January 2017 report: 590 Palestinians seized by Israeli occupation

6 February 2017

Palestinian prisoners’ and human rights associations, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society, Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights, Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and the Prisoners’ Affairs Commission, issued a monthly report on Sunday, 5 February on the imprisonment of Palestinians in January 2017. The following translation is provided by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

Occupation authorities arrested 590 Palestinians from the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem in January 2017, including 128 children, 14 women, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and a journalist.

Israeli occupation authorities arrested 156 Palestinians from Jerusalem, 90 from al-Khalil, 66 from Bethlehem, 64 from Nablus, 50 from Jenin, 56 from Ramallah and el-Bireh, 37 of Tulkarem, 27 of Qalqilya, 13 from Tubas, 13 from the Gaza Strip, 10 from Jericho and eight from Salfit.

There were 91 administrative detention orders for imprisonment without charge or trial issued in January 2017, including 29 new orders, including one against PLC member Ahmed Mubarak. Another such order was issued against journalist Nidal Ab Aker.

The total number of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails is around 7,000, including 52 women, of whom 11 are minor girls. There are 300 child prisoners, approximately 530 administrative detainees and 21 journalists in Israeli jails.

January also saw dozens of aggressive night raids against Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails, including the invasion of sections and rooms of the prisoners and ransacking their personal belongings. In addition, the policy of medical negligence continued against hundreds of patients, alongside the ongoing use of administrative detention, solitary confinement and isolation, the imprisonment of children and women prisoners, and the imposition of heavy financial fines against the prisoners. Hundreds were also deprived of family visits.

The institutions working in the areas of prisoners and human rights emphasized the seriousness of the current situation inside Israeli jails at all levels, heading towards an explosive situation, in light of the continued series of repressive actions against Palestinian detainees.

The four institutions also renewed their strongest condemnation of the grave Israeli violations of the principles of international humanitarian and human rights law. While expressing pride in the struggle of the Palestinian prisoners against their tormenters, they confirmed the continuation of efforts to defend Palestinian prisoners and expose the abuses against them. They also emphasized that the prisoners’ issue is a Palestinian national issue as well as a humanitarin and moral issue that must compel Arab and international efforts to exert maximum pressure on the occupation state to stop its gross and systematic violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws and principles and to free Palestinian prisoners. In this context, they renewed their call for civil society organizations, international human rights organizations, political parties, and democratic forces in the world to work hard to expose abuses by the occupation forces.

They also urged the United Nations and the international community to take action to stop grave violations against Palestinian detainees, especially the continued practice of torture and cruel and degrading treatment. This also includes the continuing violation of the human rights of the child, through arbitrary arrests against children or during interrogation and detention procedures, and urged action to compel occupation authorities to recognize their obligations to respect the rights of detainees against torture and ill-treatment. They also emphasized that detainees must be provided with proper health care, family visits and communication with family, and they urged the release of Palestinian women, children and administrative detainees and the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners.

17 February, NYC: Protest to stop the persecution of Basel Ghattas and stop HP

6 February 2017

Friday, 17 February
5:30 pm
Best Buy Union Square
52 E. 14th St
New York City
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1289850894410208/

Basel Ghattas, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Member of Knesset, is currently being persecuted by Israeli forces on charges of attempting to bring cellphones to imprisoned Palestinians denied the ability to communicate with their families or political organizations. Ghattas has frequently visited with imprisoned Palestinians, including Palestinians from ’48, long-time prisoners held since the pre-Oslo era, and Palestinian political leaders.

Palestinian prisoners are routinely denied access to communications, whether with their families or their colleagues and comrades. Unlike Israelicriminal prisoners, they are denied access to telephone calls with their family members and can only receive short visits through a glass wall. Family visits are regularly denied under a pretext of “security.” In addition, many Palestinian political prisoners are leaders of the Palestinian movement, targeted for their leadership and political role. The denial of their communications and isolation of these prisoners is an Israeli attempt to silence and disrupt the Palestinian national liberation movement.

Stand with Ghattas to demand that Israel release him and all 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners immediately, and that Hewlett Packard companies end their contracts with Israeli prisons and detention centers, occupation and security forces, and checkpoints and settlements now.

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.

Law-Train: “Belgium and KU Leuven legitimize Israeli Torture” by Wided Bouchrika

6 February 2017

Published at Knack.be (Dutch), 3 February 2017
French translation at Pour la Palestine

In the Law-Train project subsidized by the European Union, Belgium, Spain and Portugal were to work with Israel to develop interrogation techniques. “Portugal has already withdrawn, and if Belgium and KU Leuven do not, this will mean that they are agreeing with the use of practices of torture during interrogation,” said one Belgian mission which traveled to examine the situation on the ground.

In May 2015, the Law-Train project of the European Union was launched. Of the total budget of 5,095,687.50 EUR, half goes to the Israeli Bar-Ilan University, which coordinates the project, and the Israeli Ministry of Public Security.

The stated aim of the collaboration among the police and the judicial authorities of Spain, Portugal and Belgium and the KU Leuven is to share interrogation techniques and adapt them to the various participating countries in order to confront new challenges, mainly focused on drug-related crimes. In August 2016, Portugal withdrew from the project, which runs until 30 April 2018.

“The country did so under the pretext of financial problems, but we know that it was because of the controversial nature of the project,” said Alexis Deswaef. Along with Eva Brems, Professor of Human Rights at the University of Ghent, and Reine Meylaerts of the Study Group for Translation and Intercultural Transfer of the KU Leuven, he visited Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories to investigate the torture by the Israeli police. “The KU Leuven refuses to take a position. But as long as Belgium and the university cooperate with Law-Train, they will legitimize the use of torture during interrogations,” Meylaerts said.

14 years old, blindfolded and bound

In the fifth periodic review of Israel, released in June 2016, the UN Committee Against Torture accused the state of using torture and other unlawful practices during interrogations by police and prison staff.

“In our offices, we read these things in many reports, but when we hear them here from the mouths of the victims themselves, it is at a whole new level,” explains Brems. “There is no alternative but to confront reality and realize that there is no other option: Belgium must withdraw from this collaboration with the Israeli police.”

“EU funds for the border police problematic”

“We receive many reports about police violence,” says Rachel Stroumsa, executive director of the Israeli NGO, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI). “In Israel itself, there is not so much a pattern of recurring abuses or violence during interrogations. (*) The country has excellent youth legislation. The problem is that these laws are not applied in East Jerusalem. There, we constantly see human rights violations in the form of intimidation and sexual abuse, violence, absence of lawyers or parents when questioning minors.”

“In addition, the Ministry of Public Security coordinates not only the Israeli police but also the border police, which poses a problem,” Stroumsa said. “These agents often carry out this work as part of their military service. They act like the army, but are considered police officers.”

“They are often very young agents, with little experience, who use lethal and non-lethal weapons at demonstrations and checkpoints.”

“This is not really a reflection of our faith in human rights and butterflies,” quips Stroums. “This is something very concrete. There is a complete lack of justification or accountability. Thus, Israel seems to hide its eyes to these practices which I find disturbing.”

“Investing in legitimizing torture”

“And that is exactly what Belgium would do if, along with KU Leuven, we continue to participate in Law-Train,” explains Deswaef. “Our federal prosecutor thinks that Belgium has only five or six joint files with Israel when it comes to drug offenses, the subject of Law-Train.”

“It is likely that here, Israel is looking for legitimacy,” Stroumsa confirms. “The image of Israel in the outside world is very important to our country: Professional ethics and pride are crucial. The lawyers and judges of the High Court of Justice are too often ashamed of their image before their international colleagues.”

“No Will to Change”

In response to an NGO campaign against Law-Train, the EU defends this project through the words of a cabinet member, Manuel Aleixo. “The interrogation techniques that will be taught via Law-Train follows the pattern of investigative interviewing recommended by the UN (…) The technique is based on objectivity, impartiality and frankness. It is a model that aims to collect information (and not, therefore, a confession-based technique.)”

“If the EU believes that the Israeli police intend to learn anything in this training, I must undeceive them,” Stroumsa explains. “There is no initiative of our law enforcement officers that shows that they are trying to change their current techniques. They do not intend to learn anything from their Belgian colleagues.”

Complicity

“The Federal Prosecutor, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Torfs: all wash their hands of the problem,” Deswaef said.

“The EU has approved the project, so we are following,” says Meylaerts. “But in this case we are complicit in the massive violations of human rights, such as the torture practices and the structural oppression of the Israeli occupation. There is a limit. And this is not only about the headquarters of the Israeli police, which, in violation of international law, is located in occupied East Jerusalem. The question is about what collaboration is about, when it contributes to the oppression of human beings. Here, the EU is also guilty, as is Belgium and the KU Leuven.”

“The University of Ghent already has a human rights policy. Our campaign has a wider impact and it also addresses the role universities play in legitimizing human rights violations,” Brems adds. “Both the KU Leuven and the Belgian state can send a clear signal to the EU. If the Union can no longer find countries to participate in such projects, collaboration may not take place at all in the future.”

“Hence the fact that we are now addressing Prime Minister Charles Michel, who, from 5 to 8 February, will visit Israel and the Palestinian Territories in person,” concludes Deswaef. “He can collect the same information that we have found. If one analyzes this information objectively, one can only arrive at the same conclusion: Belgium absolutely cannot continue to participate in Law-Train.”

* Editors’ note (via Pour la Palestine): Recently, Palestinian citizens of Israel visited Belgium, where they testified to the torture in Israeli prisons and the fact that they are not treated like Jewish Israelis.

16-17 February, Toulouse: Comment la prison façonne la vie des palestiniens?

6 February 2017

Thursday, 16 February
7:00 pm
Terra Nova
18 rue Gambetta
Toulouse, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1044511778986328/

Friday, 17 February
6:00 pm
Centre Social Autogéré
15 Rue Roquelaine
Toulouse, France
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1104089529718698/

Presentation of the book, “The men behind the walls,” in the presence of the author, Assia Zaino, followed by a discussion.

Friday: Drinks and food at low prices. Event followed by a solidarity evening with migrants.

10 February, NYC: Protest to free Shorouq Dwayyat and stop HP

6 February 2017

Friday, 10 February
5:30 PM
Best Buy Union Square
52 E. 14th St, NYC
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/642341602604676/

In another example of the lengthy sentencing practices especially targeting Palestinian youth and women in Jerusalem, Shorouq Dwayyat was sentenced to 16 years in Israeli prison by a Jerusalem court on Sunday, December 25. Dwayyat, 19, from the village of Sur Baher, was also fined 80,000 NIS (approximately $21,000). She was shot by an Israeli settler and seized by occupation forces on October 7, 2015 in eastern Jerusalem and accused of attempting to stab an Israeli settler. Witnesses reported that she was harassed by the settler prior to the alleged incident.

Dwayyat is a student at Bethlehem University who was studying history and geography. Classes at the university were cancelled for two days after her shooting and arrest in October 2015.

Stand with Dwayyat to demand that Israel release her, 63 other imprisoned Palestinian women, and all 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners immediately, and that Hewlett Packard companies end their contracts with Israeli prisons and detention centers, occupation and security forces, and checkpoints and settlements now.

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.

7 February, Kent State University: The Imprisonment of Palestinian Children with Farehan Farrah

6 February 2017

Tuesday, 7 February
6:00 pm
Kent State University Bowman Hall 220
Kent, Ohio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1911305635773515/

This event will be a speech given by Farehan Farrah, mother of 13 year old Palestinian prisoner Shadi Farrah. Shadi has been imprisoned by Israeli soldiers since December 30, 2015 and sentenced to an additional 2 years in prison on January 4, 2017. Farehan will speak about her son’s situation as well as speaking more in depth about the wrongful capturing and improsoning of children going on in Palestine as we speak. With currently about 300 Palestinian children in Israeli prisons, the voices of these children need to be heard, and we need to listen.

Anyone is welcome to this event and the more the merrier. Please share this with your friends and family who would be interested in listening to Farehan Farrah tell her son’s story.

This event will be hosted in room 220 of Bowman Hall at Kent State University.

Rasmea Odeh Defense Team Files Motion to Dismiss Indictment

1 February 2017

New Statement from the Rasmea Defense Committee:

Prosecutors “Vindictive” After Losing on Appeal

Today, the lawyers defending Palestinian American activist Rasmea Odeh moved to dismiss the new indictment that was brought against her in December 2016. The motion and supporting brief argue that the government’s “superseding indictment has substantially broadened the scope of the trial and the evidence that will be relevant and at issue.”

It also states that the new indictment, filed well beyond the statute of limitations in immigration law, is so different from the original 2013 indictment that it cannot be accepted by the court. The statute of limitations for the alleged 2004 offense is 10 years. This new indictment tries to bring fundamentally different charges against Rasmea.

Finally, Rasmea’s defense exposes the U.S. Attorney’s filing of the superseding indictment as a retaliatory and vindictive act. The conviction that the prosecutors won in court in 2014 was overturned in 2016 because the court violated Rasmea’s right to a full defense. She was not allowed to present expert testimony that she suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result of the torture she suffered at the hands of her Israeli captors in Palestine in 1969. Now the desperate prosecution is trying to bring terrorism charges against her. This is nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to prejudice the jury by using buzz words such as “terrorism” to paint an unfavorable view of Rasmea.

When she was first falsely charged with a crime by the Israelis in 1969, Rasmea had been arrested along with close to 500 others in Jerusalem. The occupation forces of the Israeli military singled out Rasmea to force her into a confession, through the use of physical, psychological, and sexual torture. It is well known that Israeli documents from that unlawful conviction were the ones used by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Detroit to bring charges against her in 2013. Rasmea’s attorneys had previously challenged the judge’s allowance of these documents into evidence, since they were procured by documented torture in another country.

During her first trial, Judge Gershwin Drain repeatedly stated that he would not allow the retrying of Rasmea for the allegations against her from 45 years earlier. The motion filed today states, “Now that this Court has properly ruled that the PTSD testimony is admissible, the government wants to convert this trial into a political one about terrorism, and the defendant’s acts and affiliations almost fifty years after the fact.”

“We believe that we have a strong case,” said Bassem Kawar of the Rasmea Defense Committee. “It is clear that the prosecutors are desperately trying to levy ridiculous charges at Rasmea, in hopes that they can confuse the jury and distract them from the evidence of torture and PTSD that will be presented at the new trial.”

3-4 February, Canada: National Days of Action Against Islamophobia, White Supremacy and Deportations

1 February 2017

NATIONAL ACTION DETAILS
January 30 to February 5 – Full list of actions in all cities, continually updated:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1awOa4tymbc-ZxNmv5AfknvR9KQl44Fty0ixFZ3XZqSk/edit

We are tired.

The war waged against Muslims and refugees worldwide has reached its boiling point with Trump’s Presidency. These xenophobic, anti-Black, Islamophobic, anti-refugee racist, sexist, homophobic and transphobic policies have come to fruition. Walls and bans against Muslims and Refugees on stolen Indigenous lands. We affirm our solidarity with Indigenous nations whose lands we reside on.

Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya and Yemen. The geographies of our birth place that put targets on our heads. Families separated, refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants deported and detained, trapped in between borders or taken back – our communities are being terrorized by white supremacist violence and domination. Our movement is confronted by racist white nationalism, our lives are devastated in constant fear. We flee war, persecution, mass poverty in search for life – instead we get a fatal sentence for our faith.

Enough is Enough.

On January 29th, in Quebec City a group of Muslims were praying in a mosque at the Quebec Islamic Cultural Centre when one gunmen came in and rang shots throughout this place of worship. Six have died, even more are injured. We mourn their lives.

Last summer during the holy month of Ramadan, a pig’s head was left at the doorstep. The president of the cultural centre hoped the event was an isolated incident, and responded with nothing but love and respect to the Centre’s neighbours.

Colonial borders are imaginary constructs.

The white supremacist hatred of Muslims and refugees from all intersections world wide is the colonizing force that fuels the identity and economy of America just as much as Canada. Trump’s power is extended to Trudeau’s. The institutional and systemic Islamophobic, anti-Black and racist policies that are killing us at the border, in the streets, in our homes, at work and in our mosques are one.

We are under attack on all fronts, especially those of us who live in the intersections of Blackness and Muslimness and are Refugees who are the first to be silenced, ignored or forgotten.

Not another life. Not another mass murder.

Our resistance does not stop here. Now more than ever we must organize. This is a national call to action to plan demonstrations in your cities, Canada wide. Join us, as we rise up!

OUR DEMANDS:

1) The Canadian government must make an immediate public condemnation of the executive order by President Trump that bans Muslim visa-holders from seven countries and also bans all refugees from entering the US.

2) Canada must immediately open the Canada-USA border and grant permanent, not temporary, status.

This includes revocation of the Safe Third Country Agreement which bars most refugee claimants entering from the United States over land to claim asylum in Canada. The Designated Country of Origin list, which makes it almost impossible for US citizens and citizens of forty other countries to claim asylum in Canada, must be eliminated.

3) Canada must end racist, anti-refugee, anti-Black, Islamophobic exclusion of migrants and refugees within this colonial border.

This includes ending the system of indefinite immigration detention. The federal government must create a regularization program so that all undocumented residents can live here with their families rather than fear mass deportation. Migrant workers in Canada must also be given permanent status and open work permits. We want real, not symbolic, Sanctuaries that guarantee access to services and refuse collaboration with Canadian and American border agents.

4) Canada must rescind all federal legislation that attacks racialized Black and Brown Muslims and refugees, including the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act as well as anti-terror legislation such as Security Certificates and Bill C51.

Statement initiated by Black Lives Matter – Toronto With the support of:

Anti-Fascist Action Calgary
Black Lives Matter -Vancouver
Coalition Against Bigotry – Pacific
Idle No More
Justicia for Migrant Workers
Kashmir Solidarity Group – Toronto
No One Is Illegal – London, Ontario
No One Is Illegal – Toronto
No One Is Illegal -Vancouver Coast Salish territories
People for Peace – London, Ontario
Refugees Welcome – Victoria/Lekwungen territory
Salaam -Vancouver: Queer Muslim Community
Siraat Muslim Collective – Vancouver
Tamil Freedom Coalition
Trikone – Vancouver

Additional Endorsing Organizations:

Amnesty International at York (AIY)
Anti-Colonial Committee of the Law Union of Ontario
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement
Brock University Students’ Union Advocacy Department
Canadian Federation of Students
Canadian Friends of Kurdistan
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
Canadian Union of Postal Workers – Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses
Centre for Women’s Studies in Education (OISE)
Children Space Theatre
Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter
Cooper Institute – PEI
Council of Canadians
CUPE – Ontario
CUPE 1281
CUPE 3902 Flying Squad
CUPE 3902 Racialized Members Caucus
CUPE 3903 First Nations Solidarity Working Group
CUPE 3903 Flying Squad
CUPE 5167 Outside Working Group
Diversity Solutions
Divest MTA
East Enders Against Racism (Toronto)
East Toronto Families for Syria
Harvest Noon Co-op
Health Providers Against Poverty – Toronto
International Anti-Zionist Network-Canada
Independent Jewish Voices – Canada
Independent Jewish Voices – Toronto
Independent Jewish Voices – Vancouver
International Socialists
Intersex Nonbinary and Transgender Action Coalition of Toronto
Fightback
Fight for $15 and Fairness
Friendzone Collective
Fossil Free Guelph
Khalsa Aid
Leadnow
OHIP for All
Ontario Council of Hospital Unions
Ontario Humanist Society
OPIRG Toronto
OPSEU 551
OPSEU Local 586
Project World Recovery
Mining Injustice Solidarity Network
Mujer
Muslim Women’s Collective – Brampton
NDP Socialist Caucus
Network of Women with Disabilities
No More Silence
Rainbow Refugee
Revolutionary Student Movement – Toronto
Revolutionary Student Movement – York University
RefugeAid – York University
Rhythms of Resistance
Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Sanctuary Health – Vancouver
School of Social Play
Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) – Toronto
SlutWalk Toronto
Socialist Action
Solidarity Ottawa
Spring Tide Resources
Stop C-51: Toronto
Stop Demovictions Burnaby
Stop the JNF-Canada
Studio Jaywall
Taggart Law
Tamil Archive Project
Tamil Studies York
The Leap
Toronto Anarchist Reading Group
Toronto New Socialists
Toronto Seed Library
Toronto Street Medics
Toronto Students for Justice in Palestine
Toronto Women’s City Alliance
Unifor National
University of British Columbia Tandem Language Learning Program
University of Toronto Feminist Law Students Association
Upping the Anti: a journal of theory and action
V-Day Guelph
Women’s Human Rights Education Institute
World University Service Center of Canada- York Keele
Workers’ Action Centre
Youth Communist League

New York City protest demands freedom for Nael Barghouthi and fellow Palestinian prisoners

1 February 2017

New York City protesters gathered outside Best Buy on 27 January to demand freedom for Nael Barghouthi and all Palestinian prisoners and highlight the growing global boycott campaign against HP (Hewlett-Packard) for profiteering from the oppression and imprisonment of Palestinians.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network organized the protest, which highlighted the case of Nael Barghouthi. The 59-year-old Barghouthi is the longest-serving Palestinian prisoner in Israeli prisons. He is currently imprisoned while a secretive Israeli military commission decides whether to reimpose an earlier life sentence against him; he was freed in 2011 in the Wafa al-Ahrar prisoner exchange with over 1,000 fellow prisoners. In 2014, dozens of freed prisoners were rounded up in an attempt to pressure Palestinain resistance organizations; many of their sentences were reimposed on the basis of secret evidence and vague allegations of “connections with prohibited organizations,” including every major Palestinian party. Barghouthi’s sentence was not reimposed; instead, he was ordered to 30 months in prison, which ended on 17 December 2016.

The military prosecution appealed this sentence and is calling for the reimposition of his original sentence; this appeal has been sitting before the secretive commission since 2015. Despite his lawyer’s and family’s appeal for his freedom, he was denied release as the committee considers his case. Signs at the protest highlighted Barghouthi’s case and the arbitrary targeting of former prisoners.

In addition, Samidoun protesters highlighted the continuing threat to indigenous land at Standing Rock by the Dakota Access Pipeline. Following an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump on 24 January, renewed attention has been drawn to the Standing Rock Sioux’ resistance to the creation of the pipeline that threatens the water at Standing Rock and once again violates indigenous land rights and sovereignty.

Protesters also distributed information calling on Best Buy shoppers to refrain from purchasing HP products. HP maintains a number of contracts with the Israeli state and is the primary contractor maintaining the technical aspects of its checkpoints. It also provides services and equipment to the Israel Prison Service, profiting from the imprisonment of over 7,000 Palestinian political prisoners.

Following the event, Samidoun members attended a letter-writing evening for political prisoners in US jails, organized by Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Samidoun will organize its next protest in New York City on Friday, 3 February at 5:30 PM at the Best Buy in Union Square, focusing on the case of Palestinian human rights defender and BDS leader Salah Khawaja. All are welcome to join and stand for justice for Palestine.

4 February, Anaheim: Resilience in the Face of Repression

29 January 2017

Saturday, 4 February
2:30 pm
631 S. Brookhurst St
Anaheim, CA 92804
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/606190866252910/

Commemorating Continued Community Struggle Amidst and Increasing Backlash

Join us in honoring the members of the L.A. 8 and the sacrifices they mde for Palestinian liberation. We will be screening a documentary about their case and will hold a discussion exploring the connection between the state repression they faced then and the repression young Palestine activists face today.

Organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement

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