa Abu Odeh, Mahmoud Musabeh, Alaa Fseifes, Hamad al-Nahhal, Mousa Abdel-Aal, Khaled al-Sultan, Musab al-Hoss and all of the strugglers that have fallen in 100 years of struggle for a free Palestine. Their lives and their blood must not be lost in vain, as they leave behind families, children, loved ones and lives full of potential and love for their land and people.
The Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian people are on the front lines of defense against racism, colonialism and imperialism, defending their land and struggling for liberation for all of Palestine, from the river to the sea.
We urge supporters of Palestine and the Palestinian people to organize and take action:
1.Organize protests and demonstrations against the bombing of Gaza. Call for a military embargo on Israel and support for Palestinian rights and freedom. Protests are already being organized around the world – use the form below, email us at samidoun@samidoun.net or contact us on Facebook to add your protest to our growing list! You can find Israeli consulates and embassies in your city at the following link: https://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israelPosters and materials can be downloaded for use at your actions.
2. Call your government officials and tell them to stop supporting Israel and justifying Israeli war crimes. Instead, they should be imposing a military embargo on Israel. Use the following numbers to send a message to your government to end its complicity and participation in the bombs falling on Gaza:
Call during your country’s regular office hours:
Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Marise Payne: + 61 2 6277 7500
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland: +1-613-992-5234
European Union Commissioner Federica Mogherini: +32 (0) 2 29 53516
New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters: +64 4 439 8000
United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt: +44 20 7008 1500
United States President Donald Trump: 1-202-456-1111
3. Boycott, Divest and Sanction! Hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the occupation. Large corporations are deeply involved in Israel’s ongoing massacres of protesters in Gaza. Ford Motor Company produces trucks later modified by Elbit Systems as autonomous unmanned vehicles to remotely fire on Palestinians. HSBC Bank finances Israeli military corporations, including Elbit Systems, while Hewlett-Packard (HP) Enterprise contracts with the Israeli navy to “virtualize” its operations, including the sea blockade of Gaza. Learn more at https://bdsmovement.net and https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ten-corporate-giants-helping-israel-massacre-gaza-protesters/250617/
LIST OF EVENTS
* Please note, the following list contains only street actions. There are many important lectures and presentations – see our calendar for details!
Israel’s fanatic prime minister Netanyahu has paraded and used Netta Barzilai, with her full agreement, as “the best ambassador of Israel.”
Netta Barzilai has willingly placed her music in the hands of the far-right Israeli government. It is using her as a propaganda tool to distract attention from Israel’s attacks on Palestinian artists and cultural centers, its illegal settlements pushing Palestinian families off their land and its racist apartheid regime that denies Palestinians their basic human rights.
Palestinian artists and cultural associations are calling for a boycott of Israeli institutions and state representatives due to their complicity in Israel’s oppression, colonization and apartheid
As groups opposed to racism and oppression, we are calling for a boycott of Netta Barzilai’s shows in Europe [or city name] due to her active and conscious role as a cultural ambassador for Israel’s regime of military occupation and apartheid against the Palestinian people.
● On May 14, the day Israel massacred 62 Palestinians in Gaza, including six children, Netta Barzilai performed a government-hosted celebratory concert in Tel Aviv, and said, “We have a reason to be happy.”
● Barzilai performs at Israeli government-sponsored Pride events, contributing to the Israeli government’s pinkwashing agenda, the cynical use of LGBT rights to mask its ongoing denial of Palestinian human rights.
● Barzilai performed at the birthday party for US billionaire Sheldon Adelson, fanatic anti-Palestinian supporter of far right governments, from Israel’s to the Trump administration, who has made the racist and dehumanizing claim that “Palestinians are an invented people.”
#DontToyWithApartheid!
Take a stand against racism and oppression. Boycott shows by Israeli Apartheid Ambassador Netta Barzilai.
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Netta Barzilai: Botschafterin für israelische Apartheid
Israels fanatischer Premierminister Netanyahu hat Netta Barzilai, mit ihrer vollen Zustimmung, als “beste Botschafterin Israels” vorgeführt und benutzt.
Netta Barzilai hat ihre Musik gerne in die Hände der rechtsextremen israelischen Regierung gelegt. Sie dient als Propagandainstrument, um die Aufmerksamkeit von Israels Angriffen auf palästinensische Künstler*innen und Kulturzentren abzulenken, von ihren illegalen Siedlungen, durch die palästinensische Familien von ihrem Land vertrieben werden, und von ihrem rassistischen Apartheid-Regime, das den Palästinenser*innen ihre grundlegenden Menschenrechte verweigert.
Palästinensische Künstler*innen und Kulturverbände fordern einen Boykott israelischer Institutionen und Staatsrepräsentant*innen wegen ihrer Mitwirkung an Israels Politik der Unterdrückung, Kolonisierung und Apartheid.
Als Gruppen, die Rassismus und Unterdrückung bekämpfen, fordern wir einen Boykott von Netta Barzilais Show in Berlin aufgrund ihrer aktiven und wissentlichen Rolle als Kulturbotschafterin für Israels Regime der militärischen Besatzung und Apartheid gegen das palästinensische Volk.
● Am 14. Mai, dem Tag, an dem Israel in Gaza 62 Palästinenser*innen, darunter sechs Kinder, massakriert hat, gab Netta Barzilai in Tel Aviv ein von der Regierung veranstaltetes Festkonzert in Tel Aviv und sagte: “Wir haben Grund zur Freude.”
● Barzilai tritt bei von der israelischen Regierung gesponserten Pride Events auf und beteiligt sich am Pinkwashing-Programm der israelischen Regierung, der zynischen Nutzung von LGBT-Rechten, um die anhaltende Leugnung der palästinensischen Menschenrechte zu verdecken.
● Barzilai trat bei der Geburtstagsfeier für den US-Milliardär Sheldon Adelson auf, einem fanatischen anti-palästinensischen Unterstützer rechtsextremer Regierungen, von der israelischen bis zur Trump-Regierung, der die rassistische und entmenschlichende Behauptung aufgestellt hat, dass “Palästinenser*innen ein erfundenes Volk sind”.
#DontToyWithApartheid!
Bezieht Stellung gegen Rassismus und Unterdrückung. Boykottiert Auftritte der israelischen Apartheid-Botschafterin Netta Barzilai.
Wednesday, 14 November 6:00 pm Ministry of Foreign Relations Madrid, Spain
Join BDS Madrid, Alkarama Movement of Palestinian Women and Unadikum International Brigades for a demonstration in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
*Note: The location was not announced previously in order to protect the event.
Photo: Iran Review
The #Humboldt3 host Prof. Richard Falk – world-renowned legal scholar, Princeton University professor, and co-author of the UN report on Israeli #apartheid – for a discussion on Israeli crimes against humanity and the legal-moral imperative to oppose it.
Prof. Falk endorses the Humboldt3 who will be facing trial in Berlin in March 2019 for peacefully protesting Israeli parliament member Aliza Lavie’s talk at Humboldt University. The three human rights activists – two Israeli-Jewish citizens and a Palestinian from the open-air prison of Gaza – confronted Lavie for her role as a representative of a criminal apartheid regime and her personal responsibility for the 2014 war on Gaza.
Following the protest, a media frenzy ensued which involved slander and false accusations against the activists. The Berlin Intelligence Agency reproduced the fictitious narrative and now they are facing trial for two counts of criminal offense. While the German prosecution is interested in criminalizing their dissenting voices, the three will be taking on the State of Israel in front of the German courts.
Please join us on Tuesday and take part in the discussion. The event will be carried out in ENGLISH but if you require translation into any other language please contact us and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
Not all views are legitimate but all are welcome to participate!
Programformation booth
12:00 pm – Introduction to the situation in Palestine
12:30 pm – Presentations on political prisoners, colonialism and imperialism
1:30 pm – Skype Conference
2:00 pm – Presentations on Settlement policy
3:45 pm – Film, “Roadmap to Apartheid”
After 6:00 pm – Music and Food
Gerechtigkeit – Rückkehr – Frieden
Programm:
ab 10.00 – Infostände
12.30 – Einführung in die Situation in Palästina
12.30 – Vorträge über politische Gefangene und Kolonialismus/Imperialismus
13.30 – Skype-Konferenz
14.00 – Podium zur Siedlungspolitik
15.45 – Film “Roadmap to Apartheid”
ab 18.00 – Musik und Essen
International day of solidarity with the Palestinian people
On 24 November, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, gathering in Triangeln in Malmo for a quiet demonstration.
The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People was created to remember the passage of UN Resolution 181, which has been the basis for occupation and dispossession of the Palestinian people from their country.
Organized by Vänsterpartiet Malmö
Internationella solidaritetsdagen med det palestinska folket!
Den 24 november uppmärksammar vi internationella solidaritetsdagen med det palestinska folket. Vi samlas på torget vid triangeln i Malmö för en tyst manifestation.
Den internationella solidaritetsdagen för Palestina folket uppstod i solidaritet med det palestinska folket på grund av FN:s resolution 181 som har varit en grund till ockupation och rensning av palestinier från deras land.
Plats: Triangeln, torget vid Södra förstadsgatan (gågatan)
Tid: kl 14-15
We will go to the streets ad encourage boycott of Israeli goods to support the global boycott campaign (BDS). We will end the day with a visit to the cafe.
This is the third of a series of eents on Palestine organized by IF Nordsjælland.
Vi går på gaden og opfordrer til boykot af Israelske varer, for at støtte den globale boykot kampagne (BDS).
Vi slutter dagen af med et cafébesøg.
Mødet er det sidste ud af tre arrangementer om Palæstina, som IF Nordsjælland inviterer til i de kommende måneder.
On 19 and 20 November, Macron will be in Brussels at the invitation of King Philippe. Macron represents the new reactionary wave, embodied in the US by Trump, who, beyond the traditional right and the reformist left, represents the bare will of capital. From banking and industry, the leaders of this wave know only one goal – increasing profits and, to that end, crushing all resistance to exploitation, impoverishment, suffering, neo-colonial oppression inside and outside the borders, destruction of the ecosystem.
It is to support those who resist in France that the collectives that called for a revolutionary 1 May in Brussels last year and which will call for this 1 May next year, call for a mobilization on 19 November.
The initiative will have three focuses:
1. Solidarity with the struggles of workers, students, unemployed and pensioners. The mobilizations have been large and radical, against the labor law, the pension reform and the attacks on the status of railway workers. They were the occasion for the recomposition and convergence of anti-capitalist forces. Therefore, their repression was also massive and brutal – in the street first, with its procession of broken bones and injured eyes, then in the courts, with a large number of convictions.
2. Solidarity with the struggles of the earth, starting with the most prominent, the ZAD in Notre-Dame-des-Landes and Bure.
3. Solidarity with the resistance to French imperialism, against its neo-colonialism in the countries it dominates and in the metropolis, against its alliance with reactionary Arab regimes and the settler colonial, racist Israeli state.
Beyond these initiatives, we urge the growth of solidarity activities with the resistance struggles in France.
All against Macron in Brussels 19 November!
Toutes et tous contre Macron !
Les 19 et 20 novembre, Macron sera à Bruxelles à l’invitation du Roi Philippe. Macron est le représentant de cette nouvelle vague réactionnaire, incarnée aux États-Unis par Trump, qui au-delà de la droite traditionnelle et de la gauche réformiste, porte la volonté pure et nue du capital. Issus de l’industrie et de la banque, les dirigeants de cette vague ne connaissent qu’un seul objectif : l’augmentation des profits, et pour cela, l’écrasement de toutes les résistances à l’exploitation, à la paupérisation, à la pénibilité, à l’oppression néo-coloniale à l’intérieur et à l’extérieur des frontières, à la destruction de l’écosystème.
C’est pour soutenir ces résistances en France que les collectifs qui ont appelé à un 1er Mai Révolutionnaire à Bruxelles l’année passée, et qui appelleront à un tel 1er Mai l’année prochaine, appellent à une mobilisation le 19 novembre à partir du “Carré Moscou”.
L’initiative aura trois temps :
1. Temps de solidarité avec les luttes des travailleuses, des travailleurs, des étudiantes et des étudiants, des chômeuses et des chômeurs, des retraitées et des retraités. Les mobilisations ont été vastes et radicales, que ce soit contre la loi travail, la réforme des retraites, l’attaque contre le statut des cheminots. Elles ont été l’occasion de recomposition et de convergences des forces anticapitalistes. Et par conséquent, leur répression a aussi été brutale et massive : dans la rue d’abord, avec son cortège d’os brisés et d’yeux crevés, dans les tribunaux ensuite, avec un grand nombre de condamnations.
Invité à la tribune : à venir.
2. Temps de solidarité avec les luttes de territoires, à commencer par les plus emblématiques d’entre elles, les ZAD de Notre-Dame-des-Landes et de Bure.
Invité à la tribune : à venir.
3. Temps de solidarité avec les résistances contre l’impérialisme français, contre son néo-colonialisme dans les pays dominés et dans la métropole, contre ses complicités avec les régimes réactionnaires arabes et l’état colonial et raciste d’Israël.
Invité à la tribune : à venir.
Et au-delà des initiatives organisées par notre Alliance pour un 1er Mai Révolutionnaire, nous appelons à la multiplication des activités et initiatives solidaires avec les luttes de résistance en France.
Tous et toutes contre Macron à Bruxelles ce 19 novembre !
Mustapha Awad, Belgian worker and artist, came to Charleroi on 3 March 2018 with the Raj’een dabkeh dance group during an evening of testimonies presented by young people from Charleroi returning from Palestine. He was also present on 25 May at the rally to salute the Palestinians killed by Israel during the Great Return March in Gaza. Along with our friend Rami al-Banna, he read the names of Palestinians shot by Israeli snipers.
Since the Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine has first known Mustapha, we have always known him to be present to defend Palestinian culture, human rights, the rights of the prisoners. He has always been there for us. This time, we want to be there for him, by organizing this rally on the 121st day of his arbitrary detention by Israel.
Mustapha was kidnapped on the border between Jordan and Palestine on 19 July. He wa held incommunicado in interrogation centers and tortured (interrogations 20 out of 24 hours, sleep deprivation…) He appeared in court on 10 October, but the unjust trial against him was postponed first to 1 November then to 28 November.
Belgium still refuses to demand his release, demonstrating that it has a double standard for human rights.
The Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine and the Free Mustapha Committee will stand on 17 November to say loud and clear that Mustapha must be released.
Members of Raj’een dabkeh troupe, co-founded by Mustapha, will dance in the square. Will you join us too?
Mustapha Awad, ouvrier et artiste belge, est venu à Charleroi le 3 mars 2018 avec le groupe de danse dabkeh Raj’een lors d’une soirée de témoignages de jeunes Carolos revenus de Palestine. Il était également présent le 25 mai au rassemblement d’hommage aux victimes palestiniennes de la Grande Marche du Retour à Gaza. En compagnie de notre ami Rami al-Banna, il y avait lu les noms des Palestiniens tombés sous les balles des snipers israéliens.
Depuis que la Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine connaît Mustapha, nous le savons toujours disponible pour défendre la culture palestinienne, les droits humains, les droits des prisonniers. Il était toujours là pour nous. Cette fois-ci, nous voulons être là pour lui, en organisant ce rassemblement au 121e jour de sa détention arbitraire en Israël.
En effet, Mustapha a été kidnappé à la frontière entre la Jordanie et Israël, le 19 juillet. Il a été mis au secret dans des centres d’interrogatoires et torturé (des interrogatoires 20 h sur 24, privation de sommeil…). Il a comparu devant un tribunal le 10 octobre, mais le procès injuste à son égard a été reporté, d’abord au 1er novembre, ensuite au 28 novembre.
La Belgique refuse toujours d’exiger sa libération et fait la démonstration qu’en matière de droits humains elle pratique les deux poids, deux mesures.
Avec le Comité Free Mustapha, la Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine sera là le 17 novembre pour dire haut et fort que Mustapha doit être libéré.
Des membres de Raj’een dabkeh group, cofondé par Mustapha danseront sur la place. Vous serez là aussi ?
Boycott Israel! Stop Apartheid against the Palestinian People!
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