Join us at Thomas Paine Plaza in downtown Philadelphia to rally and march in solidarity with the series of protests by Palestinians called the Great March of Return, and to oppose the Trump administration’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
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May 15th marks the 70th anniversary of al-Nakba, “the disaster,” the day that 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled from their homeland to make way for the state of Israel. Today, many of those refugees and their descendants live in Gaza, a tiny strip of land with the highest population density in the world. Gaza is essentially an open-air prison and has been besieged by Israel for over a decade; there, basic necessities of life are restricted and denied by Israel.
On March 30th, a six-week series of protests called the Great March of Return began in Palestine. The Palestinian protesters are demanding that they be allowed to return to their land.
In response to these protests, Israeli occupation forces murdered 17 Palestinians and injured more than 1,200 using live ammunition, rubber-coated steel bullets, and huge quantities of tear gas. Since that day over 30 peaceful protesters have been killed and over 2,000 injured by Israeli forces. The Israeli army, claiming as always to have acted in “self-defense,” reported no casualties. The Trump Administration has given a green light to this slaughter and continues to fund Israel with over $3 billion each year.
To make matters worse, the Trump administration has outrageously chosen the day before Nakba Day as the occasion to open the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine, but the U.S. government is giving its complete support to Israeli efforts to colonize the city.
We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle for liberation. We believe that international solidarity is key in the global fight for human rights.
For these reasons, we call for a mass demonstration to mark Nakba Day and oppose the Trump Administration’s decision to move the U.S. embassy; to stand up for justice; and to demand that the Palestinian people be allowed to return to their homeland.
Join us at Thomas Paine Plaza on Monday, May 14th at 5pm for a mass rally and march. Together we will call on the city of Philadelphia to unite in support of self-determination for Palestinians in Philadelphia and in Palestine.
Join us in support of Palestinian equality, justice and freedom to mark the 70th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’. the forced transfer of over 700,000 Palestinians by Zionist militia during the establishment of the state of Israel.
In Gaza, on 30 March, the Day of the Land, tens of thousands of courageous Palestinians demonstrated in a mass march. They demanded the liberation of Palestine from the Israeli occupation and the right to return of all Palestinian refugees. Over 70 percent of the Palestinian population in Gaza are refugees who have been denied the right to return home for 70 years.
The Day of the Land was first marcked in 1976, when Paestinians organized a general strike against expropriation and deprivation of rights in Israeli territory. their protest was bloodily quashed by the Israeli occupying forces. Six people were killed and over 100 injured and dozens detained.
Since the anniversary of the Day of the Land in 2018, there have been repeated massacres of the civilian population in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks. Peaceful demonstrators were shot down as they approached the illegitimate border of the Israeli colonial state. But the Palestinian people are a strong people who will not stop resisting occupation and fighting for their freedom. Unfortunately, they stand alone in their struggle internationally.
US imperialism, the greatest enemy of all peoples, seems to be even more aggressively supporting Israel under Trump’s foreign policy, and reactionary regimes such as Saudi Arabia and Turkey under Erdogan support Israel, despite lip service to the contrary. The continuing attempt to deny Palestinian refugees their rights will be answered by further uprisings and demonstrations. The struggle for return continues. As anti-imperialists and internationalists, we stand by the side of the Palestinian people.
Your fight is our fight too! Let’s not be silent about our Western governments supporting Israel’s bloody occupation policies. Let’s take to the streets together for the rights of Palestinians!
Freiheit für Palästina! Für ein Ende der Besatzung!
In Gaza demonstrierten am 30. März, am Tag des Bodens, zehntausende mutige Palästinenser in einem Massenmarsch. Sie fordern die Befreiung Palästinas von der israelischen Besatzung und das Recht auf Rückkehr aller palästinensischen Vertriebenen. Über 70 Prozent der palästinensischen Bevölkerung in Gaza sind Flüchtlinge, denen das Recht auf Rückkehr in ihre Heimat seit 70 Jahren verweigert wird.
Der Tag des Bodens ging 1976 in die Geschichte ein, als im israelischen Gebiet Palästinenser zum ersten Mal einen Generalstreik organisierten gegen Enteignung und Entrechtung. Ihr Protest wurde von der israelischen Besatzungsmacht blutig niedergeschlagen, sechs Menschen starben, mehr als hundert wurden verletzt und Dutzende inhaftiert.
Auch seit dem Jahrestag des Tag des Bodens 2018 kam es in den letzten Wochen immer wieder zu Massakern an der Zivilbevölkerung im Gaza Streifen. Friedliche Demonstranten werden niedergeschossen, sobald sie sich der illegitimen Grenze des israelischen Kolonialstaat nähern. Doch das palästinensische Volk ist ein starkes Volk. Es wird nicht aufhören sich gegen die Besatzung zu wehren und für seine Freiheit zu kämpfen. Leider steht es in diesem Kampf international alleine da.
Der US Imperialismus, der größte Feind aller Völker, scheint unter Trump eine noch aggressivere Unterstützung der israelischen Aussenpolitik zu vollziehen, und auch reaktionäre Regime wie Saudi-Arabien oder die Türkei unter Erdogan unterstützen Israel – allen Lippenbekenntnissen zum Trotz. Doch so wie es ist, bleibt es nicht. Der anhaltende Versuch den palästinensischen Flüchtlingen ihre Rechte zu verwehren, wird mit weiteren Aufständen und Demonstrationen beantwortet werden. Der Kampf um Rückkehr geht weiter. Als Antiimperialisten und Internationalisten stehen wir an der Seite des palästinensischen Volkes.
Ihr Kampf ist auch unser Kampf! Lasst uns nicht dazu schweigen, dass unsere westlichen Regierungen die blutige Besatzungspolitik Israels unterstützen. Lasst uns gemeinsam für die Rechte der Palästinenser auf die Straße gehen!
Kommt zur Kundgebung am Brunnenplatz am 03. Mai um 18 Uhr!
Join the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine at the 70th Nakba Commemoration #NakbaDay70Chi
WHEN: Friday, May 11th, 2018, at 4:30 PM
WHERE: Corner of Congress Parkway & Michigan Avenue, downtown Chicago
March 15th, 2018, marks 70 years of the ethnic cleansing of almost 800,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands, at the hands of zionist gangs. Now, the situation in Palestine is just as urgent.
Israeli colonial domination continues to entrench itself across all of historical Palestine, led by one of the most right-wing governments Israel has ever had. The Israelis have used unimaginable brutality in response to the #GreatReturnMarch in Gaza, using chemical weapons and murdering dozens of unarmed protesters, including members of the press. And of course, Gaza’s Palestinians are in their 12th year of living under a brutal siege that has made life there almost unlivable, according to the UN.
Across the West Bank, the Israelis continue to move towards de facto annexation of large swaths of land. The corrupt Palestinian Authority (PA) is pushing for a meeting of the Palestine National Council to grant legitimacy to Mahmoud Abbas and his cronies. In addition, the racist U.S. administration, backed by both parties, has announced that it will be moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on Nakba Day itself! And Palestinians inside the 1948 territories have no equality in a racist, apartheid Israeli state that treats them like 3rd class citizens.
But our people continue to resist. The Palestinians of Gaza have inspired the world with their protests demanding the full Right of Return to their original homes and lands. The Palestinians of the West Bank continue to resist both Israeli occupation and the PA’s complicity. And the Palestinians of Jerusalem refuse to abandon their city, their holy sites, and our capital!
All Palestinians around the world, joined by our allies and supporters, continue to reject Trump, reject Netanyahu, and demand an end to Israeli colonization of ALL of historical Palestine.
Join the Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine on Friday, May 11th, at 4:30 PM, on the corner of Congress Parkway & Michigan Avenue, as we gather for a rally followed by a march to the Israeli Consulate, commemorating the 70th anniversary of Al Nakba.
Until Liberation & Return!
Chicago Coalition for Justice in Palestine is led by Al-Nahda Center, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Palestinian American Community Center, Palestinian American Council, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)-Chicago, and the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN).
Endorsed by (list in formation): American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace and Justice in the Middle East, Black Lives Matter (BLM)-Chicago, Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Committee for a Just Peace in Israel and Palestine (CJPIP), and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)-Chicago.
STAND WITH GAZA AND THE GREAT RETURN MARCH
STAND WITH PALESTINIANS FACING ISRAEL’S MASSACRES
Demonstrate and march this Saturday 28th April, 12pm Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester
Another four Palestinians, including a 14 year old boy Mohammed Ayoub shot in the head, were killed in the Gaza Strip on Friday as the besieged territory entered the fourth week of demonstrations as part of the “Great March of Return”. They go again this Friday, facing the same barrage of exploding bullets, and tear gas, as they demand freedom from Israeli imprisonment and a return to their homes. We will be out in support again this Saturday in Manchester.
Over 39 Palestinians in Gaza have been murdered and 1000s shot and injured since the Great Return March began on 31st March – and still they go out, unarmed to face the Israeli snipers, jeeps, drones and tanks shooting them at the Gaza border. The least we can do is stand with them.
Palestinians have been mobilising for the Great Return March to protest the ongoing occupation and siege of Gaza and despite Israel’s brutal massacre, they have remained resilient and determined to protest their oppressors and plan to march every Friday until 15th May 2018, which marks 70 years since the Al-Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Israeli forces have been ruthlessly murdering Palestinian protesters with impunity, and using this as a source of entertainment, with images coming out of Israeli forces treating the massacre as a spectator sport.
We will keep marching in Manchester and continue to oppose all UK companies and organisations complicit in Israel’s massacres of Palestinians. We will stand against those investing in Israeli Arms companies whose profits increase the more bombs are dropped and the more protesters they kill.
Join the emergency protest/ march calling for an end to complicity in Israel’s military regime. We will meet at Manchester Piccadilly gardens at 12pm, and at 1pm will begin the march.
Demonstration called by:
Manchester Palestine Action
Fight Racism, Fight Imperialism
Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign
BDS University of Manchester
Manchester Jewish Action for Palestine
PLEASE JOIN US for the Al-Awda -Palestine Right to Return Coalition’s 13th annual conference to commemorate 70 years of dispossession and resistance to injustice. Come meet and learn from Palestine’s diverse activists and supporters, and participate in lively, thought-provoking discussions on mapping our eventual and inalienable Return to Palestine.
Palestinian journalist Ahmad Abu Hussein died in Ramallah on 25 April, killed by the injuries inflicted upon him on 13 April by Israeli occupation forces during the Great March of Return in Gaza. He was shot with live ammunition in the stomach by Israeli occupation snipers as he photographed the march near Jabaliya, wearing a visible “Press” vest. Abu Hussein, 25, worked for Sawt al-Shaab (Voice of the People) radio station. He is the second Palestinian journalist to have been killed by Israeli occupation forces while covering the Great Return March; Yaser Murtaja of Ain Media was killed by occupation forces on 7 April. The journalists are two of a total of 42 Palestinians who have been shot dead by occupation forces as they march in thousands for their right to return and to break the siege on Gaza.
After he was shot, he was forced to wait for two days to be transferred from Gaza to Ramallah for treatment, finally receiving permission on 15 April. Once he arrived, his condition was so critical that he was transferred again to Tel Hashomer hospital four days later. Ashraf al-Qidra of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, said that the Israeli “security” delay prohibiting Abu Hussein’s immediate transfer ensured his death, while Osama al-Najjar of the Health Ministry in Ramallah said that he “needed a miracle to save his life” after his arrival. He was accompanied by his mother Rajaa, who refused to leave his bedside; his younger brother Diyaa, 16 was denied permission to join them due to “security” pretexts; he also has a 20-year-old sister, Luna.
Abu Hussein and his family are Palestinian refugees; he lived in the Jabaliya refugee camp. They are among 70 percent of the Palestinian population in Gaza who are refugees denied their right to return to their homes and villages in Palestine ’48 for 70 years by the Israeli occupation. The Great March of Return, in which tens of thousands of Palestinians have participated, demands the implementation of their right to return home and an end to the siege on Gaza. The Israeli occupation has hit these mass, popular protests with intense violence, live ammunition and the death of dozens, the amputation of hundreds of limbs and the wounding of thousands.
Rami al-Sharafi, general secretary of the Democratic Press Association, said in an interview with Middle East Eye that “Ahmad was wearing a blue vest marked as press in fluorescent color…They have committed a crime against Yaser Murtaja, and today Ahmad Abu Hussein. This says that every journalist documenting the truth along the borderline is an Israeli target.”
In addition to working as a journalist with Sawt al-Shaab radio for the past five years, Abu Hussein was an activist with the Progressive Student Labor Front and a member of the Democratic Press Association. Thousands of Palestinians marched in a mass funeral when his body was returned, only hours before thousands would again take the streets in Jabalya to mourn Dr. Fadi al-Batsh, the Palestinian electrical engineer assassinated in Malaysia on 20 April by the Israeli Mossad, according to evidence collected by the Malaysian police.
Photo: Dawoud Abu El Kas
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate also held a symbolic funeral for Abu Hussein in Ramallah in Manara Square, denouncing the ongoing Israeli targeting of Palestinian journalists, noting that this is a “clear attempt to conceal the truth and prevent the media from covering and exposing the ongoing crimes against our people, including the use of internationally prohibited weapons against journalists and demonstrators.” The syndicate called for occupation officials to be held accountable and for the files on the assassination of journalists, including Abu Hussein and Murtaja, to be brought to the International Criminal Court.
The Democratic Press Association issued a statement urging international organizations, human rights groups and the International Federation of Journalists to take action against the ongoing, deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists. “This continuous targeting is inseparable from the crimes of the occupation against our people. The Palestinian media is in the forefront of uncovering and documenting the crimes of the occupation for decades, and this targeting is a systematic and deliberate crime to stop this role in struggle.”
“The PJS stresses that the occupation authorities and their leader bear full responsibility for these ongoing crimes and reiterates its emphasis on intensifying its efforts to go after the occupation leaders for their crimes against journalists, especially the deliberate and documented killings of journalists Ahmad Abu Hussein and Yassir Murtaja, and it vows not to rest until the perpetrators are brought to justice,” said the union in a statement.
“It is clear that after Israeli soldiers murdered a journalist the authorities are more interested in spouting propaganda and engaging in a cover-up than in carrying out a thorough and transparent investigation and bringing Hussein and Yasser’s killers to justice,” said IFJ General Secretary Anthony Bellanger.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the killing of Palestinian journalists Ahmad Abu Hussein and Yaser Murtaja and notes that these killings take place as part of a systematic attack on Palestinian journalists that includes targeting them for death, injury and imprisonment. Israeli occupation forces have repeatedly targeted journalists, and Palestinian journalists are routinely subjected to imprisonment, frequently administrative detention without charge or trial. The cases of Mohamed al-Qeeq, Omar Nazzal and Bushra al-Tawil are three among dozens that underline this policy, alongside 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. 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. Ahmad Abu Hussein lives on!
The following 42 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces while participating in the mass popular demonstrations, the Great March of Return, which began in Gaza on 30 March – Land Day – and will continue through 15 May – Nakba Day:
1. Abdel-Qader Marda al-Khawari
2. Naji Abu Hajir
3. Amin Mansour Abu Ma’amar
4. Mahmoud Sa’adi Rahmi
5. Wahid Nasrallah Abu Samur
6. Mohammed Na’im Abu Amro
7. Ahmad Ibrahim Ashour Odeh
8. Jihad Ahmad Farina
9. Mohammed Kamal al-Najjar
10. Sari Walid Abu Odeh
11. Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Nabi
12. Ibrahim Salah Abu Sha’ar
13. Bader Fayek al-Zubair
14. Hamdan Ismail Abu Amsha
15. Jihad Zaher Abu Jamous
16. Omar Wahid Samour
17. Faris al-Rukab
18. Ahmad Omar Arfa
19. Shadi Hamdan al-Kashef
20. Marwan al-Khadari
21. Thaer Mohammed Rabea
22. Hussein Madi
23. Ala al-Din al-Zamali
24. Majdi Shueibat
25. Hamza Abdel-Aal
26. Mohammed Saleh
27. Sidqi Abu Attawi
28. Ibrahim al-‘Ar
29. Yaser Murtaja
30. Osama Qadih
31. Marwan Qadih
32. Abdel-Sheikh al-Shahri
33. Islam Shadi Herzallah
34. Atamna Ahmad Rashed
35. Mohammed Ibrahim Ayoub
36. Saad Abu Taha
37. Ahmed Nabil Abu Aqel
38. Nayef Thaer al-Zu’ri
39. Abdullah Mohammed Jibril Shamali
40. Mohammed Nimer al-Muqadma
41. Tahrir Wahbe
42. Ahmed Abu Hussein
Samidoun’s international coordinator Charlotte Kates appeared on Press TV alongside Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat, the coordinator of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat. They participated in a special edition of “The Sun Will Rise” focusing on Palestinian prisoners on the occasion of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network participated in events organized in London and Manchester on 16 and 17 April by activists with the Revolutionary Communist Group, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, Victory to the Intifada and others. The events focused on Palestinian Prisoners’ Day and the struggle in Palestine today, throughout 100 years of resistance to colonization and especially in light of the recent #GreatReturnMarch taking place in Gaza to affirm Palestinian refugees’ right to return home and break the siege. The events featured talks by Khaled Barakat, Palestinian writer and coordinator of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat and Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. In London, they were joined by Maysa Shqeir, Palestinian scholar, and Ben Geraghty of the RCG.
Photo: Victory to the Intifada
At both events, Kates discussed the situation of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails and the importance of international solidarity in the struggle for their freedom. She discussed the historical role of British colonialism in jailing Palestinians, including the introduction of administrative detention – imprisonment without charge or trial – in occupied Palestine. In addition, she noted the role of British guards, some of whom also served as guards in colonial prisons in the north of Ireland, in participating with the U.S., Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the imprisonment of Ahmad Sa’adat in Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho before his kidnapping in 2006 by Israeli occupation forces.
She provided statistics and information reflecting the current number of Palestinians jailed behind Israeli bars and discussed their role in struggle, including the current boycott being conducted by administrative detainees of Israeli military courts in order to expose the sham “legal system” imposed by Israeli colonialism. She also noted that Palestinian prisoners are not only held behind Israeli bars but that strugglers for Palestine are persecuted internationally, particularly highlighting the case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned for 33 years in French prison.
She also noted the case of the Holy Land Five, five Palestinian Americans sentenced to up to 65 years in prison for their charity work in the community, as well as the role of “anti-terror” laws in seeking to criminalize and suppress Palestinian community organizing and Palestine solidarity. She spoke about the pernicious role of programs like Prevent in marginalizing and attempting to silence the voices of oppressed communities seeking justice, especially justice in Palestine.
Photo: Victory to the Intifada
During her presentation, she spoke about several specific cases, including that of student prisoner Omar Kiswani, the chair of the student council at Bir Zeit University, and over 300 Palestinian university students behind bars. In addition, she discussed the case of Ahed Tamimi and her fellow 350 Palestinian child prisoners behind Israeli bars and the case of Abdul-Razeq Farraj, a Palestinian agricultural workers’ organizer and land defense movement leader who has been held for years in administrative detention without charge or trial.
Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat provided an expansive look at the Palestinian struggle confronting Zionism, imperialism and reaction over 100 years, particularly noting the continuity of Palestinian resistance against British colonialism and its Balfour declaration to today’s Palestinian resistance movement. He focused on a class analysis of the Palestinian struggle today, highlighting the leading role of the popular classes of Palestine in leading the revolution historically and at present, saluting the Great Return Marches in Gaza. “The popular classes in Gaza today are teaching all of us a lesson,” emphasized Barakat.
He noted that colonizers frequently seek a local entity to serve as a buffer zone between the people and the occupying power and how this role can be filled by a social class or sector and their administrative institutions. Looking back at the 1936-1939 revolution in Palestine and noting the analysis provided by Ghassan Kanafani, he analyzed the leading role of workers and peasants in the revolution and the confiscation of their power by feudalists who set themselves up as spokespeople and representatives to British colonial authorities.
He then examined the popular Intifada of 1987-1993 and the confiscation of the struggle of the masses by a leadership that participated in the Madrid and Oslo process, culminating in the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. He discussed the importance of Palestinian national unity and how it can only be truly achieved in struggle that confronts imperialism and Zionism led by the popular classes of Palestine and not by the small sector that currently dominates Palestinian political decision-making and has played a dangerous role in normalizing attempts to liquidate Palestinian rights and the Palestinian cause.
Photo: Victory to the Intifada
The event in London was chaired by Palestinian organizer Lara Khalidi and began with statements from Irish organizations, including the Republican Network for Unity, expressing the solidarity and support of Irish republican organizations and political prisoners for Palestinian prisoners. In response, Kates, Barakat and the other speakers noted the long-time joint struggle of Palestinian and Irish movements confronting British and Zionist colonialism, particularly the transnational bonds forged between hunger strikers and jailed strugglers for their people’s freedom.
Ben Geraghty spoke about the RCG’s work in supporting the Palestinian struggle, especially noting the importance of confronting British imperialism and British policies at home and internationally. He spoke about the recent confrontation of RCG activists and others who kept Zionist forces from seeking to join a “Stand Up to Racism” march in Glasgow while carrying the flag of a racist state. He also noted the importance of confronting British participation in the attacks on Syria alongside the United States and France, reflecting its continued imperial role in the region.
Maysa Shqeir presented an informative analysis of Zionist settler-colonialism in Palestine, focusing on the distinguishing characteristics of settler colonialism in displacing indigenous peoples and controlling the land. She noted the Zionist movement’s deep roots in European colonialism, analyzing the texts of Zionist founders as well as contemporaneous politicians in viewing the role of Zionism in Palestine as one to control and marginalize the indigenous people of the land. She provided an overview of specific characteristics of the Israeli state, including its intense militarization, violence and deep links with imperialism.
Photo: Victory to the Intifada
The events followed a demonstration on 14 April in London, in which protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy to demand freedom for all Palestinian political prisoners and support the right of return of Palestinian refugees while expressing outrage at the latest Israeli crime, the killing of dozens of Palestinian marchers toward the colonial “border” imposed on Gaza by occupation forces. Participants carried signs demanding liberation for Palestine, support for resistance and freedom for all Palestinian prisoners.
On 18 April, the Ghassan Kanafani Front for Resistance and Solidarity with Palestine organized an event on the EastMed pipeline project, which aims to bind Greece and Cyprus to Israeli colonial extraction of stolen Palestinian gas. The event, called “EastMed, Energy Pipelines and Dependency,” marked one year of the foundation of the Kanafani Front and explored the EastMed pipeline issue in detail, a first in Greece.
Mohammed Khatib, European coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, spoke at the event about the Palestinian response to the pipeline and how the extraction of Palestinian resources fits into the framework of Israeli settler colonialism. He spoke about the importance of developing bonds of struggle that unite the peoples of the region to confront imperialism and Zionism and their reactionary regime allies.
In addition, Nikos Glezakos, a security and energy specialist, Dimitris Patelis, a professor of philosophy at the University of Crete, Paul Toumandis, an economist and member of DIKKI and Stella Patrona of the Consumer Network offered detailed analyses of the pipeline and the Greece-Israel relationship. In addition, the Italian organization Sionismo è Guerra presented a video at the event.
The event took place at the Yannis Ritsos cultural center at the Municipality of Egaleo and was well-attended; the question and answer and discussion session after the event lasted nearly an hour.
Join us at Thomas Paine Plaza in downtown Philadelphia to rally and march in solidarity with the series of protests by Palestinians called the Great March of Return, and to oppose the Trump administration’s decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
Join us in support of Palestinian equality, justice and freedom to mark the 70th anniversary of the ‘Nakba’. the forced transfer of over 700,000 Palestinians by Zionist militia during the establishment of the state of Israel.
Freedom for Palestine! End the occupation!
After he was shot, he was forced to wait for two days to be transferred from Gaza to Ramallah for treatment, finally receiving permission on 15 April. Once he arrived, his condition was so critical that he was transferred again to Tel Hashomer hospital four days later. 
Rami al-Sharafi, general secretary of the Democratic Press Association, said in an interview 
The event took place at the Yannis Ritsos cultural center at the Municipality of Egaleo and was well-attended; the question and answer and discussion session after the event lasted nearly an hour.
