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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

Video: Palestinian and Arab youth demand freedom for Georges Abdallah

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network in occupied Palestine created a video, gathering together the greetings and salutes of Palestinian and Arab youth in support of imprisoned Lebanese Communist Georges Ibrahim Abdallah.

Georges Abdallah began his 35th year in French prison on 24 October 2018; despite being eligible for release since 1999, he has been denied release repeatedly by the French state, in accordance with repeated pressure by the U.S. State Department. The video was released as part of the international week of action for Georges Abdallah’s freedom.

Participants in the video came from Yafa, Birzeit, Dheisheh, Yarmouk, Haifa and Saida, reflecting the unity of Palestinian strugglers standing with Georges Abdallah.

Bir Zeit University students also released a new song highlighting the case of Georges Abdallah, with the following lyrics:

“Georges, our salutes
You’re still present in us, your comrades
Your shipmast has never bowed
You are the mountains, and you are the wind
You are the struggle, and you are the weapon
You remain the voice of revolutionaries.”

Lyrics: Adham Karajeh
Composition: Yazan Yaqoub, Dua’a al-Omari
Singing: Shadi Warasneh, Oubada Darwish
Rhythm: Hussein Rimawi
Qanun: Ezzedine Said
Oud: Yazan Yaqoub
Video: Ismail Sharafa

The students at Birzeit also engaged in a poster campaign throughout the university and organized a lecture with the cultural committee of the Faculty of Arts, featuring Dr. Ahmed Qatamesh and Ismat Mansour, moderated by Waseem Abu Farha on Thursday, 25 October.

Poster slogans:

“But the salutes of steadfastness that come from behind bars always reach the strugglers.” – Georges Abdallah

“Inside prison, the highest peak of struggle is to continue to insist on asking questions.” – Walid Daqqa

“Palestine will surely be victorious, because of the steadfastness of its prisoners and the struggle of its people.” – Georges Abdallah

31 October, Brussels: Free Mustapha! 105 Days: Enough ! Assez ! Genoeg ! كافي !

Wednesday, 31 October
4:00 pm
Gare Centrale
Carrefour de l’Europe 2
Brussels, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/493714341112807/

A delegation from the Free Mustapha Committee met twice with representatives of the Foreign Ministry. We have demonstrated three times in front of this same ministry.

More than 100 Belgian organizations are demanding the release of Mustapha. 64 personalities have states in the press: no double standards.

Still, Reynders does not act to defend Mustapha Awad, Belgian citizen.

We demonstrated in front of the Israeli embassy: Israel, bolstered by Belgian complicity, has not released Mustapha.

We are fed up. We want Mustapha to be with us again! We will not let this go!

With you, we will say loud and clear on Wednesday, 31 October, in dance, lyrics, performance and song:

Free, Free Mustapha!

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Nous sommes allés voir des représentants du ministère des Affaires étrangères à deux reprises. Nous avons manifesté trois fois devant ce même ministère.

Plus de 100 organisations belges demandent la libération de Mustapha. 64 personnalités ont dit dans la presse : pas de deux poids, deux mesures.

Mais Reynders ne bouge pas pour défendre Mustapha Awad, citoyen belge

Nous avons manifesté devant l’ambassade israélienne : Israël, encouragé par la complicité belge, ne libère pas Mustapha.

Nous en avons marre, nous voulons que Mustapha soit de nouveau parmi nous ! Nous ne le laisserons pas tomber !

Avec vous, nous le dirons haut et fort, le mercredi 31 octobre, en danses, en paroles, en sketches, en chansons :

Free Free Mustapha !!!

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Een delegatie van het Comité Free Mustapha ontmoette twee maal vertegenwoordigersvan het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken. We betoogden drie maal voor hetzelfde ministerie. Meer dans 100 Belgische organisaties vragen reeds de vrijlating van Mustapha Awad. 64 personaliteiten stelden het duidelijk : geen twee maten en twee gewichten als het om mensenrechten gaat.

Maar Didier Reynders onderneemt geen energieke stappen bij de Israëlische regering om Mustapha’s vrijlating te bekomen.

We betoogden voor de Israelische ambassade : maar Israël, aangemoedigd door de Belgische medeplichtigheid, laat Mustapha niet los.

We zijn het beu, we willen Mustapha terug bij ons ! We laten hem niet vallen !

Samen met jullie, zullen we het met kracht zeggen op woensdag 31 october, met speeches, dans, sketches et liedjes :

Free Free Mustapha !!!

Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar’s imprisonment without charge or trial extended again

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.

  1. 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
  2. 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/israelWrite to us at samidoun@samidoun.net or contact us on Facebook to let us know about your action! 
  3.  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.
  4. 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,

  1. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
  2. Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
  3. Al-Awda, The Palestine Right of Return Movement
  4. Action Antifasciste NP2C
  5. Actions4Palestine
  6. Alkarama Movement of Palestinian Women
  7. Al-Quds Day Committee of New York
  8. Alternative Information Center
  9. American Muslims for Palestine – NY/NJ
  10. American Party of Labor
  11. Anticapitalistas
  12. Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland
  13. Anti Internment Group London
  14. Anti-Zionist and Anti-Imperialist Friends of Palestine
  15. ArbeiterInnenmacht (Germany)
  16. Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt (Austria)
  17. Asociación Palestina BILADI
  18. Association Belgo-Palestinienne
  19. Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine (AURDIP)
  20. Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), India
  21. Association France-Palestine Solidarité
  22. Association France-Palestine Solidarité — Groupe du Pays de Cornouaille
  23. AFPS 63 (Association France Palestine Solidarité 63)
  24. AFPS 59/62
  25. AFPS Albertville
  26. AFPS Alès-Cévennes
  27. AFPS Groupe Local Ardèche-Drôme
  28. AFPS Nanterre
  29. AFPS Paris 14-6
  30. Arbetarmakt (Workers Power)
  31. Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina
  32. Assopace Palestina – Italy
  33. ATIK – Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe
  34. BAF – Brigade Antifasciste de Strasbourg
  35. Balfour Declaration Centenary Campaign
  36. BDS Berlin
  37. BDS France Saint-Étienne
  38. BDS France Toulouse
  39. BDS Italia
  40. BDS Turkey
  41. BDS UChile (Universidad de Chile)
  42. BDS Vancouver-Coast Salish
  43. BDS Zürich
  44. Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI)
  45. Biellesi per la Palestina Libera Committee
  46. Black Alliance for Peace
  47. Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (aka Boycott from Within – Israeli citizens for BDS)
  48. Bruxelles Panthéres
  49. Cafe Palestina of the Southern Berkshires
  50. California Coalition for Women Prisoners
  51. Campagne BDS France
  52. Campagne unitaire pour la libération de Georges Ibahim Abdallah (Paris)
  53. Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon
  54. Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
  55. Canada Palestine Association
  56. Canadian BDS Coalition
  57. Canadian Friends of Sabeel
  58. Centre de la Communauté Démocratique Kurde de Toulouse
  59. Cercle de Silence – Amiens
  60. Christchurch Progressive Network
  61. Coalition for Justice – Blacksburg
  62. Coalition of Women for Peace
  63. CODEPINK – Women for Peace
  64. Colectivo Contraimpunidad
  65. Collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien
  66. Collectif de Soutien à la Résistance Palestinienne 59-62
  67. Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine
  68. Collectif Justice pour la Palestine Annecy
  69. Collectif pour la Libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
  70. Colletivo Palestina Rossa
  71. COMAC
  72. Comité Internacional Paz,Justicia y Dignidad a los Pueblos
  73. Comité de Vigilance pour la Démocratie en Tunisie
  74. Comité Poitevin Palestine
  75. Comite pour le Respect des Libetés et des Droits de l Homme en Tunisie CRLDHT
  76. Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient, Luxembourg
  77. Committee to Stop FBI Repression – National
  78. Committee to Stop FBI Repression – NY
  79. Committees for a Democratic Palestine – Europe
  80. Communist Party, Sweden
  81.  Confederation Nationale du Travail / National Confederation of Labor (CNT-f) – International Secretariat
  82. Coordinamento Napoli Palestin
  83. Coordinamento di Solidarietà con la Palestina – Sicilia
  84. Corsica Internaziunalista
  85. Corvallis Palestine Solidarity
  86. Coup Pour Coup 31
  87. DİSK (Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey)
  88. Dones x Dones
  89. Dun Padraig Friends of Palestine
  90. Egitim Sen Istanbul 6 Nolu Üniversiteler Subesi
  91. EH Bildu municipal group of Donostia
  92. Emmaus Bjorka
  93. Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival
  94. Familles de prisonniers pour la Justice – Belgique
  95. Femmes en lutte 93
  96. Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Manchester
  97. F.O.R. Palestine (Berlin)
  98. Framåt kamrater
  99. Free Gaza Movement
  100. Free Palestine Movement
  101. Freedom Archives
  102. Freedom Road Socialist Organization
  103. Friends of Palestine Network
  104. Friends of Sabeel North America
  105. Frihet åt Ahed Tamimi Göteborg
  106. Fronte Palestina
  107. Gaza Action Ireland
  108. General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS Aix-Marseille)
  109. General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS France)
  110. Gents Actieplatform Palestina
  111. Global Campaign for Palestinian Political Prisoners (GCPPP)
  112. Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
  113. Greek Front of Resistance and Solidarity with Palestine “Ghassan Kanafani”
  114. Green Mountain Solidarity with Palestine
  115. Greenville for Gaza
  116. Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN
  117. Handala Center for Prisoners and Former Prisoners – Palestine
  118. Harakat Shaab – Lebanon
  119. HDP Peoples’ Democratic Party
  120. HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Central Women’s Assembly
  121. Hilombé Solidaridad
  122. Human Rights Defenders
  123. ICAHD
  124. If Americans Knew
  125. Independent Jewish Voices – Canada
  126. Indivisible Midlands
  127. Inminds Human Rights Group
  128. intal
  129. International Action Center
  130. International Association of Democratic Lawyers
  131. International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
  132. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) Spain
  133. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network – Canada
  134. International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)
  135. International Red Help
  136. International Women’s Alliance
  137. Internationalt Forum – Denmark
  138. Invictapalestina – Documentation Center
  139. Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
  140. Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA)
  141. Irish Socialist Republicans
  142. ISM France
  143. Izquierda Unida – Spain
  144. Jacksonville Community Action Committee
  145. Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network
  146. Jericho Movement – National
  147. Jericho Movement – New York City
  148. Jersey City Peace Movement
  149. Jeune Garde Lyon
  150. Jeunes Révolutionnaires Genève
  151. Jeunes Révolutionnaires Vaud
  152. Jewish Liberation Theology Institute
  153. Jewish People’s Liberation Organization
  154. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
  155. Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/ Palestine
  156. Jews Against Genocide (JAG)
  157. Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
  158. Justice for Palestine Matters
  159. Justice For Palestinians, Calgary
  160. Justice for Palestinians – San Jose
  161. Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines
  162. Katie Miranda Studios
  163. Kia Ora Gaza (New Zealand)
  164. Kickapoo Peace Circle
  165. Kunstnerhuset
  166. LA4Palestine
  167. Labor for Palestine
  168. Laura Wells for Congress, District 13
  169. La Voix des Prisonnier.ère.s Politiques de Turquie et Kurdistan
  170. Le Collectif Rouge Internationaliste pour la libération des prisonniers révolutionnaires (Paris)
  171. Le Comité d’action et de soutien aux luttes du peuple marocain (Paris)
  172. League for the Fifth International
  173. Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre
  174. Links Ecologisch Forum/Forum Gauche Ecologie – LEF-FGE
  175. Libérons-les
  176. London Palestine Action
  177. Madison-Rafah Sister City Project
  178. MADRE
  179. Manchester Boycott Israel Group
  180. Manchester Palestine Action
  181. Mouvement Citoyens Palestine
  182. National Campaign to Free Georges Abdallah – Lebanon
  183. National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy
  184. National Lawyers Guild International Committee
  185. National Lawyers Guild- Massachusetts Chapter
  186. National Student Federation (Pakistan)
  187. NavBel
  188. New Orleans Workers Group
  189. Newry Palestinian Support Group
  190. NION (Not In Our Name)
  191. No One Is Illegal – Vancouver Coast Salish Territories
  192. NY4Palestine
  193. NYU Disorientation Guide
  194. NYU Jewish Voice for Peace
  195. NZ Palestine Solidarity Network
  196. Palbox
  197. Palestina Solidariteit vzw
  198. Palestine 13
  199. Palestine Democratic Forum
  200. Palestine International Network – Lebanon
  201. Palestine Solidarity Committee – Austin, TX
  202. Palestine Solidarity Network – Edmonton
  203. Palestinian Child and Youth Institute (PCYI)
  204. Palestinian Cultural Club – American University of Beirut
  205. Palestinian Cultural Club – Beirut
  206. Palestinian Progressive Student Bloc
  207. Palestinian Refugee Portal
  208. Palestinian Support Centre- Kingston ON
  209. Palestinians and Jews Decolonize
  210. Palestina Toma La Calle
  211. Palestinian Youth Movement – USA
  212. Partido Comunista de España
  213. Party for Socialism and Liberation
  214. Paz con Dignidad
  215. People Power Assembly Queens
  216. People’s Power Assembly
  217. Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee
  218. Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine
  219. Popular Resistance
  220. Potere al popolo Biella e Valsesia Party
  221. Progetto Palestina
  222. Progressive Palestinian Youth Union
  223. Progressive Scouts Group – Gaza
  224. Progressive Student Labor Front (Palestine)
  225. Project South
  226. PVDA/PTB (Workers’ Party of Belgium)
  227. Queer Palestinian Empowerment Network
  228. RAGE – Réseau d’Agitation Genève
  229. RedMed Web Network
  230. Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP
  231. Republican Network for Unity
  232. Revolutionary Communist Group (Britain)
  233. Revolutionary Socialist Movement (Pakistan)
  234. Revolutionary Workers Party (DİP) (Turkey)
  235. REVOLUTION (youth movement)
  236. Rifondazione Comunista Biellese Party
  237. Right of Return Coalition – Baddawi Camp, Lebanon (composed of 22 organizations)
  238. Saoradh
  239. Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
  240. Secours Rouge Belgique / Red Help Belgium
  241. Secours Rouge Canada
  242. Secours Rouge Genève
  243. Sheffield Hallam Palestine Society
  244. Sheffield Labour Friends of Palestine
  245. Sheffield Labour Students
  246. Sheffield Palestine Education Network
  247. Sodepaz Euskadi
  248. Solidarity with Palestine St. John’s
  249. Studenten voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina (SRP-NL)
  250. Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University
  251. Students for Justice in Palestine – CCNY
  252. Students for Justice in Palestine – College of Staten Island
  253. Students for Justice in Palestine – Houston
  254. Students for Justice in Palestine – NYU
  255. Students for Justice in Palestine – Temple University
  256. Students for Justice in Palestine at University of South Carolina
  257. Syria Solidarity Movement
  258. Taqadomy Media Team
  259. TJA (Tevgera Jinên Azad)  – Free Women Movement
  260. The Bronx Green Party
  261. The Palestine Project
  262. The Red Nation
  263. Toronto BDS Action
  264. UNADIKUM Association
  265. United National Antiwar Campaign (UNAC)
  266. Union of Palestinian Communities and Institutions – Europe
  267. Unión de Juventudes Comunistas de España
  268. Unione Democratica Arabe Palestina (UDAP)
  269. Union des consommateurs musulmans de la région parisienne
  270. Union juive française pour la paix (UJFP)
  271. United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network
  272. United for Palestine Toronto/GTA
  273. University of Leeds – Palestine Solidarity Group
  274. University of Sheffield Palestine Society
  275. UGEP (Unión General de Estudiantes Palestinos Chile)
  276. US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI)
  277. US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
  278. Vermonters for Justice in Palestine
  279. Victoria Coalition against Israeli Apartheid
  280. Victory to the Intifada Manchester
  281. Vlaams-Socialistische Beweging (Flanders)
  282. Vrede vzw
  283. WESPAC Foundation
  284. Within Our Lifetime • United for Palestine
  285. Women Against Military Madness
  286. Women In Solidarity With Palestine
  287. Women for Women’s Humans Rights – New Ways
  288. Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)
  289. Women’s Solidarity Foundation (KADAV)-Turkey
  290. Workers World Party
  291. YECHOUROUN-Judaisme contre sionisme
  292. Young Democratic Socialists – University of South Carolina

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