Film Screening: Radiance of Resistance تألق المقاومة April 10th: Doors open at 7pm. Film starts at 7:30pm Tickets: $10 General, $8 Seniors/Students, Location: The Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street Co-organized by: Canada Palestine Association, BDS-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories and Young Communist League-Vancouver
The new film, Radiance of Resistance tells the story of Janna Ayyad 9 years old, and Ahed Tamimi 14 years old, who live under military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine. Janna Ayyad has been called the youngest journalist in Palestine. Ahed is one of many Palestinian children unjustly incarcerated in an Israeli Prison for opposing colonial occupation on her land. As Bassem Tamimi said, “Ahed is a representation of a new generation of our people, of young freedom fighters.” This film will take an intimate look at their everyday lives and their importance as the new generation of Palestinian non-violent resistance. In 2017, Radiance of Résistance won Best documentary at the Respect for Human Rights Film Festival.
Join us in the struggle for Ahed’s Freedom! Free all Palestinian prisoners!
All funds/proceeds go to: Organizations fighting for the freedom of Palestinian Prisoners
Produced by: AMZ Productions – Rise Up International
Music by: Colten Williams & Third Seven
Edited by: Jesse Locke
Directed by: Jesse Roberts
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This event takes place on the traditional, unceded, occupied territories of the səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. In acknowledging this, we must be in solidarity with the struggles of the peoples of the territory in which we occupy.
March 16, 2018 marked 15 years since American peace activist and International Solidarity Movement (ISM) volunteer Rachel Corrie was run over and killed by an Israeli soldier driving an armored Caterpillar bulldozer as she tried to stop the demolition of a family home in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine.
Join Rachel’s parents Craig and Cindy Corrie and representatives of the ISM for this annual event that benefits Palestinian children.
Free and open to the public.
$5 suggested donation to cover cost of food.
Donations will be gratefully accepted to help support the Samira Remedial Education Project for disadvantaged and traumatized children in Rafah.
Featuring
• Rachel’s Parents Craig and Cindy Corrie
• U.S. & Palestinian International Solidarity Movement Volunteers Joe Catron and Islam Maraqa
• Scenes from the new film, Radiance of Resistance, about Palestinian youth activists Ahed Tamimi and Janna Ayyad.
Plus
• Hummus, Tabbouleh and Desserts including Baklawa
• Door Prizes!
• Palestinian olive oil, olive oil soap, zaatar & maftool, embroidery, and other crafts available for purchase.
On December 16th Trump announced the US would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel adding more insult and injury to the Palestinian people and their struggle for national liberation.
Two days later, a then 16 year old Palestinian, Ahed Tamimi was detained, arrested and charged with 12 counts for resisting the Israel military occupation of her town Nabi Salih.
Israel incarcerates hundreds of Palestinian children like Ahed for simply resisting colonial extermination. Rather than incarcerating resisters, Israel should be charged with crimes against the Palestinian people and humanity.
Join the ANSWER Coalition as we “Put Israel on Trial” and expose: How Israel routinely commits violations of human rights through chronicling its history & why a two state solution cannot be a viable answer to the question of Palestinian Liberation. We charge Israel! Drop the charges on Ahed! Release her and all political prisoners of the settler reigme! Uphold the right to return! Free Palestine!
Location: MIT Bldg 5 Room 134
Food and Drinks will be provided
“The International Solidarity Movement has brought thousands of volunteers to Palestine to participate in Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance. Find out what we do, why we do it, and how you can be a part of it. We will show a short version of the film Radiance of Resistance, filmed in 2015 and 2016 by three ISM volunteers, mainly in the village of Nabi Saleh, featuring Ahed Tamimi (then 14 years old), who is currently in Israeli custody and threatened with years of imprisonment for slapping a soldier.
Activists, Rana Nazal and Islam Maraqa are among the Palestinian leaders of ISM in Palestine. Rana was arrested with Nariman Tamimi, the mother of Ahed in 2013.
Photo by Alex Levac: Bassam and Nariman Tamimi with daughter Ahed in Nabi Saleh
Rana Nazzal
is a Palestinian-Canadian activist, artist, and facilitator. She is immersed in community organizing in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and on Algonquin Anishnaabeg land in Canada. Like many Palestinians, for her activism she has endured beatings, injury from military weapons, arrest, and indictment in Israel’s military court system. Since 2014, Rana has run an activist leadership program based in Ottawa that works to empower young adults with the tools and frameworks necessary to fight for effective social change. She also developed an arts-based peer support program for refugee youth in Canada that continues today. She recently returned to Palestine and is based in Bethlehem.
Islam Maraqa
is a Palestinian activist and industrial engineer from Hebron. He has been a human rights activist since the second Intifada, in 2003, when Israeli military forces closed his university. He joined ISM in 2006, first as an activist and then as a coordinator and trainer of international volunteers. ISM work in Hebron included accompanying children to school along routes near settlers, direct confrontation with military forces, resistance against house demolitions and remaining with threatened families. Islam is a recognized and active member of his community, and especially in the resistance against human rights violations. Islam started the Marmara Housing Project with a group of Palestinians and internationals, to rebuild eco-friendly and practical homes for the Palestinian families whose homes have been bulldozed by Israeli Forces.
Music by CommUnity Voices
Join us for refreshments after the program.
All Programs are held on the second floor in the Lothrop Auditorium.
Small elevator, wheelchair accessible.
CCB is located near the Orange line-Back Bay or the Green line-Copley T Stops. On Street Parking and at Back Bay Parking Garage, 199 Clarendon Street. Discount Vouchers available for parking in the garage.
Community Church of Boston is located at
565 Boylston Street, 2nd fl., Boston, MA 02116
For more information: www.communitychurchofboston.org
Noon – 1 PM: Rally outside US mission to the UN: 799 UN Plaza.
1 PM – 2 PM: March to Times Square
2 PM – 4 PM: Rally at Times Square
Our demands:
– Release Mumia’s case files
– Free Mumia Abu-Jamal now
– Free all political prisoners
– End mass incarceration and police violence
– Liberation and reparations for all oppressed and occupied communities
Imprisoned Palestinian student leader Omar Kiswani is on hunger strike in Israeli prison in protest against his ongoing detention without charge and interrogation. Kiswani is the president of the Student Council at Bir Zeit University and was seized on 7 March when undercover Israeli occupation forces invaded the university campus, pretending to be journalists. They carried firearms in backpacks, entering the university campus during school hours and then attacked Kiswani in front of the Student Council Building in the center of the university campus.
Meanwhile, an occupation army unit detained all of the university’s guards in the guard room; the kidnapping unit used their weapons to threaten the student body as they dragged Kiswani from campus in the violent attack.
The attack on the university has been condemned by an array of institutions; it comes as one of a number of repeated invasions of Palestinian university campuses, especially in order to attack student councils and elected student blocs and organizations. Active students are repeatedly targeted for arrest and imprisonment and it has been estimated that at Bir Zeit University alone, over 60 Palestinian students are held in Israeli prisons. There are approximately 340 Palestinian university students jailed by the Israeli occupation.
“This act is a violation of the civilian nature of universities and educational institutions, especially that this is not the first time an Israeli army unit has raided Birzeit University’s campus, as it had done on numerous occasions and confiscated media paraphernalia belonging to student political parties, equipment, and computers,” said Sarah Pritchett of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate denounced the impersonation of journalists in order to carry out a violent attack on a student political leader.
Dozens of student union officers at UK universities signed on to a statement denouncing the raid, labeling it “the most recent example of Israel’s long-term and systematic assault on the Palestinian right to education.” “We, Friends of Birzeit University and student union officers in the UK, believe that we have a duty to take a stand against injustice and oppression. We stand in solidarity with Palestinian students denied their right to education and support their demands to live and study in an environment free from the violent practices of Israel’s occupation,” the statement continued.
Since being seized from campus on 7 March, Kiswani has been held at the notorious Moskobiya detention center in Jerusalem under interrogation. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society stated that Kiswani is being interrogated 18 hours daily and has been prevented from seeing his lawyer since his arrest; his detention was extended by another week on Thursday, 22 March.
Students at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK held a protest on 20 March in which they demanded the release of Kiswani and other student prisoners, expressing their solidarity with Palestinian students under occupation. The protesting students then attended an event with rapper Lowkey carrying Palestinian flags and signs calling for the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners.
Kiswani announced that he had begun his hunger strike on 19 March against his interrogation and imprisonment, demanding his immediate release. He is not the only Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike: Musaab al-Hindi has been on hunger strike for 15 days in protest of the renewal of his administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial; Bashir al-Khatib, imprisoned since 1988 and from occupied Palestine ’48, has been on hunger strike for 14 days to demand medical care; Adel Shehadeh, held in Jalameh detention center, has been on hunger strike for 12 days against his torture under interogation; and Saleh Abu Sawawin from Khan Younis has been on hunger strike for three days against his isolation in Ramon prison.
Hours after he had been told that he would be released from the Negev desert prison after eight months in administrative detention without charge or trial, as he waited near the entrance of the prison for his transport to release, Palestinian prisoner Ismail al-Nattah, 43, was told that his detention had again been extended by another four months.
Rather than being released on 21 March as his family members waited at al-Dhahriya crossing south of al-Khalil to receive him, he was once again returned to the prison cells. His family members denounced the act as another form of torture used by the occupation against administrative detainees and their families, causing them to live in a constant state of uncertainty and fear.
He has been imprisoned by the Israeli occupation since his home was invaded on 23 July 2017 and ransacked by occupation forces. He previously spent five years in Israeli prison.
This comes as administrative detainees continue their boycott of the Israeli military courts for the 39th day, in a protest step against their ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial. They are demanding an end to the policy of administrative detention and launched their mass boycott on 15 February. Occupation forces have threatened the prisoners to bring them before the military courts with force in order to break the boycott.
Palestinian prisoners, including youth activist Saleh Jaidi and Nawaf Sawarka, have been subject to a policy of attempting to break the boycott, as documented by Addameer:
The military court judge had shortened the orders. In response, the military prosecutor filed an appeal with the aim of lengthening the time of detainment.
In solidarity, both the individuals in question and their lawyer did not attend the hearing in the military court at Ofer Prison. This resulted in the judge postponing the hearing until 14 March, knowing that both administrative detention orders were to expire on 18 March.
Again, the individuals in question and their lawyer refused to participate in the proceedings. In response, the judge stated that if Mahmoud Hassan, lawyer for Addameer, and his clients do not attend future hearings then Mahmoud will be referred to the Ethics committee of the Israeli Bar Association and fined. His clients will be brought to the court room, by force if necessary. Additionally, the individuals in question will be held until the conclusion of proceedings.
Such moves represent a concerted effort to crush the boycott. The judge is, without a formal extension of administrative detention order, telling Salah and Nawaf that they will be detained until they attend their court session. In essence, their arbitrary detention will continue, potentially indefinitely, until they give up the boycott.
There are currently around 450 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention; as administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable, Palestinians can spend years at a time imprisoned under these orders. Since the beginning of the boycott, over 90 administrative detention orders or renewals have been issued; in 2017, 1060 administrative detention orders were issued. Administrative detention was first introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate, and it is used today to target community leaders and Palestinian organizers for indefinite imprisonment on the basis of a so-called “secret file.”
On 10 March, the campaign to free imprisoned French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri achieved a victory over French state repression when the administrative court in Montreuil upheld the right of elected officials in Stains, including Mayor Azzedine Taibi, to post a banner on the city hall calling for the release of Hamouri.
Hamouri, 32, a field researcher for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, has been imprisoned without charge or trial by Israeli occupation forces since 23 August 2018; despite an official request for his release by France, his administrative detention was renewed by the Israeli occupation.
Dozens of cities and towns throughout France, including Stains, have adopted resolutions demanding Hamouri’s freedom, while over 1,000 elected officials have signed on to the campaign for his immediate release.
Despite French President Emmanuel Macron’s statement that he had requested Hamouri’s release in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his government, through the centrally-appointed official, the prefect of Seine-St-Denis, sued the elected officials of Stains for publicizing the campaign to free Hamouri. Reportedly, a complaint was filed with the prefecture by two pro-Israel pharmacies. The banner had been removed under the prefect’s orders; when it was returned to the location at the front of the city hall, the phrase “as demanded by the president of the Republic” was added.
The new Stains banner, via the Free Salah Hamouri Campaign
The tribunal rejected claims that there was “no local interest” and that the banner violated an obligation of “neutrality,” as well as claims that the city council had not properly decided to hang the banner; the council had previously adopted a motion to engage in all necessary efforts to seek Hamouri’s release.
Over 40 police were present outside the tribunal, where dozens of activists had come to support the Stains officials, including Elsa Lefort, Hamouri’s French wife, who has been banned from Palestine until further notice after being denied entry to Palestine while pregnant with her and Salah’s son. Activist groups, including EuroPalestine, also attended the tribunal in support of Taibi and the campaign to free Hamouri.
Roland Weyl, the legendary 98-year-old human rights lawyer and a member of the Bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, argued in favor of the city, dismantling the legal claims of the prefecture. Weyl highlighted the repeated attempts of the prefecture to silence support for Palestine and noted that the campaign for the release of Salah is fundamentally not political in nature but a demand for the implementation of human rights and international law. Hamouri, a French citizen owed support and protection by the French state, has been imprisoned since August 2017 without charge or trial.
Weyl also rejected the use of the term “Israeli-Palestinian conflict” for politically fraudulent purposes. “This wording, which suggests that there are two equal parties that confront each other, is false, and I do not use it: when someone enters your home by breaking in and steals property, we do not talk about conflict, but of a thief and his victim.”
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Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network reiterates our total support for the immediate liberation of Salah Hamouri, a dedicated struggler for the freedom of Palestine and the Palestinian prisoners. The French government’s overwhelming inaction on the case of Salah Hamouri despite the mobilization of thousands of citizens and elected officials indicates their extreme disregard for the rights of Palestinians, including those who are French citizens. The French state’s prosecutions of BDS activists and imprisonment of Lebanese struggler for Palestine Georges Ibrahim Abdallah for over 33 years are echoed in the silence and complicity in the ongoing imprisonment of Salah Hamouri. The French government has a clear responsibility to make it clear that Salah Hamouri must be freed and that his ongoing imprisonment without charge or trial under administrative detention is absolutely unacceptable. Free Salah Hamouri! Free Palestine!
2. Organize an action, event or activity to demand an end to Salah Hamouri’s detention and his immediate freedom. Raise his case at events and actions for Palestine.
3. Like and share the Facebook page for Salah Hamouri, which will be regularly updated with news and actions to demand Salah’s freedom: https://www.facebook.com/freesalahhamouri/
Joining in the large International Women’s Day demonstration, protesters marched from Republique to Opera led by a banner urging freedom for 17-year-old Palestinian prisoner Ahed Tamimi. Carrying photos of Ahed and many imprisoned Palestinian women and girls, including Shatila Abu Ayyad, Amal Taqatqa, Marah Bakir, Khalida Jarrar, Lama Bakri, Manar Shwaiki, Nariman Tamimi, Shorouq Dwayyat and others, the marchers chanted for Palestine and to build the boycott of Israel throughout the route of the march.
The new film, Radiance of Resistance tells the story of Janna Ayyad 9 years old, and Ahed Tamimi 14 years old, who live under military occupation in Nabi Saleh, Palestine. Janna Ayyad has been called the youngest journalist in Palestine. Ahed is one of many Palestinian children unjustly incarcerated in an Israeli Prison for opposing colonial occupation on her land. As Bassem Tamimi said, “Ahed is a representation of a new generation of our people, of young freedom fighters.” This film will take an intimate look at their everyday lives and their importance as the new generation of Palestinian non-violent resistance. In 2017, Radiance of Résistance won Best documentary at the Respect for Human Rights Film Festival.
March 16, 2018 marked 15 years since American peace activist and International Solidarity Movement (ISM) volunteer Rachel Corrie was run over and killed by an Israeli soldier driving an armored Caterpillar bulldozer as she tried to stop the demolition of a family home in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Palestine.
