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Palestinian prisoners under attack: Ahmad Sa’adat, Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh, Walid Hanatsheh transferred to isolation

Palestinian prisoner leaders are once again under attack inside occupation prisons today, as Zionist repressive forces invaded sections 5 and 7 of Ramon prison and transferred three prominent Palestinian prisoners to solitary confinement and potential interrogation in an unidentified location: Ahmad Sa’adat, the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; and fellow PFLP leaders Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh and Walid Hanatsheh (also a member of the Higher Emergency Committee of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement).

On the morning of Monday, 8 May, repressive forces stormed Sa’adat, Abu Ghoulmeh, and Hanatsheh’s rooms, ransacking their items and seizing the three imprisoned leaders. The attacks have met with widespread condemnation and the immediate response of fellow Palestinian political prisoners.

Immediately following the news of the invasion, the PFLP prisoners in the occupation prisons began banging on the windows and bars of the prison rooms and refusing to stand or come out for the roll call or number check that takes place repeatedly during the day, reported the Handala Center for Prisoners and Former Prisoners.

Awad al-Sultan, speaking in Gaza for the PFLP’s prisoners’ affairs office, said that the attack on Sa’adat, Abu Ghoulmeh and Hanatsheh is part and parcel of a “widespread Zionist attack targeting male and female prisoners in the occupation jails, the continuing policy of medical neglect and slow execution of dozens of sick prisoners, led by the very ill prisoner Walid Daqqah, who is in a serious health condition in an occupation hospital amid a media blackout,” urging widespread action to support the prisoners. “Support for the prisoners and responding to the crimes of the Zionist jailer against them requires the broadest popular participation in all events and actions in support of the prisoners, and escalating the resistance against the occupation and the settlers.” He denounced the silence and inaction of international human rights institutions and the International Committee of the Red Cross, saying that they “must assume their responsibilities…the silence of these institutions toward the crimes against our prisoners is tantamount to participation and complicity in these crimes.”

The Hamas movement issued a statement, saying that the transfer and isolation of Sa’adat and his comrades “would not break their will and the will of our heroic prisoners.” The movement “warned the occupation of the repercussions of its fascist policies and its systematic violations and crimes against our heroic prisoners, and we hold it fully responsible for their lives and safety. We affirm that their cause will remain the cause of the entire Palestinian people, who will not leave them, and will remain with the resistance in a covenant of loyalty until they gain their freedom.”

The attack on Sa’adat, Abu Ghoulmeh and Hanatsheh came amid a wide-ranging Zionist media campaign against the PFLP and fellow Palestinian resistance forces.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the attack on Sa’adat, Abu Ghoulmeh, Hanatsheh and all Palestinian prisoners. The targeting of specific leading prisoners is an ongoing practice used by the Israeli occupation regime against multiple Palestinian political forces. It aims to disrupt and undermine the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, its organizing and ongoing resistance leadership. We urge all friends of Palestine to speak out against the ongoing attacks against the Palestinian prisoners and escalate the calls for their liberation and for the liberation of Palestine, especially as we organize for events in the coming week in commemoration of the ongoing Nakba. 

Some posters for the campaign for Ahmad Sa’adat are below that can be included in these actions!

Free Ahmad Sa’adat and all Palestinian prisoners, freedom for Palestine, from the river to the sea! 

Posters and Campaign Materials

Graphics and Posters are available in multiple languages (English, Arabic, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Farsi, Swedish, Danish, Italian, Portuguese)! Please see below. With any special requests or additions, please contact us at samidoun@samidoun.net.

Double-sided leaflet, The Case of Ahmad Sa’adat: Introduction to Palestinian Political Prisoners
Presentation, The Case of Ahmad Sa’adat (for use in educational events)
Resource Guide, the Case of Ahmad Sa’adat (updated 22 December 2022) – 28 pages
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (English)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (Arabic)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (French)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (German)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (Dutch)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (Spanish)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (Farsi)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (Swedish)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (Danish)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (Italian)
Poster: Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat (Portuguese)

Over 160 Organisations, Political Parties, and Unions join the International Campaign Against Anti-Palestinian Repression in Germany

More than 160 organizations, unions, and political parties around the world joined the call issued by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoners Solidarity Network, as part of the “Revolutionary Solidarity Coalition”, against the extreme anti-Palestinian repression taking place in Germany.

To add your organization’s signature to the campaign, please click here.

Accompanying this international campaign, we formed a team of lawyers that will be undertaking the legal battle against the demonstration bans and the court cases for those who are targeted by the state for their struggle for a liberated Palestine. Support us and donate to:

Name: Rote Hilfe e.V.
IBAN: DE55 4306 0967 4007 2383 17
BIC: GENODEM1GLS
Note: Palaestina gegen Repression

The “Revolutionary Solidarity Coalition” consists of revolutionary and internationalist groups and organizations in Berlin that are engaged against imperialism in Germany and worldwide. The coalition was formed as a collective response against an array of extreme repressive tactics employed by the German state particularly in Berlin in May 2022.

These incidents of repression last year began with a nation-wide smear campaign against Palestinian organizing in April, the ban on Al Quds Day demonstrations on 29.04.2022, the ban of Soviet flags and communist symbols during the commemoration of the liberation of Berlin from Nazis by the Soviet Union on 08.05.2022, extreme repression and violence perpetrated by the German police against a Kurdish demonstration in Berlin on 14.05.2022, and the ban on all demonstrations commemorating the 74th year since the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe) in the German capital. Nakba demonstrations mark the forcible displacement of well over 700,000 Palestinians from their homes and towns after a series of brutal massacres and atrocities all over historic Palestine by Zionist militias. The creation of this coalition was a natural response to the extreme repression against anti-imperialist struggle in Germany and comes from the deep understanding that the German state is part of the imperialist camp. Therefore, anti-imperialist movements have historically been and continue to be faced with intense state repression, including the targeting of organizing for justice in Palestine. The “Revolutionary Solidarity Coalition” responded to these repressive attacks in 2022 by taking to the streets despite the ban on Nakba day demonstrations under the motto “class struggle against repression” and decidedly chose to resist state repression. The direct action was later accompanied with an elaborate analysis of the repression attacks in May, multiple seminars, discussion rounds, and solidarity meetings, and the advancement of the coordination level between the member organizations throughout the past year.

This year, the German state is employing these tactics once again by launching a nationwide smear campaign against Palestinian organizing and Samidoun in particular, in clear coordination with Zionist institutions and the Israeli embassy. This smear campaign took the form of a week-long engagement of all mainstream/corporate German media in attacking Palestinian organizing in Germany, with the enthusiastic participation of German politicians. This campaign provided, again, the political cover for the German state to deploy a full ban on all demonstrations commemorating Palestinian Prisoners’ Day that were planned in Berlin on the 15th, 16th and 17th of April.

This attack also included the forcible dispersion of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Day demonstration in Cologne on 15 April for “supporting the resistance”. This barbaric repression against anti-imperialist struggle in Germany expresses itself as well in law 129, which is used by the German state to prosecute revolutionaries and anti-fascists in Germany, especially our Turkish and Kurdish comrades. It is also important to note that this repression in Germany comes in the context of increased repression all throughout Europe against Palestinian organizing: from the dissolution of Collectif Palestine Vaincra in Toulouse, France, to the prosecution of Palestine Action activists in the UK, to the smear campaign in the halls of the EU in March 2023 against activists and Palestinian and internationalist organizations all around Europe.

All of this represents an unacceptable attack on freedom of speech and assembly in Germany, specifically targeting Palestinian organizing and anti-imperialist movements. 

We, in the Revolutionary Solidarity Coalition, are launching the international campaign against anti-Palestinian repression in Germany. This campaign will include international and local actions, popular mobilizations, and legal efforts, in order to confront German state repression and defend the rights of our people to protest, organize and struggle for the liberation of our homelands from US and European imperialism.

We also want to make three things clear:

1- This is an attack against all progressive and revolutionary forces. It is clear that the imperialist interests of the German state and its alliance with U.S. imperialism will always be put ahead of the oppressed and exploited communities in Germany. Struggling for social equality, environmental justice, the inalienable rights of the Kurdish people, against fascism in Turkey and US imperialism, and for the liberation of Palestine, serves the oppressed and exploited, while engaging in European and US imperialist projects worldwide, protecting the profits of big companies, collaborating with fascist politics in Turkey and elsewhere, engaging in NATO offensives and wars, and serving the interests of the Zionist entity internally and on the world stage, serves no one but German capital and bourgeoisie and the global imperialist camp.

2- We invite all progressive and revolutionary forces in Germany to join us in organizing this campaign. An organized, principled and coordinated left is the only deterrent against these repressive attacks. The formal German left’s capitulation and cowardice on Palestine strips it of any credibility as a meaningful counter-force and gives the German state free reign in unleashing all its repressive tools on one of the most oppressed sectors in Germany, the refugees.

3- Equating “Israel” with Judaism, and claiming that the atrocities of the Zionist entity are representative of all people of the Jewish faith, and painting all Jews with the blood of the Palestinian and Arab people massacred by this fascist regime is itself antisemitic. This notion that is propagated by Western powers and the Zionist entity, insisting on the ethno-nationalist “identity” of “Israel” is an insult to all of our progressive Jewish comrades who are fighting with us for the liberation of Palestine. Make no mistake, if the German state is truly interested in combating antisemitism, it would start with the Nazi groups within its military, police, and political circles. Instead, the state instrumentalises the fight against anti-Semitism as a repressive tool against all who stand with the Palestinian struggle, and to shift the blame of its Nazi crimes upon the Palestinians and Arabs in Germany. It is the Palestinian liberation movement, an anti-racist, anti-colonial movement, that rejects the equation between Zionism and Jewishness. And it is, therefore, the Palestinian liberation movement that is fighting against antisemitism, fascism and all forms of racism, not the German state.

As progressive forces, we will not be intimidated by their repression. Resistance can never be banned and we will take to the streets and stand united against their attacks.

To add your organization’s signature to the campaign, please click here.

Following is the statement signed by 160 organizations around the world against the anti-Palestinian repression taking place in Germany:

Against the attacks on Palestine organizing in Germany

We, the undersigned organizations, declare our rejection and outrage at the Berlin police’s ban on commemorations of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day on the weekend, 15 – 17 April. This ban is an attack not only on the Palestinian and Arab community in Berlin and supporters of Palestine, it is a threat targeting all of our freedom of expression. Beyond this, it is an attempt to silence support for the 4800 Palestinian prisoners themselves, struggling from beyond colonial bars for their freedom. 

This police ban is a reflection of anti-Palestinian racism and repression. Rather than opposing anti-Semitism, the rationale for the ban actually embraces the anti-Semitic equation that Zionism and Judaism are identical and that the Israeli occupation regime is the representative of Jews. Furthermore, it is clear that the government has no regard for the public safety of the Palestinian and Arab community in Berlin – the largest such community in Europe – and does not hesitate to instrumentalize racism and smear campaigns in order to impose a form of collective punishment on the community. 

We view this ban as an attack first and foremost on the Palestinian prisoners and on the Palestinian community in Berlin as well as an attempt to silence the rising support for Palestine in Germany and around the world. Many people are increasingly aware of and appalled by the crimes of the Israeli occupation regime in Palestine and are raising their voices against it, and this is what the ban aims to stop. 

Further, we view this as a repeat of the May 2022 ban on commemorations of al-Nakba, and warn against another such ban in 2023, the 75th commemoration of the Nakba. These bans are an expression of state-sponsored anti-Palestinian racism and a full identification with Israeli colonization of occupied Palestine. This is particularly important as the vast majority of the Palestinian community in Berlin are refugees denied their right to return home for the past 75 years. 

We reject these bans on demonstrations for Palestinian prisoners’ day and declare that our voices will not be silenced. We must shout, louder than ever, for the release of all Palestinian prisoners locked in Israeli regime jails, and for the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. And we declare, clearly and firmly, that this form of state repression will not succeed in silencing our support for the Palestinian people, their resistance and their prisoners’ movement struggling to end colonialism and racism. 

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! Free all Palestinian prisoners! Down with state repression; long live international solidarity! 

SIGN UP: https://forms.gle/8RqifeX46EwinzD96

SIGNATORIES

  1. 100 Idee per la Pace, Italy
  2. ACTA, France
  3. AFPS 63 (Association France Palestine Solidarité 63), France
  4. AFPS Grenoble, France
  5. Al Yudur Palestinian Youth, Spain
  6. Al-Awda PRRC, United States
  7. Anti Capitalistas, Catalunya
  8. Anti Imperialist front, International
  9. Anticapitalistas (Spanish state)
  10. Asociación Americana de Juristas, International
  11. Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees, United States
  12. Association France Palestine Solidarité Nîmes, France
  13. Barcelona En Comú, Catalonia
  14. BDS Vancouver/Coast Salish Territories, Canada 
  15. Belgian Academics and Artists for Palestine (BAA4P), Belgium
  16. Black Alliance for Peace Solidarity Network, United States/International
  17. Bruxelles Panthères, Belgium
  18. Campagne Civile Internationale pour la Protection du Peuple Palestinien (CCIPPP34), France
  19. Canada Palestine Association 
  20. Canada-Philippines Solidarity for Human Rights
  21. Canadian BDS Coalition
  22. CAPJPO – EuroPalestine, France
  23. CASI (Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran), United States/International
  24. Center for the Study and Preservation of Palestine, United States
  25. Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, Australia
  26. CGT Metal Madrid, Spanish state
  27. CGT Salamanca, Spanish state
  28. Charente Palestine Solidarité, France
  29. Chrysalis Theatre, Canada
  30. CJPME Saskatoon, Canada
  31. Collectif Georges Ibrahim Abdallah 38, France
  32. Collectif Palestine Vaincra, France
  33. Contrahegemonía-Argentina
  34. CSTEC STEs (IAC) Catalunya
  35. Dar al Janub, Austria
  36. Democratic Lawyers Association of Bangladesh 
  37. Diputado Unidos Podemos, Enrique Santiago Romer, Spanish state
  38. Dones X Dones, Spanish state
  39. Early Childhood Development Intercultural Partnerships Program, Canada
  40. EATIP, Argentina 
  41. Éirígí – For A New Republic, Ireland
  42. Fédération Syndicale Étudiante, France
  43. Free Palestine Maastricht, Netherlands
  44. Free Palestine Movement, United States/International
  45. Freedom Road Socialist Organization, United States
  46. Frente Antiimperialista Internacionalista, International
  47. Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle, International
  48. Front de Libération Décolonial, France
  49. GABRIELA BC, Canada
  50. Gaza Solidarity Group, Canada
  51. Greater Toronto 4 BDS, Canada
  52. Green Mountain Solidarity With Palestine, United States
  53. Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN, Luxembourg
  54. Grupo Libélulas, Spanish state
  55. Human Rights for All ( HR4A) Saskatchewan, Canada
  56. ICAHD-USA
  57. IJAN International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, International
  58. Indiana Center for Middle East Peace, United States
  59. Institut für Palästinakunde e.V., Germany
  60. International Action Center, United States
  61. International Center for Palestine Studies, Netherlands
  62. International prisoner’s network Belgium 
  63. International Women’s Alliance (IWA), International
  64. Intersindical Alternativa de Catalunya
  65. Izquierda Unida, Spain
  66. Izquierda Unida, coordinador en grupo parlamentario Mauricio Valiente Ots
  67. Jericho Boston, United States
  68. Jewish Network for Palestine, Britain
  69. Jewish Socialist Bund, Quebec/Canada
  70. Jews for Palestinian Right of Return, United States
  71. Jüdisch-Palästinensische Dialoggruppe München, Germany
  72. Just Peace Advocates, Canada
  73. Juventud Chileno-Árabe por Palestina de Valdivia, Chile
  74. JVP Central Ohio, United States
  75. Kairos Sabeel Foundation Netherlands
  76. Kenyans For Tax Justice, Kenya
  77. Kommunistische Organisation, Germany
  78. League of Filipino Students PUP, Philippines
  79. Libérons Georges Abdallah 38, France
  80. Liga Internacional Socialista (LIS-ISL), International
  81. Lluita internacionalista, Catalunya
  82. Manu Pineda – Member of the European Parliament (The Left – GUE/NGL)
  83. Masar Badil, Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, Palestine/International
  84. MD2Palestine, United States
  85. Middle East Crisis Response, United States
  86. Migrante BC, Canada
  87. Migrante NL, Netherlands
  88. Migrantifa Mainz, Germany
  89. Migrantifa NRW , Germany
  90. Montagsdemonstration Stuttgart, Germany
  91. Mouvement Citoyen Palestine, Belgium
  92. MRAP33, France
  93. MST en el Frente de Izquierda Unidad, Argentina
  94. Münchner Friedensbündnis, Germany
  95. National Lawyers Guild International Committee, United States
  96. National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee, United States
  97. National Students for Justice in Palestine, United States
  98. National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers – Philippines
  99. New Buffalo Center, United States
  100. New York City Jericho Amnesty Movement, United States
  101. Niagara Movement for Justice (NMJPI), Canada
  102. NorCal ISM, United States
  103. North New Jersey DSA BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group, United States
  104. Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, France
  105. Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste 31, France
  106. Oakville Palestinian Rights Association, Canada
  107. Ongd AFRICANDO, Senegal
  108. Orléans Loiret Palestine, France
  109. Palästina Spricht , Germany
  110. Palästinakomitee Stuttgart e.V., Germany
  111. Palestina Komitee Rotterdam , Netherlands
  112. Palestina Libre de Murcia, Spanish state
  113. Palestinian and Jewish Unity (PAJU), Canada – Quebec
  114. Partido comunista de España
  115. Party of Communists USA
  116. Peace & Planet News, United States
  117. Pinay Sa Holland- Gabriela , Netherlands
  118. Plate-forme Charleroi-Palestine, Belgium
  119. Radical Solidarity, Netherlands
  120. Resistance News Network, International
  121. Responsable de relaciones internacionales de Izquierda Unida, Jon Rodriguez Forrest (Spain)
  122. Resumen Latinoamericano prensa, International
  123. Rete Romana di Solidarietà con il Popolo Palestinese, Italy
  124. REVOLUTION, Germany
  125. Révolution Permanente, France
  126. Revolutionaire Eenheid, Netherlands
  127. Revolutionäre Internationalistische Organisation / Klasse gegen Klasse, Germany
  128. Revolutionärer Jugendbund, Germany
  129. Revolutionary Communist Group – Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, Britain
  130. Roter Ring, Germany
  131. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, International
  132. Scottish Jews Against Zionism, Scotland
  133. Secours Rouge Genève, Switzerland
  134. Secours Rouge Montréal, Quebec
  135. Secours Rouge Toulouse, France
  136. SELondonFriendsOfPalestine, Britain
  137. Sindicato Solidaridad Obrera, Spanish state
  138. Solidarität International (SI) e.V., Germany
  139. Solidaritätsnetzwerk Berlin, Germany
  140. Stop the War Machine, United States
  141. Students for Justice in Palestine Amsterdam, Netherlands
  142. Sulong UBC, Canada
  143. SUPER-UW, United States
  144. The Key (Palestine)
  145. The Moroccan Front to support Palestine and against normalization, Morocco
  146. UK-Palestine Mental Health Network, Britain
  147. Unidas Podemos-Galicia en Común, Spanish state
  148. Union Juive Française pour la Paix (UJFP), France
  149. Unité Communiste, France
  150. United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC), United States
  151. US Boats to Gaza
  152. US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI(
  153. Venceremos, Partido de Trabajadorxs, Argentina
  154. Veterans for Peace, United States
  155. Veterans For Peace Chapter 72, United States
  156. VIB, VIVA Intifada Berlin, Germany
  157. Vita Books, Britain
  158. V-SB, Belgium/Flanders
  159. Women Against Military Madness, United States
  160. Women for Filipino Women and Children, Netherlands
  161. Workers Voice Socialist Movement, United States
  162. Workers World Party, United States

 

Take action: Tell Ontario NDP to apologize to Sarah Jama and stand in solidarity with detained Palestinians

Sign-on Action for Canada:

Take one minute to send letter to the Ontario New Democratic Party (ONDP) asking them to stop succumbing to the Israel lobby. Insist the ONDP apologize to Sarah Jama and the Palestinian community, and join the human rights community in condemning Israel’s detention of Palestinians and its occupation, apartheid and colonial regime in Palestine.

Click here to send your letter!

On May 2, newly elected Ontario NDP MPP Sarah Jama re-tweeted Palestinian academic Noura Erakat’s statement on the death of Palestinian prisoner Khader Adnan, who had just lost his life inside an Israeli jail after 86 days of hunger strike. Adnan, 45, was on his sixth hunger strike against Israeli detention. From Arraba, Jenin, he was the husband of Randa Mousa, and the father of 9 children. Like many other statements on Adnan’s death, Erakat’s tweet concluded by honouring him as a “martyr for freedom. Free Palestine.”

After B’nai B’rith posted a picture of Jama retweeting Erakat the NDP released a “Statement regarding Hamilton Centre MPP”. It noted, “Last night, the MPP for Hamilton Centre retweeted a tweet by an American academic Noura Erakat concerning the death of Khader Adnan and later un-retweeted it. The content of the tweet does not reflect the views of MPP Jama or the Ontario NDP.”

But, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council and other human rights groups released statements similar to Erakat regarding Adnan’s death. The UN experts statement noted, “The death of Khader Adnan is a tragic testament to Israel’s cruel and inhumane detention policy and practices … The systematic practice of administrative detention is tantamount to a war crime.”

Israel is holding approximately 4,900 Palestinians in its prisons, including 1,016 in so-called administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. Those who are charged — like Adnan, often with political charges like political party membership or visiting the homes of imprisoned Palestinians — face military courts with a 99.74% conviction rate. After winning his freedom from administrative detention four times due to hunger strikes, Adnan was a symbol of the struggle against administrative detention, and his detention in 2023 was an extreme example of Israel’s arbitrary power over Palestinians.

In Ha’aretz paper Gideon Levy called Adnan “a fighter for his freedom and was ready to sacrifice his life for it as only very few are willing to do. He fought against an evil, vindictive tyranny that for years threw him into prison repeatedly, without trial, in the hope of breaking his spirit… If he were Russian, Burmese, Irish or Iranian, Adnan would have been regarded as an honored freedom fighter, even by Israelis. As a Palestinian, he was regarded as a terrorist.”

The Ontario NDP must stop succumbing to pressure from B’nai B’rith. The party must apologize to Sarah Jama and the Palestinian community and join the human rights community in condemning Israel’s detention of Palestinians and its occupation, apartheid and colonial regime in Palestine.

Click here to send your letter!

This letter initiated by:

Canada Palestine Association

Canadian Foreign Policy Institute

Palestinian and Jewish Unity

Just Peace Advocates

Labour for Palestine

Oakville Palestinian Rights Association

Samidoun

Canadian BDS Coalition

6 May, Book Launch: “The Trinity of Fundamentals” (English) with Wisam Rafeedie

Samidoun is one of many organizations endorsing the Palestinian Youth Movement’s English language launch of the book by Wisam Rafeedie, “The Trinity of Fundamentals.”

Below is the announcement from PYM. PYM is also organizing several in-person watch parties — read their announcement for details! 

EVENT DETAILS:
WHEN: Saturday, May 6th, 1-3pm ET, 8-10 Palestine Time.
WHERE: in-person or Online
RSVP: Register to attend.

You can attend a watch party hosted by our chapters in the Bay Area, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia.

Join the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and 1804 Books for the book launch of Wisam Rafeedie’s The Trinity of Fundamentals. The Trinity of Fundamentals is Rafeedie’s fictionalized account of his nine years of hiding from the Occupation in Palestine, which ended in his capture by the Israeli occupation army in 1991. Rafeedie wrote The Trinity of Fundamentals during his imprisonment at Naqab Prison in 1993.

We will be joined by the author and guest speaker Wisam Rafeedie. Rafeedie is a former Palestinian political prisoner, full-time researcher and lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences at Bethlehem University – Palestine. He previously worked as a part-time lecturer in Sociology and Cultural Studies at Birzeit University. He holds two master’s degrees from Birzeit University, one in sociology for his thesis on the changes in the status of women in contemporary Palestinian literature before and after Oslo, and the other in contemporary Arab studies.

Wisam will be in conversation with the PYM and will speak about how the novel was written and smuggled out of Israeli prison as well as the broader phenomenon of Palestinian prisoner literature production.

We are grateful to our comrades at Al-Awda, Anakbayan, Bayan, Black Alliance for Peace (BAP), CUNY4Palestine, CPFQ, Malcom X Grassroots Movement, Makan, the Mosaic Rooms, National Student for Justice in Palestine, Nodutdol, Party for Socialist Liberation (PSL), Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC), Palestine Writes, the People’s Forum, Samidoun, Union Del Barrio, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)-NYC, US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), UK Palestine Mental Health Network for their organizational endorsement of the book launch.

6-7 May, Online: Eritrea Hearing, International People’s Tribunal on U.S. Imperialism

Join the International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades, Coercive Economic Measures for a hearing on Saturday and Sunday, May 6 and 7, on the effects and impacts of these policies and practices on the people of Eritrea. We will hear testimony and reports from expert and direct witnesses, with questions and discussion from our jurors.

The Eritrea hearing will take place over two days, on:

  • Saturday, May 6 at 10:30 AM EDT/7:30 AM PDT/2:30 PM GMT/5:30 PM Eritrea.
  • Sunday, May 7 at 10:30 AM EDT/7:30 AM PDT/2:30 PM GMT/5:30 PM Eritrea.

Register to listen online: https://bit.ly/eritreatribunal

Samidoun is a co-sponsor of the Tribunal. Visit the Sanctions Tribunal website to learn more and register for upcoming hearings.

Video: “The Canada Files” highlights Ottawa Liberation Conference and Zionist attacks

Charlotte Kates, international coordinator of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, spoke with The Canada Files’ Editor-in-Chief Aidan Jonah about the Ottawa Liberation Conference (28-30 April) and attacks on it by Zionist organizations and mainstream media.

Watch this video to learn about the planning process, the organizers’ response to a National Post hit piece, what happened during the conference and what lessons Kates believes Canadian Palestine organizers can take from the work of Palestine Action in the UK. 

The conference site: https://liberationconference.org/
Samidoun: https://samidoun.net
Masar Badil: https://masarbadil.org/
The Canada Files: https://www.thecanadafiles.com/home

14 May, Vancouver: Nakba 75, the struggle continues – Demonstration

Sunday, 14 May
1 pm
Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver
FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/536162645360568/

Until Return and Freedom!
Raise the Palestinian Flag!
VANCOUVER, ALL OUT FOR PALESTINE

Join us to mark 75 years of Palestinian dispossession and commemorate the continuing Palestinian resistance, as the Palestinian people refuse to submit to Zionist settler colonialism, aggression, and occupation.

Let’s hold the Palestinian flag high in Vancouver, and also tell the U.S. and Canadian governments that their complicity in Israeli war crimes must end!

From Turtle Island to Palestine, Colonization is a Crime!

#BoycottApartheidIsrael

Come out to send the message: Enough of 75 years of Israeli settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

For more info, please email pymvancouver@gmail.com

Organized by Canada Palestine Association, International League of Peoples’ Struggle Canada, Masar Badil, Palestinian Youth Movement, Samidoun, Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights UBC and Students for Justice in Palestine SFU

This event is taking place on the unceded and occupied territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) peoples. The organizers stand in full solidarity and support of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination and with the ongoing movements to defend land, water and Indigenous peoples from plunder and settler colonialism.

3 May, Montreal: Glory to the Martyr, Sheikh Khader Adnan

This action is organized by multiple Montreal-based groups:

Montréal – Wednesday 3 May
Métro Guy-Concordia – 5:30 pm

 Call to action – Unity of destiny and loyalty to the martyrs in all of Palestine, from its river to its sea and its diaspora. Join us as we stand to honour the life of Sheikh Khader Adnan (the Sheikh of Dignity) who for long has been a pillar in support of our people. Sheikh Khader has always stood up for the prisoners and the martyrs – let us not fail him as we did while he was alive. Let us take over his fight and push till we #FreeThemAll

See you there!

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Montréal – Mercredi 3 mai
Métro Guy-Concordia – 17h30

Appel à l’action – Unité de destin et loyauté envers les martyrs de toute la Palestine, de sa rivière à sa mer et à sa diaspora. Rejoignez-nous pour honorer la vie du Cheikh Khader Adnan (le Cheikh de la Dignité) qui a longtemps été un pilier du soutien à notre peuple. Le cheikh Khader a toujours défendu les prisonniers et les martyrs – ne l’abandonnons pas comme nous l’avons fait de son vivant. Reprenons son combat jusqu’à ce que nous libérions tous nos prisonniers.

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Berlin remembers Sheikh Khader Adnan, martyr of freedom

Samidoun Deutschland and fellow Palestinians in Germany remembered Sheikh Khader Adnan today, 2 May, in Berlin, in the heart of the Arab and Palestinian community. Khader Adnan was on hunger strike for 86 days in Israeli occupation prisons, demanding his freedom; he conducted five previous hunger strikes, winning his liberation from administrative detention on four occasions.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network said: “The martyrdom of Sheikh Khader Adnan, the symbol of dignity, freedom and steadfastness, is an Israeli assassination, carried out with forethought and premeditation. It has been clear for the months of this strike that the occupation is determined to eliminate this symbol of prisoners’ resistance and Palestinian sacrifice and commitment and love for his people and land. However, it is also clear that the legacy of Sheikh Khader Adnan will never be eliminated by this practice of Zionist assassination. Instead, like his fellow leaders of the Palestinian revolution and resistance, he is an example of the unbending will of the Palestinian people that would not bow down to colonialism, Zionism and exploitation.”

Palestinian flags and posters of Khader Adnan fluttered over Sonnenallee, the street in Berlin’s Neukölln district that is a bustling heart of Arab and Palestinian community businesses and institutions along with a banner remembering and saluting Khader Adnan and his sacrifices and commitment to the liberation of prisoners and the liberation of Palestine.

Graffiti also appeared on surrounding buildings and grates, an expression of popular anger and outrage over the martyrdom of Sheikh Khader Adnan as well as honouring his commitment to struggle and to the land and people of Palestine, confronting the most dire of circumstances with resistance until his last breath.

These actions reflect that, despite the ongoing persecution, harassment and criminalization directed at the Palestinian community and the solidarity movement in Berlin, from the banning of Palestinian Prisoners’ Day and Al-Quds Day marches, to the threats to ban Nakba 75 commemorations as was done by Berlin authorities in 2022, the will of the community and of Samidoun Deutschland to express their commitment to Palestinian liberation and its love for the heroes, prisoners and martyrs of Palestine can never be suppressed.

The will of the martyred Palestinian hunger striker, Sheikh Khader Adnan

Below we are republishing the will of the martyred prisoner, Sheikh Khader Adnan. He wrote his will on 2 April, one month before his martyrdom, nearly two months into his hunger strike. Khader Adnan died inside Israeli occupation prisons on 2 May 2023 after 86 days of hunger strike and amid a clear commitment of the Zionist entity to end his life. Khader Adnan lives on, an eternal symbol of steadfastness, freedom, dignity and resistance:

In the name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful

The Almighty said: “Verily those who say, “Our Lord is Allah,” and remain firm (on that path),- on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve and never will Allah grant to the disbelievers a way (to triumph) over the believers.”

Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, for granting me the ability to strike for freedom. Praise be to Allah for His countless blessings, and prayers and peace be upon the master of creation, the beloved of truth, our prophet Muhammad, may God bless him and his family and grant him peace.

I am sending you these words of mine, as my flesh has melted, my bones have gnawed, and my strength has weakened from my imprisonment in the beloved, authentic Palestinian city Al-Ramla. This is my will to my family, my children, my wife, and my people.

My wife, I counsel you and my children to fear Him (Allah), the Most High, to cling to His firm rope, to dispense with His bounty from others, to speak the truth in every time and place, to uphold ties of kinship, to pray and to pay Zakat (almsgiving), to preserve Allah‘s sanctities, and His right to our situation, money, movement, residence, and knowledge. The best homes in Palestine are the homes of martyrs, prisoners, the wounded and the righteous.

I entrust the uncles, aunts, relatives and neighbors to you; everyone who has a right over us. I entrust you with not leaving anyone with a debt over me, moral or material, for your love (me) is most in need of His mercy. If it is my martyrdom, do not allow the occupier to dissect my body, bury me near my father and write on my grave “here (lies) the poor servant of Allah, Khader Adnan, your prayers for him, his parents, and Muslims everywhere”. Make it a simple grave, and ask Allah for forgiveness, mercy, consolidation, and the breadth of my grave, and to make our graves a garden of paradise, not pits from the depths of Hell, and that He accepts all our deeds purely for His honorable face.

Mother of Abd al-Rahman (my wife) and the children, Ma‘ali, Bisan, Abd al-Rahman, Muhammad, Ali, Hamza, Maryam, Omar and Zainab. Forgive me and my brothers Abu Adnan, Abu Anas, Umm Nour and all the uncles, uncles, relatives, friends, and neighbors for any shortcomings from me on your side as I leave this temporary life, but make sure that I have not been distracted from you except by Allah’s permission for duty.

O our proud people, I send you this commandment of greetings and love, and I am full of confidence in His mercy, victory, and empowerment.
My greetings to our commanders, the families of the martyrs and the prisoners, and my greetings to them and to all the revolutionaries.
Your loving husband, Umm Abd al-Rahman; your loving father, my children; your loving brother, my brothers; your loving son, our people.

I pray that Allah accepts me as a martyr loyal to His honorable face.

Your love, Khader Adnan

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