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3 July, Bratislava: Solidarity with the women’s march in Gaza

Tuesday, 3 July
7:00 pm
Foajé
Štefánikova 16
81101 Bratislava, Slovakia
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/241769696553158/

Palestinian women from Gaza are protesting the siege and calling for global solidarity

Come to this event to support women in Gaza on the Great March of Return – for freedom, ending the siege and their right of return to their homes as Palestinian refugees, as upheld in UN Resolution 194.

As part of the ongoing marches in Gaza, a great women’s march is taking place that day. A mass women’s coalition in Gaza is calling for support from Solidarity groups around the world to help end the siege. We also invite you to a solidarity evening with the Gaza women.

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Palestínske ženy z Gazy protestujú proti blokáde a volajú po svetovej solidarite

Príďte na premietanie do Foajé podporiť ženy v Gaze na Veľkom pochode návratu – za slobodu, ukončenie blokády a možnosť návratu do svojich domovov, na čo utečencov a utečenky oprávňuje rezolúcia 194 OSN.

Ako súčasť pokračujúcich protestov v Gaze sa v tento deň uskutoční aj veľký ženský pochod. Jeho organizátorky prosia svetovú verejnosť a ženské a feministické organizácie o podporu a solidaritu. Pozývame aj vás na solidárny večer so ženami v Gaze.

Prečítame si ich výzvu, povieme si o životných podmienkach v pásme Gazy a o pozadí Veľkého pochodu návratu a premietneme si niekoľko krátkych dokumentárnych filmov (v angličtine), ktoré nám priblížia život palestínskych žien pod blokádou tak, ako si ho zväčša nepredstavujeme – nie sú to len dcéry, sestry a matky pasívne trpiace trojnásobným útlakom – zneviditeľňovaním a diskrimináciou v rámci celosvetového patriarchálneho usporiadania, izraelskou blokádou a patriarchátom vlastnej palestínskej komunity – ale aj emancipované ženy, profesionálky a feministky: reportérky, zdravotníčky, vynálezkyne, maliarky, učiteľky, študentky, cyklistky. Aj ony si zaslúžia v našich myšlienkach vystúpiť z tieňa propagandy, stotožňujúcej populáciu pásma Gazy s “militantmi Hamasu” a ostro kontrastujúcej so skutočnosťou, v ktorej tak ako všade na svete približne polovicu populácie tvoria ženy a dievčatá a prevažnú väčšinu populácie deti a mladí ľudia.

Materské udalosti v ten istý deň v Gaze:
https://m.facebook.com/events/1858317321137690

https://www.facebook.com/events/1558635827580626

#WomensMarchGaza
#WomenUnderSiege
#GreatReturnMarch
#WomensMarch

3 July, Belfast: Palestinian Women’s March of Return

Tuesday, 3 July
7:00 pm
International Peace Wall
Falls Road
Belfast, Ireland
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1844987315803895/

A mass women’s coalition in Gaza is calling for support from Solidarity groups around the world to help end the siege.

On Tuesday, 3 July, the High Committee of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege is organizing the first women’s march since the protests began on 30 March. The organizers are inviting women around the world to support the women of Palestine in ending 70 decades of occupation and more than a decade of blockade and siege.

In a press release, the organizers invited women as both individuals and groups to join the event and to help give a voice to the voiceless and shed a light on the suffering and injustice that have befallen the Palestinian people for decades under the Israeli occupation.

2 July, Amsterdam: Benefit dinner for Jalazone playground project

Monday, 2 July
7:00 pm
Joe’s Garage
Pretoriusstraat 43
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/276803269530008/

SRP are back in Joe’s Garage for our fifth benefit dinner. Part of our fundraising campaign for Jalazone, a project to support building a playground for the children in the camp.

Last summer SRP visited Jalazone camp during one of our annually organised trips to Palestine. The living circumstances of the Palestinians in this refugee camp left a lasting impression on the group. Motivated by what they had seen they asked the local women’s collective for advice. Out of this conversation, a fund-raising project for the building of a children’s playground was formed.

Come and join us for a delicious meal and bring along your friends, family and neighbors. It will be a night of good company and great food!

Dinner includes starter + main for €4!

http://www.joesgarage.nl/

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SRP is terug in Joe’s Garage voor onze vifde benefietdiner. Onderdeel van onze campagne voor Jalazone, een project waarbij we de bouw van een speeltuin ondersteunen.

Afgelopen zomer is SRP als onderdeel van ons jaarlijks georganiseerde reis naar Palestina in Jalazone geweest.
De leef omstandigheden van de palestijnen in deze vluchtelingen kamp heeft een blijvende indruk gemaakt op de groep.
Gemotiveerd door wat ze hadden gezien hebben zij de lokale vrouwenbeweging om advies gevraagd. Zo heeft het idee om geld op te halen voor de bouw van een speeltuin vorm gekregen.

Kom genieten van een heerlijke maaltijd en breng je vrienden, familie en buren mee. Een avond met fijn gezelschap en lekker eten!

Het diner is inclusief voorgerecht + hoofdgerecht voor € 4!

http://www.joesgarage.nl/

1 July, Cagliari: Welcome to the Freedom Flotilla

Sunday, 1 July
8:00 pm
Porto di Cagliari
Calata di Via Roma
Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/214291832627830/

The Flotilla will be in Sardinia until 8 July. Come to support the journey of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition as it sails to break the siege on Gaza!

Il 7 giugno si è costituito a Cagliari il Comitato di accoglienza alla Freedom Flotilla il cui arrivo al porto della nostra città è previsto per il 1-8 luglio.

La flotta, composta da quattro imbarcazioni: Al Awda, Freedom, Mairead e Falestine, è salpata da Norvegia e Svezia per raggiungere il Mediterraneo e tentare di forzare il blocco imposto a Gaza da Israele.

La Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), il movimento di solidarietà composto da persone di tutte le nazionalità, che promuove campagne ed iniziative per porre fine all’assedio di Gaza, ha rivolto un appello ai governi ed ai cittadini del mondo:

“1,8 milioni di persone, di cui quasi la metà bambini, vivono in quella che molte volte è stata paragonata a una “prigione a cielo aperto”. Il blocco è stato imposto da Israele ed è attuato anche dall’Egitto. Il blocco disumano, socialmente ed economicamente paralizzante, è imposto sulla striscia di Gaza da 11 anni!

Non ci sarà pace senza giustizia e nessuno sviluppo sostenibile nella regione e per il popolo palestinese senza la fine dell’occupazione e del blocco: l’acqua e le altre risorse naturali, essenziali per la vita umana, continueranno ad esaurirsi, non vi sarà alcuna possibilità di una vera ricostruzione e di sviluppo di un’enclave devastata dalla guerra. Il mare dovrebbe essere la strada per il mondo, non un altro muro. La libertà di movimento è un diritto umano.

Il diritto internazionale deve essere rispettato. Attraverso la Freedom Flotilla la società civile ora agisce. Ci aspettiamo un passaggio sicuro per le sue navi pacifiche. Non ci sono “imbarcazioni non autorizzate”, solo un blocco illegale.

Richiediamo:

Aprite i valichi.

Aprite un passaggio sicuro tra Gaza, West Bank e Gerusalemme Est.

Ed infine rimuovete il blocco al porto di Gaza, il porto della Palestina.”

Le nostre Associazioni accolgono questo appello e si impegnano ad accogliere a Cagliari i volontari della Freedom Flotilla e a promuovere incontri con la popolazione e le autorità locali a sostegno della loro causa.

Aderiscono le Associazioni:

Amicizia Sardegna Palestina
A.S.C.E.
Laboratorio Politico Sa Domu
Su Tzirculu
A Foras
Studenti contro il Technion
MEZCLA INTERCULTURA
Associazione Antonio Gramsci Cagliari
Circolo Me-Ti
BDS Sardegna
CUA Collettivo Universitario Autonomo Casteddu
GramsciLab Università di Cagliari
Carovana Smi
Potere al Popolo Cagliari
USB Cagliari
Servizio Civile Internazionale Sardegna
Rete Radiè Resh
Associazione per Antonio Gramsci di Ghilarza
Comunità La Collina
Associazione Italia Cuba
Circolo del Cinema Laboratorio 28
Cagliari Social Forum
Rete Radiè Resch di Cagliari
Scida – Giovunus Indipendentistas
Associazione Sardegna in movimento
Il collettivo ResPublica di Alghero
“RUAS – Rete Unitaria Antifascista Sulcis-Iglesiente”
Eureka – Rete Degli Studenti Medi Cagliari
Associazione Terra Battuta
Circolo Palmiro Togliatti – Cagliari
Comunità Palestinese in Sardegna
Il Movimento Nonviolento – Gruppo Territoriale di Cagliari
Presidio Piazzale Trento

1 July, Antwerp: Solidarity Day with Ahed and Palestinian youth

Sunday, 1 July
3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Kavka
Oudaan 14
Antwerp, Belgium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/211749712764932/

How do children in Palestine live in an open-air prison? Having no freedom and continuous surveillance are daily realities. You would becom despondent at the lack of rights or stand up for your dignity. Ahed Tamimi, 17, did the latter. She resisted and was sentenced to 8 months in prison by an Israeli military court. Show solidarity with Ahed and Palestinian youth. Let your voice be heard and come to our solidarity event. It will include musical and theatrical performances, children’s entertainment and snacks. We want to show that Palestinians are not alone in their struggle. No child should grow up in an open-air prison. Justice is possible!

Kind zijn in openluchtgevangenis Palestina, hoe doe je dat?
Geen vrijheid kennen en continu gecontroleerd worden is er dagdagelijkse realiteit. Je zou er moedeloos van worden.
Of je rug rechten en opkomen voor je waardigheid.
Ahed Tamimi (17) deed dat laatste. Ze kwam in verzet, en werd ervoor berecht tot 8 maanden celstraf door een Israëlisch militaire rechtbank.
Toon je solidair met Ahed, en met de Palestijnse jeugd. Laat je stem horen en kom naar ons solidariteitsevenement.
Verwacht muzikale en theatrale interventies, kinderanimatie en hapjes in de Kavka.
Omdat we willen tonen dat Palestijnen niet alleen staan in hun strijd.
Omdat geen enkel kind zou moeten opgroeien in een openluchtgevangenis.
Omdat een rechtvaardige oplossing mogelijk is.

200+ groups demand Israel free Khalida Jarrar, jailed a year without charge or trial

Over 200 organizations have joined together to call for the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar, the imprisoned Palestinian feminist, leftist parliamentarian. Jarrar, a leading advocate for Palestinian prisoners’ rights, has been jailed without charge or trial under Israeli administrative detention for nearly a year.

The organizations who have expressed their support for Jarrar’s freedom include political parties, feminist groups, Palestinian community and Palestine solidarity groups, Indigenous justice, prison abolition and prison justice organizations, human rights organizations, legal groups and more from over 20 countries.

Jarrar has been jailed since 2 July 2017, when she was seized in a night raid on her home in El-Bireh by Israeli occupation forces.  On 14 June 2018, she was informed that her detention would be extended for another four months, a sentence that is scheduled to be confirmed in an Israeli military court on 2 July 2018.

We are calling for days of action for the freedom of Khalida Jarrar between 30 June and 2 July. It is more important than ever that our voices are heard and our actions are visible. Protests are already being organized in New York and elsewhere around the world. You can download flyers, materials and visit petitions to join the campaign here: https://samidoun.net/2018/06/take-action-to-free-khalida-jarrar-june-30-july-2-organize-for-freedom/

You are invited to add your organization’s name to the following statement to demand freedom for imprisoned Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar! We will continue to update this statement and re-release with additional signatories. To endorse, please use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net with your group’s name.

Freedom for Khalida Jarrar! End administrative detention!

We, the undersigned organizations, come together to demand freedom for Palestinian political leader Khalida Jarrar, prominent leftist, feminist, prisoners’ rights advocate and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. She has been imprisoned without charge and without trial since July 2017 – and now the Israeli military occupation has declared that her imprisonment will be extended for an additional four months.

On July 2, 2017, Khalida Jarrar’s home was raided by Israeli occupation soldiers in a pre-dawn raid. She was ordered shortly thereafter to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. She is one of approximately 450 Palestinians held under administrative detention, a relic of the British colonial mandate that has been used by the Israeli occupation to jail thousands of Palestinian community and political leaders, and one of approximately 6,100 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

In December 2017, her detention was renewed for another six months. Now, another military order declares that she will be imprisoned for four more months. Administrative detention orders can be issued for up to six months at a time and are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians can spend years at a time jailed under these orders, never knowing when they could be released, if ever.

As Addameer notes, “This practice of arbitrary detention is a grave violation of international laws and human rights standards, particularly articles 78 and 72 of the Fourth Geneva Convention which state that an accused individual has the right to defend him/herself. This also violates Article 66 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the basic standards of fair trial.”

On July 2, an Israeli military court is scheduled to approve the detention order. Jarrar, like all administrative detainees, has boycotted these hearings since February, as they are mere rubber-stamp sessions used as a fig leaf to “legitimize” the arbitrary imprisonment of Palestinians.

Jarrar is a Palestinian political leader, representing the Abu Ali Mustafa Bloc, allied with the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in the Palestinian Legislative Council. She is a frequent leader and participant in demonstrations and popular actions for Palestinian freedom, a a long-time Palestinian political prisoners’ advocate and former executive director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and now a member of its board, and chair of the Prisoners’ Committee of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

She has also been active in the Palestinian women’s movement since her earliest days as a university student organizing with other female students to challenge the occupation. She is a leading organizer of International Women’s Day events in Palestine and coordinates closely with Palestinian women’s organizations. “Palestinian women are full partners in the Palestinian struggle,” she emphasizes.

Khalida Jarrar is heavily involved 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.

Since 1998, she has been forbidden to travel outside occupied Palestine. When she needed medical treatment in Jordan in 2010, she struggled for months in a public campaign before finally receiving it. The Israeli occupation attempted to forcibly displace her from her home to Jericho in 2014, and in 2015, arrested and jailed her 14 months for her political activities.

The extended administrative detention of Khalida Jarrar is an attempt to remove an effective, grassroots leader from the Palestinian national movement. Especially now, when people are taking to the streets throughout occupied Palestine and thousands are marching in Gaza for the Great Return March, leaders like her are targeted for arrest and imprisonment in an attempt to defuse the Palestinian struggle.

Khalida Jarrar is being targeted as a Palestinian leader, a Palestinian voice for justice, and an active Palestinian woman. Her imprisonment is yet another attack by the Israeli colonial state against the Palestinian people struggling for freedom, and administrative detention and the mass imprisonment of Palestinians are two of the weapons used in an attempt to break the Palestinian liberation movement.

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

Photo: Dounia Laetitia Callens (Facebook)

Palestinian grassroots activist Wael al-Faqeeh, a coordinator at the Tanweer Forum in Nablus who frequently works with international solidarity activists, was seized in the early morning hours of Thursday, 28 June 2018 by Israeli occupation forces. Al-Faqeeh is the latest in a series of popular resistance organizers to be targeted by the Israeli occupation for arrest and imprisonment.

He is a long time civil society leader in Nablus who has been arrested on multiple occasions for his work in land defense and supporting popular struggle against settlements and Israeli occupation and colonization. Recently, he has been working with Tanweer to support local women’s cooperatives growing za’atar in the villages around Nablus, helping to support land cultivation by Palestinians and supporting women’s economic independence.

This video from 2010 by Anna Baltzer describes Wael’s work, for which he continues to be attacked:

He was reportedly taken to Megiddo prison after being seized from his home in a night raid. This is the fourth time he has been arrested; he has spent several years in Israeli prison over multiple arrests and was released for the last time in February 2017 after serving a sentence of over one year. Many of his friends and comrades around the world have shared their outrage on social media about his arrest and are demanding his immediate release. Several of his friends have also expressed that Wael has been by the bedside of his best friend, who is receiving treatment for cancer, and that this arrest is also an attack on his family and friends who rely on his support and involvement.

PSC Union members protest for Wael. Photo: Katie Leslie (Facebook)

In Britain, members of the Public and Commercial Services Union went out on Whitehall to demand the freedom of Wael al-Faqeeh, and others are organizing internationally to build solidarity for his release.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands the immediate release of Wael al-Faqeeh. His arrest comes amid the ongoing targeting of grassroots Palestinian organizers defending the land and confronting colonization, from the repeatedly renewed administrative detention of Abdel-Razzaq Farraj of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees to the imprisonment of Ahed Tamimi, Nariman Tamimi and almost 20 of their family members for organizing to defend the land and people of Nabi Saleh from Israeli occupation.

We urge supporters of Palestine around the world to protest and organize for Wael’s release and that of his fellow prisoners. This includes escalating the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel at the economic, cultural, academic, sports and other levels. Freedom for Wael al-Faqeeh and all Palestinian prisoners!

The repression continues: French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri ordered to three more months detention

French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri has been ordered to another three months in administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, according to a new order issued as of Wednesday, 27 July by far-right, racist Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman. He has already been imprisoned for 10 months after he was seized from his home in Kufr Aqab, Jerusalem by Israeli occupation forces on 23 August 2017. After a lengthy interrogation, he was ordered jailed for six months without charge or trial. In February, his detention was renewed for another four months. Hamouri, who is a dual French-Palestinian citizen, has received the official support of dozens of French cities and towns and over 1,700 elected officials.

The renewal of the detention order comes days before Hamouri is to be honored in Montcel, France on 6 July. He will be declared a “citizen of honor” of the city on that date with a ceremony including the city’s mayor, the local member of the French National Assembly, Elsa Lefort, Salah Hamouri’s wife and coordinator of his support committee and his parents, live over video connection from Jerusalem. Organizations like AFPS 63 will also be involved in the event, which will include a screening of “Palestine: The Prison Case.”

Despite the extensive organizing in France, the French government has continued to celebrate the Israeli occupation state that imprisons its citizen. On an earlier occasion and after significant pressure, French President Emmanuel Macron reportedly asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for Hamouri’s release. Instead of releasing him, however, his detention has been extended twice since that time. And instead of acting to defend French citizen Salah Hamouri – not to mention the Palestinians killed by Israel in the Great Return March in Gaza and the thousands imprisoned – by sanctioning the Israeli state, the French government has turned around and inaugurated the “France-Israel season” in a joint celebration by Macron and Netanyahu.

Even in France, expressions of solidarity with Hamouri at the local level have come under attack by the prefectures – the representatives of the central state. In Stains and elsewhere, mayors who have hung banners for Hamouri’s freedom have faced orders and judicial complaints in an attempt to force their removal, despite the fact that urging Hamouri’s release is ostensibly the official position of the French government.

Hamouri, a former Palestinian political prisoner whose prior sentence also won widespread support in France before his release in 2011, shortly before his sentence expired, in the Wafa al-Ahrar agreement, works as a field researcher for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association. He has spoken throughout Europe and internationally on Palestinian prisoners and the struggle for freedom. After his legal studies were repeatedly interfered with by Israeli restrictions barring him from the West Bank, where his university is located, he graduated and just three days before his arrest, passed the Palestinian bar examination to be certified as a practicing lawyer.

Hamouri is one of approximately 450 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. They are engaged in a collective boycott of the Israeli military courts that “rubber-stamp” the orders for their detention. The boycott has gone on since February 15 to demand an end to the policy of administrative detention, used systematically to isolate Palestinian community organizers and leaders. It was first introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate and has been used extensively since that time by the Israeli state. The 450 administrative detainees are among over 6,100 Palestinian prisoners in total. Administrative detention orders are based on so-called “secret evidence” and are indefinitely renewable; Palestinians have spent years at a time jailed under these orders.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands once again the immediate release of Salah Hamouri and all of his fellow Palestinian prisoners. This arbitrary renewal of his imprisonment underlines the fact that the French state is complicit in his continued detention without charge or trial. The inauguration of the “France-Israel Season” while Salah Hamouri is held behind bars makes a mockery of the government’s expressions of concern, which the Israeli state openly flouts. This is no surprise, as it goes hand in hand with attempts to suppress and criminalize BDS activism in France, not to mention the over 33-year imprisonment of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine, in French prisons.

 From the jails and the courts of the occupation to the cities and campuses of the world, Salah Hamouri is a consistent and clear voice against oppression and for liberation – which is why the Israeli occupation is keeping him behind bars, without charge and without trial. Free Salah Hamouri! Libérez Salah Hamouri!

June 30, NYC: Protest to free Khalida Jarrar and end the siege of Gaza

Photo: Bud Korotzer/Desertpeace

Saturday, June 30
5:00 pm
Friends of the IDF
1430 Broadway at West 40th Street
New York, NY
Facebook: facebook.com/events/2080998625493534

Take action: Sign the petition now – bit.ly/FreeKhalidaJarrar

On Monday, July 2, Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian Legislative Council member, human rights defender, feminist and leftist leader, faces the renewal of an “administrative detention” order Israeli occupation forces will have already used to imprison her, without charge or trial, for a year.

Along with Samidoun, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine have called for urgent mobilizations ahead of the occupation military court’s hearing. International days of action are planned from June 30 – July 2.

The following day, Tuesday, July 3, women in the Gaza Strip will march to demand an end to Israel’s brutal 12-year siege of the Palestinian enclave. The High Committee of the Great March of Return has called for supporters to mobilize internationally in solidarity with them.

Stand with Khalida to demand that Israel release her, 500 other “administrative detainees” and all 6,500 Palestinian political prisoners, and with thousands of Palestinian women defying Israel’s ruthless policies of ethnic cleansing, collective punishment and mass murder.

Protest the “Friends of the IDF’s” support for Israeli war crimes and join the global campaign to demand a comprehensive military embargo on Israel now.

Support the Palestinian national, prisoners’ and BDS movements, the Palestinian Resistance, Palestine’s Great March of Return, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Palestinian women in Gaza call for solidarity as they march to break the siege

A mass women’s coalition in Gaza is calling for support from feminist groups around the world to help end the siege.

On Tuesday, 3 July, the High Committee of the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege is organizing the first women’s march since the protests began on 30 March. The organizers are inviting women around the world to support the women of Palestine in ending 7 decades of occupation and more than a decade of blockade and siege.

In a press release, the organizers invited women as both individuals and groups to join the event and to help give a voice to the voiceless and shed a light on the suffering and injustice that have befallen the Palestinian people for decades under the Israeli occupation.

The High Committee of the Great March of Return hopes that women across the globe will join the protests, both in Gaza itself and by holding solidarity events in their own countries to demand an end to the 12-year Israeli blockade of Gaza, imposed in 2006, which has affected all aspects of life, from the economy to health, education, access and freedom of movement, farming, fishing, and the rebuilding efforts following three devastating Israeli bombings. More broadly the Committee calls for an end to the 70-year occupation of Palestine.

The Committee reiterated that this protest is affiliated with no political party, faction or government, but independently represents all Palestinians regardless of political affiliation.

A 2012 UN report warned that Gaza would become “unlivable” by 2020 unless current trends were reversed.

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