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Take Action: 31 October, call your government to demand Israel free Khalida Jarrar

On Wednesday, 31 October, call your government to demand it intercede for the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian parliamentarian jailed without charge or trial under Israeli “administrative detention” since July 2017. Her arbitrary imprisonment was just renewed for another four months.

Join the Facebook page for the call-in campaign and invite others. After you call, post to the page telling other supporters who you called and what they told you.

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

Tell your government:

• Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian member of parliament and a political leader. She has been jailed by Israel with no charges and no trial since July 2017.
• Your government must intercede to demand her immediate release and end all support for Israel’s political imprisonment and other crimes against Palestinians.
• Israel’s use of “administrative detention” is a universally-recognized violation of human rights and international law.
• The government must do more than criticize “administrative detention” or express concern, but should also take serious measures to end these violations.

15 November, New York: Evening with Political Cartoonist Mohammed Sabaaneh

Thursday, 15 November
7:00 pm
The People’s Forum
320 West 37th St.
New York, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/649214652147568/

The Friends of the Jenin Freedom Theatre invite you to meet
Mohammad Sabaaneh, renowned Palestinian political cartoonist.
Sabaaneh will discuss his life as an artist, current projects, and
his work at The Freedom Theatre as an educator.

The evening will also include a silent auction of two original works by Sabaaneh.

* This event is FREE and open to the general public *

About Mohammad Sabaaneh:

Mohammad Sabaaneh, a talented political cartoonist from Palestine, has gained worldwide attention for his stark black-and-white sketches, which draw attention to brutalities of the Israeli occupation and celebrate the Palestinians’ popular resistance. These provocative drawings do not flinch from tackling the tough subjects that confront Palestinians, from Israel’s everyday injustices in the West Bank to their frequent military operations on Gaza.

Sabaaneh’s work has been published in many newspapers across the Arab World, and he is the principal political cartoonist for Al-Hayat al-Jadida, the Palestinian Authority’s daily newspaper. He has also recently published his first book – Black and White.

Finally, Sabaaneh has been a board member of The Freedom Theatre in Jenin, Palestine and continues to lead workshops there, supporting youth in developing their critical thinking skills and creativity, and exploring the ways cartoons can be tools for cultural resistance.

13 November, White Plains: An Evening with Political Cartoonist Mohammed Sabaaneh

Tuesday, 13 November
7:00 pm
WESPAC
77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2W
White Plains, NY
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/330456837733591/

Tuesday, 13 November 2018, at 7 p.m. at the WESPAC Office located at 77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2W in White Plains, NY 10607

Palestinian cartoonist and graphic artist Mohammad Sabaaneh is doing a U.S. tour sponsored by Just World Educational and titled “Picture This: Life & Art in Palestine.” He lives in Ramallah, Palestine, where he is the lead political cartoonist for the daily paper Al-Hayat al-Jadida. In 2013 he was detained for five months by the Israeli authorities. He spent much of the time in solitary confinement, a situation that inspired the creation of his first book of cartoons, White & Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine, which was published in 2017 by Just World Books and will be on sale at our event. The book won rave reviews from leading political cartoonists around the world including KAL of The Economist, Matt Wuerker of Politico, and Joe Sacco.

Mohammad is the Middle East representative of the Cartoonists Rights Network International. He has had solo and group exhibitions of his work in numerous countries around the world and has conducted cartooning workshops in many parts of Palestine. Last fall he won the Médaille d’Or at the Marseille Cartooning Festival. Shortly after that, he was featured by a UN committee in an exhibition at the UN headquarters as one of Palestine’s two leading cartoonists, along with the late Naji al-Ali. This year he has already been enthusiastically received in Edinburgh and London, and after the present tour he is headed to France.

To keep up with the flow of Mohammad’s creativity, you can follow “@Sabaaneh” on Twitter or Instagram.

George Abdallah, ni arrepentimiento ni perdón – Por Khaled Barakat

Artículo en: Árabe | Inglés | francés

El camarada George Abdallah, representa un caso humano y revolucionario extraordinario en nuestros días. Podría asegurarse, que pertenece a un relato que no corresponde a nuestra era actual, la era de Bin Salman, Mahmoud Abbas y Al Sisi. La era de la rendición y la normalización de relaciones con la entidad sionista, que se ha convertido en “una opción nacional-patriótica”, en manos de unas clases sociales derrotadas, de unos señoritos sectarios, de unos mercaderes de la religión gamberros y de unos reyes y sultanes tiranos de nuestra época.

El enemigo es consciente, ese que está al otro lado de la contradicción, que George Abdallah, es un caso “peligroso” y “desastroso” para todos, particularmente, en esta era imperial-colonialista. Y nos pregunta con toda desfachatez, el enemigo, pero: ¿Quién le quiere fuera de la cárcel?  ¿Incluso de los mismos árabes?, entonces, este genio debería seguir dentro de la lámpara sin opción de salir al exterior, ni que contemple la luz, ni a la gente. Si te acercas a él, te puedes contagiar por la epidemia revolucionaria, la locura del rechazo y te pueden poseer los duendes de la rebelión, y es por eso, que Condoleezza Rice, y en más de una ocasión, como después lo dijo también tanto Hilary Clinton como Mike Pompeo: “Habría que mantenerle, a George Abdallah, lejos de Alqoubaiyat, Ein Al Helweh, Beir Zeit, Tánger, Aswan y de todos los árabes. Debería quedarse preso en la lejana prisión de Lannemezan en Francia, sin poder salir nunca.”

Los sucesivos gobiernos libaneses, desde hace 35 años, ignoran su existencia, haciendo del silencio oficial, una activa participación y confabulación en el proceso de detención. Un claro y escandaloso proceso difícil de encubrir. Si George Abdallah, fuera un traficante de armas o drogas, como lo es Samir Geagea, por ejemplo, habría sido un gran líder en su pueblo. El regreso de George Abdallah a su patria aterroriza a los emires del petróleo y de la guerra, desenmascara a todo este vil sistema confesional, que no nos trajo más que la muerte, la destrucción y el racismo.

George Abdallah, este que sabe hablar y escribir en seis idiomas, leyó la lección de la historia muy bien. Sabe que el pueblo árabe, que fue colonizado y dominado por un estado otomano durante 500 años, para después encontrarse bajo la ocupación colonial occidental, y enfrentándose al movimiento sionista, tiene una gran causa justa que se llama Palestina, y que el proceso de liberación y de autodeterminación, desde el océano atlántico hasta el golfo arábigo, empieza y termina en Palestina. El es un firme creyente, en que el panarabismo tiene capacidad para su auto renovación dentro, tan solo, de la revolución, siempre cuando, nuestras corrientes nacionalistas y de izquierdas, abandonasen su concepto clásico sobre “nacionalismos”, y sus atrasados métodos de funcionamiento. Y es porque, George Abdallah, en primer lugar, pertenece a Palestina, y Palestina, no pertenece a ninguna confesión, ni religión, ni etnia. Es la causa de un pueblo, cuya mitad, vive bajo la ocupación, mientras que la otra mitad, está dispersada en diferentes exilios. Palestina es la causa de las aplastadas clases populares árabes que las han arrebatado todo, incluso su propia conciencia en si misma, en sus derechos y en su causa central.

Y cada vez que George Abdallah comparece ante un tribunal francés que le pregunta sobre el “arrepentimiento” y la petición de “perdón”, para poder regresar a su casa. Él responde: Soy árabe. Palestina es mi causa, así que, no me arrepentiré, ni negociaré. El panarabismo para George, o es humanista, o no es. Y es revolucionario, o reaccionario, porque el panarabismo no puede significar una identidad superficial, confesional y extraña.

George Abdallah llegó a la conclusión, desde el primer momento, y desde que portó su primer rifle, que ya no posee ni a si mismo, ni a su propia decisión, porque ya representaba a cientos de millones de oprimidos, y que todo árabe, tiene su propia prisión: sionista, árabe o francesa. No hay diferencia, porque la libertad es, como Palestina, la causa de todos y es una tierra irrepartible, así que, rechaza cualquier trato y acompaña todos sus mensajes con una postdata que se ha convertido en un tatuaje permanente y firme: ¡Camaradas! Es una infamia retroceder, vencemos juntos, y no vencemos más que cuando estamos juntos.

Traducido del árabe por, Jamal Halawa

 

8 November, Durham: The Art of Resistance featuring Mohammed Sabaaneh

Thursday, 8 November
6:30 pm
Perkins 217
Duke University
Durham, NC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2035798619775239/

Mohammad Sabaaneh is a Palestinian cartoonist and graphic artist who lives in Ramallah, Palestine, where he is the lead political cartoonist for the daily paper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida. In 2013, he was detained by the Israelis for five months, spending much of it in solitary confinement, a situation that inspired the creation of his first book of cartoons, White And Black: Political Cartoons from Palestine, published by Just World Books in 2017. The book won rave reviews from leading political cartoonists around the world including KAL of The Economist, Matt Wuerker of Politico, and Joe Sacco.

Mohammad is the Middle East representative of the Cartoonists Rights Network International. He has had solo and group exhibitions of his work in numerous countries around the world and has conducted cartooning workshops in many parts of Palestine. Last fall, he won the Medaille d’Or at the Marseille Cartooning Festival. Shortly after that, he was hailed by the UN’s Committee on Palestinian Rights as one of Palestine’s two best-ever cartoonists– along with the late Naji al-Ali, and was featured in the exhibition and gala they staged at UN headquarters in New York. This year, he has already made great appearances in Edinburgh and London. In late September, his “History of Palestine” frieze was lauded as breakthrough art in the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights’s first-ever artists’ competition.

To keep up with the amazing flow of Mohammad’s creativity, you can follow “@Sabaaneh” on Twitter or Instagram.

Sabaaneh will also be signing and selling his book at the event.

6 November, Chapel Hill: Palestinian Art as Political Commentary with Mohammed Sabaaneh

Tuesday, 6 November
5:30 pm
Greenlaw 22, Donovan Lounge
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1884529424966664/

Mohammad Sabaaneh is a Palestinian artist from Ramallah, Palestine, who creates political cartoons and graphic art. In 2013, Israelis detained Sabaaneh for five months where he spent much of his time in solitary confinement. Currently, he is the lead political cartoonist for the daily paper Al-Hayat al-Jadida. Join us for a discussion with Sabaaneh about art and politics, followed by a book signing. Sabaaneh’s books will be for sale at the event. Follow our speaker @sabaaneh on Twitter or Instagram.

Khader Adnan: Steadfastness prevails again!

Image by Mohammed Sabaaneh

On his 58th day of hunger strike, Sheikh Khader Adnan once again prevailed over Israeli attempts to break his steadfastness and strength. At the Salem military court, Adnan was sentenced to one year in prison from the date of his arrest, 11 December 2017, and a fine of 1,000 NIS ($270 USD). This means that Adnan will be released in the coming days, or at the latest in approximately one month.

Adnan also received an 18-month suspended sentence for five years, reported the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. Previously, his trial had been postponed repeatedly, and the Israeli military prosecution were seeking hefty sentences on the charges against Adnan, all related to his political activity and expression. He referred to his imprisonment as a hidden form of administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial.

Randa Adnan, speaking outside the court, said that this was a “new victory” over the occupation after 58 days of open hunger strike. Adnan previously won his release from administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, in a 66-day hunger strike in 2012 and a 54-day strike in 2015.

Adnan, 40, has become a symbol of the steadfastness and resistance of imprisoned Palestinians following his multiple hunger strikes. He has received widespread international solidarity with the strikes, which have drawn attention to the collective struggle of all Palestinian prisoners.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Khader Adnan on his latest achievement, an accomplishment not only for his own case but for the struggle of Palestinian prisoners as a whole. We also extend our strongest salutes and warm congratulations to his family and fellow strugglers who carried on this “battle of empty stomachs” alongside him, inside and outside prison.

With his body – and, indeed, his life – on the line, Khader Adnan has once again made it clear that Palestinian prisoners’ will cannot be broken and their movement cannot be isolated. Adnan is a symbol of Palestinian courage, steadfastness and commitment to the struggle for freedom; he has become an international symbol of prisoners’ resistance. We reaffirm our call for the liberation of all nearly 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails – and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Khader Adnan on 58th day of hunger strike: Take action to save his life and win his freedom!

UPDATE: At his hearing on 29 October 2018 at Salem Military Court, Khader Adnan was sentenced to one year in prison – meaning that he will be released in approximately one month. This comes as a significant achievement for Adnan’s steadfastness and a complete failure on the part of the Israeli occupation to break his will.

Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan is facing a severe health crisis on his 58th day of hunger strike: vomiting blood, barely able to speak, exhausted and very thin. The imprisoned activist, former long-term hunger striker and baker from Arraba near Jenin has been on hunger strike since 2 September. He is demanding his release from arbitrary Israeli imprisonment on trumped-up charges. We urge all supporters of Palestine to take action to support Khader Adnan’s freedom and save his life.

Adnan, 40, has conducted two previous hunger strikes, lasting 66 and 54 days, to win his freedom from imprisonment without charge or trial under Israeli “administrative detention.” During that time, he has become a prominent Palestinian leader and an international symbol of Palestinian resistance to Israeli imprisonment and repression. Administrative detention orders can be issues for up to six months at a time; they are indefinitely renewable. There are currently around 450 out of nearly 6,000 Palestinian prisoners who are held under administrative detention orders, some for years at a time.

On 11 December 2017, Adnan was seized once again by Israeli occupation forces. After lengthy interrogations in which they failed to obtain a confession, they threw him in prison, charging him on dubious allegations on the basis of forced confessions obtained from others. These allegations include membership in a prohibited organization – in this case, Palestinian Islamic Jihad; all major Palestinian political parties and movements are considered illegal by the Israeli occupation – as well as incitement, for making public political speeches and writings.

His trial has been postponed 17 times; on 22 October, even after 51 days of hunger strike. While he was confined to a wheelchair, with difficulty talking or moving, his hearing was postponed an additional week to 29 October. Adnan has affirmed that he considers these charges to be a form of “hidden administrative detention” and a way to silence the campaign around his case. He announced that he would refuse water on 28 October, the day before the court hearing.

Israeli military courts are no more just than administrative detention; they convict over 99 percent of the Palestinians brought before them. Lengthy trial delays are used as a means of coercing imprisoned Palestinians to agree to plea bargains.

Adnan’s wife, Randa, said that when she saw her husband at Salem military court for the hearing on 22 October, he had not been allowed to change his clothes, shower or even trim his beard as a means of pressuring him to end his strike. However, he emphasized that he is dedicated to continue his strike until freedom.

Take Action!

Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for 58 days. He has an elevated heartbeat, has vomited blood, can barely talk and must move using a wheelchair. His life is at risk. International action is urgent to support his strike and bring attention to his case. Join us in taking action below:

1. Call-in to your government officials. Join the Facebook page and organize your own in your country. Demand that your government take action to save Khader Adnan’s life and stop arbitrary Israeli imprisonment. Our international call in day is 31 October, the 60th day of Khader Adnan’s strike.

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

Leave a message for these officials. Tell them:

  • Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for 60 days. His life is at risk.
  • He is facing trumped-up charges in an attempt to silence his political activity.
  • He has been repeatedly imprisoned without charge or trial under “administrative detention.”
  • Imprisonment with no charge or trial and military courts for civilians under occupation are not justice! It’s time for your government to put pressure on Israel to free Khader Adnan and end administrative detention. Real pressure includes aid cuts and military embargos.
  • Your government must intercede to demand his immediate release and end all support for Israel’s political imprisonment and other crimes against Palestinians.

2. Sign this online petition to free Khader Adnan. Share online and sign to spread the word and reiterate that Khader Adnan – and all Palestinian prisoners – must be free. Sign now and share: https://www.change.org/p/international-leaders-freedom-for-khader-adnan

3. Take action in person and on social media. Read the following quote from Khader Adnan on video and post it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter; organize a group photo; or introduce your next event about Palestine or social justice with information about Khader Adnan’s strike. Send your videos and photos to us on Facebook or email us at samidoun@samidoun.net.

Read the following message or make up your own sign/statement:

Khader Adnan has been on hunger strike for over 58 days against arbitrary, unjust imprisonment. We stand with Khader Adnan and all Palestinian prisoners, and we are inspired by his words:

“The prisoners’ movement and hunger strikes in particular are a symbol of the principle and demand for justice in Palestine. It proves that of course it is both possible and necessary to break the Israeli occupation.

The prisoners, with strong will, are able to hold onto their rights. It is a symbol to show you what is possible. This is something that the Palestinian leadership must learn from. How it is that a Palestinian prisoner can be on hunger strike, facing an occupation and a jailer with all the technology and forces at their disposal, and yet can still defeat them? Our unarmed resistance can defeat the bullet.”

Victory for Khader Adnan!

4. Boycott, Divest and Sanction. Hold Israel accountable for its violations of international law through economic, cultural, academic and other forms of boycott. Don’t buy Israeli goods, and campaign to end investments in corporations that profit from the occupation. Learn more at bdsmovement.net.

Khader Adnan’s hunger strike:

Khader Adnan has been arrested 11 times by Israeli occupation forces, serving 8 years in prison. In 2012, he won his freedom from administrative detention with a 66-day hunger strike; again, he went without food for 54 days in 2015 to win his release from imprisonment without charge or trial. While hunger strikes have long been a major collective and individual method of struggle for Palestinian prisoners, Adnan’s strikes drew widespread international attention and support and galvanized campaigns to win the release of imprisoned Palestinians. http://maannews.net/Content.aspx?id=965586

Adnan launched this strike on 2 September in Ramon prison, where he was immediately thrown into solitary confinement. All of his belongings were confiscated from his cell including his radio and newspapers; he was benned from family visits, because his hunger strike poses “a threat to the security of Israel.” He was then moved to solitary confinement in Jalameh prison on 16 September, where he was denied legal visits throughout his time there. Around 8 October, he was moved first to Ashkelon prison, then to Barzilai hospital, back to Ashkelon and then to the Ramle prison clinic, where he remains today.

While held in Jalameh prison, he was confined in a small 190cm x 190cm cell, including bunk beds and a toilet; his head and feet would hit the walls when laying down and he had no space to pray. He told his lawyers that the cell was dirty, infested with roaches and insects, and the toilet water ran constantly, depriving him of sleep. He refused to stand for roll call or for the prison diretor and was ordered to two months without family visits or access to the “canteen” (prison store.) Lawyers arrived to meet him on four separate occasions; each time, they were turned away on the pretext of his health condition without informing Adnan.

Georges Abdallah: No regrets, no compromise… by Khaled Barakat

The following article, by Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat, the international coordinator of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat, was published first in Arabic at Quds News on 28 October 2018. 

Comrade Georges Abdallah is a rare revolutionary figure amid the conditions of our time. I would almost say that he belongs to history and not to our present era, that of Bin Salman, Mahmoud Abbas and Sisi, the era of surrender and the time of normalization, which has become a “national choice” for the defeated classes, the merchants of sectarianism and reaction, the kings, sultans and tyrants of our stage.

This enemy stands at the opposite point from the prisoner, Georges Abdallah. He recognizes clearly the serious, catastrophic state of the Arab world today, especially in this imperialist, colonial era. He asks us wholeheartedly and with conviction: Who wants his freedom? Even from among the Arabs? No, the genie must stay in the bottle and not emerge into the world or see the light and the people. If you approach him, you may catch the disease of revolution, the madness of rejection and adherence to rebellion and resistance. That is why Condoleeza Rice, more than once, and then Hillary Clinton, expressed their shared and common goal: Georges Abdallah should be kept away from his hometown of Qubaiyat, from Ain el-Helweh, from Birzeit, Tangier, Aswan, and all of the Arabs. Instead, he must remain there, locked up in the remote prison of Lannemezan!

Lebanon’s successive governments have pretended for 35 years that they do not see Georges Abdallah. This official silence constitutes an active complicity in the process of arrest and imprisonment, a blatant and open reality that is difficult to hide. If Georges Abdallah were a dealer of arms and drugs like Samir Geagea, he could become a great leader in his country. Georges’s return to his homeland frightens the princes of oil and war and exposes the entire sectarian system that has brought us only death, ruin and racism.

He has learned well the lessons of history. The Arab people who were colonized by the Ottoman Empire found themselves 500 years later under Western colonialism. In confronting the Zionist movement, they have a great, just cause called Palestine. Freedom, liberation and the exercise of the right to self-determination, from the ocean to the Gulf, begins and ends in Palestine.

Georges believes more than ever that Arab liberation can only renew itself in a revolutionary manner if our leftist and popular currents leave behind “traditional” and reactionary mechanisms and approaches. This is because Georges belongs to Palestine first, and Palestine does not belong to a sect, religion or race. Palestine’s people are half under occupation and the other half in exile. Palestine is the cause of the oppressed Arab classes who have been deprived of everything, including awareness of their own fundamental rights and their central cause.

Every time Georges Abdallah stands before French “justice” and is asked for remorse, for repentance (if he wants to return home), Georges says: I am an Arab, Palestine is my cause, and I do not regret this. To be Arab is, for Georges, a choice to be human or nothing, to be revolutionary, not reactionary. It does not mean formalism, sectarianism or narrow, awkward exclusivity.

And from the very first moment, from the first weapon, Georges Abdallah realized that he no longer is responsible solely for himself, that his decision is not solely his own, that he represents hundreds of millions of oppressed people. Every Arab struggler imprisoned by the Zionists, the Arab reactionaries or the French and other imperialists is no difference. Freedom, like Palestine, is the cause of all; it is a land that cannot be divided. He refuses compromises, ending all of his letters with an indelible statement, like a tattoo: Comrades, it is a shame to retreat. We will be victorious together, and only together.

2 November, Berlin: Protest! 101 Years of the Colonial Balfour Declaration

Friday, 2 November
4:00 pm
Brandenburger Tor
Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/365025390904966/

101 years – the Declaration of shame must not be forgotten! Balfour’s promised has created over 7 million refugees, justifying ethnic cleansing and land theft. Protest!

101 Jahre, eine Deklaration der Schande darf nicht in Vergessenheit geraten!!
Ein Versprechen, das über 7 Mio Geflüchtet hervorgebracht hat, und landraub und Genozid als Grundlage diente!!!
لن تمر الذكرى 101 لوعد بلفور المشؤوم دون التذكير بأننا ما زلنا نقاوم جيلا بعد جيل

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