Two Jerusalemite women ordered to house arrest; Abu Sharar released after two months imprisonment

28 September 2017

*Khadija Khweis and Hanadi Halawani. Photo: Handala Center for Prisoners*

Two Palestinian Jerusalemite women, Khadija Khweis and Hanadi Halawani, were released by the Israeli occupation on Wednesday, 27 September, ordered to 14 days of house arrest and barred from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque grounds for one month. Both also were forbidden from entering the West Bank or traveling abroad for six months and fined 5000 NIS ($1400 USD).

The two women are both tutors and very involved in campaigns to defend Al-Aqsa Mosque from settler harassment and incursions as well as “security” initiatives of occupation forces to control Palestinian holy sites in Jerusalem.

On Tuesday, 26 September, the minor girl Sally Shawwa, 14, from the village of Anata in Jerusalem was released by Israeli occupation forces after being jailed for several days. She was ordered held under house arrest for one week in Beit Hanina and forbidden from returning to Anata during that time. In addition, her family paid bail of 500 NIS ($140 USD). Sally was with her mother on the bus in Shuafat when the bus was stopped by occupation forces who seized the young girl and accused her of threatening to carry out a stabbing. She was held in the Moskobiyeh interrogation center for several days. Her release in and of itself demonstrates the weakness of the charges, as children from Jerusalem charged with attempted stabbings of Israeli occupation soldiers, border guards and settlers have been sentenced to extraordinarily high sentences of 10 years and over.

In addition, on Wednesday evening, 27 September, Sabreen Abu Sharar, 28, a doctor from the village of Dura who is also a U.S. citizen, was released after two months and numerous continued hearings in Israeli military courts. She had previously been imprisoned for 18 months in occupation prisons, where she was elected the representative of women prisoners in Damon prison. After her release, she made plans to travel to the United States and became engaged to marry a Palestinian medical student from Gaza, studying in the U.S. When she sought permission to travel abroad following her release, she was instead seized by occupation forces on 26 July 2017.

There are currently approximately 58 Palestinian women prisoners in Israeli jails, among 6200 total Palestinian prisoners. 10 of these are minor girls, and five are held without charge or trial under administrative detention. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network expresses its solidarity with Palestinian women prisoners and urges their immediate release.

30 September, Bordeaux: Concert in Support of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

27 September 2017

Saturday, 30 September
8:30 pm
Inglourious Barstar
4 place Andre Meunier
Bordeaux
More information: https://sd-5b.archive-host.com/membres/up/29b72e7b8387d2014690b4aea20c293508c66477/docs/GA_Bx_2017.pdf

Concert of support and improvisations, as well as an open poetry and performance slam on the subject of imprisonment.

Organized by Le Collectif Libérons Georges 33

Free admission, donations welcome

Crowds pack European Parliament conference on Palestinian women with Leila Khaled, Sahar Francis and Ahed Tamimi

27 September 2017

The European Parliament in Brussels was home to a conference on the role of women in the Palestinian popular struggle on Tuesday, 26 September, featuring Palestinian women actively engaged in the liberation movement: resistance icon Leila Khaled of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Sahar Francis of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and Ahed Tamimi of the Popular Resistance Committees.

It should also be noted that Francis and Addameer are the lawyers of imprisoned Palestinian leftist parliamentarian, Khalida Jarrar. Jarrar was a fellow invitee to this conference before she was seized by Israeli occupation forces on 2 July along with fellow prominent Palestinian woman leader Khitam Saafin, the president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees. The images of Jarrar and Saafin, along with those of Ahmad Sa’adat, the imprisoned General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and Marwan Barghouthi, imprisoned Fateh leader, were highlighted on the main banner at the event, which read: “Existir es Resistir: Freedom” (Existence is Resistance: Freedom).

A photo of Jarrar was placed on the main speakers’ table in front of an empty chair beside Manu Pineda of Unadikum, the chair of Middle East affairs of the Communist Party of Spain. Parliamentarians Angela Vallina and Javier Couso, both of Izquierda Unida, both spoke at the conference from the main panel.

The event was organized by the Spanish delegation of Izquierda Unida (United Left) as part of the GUE/NGL (European United Left/Nordic Green Left) bloc in the European Parliament and the Unadikum Brigades of Spain, along with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Addameer and the BDS movement.

Hundreds of people, including Palestinian community activists in Belgium, solidarity organizers from a number of groups, organizations and campaigns and European parliamentarians attended the event. As Pour la Palestine, the website of the Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine noted, the conference did not only highlight solidarity with Palestine, “but also with Venezuela, Cuba, and all peoples fighting oppression in the world.” The ambassador of Venezuela, Claudia Salermo Calmera, participated in the event, as did MEP Martina Anderson, former Irish political prisoner and Sinn Fein representative.

During the conference, Leila Khaled emphasized the importance of building the international boycott of Israel and international isolation of the occupation. “We must unite the peoples of the world under the banner of freedom and bring together all popular movements that resist oppression. The Nazis were tried in Nuremberg for their crimes. Today, Israel is experiencing impunty. You must bring the war criminals to justice and tell your governments that they must cease all cooperation with the Zionist state,” she said.

Tamimi also emphasized the importance of the boycott, noting that “The world must recognize the Palestinian cause. The occupation is not only the theft of land. We oppose racism, Zionism, the entire system of occupation and not only the settlements. We do not want your pity, we want freedom!”

Francis spoke about the situation of prisoners, including the cases of Khalida Jarrar, Salah Hamouri and other imprisoned Palestinians, including parliamentarians and human rights defenders. She urged pressure on governments to take action for the release of Palestinian prisoners.

All of the speakers were greeted with a standing ovation, and multiple participants participated in the question-and-answer dialogue following the main presentations. Several MEPs as well as Tahsin Zaki of the Palestinian Community of Belgium and Luxembourg, Michel Collon of InvestigAction, Pierre Stambul of the French Jewish Union for Peace and others participated in the active discussion.

The conference had come under attack by Zionist organizations that attempted to demand that the European Parliament’s president silence the event; however, the event was large, filled to capacity and highly successful with strong interest from parliamentarians and advocates alike.

Leila Khaled will continue her visit to Europe and will speak in Madrid on 30 September at the Communist Party of Spain’s Fiesta at 6:00 pm, along with Manu Pineda and representatives of Spain’s BDS and Palestine solidarity movements.

29 September, Montreuil: Free Salah Hamouri

27 September 2017

Friday, 29 September
8:00 pm
salle Republique
59Bis Rue Barbes (metro Robespierre L9)
93100 Montreuil, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2056769411223432/

The Montreuil Palestine committee invites you to an evening of solidarity for the freedom of Salah Hamouri, on Friday, 29 September, with speakers: Elsa Lefort-Hamouri, Youcef Brakni, Alima Boumediene and Yasser Qous, with the presence of the parliamentarian for Montreuil-Bagnolet, Corinne Benabdallah.

Salah Hamouri, a French-Palestinian citizen and lawyer who works as a field researcher for Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, has been imprisoned by Israel since 23 August. He was ordered to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial, an order confirmed on 18 September. He is a victim of Israel’s all-out attacks on Palestinian resistance. Let us demand that the French authorities stop their silent complicity and reject Israeli impunity!

Le comité Montreuil Palestine vous invite à une soirée de soutien pour réclamer la Liberté pour Salah Hamouri Vendredi 29 septembre à partir de 20h salle République, 59Bis Rue Barbès (métro Robespierre L9)

avec comme intervenants: Elsa Lefort-Hamouri, Youcef Brakni, Alima Boumediene et Yasser Qous.

En présence de la députée suppléante de la circonscription Montreuil-Bagnolet Corinne Benabdallah.

Salah Hamouri, citoyen franco-palestinien, avocat, engagé auprès de l’association Addammer de défense des prisonniers palestiniens et des droits humains, a été arrêté le 23 août. Placé en détention administrative le 18 septembre, sans inculpation ni jugement, il est victime de l’acharnement d’Israël contre les résistants palestiniens. Exigeons des autorités françaises qu’elles sortent de leur silence complice. Refusons l’impunité d’Israël!

30 September, NYC: Welcome Rev. Edward Pinkney to NYC

27 September 2017

Saturday, 30 September
4:00 pm
Solidarity Center NYC
147 W. 24th St, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/348073458950508/

You are invited to a reception and meeting to welcome Rev. Edward Pinkney to New York City

“The Rev. Edward Pinkney is the kind of preacher that Martin Luther King Jr. would have admired. Rather than build a mansion and live like a prince, Pinkney has, for years, advocated for his community, fighting for water rights, fair elections and social justice for the people of Benton Harbor, Mich.”

– Political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal, Jan. 25, 2016.

Rev. Pinkney was imprisoned on trumped-up charges of falsifying signatures on a petition to recall the mayor of Benton Harbor, James Hightower in 2007. The case, which went to the Michigan Court of Appeals, concluded when the court decided no evidence was necessary to convict Pinkney, and that his past organizing work created suspicion of motive to forge dates on the petition. This grievous miscarriage of justice was merely a front to attempt to murder Pinkney, a Black man in his 60s, via incarceration. Rev. Pinkney was released on June 13, 2017 after spending 30 months in prison following a massive campaign to win his freedom in Michigan and elsewhere.

The International Action Center, New Abolitionist Movement
and Free Mumia Coalition (NYC) are honored to host this event
for this inspiring freedom fighter’s visit to New York.

RSVP and send your organization’s endorsement to iacenter@iacenter.org by Thursday, Sept. 28.

Wine, cheese and other refreshments will be provided starting at 4PM. Program starts at 4:30.

NYC protest demands freedom for imprisoned Palestinian women leaders Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin

27 September 2017

Protesters in New York City gathered outside of the Best Buy electronics store in Union Square to demand freedom for imprisoned Palestinian leaders Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin. Jarrar, a prominent Palestinian national leader and leftist parliamentarian, and Saafin, the president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, were both seized by Israeli occupation forces in pre-dawn raids on their homes on 2 July. Both are currently imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention.

The protest, organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, also included distribution of literature about the situation of Palestinian prisoners as well as engagement with Best Buy shoppers about the role of HP in occupied Palestine. Hewlett-Packard consumer products corporations produce printers, laptops, tablets, ink and other consumer computer electronics sold at Best Buy, while its enterprise and other spinoff companies provide IT support, services and technology to the most repressive mechanisms of the Israeli state, including the Israeli occupation armed forces and navy, the checkpoint and ID system that enforces apartheid and suppresses Palestinian life and the Israel Prison Service.

There is a growing movement for global boycott of HP products until the corporation ends its apartheid profiteering and cuts off its contracts with apartheid Israel. A growing number of churches and labor unions internationally are becoming “HP-free zones” in protest of the electronics corporation’s involvement in human rights violations in Palestine.

Participants in the demonstration carried Palestinian flags and signs highlighting the cases of Jarrar and Saafin. Jarrar was ordered to six months in administrative detention without charge or trial; she is one of 12 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council currently imprisoned, most held in administrative detention. Khitam Saafin was ordered to three months in administrative detention. The detention order against her expires on 1 October, but as administrative detention orders are indefinitely renewable, there remains a risk until the last possible minute. This demonstration came alongside other international events and actions highlighting Jarrar, Saafin and Palestinian women prisoners this week that also emphasize the international attention to Saafin’s case and demands for her immediate release.

Jarrar and Saafin, as prominent international leaders, have received support from international organizations and and political parties, including the Communist Party of Spain, the Landless Workers’ Movement of Brazil, the Hellenic Union of Progressive Lawyers, a number of European parliamentarians and the government of South Africa.

There are over 450 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention orders, among over 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails in total. These orders are issued for one to six month periods and are indefinitely renewable; Palestinians can spend years at a time jailed without charge or trial. Jarrar and Saafin are among 58 women prisoners in Israeli jails; both are held in HaSharon prison, where 10 minor girls are also imprisoned. They are two of five Palestinian women held under administrative detention, alongside Ihsan Dababseh, Sabah Faraoun and Afnan Abu Haniyeh.

During the protest, a graduate student at New York University stopped at the protest and interviewed participants for a video and essay hosted at his blog. The NYU student, a Palestinian from Gaza, had studied English several years before in a class in Gaza’s University College of Arts and Sciences taught by Joe Catron, Samidoun’s U.S. coordinator and a participant in the protest.

Passers-by were enthusiastic about the protest and a large number of flyers were distributed about Palestinian prisoners and about HP complicity in Israeli apartheid. Many stopped to have further conversation about the issues raised and find out more about the HP boycott.

Following the protest, a number of participants attended an event at NYU on the Balfour Declaration from the Perspective of its Victims, featuring a lecture by Prof. Rashid Khalidi, which focused on the situation of Palestinians for the past 100 years and the role of the British and U.S. empires in imposing Zionist colonial domination on occupied Palestine.

Samidoun activists are also working for international solidarity in multiple contexts. Christian Cobb of the Workers World Party, a weekly participant in Samidoun protests in New York City, will be traveling to Cuba for two weeks to participate in the “In the Footsteps of Che” international brigade. In addition to studying the history and legacy of Che Guevara and the Cuban revolution, including meeting with veterans of the revolution, participants will join direct hurricane relief volunteer actions to support the Cuban people’s rebuilding after the damage caused by Hurricane Irma. Several other New Yorkers, including participants in Palestine actions and Samidoun protests, will also be joining the brigade.

Many Samidoun activists will be joining the upcoming screening of “Kafr Kassem” in New York on 1 October, organized by the Open Committees of Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition. The classic 1974 film by Borhane Alaouie has been subtitled into English and will see its U.S. premiere at the Anthology Film Festival. It highlights the story of the massacre at Kafr Kassem with innovative film techniques that center the lives and experiences of Palestinians.

Samidoun will also participate on 30 September in a reception to honor the Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton Harbor, released in June 2017 after 30 months in prison on trumped-up political charges. The reception is being organized by the International Action Center, New Abolitionist Movement and Free Mumia Coalition.

Leuven protest greets new rector with cake, calls to stop LAW-TRAIN

26 September 2017

Over 60 activists, including 10 professors wearing academic gowns, greeted the opening academic procession at the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven) in Leuven, Belgium on Monday, 25 September. The action demanded the university cancel its participation in LAW-TRAIN, the European-funded research program that partners with Israeli police to study interrogation techniques.

The annual event marks the launch of the academic year. This year, it was the first public event of the newly elected university Rector, Luc Sels.

Organized by the Leuvense Actiegroep Palestina (Leuven Palestine Action Group) with participation from a number of groups in Belgium, people carried “Stop LAW-TRAIN” posters along the sidewalks where the procession passes, and 10 professors wearing academic gowns participating in the procession also walked with “Stop LAW-TRAIN” posters. Several participants in the action presented Rector Sels with a cake marked with “3,000 thank yous,” urging him to cancel the university’s participation in the project and win the thanks of the over 3,000 Belgians who have signed a petition against the project.

Professor Lieven De Cauter delivered a printout of the 3,000 signatures to the university to Sels as well. The university’s newly-appointed vice-rector for research, Reine Meylaerts, had previously been active in supporting the campaign against LAW-TRAIN and other cooperation with human rights violators at the university.

Hundreds of Belgian academics and cultural workers have signed on to an open letter against LAW-TRAIN organized by BACBI, the Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. During the procession at KULeuven at the start of the prior academic year, four activists blocked the street to demand the university stop legitimizing torture through its participation in LAW-TRAIN.

Activists across Belgium have emphasized the involvement of the Israeli police in the torture, repression and interrogation of Palestinians from Jerusalem and Palestine ’48, as well as their involvement in home demolitions and destruction of Bedouin Palestinian communities in the Naqab. The Israeli Ministry of Public Security, presided over by far-right minister Gilad Erdan, who also holds the state’s anti-BDS portfolio seeking to suppress the international campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions, is also a partner in the project, along with Bar-Ilan University.

Portugal pulled out of the project after growing protests from Palestinian and Portuguese associations. There is a significant campaign in Belgium and a broad coalition urging both the state agencies and the university to end their participation in LAW-TRAIN, noting that it legitimizes and sanctions the Israeli police’s use of torture in interrogation and involvement in occupation, colonialism and repression. A delegation of high-profile Belgian lawyers and human rights experts traveled to Palestine where they studied the use of torture by the Israeli police.

180 civil society groups urge international chefs to withdraw from Tel Aviv Round Tables

26 September 2017

Samidoun joins civil society groups from across the world to call on international chefs to cancel participation in Brand Israel culinary event.

Take Apartheid off the menu

To the attention of:

7132 Silver, Swiss Alps
Chef Sven WassmerAndreu Genestra, Mallorca
Chef Andreu Genestra Garcia

Xemei, Barcelona
Chefs Stefano & Max Colombo

L’Air du Temps, Éghezée
Chef Sang Hoon Degeimbre

Maido, Lima
Chef Mitsuharu Tsumura

El Sud 777, Mexico City
Chef Edgar Nuñez

Il Desco, Verona
Chefs Elia & Matteo Rizzo

Ricard Camarena Restaurant, Valencia
Chef Ricard CamarenaLittle Social, London
Chef Jason Atherton, Head-chef Cary Docherty

Aniar, Galway
Chef JP McMahon, restaurateur Drigin Gaffey

The Elephant, Torquay
Chef Simon Hulstone

Loch Bay, Stein, Isle of Skye
Chefs Michael and Laurence Smith

Kadeau, Copenhagen
Chef Nicolai Nørregaard

Pok Pok, New York
Chef Andy Ricker

We, the undersigned civil society groups, are writing to you regarding your planned participation in the Round Tables Tour culinary event taking place in Tel Aviv from October 29 to November 17, 2017. We urge you to reconsider your involvement in this initiative aimed at using haute cuisine to mask Israel’s denial of Palestinian basic rights.

While Round Tables claims to advocate “cultural, economic and political dialogue through gastronomy,” it instead uses the time-honored tradition of sharing culinary experiences as a means for whitewashing widespread violation of Palestinian fundamental rights, including the right to food.

Among the partners of the event is the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has for years been leading the “Brand Israel” project, aimed at using culture and the arts as a way of distracting from its poor human rights record in order to create a positive image. Partner Dan Hotels, which is also one of the hosts of the festival, has a settlement hotel built on stolen Palestinian land in occupied East Jerusalem.

Only 35 per cent of Palestinians living under Israeli occupation are food secure. Israeli military attacks destroy farms, greenhouses, water wells, crops and livestock and Israeli army snipers regularly fire upon Palestinian farmers in Gaza. Israel uses agriculture as a means for wholesale theft of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank and used cynical calorie calculations to deliberately keep Palestinians in Gaza on a starvation diet. Palestinian citizens of Israel are being forced off their land through repeated house demolitions and denial of basic services, including water.

This past summer, more than one thousand Palestinian political prisoners being held in Israeli prisons sustained a 40-day hunger strike over inhumane conditions including torture, denial of medical care and routine solitary confinement.

And though you will have no problem traveling to Tel Aviv, roughly 7 million Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons resulting from Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing are denied the right to return to their lands as guaranteed under International Law.

In 2005, over 170 Palestinian civil society organizations called for boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) as a means for putting pressure on Israel until it ends its human rights violations, which have continued undeterred and in complete impunity for decades. As part of this call, international artists, performers, academics, and even chefs, are urged not to participate in events in Israel. The list of those heeding the call continues to grow.

By choosing to cook in the privileged bubble of Tel Aviv, surrounded by millions of Palestinians living under Israeli oppression, not only will you be knowingly disregarding this principled call from the oppressed, you will also help the Israeli government mask its oppression of Palestinians by giving the country a veneer of prestige with your presence.

Respecting the Palestinian BDS call is the best way to ensure that Palestinians, in the words of famed South African anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are not reduced to “picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself [their] master,” but rather have “the full menu of rights.”

We urge you not to lend your culinary talents to mask Israel’s crimes. Please cancel your participation in the Round Tables event until everyone has a place at the table.

Signed:

Land Defense coalition (LDC), Palestine
Palestinian Farmers Union (PFU), Palestine
Palestinian Environmental NGOs Network/Friends of the Earth-Palestine, Palestine
Stop the Wall Campaign, Palestine
Alternative Information Center (AIC), Palestine/Israel
Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from within, Israel
Frauen in Schwarz (Wien), Austria
Association belgo-palestinienne, Belgium
Käthe Kollwitz Peace run, Belgium
Palestina Solidariteit vzw, Belgium
Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine, Belgium
Vlaams-Socialistische Beweging (V-SB), Belgium
Vrede vzw, Belgium
Grupo de acción por palestina, Chile
Grupo de Acción por Palestina, Chile
Juventud Árabe por Palestina de Valdivia, Chile
BDS Colombia, Colombia
Boykot Israel, Denmark
Comité de Solidaridad Permanente EcuadorXPalestina, Ecuador
Abna Philistine (Enfants de la Palestine), France
BDS France Campaign, France
Association France Palestine Solidarité 63, France
Collectif Judeo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine, France
Collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien, France
Coordination Bds37 (Tours), France
CSPRN, France
Comité solidarité Palestine région nazairienne, France
Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples – Gironde (MRAP33), France
Collectif BDS Metz, France
Comité BDS France 34 – Montpellier, France
Bds France Marseille, France
AK Nahost Berlin, Germany
AKtion Gerechter Frieden Nahost, Germany
BDS Berlin, Germany
BDS Hamburg, Germany
Deutsch-palästinensische Gesellschaft , Germany
Jüdische Stimme für gerechten Frieden in Nahost, Germany
Justice for Palestine, Germany
Palästinakomitee Stuttgart, Germany
Gaza Action Ireland , Ireland
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Ireland
ACS – Associazione di Cooperazione e Solidarietà, Italy
Associazione Casale Podere Rosa (Rome), Italy
Associazione Culturale Sogni di un Mondo Diverso, Italy
Associazione senza paura – Genova, Italy
Associazione Stelle Cadenti, artisti per la pace, Italy
Assopace Palestina, Italy
BDS Italia, Italy
BDS Sardegna, Italy
Comitato per non dimenticare Sabra e Chatila, Italy
Comitato Pistoiese per la Palestina, Italy
Comitato varesino per la Palestina, Italy
Confederazione Cobas, Italy
Coordinamento BDS Roma e Provincia, Italy
Coordinamento Nord Sud del Mondo, Italy
Donne in Nero / Women in Black, Italy
Forum Italiano dei Movimenti per l’Acqua, Italy
Forum Palestina, Italy
Friends of the Palestinian Red Crescent, Italy
Gruppo Ibriq per la cultura e la causa palestinese, Italy
Italian Communist Party, Italy
Italian Jews against Israeli Occupation, Italy
Lo Sguardo di Handala (Rome), Italy
Luisa Morgantini, former VP European Parliament, Italy
Rete Radiè Resch – Gruppo di Salerno, Italy
Rete Radié Resch di solidarietà internazionale, Italy
Rete Radié Resch Varese, Italy
Rete Romana di Solidarietà con il Popolo Palestinese, Italy
Salaam Ragazzi dell’Olivo Comitato di Trieste, Italy
Servizio Civile Internazionale, Italy
U.S. Citizens Against War – Florence, Italy
U.S. Citizens for Peace & Justice – Rome, Italy
ULAIA ArteSud onlus, Italy
Un ponte per…, Italy
Coordinadora de Solidaridad con Palestina, México
Movimiento BDS Mexico, México
Article 1 Collective, Netherlands
docP, Netherlands
Nederlands Palestina Komitee (NPK), Netherlands
AKULBI (Academic and Cultural Boicott of the State of Israel), Norway
Federación Palestina del Perú, Peru
Associação Abril, Portugal
Colectivo Mumia Abu Jamal, Portugal
Comité de Solidariedade com a Palestina, Portugal
Conselho Português para a Paz e Cooperação, Portugal
Grupo Acção Palestina, Portugal
MPPM – Movimento pelos Direitos do Povo Palestino e pela Paz no Médio Oriente, Portugal
Panteras Rosa – Frente de Combate à Lesbigaytransfobia, Portugal
SOS Racismo, Portugal
San Ghanny Choir, Scotland
Association of Palestinian Communities in Scotland, Scotland
Scottish Friends of Palestine, Scotland
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Scotland
Strathclyde Students for Palestine, Scotland
BDS Slovenia, Slovenia
Gibanje za pravice Plestincev, Slovenia
Red Solidaria contra la Ocupación de Palestina (RESCOP), Spain

Network composed by 43 organisations: Asociación Al-Quds de Solidaridad con los Pueblos del Mundo Árabe (Málaga), Asociación Andaluza por la Solidaridad y la Paz – ASPA, Asociación de Amistad Palestina-Granada «Turab», Asociación Hispano Palestina Jerusalén (Madrid), Asociación Pro-Derechos Humanos de Andalucía, Asociación Unadikum, BDS Catalunya, BDS Madrid, BDS País Valencià, Castelló per Palestina, Comité de Solidaridad con la Causa Árabe Madrid, Asturias), Comité de Solidaridad con los Pueblos – Interpueblos (Cantabria), Comunidad Palestina en Canarias, Comunitat Palestina de Catalunya, Comunitat Palestina de València, Coordinadora de apoyo a Palestina (La Rioja), Ecologistas en Acción (Confederal), Fundación IEPALA, Fundación Mundubat, Asociación Palestina Biladi, Anticapitalistas, Komite Internazionalistak (Euskal Herria), MEWANDO (Euskadi), Movimiento Solidaridad Internacional Catalunya – ISM Cataluña / Valencia, Mujeres en Zona de Conflicto – M.Z.C., Mujeres por la Paz – Acción Solidaria con Palestina (Canarias), Paz Ahora, Paz con Dignidad, Plataforma de Solidaridad con Palestina (Sevilla), Plataforma Palestina Ibiza, Plataforma Solidaria con Palestina de Valladolid, Red de Jóvenes Palestinos, Red Judía Antisionista Internacional -IJAN, Sodepau, Sodepaz, Sodepaz Balamil, Taula per Palestina (Illes Balears), UJCE (Unión de Juventudes Comunistas de España), Grupo de Cooperación Sevilla Palestina, CERAI (Centro de Estudios Rurales y de Agricultura Internacional), BDS Alacant (dentro de BDS País Valencià), Palestina Toma la Calle, Coalició Prou Complicitat amb Israel

Coalició Prou Complicitat amb Israel (CPCI), Catalonia, Spain

Network composed by 14 organisations: Rumbo a Gaza, Junts-Associació Catalana de Jueus I Palestins, Comunitat Palestina de Catalunya, NOVACT, BDS Catalunya, Pau Sempre, SUDS, Servei Civil Internacional de Catalunya (SCI-Cat), Centre Euro Àrab de Catalunya, En Lluita, Unadikum, Pallasos en Rebeldía, Asociación Cultural Arte & Maña and International Solidarity Movement BDS Galicia

(ISM) Catalunya
Red Antisionista de Sevilla, Spain
Centro Cultural Palestino Biladi, Basque Country, Spain
Revolta Global-Esquerra Anticapitalista, Catalonia, Spain
Unadikum, Spain
Vent, associació cultural, Spain
BDS Switzerland, Switzerland
BDS Zürich, Switzerland
Bernese Vigil for a just peace in Israel / Palestine, Switzerland
Palestine Solidarity Campagn, Thailand
BDS Thailand, Thailand
Artists for Palestine UK, United Kingdom
Architects and Planners for Justice in Palestine (APJP), United Kingdom
Cambridge Palestine Solidarity Campaign, United Kingdom
Camden Palestine Solidarity Campaign, United Kingdom
Camden Palestine Solidarity Campaign, United Kingdom
Inminds, UK
Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods, United Kingdom
Leeds Palestine Solidarity Campaign, United Kingdom
Lewisham Friends of Palestine, United Kingdom
London Palestine Action (LPA), United Kingdom
Merton PSC, United Kingdom
Northern Women for Palestine, United Kingdom
Palestine Solidarity Campaign, United Kingdom
Stop G4S, United Kingdom
York Palestine Solidarity Campaign, United Kingdom
UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, United Kingdom
Adalah-NY; the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, United States
CODEPINK Women for Peace, United States
Harvest & Revel, United States
Jewish Voice for Peace, United States
Jewish Voice for Peace, Tacoma chapter, United States
Jewish Voice for Peace – Syracuse, United States
Kairos Puget Sound Coalition, United States
Labor for Palestine, United States
Northwest BDS Coalition, United States
Palestine Solidarity Collective, United States
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, United States
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, United States
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

5 October, Washington DC: “Ghost Hunting” Opening Film at DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival

26 September 2017

Thursday, October 5, 2017
7:30pm 10:00pm
E Street Cinema
555 11th Street NW
Washington, DC
Website: https://www.dcpfaf.org/program/ghost-hunting

Preceded by ‘Congratulations on the New Wall Paint’ by Wisam Jafari and followed by a discussion on political prisoners.

OPENING FILM // Ghost Hunting
by Raed Andoni | Feature | 93 min. | 2017

A riveting, terrifying recreation of past trauma, Ghost Hunting won the 2017 Glasshütte Original Documentary Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of Palestinian ex-prisoners in order to rebuild the Israeli investigation center in which they were all imprisoned. However, as they were always blindfolded, none of them really knows what the place actually looked like.The result is a shocking, visceral and deeply moving portrait of apartheid.

DISCUSSION // Nearly a million Palestinians have see the inside of an Israeli prison cell since the beginning of the occupation 50 years ago, but their criminalization by the Israeli state dates back to its founding, when refugees attempting to return to their homes were branded “infiltrators” and shot on sight. In a discussion following the film, we explore the toll of mass incarceration on the psyches of former prisoners and their families, the liberation struggle, and Palestinian society at large.

29-30 September, Athens: Resistance Festival

26 September 2017

Friday and Saturday, 29-30 September
Political events begin at 6:00 pm
School of Fine Arts
(ASCR, Piraeus 256, Agios Ioannis Rentis)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1712063249095692/
Website and full details: http://resistancefestival.gr

Once again, Samidoun is participating in the annual Resistance Festival in Athens. We will have a stand with information and materials on both nights of the festival and Mohammed Khatib, Europe Coordinator of Samidoun, will be participating in the festival as well.

There are multiple events of interest on Palestine during the festival, including a presentation on Friday, 29 September by Brazilian cartoonist Carlos Latuff and a talk on Saturday, 30 September by Palestinian lawyer Jehad Abu Raya

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