Palestinian parliamentarian, feminist and leftist leader Khalida Jarrar was once more ordered to imprisonment without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation. The renewal came for the fourth time on Thursday, 25 October; Jarrar has already been jailed without charge or trial for 16 months. The new detention order once again renews her imprisonment for four more months.
Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, of which Jarrar serves as vice-chair of the board and was formerly the Executive Director, noted that a hearing confirming the order will be held in an Israeli military court within the next week.
Administrative detention was first brought to Palestine by the British colonial mandate before being adopted by the Zionist occupation. Administrative detention orders can be issued for up to six months at a time, and they are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. There are currently approximately 450 Palestinians jailed under administrative detention out of a total of 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners.
Jarrar is imprisoned at HaSharon prison, where she and fellow women prisoners are engaged in an ongoing campaign of resistance to Israeli surveillance and repression inside the prison. Palestinian women prisoners have been denied family visits in retaliation for their protest.
Take Action!
Stand up for freedom for Khalida Jarrar and all Palestinian prisoners by taking action below.
- Addameer has issued an action alert urging people to write and demonstrate for Khalida. Join in the action here: http://addameer.org/news/urgent-action-help-free-human-rights-defender-khalida-jarrar
- Organize a protest, demonstration or other gathering or event to Free Khalida Jarrar. Bring posters and flyers about Khalida’s case and hold a protest, or join a protest with this important information. Hold a community event or discussion, or include Khalida’s case in your next event about Palestine and social justice. Find your nearest Israeli embassy here: https://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israel. Write to us at samidoun@samidoun.net or contact us on Facebook to let us know about your action!
- Contact your Member of Parliament, Representative, or Member of European Parliament. The attack on Khalida is an attack on Palestinian parliamentary legitimacy and political expression. Parliamentarians have a responsibility to pressure Israel to cancel this order.
- 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. Learn more at bdsmovement.net.
Learn more about Khalida Jarrar:
Jarrar is a longtime advocate for the freedom of Palestinian prisoners, the Vice-Chair of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and its former Executive Director. A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council elected as part of the leftist Abu Ali Mustafa Bloc, associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, she chairs the PLC’s Prisoners Committee.
She is also an outspoken leader in the fight to hold Israeli officials accountable for war crimes in the International Criminal Court. She is a member of a Palestinian commission charged with bringing complaints and files before the international court about ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, from attacks on Gaza to land confiscation and settlement construction to mass arrests and imprisonment.
This is not the first time she has faced arrest and persecution. In 2014, she resisted – and defeated – an Israeli attempt to forcibly displace her from her family home in el-Bireh to Jericho. Only nine months later, in April 2015, she was seized by Israeli occupation forces and ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. After a global outcry, she was brought before Israeli military courts and faced 12 charges based on her political activity, from giving speeches to attending events in support of Palestinian prisoners.
After she was released in June 2016, she resumed her leading role in the Palestinian liberation movement, only to be seized once more on 2 July 2017 and once again thrown in prison with no charges and no trial. Her administrative detention was already renewed for another six months in December 2017, and it is clear that the Israeli occupation has no intention of releasing Khalida, one of the leaders among the 6,200 Palestinian prisoners (including nearly 500 administrative detainees) in Israeli jails.
Within the Israeli occupation prison, she has played a leading role in supporting the education of the minor girls held there, organizing classes on human rights and in review for mandatory high school examinations when the prison authority denied the girls a teacher.
Organizations Supporting Khalida Jarrar
Over 290 international groups, political parties, labor unions and social movements signed on to a statement in July 2018 supporting Khalida’s release. To add your group’s name to the statement, use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net with your group’s name.
We come together today to demand the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar, an end to the policy and practice of administrative detention and freedom for Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. We pledge to struggle for justice through protests, actions, organizing and escalating boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) actions against Israel, in Khalida’s own spirit of resistance.
Signed,
- Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
- Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
- Al-Awda, The Palestine Right of Return Movement
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- Actions4Palestine
- Alkarama Movement of Palestinian Women
- Al-Quds Day Committee of New York
- Alternative Information Center
- American Muslims for Palestine – NY/NJ
- American Party of Labor
- Anticapitalistas
- Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland
- Anti Internment Group London
- Anti-Zionist and Anti-Imperialist Friends of Palestine
- ArbeiterInnenmacht (Germany)
- Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt (Austria)
- Asociación Palestina BILADI
- Association Belgo-Palestinienne
- Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine (AURDIP)
- Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), India
- Association France-Palestine Solidarité
- Association France-Palestine Solidarité — Groupe du Pays de Cornouaille
- AFPS 63 (Association France Palestine Solidarité 63)
- AFPS 59/62
- AFPS Albertville
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AFPS Alès-Cévennes
- AFPS Groupe Local Ardèche-Drôme
- AFPS Nanterre
- AFPS Paris 14-6
- Arbetarmakt (Workers Power)
- Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina
- Assopace Palestina – Italy
- ATIK – Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe
- BAF – Brigade Antifasciste de Strasbourg
- Balfour Declaration Centenary Campaign
- BDS Berlin
- BDS France Saint-Étienne
- BDS France Toulouse
- BDS Italia
- BDS Turkey
- BDS UChile (Universidad de Chile)
- BDS Vancouver-Coast Salish
- BDS Zürich
- Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI)
- Biellesi per la Palestina Libera Committee
- Black Alliance for Peace
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Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (aka Boycott from Within – Israeli citizens for BDS)
- Bruxelles Panthéres
- Cafe Palestina of the Southern Berkshires
- California Coalition for Women Prisoners
- Campagne BDS France
- Campagne unitaire pour la libération de Georges Ibahim Abdallah (Paris)
- Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon
- Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
- Canada Palestine Association
- Canadian BDS Coalition
- Canadian Friends of Sabeel
- Centre de la Communauté Démocratique Kurde de Toulouse
- Cercle de Silence – Amiens
- Christchurch Progressive Network
- Coalition for Justice – Blacksburg
- Coalition of Women for Peace
- CODEPINK – Women for Peace
- Colectivo Contraimpunidad
- Collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien
- Collectif de Soutien à la Résistance Palestinienne 59-62
- Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine
- Collectif Justice pour la Palestine Annecy
- Collectif pour la Libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
- Colletivo Palestina Rossa
- COMAC
- Comité Internacional Paz,Justicia y Dignidad a los Pueblos
- Comité de Vigilance pour la Démocratie en Tunisie
- Comité Poitevin Palestine
- Comite pour le Respect des Libetés et des Droits de l Homme en Tunisie CRLDHT
- Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient, Luxembourg
- Committee to Stop FBI Repression – National
- Committee to Stop FBI Repression – NY
- Committees for a Democratic Palestine – Europe
- Communist Party, Sweden
- Confederation Nationale du Travail / National Confederation of Labor (CNT-f) – International Secretariat
- Coordinamento Napoli Palestin
- Coordinamento di Solidarietà con la Palestina – Sicilia
- Corsica Internaziunalista
- Corvallis Palestine Solidarity
- Coup Pour Coup 31
- DİSK (Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey)
- Dones x Dones
- Dun Padraig Friends of Palestine
- Egitim Sen Istanbul 6 Nolu Üniversiteler Subesi
- EH Bildu municipal group of Donostia
- Emmaus Bjorka
- Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival
- Familles de prisonniers pour la Justice – Belgique
- Femmes en lutte 93
- Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Manchester
- F.O.R. Palestine (Berlin)
- Framåt kamrater
- Free Gaza Movement
- Free Palestine Movement
- Freedom Archives
- Freedom Road Socialist Organization
- Friends of Palestine Network
- Friends of Sabeel North America
- Frihet åt Ahed Tamimi Göteborg
- Fronte Palestina
- Gaza Action Ireland
- General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS Aix-Marseille)
- General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS France)
- Gents Actieplatform Palestina
- Global Campaign for Palestinian Political Prisoners (GCPPP)
- Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
- Greek Front of Resistance and Solidarity with Palestine “Ghassan Kanafani”
- Green Mountain Solidarity with Palestine
- Greenville for Gaza
- Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN
- Handala Center for Prisoners and Former Prisoners – Palestine
- Harakat Shaab – Lebanon
- HDP Peoples’ Democratic Party
- HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Central Women’s Assembly
- Hilombé Solidaridad
- Human Rights Defenders
- ICAHD
- If Americans Knew
- Independent Jewish Voices – Canada
- Indivisible Midlands
- Inminds Human Rights Group
- intal
- International Action Center
- International Association of Democratic Lawyers
- International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
- International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) Spain
- International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network – Canada
- International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)
- International Red Help
- International Women’s Alliance
- Internationalt Forum – Denmark
- Invictapalestina – Documentation Center
- Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA)
- Irish Socialist Republicans
- ISM France
- Izquierda Unida – Spain
- Jacksonville Community Action Committee
- Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network
- Jericho Movement – National
- Jericho Movement – New York City
- Jersey City Peace Movement
- Jeune Garde Lyon
- Jeunes Révolutionnaires Genève
- Jeunes Révolutionnaires Vaud
- Jewish Liberation Theology Institute
- Jewish People’s Liberation Organization
- Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
- Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/ Palestine
- Jews Against Genocide (JAG)
- Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
- Justice for Palestine Matters
- Justice For Palestinians, Calgary
- Justice for Palestinians – San Jose
- Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines
- Katie Miranda Studios
- Kia Ora Gaza (New Zealand)
- Kickapoo Peace Circle
- Kunstnerhuset
- LA4Palestine
- Labor for Palestine
- Laura Wells for Congress, District 13
- La Voix des Prisonnier.ère.s Politiques de Turquie et Kurdistan
- Le Collectif Rouge Internationaliste pour la libération des prisonniers révolutionnaires (Paris)
- Le Comité d’action et de soutien aux luttes du peuple marocain (Paris)
- League for the Fifth International
- Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre
- Links Ecologisch Forum/Forum Gauche Ecologie – LEF-FGE
- Libérons-les
- London Palestine Action
- Madison-Rafah Sister City Project
- MADRE
- Manchester Boycott Israel Group
- Manchester Palestine Action
- Mouvement Citoyens Palestine
- National Campaign to Free Georges Abdallah – Lebanon
- National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy
- National Lawyers Guild International Committee
- National Lawyers Guild- Massachusetts Chapter
- National Student Federation (Pakistan)
- NavBel
- New Orleans Workers Group
- Newry Palestinian Support Group
- NION (Not In Our Name)
- No One Is Illegal – Vancouver Coast Salish Territories
- NY4Palestine
- NYU Disorientation Guide
- NYU Jewish Voice for Peace
- NZ Palestine Solidarity Network
- Palbox
- Palestina Solidariteit vzw
- Palestine 13
- Palestine Democratic Forum
- Palestine International Network – Lebanon
- Palestine Solidarity Committee – Austin, TX
- Palestine Solidarity Network – Edmonton
- Palestinian Child and Youth Institute (PCYI)
- Palestinian Cultural Club – American University of Beirut
- Palestinian Cultural Club – Beirut
- Palestinian Progressive Student Bloc
- Palestinian Refugee Portal
- Palestinian Support Centre- Kingston ON
- Palestinians and Jews Decolonize
- Palestina Toma La Calle
- Palestinian Youth Movement – USA
- Partido Comunista de España
- Party for Socialism and Liberation
- Paz con Dignidad
- People Power Assembly Queens
- People’s Power Assembly
- Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee
- Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine
- Popular Resistance
- Potere al popolo Biella e Valsesia Party
- Progetto Palestina
- Progressive Palestinian Youth Union
- Progressive Scouts Group – Gaza
- Progressive Student Labor Front (Palestine)
- Project South
- PVDA/PTB (Workers’ Party of Belgium)
- Queer Palestinian Empowerment Network
- RAGE – Réseau d’Agitation Genève
- RedMed Web Network
- Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP
- Republican Network for Unity
- Revolutionary Communist Group (Britain)
- Revolutionary Socialist Movement (Pakistan)
- Revolutionary Workers Party (DİP) (Turkey)
- REVOLUTION (youth movement)
- Rifondazione Comunista Biellese Party
- Right of Return Coalition – Baddawi Camp, Lebanon (composed of 22 organizations)
- Saoradh
- Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- Secours Rouge Belgique / Red Help Belgium
- Secours Rouge Canada
- Secours Rouge Genève
- Sheffield Hallam Palestine Society
- Sheffield Labour Friends of Palestine
- Sheffield Labour Students
- Sheffield Palestine Education Network
- Sodepaz Euskadi
- Solidarity with Palestine St. John’s
- Studenten voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina (SRP-NL)
- Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University
- Students for Justice in Palestine – CCNY
- Students for Justice in Palestine – College of Staten Island
- Students for Justice in Palestine – Houston
- Students for Justice in Palestine – NYU
- Students for Justice in Palestine – Temple University
- Students for Justice in Palestine at University of South Carolina
- Syria Solidarity Movement
- Taqadomy Media Team
- TJA (Tevgera Jinên Azad) – Free Women Movement
- The Bronx Green Party
- The Palestine Project
- The Red Nation
- Toronto BDS Action
- UNADIKUM Association
- United National Antiwar Campaign (UNAC)
- Union of Palestinian Communities and Institutions – Europe
- Unión de Juventudes Comunistas de España
- Unione Democratica Arabe Palestina (UDAP)
- Union des consommateurs musulmans de la région parisienne
- Union juive française pour la paix (UJFP)
- United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network
- United for Palestine Toronto/GTA
- University of Leeds – Palestine Solidarity Group
- University of Sheffield Palestine Society
- UGEP (Unión General de Estudiantes Palestinos Chile)
- US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI)
- US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
- Vermonters for Justice in Palestine
- Victoria Coalition against Israeli Apartheid
- Victory to the Intifada Manchester
- Vlaams-Socialistische Beweging (Flanders)
- Vrede vzw
- WESPAC Foundation
- Within Our Lifetime • United for Palestine
- Women Against Military Madness
- Women In Solidarity With Palestine
- Women for Women’s Humans Rights – New Ways
- Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)
- Women’s Solidarity Foundation (KADAV)-Turkey
- Workers World Party
- YECHOUROUN-Judaisme contre sionisme
- Young Democratic Socialists – University of South Carolina
Materials to Distribute: Freedom for Khalida!
