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All out to Lannemezan! All out to Toulouse! Free Georges Abdallah and all Palestinian Prisoners

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network calls on Palestinian communities in exile and diaspora, organizers and activists in solidarity with the Palestinian cause, anti-imperialist movements, and all people of conscience to join us this October 19-21, 2023 in Toulouse and Lannemezan, France, to mobilize for the liberation of Georges Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners. For those unable to attend in France, we urge you to organize actions and demonstrations in your communities, to raise high the banners of the Palestinian prisoners, of Georges Abdallah, and of the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.

On 21 October 2023, the annual mass march will take place at Lannemezan Prison in Lannemezan, France, marching from the train station to the gates of the prison where Georges Abdallah is held. Georges Abdallah is a Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, imprisoned in France for the past 39 years. Join the unified, collective march of many organizations, movements, unions and collectives to express our common goal for the liberation of Georges and the liberation of Palestine. 

In advance of the march, on 19-20 October 2023, the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement will hold two days of internal planning and strategy sessions for the next steps of the Palestinian revolutionary movement, hosted by our comrades in the Collectif Palestine Vaincra in Toulouse, France. 

On the evening of Friday, 20 October — the eve of the march — the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, together with Samidoun and the Masar Badil, will hold a mass public mobilizing meeting and event in Toulouse, at the Bourse du Travail. 

We encourage all to join us for these events. 

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all of our supporters, members and friends to join us in a collective bloc at the Lannemezan demonstration under the slogan: Free Georges Abdallah! Free all Palestinian Prisoners! Free Palestine, from the River to the Sea!

Who is Georges Abdallah? 

A Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, Georges Abdallah has been imprisoned in French prisons since 1984, convicted on charges of participation in armed actions by the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction, working to fight off colonialist and Zionist invasions in Lebanon.

From his youth, Georges Abdallah was an activist and engaged in the struggles of the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. With the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), he resisted and was injured by Israeli forces invading Lebanon in 1978. A committed Communist and internationalist, he views the Arab struggle for liberation from Zionism and imperialism as part and parcel of the international workers’ struggle for liberation from capitalism.

He has been eligible for release since 1999 yet continues to be denied parole, despite having parole requests approved several times by French judges. The Lebanese government has officially asked for his release, and he is asking to be deported to Lebanon. Yet the French state has intervened at the highest levels, alongside the U.S and Israeli regimes, to deny Georges Abdallah’s parole requests. He has filed a new appeal for his immediate release, accompanied by a call to build the movement for his liberation.

The Palestinian prisoners’ movement considers Georges Abdallah to be part of the movement from inside French prisons, where he has participated in collective hunger strikes by returning meals. 

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement

There are currently 5,200 Palestinian political prisoners in Zionist jails, including over 1319 jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention, 170 children and 36 Palestinian women. Since 1948, over one million Palestinians have been imprisoned by the occupation. Palestinian prisoners are mothers and fathers, workers and farmers, teachers and students; they represent all sectors of the Palestinian people and primarily reflect the Palestinian popular classes in the refugee camps, villages and cities.

The prisoners behind bars are not merely victims of the occupation; they are leaders of the Palestinian resistance movement and of the Palestinian revolution. They represent a unifying symbol of the Palestinian people and a leadership that is not compromised by the Oslo Accords and the so-called “peace process.” Fundamentally, they represent Palestinian resistance, in all means and forms, and its legitimacy; outside and inside the prisons. Palestinian prisoners organize, read, study and act together, turning the dungeons of the occupier into revolutionary schools. 

Over 90% of Palestinian prisoners are tortured physically and/or psychologically under interrogation, and Palestinian prisoners are routinely denied medical care or subjected to systemic medical neglect or negligence. The occupation continues to detain over 200 Palestinian martyrs, including the bodies of 12 Palestinian prisoners who lost their lives behind bars. 

Despite these circumstances, the Palestinian prisoners continue to fight back, to resist, to lead and to move towards liberation. They carry out hunger strikes, they create art and literature, and they participate directly in the resistance, confronting the jailers on a daily basis and at a strategic level. The prisoners’ battle is part and parcel of the unity of all fronts! 

Palestinian prisoners are not only held in the prisons of the occupation. There are Palestinian prisoners in U.S. jails – Ghassan Elashi, Shukri Abu Baker and Mufid Abdulqader, the Holy Land Foundation Humanitarians, imprisoned for up to 65 years for serving their people. In Britain, 100 Palestine Action activists are fighting charges where they face jail time for confronting the Israeli war machine with direct action. In the Netherlands, Amin Abu Rashed is imprisoned for his charitable work to support Palestinian refugees and their right to return. And of course, in France, Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, imprisoned for the past 39 years. This form of repression also includes the attack on Palestinian organizing in Germany, the attempt to strip the residency and refugee status from Samidoun coordinator Zaid Abdulnasser and the deportation of Palestinian figures like Khaled Barakat and Rasmea Odeh.

In reactionary Arab regime prisons, Palestinians are jailed for supporting their resistance and liberation. Of course, the prisoners’ battle also includes the prisoners of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah, jailed under “security cooperation” with the Israeli occupation, the reason for the PA’s creation and existence.

This reflects the Palestinian cause: the struggle against Zionism, imperialism and reactionary regimes. The struggle of the Palestinian prisoners is an internationalist struggle, aligned with the struggle of the revolutionary prisoners of the world confronting the same forces in common cause – toward national and global liberation.

Join our actions and our march for Georges Abdallah and for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners! 

About the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) 

Our popular movement was launched in late October 2021 in Madrid, Beirut and Sao Paulo as a Palestinian, Arab and international movement to confront the path of liquidation and surrender, in order to straighten the Palestinian national compass and mobilize the energies and resources of the Palestinian people in the diaspora. The Masar Badil firmly rejects the path of the Oslo process and is committed to Palestinian resistance until total liberation and return.

The Masar Badil is a Palestinian revolutionary path with Arab and international dimensions, whose features were drawn by thousands of Palestinian, Arab and international martyrs over decades of struggle, a path of radical change that interprets reality in order to change it, understands the challenges and national and local specificities in every Palestinian community and sees them as a source of strength and pluralism. We adhere to our rights and roots while looking to the future and keeping pace with the times. This revolutionary approach is rising today to walk confidently and with steady steps toward liberated Palestine, from the river to the sea…towards a new Arab and human dawn.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network is part of the Masar Badil Movement!

If you can’t come to Lannemezan: 

We urge all supporters of Palestine to join activities in your city or organize initiatives to highlight the case of Georges Abdallah and demand his liberation. Here are some examples:

  • Print, distribute and post these posters (images below and downloadable here) calling for the liberation of Georges Abdallah in your community.
  • Organize a screening of the new film, Fedayin, the Struggle of Georges Abdallah in your community. The film is fully subtitled and available in English, French, Arabic, German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan and Turkish. To organize a screening, please contact vacarmesfilms@gmail.com
  • Protest or deliver a letter demanding Georges Abdallah’s release at the French consulate or embassy in your city.
  • Include Georges Abdallah’s liberation – and the liberation of Palestinian prisoners – in demonstrations, actions and vigils for Palestine in your city
  • Write Georges Abdallah and send him solidarity messages (individually or as a collective action of your group). Send letters to:

Monsieur Georges Ibrahim ABDALLAH
2388/A221 CP de Lannemezan
204 rue des Saligues
BP 70166
65307 LANNEMEZAN
France

Contact us at samidoun@samidoun.net for more information or to let us know about your action or send us a message on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)

Misbah al-Suri and the Gaza prison break of 1987: Sparks toward the Intifada

October 2023 marks the 36th anniversary of the martyrdom of Misbah al-Suri, the leader of a daring escape from the Israeli occupation’s Gaza Central Prison in May 1987, one of the sparks of the great popular Intifada of 1987. Al-Suri was one of the leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement and one of its founders, and his martyrdom — and the battle of Shujaiya days later on 6 October — is commemorated as the founding date of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement.

Al-Suri, born in al-Maghazi refugee camp in 1954, to a family of Palestinian refugees expelled from Ashdod in the 1947-48 Nakba, the Zionist colonization of Palestine, Living through severe poverty and poor housing and the 1967 assault on and occupation of Gaza, including th bombing of his refugee camp, he joined the Palestinian resistance from a young age. As a member of the Palestine Liberation Front, he threw a bomb at an occupation army force in Jabalia at the age of 16; he was hit by bullets in several areas of his body, arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was held in solitary confinement for two months after his last attempt to liberate himself was discovered. In 1985, he was one of the 1150 Palestinian prisoners released in the prisoner exchange conducted by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command. (Others included Kozo Okamoto of the Japanese Red Army; Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, later the spiritual leader of Hamas; and Ziad Nakhaleh, later to become the General Secretary of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement.)

During his time in detention, Al-Suri participated in the prisoners’ hunger strike in Kfar Yona prison, which lasted for a week until occupation forces suppressed the prisoners and transferred them to Bir al-Saba prison. There, he became familiar with the nascent development of what would become the Islamic Jihad Movement and the ideas of Fathi Shiqaqi, founder of the movement. When he was released, he returned to the Palestinian resistance, establishing groups to resist the occupation in various areas of Gaza.

In 1986, he was again seized by occupation forces, who ordered him to 30 years in prison. During his previous time in prison, he had attempted to escape on multiple occasions, but this time, he developed a plan, alongside several of his fellow prisoners, to secure his liberation. On 17 May 1987, Misbah al-Suri, Sami al-Sheikh Khalil, Mohammed al-Jamal, Imad Saftawi, Khaled Saleh and Saleh Ishteiwi, liberated themselves from the Gaza central prison. Reports indicate that prisoners refashioned kitchen tools into screwdrivers and were able to smuggle in a tiny saw inside a loaf of bread. The prisoners tied bedsheets together to make a rope ladder to scale down the wall of the prison and secure their liberation.

Only days after their self-liberation, Al-Suri returned to the resistance, alongside his fellow self-liberated prisoners. While Ishteiwi was re-captured again after 7 days, Imad Saftawi and Khaled Saleh were able to leave Gaza. Imad Saftawi was later re-imprisoned in 2000 after re-entering Gaza, and was released in December 2018.

In his resistance work after the escape, al-Suri and his liberated comrades participated in the killing of Galili Grossi, an intelligence officer working for the occupation in Gaza, in an attempt to capture him to exchange for Palestinian prisoners, as well as the assassination of Ron Tal, the commander of the Israeli occupation military police in Gaza. During this time, he worked, remaining underground, to establish resistance cells throughout the area and develop the new movement.

On 1 October, occupation forces ambushed Misbah al-Suri together with his two companions, Mohammed Alayan and Mohammed Abu Obeid, who were martyred at the scene. However, the occupdation did not announce al-Suri’s death for two more days; most Palestinian observers believe that he was not killed at the scene but martyred under torture for refusing to give up the location of his comrades.

On 6 October 1987, Sami al-Sheikh Khalil and Mohammed al-Jamal (two of al-Suri’s fellow escapees from Gaza prion), together with Ahmed Hallis and Zuhdi Quraiqa, traveled to confront a military base of the occupation, during which they were spotted by intelligence agents. In the ensung battle, the four were martyred, and one of the intelligence agents were killed.

After his death, the occupation forces demolished al-Suri’s family home, harassed his family members and barred them from participating in his funeral.

These events took place only months before December 1987 and the beginning of the great popular Intifada, and were some of the major sparks that lit the fuse of the uprising to come, representing the Palestinian people’s commitment to resistance and struggle until liberation, despite all odds, and unbreakable will to freedom. In the week following, demonstrations began at the Islamic University of Gaza and spread to many towns and refugee camps, while general strikes and demonstrations shut down Gaza and the West Bank for over a week.

The story of Misbah al-Suri and his fellow prisoners has taken on new life since the 2021 Freedom Tunnel operation, in which six Palestinian prisoners: Mahmoud al-Ardah, Mohammed al-Ardah, Ayham Kamamji, Yaqoub Qadri, Munadel Nafa’at and Zakaria Zubaidi, liberated themselves from the high-security Gilboa prison. While they were re-captured, the story of their escape once again illustrated Palestinians’ commitment to resist and free themselves despite the high levels of physical repression and technological surveillance that they face.

The Gaza prison break and the resistance struggle that ensued as a spark of the great Intifada once again illustrates the central leading role of the prisoners’ movement in the development of the resistance and the Palestinian national liberation movement as a whole. Today’s struggles, behind prison bars, in occupied Palestine and everywhere in exile and diaspora, continue that tradition of active leadership and organizing for liberation. 

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine, of the Palestinian people and their resistance, and of the struggle against imperialism, Zionism and reactionary forces, to join us in Lannemezan, France, on 21 October 2023 for the mass march to free Georges Abdallah and for the liberation of Palestinian prisoners, and in Toulouse, France, on 19-20 October 2023 for the Masar Badil meetings and public event. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! 

 

Palestine and the Palestinian prisoners’ movement at the Spanish Communist Party’s 2023 Fiesta

From 29 September through 1 October, the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) organized its annual festival, the Fiesta, in Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain. As in past years, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement (Masar Badil) and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network had a strong presence at the Fiesta, together with Al-Yudur, the Palestinian Youth Mobilization in the Spanish State, and Alkarama, the Palestinian Women’s Mobilization.

The PCE Fiesta is a political and cultural event that has been commemorated each year since the PCE emerged from the underground after the end of the Franco regime in the late 1970s. The event is a space for discussions, lectures, book presentations and concerts, as well as meetings with various organizations and groups, with participants from the left throughout the Spanish state and internationally.

Enrique Santiago, General Secretary of PCE and elected parliamentary deputy Spain, showing solidarity with Georges Abdallah and Zaid Abdulnasser.

The Masar Badil and Palestine tent, as an internationalist organization, was present in the Fiesta alongide other nations and peoples fighting imperialism and colonialism, such as Cuba, Venezuela, and Western Sahara.

Manu Pineda, Member of European Parliament, supports the campaign against the German state’s repression of Zaid Abdulnasser.

This year, activities at the stand focused on the liberation of Palestinian prisoners and all of Palestine and its people, from the river to the sea, as well as several campaigns in Europe. Participants in the stand raised the case of Zaid Abdulnasser and the #StandWithZaid campaign. Zaid is the coordinator of Samidoun Germany who is being threatened with revocation of his refugee status and residency in Germany simply for his activism for the Palestinian cause. This is the latest in a series of attacks on Palestinians in Germany, from denial of residency to deportation of prominent Palestinian writers and activists, such as Khaled Barakat and Rasmea Odeh.

The stand also highlighted the case of our comrades from Madrid. As they protested the presence of the Israeli ambassador on the campus of the Complutense University of Madrid, an Israeli agent pointed a gun at the protesters. However, rather than restraining the Israeli agent, the riot squad of the National Police repressed the demonstration and violently removed the protesters from campus, causing wounds and bruises; they also detained two of the participants and are unjustly prosecuting them through a police setup. The PCE provided Masar Badil and Samidoun organizers with an adjacent stand to provide specific information about the case and the campaign to defend the persecuted activists against repression.

On Saturday, 30 September, Samidoun screened the film, “Fedayin: The Struggle of Georges Abdallah,” accompanied by an informative talk by Jaldía Abubakra of the Masar Badil and Ghassan Saliba of the Communist Party of Lebanon. The stand sold copies of the book, “Manual de militancia dentro y fuera de la cárcel. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah,” along with t-shirts calling for his release. These actions are also part of the month of action for Georges Abdallah’s release, leading up to the Masar Badil gathering in Toulouse, France on 19-20 October and the mass demonstration to liberate Georges Abdallah at Lannemezan, France, outside the prison where he is held, on 21 October. These activities raised awareness about the tireless struggle of Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Communist Arab fighter for Palestine jailed in France for 39 years, who continues to highlight his alignment with the Palestinian resistance and the Palestinian prisoners’ movement.

The discussion also highlighted the boycott campaign against Teva, the major Israeli pharmaceutical company and the largest producer of generic drugs. Teva provides large tax revenues to the Zionist colonial regime, thus financing its military operations. We informed the people who came to our stand and told them that of the taxes that TEVA pays to Israel, which runs into millions, 13.25% of those taxes are destined to continue developing the arms industry.

Many people who visited the stand were inspired to boycott TEVA after learning of the massive taxes paid to the Zionist state by this company and the millions sent to develop its arms industry and military occupation.

Manu Pineda, deputy of the European Parliament, supports the campaign to free Georges Abdallah.

The stand also sold and distributed many t-shirts, bags, flag, posters and materials to stand with Palestine. We look forward to continuing to participate in the Fiesta in the coming years, continuing our work and struggle for the liberation of Palestine and in the fight to end imperialism and colonialism.

Freedom to all Palestinian prisoners!

Down with state repression!

Long live international solidarity!

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

In Toulouse and elsewhere, the launch of the international month of action for Georges Abdallah

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all to participate in the month of action to free Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine jailed in France for 39 years. On 19-20 October, the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, will hold two days of meetings in Toulouse, capped by a public event on Friday evening, 20 October. On Saturday, 21 October, a collective unified march will take place to Lannemezan prison, where Georges Abdallah is held. Georges Abdallah will enter his 40th year in prison this year. Collectively, we must demand Georges’ freedom and the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners, in Zionist, imperialist and reactionary regime (including Palestinian Authority) prisons. Join us on 21 October and in the coming weeks to rally, march and raise our voices for liberation and return, for Georges Abdallah, the prisoners’ movement, and all of Palestine!

Every year, a large international mobilization in October demands the release of Abdallah, who has been denied release and return to Lebanon despite being eligible for release since 1999. He is being jailed for political reasons by the French authorities, acting together with the United States and the Zionist regime. Samidoun and the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a member organization of the Samidoun Network based in Toulouse, have joined an appeal alongside many organizations, issued by the Unitary Campaign for the Release of Georges Abdallah.

In Toulouse, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra is dedicated to campaigning for the liberation of Georges Abdallah, postering and flyering throughout the city to inform people widely about the scandalous actions of the French state.

As students return to class at Jean Jaurès University in Toulouse, the Collectif organized a stand to publicize the campaign to free Georges Abdallah and support the Palestinian people’s struggle for national liberation; the stand received a warm welcome from many supportive students!

On Saturday, 30 September, the Collectif organized a stand in downtown Toulouse, displaying a banner, flags and signs in support of Georges Abdallah and Palestine. Participants distributed hundreds of flyers and engaged in many discussions with passers-by about the history of the case, denouncing the political and judicial assault on this resistance struggler. Several young Algerians participated in the stand, illustrating their profound attachment to the Palestinian cause, and we met several Palestinians from Gaza enthusiastic to see the support for Georges Abdallah and Palestine displayed so visibly in Toulouse.

Initiatives throughout France are growing as well. On 28 September in Paris, many people joined the Unitary Campaign for a rally outside the French Ministry of Justice demanding Georges Abdallah’s liberation.

On 30 September, Samidoun Paris Banlieue organized a solidarity stand for Georges Abdallah at its monthly Palestine stand at the Aubervilliers market.

More demonstrations and actions have been organized by collectives and groups in Marseille, Lyon, Limoges and Tarbes.

Activities for the release of Georges Abdallah are also organized in many countries, in particular by different chapters of Samidoun. For example, a delegation to Lebanon organized by Samidoun and Masar Badil called from the Shatila refugee camp to mobilize for the month of action for the release of Georges Abdallah.

In the Netherlands, Revolutionaire Eenheid and Samidoun NL issued a call from Shatila camp in Lebanon to join the mobilization to free Georges Abdallah.

All these initiatives will converge on Saturday, 21 October during a major march for the release of Georges Abdallah in front of the gates of Lannemezan prison, where he is detained. Several buses and carpools are organized from Toulouse and other French cities and neighbouring countries. Please do not hesitate to reserve a place by email at collectifpalestinevaincra@gmail.com. Furthermore, we are co-organizing a meeting the day before for its liberation and that of Palestine from 7 p.m. at the Bourse du Travail (Place Saint Sernin) with the participation of Palestinian, Lebanese and internationalist activists!

Berlin rally for Palestine confronts police repression: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!

German police again demonstrated their dedication to repressing Palestinian organizing in the city — home to the largest Palestinian community in Europe — on Saturday, 30 September 2023, when over 200 Berlin police surrounded a rally in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and against anti-Palestinian repression. 

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In a move clearly aimed at intimidating the community from attending the event, a massive police presence surrounded Sonnenallee near Hermannplatz.

Samidoun members and fellow Palestinian and Palestine solidarity activists gathered to speak out about the case of Kayed Fasfous, on hunger strike for 60 days, and about the #StandWithZaid campaign, in support of Zaid Abdulnasser, Samidoun coordinator in Germany, who is being threatened with the withdrawal of his residency in Germany as a Palestinian refugee from Syria because of his political activities for Palestine. 

Police began inspecting every image and text, employing a translator to translate Arabic text, including decorative calligraphy on attendees’ bags or shirts. They demanded that Samidoun flags not be raised, keeping in mind that the event itself is organised by Samidoun Network. They then attempted to demand that flags and signs featuring the image of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, the Lebanese struggler for Palestine jailed in France for the past 39 years, be taken down. The rally participants refused these arbitrary restrictions, insisting on raising Samidoun and Georges Abdallah flags until the police backed down with their demands.

After speeches in support of Kayed Fasfous’ hunger strike, about the repression in Germany and the campaign against it, the demonstrators chanted repeatedly in support of the prisoners, the resistance, and for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

The police then threatened to cancel the rally if the participants chant “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” claiming that “this chant denies Israel’s right to exist” and is therefore “not allowed in this country”. The demonstrators expressed their absolute refusal of these demands and declared clearly and repeatedly “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, with the clear understanding that this is the most central principal in the Palestinian struggle for liberation and return, and that they will not be silenced, even if the police attack and ban the rally. After multiple chants, the police disbanded the rally and arrested 6 demonstrators, issuing them fines and releasing them shortly after, solely for chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. 

The overwhelming police presence is clearly designed to intimidate the Palestinian and Arab community in Berlin, especially given the attack on Zaid and on other members of Samidoun and Palestinians more broadly. This is an attempt by the German state to make it risky and dangerous to express opinions in public, particularly for the liberation of Palestine and Palestinian prisoners. It comes after the Israeli ambassador to Germany, Ron Prosor, demanded that Palestinian posters be stripped from the streets of Berlin, which he declared “looked like the streets of Gaza,” and demanded that Samidoun be banned in Germany.

In the past several years, all demonstrations commemorating the Nakba day have been banned in Berlin, as have demonstrations for Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. This year, when Jewish groups organized a rally to commemorate the Nakba after multiple rallies and demonstrations by diverse groups were banned, Berlin police attacked the demonstrators, including physically assaulting participants in the gathering, and then attempted to label the Palestinian participants in the demonstration — welcomed by the organizers — as interlopers “invading” the gathering. This follows the massive police violence and repression directed against Al-Nakba demonstrations in May 2021, as well as the deportation of Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat and feminist, torture survivor and former prisoner Rasmea Odeh. 

This latest attack illustrates the point made in the statement of the International Campaign Against Anti-Palestinian Repression in Germany, now endorsed by over 230 organizations: “We view this as an attack first and foremost on the Palestinian community in Germany and an expression of state-sponsored anti-Palestinian rhetoric and full identification with Israeli colonisation of occupied Palestine. This is particularly important as the vast majority of the Palestinian community in Berlin are refugees denied their right to return to their cities and villages since 1948. Their engagement in the liberation of their land and return to their homes is their natural right and the state’s attempt at repressing them will fail as they have failed for the past 100 years of unyielding Palestinian struggle.”

We declare now, and will always affirm: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! 

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Kayed Fasfous on 60th day of hunger strike: Freedom Now!

Palestinian political prisoner Kayed Fasfous is on his 60th day of hunger strike in occupation prisons against his administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Fasfous, 34, entered his third month of hunger strike on 1 October 2023. On Monday, 2 October, an Israeli occupation military court is scheduled to hear another appeal by Fasfous against his arbitrary imprisonment.

Fasfous, from the town of Dura, near al-Khalil, is married and the father of a daughter, Jawan. He previously won his freedom from administrative detention in 2021 in a 131-day hunger strike that caught the attention of the world, especially after he was moved to a civilian hospital and received visits from journalists and his family, who took pictures and videos illustrating his emaciated state. (Prior to his imprisonment, Fasfous was a bodybuilder.)

Fasfous’ health has deteriorated significantly in the last weeks of his strike, and he was transferred to the Ramle prison clinic; he has repeatedly been denied transfer to a civilian hospital, where he could be seen and his case publicized outside the confines of the colonial prison system. Since he began his hunger strike, Fasfous has been subjected to systematic mechanisms of coercion and repression amounting to torture, including being isolated in harsh conditions in Al-Naqab prison, repeatedly abused through searches of his cell, being deprived of a mattress for a long period of time. He was then transferred to isolation in Ashkelon prison and now to the infamous Ramle prison clinic, referred to as a slaughterhouse by Palestinian prisoners.

While Fasfous is appealing his administrative detention through the occupation courts, it is clear that the occupation courts are not a mechanism of justice but part and parcel of the system of colonial imprisonment. The military courts rubber stamp the orders of the Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence agency, at the expense of Palestinians jailed by the occupation. Palestinian prisoners have been working for years to institute a comprehensive boycott of the occupation courts and expose the fig leaf of pseudo-legality being imposed on arbitrary mass imprisonment.

On Thursday, 28 September, administrative detainees in the Naqab desert prison collectively returned their meals in solidarity with Fasfous, calling for his release and the end of his detention.

A former prisoner, Fasfous has spent around 7 years in total in occupation prisons since his first arrest in 2007. He was re-arrested by occupation forces on 2 May 2023 and ordered to administrative detention once again, alongside four of his brothers: Khaled, Akram, Hafez and Hassan. Hassan was released during Kayed’s strike, but four of the Fasfous brothers remain detained, imprisoned without charge or trial.

They are among 1319 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention, a number that has skyrocketed in the past year, out of 5,200 Palestinian political prisoners in occupation jails. This number includes 20 children and four women. Administrative detention was first introduced to Palestine by the British colonial mandate and was adopted by the Zionist regime. Palestinians are routinely jailed for years at a time under repeatedly renewed detention orders issued for up to six months at a time. In the past year, the number of administrative detainees has more than doubled as part of the ongoing “war” on the prisoners’ movement.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges all supporters of Palestine to take action to support Kayed Fasfous and all Palestinian prisoners struggling for freedom, for their own lives and for the Palestinian people. These sons of the Palestinian popular masses are confronting the system of Israeli oppression on the front lines behind bars, with their bodies and their lives, to bring the system of administrative detention to an end.

It is particularly important to stand with the strikers and not let their cases be silenced — earlier this year, on 2 May, Sheikh Khader Adnan’s life was taken after 86 days of hunger strike while being actively denied medical care. He had previously won his freedom four times through hunger strikes. These Palestinian prisoners are putting their bodies, health and lives on the line for liberation.

With over 1200 Palestinians jailed without charge or trial — over 20% of all Palestinian prisoners — the struggle to bring down administrative detention is more urgent than ever. Take these actions below to stand with the hunger strikers and the struggle for liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea!

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Amin Abu Rashed’s pretrial detention extended: freedom for a Palestinian political prisoner in the Netherlands! 

On Tuesday, 26 September, Samidoun Netherlands joined Palestijnse Gemeenschap NL for a solidarity demonstration outside the Rotterdam court building, on the occasion of Amin Abu Rashed‘s first formal hearing before the court; he has been jailed as a Palestinian politiclal prisoner in the Netherlands since June of this year. 

Despite his deteriorating health and with no evidence presented against him, the judge still returned Amin to pre-trial detention before his next hearing on 7 December, labeling him a “flight risk” even though he is a Dutch citizen with a family, businesses and organizations in the Netherlands who has lived there for decades. 

During the demonstration, members of Samidoun NL spoke about Amin’s life, his experience with Zionist repression, and his work to provide thousands of Palestinian refugees, especially in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, with basic needs and a dignified life. 

For decades, Amin Abu Rashed has been one of the most prominent leaders of the Palestinian community in the Netherlands, founding and participating in many community organizations as well as solidarity initiatives, such as the Freedom Flotilla and the European Campaign to Break the Siege on Gaza. Most recently, he is the president of the Palestinians in Europe Conference, whose conference in Malmo in May 2023 drew thousands of Palestinians across Europe and was bitterly attacked by Zionist organizations that attempted to prevent it from happening, smearing Abu Rashed in the process.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network considers this decision — and the imprisonment of Amin Abu Rashed — as an attack on the Palestinian movement in Europe, and we consider him to be a Palestinian political prisoner in the Netherlands. He has been targeted for years by the Zionist movement because of his effective role in organizing the Palestinian community and in providing direct charitable support to Palestinians under siege and in exile. This came alongside attacks by the Palestinian Authority on the conference and the work to organize Palestinians in Europe. In a sharp rebuke to all of these propaganda efforts, the conference was a major success in mobilizing the Palestinian community around a message of clear commitment to the right to return on the road to the liberation of Palestine.

We demand the immediate release of Amin Abu Rashed and that all charges against him be dropped. Amin is a respected community leader and organizer, who actively supports his people in social, political and humanitarian ways. We call upon all Palestinian- and solidarity organizations to stand together in defense of Amin and the right to organize for Palestinian liberation.

Occupation forces storm Ramon prison; transfer Ahmad Sa’adat and 90 fellow Palestinian prisoners

Israeli occupation forces stormed section 5 of Ramon prison today, Sunday 1 October, closing multiple sections of the prison and transferring all of the 90 prisoners held there to section 10 of Nafha prison. This includes Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The prisoners were not allowed to bring any of their personal belongings with them, and they were told they would not be returned to Ramon prison.

This comes days after occupation forces ransacked several prisoners’ rooms in section 5 of Ramon prison; they also transferred several Palestinian political prisoners to solitary confinement and one, Mazen al-Qadi, to interrogation.

The Zionist prison administration routinely uses transfers and raids to disrupt the prisoners’ lives as well as their organizing, ransack and confiscate their belongings and undermine their sense of stability. Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Sa’adat’s comrade and fellow prisoner, wrote: “These movements aim to confuse the prisoners, undermine their stability and that of the organizational work inside prisons. The torment of trips called “Bosta”, which transfer prisoners between prisons and courts, is a severe form of torture.”

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine expressed its outrage at the transfer of Sa’adat, and there is a high level of tension among the PFLP prisoners in occupation prisons. The prisoners are on alert and prepared to take steps of struggle to confront the latest attacks upon the prisoners’ movement. In a statement, the PFLP said, “This attack targeting the leadership of the Popular Front is an integral part of the comprehensive attack on the captive movement, which did not stop and has increased further after the fascist and racist criminal Ben Gvir took over the so-called Zionist Ministry of Internal Security.”

Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the PFLP, has been jailed in occupation prisons since 2006, following 4 years in Palestinian Authority prisons under U.S., British and Canadian guards. He has repeatedly been subjected to isolation, interrogation and sudden transfer in order to remove him from his leading role in the prisoners’ movement.

There are currently approximately 5,200 Palestinian political prisoners in occupation prisons, including over 1,300 jailed without charge or trial under “administrative detention,” in which Palestinians can be detained indefinitely by an occupation military court.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses its strongest solidarity with Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners confronting Zionist colonial incarceration and tactics of repression. We urge the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners — a necessary step toward the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.

Palestinian-Italian researcher Khaled el-Qaisi released; banned from leaving Palestine

Palestinian-Italian researcher Khaled el-Qaisi was released from Israeli detention on Sunday, 1 October, after his uncle paid a financial bail guarantee; however, he is subjected to a travel ban and cannot return to Italy. He must remain in Palestine until at least 8 October — the next court hearing — although he is not under house arrest, his wife Francesca Antinucci told Italian outlet Pagine Esteri:

“For now I can only say that it is not a question of house arrest but that until 8 October there is a ban on leaving the country and he is obligated to remain at the disposal of the judicial authorities,” Antinucci specified. Meanwhile, the family members still have no certain information and are still unable to contact Khaled.”

The Comitato Free Khaled, representing his family and friends, issued a statement, saying:

“We confirm Khaled’s release from prison. It’s comforting news even if a state of limitation of freedom remains with investigations still underway…We will give updates on his condition and release details once direct contact with him has been established. In this context, the committee for Khaled’s release and his family remain vigilant in a situation that is still very delicate, until its full and definitive resolution.”

This news comes one day after a national day of action in Italy, where protests were held in Rome, Bologna, Napoli, Cagliari, Trieste, Ancona, L’Aquila (with another demonstration forthcoming in Milan on Monday, 2 October at Corso Sempione 27 at 6 pm. These demonstrations gathered outside the offices of RAI, the Italian national broadcaster, to demand appropriate coverage of Khaled’s case in the mainstream national media. These demonstrations were organized by a wide range of organizations in Italy, including the Giovani Palestinesi d’Italia (Palestinian Youth of Italy), Centro Culturale Handala Ali, and many left and progressive organizations.

In Aubervilliers, France, Samidoun Paris Banlieue joined the day of action as part of its Palestine Stand, carrying a large banner calling for freedom for Khaled el-Qaisi:

El-Qaisi is a translator, researcher and student in the Department of Oriental Languages and Civilizations at Sapienza University of Rome who was detained by Israeli occupation forces since 31 August. El-Qaisi, a Palestinian and Italian citizen, was visiting Palestine with his wife and four-year-old son. While leaving Palestine at the bridge to Jordan, he was suddenly seized by occupation forces and handcuffed in front of his young child. In Italy, El-Qaisi works with the Giovani Palestinesi d’Italia (Palestinian Youth of Italy) and is the co-founder of the Palestinian Documentation Center, a project that works to archive, translate and make accessible Palestinian historical documents, items and works. Occupation officials have not brought any charges against El-Qaisi.

A group of Palestinian and Italian academics wrote an open letter calling for El-Qaisi’s freedom and highlighting previous cases of Palestinians in diaspora, particularly European citizens who have been detained by the occupation (original in Italian, translation below):

El-Qaisi: Legal barbarism to silence the diaspora

We write this letter as Italian, Italian-Palestinian and Palestinian academics with great concern for the fate of Khaled el-Qaisi, arrested at Allenby Bridge by the Israeli occupation army on 31 August 2023, as he was preparing to return home with his wife and his son after a holiday spent in Bethlehem, his city of origin on his father’s side.

Khaled – student of oriental languages ​​and civilizations at Sapienza University, intellectual and translator of books of fundamental importance for Palestinian political and cultural history – has been detained for almost a month in Israeli prisons without charges, deprived of the possibility of meeting with his lawyer.  Amnesty International reported that Khaled was subjected to psychological and physical harassment during detention, including “sleep deprivation, threats, verbal abuse and prolonged imposition of stress positions” which, Amnesty continues, “potentially amount to a crime under international law”.

All this is in contrast with the declarations of the Italian government, which instead tried to reassure our country about Khaled’s good condition. Equally violent and inhumane is the way in which the Israeli military treated Khaled’s family, his wife and their 4-year-old son, who, after witnessing the arbitrary arrest of their husband and father, were deprived of money and phones and left at the border in a state of extreme precariousness and violation of their most basic rights, even more serious considering the presence of a child already certainly traumatized by the events. Only thanks to the solidarity of some Palestinian women on the spot, the family managed to reach Jordan and go to the Italian embassy for the necessary support.

Israeli arrest and detention systems have operated outside of international law for decades. According to Amnesty International, there are over 5 thousand Palestinians currently detained in Israel (illegally deported from the occupied territories) and among these 1,260 are in prison without charge or trial, thanks to Israel’s use of administrative detention which can be renewed indefinitely for 6 month periods, allows Israel to detain citizens without any evidence, charge or trial, often for many years, in total disregard of international law and basic human rights.

As academics we are deeply concerned about the conditions and nature of Khaled’s detention, which represents a further escalation of Israel’s repression against students, intellectuals or ordinary citizens whose only crime is to be active or visible in various capacities in the promotion of culture and rights of their people in the diaspora.

Often these are citizens of other countries, of Palestinian origin, who simultaneously hold – thanks to great sacrifices and perseverance – a Palestinian passport or a residence permit in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, or in Gaza. They are “Guilty of Palestine”, as the slogan of the campaign for Khaled’s release which has been activated in recent weeks has effectively summed up.

This is not the first time this has happened in recent years. In September 2016, a British citizen, Fayez Sharary, was arrested in conditions similar to those of Khaled, in front of his wife and 3-year-old daughter, as he was preparing to return home after holidays. In this case, it was an Israeli military judge who ordered his release, after having ascertained the use of torture and forced confession on the detainee and declaring the charges irrelevant.

Mustafa Awad, Belgian citizen and dancer of Palestinian origin, was detained for 253 days in Israeli prisons and freed thanks to a vast campaign in favor of his release and the legal assistance of the well-known Israeli lawyer Lea Tsemel, who managed to demonstrate the unfoundedness of the accusations of “terrorism” leveled against him.

And, again, the French-Palestinian lawyer Salah Hamouri detained in “maximum security” administrative detention from March 2022 to December 2022 and then deported to France after being deprived of his residence permit and Jerusalem identity card.

What is underway is a clear attempt to silence the voices of the diaspora and at the same time to deprive student citizens and intellectuals of the diaspora of the right to reside, return, or visit their families and loved ones in the occupied Palestinian territories.

As Italian and Palestinian intellectuals of the diaspora we express deep concern at the lack of attention that our media has given to Khaled’s arbitrary detention.

We call upon the Italian government and the deputy prime minister and foreign minister Tajani, who recently stated that our country “does not intend to interfere with Israeli judicial activities” (!), to instead interfere, interceding to stop the legal barbarity of detention without charge , with detention conditions profoundly harmful to Khaled’s dignity and health and in violation of the most fundamental human rights.

The release of Khaled el-Qaisi must be called for immediately. Unless our government considers Khaled, as an Italian-Palestinian, a second or third class Italian and the diplomatic relationship with Israel is more important than the dignity of our fellow citizen.

First signatories:
Ruba Salih, University of Bologna
Carlo Rovelli, Aix-Marseille University
Massimo Cacciari, San Raffaele University, Milan
Wasim Dahmash, formerly University of Cagliari
Alessandro Petti, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm University
Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna
Ada Barbaro, Sapienza University of Rome
Giovanni Levi, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Sara Farris, Goldsmiths University of London
Nicola Perugini, University of Edinburgh
Alessandra Mezzadri, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Francesca Biancani, University of Bologna
Leopoldina Fortunati, University of Udine
Leonardo Capezzone, Sapienza University of Rome
Diana Carminati, formerly University of Turin
Daniela Pioppi, University of Naples L’Orientale
Riccardo Badini, University of Cagliari
Simone Sibilio, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari
Cristiana Baldazzi, University of Trieste
Marco Ramazzotti, Sapienza University of Rome
Roberta De Monticelli, Former lecturer of Philosophy of the Person at the universities of Geneva and San Raffaele of Milan
Luigi Daniele, University of Nottingham Trent
Giacomo Costa, former full professor of Political Economy at the University of Pisa
Marco Ammar, University of Genoa
Roberto Beneduce, University of Turin
Simona Taliani, University of Turin
Paola Rivetti, University of Dublin
Maria Chiara Rioli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Annalisa Frisina, University of Padua
Paola Gandolfi, University of Bergamo
Patrizia Zanoli, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari
Barbara De Poli, University of Venice Ca’ Foscari
Silvia Federici, Hofstra University (Hempstead, New York)
Sara Borrillo, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Rosita Di Peri, University of Turin
Claudia Ortu, University of Cagliari
Francesco Bachis, University of Cagliari
Lea Nocera, University of Naples L’Orientale
Andrea Brigaglia, University of Naples L’Orientale
Valerio Cordiner, Sapienza-University of Rome
Stefania Bentonati, University of Pavia
Alessandra Brezzi, Sapienza-University of Rome
Lucy Ladikoff, formerly University of Genoa
Adolfo La Rocca, Sapienza-University of Rome
Maria Elena Paniconi, University of Macerata
Andrea Cottino, University of Turin
Angelo D’orsi, University of Turin
Elisabetta Benigni, University of Turin
Arturo Monaco, Sapienza-University of Rome
Pamela Murgia, University of Macerata
Nicola Melis, University of Cagliari

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges continued vigilance to ensure the end of the persecution of Palestinian-Italian researcher, scholar and citizen Khaled El Qaisi. The Italian government and all concerned parties must take immediate action at all levels to ensure his safety and his immediate freedom, including his freedom to travel freely and to leave Palestine, to return to Italy, and to return to his homeland Palestine in the future. 

#StandWithZaid campaign grows with international and German events, 230+ endorsers

The campaign is growing in Germany and around the world to #StandWithZaid: Zaid Abdulnasser, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, coordinator of the Samidoun Network in Germany and active with the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement. Dozens of additional organizations have signed on to the statement, while postering campaigns, actions and events are being organized around the world to highlight the case, with multiple events and actions in Germany demanding justice for Zaid and for Palestine.

 

The campaign called for a demonstration in Berlin, on Saturday, 30 September at 1 pm in Hermannplatz, in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners and against anti-Palestinian repression, and events are being organized in Leipzig, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Berlin, among others.

On Monday, 2 October, an arts and cultural evening in solidarity with Zaid is being organized in Berlin at Cafe Karanfil by Berlin Migrant Strikers.

ACTIONS

On 20 September, graffiti appeared in Duisburg Delivierte carrying the slogans “Hands off Zaid! Free Palestine!”

On Monday, 25 September, Boykot Israel DK organized a solidarity letter delivery to the German embassy in Copenhagen in solidarity with Zaid and Palestine, and against anti-Palestinian repression in Germany:

At a solidarity action in Frankfurt, Germany, activists rallied for Palestine and expressed their solidarity with Zaid on 24 September:

On 15 September, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra organized a Palestine stand in Toulouse where they took photos in solidarity with Palestine, the prisoners and Zaid’s campaign:

On 24 September, Samidoun Spain joined Izquierda Unida in Madrid to show solidarity with Zaid and with Georges Abdallah:

On 30 September in Barcelona, Samidoun activists organized a solidarity stand for Palestine and took photos in support of Zaid:

In Gothenburg, Sweden, Samidoun tabled and participated in multiple events at a radical bookfair on 29-30 September, speaking about anti-Palestinian repression in Europe, including the case of Zaid and the attempt of the French government to dissolve Collectif Palestine Vaincra.

Also on 30 September, Samidoun Netherlands had a table at the Bij1 congress in Den Haag, advocating for liberation for Palestine, freedom for Palestinian political prisoner in the Netherlands Amin Abu Rashed, and solidarity with Zaid and against anti-Palestinian repression in Germany.

 

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On 26 September in Berlin, anarchist groups organized a solidarity evening at Rigaer 94 that included a screening of “Fedayin,” the film on the life and struggle of Georges Abdallah, and a discussion with Samidoun Berlin on the campaign against repression:

On Friday, 29 September, Zaid Abdulnasser spoke in Hamburg, at an event organized by Palästina Bündnis Hamburg as part of the International Campaign Against Anti-Palestinian Repression in Germany. He was warmly greeted by a supportive crowd who welcomed him to Hamburg and expressed their outrage at the repression targeting the community.

At the same time, in Dusseldorf, Samidoun Deutschland joined Palästina Solidarität Duisburg on 29 September for an information stand outside the central train station. Participants took solidarity photos as part of the #StandWithZaid campaign and distributed information about Palestine to passers-by.

On 22 and 23 September, a representative of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network spoke in Naples, Italy, at an event denouncing anti-Palestinian repression in Europe, including Zaid’s case, the attempted dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra in France, and other cases, including, most urgently, the Israeli imprisonment of Palestinian-Italian translator and researcher Khaled el-Qaisi.

On 22 September, Samidoun Brussels organized an event in Belgium marking the 25th anniversary of the police murder of Semira Adamu during a deportation; participants in the event discussed Palestinians’ right to resist and right to return, and showed their solidarity with Zaid:

On 23 September, Samidoun Vancouver joined with fellow organizers from the Canada Palestine Association, BDS Vancouver Coast Salish, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle and the Mobilization Against War and Occupation at a protest outside Scotiabank, the Canadian bank that is the largest foreign investor in notorious Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems. Participants showed their solidarity with Zaid:

In Toulouse, France, on 23 September, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra joined thousands marching against police violence and repression, carrying signs and banners for Palestinian liberation and the liberation of Georges Abdallah, as well as a banner for the #StandWithZaid campaign:

Also on Friday, 29 September, activists in Tucuman, Argentina at a social movements demonstration gathered to show solidarity with Palestine and to take #StandWithZaid solidarity photos to denounce Germany’s attack on Palestinian organizing:

On 21 September, students at Jean-Jaures University in Toulouse, France, joined with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra to take a stand in solidarity with Palestinian liberation and against the repression of the Palestinian movement in Germany:

In Toulouse, France, members of the CGT SELA 31 at Jean-Jaures University also showed their solidarity with Zaid:

In Spain, activists participating in a workshop on decolonization in the Global South expressed their solidarity with the Palestinian cause, with Zaid, and with Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine jailed in France for 39 years:

On 19 September in Vancouver, Samidoun Vancouver organized a political education evening on “Molding Consciousness or the Re-Identification of Torture” by Palestinian prisoner, revolutionary intellectual and freedom fighter Walid Daqqah. Participants showe their solidarity with Zaid:

On 17 September, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra organized a Palestine Picnic in Toulouse, France, where they held banners in solidarity with Khaled al-Qaisi and Zaid:

SOLIDARITY

The Lebanese Communist Party issued a statement in solidarity with Zaid:

Statement LCP

Sazeman Tadarok Kommunisti – Iran also issued a solidarity statement and letter to Samidoun.

Statement Tadarok

Activists with the Borotba party in Donbass, and with the People’s Will Party in Syria, expressed their solidarity with the #StandWithZaid campaign:

On 27 September, a group of activists in Berlin showed their solidarity with Zaid, Samidoun and Palestine in a video shared on social media:

Avrupa Dev-Genc, an organization of revolutionary youth from Turkey, and very involved in the campaign against paragraph 129(b), recorded a solidarity video with Zaid and Samidoun:

Activists in Lima, Peru, recorded a solidarity video in support of Zaid and the struggle of the Palestinian people:

On 26 September, the Kommunistische Organisation released a comprehensive solidarity statement about Zaid’s case in the context of German imperialism, the asylum regime, and the Palestinian cause:

“The Zaid case impressively shows how the German authorities use migration and asylum law as a political weapon: They can apparently neither simply ban Samidoun nor prove that comrade Zaid has committed a concrete crime. Instead, they use his “status” as a refugee, which is ultimately nothing more than a racist legal construct that deprives him of his basic rights. As with all repression, it is not about him alone, but above all about intimidating all of us. The message is clear: Palestinians are not allowed to express themselves politically in the FRG, they are not allowed to denounce colonialism in their home country and they are not allowed to fight against it. Those who do risk not only never being naturalized and thus being able to live here with equal rights, but even losing their asylum and being deported. We advocate that the Palestinians’ struggle for their national liberation in all its forms can be openly supported and propagated in this country, that Palestinians not only get security and residence, but that they can fully exercise their political rights!”

Rote Hilfe also shared a call-out for support for the campaign against anti-Palestinian repression in Germany, and hosts the legal support fund for comrades in Germany.

Hanna and Marion Kawas of the Canada Palestine Association also expressed their solidarity with Zaid on Twitter:

YDG – Yeni Demokratik Gençlik, a revolutionary organization of youth from Turkey, recorded solidarity videos for the #StandWithZaid campaign and against attacks on Samidoun. YDG has its own history of confronting repression and criminalization, both in Turkey and in Europe.

Canada Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights issued a solidarity statement with Samidoun and the Campaign Against Anti-Palestinian Repression in Germany:

 

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Ung Vanster in Gothenburg, Sweden, a branch of the largest left youth organization in the country, expressed their solidarity with Zaid:

Young Struggle, a youth movement struggling for the rights of the kurdish people expressed solidarity with the campaign through multiple videos and social media posts:

The Kommunistische Organisation issued a call to action in support of Zaid as well as a series of solidarity photos:

Professors and students in the Arab Studies Department at the Autonomous University of Madrid expressed their solidarity with Zaid:

The Bahraini Society Against Normalization, currently engaged in a major campaign and confronting repression in Bahrain, expressed solidarity with Zaid and the campaign:

Manu Pineda, Member of European Parliament and chair of its Committee on Relations with Palestine, tweeted against Germany’s repression and in support of Zaid:

Révolution Permanente in France issued a solidarity statement in support of Zaid and the Palestinian struggle, and Le Poing Levé at Toulouse Jean Jaurès University showed their support for Zaid:

Samidoun Paris Banlieue organized solidarity photos for Zaid, as well as Palestinian prisoners Khaled al-Qaisi, Walid Daqqah and Georges Abdallah, at the Fete de l’Humanite, the annual festival organized by the French Communist Party:

In downtown Oran, Algeria, in front of a monument to the memory of Emir Abdelkader, an activist took a solidarity photo in support of Zaid.

Students and activists in Newark, New Jersey, took solidarity photos with Samidoun NY/NJ to show their support for Zaid and for Palestine:

In Lima, Peru, activists showed their solidarity with Zaid:

Activists in Abbotsford Canada, took solidarity photos with Zaid:

On 16 September, Palästina Solidarität Duisburg participated in a commemoration of the Nakba, educational and cultural event in Bruhl, where participants showed their solidarity with Zaid:

An Instagram post laid out the reasons for the importance of the campaign and why it matters for all Palestinians:

MEDIA

The Anti-Imperialist Front TV conducted an interview with Zaid about the campaign and the struggle for Palestinian liberation today:

Zaid conducted an interview as well (with live Spanish translation) with Radio Che Guevara in Argentina, on repression in Germany and the rising movement of Palestinian youth in exile and diaspora:

Samidoun Deutschland created a video linking the struggle in Germany today to the struggle for the liberation of Palestine and reclaiming the role of Palestinians in diaspora and exile in the liberation movement:

Articles and interviews:

Palestinian and Arab Media:

NOTE: If you do not see the name of your organization or your event here, please contact us at samidoun@samidoun.net! We apologize for any errors or omissions.

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Repression Statement

Signatories (Oct. 5 2023):

  • 100 idee per la pace Siena – Italy
  • 718 Coalition
  • Advisory Board National Jericho Movement
  • Al-Awda, Palestine Right to Return Coalition
  • Al-Awda, Bay Area
  • Alkarama Palestinian women’s movement)
  • Alliance for Global Justice
  • Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
  • Al-Marsad Palestine المرصد فلسطين
  • AlYudur Palestinian Youth Mobilization
  • American Student Union
  • Anti Imperialist Action Ireland
  • Antiimperialistische Koordination
  • Antirracismo Granada
  • ANC (Association Nationale des Communistes)
  • Arab Anarchist Network الشبكة الاناركية العربية
  • Arab Left Forum
  • Architects & Planners for Justice in Palestine
  • Asociación Americana de Juristas
  • Asociación Casa de la Memoria
  • Asociación Unadikum
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité Paris 14-6
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité – Paris-Sud
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité 22 St-Brieuc / France
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité 26/07
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité 63
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité centre et sud Manche
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité Marseille
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité Nantes
  • ATİF Föderation der Arbeiter*innen aus der Türkei in Deutschland
  • Australia Solidarity with Latin America
  • Association France Palestine Solidarité
  • Autonomia di Classe
  • Avrupa Dev-Genc
  • Basler Frauenvereinigung für Frieden und Fortschritt ( BFFF)
  • Bathurst United Church
  • BDS Vancouver/Coast Salish Territories
  • Behind Enemy Lines
  • Bergen County Green Party
  • Berlin Migrant Strikers
  • Biblicism Institute
  • Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) Solidarity Network
  • Boykot Israel Denmark
  • Bronx Antiwar Coalition
  • Bruxelles Panthères
  • Bündnis gegen imperialisitsche Aggression
  • Campagne unitaire pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
  • Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon
  • Canada Palestine Association
  • Canada-Philippine Solidarity for Human Rights (CPSHR)
  • Canadian BDS Coalition
  • Canadian Lebanese Academic Forum
  • Canadian Peace Congress
  • Canadian Unitarians for Social Justice
  • Casa delle Donne di Milano
  • Casa Pueblos 9
  • Catford Against Social Cleansing
  • CCMW Montreal
  • Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies
  • Charente Palestine Solidarité
  • Christian-Jewish Allies For a Just Peace
  • Centro Culturale Handala Ali
  • Citizens International
  • Collectif Boycott Apartheid Israël – Paris Banlieue
  • Collectif Palestine Nord Essonne
  • Collectif Palestine Vaincra
  • Collettivo Palestina Rossa
  • Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran
  • Corriente del Pueblo Sol Rojo
  • Couserans Palestine
  • Crida Migratoria
  • CTI-GHILASSENE
  • CUP-Alternativa per Llagostera
  • Dar al Janub – Union for Antiracism and Peace Policy
  • جمعية درب الوفاء للمعوقين الاجتماعية Darb Al-Wafa Social Association for the Disabled
  • Degrowth Belgium
  • DIE LINKE KV Region Hannover
  • DKP Kreisgruppe Bonn/Rhein-Sieg
  • DSA International Committee
  • East Berkshire PSC
  • Emakumeok gerraren aurka – Mujeres contra la guerra
  • Espacio Libre de Apartheid Israelí -ELAI CANTABRIA-
  • Evry Palestine
  • Ex OPG – JE SO’ PAZZO Napoli
  • FAC Research – feministresearch.org
  • Föderation Klassenkämpferischer Organisationen
  • France Palestine Mental Health Network
  • Freedom Road Socialist Organization
  • Freie Linke Zukunft
  • Frente Antiimperialista Internacionaista
  • Front Uni des Immigrations et des Quartiers Populaires – FUIQP
  • Gesellschaft Schweiz Palästina
  • Gorillas Workers Collective
  • Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN
  • Grupo Libélulas
  • Hände weg von Syrien – Bündnis gegen Krieg
  • Human Rights for Palestine
  • IDWC
  • Independent Jewish Voices
  • Independent Jewish Voices Vancouver
  • INSAF UOttawa
  • InterBüro
  • International Action Center
  • International Association of Democratic Lawyers
  • International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
  • ILPS Canada (International League of Peoples’ Struggle Canada)
  • International Women’s Alliance
  • Internationalt Forum
  • Ireland Palestine Mental Health Network
  • IU-PCE Marx Madera
  • IWW Montreal
  • Izquierda Unida
  • Jewish Bund
  • Jewish Network for Palestine
  • Jews against the Occupation
  • Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
  • Jordan Valley Activists
  • Jüdisch-Palästinensische Dialoggruppe München
  • JUMP Up Schallplattenversand
  • Justice for Palestinians – Calgary
  • Kairos Sabeel Nederland
  • Kampagne für Opfer rassistischer Polizeigewalt
  • Kämpfende Jugend Bremen
  • KOE – Communist Organization of Greece
  • Kommunistische Organisation (kommunistische-organisation.de)
  • Kommunistische Organisation [kommunistische.org]
  • KPD
  • La Guillotine, les éditions qui tranchent
  • Le CRI Rouge pour la défense des prisonniers révolutionnaires
  • League of Young Communists USA
  • Lebanese campaign to Free Georges Abdallah
  • Lebanese Communist Party
  • Liberate Palestine
  • Linke Zeitung
  • Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada
  • Masar Badil (Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement)
  • Media Review Network
  • Migrantifa NRW
  • Montreal Elders for Environmental Justice
  • Mouvement Citoyen Palestine
  • Movement for People’s Democracy
  • Movimiento Democrático de Mujeres (MDM)
  • MRT – Movimento Revolucionário de Trabalhadores
  • Münchner Friedensbündnis
  • Nación Andaluza
  • National Lawyers’ Guild- San Francisco Bay Area chapter
  • National Lawyers Guild International Committee
  • National Students for Justice in Palestine
  • National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers (Philippines)
  • Netzwerk Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangen Magdeburg
  • Oakville Palestinian Rights Association
  • Occupy Bergen County
  • OCML Voie Prolétarienne
  • Offenes Treffen gegen Krieg und Militarisierung Stuttgart (OTKM)
  • Olive Press
  • ONGD AFRICANDO
  • Ontario Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
  • Pädagoginnen und Pädagogen für den Frieden
  • Palästina Antikolonial
  • Palästina Initiative Tirol
  • Palästina Kampagne
  • Palästina Komitee Basel
  • Palästina Komitee Zürich
  • Palästina Solidarität Duisburg
  • Palästina Solidarität Österreich
  • Palästina Spricht
  • Palestinakomitee Rotterdam
  • Palestina Libre Región de Murcia España
  • Palestina Solidariteit
  • Palestine House
  • Palestine Livre
  • Palestine Publications
  • Palestine Solidarity Alliance (Hunter College)
  • Palestine Solidarity Alliance South Africa
  • Palestine Solidarity Committee Stuttgart
  • Palestine-Global Mental Health Network
  • Palestinian Communist Party
  • Palestinian Youth Washington, D.C.
  • Parallelo Palestina
  • Party of Communists USA
  • Philippines Australia Union Link
  • People Against Apartheid and Fascism
  • People’s School
  • Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine
  • Public Intellectuals for Social and Spare Change
  • Racine Coalition for Peace and Justice
  • Red ComSur (Comunicadores del MercoSur)
  • red. media
  • Redbridge Palestine Solidarity Campaign
  • Resistance Festival – Athens, Greece
  • Resistance News Network
  • Resistance Studies Initiative University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Resumen Latinoamericano
  • Rete Romana di Solidarietà con il Popolo Palestinese
  • Revolte decoloniale
  • Revolución Filipina
  • Revolutionaire Eenheid
  • Revolutionärer Jugendbund
  • RIO – Revolutionär Internationalistische Organisation
  • Rojavakommittéerna Göteborg
  • Roter Aufbruch Dresden
  • Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
  • SE London Friends of Palestine
  • Seattle Boricua Resistance
  • Secours Rouge Genève
  • Secretaría Internacional de Podemos
  • SELFOP
  • Sheffield Labour Friends of Palestine
  • Sheffield PSC
  • Sinistra Italiana Pesaro Urbino
  • Society for Austro-Arab Relations
  • Solidaridad Antirrepresiva Berlin
  • Solidaridad Obrera
  • Solidaritätsnetzwerk Berlin
  • Steagul Roșu
  • Stop the War Machine
  • Students Allied for Freedom and Equality
  • Students United for Palestinian Equality & Return – University of Washington
  • Svenska Clartéförbundet
  • Sveriges Kommunistiska Ungdomsförbund
  • TADAMON (International Solidarity with Prisoners)
  • The Key (Palestine)
  • The USA-Palestine Mental Health Network
  • The Young Left Gothenburg and Bohuslän
  • Totes Legals Baix Montseny
  • Tsedek!
  • Tunisian Youth Movement
  • Union Juive Française pour la Paix
  • UPOTUDAK – Internationales Komitee für Solidarität mit Politischen Gefangenen
  • U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
  • UK-Palestine Mental Health Network
  • Union Syndicale Solidaires Haute Garonne
  • US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
  • USA-Palestine Mental Health Network
  • Venceremos, Partido de Trabajadorxs
  • V-SB
  • Verein Palästina e.V.
  • Waldheim Stuttgart e.V. “Clara Zetkin Haus”
  • Waterloo Region Friends of Palestine
  • Weekly newspaper DROMOS
  • Winnipeg Police Cause Harm
  • Within Our Lifetime – United For Palestine
  • Women in Black Vienna
  • Workers Voice Socialist Movement (Louisiana)
  • Workers World Party – Bay Area
  • WorldBeyondWar
  • Yoga For Peace, Justice, Harmony With the Planet
  • Youth Front for Palestine
  • Zannekinbond

 

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