Alert: Salah Hamouri seized overnight by Israeli occupation forces

23 August 2017

Palestinian-French former prisoner and advocate for Palestinian prisoners’ rights Salah Hamouri was once again seized by Israeli occupation forces in a pre-dawn raid on his home in east Jerusalem on Wednesday, 23 August.

His wife, Elsa Lefort, posted on Facebook that occupation forces came to the home in large numbers, seizing him as he was sleeping, and that no cause had been given for his arrest. He has been unable to contact anyone so far.

Lefort herself, as well as their young child, have been denied access to Palestine by Israeli occupation forces who want to exclude Hamouri’s family from Jerusalem. Salah Hamouri has spoken widely internationally about the experience of Palestinian prisoners; earlier in 2017, he visited universities and communities across Belgium as part of Israeli Apartheid Week.

As a law student and legal advocate working with Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, he continues to campaign daily for rights and freedom for Palestinian prisoners and the Palestinian people.

Salah Hamouri was released from Israeli occupation prisons – where he had been held since 2005 – in 2011. During his imprisonment, he was supported by strong campaigns organized by many groups, movements and parties in France and Palestine demanding his release. Since his release he has been repeatedly subject to further persecution and violations of his rights – and those of his family – by the Israeli occupation.

Upon his release, he was warmly welcomed by supporters around the world, especially in many cities in France. He has been a keynote speaker at the Fete de l’Humanite, the annual festival organized by the French Communist Party, and the subject of a film, L’Affaire Salah Hamouri, focusing on the French official treatment of his case.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands the immediate release of Salah Hamouri and all Palestinian prisoners. We join in the call for the French state to defend the rights of their citizen and take action for Salah Hamouri’s freedom. Hamouri is an international representative of the struggle of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian prisoners for freedom. From the jails and the courts of the occupation to the cities of Europe to the World Social Forum in Brazil, he is a consistent and clear voice against oppression and for liberation. Free Salah Hamouri! Libérez Salah Hamouri!

New York City protest demands freedom for Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin, boycott of HP

22 August 2017

New York City protesters gathered on Monday, 21 August outside the Best Buy in Union Square to campaign for a boycott of Hewlett-Packard (HP) products for the corporation’s complicity in Israeli violations of Palestinian rights, including the imprisonment of thousands of Palestinian political prisoners. The protesters demanded freedom for imprisoned Palestinians, focusing on the cases of jailed Palestinian women leaders Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin.

The event was organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. Participants chanted and distributed information about Palestinian prisoners and the role of HP in Israeli militarized technologies, urging a boycott of the company’s electronic and computer products sold in Best Buy as well as highlighting the cases of Jarrar and Saafin. The protest grew later in the event as people joined the demonstration after coming from a protest against the threats of U.S. war on North Korea. Protesters also once again confronted racist slogans and diatribe from a small group of self-identified supporters of the violently racist Jewish Defense League.

Jarrar, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, prominent advocate for Palestinian political prisoners and leftist and feminist leader, and Saafin, the president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees, were both seized by Israeli occupation forces in pre-dawn violent raids of their homes on 2 July. Shortly after they were taken by occupation forces, the two were ordered swiftly to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Both are well-known international figures known for their leading role in the Palestinian national movement and in women’s organizing and political prisoner defense.

Organizations from around the world have rallied to defend Jarrar and Saafin and demand their freedom, including the Communist Party of Spain, the Landless Workers’ Movement of Brazil, the Portuguese Communist Party, the Hellenic Union of Progressive Lawyers, Coup Pour Coup 31, the Workers’ Party of Belgium and the Revolutionary Workers’ Party of Turkey, among many others. Protests in Belgium, Germany, the United States, Spain and more have urged their immediate release in actions organized by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, Alkarama, UNADIKUM, the Democratic Palestine Committees, Comac and Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine. Even the South African government has joined in the call to defend Jarrar.

Most recently, several U.S. left parties, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the Freedom Road Socialist Organization have issued statements urging the immediate release of Jarrar and Saafin. “We urge progressive people everywhere to support the campaign to win freedom for all Palestinians held in Zionist jails, and we condemn the U.S. government for making the Israeli occupation of Palestine possible,” wrote FRSO. “In the face of vicious repression, the heroic resistance of the Palestinian people continues. Free Khalida Jarrar, Khitam Saafin and all Palestinian political prisoners! End all U.S. aid to Israel!” declared PSL.

They join other US-based organizations, including the Workers World Party as well as CODEPINK and a number of student and locally-based Palestine solidarity organizations in demanding freedom for Jarrar and Saafin.

Jarrar and Saafin are among over 500 Palestinians imprisoned without charge or trial under so-called administrative detention orders. These orders are indefinitely renewable and can hold Palestinians in jail for years at a time without charge or trial on the basis of secret evidence.

The protest also focused on the growing international campaign to boycott Hewlett-Packard for the company’s profiteering from Israeli apartheid, colonialism and occupation. HP has contracts with the Israel Prison Service as well as the Israeli military and the system of identity cards and checkpoints that regulates and represses Palestinian movement throughout their occupied homeland. Many churches, labor unions and other organizations are going HP-free to demand the corporation get out of the business of making money from the oppression of the Palestinian people.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network will hold its next protest on Monday, 28 August at 4:30 pm outside the Best Buy on Union Square. Once again, protesters will urge a boycott of HP and an end to corporate profiteering on Palestine’s suffering. They will also focus on the case of Nael Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli jails. Barghouthi was freed in a prisoner exchange in 2011 but re-arrested in a wave of detentions by Israeli occupation forces that targeted dozens of freed prisoners in 2014. Despite an earlier sentence of 30 months, his original life sentence has now been reimposed. The protest on 28 August will demand his immediate release and that of all of the over 6,000 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. All supporters of justice for Palestine are encouraged to join in.

28 August, NYC: Protest to free Nael Barghouthi and Stop HP

22 August 2017

Monday, 28 August
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Best Buy Union Square
52 E. 14th St, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1645997915410747/

Nael Barghouthi, age 59, has been imprisoned by Israel for 36 years and is the longest-detained Palestinian political prisoner.

He was released by Israel in a prisoner exchange with Palestinian resistance groups in 2011, but swept up in a wave of detentions by Israeli occupation forces that targeted dozens of freed prisoners in 2014.

On February 22, an Israeli military court at Ofer prison, in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, used “secret evidence” to reimpose Barghouthi’s original sentence of life plus eighteen years.

Along with Samidoun, Addameer Prisoner Support & Human Rights Association has called for action to pressure Israel to release Barghouthi, now held as a political hostage by the Israeli government.

Stand with Barghouthi to demand that Israel release him and all 6,128 Palestinian political prisoners, and that Hewlett Packard companies end their contracts with Israeli prisons and detention centers, occupation and security forces, and checkpoints and settlements.

Help build a growing international campaign to boycott HP over the companies’ support for Israeli crimes.

Support the Palestinian people, the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Take Action: Palestinian American activist jailed by Palestinian Authority for posting on Facebook

22 August 2017

UPDATE, 23 August: Mashal Alkouk has been freed by Palestinian Authority forces, according to the Palestinians in the U.S.A. Facebook page. Thank you for your support and action!

Palestinian American organizer Mashal Lafi Alkouk, the admin of the Palestinians in the U.S.A. Facebook page has been seized by Palestinian Authority security forces on 19 August 2017 while he was in Turmusayya, a village near Ramallah, attending a family wedding. Alkouk, a U.S. citizen, is the latest Palestinian to be seized by the PA for posting critically about PA president Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and PA security forces on Facebook, especially in relation to their ongoing security coordination with the Israeli occupation at the expense of the Palestinian people. We urge supporters of Palestine and Palestinian communities to take action and demand the PA immediately free Mashal Alkouk.

The US Palestinian Community Network noted that Alkouk is well known in the PAlestinian community in Chicago, and a group of Palestinian community organizers have formed a committee to defend Alkouk.

“We as Palestinian and Arab activists for the Palestinian cause in Chicago and in the United States strongly condemn this arrest and consider it a flagrant violation of individual freedoms and freedom of expression. We demand that the security services realign their relationship to the national cause and arrest the agents and traitors rather than the activists and leaders,” demanded the statement.

The Skyline International Foundation, a campaign against censorship, also condemned the arrest and demanded his immediate release, noting that “the background of his arrest is his criticism of the Palestinian Authority’s policy of security coordination with Israel.”

The arrest of Alkouk is only the latest violation of Palestinian rights carried out by the PA under the framework of the “Electronic Crimes Law,” an order that has been widely condemned by political parties and organizations throughout occupied Palestine. The PA law, which attempts to criminalize Palestinian political expression on Facebook and in the media, comes alongside systematic Israeli attacks on Palestinian expression, including the persecution of hundreds of Palestinians for their posts on social media and the jailing of teens, journalists and elders in Israeli occupation prisons.

The “Electronic Crimes Law” goes so far as to threaten sentences of hard labor against people convicted of committing “offenses” with the “purpose of disturbing public order…or harming national unity.” Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association has published a lengthy analysis of the dangers posed by the law.

TAKE ACTION!

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces in the strongest terms the arrest of Palestinian American activist Mashal Alkouk. In Chicago, Alkouk is always on the front lines of community organizing, whether participating in demonstrations against Israeli attacks on Gaza or organizing a solidarity tent for Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails in the heart of the Palestinian community. We express our full support for Mashal Alkouk and demand his immediate release and the freedom of all political detainees.

In addition, we join and support the Palestinian calls to cancel the dangerous and unlawful “Electronic Crimes Law” and the ongoing attacks on Palestinian websites, journalists and activists. This law is particularly chilling in light of the ongoing Israeli targeting of Palestinian journalists, writers and organizers for expressing their opinion on social media and the context of PA security coordination with the Israeli occupation.

We also join our voices with Palestinian organizations and activists demanding an end to Palestinian Authority security coordination with the Israeli occupation. It is very important for Palestinian communities in exile, including both the Palestinian community in the United States and those around the world, and international supporters of the Palestinian people and Palestinian cause to make their voices heard to the PA to demand the release of Mashal Alkouk and an end to security coordination, repressive legislation and political detention.

1. Email the Palestinian Embassy or PLO Mission in your country. Click here for a list of contact information. You can email the Ambassador to the PLO Delegation to the U.S., Husam Zomlot, at info@plodelegation.us and the Permanent Observer of Palestine to the United Nations, Riyad Mansour, at palestine@un.int. Make it clear that Palestinians around the world and international friends of Palestine stand together to confront occupation, end security coordination, and free Mashal Alkouk and fellow political detainees.

2. Call the Palestinian Embassy or PLO Mission. This is a case where phone calls can make a real difference! Palestinians and internationals around the world can raise their voice and demand action. Phone numbers for some missions follow:

PLO Delegation in Washington, DC: 202-974-6360.
Palestinian Mission to the UN: 212-288-8500.
Palestinian General Delegation in Ottawa, Canada: 613-736-0053.
Palestinian Mission UK: +44 (0)20 8563 0008.
Palestinian Mission to Belgium and the European Union: +32 (0) 227352478.
Palestinian Mission in Germany: +49 30 2061770.
Palestinian Mission in France: +33 1 48 28 66 00.
Palestinian Embassy in Greece: +30 21 0672 6061.
More may be found here!

Palestinian teen Hassan Abu Rish seized by Israeli occupation forces in early-morning raid

21 August 2017

Palestinian teen organizer Hassan Abu Rish was seized in the early-morning hours of Monday, 21 August by Israeli occupation forces who invaded his family home in the Jerusalem village of Ezzariyeh. Hassan, who is 16 years old, is active in the Nabed (“Pulse”) youth forum in his village; Nabed is a social and cultural forum and group for Palestinian youth looking toward social change, justice and liberation from occupation, colonialism and apartheid.

Hassan has been very concerned by the plight of Palestinian political prisoners and interested in raising the profile of imprisoned Palestinians – especially youth – on an international level. His family has been touched by imprisonment before, as his brother has been jailed three times by Israeli occupation forces. He also plays drums with the Scouts Youth Club of Ezzariyeh.

Hassan is among hundreds of Palestinian children who are repeatedly arrested and jailed by Israeli occupation forces. There are currently over 300 Palestinian child prisoners held at Megiddo and Ofer prisons, and Palestinian children seized by Israeli occupation forces have repeatedly testified to their abuse, mistreatment and torture under arrest, including beatings, kicking, humiliation, intimidation and threats to their family members. In addition, 22 Palestinian teens have been imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention in the past two years.

Hassan was among 25 Palestinians seized in mass arrest raids conducted by Israeli occupation forces in the pre-dawn hours on Monday, 21 August. Ma’an News reported that there is a biweekly average of 85 search and detention raids carried out by occupation forces according to the United Nations. These raids are often heavily violent and involve massive weaponry, home invasions, ransacking of belongings and explosions of doors, and often target children like Hassan.

On Monday morning, four Palestinians were seized from the village of Madama near Nablus, including Fadil Hamid al-Bitawi, Zeid al-Kharaz, Muhammed Qit and Obeida Qit. In Hizma, also near Jerusalem, occupation forces seized Mohammed Fawzi al-Khatib, Abdallah al-Khatib, Ahed Askar, Ahmed Wahid al-Khatib and Abdallah Ahmed al-Khatib, while they seized Adha Mohammed Bedwan and Saleh Ayyash from Biddu. In the village of Deir Abu Mashaal, occupation forces invaded the home of and detained Ibrahim Kheir Suleiman, while they seized Mohammed Arqoub from Kafr Ein.

In Dheisheh refugee camp, they seized Jafar Oweida Abyat, while in al-Khalil, they detained eight Palestinians, including Walid al-Titi, his son Abdel-Rahman al-Titi, Mohammed Raed Asafram, Mukhtar Saed Awad, Thaer Ahmad Salibi, Jaber Yousef Shalaldeh, Islam al-Shahatit and Tareq Masalma.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network demands the immediate release of Hassan Abu Rish and all of the hundreds of Palestinian children held in Israeli jails alongside the freedom of all Palestinian political prisoners. We urge protest and action around the world to support Hassan and his fellow Palestinian children threatened daily with imprisonment and even death for their struggle to survive, thrive, learn and grow freely on their colonized and occupied land.

Israeli occupation issues 84 administrative detention orders so far in August

21 August 2017

In the month of August, 84 Palestinians have so far been ordered to imprisonment without charge or trial by the Israeli occupation under administrative detention orders, reported the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society on Sunday, 20 August.

Administrative detention orders are issued for two to six months at a time and are indefinitely renewable; Palestinians can spend years at a time jailed under these orders with no charges and no trial against them, under the pretext of an unreviewable and unchallengable “secret file.”

Among those issued orders for administrative detention include Badran Jaber, 69, veteran Palestinian leftist leader seized on 9 August, and Mohammed Abu Teir, 65, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council who has previously served 34 years in Israeli occupation prisons. Jaber was issued an order for four months of imprisonment and Abu Teir for six months.

Former long-term hunger striker Ayman al-Tabeesh was ordered to another six months in administrative detention, as was leftist leader, journalist and fellow former hunger striker Nidal Abu Aker. Al-Tabeesh has been repeatedly imprisoned without charge or trial under administrative detention and this is the third renewal of his imprisonment in his latest arrest. Illustrating the use of administrative detention to indefinitely imprison Palestinians, many of the orders issued were extensions for the second and third time, including against those who had previously spent years in administrative detention.

Of the orders issued in August to date, 47 began new periods of administrative detention, while 38 of the orders were extensions. The names of Palestinians issued administrative detention orders in August follows, with their home district, the lengt of the order, and whether it is new or an extension:

1. Noor Shaker Atrash, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
2. Nidal Mohammed Abu Ras, Nablus, 6 months, new order
3. Jibril Maher Abu Sbeih, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
4. Mahmoud Ali Saada, Nablus, 4 months, new order
5. Khaled Jamil Shunaiteh, Bethlehem, 6 months, extension
6. Ramzi Tawfiq Qarini, Jenin, 6 months, extension
7. Musa Ahmed Bulbul, Jenin, 4 months, new order
8. Omar Nadeem Malukh, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
9. Yasser Walid Khuzaimah, Jenin, 4 months, new order
10. Ismail Ahmed Hawamdeh, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
11. Yousef Mohammed Ibrahim al-Haq, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
12. Maan Hamdallah Hamideh, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
13. Ahmed Mustafa Nasser, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
14. Naseer Radwan Thabet, Nablus, 4 months, extension
15. Yousef Salman Abu Ras, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
16. Muhannad Abdel-Aziz Zaarour, Jenin, 4 months, extension
17. Muath Abdel-Jaber Abu Tarboush, Bethlehem, 3 months, extension
18. Badran Badr Jaber, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
19. Mohammed Mahmoud Abu Teir, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
20. Tarek Yousef Mattar, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
21. Hamza Jaber Kawazbeh, Bethlehem, 4 months, new order
22. Iyad Omar Barghouthi, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
23. Samir Hisham Barghouthi, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
24. Jafar Abdallah Arouj, al-Khalil, 3 months, new order
25. Yazan Walid Ayyash, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
26. Sabri Ismail Jabr, Bethlehem, 6 months, extension
27. Khader Mohammed Elias al-Dalou, Bethlehem, 6 months, new order
28. Emad Mahmoud Ebadi, Jenin, 3 months, extension
29. Adel Mohammed al-Jabari, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
30. Ghassan Hussam Karajeh, Ramallah, 6 months, new order
31. Saji Mohammed Abu Abdo, Qalqilya, 2 months, extension
32. Jihad Waddah Qutob, Nablus, 6 months, extension
33. Khalil Walid Suleiman, Nablus, 4 months, extension
34. Ismail Khalil al-Zeer, Bethlehem, 6 monhts, extension
35. Nael Mahmoud Abu Kweik, Ramallah, 6 months, extension
36. Mohammed Ahmed Najjar, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
37. Samir Mohammed Behais, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
38. Adel Adam Farani, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
39. Mohammed Nazmi Jamal, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
40. Uday Adnan Balatiyeh, Nablus, 3 months, new order
41. Bassam Abdel-Rahman Abu Aker, Bethlehem, 4 months, new order
42. Murad Walid Malaisheh, Jenin, 4 months, extension
43. Montasser Abbas Hamad, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
44. Hussam Mohammed Abudayyeh, Bethlehem, 3 months, extension
45. Salem Badawi Dardasawi, al-Bireh, 6 months, extension
46. Ahmed Khaled Ghneimat, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
47. Motassem Bilal Nafie, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
48. Suhaib Yousef Saadi, Jenin, 6 months, extension
49. Montasser Mustafa Ahmed, Nablus, 4 months, extension
50. Mohammed Omar Ali Qani, Nablus, 6 months, new order
51. Azzam Hassan Rabie, Abu Dis (Jerusalem), 4 months, new order
52. Khaled Mohammed al-Haj, Jenin, 6 months, new order
53. Osama Nasser Salah, Jenin, 6 months, new order
54. Ali Salem Dabour, Ramallah, 4 months, new order
55. Nouh Raban Hashlamoun, al-Khalil, 6 months, new order
56. Nidal Naeem Abu Aker, Bethlehem, 6 months, extension
57. Hazem Ghaleb Nairukh, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
58. Mahmoud Waqih Qat, Nablus, 6 months, new order
59. Ahmed Yousef al-Khalayleh, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
60. Ghassan Abdel-Wahab al-Zughaibi, Jenin, 6 months, new order
61. Mohammed Munir Radwan Akhlil, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
62. Salim Idris Hamdan, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
63. Mohammed Hisham Khader, Qalqilya, 4 months, new order
64. Nader Khader Obeidallah, Bethlehem, 6 months, new order
65. Abdel-Muhsen Ali Za’amara, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
66. Abdel-Salam Jamal Abu al-Hija, Jenin, 3 months, new order
67. Abdel-Nasser Adnan Rabi, Qalqilya, 6 months, new order
68. Bassam Joudeh Adwan, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
69. Basil Ibrahim Mizher, Bethlehem, 4 months, extension
70. Mohammed Nasser Alaqima, Jenin, 4 months, extension
71. Imad Hamdi Abu Khalaf, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
72. Ahmed Khader Hroub, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
73. Khaled Mohammed Morrar, Ramallah, 3 months, new order
74. Bilal Hassan Mansour, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
75. Mahmoud Salah Badr, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
76. Ismail Taleb al-Natah, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order
77. Ayman Ali al-Tabeesh, al-Khalil, 6 months, extension
78. Raed Badawi Hamdan, al-Khalil, 3 months, extension
79. Bashar Abdel-Rahman al-Jabari, al-Khalil, 4 months, extension
80. Ayman Mohammed Abu Eid, Ramallah, 4 months, extension
81. Shaker Hassan Amara, Jericho, 4 months, new order
82. Younes Ahmed Kawazbeh, al-Khalil, 3 months, new order
83. Yamen Omar Khashan, al-Khalil, 3 months, new order
84. Alaa Musa Za’aqiq, al-Khalil, 4 months, new order

26 August, Vancouver: Boycott HP – Technology of Israeli Apartheid

19 August 2017

Saturday, 26 August
2:00 pm
Best Buy
2220 Cambie (Cambie and 6th)
Vancouver, BC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/161861154375590/

Join us as we launch the Boycott HP campaign in Vancouver with our first informational picket.
Hewlett Packard companies play a key role in Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. They provide technology, equipment and services to the Israeli military and government, including the ID card system that underpin Israel’s apartheid policies and its movement restrictions for Palestinians.

The international Boycott HP campaign has already seen 17 U.S. churches (representing 7 denominations) divest from the company and has also attracted support from student governments.

More info at: https://bdsmovement.net/boycott-hp and
http://investigate.afsc.org/company/hp-inc

25 August, Tripoli: Artistic salute to Georges Abdallah

19 August 2017

Friday, 25 August
7:00 pm
Cultural Association – Tripoli
Tripoli, Lebanon
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1139863346157710/

The International Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah invites all to attend in honor of the fighter imprisoned in French jails for 34 years.

Tribute by the artist Jihan Marouche and the musician Ibrahim Rajab. Open invitation to all.

تدعوكم الحملة الوطنية لتحرير الأسير جورج ابراهيم عبدالله، لحضور تحية فنية تكريما للمناضل المعتقل في السجون الفرنسية منذ 34 عامًا.

وذلك يوم الجمعة الواقع فيه 25 آب، 2017.
الساعة السابعة مساء على مسرح الرابطة الثقافية – طرابلس.
يقدم التحية الفنانة جيهان مرعوش والموسيقي ابراهيم رجب.
الدعوة عامة.

21 August, NYC: Protest to free Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin and Stop HP

19 August 2017

Monday, 21 August
4:30 pm – 6 pm
Best Buy Union Square
52 E. 14th St, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/124173111556874/

Khalida Jarrar, Palestinian national leader, leftist parliamentarian, feminist and advocate for Palestinian political prisoners, was issued a six-month administrative detention order on Wednesday, 12 July 2017. The order was signed by the Israeli occupation military commander over the West Bank.

Jarrar was seized by Israeli occupation forces who invaded her home in a pre-dawn raid on Sunday, 2 July, along with multiple other Palestinians subjected to early-morning raids including Khitam Saafin, president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees. Jarrar is a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, head of its Prisoners Committee and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of Addameer.

The order came three days after Saafin was also ordered to three months in administrative detention without charge or trial. Administrative detention orders are issued for one to six months at a time, but they are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians have been jailed for years under administrative detention.

Stand with Khalida Jarrar and Khitam Saafin and demand that Israel release them, 448 other administrative detainees and all 6,200 Palestinian political prisoners, and that Hewlett Packard companies end their contracts with Israeli prisons and detention centers, occupation and security forces, and checkpoints and settlements.

Help build a growing international campaign to boycott HP over the companies’ support for Israeli crimes.

Support the Palestinian people, the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

20 August, Manchester: Remembering Ghassan Kanafani – Palestinian revolutionary socialist

19 August 2017

Sunday, 20 August
2:00 pm
Cross Street Unitarian Chapel
M2 1NL Manchester, UK
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1606654362678293/

Filmshow, discussion and music 🇵🇸

This year marks 45 years since the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani and his niece Lamees by Israeli Mossad agents who planted a bomb in their car in Beirut. Kanafani was a pioneering novelist and literary figure whose influential works are seen as conscious classics in Palestine and around the world. He was also a Marxist, PFLP activist and editor of leftist newspapers demanding Palestinian liberation and an end to imperialist intervention in the Middle East. Kanafani’s contribution was vital for the rebirth of the Palestinian movement and remains relevant as Israel intensifies its occupation crimes today.

Join us on 20 August for an afternoon of film and discussion showing the classic movie Return to Haifa, based on Kanafani’s book.

Donation on the door
Wheelchair accessible

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Part of a weekend of action: on 19 August we will take to the streets in protest at Britain’s ongoing support for Israel. Meet at 12 in Piccadilly Gardens with banners, flags and loud voices!

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Manchester Boycott Israel Group – Victory to Palestine!
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) Manchester
Victory to the Intifada
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
RCG – Revolutionary Communist Group

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