29 September, Madrid: Ahed Tamimi at Fiesta Madrid with Samidoun

22 September 2018

Saturday, 29 September
6:00 pm
Escenario Trece Rosas
Villa de Vallekas
Madrid, Spain
More details: http://www.fiesta.pce.es/2018/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/379150989269507/

For the end of the occupation of Palestine. Meeting with Ahed Tamimi.
With Ahed Tamimi, Palestinian activist and Charlotte Kates, coordinator of Samidoun (international organization supporting Palestinian prisoners) and Manu Pineda, secretary of International Relations of the Communist Party of Spain.

Por el fin de la ocupación de Palestina. Encuentro con Ahed Tamimi.
Con Ahed Tamimi, activista palestina y Charlotte Kates, coordinadora de Samidoun (organización internacional de apoyo a los presos palestino) y Manu Pineda, secretario de Relaciones Internacionales del PCE.

23 September, Dublin: We Taste Tesco Funding Occupation Vigil

22 September 2018

Sunday, 23 September
2:00 pm
Custom House Square
Dublin, Ireland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/256579355192297/

We call on Tesco to respect your customer’s ethical and moral values.

By continuing to trade with Apartheid Israel you help fund the Israeli economy and the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine, apartheid and violations of international law.

Tesco, Stop profiting from the murder and oppression of innocent civilians.

Boycott Israeli Goods.
Always check the label.
Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions.

Israeli Occupation forces have murdered over 200 people so far this year.

Israeli snipers have murdered over 160 protesters including paramedics, journalists and dozens of children since March 2018.

Israeli snipers have injured over 18,000 unarmed protesters in Gaza since March 2018.

Israel has murdered over 3,000 children in the past 17 years.

“Those who entertained officials from apartheid SA were on the wrong side of history during the 1980s, and those who are entertaining Israel today will be judged harshly by history.”

COSATU, South Africa’s largest trade union federation.

Apartheid – Wrong in South Africa, Wrong in Palestine.

#FullEconomicSanctionsNow

#OfficiallyRecognisePalestine

#ExpelAllIsraeliDiplomatsfromIreland

#BDSIreland

26 September, Brussels: Free Mustapha Awad! Protest at the Israeli embassy

22 September 2018

Wednesday, 26 September
3:00 pm
Sterrewachtlaan 40 Avenue de l’Observatoire
Uccle, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/489626281447469/

EN – It has been two months since our dear friend Mustapha Awad, a Belgian citizen of Palestinian origin, was arbitrarily detained by the Israeli authorities.

Mustapha is an artist and co-founder of the Raj’een Dabkeh Group, a human rights defender, a metalworker and a resident of Aalst. This summer, he decided to visit Palestine, the land of his grandparents.

His arbitrary arrest and detention is very disturbing. Mustapha has been subjected to inhuman treatment, amounting to torture, while under interrogation. During these two months of detention, Mustapha has been denied even the opportunity to call his family. On October 2, he will appear for the third time before an Israeli court.

2,668 people have signed the Free Mustapha Committee’s petition in the last month calling for Mustapha’s release. 177 organizations have signed this petition, including 84 Belgian organizations.

Join us to raise our voices for Mustapha’s freedom. Demonstrate in front of the Israeli Embassy, ??Avenue de l’Observatoire 40, 1180 Uccle, on Wednesday, 26 September, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm.

#FreeMustapha

FR – Aujourd’hui, cela fait deux mois que notre ami Mustapha Awad, Belge, d’origine palestinienne a été arrêté arbitrairement par les autorités israéliennes.

Mustapha est artiste, cofondateur du Raj’een Dabkeh Group, activiste pour les droits humains, ouvrier métallo, habitant d’Alost. Cet été, il avait décidé de visiter la Palestine, la terre de ses grands-parents.

Cette arrestation arbitraire et cette détention sont très inquiétantes. Mustapha a été victime de traitements inhumains, relevant de la torture, au moment des interrogatoires. Mustapha, pendant ces deux mois de détention, n’a toujours pas eu la possibilité de téléphoner à sa famille. Il comparaîtra pour la troisième fois devant une cour israélienne le 2 octobre prochain.

Des amis de Mustapha, les membres de son groupe de danse et des représentants d’organisations pour la Palestine ont formé le Comité Free Mustapha.

Ce comité a récolté en un mois de temps 2.668 signatures pour une pétition réclamant sa libération. 177 organisations ont signé cette pétition, parmi lesquelles 84 organisations belges.

Faites entendre votre voix pour la libération de Mustapha, rejoignez-nous devant l’ambassade israélienne le mercredi 26 septembre de 15h à 16h30, avenueue de l’Observatoire 40, 1180 Uccle.

NL – Vandaag is het precies 2 maand geleden dat onze vriend, Mustapha Awad, Belg van Palestijnse origine, op willekeurige gronden werd gearresteerd door de Israëlische autoriteiten.

Mustapha is artiest, medeoprichter van de Raj’een Dabkeh Group, mensenrechtenactivist, arbeider in de metaalsector en inwoner van Aalst.
Deze zomer besliste hij Palestina, het land van zijn grootouders, te bezoeken.

Deze willekeurige aanhouding en hechtenis zijn zeer verontrustend.
Mustapha onderging onmenselijke behandelingen tijdens zijn ondervragingen.
Ook kon Mustapha gedurende deze twee maanden gevangenschap nog geen enkel contact hebben met zijn familie.
Op 2 oktober verschijnt hij voor de derde keer voor een Israëlische rechtbank.

Vrienden van Mustapha, de leden van zijn dansgezelschap en vertegenwoordigers van Palestina verenigingen richtten het Comité Free Mustapha op.

In één maand tijd haalde dit Comité 2668 handtekeningen op via een petitie voor zijn onmiddellijke vrijlating.
177 organisaties, waaronder 84 Belgische, ondertekenden deze petitie.

Laat je stem horen voor de vrijlating van Mustapha, kom mee betogen op woensdag 26 september van 15u tot 16u30 aan de Israëlische ambassade, Sterrenwachtlaan 40 te 1180 Ukkel.

10 days for action: Demand France pressure Israel to free Salah Hamouri now

20 September 2018

Salah Hamouri, the French-Palestinian lawyer held without charge or trial under administrative detention, will see his current detention order expire on 30 September. These expiration dates have come and gone in the past with much sorrow, as his detention has been repeatedly renewed, approved by far-right, racist Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Dozens of French cities and towns and over 1,700 elected officials have joined the call for the release of Hamouri, who is a French citizen as well as a Palestinian Jerusalemite. However, despite weak requests for Hamouri’s release, the French government inaugurated the “France-Israel season” with a showy joint celebration featuring President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

On 16 September, Elsa Lefort, coordinator of the campaign and Hamouri’s wife – herself barred from Palestine by the Israeli occupation – spoke before the annual Fete de l’Humanite in Paris, urging freedom for Hamouri:

The campaign to free Salah Hamouri has issued a call for urgent messages to French president Emmanuel Macron, demanding action and serious pressure from the French government for Salah’s release, using the hashtag: #LiberezSalah

Facebook: Emmanuel Macron / Élysée – Présidence de la République française
Twitter: https://twitter.com/emmanuelmacron
Instagram: www.instagram.com/emmanuelmacron/
Mail: http://www.elysee.fr/ecrire-au-president-de-la-republique/

Sample short message suitable for Twitter, Facebook or Instagram:

La détention administrative est une emprisonnement arbitraire et illégale utilisée par Israël pour opprimer le peuple palestinien. Le président Macron doit exiger la libération immédiate et inconditionnelle de Salah Hamouri avec la plus grande force. #LiberezSalah

Administrative detention is arbitrary and illegal imprisonment used by Israel to oppress the Palestinian people. President Macron must call for the immediate and unconditional release of Salah Hamouri with the greatest strength. #LiberezSalah

Two months of detention for Belgian Mustapha Awad: committee calls for action

20 September 2018

The Free Mustapha Committee issued the following press release on 19 September, the two-month anniversary of the detention of Belgian-Palestinian artist and metalworker Mustapha Awad. Samidoun joins the Committee in reiterating its demand for the immediate, unconditional release of Mustapha Awad and for action on the part of the Belgian government to defend its citizen subjected to arbitrary detention, torture and political imprisonment. To sign on to the call to action, visit the campaign form. We urge all to attend the protest next Wednesday in Brussels to demand Mustapha’s freedom!

Press release, Wednesday, 19 September

Today marks two months since our dear friend Mustapha Awad, a Belgian citizen of Palestinian origin, was arbitrarily detained by the Israeli authorities.

Friends of Mustapha, fellow members of his dance troupe and representatives of organizations defending Palestinian rights have come together to form the Free Mustapha Committee.

This committee has collected 2,668 signatures in one month for a petition calling for Mustapha’s release. 177 organizations have signed this petition, including 84 Belgian organizations (see list below).

More than 300 people participated in a photo campaign, including prominent figures such as:: Alain Platel, founder of Ballets C de la B; Anya Topolski, founder of EAJS, Een Andere Joodse Stem (Another Jewish Voice); Robert Vertenueil, President of the FGTB-ABVV; Fatiha Dahmani, union secretary of LBC-NVK; Anne Morelli, retired professor at the Free University of Brussels and Belgian historian; Eyal Sivan, Israeli filmmaker and writer; Josy Dubié, former journalist and senator; Dominique Surleau, General Secretary of Présence et Action Culturelles (PAC) …

The signatories of the petition call on Belgium to assume its responsibilities and protect its citizens.

The Free Mustafa Committee praises the work of the administration and the consul, who met Mustapha several times. The Committee expects that Minister Reynders must address Prime Minister Netanyahu rapidly and that Mustapha, who has been detained for 62 days, must be released as soon as possible.

In the meantime, the Free Mustapha Committee is calling for a demonstration in front of the Israeli Embassy, Avenue de l’Observatoire 40, 1180 Uccle, on Wednesday, 26 September, from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm.

The Free Mustapha Committee

Belgian and International Endorsing Organizations: (visit the campaign form to add your group today)

ACV-CSC Brussel-halle-vilvoorde internationaal verantwoordelijke
Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS)
AFPS 63
AFPS Nord-Pas de Calais
AFPS Paris-Sud
Al Arte
Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition – NY
American Muslims for Palestine – NY
Amitié Sans Frontières, Vriendschap Zonder Grenzen
Anakbayan EU
Antwerp for Palestine
Article 1 Collective
Artistes contre le mur
Asbl Aljabal
Asociacion Biladi
Association Belgo-Palestinienne
Association Charente Palestine Solidarite
Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine (AURDIP)
Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), India
Association Marocaine des Droits Humains
Bacbi: Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
BADIL
BDS Berlin
BDS ULB
Be Pa
Black4Palestine
BRussells Tribunal
Bruxelles Panthères
Canada Palestine Association-Vancouver
Casa del Mundo Aalst
Centre Culturel Arabe en Pays de Liège
Cercle des Étudiants Arabo-Européens de l’ULB
Change asbl
Christian Peacemaker Teams
Climaxi
Comité BDS Bruxelles
Comité de Vigilance pour la Démocratie en Tunisie
Comité pour une Paix Juste au Proche-Orient
CPJPO, Luxembourg
Comité Unité
Comite Verviers Palestine
Communauté Palestinienne en Belgique
Communist Party of Belgium
Communist Party (Sweden)
Coup Pour Coup 31
CSC Charleroi-Sambre & Meuse
Cubanismo
Dar al Janub – Union for antiracism and peace policy
Diensten en Onderzoek Centrum Palestina (docP)
ECCP – European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine
ECOLO J
Een Andere Joodse Stem / Another Jewish Voice
Eglise Protestante Baptise La Fraternité
Entraide et Fraternité/Vivre Ensemble
EuroPalestine
Familles de prisonniers pour la justice (Belgique)
FGTB
FGTB Métal Charleroi
FGTB Charleroi Centrale Générale
FGTB Wallonie
Filipino Refugees in the Netherlands (FREN)
Freedom Archives
Free Palestine Movement
French Friends of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin
Front Uni des Immigrations et des quartiers populaires (FUIQP)
Gaffi asbl
GAPP (Gents ActiePlatform Palestina)
GVHV / MPLP
Greek Front of Resistance and Solidarity with Palestine “Ghassan Kanafani”
Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN
GUPS Aix-Marseille
Hand in Hand
Hannah vzw
Honduraswerkgroep
Independent Jewish Voices – Canada
Inminds Human Rights Group
Intal
International Action Center
IJAN, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)
Internationalt forum – Middle East group
Investig’Action
Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
ISM-Northern California
Jacksonville Community Action Committee
Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
Jeunes Organisés et Combatifs – JOC
Justice Sans Frontières JSF Belgium
KARAPATAN
Käthe Kollwitz Vredesloop
Labor for Palestine
LBC-NVK
Le Space
Leuvense Actiegroep Palestina
Ligue des Droits de l’Homme de Liege
Links Ecologisch Forum/Forum Gauche Ecologie
London Palestine Action
Manchester Boycott Israel Group
Maramya ASBL
Mouvement Chrétien pour la Paix
MOC de Charleroi-Thuin
Mouvement Citoyen Palestine
Mouvement ouvrier chrétien (MOC)
NAIS/SAF/Vrouwen tegen fascism-racism
National Democratic Front of the Philippines
National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee
Nederlands Palestina Komitee
NPPF Belgium
NY4Palestine
NZ Palestine Solidarity Network (New Zealand)
OCML VP
Paix Juste au Proche-Orient Ittre
Palestina Solidariteit
Palestina Solidariteit Herent / 11.11.11-Herent
Palestina Solidariteit Wetteren
Palestine Solidarity Committee – Austin, Texas
Palestine Democratic Forum
Palestinian Rights committee, Albany New York USA
Parallelo Palestina
Partido Communista de Espana
Partij van de Arbeid (PVDA) / Parti du Travail de Belgique (PTB)
Party for Socialism and Liberation
Peoples Video Network
Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee
Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine
Plateforme Palestine Watermael-Boitsfort
Porte-parole du Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine
Presence et Action Culturelles
Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide
PVDA Antwerpen
Raad voor Internationale Samenwerking Aalst
Raj’een Dabkeh Group
Refuchances
Rise Up
Rojava Solidarity
SAIA York (Students Against Israeli Apartheid, York University)
Samidoun Göteborg
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Secours Rouge Canada
Secours Rouge de Belgique
Solidaris – Union Nationale des Mutualités Socialistes
Solidaris Namur
Solidarité Maroc05
Solidarity4All
Studenten voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina – Amsterdam
Students for Justice in Palestine Houston
Students for Justice in Palestine, Temple University
Students for Justice in Palestine UCSB
Students for Justice in Palestine VUB
Students for Justice in Palestine, University of South Carolina
SUD Solidaires
The Rights Forum
Unadikum
Union générale des femmes palestiniennes en Belgique et au Luxembourg
UJFP – Union juive française pour la paix
Union of Palestinian Communities and Institutions – Europe
Union syndicale étudiante (USE)
UPB (Ugnayang Pilipino Belgium)
UPJB | Union des Progressistes Juifs de Belgique
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Via Velo Palestina
Victoria Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid
Victory to the Intifada (Manchester)
Vie Féminine
Viva Salud (Belgian NGO, formerly G3W/M3M)
Vrede vzw
Vriendschap صداقة
Vrouwen in het Zwart, Vrouwen voor Vrede
Vrouwen in het Zwart, Maastricht
V-SB (Flemish Socialist Movement)
vzw Victoria Deluxe
WALPURGIS
Werkgroep Vluchtelingen Gent vzw
Werkgroep Vrede en Ontwikkeling Watermaal-Bosvoorde
WESPAC Foundation
Women in Black (Vienna)

Free Raja Eghbarieh! Abnaa el-Balad movement leader targeted for Israeli persecution

19 September 2018

Palestinian leader Raja Eghbarieh, a longtime leader of the leftist Palestinian Abna’a el-Balad movement in occupied Palestine ’48, was seized by Israeli forces from his home in Umm el-Fahm on the morning of Tuesday, 11 September. His detention has been extended on several occasions and he will be once again brought before an Israeli court on Thursday, 20 September.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses our strongest solidarity with Raja Eghbarieh, and we demand the release of this Palestinian national leader. His imprisonment highlights the reality that all Palestinians face a systematic settler colonial system of racist oppression and political persecution and imprisonment. We urge friends and supporters of Palestine around the world to take up the call and join the campaign to free Raja Eghbarieh!

Israeli “anti-crime” police stormed the family home in Umm al-Fahm while Eghbarieh’s wife, Ilham Odeh, and daughter Anat were still wearing pajamas. Police seized three computers in the house, including those that belonged to Anat and Ilham. They did not confirm where he was being held until the following day after he was taken from his family home.

Upon his arrest, he was interrogated for seven hours in Megiddo prison before being transferred to solitary confinement. Eghbarieh, 67, was not allowed to receive his medications to treat breathing problems; three days into his isolation, his lawyers filed an objection to the inhuman and degrading treatment to which he was being subjected. He has been denied family visits until the present day.

*Photo: Raja Eghbarieh taken to Israeli court*

The Israeli occupation is accusing Eghbarieh of “incitement to terrorism and violence” for giving public political speeches and writing on social media about the struggle of the Palestinian people for liberation. Al-Akhbar newspaper reported that the Israeli forces’ interrogation of Eghbarieh focused on his political activities, the work of Abna’a el-Balad and the meaning of his position in the movement. The founding general secretary of the movement elected at its national conference in 1990, he today serves as a member of its political bureau.

This is not the first time he was detained; he and 10 other leaders of the Abnaa el-Balad movement were held without charge or trial under administrative detention in 1987 after playing a leading role in a general strike within Palestine ’48 as part of the first Intifada. He has been arrested on multiple occasions by Israeli forces over his years of struggle.

Israeli prosecutors are allegedly labeling him a “danger to the state” for his words of struggle and justice for Palestine, illustrating the reality that the settler-colonial Zionist state built on the dispossession of the indigenous people of the land is “endangered” by Palestinian truth and reality.

*Photo: Raja Eghbarieh speaks at a public event*

Palestinian political leaders also noted that Eghbarieh’s arrest comes in the context of ongoing discussions throughout the Palestinian liberation movement and especially those inside occupied Palestine ’48 about new steps of unity and confrontation of the Zionist state. These discussions have escalated after the passage of the “nation-state law” and the growing disillusionment with participation in the Knesset as a means of fighting for Palestinian rights. In Al-Akhbar, they noted that the arrest of Eghbarieh appears to be another attempt to block a promising Palestinian political project from coming to fruition.

“The occupation is disturbed by every political or national activity carried out by any Palestinian on the ground….the nation-state law did not surprise us, the state’s ideology and racism do not need the enactment of new laws. What it fears most is our political unity,” said Ilham Odeh, Eghbarieh’s wife and comrade. “The Israeli occupation authorities do not intimidate us with their arrests or their failed attempts to destroy the Abnaa el-Balad movement…We are absolutely certain that all of this is part of the political persecution of the movement, its leaders and the Palestinian leadership within the occupied homeland,” she said.

*Protesters call for Raja Eghbarieh’s freedom on 16 September.*

Supporters of Eghbarieh, the Abnaa el-Balad movement and Palestinian liberation protested outside the Hadera court on 16 September as Eghbarieh’s detention was extended once again. Throughout the proceedings, his lawyers have continued to insist that his words are public and he stands behind them with pride in commitment to the struggle for the liberation of the Palestinian people. Nevertheless, the Israeli prosecution read out lists of names of people – all Palestinian Arabs in occupied Palestine ’48 – prosecuted for posting about politics on Facebook. The Free Haifa blog also noted that the police spokesperson noted that Eghbarieh “writes many posts and receives many likes and shares” as a justification for his continued detention.

Perhaps the best-known such case is that of Dareen Tatour, the Palestinian poet currently serving out the final two months of her prison sentence after three years under house arrest for publicly posting about politics and sharing her poetry on Facebook and Youtube. Another key case in the ongoing repression of Palestinians in occupied Palestine ’48 has been that of Sheikh Raed Salah, repeatedly arrested, imprisoned and subject to solitary confinement.

TAKE ACTION!

Palestinians in occupied Palestine ’48 – like their sisters and brothers throughout Palestine and internationally – are under attack. Take action to defend Raja Eghbarieh and demand his freedom!

Join the social media campaign! Like and share the Free Raja Eghbarieh facebook page. Take a photo with our Free Raja Eghbarieh poster – either a selfie or a group photo – and share it on Facebook, Instagram or your favorite social platform.
Organize or participate in a protest, demonstration or other gathering or event to free Raja Eghbarieh and free Palestine! Bring posters and organize or attend a protest for Palestine. Hold a community event or discussion. Find your nearest Israeli embassy here: https://embassy.goabroad.com/embassies-of/israel – or hold an activity in a popular area of town. Write to us at samidoun@samidoun.net or contact us on Facebook to let us know about your action!
. 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.

Free Georges Abdallah! Mobilize October 17-24 for the International Week of Action

19 September 2018

International Call for Action | Take Action | Events | Materials and Resources

On 24 October 2018, we will mark the 34th anniversary of the arrest of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, revolutionary Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine, by French police. Since 1984, he has remained behind bars, one of the longest-held political prisoners in the world. From 17-24 October 2018, join Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, the campaign to Free Georges Abdallah and organizations in France and around the world. Organize protests, campaign on social media and distribute information this week in your community to demand freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners!

“We are chained by the common injustices manufactured in the United States of America, which are the same ones used in Palestine, and I do not doubt that there are many examples in all of the strongholds of imperialism.…Until we meet one day in the world of freedom, you remain a symbol and a model for us to follow.” – Ahmad Sa’adat (imprisoned PFLP General Secretary) to Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Georges Abdallah has been committed throughout his life to the revolutionary struggle in Lebanon and the liberation of Palestine – and to a revolutionary vision of human liberation. He worked with the Palestinian leftist organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, resisting Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Later, he joined other Lebanese revolutionary leftists in the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, pointing to a non-sectarian, socialist and revolutionary path to liberation for the people of Lebanon, faced with civil war militias and Israeli invasion and occupation.

Georges Abdallah was originally arrested for allegedly carrying false documents; his detention was repeatedly extended as French intelligence searched for information to charge him with involvement in armed actions that killed a U.S. diplomat and an Israeli representative in Paris. Even one of his lawyers was reportedly involved in spying on Abdallah for the French intelligence agency. While he was supposed to be exchanged with prisoners held by Arab revolutionaries, the French state reneged after obtaining their own prisoners, keeping Abdallah as a prisoner.

In 1987, when Georges Abdallah was sentenced, he was expected to receive a lengthy sentence of ten yearsor less – as recommended by the prosecutor in his case. Instead, he received a life sentence, as argued by a private lawyer representing the U.S. government.

Today, Georges Abdallah remains behind bars. Despite being eligible for release since 1999, his parole applications have been denied repeatedly. Even when he has achieved a victory in court, French officials like former Prime Minister Manuel Valls have intervened at the highest levels to block his release. U.S. officials like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have also intervened in an attempt to keep Georges Abdallah in prison. In essence, Georges Abdallah is a prisoner not only of the French colonial state but also of U.S. imperialism and the Israeli occupation. Meanwhile, the Lebanese government has failed to live up to its responsibility in seeking the freedom of its imprisoned countryman.

Despite being held in Lannemezan prison for 34 years of his life, Georges Abdallah is an active participant in struggle. He has written letters and issued statements in response to revolutionary struggles around the world and always maintains a special eye toward the Palestinian prisoners, who have declared him one of their own.

His words continue to inspire generations of revolutionaries, strugglers and freedom fighters. And his participation is not limited to words – indeed, he has refused meals and organized his Basque and Arab fellow prisoners in Lannemezan to do so as well, in solidarity with the hunger strikes of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

This year, we call on you to join us, in your cities, communities, neighborhoods, camps, towns and campuses, to organize events, protests, marches and activities to demand freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners from 17 to 24 October, 2018. The central event of the week will be the 20 October mass march in Lannemezan for Georges Abdallah’s freedom. Events are also being organized in countries around the world, and past weeks have included actions in the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Gree

Georges Abdallah is not alone; his imprisonment is part and parcel of that of nearly 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails and the prisoners of Palestine in U.S. and other international jails – as well as the prisoners of struggles against capitalism, racism and imperialism around the world.

Georges Abdallah and his fellow prisoners are imprisoned in an attempt to silence and suppress the anti-colonial struggle of the Palestinian people for justice, liberation and return. However, despite all repression, their leadership remains a symbol of hope and inspiration to all those who struggle for freedom. Join the movement to free Georges Abdallah, free Palestinian political prisoners and free Palestine, from the river to the sea!

TAKE ACTION:

1. Organize events, actions and protests at French embassies and consulates around the world. Where there is not a French consulate, protest at U.S. or Israeli embassies and consulates and in public squares. Send us your events! Use this form or email samidoun@samidoun.net

2. Join the broad national protest in Lannemezan on 20 October. Every year, hundreds arrive to demand George’s freedom, raising a call so loud the prisoners can hear us inside. Don’t miss this year’s action!

3. Distribute this call to action and take media actions, like posting photos with posters calling for freedom for Georges Abdallah and other Palestinian prisoners.

4. Endorse this call! Join in the call for events and actions for the prisoners this October. Use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net

5. Share the materials below and use our social media materials, like the poster at the top of this page or our Facebook cover photo, below:

Events:

Martigues: Speaking About Georges Abdallah

Sunday, 7 October
1:30 pm
Le Rallumeur d’étoiles – Café associatif
Quai Brescon
13500 Martigues, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/311946046268481/

Marseille: A Month for Georges Abdallah

October 2018
Marseille, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/151408189138566/

Berlin: Protest to free Raja Eghbarieh, Georges Abdallah and all Palestinian Prisoners

Saturday, 13 October
12:00 pm
Alexanderplatz
Berlin, Germany

Manchester: Victory to Palestine! Free Georges Abdallah!

Saturday, 13 October
12:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/863503310705696/

Toulouse: Information stand for Georges Abdallah

Saturday, 13 October
2:00 pm
Metro Capitole
Toulouse, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1234469550011712/

Birzeit: Seminar on Georges Abdallah and Palestinian Strugglers from Outside Palestine

Wednesday, 17 October
1:00 pm
Birzeit University
Faculty of Arts
Hall no. 102
Birzeit, Palestine
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/199661224153549/

Shatila: Lecture on the case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Friday, 19 October
5:00 pm
Palestinian Chess Club
Shatila Refugee Camp
Lebanon

Gothenburg: Victory to the Palestinian liberation struggle!

Friday, 19 October
5:30 pm
Brunnsparken
Gothenburg, Sweden
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/309184616544806/

Paris: Bus departing to the national protest in Lannemezan

Friday night, 19 October
Paris, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2127880644153411/

Lannemezan: National protest for the liberation of Georges Abdallah

Saturday, 20 October
2:00 pm
Gare de Lannemezan
Lannemezan, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/656186514764030/

More buses from Toulouse: leaves 11:30 am from Metro Basso Cambo, email couppourcoup31@gmail.com
from Paris: email campagne.unitaire.gabdallah@gmail.com
from Montpellier: email npa@npa34.org
from Bordeaux: leaves 9:15 am from place Ravezies, email liberte.pour.georges@gmail.com
from Marseille: more info at https://www.lepotcommun.fr/pot/99sds8ij

Tunis: Protest at the French Embassy in Solidarity with Georges Abdallah

Saturday, 20 October
2:30 pm
French Embassy
Avenue Habib Bourguiba
Tunis, Tunisia
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/327480194683643/

Milan: Freedom for the Revolutionary Prisoners! 34 years of repression, 34 years of resistance

Saturday, 20 October
3:00 pm
Viale Padova
Milan, Italy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/183754312502914/

Brussels: Concert in solidarity with Mustapha Awad

Saturday, 20 October
6:30 pm
Projection Room
55 rue de Praetere
Uccle, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/295688327687183/

Saida: Cultural Evening of Solidarity for Georges Abdallah

Saturday, 20 October
6:00 pm
Maarouf Saad Cultural Center
Saida, Lebanon

Ramallah: Protest to Free Georges Abdallah

Sunday, 21 October
5:00 pm
Manara Square
Ramallah, Palestine

Geneva: Letter Writing Evening for Georges Abdallah

Wednesday, 24 October
8:00 pm
Cafe Gavroche
Boulevard James-Fazy 4
Geneva, Switzerland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/695368644169180/

Athens: Demonstration for Freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Wednesday, 24 October
6:00 pm
French Embassy
Akadimias and Leof. Vasilissis Sofias
Athens, Greece

Belfast: Irish Solidarity for the Release of Georges Abdallah

Wednesday, 24 October
7:00 pm
International Wall
Belfast, Ireland
More info: https://irsp.ie/irish-solidarity-for-the-release-of-georges-abdallah-protest-belfast-intl-wall-wed-24th-7pm/

Materials and Information:

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Posters for Georges Abdallah Protests

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Resources on Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

Coup Pour Coup 31
International Campaign to Free Georges Abdallah
Free Georges Abdallah
Al-Akhbar English Georges Abdallah Archive
Exposing the Farce of French Justice
Free Georges Abdallah on Facebook

15 September, Britain: National Day of Action – tell HSBC to #StopArmingIsrael

9 September 2018

Saturday, 15 September
All Day
See the Facebook page for event list, updates and more: https://www.facebook.com/events/2121569091495925/

Events include:
Manchester
1:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/558048361277258/

Supporters of Palestinian human rights will be taking action around the country on 15th September calling on HSBC to end its investments in Israel’s arms trade.

HSBC holds shares several arms companies which supply the Israeli military with weapons used regularly in attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

These include Elbit Systems which makes drones used by Israel in Gaza. It was recently revealed that Elbit’s Hermes 450 drone was part of a 2014 attack in which four Palestinian children were killed on a beach in Gaza while playing football.

In total, HSBC holds over £800m worth of shares in, and is involved in syndicated loans worth over £19bn to, companies that sell weapons and military equipment to the Israeli government. HSBC is part of the chain of complicity.

There have been actions and protests up and down the country at HSBC branches for 18 months and it is important we grow the movement now to pressure HSBC in to ending their links to Israel’s arms trade.

Join the campaign to expose and end HSBC’s investments in Israel’s arms trade by taking action at your local branch.

Find and join your local action:
https://www.palestinecampaign.org/events/hsbc-day-of-action/

Facebook events for some of the above:

* Manchester https://goo.gl/x4cQKN
* Birmingham https://goo.gl/KyDd8p
* Luton https://goo.gl/GWTFDv
* Lewisham https://goo.gl/p762v6
* Northampton https://goo.gl/vJEuCx
* Wellingborough https://goo.gl/5iS782
* Tower Hamlets https://bit.ly/2NWhFGP

12 September, Vancouver: Tell David Eby – No Complicity With Israeli Occupation & War Crimes

8 September 2018

Wednesday, 12 September
1:30 pm
2909 W. Broadway
Vancouver BC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/525583607887411/

TELL DAVID EBY TO END COMPLICITY IN ISRAELI OCCUPATION AND WAR CRIMES!

David Eby, BC’s Attorney General, is responsible for the provincial Liquor Distribution Branch. For many years, there has been an ongoing local campaign to call for a boycott of Israeli wines, many of them produced in the Occupied Territories, which are being sold in our publicly owned BC Liquor Stores. We had hoped that the NDP government would be more concerned with these blatant violations of international human rights; we asked Mr. Eby to respond to this issue but received exactly the same response we got from previous governments, which was to completely ignore the issues raised and instead focus solely on “personal choice”.

The wines in question are either from the Galil Winery, which is a joint venture with the Golan Heights Winery (the name of which speaks for itself), or from the occupied West Bank, including the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc around Jerusalem. Two wines of particular note are the Efrat Judean Hills Kosher and Vision Malbec, both produced by the Israeli Teperberg Winery. This winery openly states that some of its vineyards are in occupied Palestinian territories and even provides a map on its website showing vineyards in the occupied West Bank.

One of the Teperberg vineyards is in the illegal Israeli settlement of Mevo Horon according to the progressive Israeli research group “Who Profits”. This particular settler enclave is in the Latrun area of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and is close to the infamous “Canada Park” built by the Jewish National Fund on the rubble of 3 Palestinian villages with Canadian tax-deductible monies.

All of this is in direct contravention of the Fourth Geneva Convention and “stated” Canadian policy. Detailed information on Israeli wineries can be found in the exhaustive study done by “Who Profits” entitled Forbidden Fruit: Israeli Wine Industry and Occupation.

This campaign was initially launched 10 years ago and was endorsed by 22 local and international groups. At that time, the Israeli government had announced plans to “rebrand” its 60 years of dispossession and ethnic cleansing; sadly, we are now at 70 years of Palestinian dispossession and the situation for Palestinians, especially in Gaza, is worsening by the day. Our educational pickets have also highlighted the parallels between the campaign in BC against South African apartheid wines09 09 and our campaign. The response to these actions has been encouraging and additionally, other activists in eastern Canada have launched a lawsuit against the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for mislabelling these wines as “made in Israel”.

Please support our campaign to tell David Eby and the BC government that they do not represent us by stocking these wines, which are the fruit of a brutal occupation. As our South African brothers and sisters said many years ago on the streets of Vancouver, Don’t Drink with Apartheid!!
More info: https://whoprofits.org/company/teperberg-1870

12 September, Berlin: Women Under Occupation – A Talk with Manal Tamimi

8 September 2018

Wednesday, 12 September
7:00 pm
Reuterstrasse 52
Berlin, Germany
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/305156766939341/

The village of Nabi Saleh has been conducting protest against the occupation and confiscation of its lands since 2010. In this period of time, almost all of the participating activists have been arrested, attacked and injured. Three activists of the village have been killed by the Israeli army, and most of the village´s youth are imprisoned in almost any given time. Imprisonment, solidarity and resistance have become focal points of the struggle of Nabi Saleh.

Recently brought again into the public eye through the arrest of 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi and her mother Nariman, who suffered harassment and abuse in their 9 months in prison, the village is known for the significant participation of women activists in its protests. In this way, the women of the village are double oppressed – through their own arrests and targeting of their homes and lives, as well as through the targeting of their families, children and partners.

Manal Tamimi is a long-time activist from Nabi Saleh, who has been active in the village´s struggle since its inception. She herself was imprisoned and injured, and several of her children are currently in jail. Manal is not only active in the struggles on the ground, but also, through social media and appearances, in bringing the cause of the struggle abroad. In the talk she will discuss the role of women in the resistance, experiences of imprisonment and oppression and the possibilities of practical solidarity with Palestine in Europe.

The event is co-hosted by Gefangeninfo and local activists. In English with translation to German.

Frauen unter Besatzung – ein Gespräch mit Manal Tamimi

Seit 2010 organisiert das Dorf Nabi Saleh Proteste gegen die Besatzung und Enteignung seines Landes. In diesem Zeitraum wurden fast alle beteiligten Aktivisten verhaftet, angegriffen und verletzt. Drei Aktivisten des Dorfes sind von der israelischen Armee getötet worden, und die meisten Jugendlichen des Dorfes sind beinahe durchweg inhaftiert. Haft, Solidarität und Widerstand sind zum Fokus des Kampfes von Nabi Saleh geworden.

Das Dorf, das durch die Verhaftung der 17-jährigen Ahed Tamimi und ihrer Mutter Nariman, die in ihren 9 Monaten im Gefängnis Schikanen und Misshandlungen erlitten, erst kürzlich wieder in der Öffentlichkeit stand, ist bekannt für die erhebliche Beteiligung von weiblichen Aktivistinnen innerhalb seiner Proteste. Auf diese Weise werden die Frauen des Dorfes doppelt unterdrückt – durch ihre eigene Inhaftierung und die Angriffe auf ihre Häuser und ihr Leben sowie durch die Angriffe auf ihre Familien, Kinder und Partner.

Manal Tamimi ist eine langjährige Aktivistin aus Nabi Saleh, die im Kampf des Dorfes aktiv war, seitdem dieser entstand. Sie selbst wurde eingesperrt und verletzt, und mehrere ihrer Kinder befinden sich derzeit im Gefängnis. Manal ist nicht nur aktiv in den Kämpfen vor Ort, sondern auch in sozialen Medien und durch Auftritte, um den Grund für die Kämpfe im Ausland zu vermitteln. In dem Vortrag wird sie über die Rolle der Frau im Widerstand, über die Erfahrungen von Inhaftierung und Unterdrückung und über die Möglichkeiten praktischer Solidarität mit Palästina in Europa sprechen.

Die Veranstaltung wird gemeinsam vom Gefangeninfo und lokalen Aktivist*innen veranstaltet. Auf Englisch mit Flusterübersetzung ins Deutsche.

نساء تحت الاحتلال – حديث مع منال التميمي

منذ عام ٢٠١٠ وحتى هذا اليوم، تقوم قرية النبي صالح الفلسطينية المحتلة بالتظاهر المستمر ضد الإحتلال الإسرائيلي لها. خلال هذه الفترة، قامت قوات الإحتلال بالإعتداء على جميع الناشطين/ات واعتقالهم/ن، فإستشهد على الأقل ٣ نشطاء من أهالي القرية وسجن معظم شبابها في سجون الإحتلال. أصبح السجن والتضامن والمقاومة نقاطًا محورية في صراع قرية النبي صالح.

وفي الآونة الأخيرة، تسلطت الأنظار على قرية النبي صالح مجدداً بعد أن قامت قوات الإحتلال الإسرائيلي بإعتقال وسجن الناشطة الشابة “عهد التميمي” البالغة من العمر ١٧ عاما، ووالدتها ناريمان التميمي، حيث تعرضتا لشتّى أشكال التحقيق والإبتزاز والمضايقات على يد قوات الاحتلال خلال الأشهر التسعة التي قضيناها في سجون الاحتلال.

وتشتهر القرية بمشاركات كبيرة للناشطات في التظاهرات. لهذا السبب، تتعرض نساء القرية للقمع المزدوج – من خلال إستهدافهن وإعتقالهن كأفراد و ومن خلال إستهداف منازلهن وأسرهن وأطفالهن وشركائهن.

منذ نشأتها في قريتها المحتلة، برزت منال التميمي في نضال القرية ضد الإحتلال، فتعرضت للإصابة و زجت في السجن، بينما يمكث بعض أطفالها حالياً في سجون الإحتلال. ولا يقتصر نشاط منال التميمي على الاحتجاجات والتظاهرات المباشرة على الأرض في مواجهة قوات الإحتلال، بل يشمل أيضا وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي والمحاضرات الهادفة لجلب قضية صراع قرية النبي صالح إلى الخارج.

في لقاءنا القادم معها في برلين، ستتحدث منال عن دور المرأة الفلسطينية في المقاومة والنضال ضد الإحتلال وعن تجربة النساء داخل السجن والقمع الذي تتعرضن له، وعن إمكانيات وسبل التضامن مع قضية فلسطين في أوروبا.

وتستضيف هذا الحدث كل من المجموعات التالية: “غيفانغينه إنفو” اليسارية لشؤون السجناء السياسيين والمعتقلين، بالإضافة إلى الناشطين المحليين لأجل قضية فلسطين.

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