New Video: Black-Palestinian Solidarity highlights common struggles of Black and Palestinian peoples and movements

15 October 2015

Palestinian and Black activists have together launched Black-Palestinian Solidarity, a new video highlighting the voices of Black and Palestinian organizers, artists, writers, performers, scholars and leaders in confronting racism and oppression.

For full materials, statement and resources, please see:

Facebook: Black-Palestinian solidarity video

Website: http://bit.ly/BPSolidarity

Black-Palestinian solidarity is neither a guarantee nor a requirement – it is a choice. We choose to build with one another in a shoulder to shoulder struggle against state-sanctioned violence. A violence that is manifest in the speed of bullets and batons and tear gas that pierce our bodies. One that is latent in the edifice of law and concrete that work together to, physically and figuratively, cage us. We choose to join one another in resistance not because our struggles are the same but because we each struggle against the formidable forces of structural racism and the carceral and lethal technologies deployed to maintain them. This video intends to interrupt that process – to assert our humanity – and to stand together in an affirmation of life and a commitment to resistance. From Ferguson to Gaza, from Baltimore to Jerusalem, from Charleston to Bethlehem, we will be free.

The video features Ms. Lauryn Hill, Danny Glover, DAM, Omar Barghouti, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Yousef Erakat, Annemarie Jacir, Boots Riley, Dr. Cornel West, and many others. It is a joint project of the Dream Defenders, Black Youth Project 100, the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival, the Institute for Middle East Understanding, Jewish Voice for Peace, and the Arab Studies Institute-Quilting Point Productions.

Moataz Zawahreh, Palestinian activist and brother of hunger striker, killed by Israeli forces, mourned by thousands

15 October 2015

Moataz Zawahreh, 27, Palestinian refugee and resident of Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem was shot dead by a live bullet by Israeli occupation forces on 13 October as he participated in a mass youth protest at the entrance to Bethlehem, becoming the 29th Palestinian killed by Israeli forces since 2 October and the growing popular Palestinian uprising.

The Martyr Moataz Zawahreh was the younger brother of imprisoned Ghassan Zawahreh – and of several other Palestinian political prisoners – held under administrative detention, who just concluded a 40-day hunger strike to secure his release on 30 November, the Battle of Breaking the Chains.

Zawahreh was a local leader of Palestinian left-wing political party, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Ma’an News reported:

Zawahreh was killed during a lull in the clashes. At the time he was standing among a group of fellow protesters with nothing in his hands, and was much too far away to have been a threat to Israeli forces.

When Zawahreh was shot, the bullet went through his stomach and exited from his back….

Several friends who helped evacuate Zawahreh to the ambulance said he began singing a Palestinian fight song while they carried him. “The mother of the martyr don’t be sad, every Palestinian is your son,” he sang, according to the young men….

People who knew Zawahreh repeatedly highlighted his friendly character and political involvement.“His family are a very active family in his camp for PFLP,” al Qaisi said, pointing out that… Zawahreh’s brothers are currently in Israeli prisons. “He was a popular guy, everyone in the area knew him and had some kind of relationship with him.”

Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets to join Moataz’s funeral and honor the life of this struggler, pledging to continue on his path of struggle, the road of resistance and the growing popular uprising:

Rasmea Odeh’s lawyer argues strongly in appellate court

15 October 2015

Report from the Rasmea Defense Committee:

Appealing the November 2014 federal conviction of prominent Palestinian-American activist Rasmea Odeh, lead defense attorney Michael Deutsch gave a powerful oral argument in front of a panel of three judges—Alice Batchelder, Karen Moore, and John Rogers—in Cincinnati, at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6^th Circuit.

Hammering home the point that Rasmea never received a full and fair trial in Detroit last year, Deutsch deftly addressed the judges’ questions, and made a compelling argument that, at her trial for Unlawful Procurement of Naturalization, she should have been able to testify about her state of mind when she filled out her citizenship application in 2004.

The Department of Homeland Security arrested Odeh on October 22, 2013, and charged her for allegedly failing to disclose, in that application for U.S. citizenship, that she was arrested in Palestine in 1969 and tried in an Israeli military court that convicts 99.74% of Palestinians who come before it. Odeh’s conviction in Palestine in 1970 was based on a forced confession that was obtained after she was vicious ly tortured and sexually assaulted by the Israelis.

Odeh suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) because of this torture, which according to world renowned psychologist, Dr. Mary Fabri, caused her to suppress the horrible recollection of the arrest when she answered questions in the application. Fabri testified in a pre-trial hearing, prompting Judge Gershwin Drain to initially rule that she can testify at trial. But he almost immediately reversed himself after a prosecution filing, and ultimately disallowed any evidence about the rape and torture. Deutsch was convincing in his claims that this was a legal error, and that Rasmea must be afforded the chance to tell her story.

Prosecutor Jonathan Tukel, who supporters of Rasmea remember as the lawyer who tried to bully her during the trial, continued with his tired arguments, claiming that testimony from a psychologist should be inadmissible and could not stand up to scrutiny. The judges responded by pointing out that the legal precedent he was citing was an unpublished opinion, not any kind of legal precedent the court is bound to uphold.

Rasmea’s supporters were silently thrilled to watch the judges press Tukel, who was unable to offer any reason that she should not be entitled to have an expert testify in her defense. Instead, Judge Rogers’ remarks reinforced the idea that expert testimony could potentially establish reasonable doubt that Rasmea knowingly misled immigration officials.

Following the thirty-minute hearing, Rasmea, her attorneys, and her supporters joined a number of additional followers outside the courthouse for a rally featuring Deutsch, Frank Chapman of the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Brian Taylor of Black Lives Matter Cincinnati, Jess Sundin of the Committee to Stop FBI Repression, and others. Visibly excited and motivated by what they had heard in the appellate court, the crowd of over 100 held posters, raised chants, and echoed Rasmea’s own determination to beat back this attack on her and on the Palestine liberation struggle.

Chapman, a veteran Black organizer who is extremely popular with Palestinians in Chicago, and who has traveled to almost all of Rasmea’s court appearances, said, “Make no mistake; this is a racist, political prosecution against Rasmea because she is a Palestinian who organizes for her people’s liberation.”

Deutsch thanked the crowd and explained how important it is to fill the courtroom. “It means a lot to Rasmea, and also shows the court that she is loved and respected,” he said.

He then answered questions about the appeals process, saying that a decision could be rendered between one and four months from now. If the court agrees with the defense and overturns the conviction and the sentencing, the case gets sent back to the prosecution to possibly re-file charges, whereupon the entire trial process begins anew. But this time, evidence of torture, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), etc., would be allowed into the courtroom. Also, the court, without reversing the conviction, could simply compel Judge Drain to allow for another evidentiary hearing with Dr. Fabri. Alternatively, if the court upholds the conviction but disagrees with the sentence, the appellate judges send new sentencing guidelines back to Drain for re-sentencing.

In the worst possible scenario, her conviction and sentencing would be upheld, meaning that she would have to serve 18 months in prison and then be deported. If this happens without the decision being unanimous, the defense could ask that all of the 6th Circuit appellate court judges, not just the three panelists, review the case. If this does not work, then a last ditch effort could be an attempt to appeal to the Supreme Court, which hears only 2% of cases filed.

The Rasmea Defense Committee organized two busloads of Chicagoans to Cincinnati, as well as dozens of other supporters from Florida, Georgia, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. We have succeeded in building a national movement to stand by Rasmea, to protest this attack on her, to stand with her at every court date, and to fully fund her defense. We call on everyone to continue supporting ourfundraising, organizing public events, and pitching Rasmea’s story to media across the country and the world.

There is still much more organizing to be done!

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The Rasmea Defense Committee is led by United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), Committee to Stop FBI Repression (CSFR), and Coalition to Protect People’s Rights (CPPR).

www.justice4rasmea.org
@Justice4Rasmea
#Justice4Rasmea

Paris, 17 October: The Continuing Intifada – Support the Palestinian Resistance

15 October 2015

L’Intifada continue : Soutien à la résistance palestinienne
Rassemblement Samedi 17 Octobre à 14h place de la République à Paris

The Intifada continues: Support the Palestinian Resistance
Demonstration Saturday October 17, 2:00 pm, Place de la République, Paris

Événement sur Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/events/999270923469901/

See below for English

Nos cœurs et nos espoirs sont tournés vers la Palestine. En ce moment même, les Palestiniens font faces à une nouvelle recrudescence des attaques de l’occupant israélien. Ces dernières semaines, l’esplanade des mosquées d’Al-Aqsa fût la cible d’agressions particulièrement violentes tandis que des meurtres sont commis presque quotidiennement par l’armée et les colons sionistes. Une fois de plus, les Israéliens espèrent profiter d’un contexte politique troublé sur le plan régional pour gagner du terrain et venir à bout de la résistance palestinienne.

Ainsi Israël continue d’imposer en toute impunité blocus et checkpoints, poursuit ses projets de colonisation et pratique une politique d’épuration ethnique dans toute la Palestine occupée. Au même moment, Israël bénéficie toujours du soutien de ses alliés, parmi lesquels la France et l’Union Européenne que nous tenons pour responsables de tous ces crimes.

Nous affirmons quant à nous notre soutien total à la résistance du peuple palestinien. Depuis les geôles israéliennes où les prisonniers mènent des grèves de la faim, en passant par Jérusalem où les habitants protègent leur patrimoine et leurs lieux saints, jusqu’aux jets de pierres et aux coups de couteaux qui défient aujourd’hui les forces d’occupation sionistes, les Palestiniens poursuivent un combat que nous honorons, celui de la justice et de la libération.

Notre engagement est concret. Nous portons la voix de la résistance palestinienne dans nos villes et nos quartiers. Nous dénonçons les crimes sionistes et la complicité de nos dirigeants. Nous brisons l’isolement dans lequel se trouvent les Palestiniens sous occupation.

Jusqu’à la libération,

Halte aux agressions israéliennes

Soutien total à la résistance palestinienne

Démantèlement des colonies et fin du blocus sur la bande de Gaza

Liberté pour les prisonniers palestiniens

Retour des réfugiés palestiniens

Halte au silence complice de la Communauté internationale

Soutien à la campagne BDS – Boycott, Désinvestissement, Sanctions contre Israël
Signataires : Mouvement des Jeunes Palestiniens (PYM-France) ; Union Générale des Étudiants de Palestine (GUPS Paris) ; Association des Palestiniens en Ile de France ; Mouvement de libération nationale palestinienne (Fatah France) ; Parti des indigènes de la république (PIR) ; Collectif al-Qods ; Génération Palestine ; Forum Palestine Citoyenneté ; Collectif Halte Au Massacre En Birmanie (HAMEB) ; L’Alliance Musulmane ; L’avenir palestinien (A.S.F) ; Campagne ALI (Abrogation des Lois Islamophobes) ; Collectif UNPA (Urgence Notre Police Assassine) ; L’Association Franco-Arabe d’Échange Culturel ; Ferguson in Paris ;

Our hearts and our hopes have turned to Palestine. Right now, the Palestinian people are facing a new upsurge in attacks by the Israeli occupation. In recent weeks, the esplanade of Al-Aqsa mosque was the target of particularly violent assaults while murders are committed almost daily by the army and the Zionist settlers. Once again, the Israelis are seeking to profit from the troubled political context at the regional level in order to gain ground and suppress the Palestinian resistance.

As Israel continues to impose with full impunity, blockades and checkpoints, pursuing its projects of colonization and practicing a policy of ethnic cleansing throughout occupied Palestine. At the same time, Israel still enjoys the support of its allies, including France and the European Union, who we hold accountable for these crimes.

We affirm our full support for the Palestinian resistance. From the Israeli jails where prisoners are conducting hunger strikes, to Jerusalem where people are defending their property and their holy sites, to the stone-throwing and stabbing that today challenge and confront the forces of the Zionist occupations, the Palestinians continue the struggle that we honor, the struggle for justice and liberation.

Our commitment is concrete. We carry the voice of the Palestinian resistance in our cities and neighborhoods. We denounce the Zionist crimes and complicity of our leaders. We break the isolation of the Palestinians under occupation.

Until liberation,

Stop the Israeli aggression

Full support for the Palestinian resistance

Dismantle the settlements and end the blockade on the Gaza Strip

Freedom for the Palestinian prisoners

Return of Palestinian refugees

Stop the complicit silence of the International Community

Support for BDS – Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions against Israel

Signatories: Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM-France); General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS Paris); Association of Palestinians in Ile de France; Palestinian National Liberation Movement (Fatah France); Party of the Indigenous of the Republic (PIR); Al-Quds collective; Generation Palestine; Palestine Citizenship Forum; Collective to Stop Massacre In Burma (HAMEB); The Muslim Alliance; The Palestinian Future (ASF); Campaign ALI (Repeal Islamophobic Laws); Collective UNPA (Emergency Against Police Killings); The Franco-Arab Cultural Exchange Association; Ferguson in Paris;

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Call to Action: October 17-24 – Free Ahmad Sa’adat, Georges Abdallah, and all Palestinian Prisoners! Support the Palestinian Resistance!

11 October 2015

CALL TO ACTION: OCTOBER 17-24 – – From the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all Palestinian Prisoners! Support the Palestinian Resistance!

Français via Coup Pour Coup 31

Deutsch via BDS Berlin

Today, in Palestine, the Palestinian people are rising up, marching, demanding justice and an end to the settlements, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid that has ravaged their land. The Zionist state is repressing Palestinians with massive brutality: shooting down Palestinian youths in murderous extrajudicial assassinations, rounding up demonstrators in mass arrests, closing Jerusalem’s Old City to Palestinians, attacking Al-Aqsa Mosque with invasions and burnings, and sending mobs of settler colonists to attack Palestinian villages. Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded with US-made and funded tear gas and bullets in the past several days.

And Palestinians are rising up! From inside the prison walls to the streets of Jerusalem, Nablus, Al-Khalil, Tulkarem, Nazareth, Palestinians are resisting. Zionist occupation forces are waging a campaign of terror, arrest and assassination as well as the demolition of the family homes of Palestinian resisters and martyrs, while the bodies of slain Palestinian youth are being held hostage by the Zionist state.

Amid the rising in Palestine, we stand with the Palestinian prisoners, the Palestinian people and the Palestinian Resistance! The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat urges the widest international participation in a Week of Action for Freedom for Palestine and its imprisoned leaders of the Resistance.

The Zionist state has announced its intention to intensify the use of administrative detention in an attempt to silence the Palestinian masses on the streets. Inside the prisons, Palestinian prisoners are daily stripped of their most basic natural and human rights, facing brutality and oppression.

Thousands of the leaders and resisters of the Palestinian people are held captive in Zionist jails. Ahmad Sa’adat – the General Secretary of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – is one of these Palestinian national leaders, alongside his comrades of resistance.

As Palestine and the Palestinian people are under attack, the imperialist and colonialist states: the United States, Canada, Australia and European governments – continue to arm, support and empower the Zionist project in Palestine and its attacks on the Palestinian people. We see this in the case of Rasmea Odeh, who will bring her appeal to a US court on October 14 after years of persecution. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, Lebanese Arab communist struggler for the liberation of Palestine, has been imprisoned in French jails for 32 years, an anniversary marked on October 24 with an international day of action and a massive national march to the prison in Lannemezan, France where he is held.

On this week of action, we demand freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat, for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, for all Palestinian prisoners and prisoners for Palestine! We stand with the Palestinian masses rising up throughout Palestine, and the Palestinian communities in diaspora and revolutionary and anti-imperialist movements around the world who are rising up for liberation!

It is also critical to build the boycott and international isolation of the Zionist state on all levels and the corporations that are deeply involved in sustaining its repression, in particular the British-Danish security company G4S, that provides control rooms and security systems for the prisons where Palestinian prisoners – children, adults, elders, leaders, organizers – are held.

On October 17-24, 2015, take action: organize protests, actions and events in your area to demand freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and all of the Palestinian and Arab political prisoners in occupation prisons and facing oppression and imprisonment around the world.

TAKE ACTION:

1. Demonstrate outside Israeli and U.S. consulates and embassies in support of the Palestinian people and against ongoing Israeli crimes. Demand freedom for all Palestinian prisoners, and freedom for Palestine. Find Israeli consulates in your city here.

2. Download and distribute this leaflet on the case of Ahmad Sa’adat and Georges Ibrahim Abdallah and use our other resources to poster and flyer in your communities.

3. Protest at French embassies and consulates on October 24 and demand the release of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Find French consulates in your area here.

4. Email us about your actions for Ahmad Sa’adat, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, and Palestinian prisoners! Contact us at campaign@freeahmadsaadat.org.

5. Boycott, Divest and Sanction! Palestinians have called for an international boycott of Israel until it ends its apartheid policies and violation of Palestinian rights. Boycott products like Hewlett-Packard, Ahava and SodaStream, and demand divestment from companies like G4S, who provide security services to Israeli prisons. Learn more about the campaign atbdsmovement.net.

EVENTS ALREADY SCHEDULED:

Toulose, France
Saturday, 17 October
5:00 PM
Charles De Gaulle Square (Capitole Metro)
Toulose, France
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/747309472065247/
From Toulouse to Gaza, Support Georges Abdallah and Palestinian Resistance: Symbolic renaming of Charles De Gaulle Square and Street

Copenhagen, Denmark:
Sunday, October 18, 2015
2:00 – 4:00 pm
Solidarity House, Griffenfeldsgade 41, Nørrebro, Copenhagen
Is a third intifada on the way? Lecture and discussion with Khaled Barakat, Coordinator of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat.
Organized by Internationalt Forum/Middle East Group

Berlin, Germany:
Saturday, October 24, 2015
2:00 pm
French Embassy, Pariser Platz, Berlin, Germany
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/850712508376896/
Freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah! Demonstration

Lannemezan, France:
Saturday, October 24, 2015
2:00 pm
National Demonstration, March from Lannemezan train station to the front of Lannemezan Prison, Free Georges Abdallah!
(Bus from Toulouse, from Basso Cambo Metro at 11:00 AM)
Annual national demonstration – with participants from across France, demanding freedom for Georges Abdallah

Brussels, Belgium:
Saturday, October 24, 2015
5:30 PM
French Consulate, 42 Bld du Regent, 1000 Bruxelles
Protest: Freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah!

17 October, Toulouse: From Toulouse to Gaza, Support Georges Abdallah and the Palestinian Resistance!

11 October 2015

Saturday, 17 October
5:00 PM
Charles De Gaulle Square (Capitole Metro)
Toulose, France
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/747309472065247/

October 17, 1961: French police violently repressed a Algerian demonstration in the streets of Paris. That day, the National Liberation Front protested in support of the struggle for independence, calling for the lifting of the curfew imposed on Algerians. Maurice Pepon, prefect of Paris, ordered a police crackdown, killing hundreds of victims; Charles de Gaulle was then president. This day remains a symbol of colonial repression by the French state.

October 17, 2015: in occupied Palestine, a true popular uprising is built day by day. Palestinian youths courageously confront the military and security forces of the Israeli occupiers who are authorized to shoot them with live ammunition without warning. Risking their lives, they fight racist and colonial policies of the State of Israel which always relies on the same motto: “What cannot be obtained by force, can be obtained by more force.”

October 24, 2015: George Abdallah, a symbol of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggle, enters his 32nd year of detention .. Lebanese Communist and militant of the Palestinian cause, he is imprisoned in France since 1984, eligible for release since 1999.

In Gaza City and Toulouse, we will symbolically rename Charles De Gaulle street and square in honor of Georges Abdallah. We will gather to denounce imperialism, Zionism and to lend our support to the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, Georges Abdallah.

This is an opportunity to pay tribute to the murdered protesters of 17 October 1961 and to keep the memory of anti-colonial struggles alive!

Support for the Palestinian resistance!

Liberation of Georges Abdallah and all Palestinian prisoners!

Lifting of the blockade of Gaza!

Boycott Israel!

Palestine will live, Palestine will be victorious!

First signatories: Collectif Coup Pour Coup 31, Collectif Palestine Libre, NPA 31, OCML VP Toulouse…

17 octobre 1961 : la police française réprime violemment une manifestation d’algérien(ne)s dans les rues de Paris. Ce jour-là, le FLN manifeste en soutien à la lutte d’indépendance et pour la levée du couvre-feu imposé aux Algériens. Maurice Papon, préfet de Paris, ordonne une répression policière faisant plusieurs centaines de victimes. Charles de Gaulle est alors président. Cette date restera gravée comme un symbole de la répression coloniale de l’État français.

17 octobre 2015 : en Palestine occupée, un véritable soulèvement populaire se construit jour après jour. Des jeunes palestiniens affrontent courageusement, les militaires et les forces de l’ordre de l’occupant israélien qui ont l’autorisation de leur tirer dessus à balles réelles sans sommations. Au péril de leurs vies ils combattent la politique raciste et coloniale de l’État d’Israel qui a toujours la même devise: “Ce qu’on ne peut obtenir par la force, on peut l’obtenir par plus de force”.

24 octobre 2015 : Georges Abdallah, un des symboles de la lutte anti-coloniale et anti-impérialiste, entrera dans sa 32eme année de détention.. Communiste libanais et militant de la cause palestinienne, il est enfermé en France depuis 1984 et libérable depuis 1999.

A Gaza Ville et à Toulouse, nous rebaptiserons symboliquement du nom de Georges Abdallah la rue et le square Charles de Gaulle. Nous nous rassemblerons pour dénoncer l’impérialisme, le sionisme et pour apporter notre soutien au plus vieux prisonnier politique d’Europe, Georges Abdallah.

Ce sera l’occasion de rendre hommage aux manifestants assassinés du 17 octobre 1961 et de faire vivre la mémoire des luttes anticoloniales !

Soutien à la résistance palestinienne !

Libération de Georges Abdallah et de tous les prisonniers palestiniens !

Levée du blocus de Gaza !

Boycott Israël !

Palestine vivra, Palestine vaincra !

Rassemblement samedi 17 octobre à 15H

Square Charles De Gaulle (Métro Capitole) – Toulouse

Premiers signataires : Collectif Coup Pour Coup 31, Collectif Palestine Libre, NPA 31, OCML VP Toulouse..

24 October, Berlin: Freedom for Georges Ibrahim Abdallah

11 October 2015

Saturday, October 24
2:00 pm
French Embassy, Pariser Platz
Berlin, Germany
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/850712508376896/

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, 64-year-old Lebanese communist, was sentenced on 24 October 1984 in Lyon, France and has been imprisoned since then for actions taken by the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Faction (LARF).

In 1978, he struggled with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Since 1999, he has been eligible for release. However, he has remained a political prisoner due to the political demands of France, Israel and the United States.

His last request for parole in 2014 was rejected again. But learning of this decision does not quench our protest, on the other hand it only makes us more determined. We will raise our voices!

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah is an anti-imperialist, pro-Palestinian fighter held captie by the French state. At a time in which thousands of Palestinian prisoners struggle against their detention and against the occupiation of Palestine, it is our duty as anti-imperialists in France and around the world to demand the release of Georges Abdallah so that he may return to Lebanon.

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, ein 64 Jahre alter libanesischer Kommunist, wurde am 24. Oktober 1984 in Lyon (Frankreich) und für Aktionen zu lebenslanger Haft verurteilt, zu denen sich die libanesische Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF) bekannt hat.

1978 kämpfte er mit der Volksfront für die Befreiung Palästinas (PFLP) um die israelische Invasion des Libanon zurückzudrängen.

Er sollte 1999 freigelassen werden. Ihn weiterhin im Gefängnis zu halten ist eine politische Entscheidung des französischen Staates mit Unterstützung Israels und der USA.

Das letzte Ersuchen um Freilassung auf Bewährung für Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, das 2014 eingereicht wurde, wurde erneut abgelehnt. Aber wir werden von dieser Entscheidung nicht abgeschreckt werden, es wird uns alle nur entschlossener machen! Wir werden durch diese Entscheidung nicht zum Schweigen gebracht werden! Wir werden unsere Stimme erheben!

Georges Ibrahim Abdallah ist ein antiimperialistischer, pro-palästinensischer Kämpfer, der vom französischen Staat gefangen gehalten wird.

In einer Zeit, in der Hunderte von palästinensischen Gefangenen gegen ihre Inhaftierung und der Besetzung Palästinas kämpfen, ist es unsere Pflicht als antiimperialistische Kämpfer*innen in Frankreich und auf der ganzen Welt, dass wir denn je eintreten für die Freilassung von Georges Abdallah, so dass er in den Libanon zurückkehren kann …

Siehe den vollständigen Aufruf von Coup Pour Coup 31 (http://www.couppourcoup31.com/2015/10/semaine-d-action-pour-la-liberation-d-ahmad-sa-adat-de-georges-abdallah-et-de-tous-les-prisonniers-palestiniens.html)
und den Aktionsaufruf der Kampagne Freiheit für Ahmad Sa‘adat (https://bdsberlin.site36.net/files/2015/10/151008_Aufruf-zur-Aktionswoche-Ahmat-Saadat_Georges-Ibrahim-Abdallah.pdf).

18 October, Copenhagen: Is a third Palestinian intifada on the way?

11 October 2015

Is a third Palestinian intifada on the way? Discussion with Khaled Barakat
Sunday, 18 October, 2 pm – 4 pm
Solidaritetsbutikken, Griffenfeldsgade 41, 2200 Nørrebro – Copenhagen
(Speech in English)

Khaled Barakat is the international coordinator of the Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat, and will present the political perspective of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on the current situation.

Khaled will focus on the Palestinian rebellion around Jerusalem and the West Bank, where Israel breaks down the houses of the Palestinians in order to integrate all of Jerusalem in the state of Israel, and how Israel tries to liquidate the Palestinian resistance movement.

Khaled will also speak about the PFLP’s view of the Oslo-agreements and the possible consequences of the talks of Mahmoud Abbas about cancelling ‘Oslo’.

Furthermore, Khaled will speak about the growing international boycott Israel campaign and how we can strengthen this campaign to the same strength as the boycott campaign in the 1980’es against the South African apartheid.

There will be time for questions and debate.

Organized by Internationalt Forum/the Middle East Group

“Er en tredje palæstinensisk intifada på vej?

Offentligt møde med Khaled Barakat

Søndag den 18. oktober kl. 14 – 16

Solidaritetsbutikken, Griffenfeldsgade 41, 2200 Nørrebro

(Mødet vil være på engelsk).

Khaled Barakat er forfatter og international koordinator for Free Ahmad Sa’adat kampagnen og vil præsentere PFLP’s syn på den aktuelle situation. Herunder:

De nuværende oprør omkring Jerusalem hvor palæstinenserne protesterer imod Israels forsøg på at rive palæstinensernes huse med, indlemme hele Jerusalem i den zionistiske stat Israel og likvidere modstandskampen.

PFLP’s syn på Oslo-aftalerne og selvstyrepræsident Mahmoud Abbas’ udtalelser på FN’s generalforsamling om en evt. opsigelse af ’Oslo’.

Kampagnen for løsladelse af palæstinensiske politiske fanger herunder PFLP’s generalsekretær Ahmad Sa’adat

Den internationale Boykot Israel kampagne, og hvordan vi sammen styrker denne kampagne så den bliver lige så stærk som boykotten af det sydafrikanske apartheidstyre.

Efter oplægget vil der være spørgsmål og debat.

Der kan købes kaffe/the og kager, palæstinensisk vin og øl til solidaritetspriser.

Arrangør: Internationalt Forums Mellemøstgruppe”

10 October, Turin: Rally in Support of Palestinian Resistance

7 October 2015

Saturday, 10 October
3:30 PM
Corso Giulio Cesare (Ex Staz. Ceres), Torino, Italy

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1659825347634257/

22 years of negotiations that have helped to consolidate the Zionist colonization in all of Palestine.

22 years of policies that have made Palestine the largest prison in the world

22 years that have made the daily life of the Palestinians even more hellish

67 years of a war of annihilation of the Palestinian people, two-thirds of the Palestinian people forced into exile, deported by force or terror

67 years of the worst apartheid against the Palestinians

67 years of complicit silence, covering up the Zionist massacres, of broken promises

67 years of active support to Israel by the most powerful governments in the world

67 years that have brought progress and enormous wealth to the Zionist settlers, all in Palestine.

…In the face of all this and the recent massacres, oppression and genocidal attacks we stand alongside the people who fight and resist, the Palestinian people. Resist until we see peace and justice reign in the land. Freedom for all Palestinian prisoners! Struggle until victory!

A Ferro e Fuoco

22 anni di trattative che hanno contribuito a consolidare la colonizzazione sionista in tutta la Palestina.
22 anni di politiche che hanno reso la Palestina la prigione più grande al mondo
22 anni che hanno reso la vita quotidiana dei palestinesi ancora più infernale
67 anni di guerra di annientamento del popolo palestinese
due terzi del popolo palestinese costretti all’esilio, deportati con la forza e con il terrore
67 anni del peggior Apartheid e della peggiore segregazione israeliane contro i palestinesi
67 anni di silenzio complice, di coperture dei massacri sionisti, di promesse mai mantenute
67 anni di sostegno attivo a israele da parte dei governi piu potenti del mondo
67 anni che hanno portato progresso e ricchezza smisurate ai coloni sionisti, tutti, in Palestina. Tutto quel che viene rubato ai palestinesi è regalato ai coloni israeliani. Ingenti somme di denaro dei contribuenti occidentali da 67 anni vengono regalate ai coloni sionisti.
Israele non si tocca!
È il motto principe di tutti i governi occidentali, di tutti i colori. Israele non si tocca neanche per i giornalisti e massmedia, per gli opinionisti e larga fetta di intellettuali.
Israele non si tocca perché gli è utile:
tutte le nuove armi vengono testate dal vivo, sulla pelle dei palestinesi, prima d’essere messe sul mercato:
vengono testati tutti i sistemi di repressione e di controllo sociale prima d’essere fatti propri dai governi occidentali.
La Palestina è un laboratorio e i palestinesi sono cavie.
I palestinesi sono stanchi di aspettare, tanto non arriverà mai niente in loro soccorso, e hanno deciso di riprendere di nuovo la loro lotta. Una lotta imparì: alla pietra israele risponde con pallottole, con arresti arbitrari e senza accuse specifiche, basta solo essere palestinese. Il fascismo sionista dilaga e le bande sioniste sono libere di linciare ed ammazzare protette dai soldati israeliani.

Di fronte a tutto questo e ai recenti massacri, soprusi e repressione genocida NOI ci schieriamo a fianco del popolo che lotta e resiste, il popolo palestinese. Co-resistiamo finché non vedremo pace e giustizia imperare in quella terra.

Libertà per tutti i prigionieri palestinesi
lotta fino alla vittoria

24 October, Brussels: Freedom for Georges Abdallah!

7 October 2015

Saturday, 24 October
5:30 PM
French Consulate, 42 Boulevard de Regent, 1000 Brussels
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/514728688702141/

On 24 October, Georges Abdallah enters his 32nd year of detention. He has been imprisoned since 1984 for his participation in the Lebanese Revolutionary Armed Forces, who, in response to the invasion of Lebanon and the massacres of Sabra and Shatila, engaged in armed actions against US and Israeli officials in Europe.

Georges has been eligible for parole since 1999, but due to continued pressure by the U.S. government and the French-Israeli relationship, his parole has been repeatedly rejected and overturned at the highest levels.

Despite this seemingly endless confinement, Georges remains true to his communist and anti-Zionist convictions. It is this commitment and determination that the French government wants to undermine.

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Le 24 octobre, Georges Abdallah entamera sa 32e année de détention. Il est enfermé depuis 1984 pour sa participation aux ‘Forces Armées Révolutionnaires Libanaises’ qui avaient répliqué à l’invasion du Liban et aux massacres de Sabra et Chatila par des actions armées contre des agents américains et israéliens en Europe. Georges est libérable depuis 1999, mais des pressions continues de l’administration américaine ainsi que l’amitié franco-israélienne ont saboté toutes les demandes de libération qu’il a pu faire jusqu’à aujourd’hui.
Malgré cet interminable enfermement, Georges reste fidèle à ses convictions communistes et antisionistes, c’est son engagement et sa détermination que l’état français veut miner avant d’envisager sa libération.

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