Join the mass demonstration commemorating the Nakba on Tuesday, 15 May at 5:00 pm.
We demonstrate on the occasion of Nakba Day, as well as the United States’ planned relocation of the embassy to Jerusalem the same day. After speeches outside the parliament, we march to the Israeli embassy.
The slogans for the rally are:
Nakba – 70 years of exile: Palestinian Refugees have the right to return!
End Occupation – Lift the Siege!
Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel!
Oil fund out of Israel now!
Velkommen til stor Nakba-markering med appeller utenfor Stortinget (Eidsvoll plass) tirsdag 15. mai kl. 17.00.
Vi demonstrerer i anledning Nakba-dagen, i tillegg til USAs planlagte flytting av ambassaden til Jerusalem samme dag. Etter appellene utenfor Stortinget går vi i samlet flokk til den israelske ambassaden.
Parolene for markeringen er:
– Nakba – 70 år på flukt: De palestinske flyktningene har rett til retur!
– Avslutt okkupasjonen – opphev blokaden!
– Jerusalem er ikke Israels hovedstad!
– Oljefondet ut av Israel nå!
Tilsluttede organisasjoner:
Fagforbundet
Norsk Folkehjelp
Norsk Folkehjelps Solidaritetsungdom
Den palestinsk-norske forening i Norge
Norges kristelige studentforbund
KFUK-KFUM
KFUK-KFUM Global
Kvekersamfunnet
Rødt
Rød ungdom
Sosialistisk ungdom
Fellesutvalget for Palestina
FIVAS
Stiftelsen Karibu
AKULBI (Samordningskomiteen for akademisk og kulturell boikott av staten Israel)
BDS Norge
Bestemødre For Fred
Norge ut av NATO
Bakgrunn for markeringen:
Nakba-dagen 15. mai er en minnedag om at det nå er 70 år siden Israel ble opprettet gjennom kolonialisering, etnisk rensing og systematisk ødeleggelse av det palestinske samfunnet.
Palestinerne kaller historien om 1948 for “katastrofen” (al-Nakba). I folkeretten utgjør denne historien en forbrytelse mot menneskeheten – og forbrytelsen pågår fortsatt.
Mer info om appellanter og tilsluttere kommer.
HOLD AV DAGEN!
FRITT PALESTINA
Demonstration organized by the Platform of Solidarity with Palestine in Sevilla commemorating the Nakba, 70 years of the occupation of Palestine, for the right of return, for the end of occupation.
Manifestación convocada por la Plataforma de Solidaridad con Palestina de Sevilla. La Nakba, 70 años de ocupación de Palestina. Por el derecho al retorno. Por el fin de la ocupación.
Tuesday, 15 May 11:00 am March from Keizersgracht to Parliament Cape Town, South Africa
On the 15th we will be in the streets of Cape Town in solidarity with Palestinians and the #GreatReturnMarch with our national leg of the South African #GreatReturnMarch
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine and the freedom of Palestinian prisoners to participate in the events and actions around the world commemorating the 70th anniversary of al-Nakba and supporting the #GreatReturnMarch in Gaza. For 70 years, Palestinians have faced ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, massacres, imprisonment and racist oppression – a continuation of the previous 30 years of British colonization. Those past 70 years have also been years of resistance, organizing and struggle for the liberation of the land and people of Palestine.
Imprisonment has always been a part of the colonial weaponry used against the Palestinian people. From the imprisonment of Palestinians by the British colonial authorities – which inspired some of the songs and poetry that still remain symbols of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement today – to the imprisonment of thousands of Palestinians and the use of forced labor camps during the Nakba, prisons and resistance to them have been a part of the Palestinian liberation struggle.
As the Nakba continued, Palestinians struggling to return were labeled “infiltrators,” killed and imprisoned by the Zionist state. Throughout 70 years of struggle, the leaders and organizers of the Palestinian people – fighters, labor organizers, teachers, poets, writers, student and women’s movement leaders, farmers, workers, fishers – have been imprisoned in their hundreds of thousands by the Zionist state and have continued their resistance. The prisons have become symbols and spaces of oppression and also places to organize resistance, educate young people and build revolutionary schools to develop the struggle.
Today, 49 Palestinians have been shot down in the Gaza Strip at the 1948 armistice line, delineating the arbitrary enclave into which Palestinian refugees were ethnically cleansed by Zionist militias, and later the Israeli army, where they have gathered as part of tens of thousands participating in the Great March of Return, demanding their right to return to their homes and lands and the breaking of the siege on Gaza. As Palestinians mark 70 years of ongoing Nakba, they will march again facing brutal live fire and repression that has severely wounded thousands.
To support the march for return on the anniversary of the Nakba, broad participation in the numerous events and actions around the world is essential. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges supporters of Palestine around the world to mobilize on the anniversary of the Nakba to march alongside the Great March of Return and the millions of Palestinian refugees in exile and diaspora who struggle for their right to return home, the key to Palestinian liberation.
Send your events and actions to us at samidoun@samidoun.net or on Facebook to tell us about your actions in response to the Land Day Massacre and for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
Palestinians have been displaced from their land for over 70 years. To date, the state of Israel, which was responsible, has no clearly defined borders. It constructs illegal settlements under international law, while the Palestinians were robbed, repressed, imprisoned, tortured and murdered. Those who resist do so with the few resources at their disposal.
One of the means of this resistance is the perseverance of the Palestinians on their land, sumoud, which demands great courage and extraordinary steadfastness.
Another form of Palestinian resistance is the Great Return March, a demonstration that has been met by Israeli soldiers with live fire, killing and injuring numerous unarmed demonstrators at the Gaza fence.
On 14 My, the US embassy announced its move to Israeli-occupied Jerusalem. This is another blow to international law, violating Palestinian right to self-determination.
At the same time Israel celebrates and is celebrated in this country. Not a word of criticism of Israeli politics is uttered, the permanent disenfranchisement of the Palestinians or the provocative move of the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
Those who would like to support the Palestinians in their struggle for rights are invited to join on 14 May at 7 pm at Hermannplatz, for the freedom of all people, for equal rights. We demand compliance with international law, and the internationally recognized right of return of displaced Palestinians and demand justice for the victims of the Nakba.
منذ سبعين سنة مضت على النكبة بعد طرد الفلسطينيين من أرضهم ووطنهم وديارهم.
وحتى اليوم لم يحدد به الكيان الصهيوني حدوده بشكل نهائي.
فهو يقوم ببناء المستوطنات غير الشرعية بحسب مواثيق الأمم المتحدة.
إسرائيل تحتل، وتضطهد، وتشرد، وتقمع، وتعتقل، وتعذب، وتقتل اللاجئين الفلسطينيين الذين يقاومون بالأدوات البسيطة المتوفرة لديهم.
وإحدى أدوات المقاومة التي يمتلكها الشعب الفلسطيني هي صموده وشجاعته.
وأداة أخرى للمقاومة الفلسطينية هي مظاهرات العودة الشجاعة التي تقابل من جيش الاحتلال الصهيوني بالقمع والقتل العشوائي للمتظاهرين العزل والهجمية على حدود غزة.
وفي الرابع عشر من مايو سوف تنقل الولايات المتحدة سفارتها من تل أبيب إلى القدس، وهو يعد ضربة في صميم القانون الدولي الذي يعطي الفلسطينيين الحق في تقرير مصيرهم.
وفي نفس الوقت الذي يتم الاحتفال بقيام الكيان الصهيوني هنا في ألمانيا، وتقدم الحكومة الألمانية التهاني والتبريكات، ولا نسمع أي إنتقاد أو تحذير منها خصوصاً لنقل السفارة الأمريكية للقدس.
ومن هنا نقول لكل من يريد أن يقف إلى جانب الشعب الفلسطيني بمقاومته من أجل حقوقه المشروعة تفضلوا وشاركوا معنا في 14 مايو تمام الساعة السادسة مساءاً مساءاً على Hermannplatz لنعلن تضامننا مع الشعب الفلسطيني في قضيته العادلة المشروعة وصموده العظيم ولحرية جميع الشعوب المظلومة والمضطهدة.
نحن نطالب بتطبيق القوانين الدولية، وإتفاقيات هيئة الأمم المتحدة، الذين يتضمنان حق العودة لجميع اللاجئين الفلسطينيين، وحقهم في تقرير المصير، ونتذكر أهلنا الذين طردوا من ديارهم وأرضهم في النكبة.
Seit über 70 Jahren werden PalästinenserInnen von ihrem Grund und Boden vertrieben. Bis heute hat der Staat Israel, der dafür verantwortlich ist, keine klar definierten Grenzen. Er baut Siedlungen, die nach internationalem Recht illegal sind, beraubt, unterdrückt, inhaftiert, foltert und ermordet Diejenigen, die mit den wenigen, ihnen zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln, Widerstand leisten.
Ein Mittel dieses Widerstands ist das Ausharren der PalästinenserInnen auf ihrem Land, soumout, das großen Mut und außerordentliche Standhaftigkeit verlangt.
Eine andere Form des palästinensischen Widerstands ist der ‚Große Marsch für die Rückkehr/ Great Return March‘, eine Demonstration, die von israelischen Soldaten beantwortet wird, indem sie auf die unbewaffneten Demonstrierenden am Grenzzaun in Gaza Schüsse abfeuern, sie verstümmeln und töten.
Für den 14. Mai hat die US-amerikanische Botschaft ihren Umzug in das von Israel besetzte Jerusalem angekündigt. Das ist ein weiterer das Internationale Recht verletzender Schlag gegen das Selbstbestimmungsrecht der PalästinenserInnen.
Zur gleichen Zeit feiert sich Israel und wird auch hierzulande gefeiert. Kein Wort der Kritik an der israelischen Politik, der permanenten Entrechtung der PalästinenserInnen oder am provokativen Umzug der US-Botschaft nach Jerusalem.
Wer die PalästinenserInnen in ihrem vorbildlichen Kampf für ihre Rechte unterstützen möchte, ist herzlich eingeladen, am 14. Mai ab 19 Uhr auf dem Hermannplatz mit ihnen ein Zeichen zu setzen: für die Freiheit aller Menschen, für gleiche Rechte.
Wir fordern die Einhaltung internationalen Rechts und des von der Internationalen Gemeinschaft anerkannten Rückkehrrechts der vertriebenen PalästinenserInnen sowie deren Nachkommen und demonstrieren für Gerechtigkeit der Opfer der Nakba.
Tuesday, 15 May 8:00 pm Plaza Fuente Dorada Valladolid, Spain
On 15 May, Palestinians and their supporters remember the Nakba, the 70th anniversary of Israel’s declaration of independence and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
The Nakba is not a crime of the past, it is ongoing. 70 years later, Israel continues to demolish Palestinian homes, steal Palestinian land to build illegal settlements exclusively for Jewish Israelis, expelling Palestinians from Jerusalem by revoking residency rights and denies Palestinians their right to return home.
El 15 de mayo se recuerda el 70 aniversario de la declaración de independencia de Israel, que llevó a la “Nakba”, al desastre, a miles de Palestinos y Palestinas. Según el Comité Nacional Palestino de Boicot, Desinversiones y Sanciones (BNC),
“Su independencia es nuestra Nakba. La limpieza étnica de 750,000 a un millón de personas indígenas palestinas hace 70 años y convertirlas en refugiadas para establecer un estado de mayoría judía en Palestina no es motivo de celebración.
La Nakba no es un crimen del pasado, está en curso. Setenta años después, Israel continúa demoliendo casas palestinas, robando nuestras tierras para construir asentamientos ilegales exclusivamente para judíos-israelíes, expulsando a lxs palestinxs de Jerusalén al revocar nuestros derechos de residencia, y niega a lxs refugiadxs palestinxs, como a muchos de nuestros miembros, nuestro derecho internacionalmente reconocido para regresar a nuestros hogares.”
La Plataforma Solidaria con Palestina de Valladolid recuerda esta fecha con una concentración, que tendrá lugar el martes 15 de mayo en la Plaza de Fuente Dorada.
Os invitamos a participar y a colaborar en la difusión de este acto.
On World Press Freedom Day 2018, the Journalist Support Committee held a conference in London on the “Challenges of Palestinian Journalists” living and working under occupation. Prominent journalists, media analysts and activists demanded British media institutions and agencies to break the silence and stand in solidarity with Palestinian journalists living and working under occupation.
Roshan Salih, a prominent Journalist at Press TV, said: “Compared to western journalists, Palestinian journalists are heroes. Palestinian journalists go out and they literally don’t know whether they are going to come back home in body bags, or end up losing a limb, or whether they are going to end up in prison for months on end”.
Photo: Lara Khalidi
“International journalists show absolutely no solidarity with Palestinian journalists under occupation. If a western journalist gets kidnapped or killed somewhere, you see reports, statements and hash-tags all over the place, demanding his/her freedom. But when a Palestinian journalist gets killed or arrested, no one cares.”
An Australian independent documentary film maker Daz Chandler said: “I was sick of not being able to use the word occupied, for example, next to the word Palestine when I was reporting to news agencies about what I was seeing in occupied Palestine. So I decided to make documentaries independently about what was happening on the ground and I wanted to be able to present them in the way that I felt was true. I did not want to compromise on what was actually going on.”
Photo: Lara Khalidi
“It is a really important thing to recognize that on this occasion of World Press Freedom Day”, Chandler adds, “that in 2018 it is still very difficult for journalists who are based in occupied Palestine to report the truth because they have to then take their materials back to an editorial team that talks about something called “balance”, but it is not actually about balance at all”.
At the Conference, Samidoun – Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demanded the release of over 20 Palestinian journalists from Israeli jails and called for an arms embargo on Israel. It also condemned the role of the Palestinian Authority, asserting its complicity in the denial of rights to Palestinian journalists, under the so-called Electronic Crimes Law.
Photo: Lara Khalidi
An Iraqi journalist and an attendee at the conference, Yusra Mhadi, said “I think there is a very important point that we have to focus on and that is that Palestinian journalists are not just being oppressed by the Israeli entity but also by the Palestinian Authority; Palestinian journalists are being attacked and imprisoned by the Palestinian Authority. So, it is important for us to stand by Palestinian journalists to protect them against all those who have failed them. And it is important that we build a wall to protect Palestinian journalists because it is important for their voices to reach everywhere in the world. And we know that the PA is also playing a part in depriving this voice from reaching the world”.
The conference talked about Palestinian journalists Ahmed Abu Hussein and Yaser Murtaja, both killed by an Israeli sniper while covering the Great Return March in besieged Gaza.
Jehan Farra, Palestinian journalist and a friend and colleague of Yaser Murtaja, said “Yaser always made us laugh whenever he comes into the office, he had such a big bright smile; he was a very vibrant person, lively and optimistic too, regardless of everything he went through. Yaser was hard working; he started a small media agency from scratch; began with him and his friend and two cameras and ended up with 15 staff members. He was a talented and ambitious young man”.
Palestinian journalist Mohammed Hassan, a SOAS University student and colleague of Ahmad Abu Hussein, said “Ahmad had a very charismatic personality. He was a hard working and courageous young journalist; his latest work on the Great Return March was outstanding, his wish was that one day he will report from Palestine 1948; after our people in Gaza achieve victory in smashing the borders”, said Mohammed, “Ahmad will continue to live in our hearts and our struggle for return and liberation”.
Photo: Lara Khalidi
Speakers and attendees criticized the complicit role of news agencies and media institutions in Britain and the silence on the killing and imprisonment of many Palestinian journalists. “This media silence in Britain is shameful and cowardly, unfortunately it is not surprising a lot of these people are told by their superiors what they are not meant to report on and what they are meant to report on, and this is one of the things they are not meant to report on” said Daniel O’Brien, media analyst and member of the CPGB-ML.
“The media in Britain is largely state apparatus”; said Kit Whylett from the Revolutionary Communist Group, “it is the mouthpiece of British imperialism; their entire job is to serve the British state and that is why they have been so silent and refusing to acknowledge the work of many Palestinian journalists”.
(Concluding the conference, members of the Lebanese, Iraqi, Algerian and Yemeni communities in Britain saluted the martyrs of the Great Return March and asserted their solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for liberation. And activists announced upcoming actions in solidarity with the Great Return March and the Nakba )
Samidoun’s statement on Palestinian journalists for the event, presented by Lara Khalidi:
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network stands in solidarity with Palestinian journalists on World Press Freedom Day, as they regularly face imprisonment, repression, surveillance, targeting and outright assassination. The cases of two Palestinian journalists, Ahmed Abu Hussein and Yaser Murtaja, shot and killed by Israeli soldiers during the Great March of Return in Gaza – as well as the injury of many more – have highlighted the daily threat under which Palestinian journalists labor.
Palestinian journalists face not only a threat to their lives, but a constant threat to their liberty. Journalist Bushra al-Tawil, also an advocate for Palestinian political prisoners, is herself jailed without charge or trial in Israeli jails under administrative detention; she is among three women and 500 Palestinians total held without charge or trial at this time. Omar Nazzal, member of the Secretariat of the Palestinian Journalists’ Union, was held in administrative detention for 10 months after he was seized at the Karameh crossing to Jordan while traveling to attend the conference of the European Federation of Journalists in Sarajevo. Palestinian refugee journalist Nidal Abu Aker, who produces a program on Palestinian prisoners for Wihda Radio, the only station based in Dheisheh refugee camp, has been held in administrative detention for nearly two years.
The repeated detention of Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qeeq also highlighted the situation of Palestinian journalists. He spent 94 days on hunger strike to demand his release and won his freedom; in 2017, he was again jailed after attending demonstrations to demand the release of Palestinians’ bodies held hostage by the Israeli occupation.
In addition, Palestinian journalistic institutions like the Elia Association for Youth in Jerusalem have been targeted for closure under the orders of far-right Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman. Palestinian radio station Sanabel was seized by Israeli forces and five of its staff arrested and imprisoned. Palestinian television stations regularly face closure, while staff members are arrested for doing their jobs in the media.
The Palestinian Authority is also complicit in the denial of rights to Palestinian journalists, including the arrest and interrogation of journalists who publish critical stories about PA officials to the blocking of multiple news websites to Palestinians under occupation under the so-called Electronic Crimes Law. This cannot be separated from the commitment of the PA to “security coordination” with the Israeli occupation, as the silencing of Palestinian journalists serves the strategic objectives of the Israeli state.
The targeting of journalists and writers is nothing new; we remember the historic assassinations of Palestinian writers like that of groundbreaking novelist, writer and revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani in 1972. The work, the images and the words of Palestinian journalists are critical in sharing the Palestinian experience, narrative and struggle with the Palestinian people, the Arab world and international audiences.
On World Press Freedom Day, Yaser Murtaja and Ahmad Abu Hussein live on in the work of every journalist who exposes the reality of the Palestinian situation. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes Palestinian journalists in occupied Palestine, in the refugee camps and in exile bringing the Palestinian story to the world despite repression, racism and attempted criminalization. We demand the release of over 20 imprisoned Palestinian journalists and an end to the systematic closure, prohibition and targeting of Palestinian media agencies and workers. Palestinian journalists must receive international solidarity and Israeli occupation forces must be held accountable, including through global sanctions and an arms embargo, for their targeting of Palestinians who document the stories of their people.
Join FRFI society in supporting calls for solidarity with Palestinian student prisoners and victory to the Palestinian resistance.
Around 340 Palestinian students are inside Israeli prisons.
Palestinian prisoners lead the struggle for liberation against Israeli apartheid and occupation. The Zionist regime uses political detention to intimidate and disrupt resistance—during student elections it targets representatives and activists.
Bir Zeit university student president Omar Kiswani was arrested on 7 March 2017 by armed, disguised occupation forces invading the campus. Kiswani spent 14 days on hunger strike and remains in detention under interrogation. Israeli forces continue to intimidate him and his family.
The US President is fulfilling his promises to his campaign supporters, without regard for international law or relations. On 14 May, the US administration will commit another flagrant violation of international law, moving its embassy to occupied Jerusalem. This day also marks the Palestinian commemoration of the 70th anniversary of their expulsion, when the vast majority of the Palestinian indigenous population was driven from their homes in ethnic cleansing. The expulsion of Palestinians from Jerusalem and their occupied land did not end 70 years ago but continues today.
For 11 years, Gaza has faced a devastating siege without sufficient medicine, electricity or food. People are shot not only in protests, but even when they go to farm their land or fish in the sea.
This is why people around the world are protesting against the Israeli-American impunity for war criminals and standing in solidarity with occupied and colonized Palestine and the Palestinian people. Let’s join them!
Americký prezident plní sliby svých sponzoru, pricemž ho nezajímají mezinárodní vztahy ani právo. 14. kvetna se tak americká administrativa dopustí dalšího flagrantního porušení mezinárodního práva a presune svou ambasádu do okupovaného Jeruzaléma. V této chvíli si navíc Palestinci budou pripomínat 70. výrocí jejich vyhnání, kdy sionisté etnickou cistkou plánu Dalet vyhnali více než polovinu puvodního obyvatelstva Palestiny. Vyhánení Palestincu z Jeruzaléma a okupovaných území však neskoncilo pred 70ti lety, ale pokracuje dodnes.
Gaza 11tým rokem celí devastující blokáde, kdy není dostatek základních potravin, léku ci elektriny. Lidé jsou tu stríleni nejen pri protestech, ale i když vyjdou na pole ci vyjedou na more.
Proto lidé po celém svete organizují protesty proti izraelsko-americké politice beztrestnosti válecných zlocincu a solidární shromáždení na podporu okupované a kolonizované Palestiny. Pridejme se k nim!
Join the mass demonstration commemorating the Nakba on Tuesday, 15 May at 5:00 pm.
Demonstration organized by the Platform of Solidarity with Palestine in Sevilla commemorating the Nakba, 70 years of the occupation of Palestine, for the right of return, for the end of occupation.
On 15 May, Palestinians and their supporters remember the Nakba, the 70th anniversary of Israel’s declaration of independence and the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Tuesday 15 May, 7pm
