Saturday, 28 April
11:00 am
VUB Aula Q
Brussels, Belgium
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Talks, music, dance, poetry, film, art exhibition

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, a day of reflection, discussion and arts against Israeli apartheid.

Talks on many different aspects of the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign:

Michael Collon interviews Salah Salah (Palestinian National Council), Hamdan al-Damiri, Ronnie Barkan, Lieven De Cauter, Charlotte Kates, Olivia Zemor, Nordine Saidi, Nadia Boumazough, Myriam De Ly, Hanne Bosselaers, Mick Naiper, Mireille Gabrelle, Carmen Claessen, John Tymon, Football Against Apartheid, Dirk De Block, Sarah Turine, Jamal Ikazban, Javier Couso, David Cronin, Adri Nieuwhof, Antonio Cocciolo, Barend Claessens, Yousef Chihab, Jose Luis Moraguez, Saadia Benfakha, Silvano Falessi, Muriel Jacoub, Michel Staszewski, Alexis Deswaef, Mario Franssen, Lieve Franssen…

Film: Preview screening of “La Clef du Sol,” with the presence of directer Murie Jacoub

Music and dance: Raj’een Dabkeh Group, Houssem Ben El Kadhi, Carlo Strazzante, Dyna Miite, Les Darwische

Poetry: Bissan Ahmed, Michele Hicorne, Milady Renoir

Art exhibition: Iyad Sabbah

Stands for association, Palestinian solidarity products, snacks

DÉBATS – MUSIQUE – DANSES – POÉSIE – FILM – EXPOSITION

#Philistine #PalestineVUB

1948 – 2018 – Comment être solidaires des Palestiniens ?

A l’occasion du 70e anniversaire de la Nakbah, une journée de réflexion, partage et arts contre l’apartheid israélien.

DÉBATS autour des différents volets de la campagne internationale Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions (BDS):

Michel Collon interrogera Salah Salah (Conseil National Palestinien), Hamdan Al Damiri (Pal), Ronnie Barkan (Isr), Lieven De Cauter, Charlotte Kates (USA), Olivia Zemor (F), Nordine Saïdi, Nadia Boumazough, Myriam De Ly, Hanne Bosselaers, Mick Napier (G-B), Mireille Gabrelle (F), Carmen Claessen, Fire Gym, John Tymon (G-B), Football against Apartheid (G-B), Dirk De Block, Sarah Turine, Jamal Ikazban, Javier Couso (Es), David Cronin (Irl), Adri Nieuwhof (NL),Antonio Cocciolo, Barend Claessens, Youssef Chihab, José Luis Moraguez (F), Saadia Benfakha (F), Silvano Falessi (It) Muriel Jacoub (F), Michel Staszewski, Alexis Deswaef, Mario Franssen, Lieve Franssen …

FILM : Projection en avant-première de LA CLEF DU SOL en présence de Muriel Jacoub, la réalisatrice

MUSIQUE ET DANSES : Raj’een Dabkeh group, Houssem Ben El Kadhi & Carlo Strazzante, Dyna Miite, Les Darwich

POÉSIE : Bissan Ahmed, Michèle Hicorne, Milady Renoir

EXPOSITION : Iyad Sabbah

Stands d’associations – Produits palestiniens solidaires – Petite restauration

Organisateurs : Investig’Action, ABP Liège – Association belgo-palestinienne – Liège, Communauté palestinienne Belgique-Luxembourg asbl, Comité Palestine Verviers, Samidoun réseau de solidarité avec les prisonniers palestiniens, Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine, Association France Palestine Solidarité Nord – Pas de Calais

ENTRÉE GRATUITE !

Saturday, 14 April
2:00 pm
Jernbanetorget – march to Stortinget
Oslo, Norway
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Satuday, 14 April at 2:00 pm, we will meet at Jernbanetorget (at the large Tiger store) to march in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We will go up Karl Johan and end with speeches at Stortinget.

We demand that the Norwegian government condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinian protesters and press Israel to lift the blockade of Gaza.

Lørdag 14. april kl. 14.00 møtes vi på Jernbanetorget (ved den store Tiger’n) for å gå i solidaritetstog til støtte for det palestinske folk. Vi vil gå opp Karl Johan og avslutte med appeller foran Stortinget.

Vi krever at den norske regjeringen fordømmer Israels angrep på de palestinske demonstrantene og presser Israel til å heve blokaden av Gazastripen!

(NB!: Palestinakomiteen arrangerer også en stor demonstrasjon foran Stortinget 15. mai kl. 17.00, med tog opp til den israelske ambassaden. Ta kontakt hvis du ønsker å bidra!)

Bakgrunnen for solidaritetstoget:

30. mars 2018 ble 30 000 fredelige demonstranter på Gazastripen møtt med skarpe skudd fra israelske snikskyttere. Minst 16 mennesker ble drept og mer enn 1400 såret da palestinere møtte opp til den Gandhi-inspirerte markeringen ”The Great Return March”. De palestinske demonstrasjonene skal vare frem til 15. mai.

15. mai er den såkalte Nakba-dagen. Det 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 kalles det en forbrytelse mot menneskeheten, en forbrytelse som pågår fortsatt.

FN anslår at Gazastripen innen 2019 vil være ubeboelig for de 2 millioner menneskene som bor der, hvorav halvparten er barn. Årsaken til dette er Israels blokade og dens ødeleggende konsekvenser som blant annet medfører at 97% av vannet på Gazastripen er ubrukelig som drikkevann.

Palestinerne har rett til å protestere mot de forholdene okkupasjonsmakten tvinger dem til å leve under. Israel har ingen rett til å diktere hvordan eller når slik lovlig protest skal skje. Israels dødelige maktbruk bryter folkeretten. Israel må derfor stilles til ansvar for sine kriminelle handlinger.

Det arrangeres flere solidaritetstog for Palestina rundt om i Norge, blant annet av Palestinakomiteens studentgruppe i Bergen 7. april.

Saturday, 21 April
12:00 pm
Pitt Street Mall
Sydney, Australia
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There are currently 6,119 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli prisons; three hundred and fifty-two of these are children. Israeli military courts prosecute 700 children every year, with more than a 99 percent conviction rate. Physical abuse and sexual violence are routinely used to coerce Palestinian prisoners into making confessions.

Ahed Tamimi is one such prisoner, currently facing up to ten years imprisonment for slapping two Israeli soldiers trying to invade her home. She is being particularly targeted because of the role of the Tamimi family in resisting the Israeli settlers’ theft of land and water in their occupied West Bank village.

Since her arrest, Ahed has become the public face of an international campaign to end apartheid Israel’s cruel and barbaric incarceration of Palestinians who resist its occupation, especially children.

When Ahed was brought before an Israeli military court on February 13 for a pre-trial hearing, the judge told the court it “would not be in her interest” to have the media present in the courtroom – an attempt to hide from the world the nefarious character of the Israeli occupation and its military courts.

Come to this speak out to help break the silence, get the word out for upcoming protests, and support Palestinian political prisoners!

Saturday, 14 April
12:00 pm
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester, UK
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Join us on the streets to build the movement of solidarity with the Palestinian resistance, from Gaza to Manchester. Bring banners, flags, voices and people!

#MarchofReturn
#FreePalestine!

Break Britain’s links with apartheid Israel:

Barclays
– 4.25% shares in BAE Systems, which supplies F16 jet components to Israel and which has been chosen to
build the Turkish army’s next generation of fighter jets; BAE recently won a $40bn arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Other Barclays investments include $147.2m in Boeing, which produces Apache helicopter gunships; $65m in Lockheed Martin which produces F16s and Apaches; and $34.6m in Raytheon, which has arms factories in Britain.

HSBC
– HSBC holds £3.64m of shares in Israeli arms company Elbit. In 2009 it made over £657.3m in profits from Textron, a US company that made cluster bombs used in the Saudi war on
Yemen and in Israel’s 2006 war on Lebanon. In 2015 Israelis held $10bn offshore in HSBC accounts, including multi-millionaires involved in weapons trafficking.

M&S
– £233m a year in trade with Israel according to its last statistics. A key member of the British-Israeli Chamber of Commerce, M&S bosses have won awards from successive Israeli governments, and its founders were involved in drafting the Balfour Declaration.

Tesco
– Continues to stock “Israeli” avocados, dates and other fruits, produced on stolen Palestinian land.

Saturday, 14 April
2:00 pm
Radhuspladsen
Aarhus, Denmark
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Join Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke Aarhus in a solidarity march calling to free 17 year old Ahed Tamimi and the unjustly imprisoned children of Palestine.

Ahed and her mother Nariman Tamimi have been imprisoned since December 19 after a video of Ahed slapping an Israeli occupation soldier went viral on social media. For nearly all of her life, Ahed has been in direct confrontation with occupation forces who have repeatedly invaded her home; arrested and imprisoned her father, brothers, cousins and other relatives; killed her cousin and her uncle; attacked the village with tear gas and other weaponry, including the rubber-coated metal bullet shot into the face of her 15-year-old cousin, Mohammed, shortly before the video was filmed.

Her case has also highlighted the ongoing, systematic imprisonment of Palestinian children; approximately 700 are brought before military courts each year, and Palestinian kids seized by Israeli forces are frequently subject to beatings, abuse, and interrogations without parents or lawyers present in violation of the law.

The march will start with words from invited speakers at Town Square and will be concluded at Mølleparken.

Speakers:
Bilal Al-Issa (Council member at Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke and consultant at the Danish house in Palestine)
Marwan – Palestinian rapper from Aarhus V

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Tag med Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke Aarhus på en solidaritetsmarch for den 17-årige Ahed Tamimi og de uretfærdigt fængslede palæstinensiske børn.

Ahed og moren Nariman Tamimi har været fængslet siden den 19. december, efter et videoklip – af Ahed der sparker og giver en israelsk besættelsessoldat en lussing – gik viralt på de sociale medier.

For det meste af sit liv har Ahed Tamimi været i direkte konfrontation med besættelsesmagten, der gentagende gange har invaderet hendes hjem, arresteret og fængslet hendes far, bror, fætre, kusiner og andre familiemedlemmer, dræbt hendes onkel, angrebet hendes landsby med blandt tåregas og andet, som gummibelagte kugler, som hendes 15-årige fætter, Mohammed, kort forinden videoen var blevet skudt i hovedet med.

Aheds sag er ikke enestående, og har derfor også været medvirkende til et øget fokus på den aktuelle systematiske fængsling af palæstinensike børn, hvor ca 700 børn bliver bragt for militære domstole hvert år. Palæstinensiske børn der fængsles udsættes ofte for fysisk vold, mishandling og afhøring uden at hverken forældre eller advokater er tilstede, hvilket bryder med international lov.

Demonstrationen indledes med taler på Rådhuspladsen og slutter i Mølleparken.

Talere:
Bilal Al-Issa (Rådsmedlem hos Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke og konsulent hos det Danske hus i Palæstina)
Marwan – Aarhus V rapper med Palæstinensisk baggrund
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Thursday, 12 April
7:00 pm
Olin Center – Tufts University
180 Packard Ave
Medford, MA
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International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is coming to present at Tufts as part of their North American tour – don’t miss this chance to hear from these amazing Palestine solidarity activists!

Since 2001, thousands of volunteers from around the world have joined the International Solidarity Movement to participate in Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance against Israeli human rights violations. They stayed with resistance fighters in the Nativity Church in Bethlehem, brought medical supplies to the ancient Nablus Casbah, and filmed the destruction and death in the Jenin refugee camp. They included Rachel Corrie, killed in Gaza and Tom Hurndall, shot in the head. In 2009, 2012 and 2014, ISM volunteers were in Gaza, reporting the Israeli invasion and helping in the hospitals, clinics and schools.

But ISM needs more volunteers, so we came to North America to talk to interested groups. The presentation includes an abridged version of Radiance of Resistance, a film by three ISM volunteers serving in Nabi Salih and featuring Ahed Tamimi and her cousin, Janna Ayyad.

Joe Catron is a reporter and blogger, and went to Gaza as an ISM volunteer, witnessing and reporting on several Israeli invasions. Islam Maraqa trains and coordinates international volunteers and interfaces with the Palestinian communities that ISM serves, assuring that ISM is Palestinian-led.

Saturday, 14 April
4:00 pm
African Community Center – Jerusalem
Al-Wad Road
Jerusalem, Palestine
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Administrative detainees in Zionist prisons continue to boycott the occupation courts for the 53rd day in a row in rejection of the policy of administrative detention practiced by the occupation against them. Some have them have reached nearly 14 years of imprisonment through multiple administrative detentions!

Accordingly, Samidoun Network – Palestine and the Nabd Youth Forum invite you to a symposium with former prisoner and political analyst Rasim Obeidat and lawyer Amjad Abu Assab.

Friday, 13 April
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Under Hungerford Bridge, Southbank
(Between London Eye and Southbank Centre)
London, UK
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Web: http://inminds.co.uk/article.php?id=10796

To mark Palestinian Prisoners Day, Inminds human right group will, on Friday 13th April 2018, hold a vigil on the Southbank of the River Thames in London to highlight the plight of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, and to demand their freedom.

Figures published in March 2018 show the Israeli occupation abducted 1319 Palestinians in the previous two months, including 274 children, 23 women and 4 journalists. As of 28th February 2018, here are around 6,500 Palestinians caged in Israel prisons including 350 children and 63 women including 6 minor girls. Over 500 Palestinians are held without charge or trial indefinitely under administrative detention orders.

Inminds chair Abbas Ali said “The Israeli occupation is enforced by terrorising the indigenous Palestinian population; abducting its children; and imprisoning anyone who resists. In many cases the formality of a charge let alone a trial or even a set length of sentence are ignored – people are just locked up indefinitely on the whim of the colonizer. During interrogation physical torture, even of young children, is standard practice as is sexual abuse of children. Women have been electrocuted into submission, and many prisoners like Arafat Jaradat have died under torture (72 prisoners in total tortured to death since 1967). If they survive the interrogation then they face the military court and its ‘conveyor belt’ trial system with its ‘rubber stamp’ 99.74% conviction rate. In no other country in the world is such injustice law.”

Inminds chair Abbas Ali added “Some 20% of the Palestinian population of men, women, children and the elderly have been imprisoned by the Israeli military since 1967, every single Palestinian family has been effected. The prisoners form the cornerstone of Palestinian society, their suffering is felt in every home. We are here to show our solidarity with them and their families, and to demand their freedom from occupation dungeons. We are also here to demand that companies complicit in their suffering, like HP that provides the IT infrastructure for Israel’s torture dens and dungeons, end their complicity in these war crimes.”

Please join us on Friday 13thh April 2018 on the Southbank of the river Thames under Hungerford Bridge near the Southbank Centre.