A rally against racism, organized by around twenty Charleroi associations, brought together around a hundred people in Charleroi, Belgium, including the Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine.
Members of the Plate-Former Charleroi-Palestine drew attention to the case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah , Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine, the longest-held political prisoner in Europe, locked up for more than 37 years, who, from his prison in Lannemezan, supports the struggles against racism and colonialism in France and around the world.
It was also an opportunity to display our signs against Israeli racism and apartheid and for freedom of action for Palestine, challenging the recent French government dissolutions, essentially bans on, two collectives engaged in Palestine solidarity activism.
The struggle continues, against racism, Zionism and apartheid, for the release of Georges Abdallah and for freedom of action for Palestine. Let’s all take part in campaigns to boycott Israel!
Samidoun Deutschland joined with the Freiheitskomitee Berlin (Freedom Committee Berlin), Komitee für den Anti-Imperialistischen Kampf (Committee for Anti-Imperialist Struggle) and the Netzwerk Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen Berlin (Freedom for all Political Prisoners Network) to rally on Friday, 18 March in Berlin for the freedom of all political and revolutionary prisoners.
The spirited, youthful rally began outside Rathaus Neukölln in Berlin, where participants gathered with signs and banners highlighting struggles to free political prisoners in Palestine, India, Turkey and throughout Europe.
Samidoun Deutschland members carried Palestinian flags and banners demanding freedom for Palestinian students.
The rally also highlighted the French state’s persecution of Palestine solidarity organizing. A large banner in support of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, one of two Palestine solidarity groups recently dissolved by the French state, was displayed in the rally, and speakers called for solidarity to resist the dissolution orders that attempt to suppress the Palestinian liberation movement.
Following the rally, participants took to the streets, marching through the neighborhoods of Neukölln and Kreuzberg, drawing widespread attention and support from passers-by and members of the community.
Samidoun Deutschland is continuing to organize throughout Germany to advocate for Palestinian liberation. You can help Samidoun Deutschland today to keep their voice loud and clear and make sure we fill the cities of Germany and Europe with the messages of the Palestinian resistance leadership behind bars. Click here to make a donation to the Samidoun Deutschland sound system campaign!
On Friday, 18 March, activists in New York City gathered outside the French consulate to send a message of solidarity with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and Comite Action Palestine, two organizations dissolved — essentially banned — by the French government for their Palestine solidarity work.
If a banned organization in France continues to organize events, display its logo or publish on social media, members can be subjected to arrest, fines and even imprisonment. The French government gave only political reasons — support for the boycott of Israel, anti-Zionism, and defense of the Palestinian resistance — for blatantly violating the freedom of expression and association of activists for Palestine.
Samidoun NY/NJ organized the protest action outside the French consulate. The New York City action came alongside a growing series of international protests against this attack on public expression and action in France, including protests and marches in Toulouse, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Charleroi, Barcelona, Napoli and a number of other cities over the weekend.
Participants in the protest spoke out against the French state’s escalation of attacks on the Palestine movement as well as its ongoing imprisonment of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine whose life is profiled in the documentary film “Fedayin,” has been jailed in France for over 37 years despite being eligible for release since 1999. The US government has been aligned with the French state in keeping Abdallah locked behind bars rather than returned home to his comrades and family in Lebanon.
The Collectif Palestine Vaincra has campaigned tirelessly for Abdallah’s release.
On Wednesday, 30 March — the Palestinian Day of the Land — Samidoun NY/NJ will join Within Our Lifetime – United for Palestine, the Palestinian Youth Movement, Decolonize this Place, CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine, Existence is Resistance, the Defund Racism campaign and other organizers to rally outside the headquarters of the “Friends of the IDF” at 5 pm. All supporters of justice in Palestine are invited to join in the New York action.
French president Emmanuel Macron, only weeks after ordering the dissolution — effectively, the ban — of two Palestine solidarity organizations, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and Comite Action Palestine — met with Isaac Herzog, president of the Israeli apartheid regime on Sunday, 20 March. Despite the fact that French-Palestinian citizen, lawyer and human rights defender Salah Hamouri is currently imprisoned by Israel under a three-month “adminnistrative detention” order — that is, imprisonment without charge or trial — Macron chose instead to attack anti-Zionist activists and boast about his censorship of pro-Palestinian, anti-racist voices in France.
Speaking in Toulouse alongside Herzog, Macron declared that “anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are enemies of the Republic,” once again equating racism with anti-racism, and Palestinian liberation with European fascism. Further, he specifically boasted of the dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra:
“So, I want to thank you Mr. President, dear Isaac for having responded to my invitation, for being here today with your wife by our side…We are here … to remind together that France and Israel, Israel and France are together determined to defeat terrorism in all its forms and on all fronts, and together we are determined to annihilate anti-Semitism, including that which hides under the mask of anti-Zionism. This is why at the end of 2019, the French Parliament has adopted the definition of anti-Semitism of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA). This is why, on March 9, the Council of Ministers pronounced the dissolution of two anti-Semitic collectives, including the Toulouse-based Collectif “Palestine Vaincra.”…. anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are the enemies of our Republic.”
Macron’s language repeatedly equates Jewish people in France with the state of Israel, while disparaging advocates for justice in Palestine whose work has constantly been characterized and motivated by anti-colonialism and anti-racism. Indeed, the French state’s own allegations against the Collectif never even accuse the Collectif or its members of saying anything defamatory or racist against Jews; instead, the French state “accuses” the Collectif of supporting the boycott of Israel, defending Palestinian resistance, and opposing Zionism.
Meanwhile, Salah Hamouri is locked behind Israeli bars with no charge and no trial against him, while he is fighting for the very right to live in his home city, Jerusalem. Like other Jerusalemites, he is being targeted in the systematic ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem; the Israeli regime has announced that it plans to strip him of his residency. While French officials have declared that Hamouri has the right to live in Jerusalem, Macron took the opportunity not to advocate for a French-Palestinian citizen illegally detained and under threat of expulsion but to instead boast of silencing Palestine solidarity organizing in France.
In addition, two days prior, the French state announced its intention to continue the wave of dissolution orders targeting free expression, not only for Palestine organizing, but for anti-racist/anti-Islamophobia organizations and also for anti-fascist groups — those who are willing to confront actually anti-Semitic Nazi and fascist groups. The Antifascist Group of Lyon and Surroundings was informed on 17 March that a procedure to dissolve their work had begun, after originally being threatened with dissolution in December 2021.
In Toulouse, many marchers participating in the rally against racism on 19 March spoke out against the dissolutions as part and parcel of France’s state racist and colonial policies.
Interview de Nico, ex Collectif Palestine vaincra "il faut une réponse unitaire face aux dissolutions d'organisation" pic.twitter.com/HZTNXe9Fy9
— Le Poing Levé Toulouse (@PoingLeveTlse) March 19, 2022
Speakers discussed the formation of a broad committee to combat the dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, involving trade unionists, anti-fascist organizers, student groups, Palestine solidarity activists, community activists, anti-racist organizers and progressive and leftist parties, that will soon announce an international week of solidarity (read the text of the intervention below announcing this committee in Toulouse.)
In Auxerre, AFPS 89 spoke at the rally against apartheid and for peace, denouncing the dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and the Comite Action Palestine.
As Macron and the French state escalate their attacks on popular movements for liberation and the Palestinian people, actions in defense of the targeted movements and in support of Palestine continue to spread. Actions in New York, Geneva, Frankfurt, Berlin, Charleroi, Belgium, Stockholm, Naples and many other cities have highlighted the dissolutions to demand an end to French state repression in just the past several days.
Robert Abdallah, the brother of Georges Abdallah, spoke out denouncing Macron’s imperial arrogance in dissolving the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, which has worked tirelessly to free his imprisoned brother, a Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for over 37 years.
Speech on the formation of the committee to defend the Collectif Palestine Vaincra from dissolution:
On March 9, the government decided on the final administrative dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and another pro-Palestinian organization. The reasons given are purely political.
Today, this Toulouse anti-racist collective, fighting for equal rights and against the colonization of Palestine, has been officially silenced by the French authorities.
For three years, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra has developed anti-racist and anti-colonialist work in support of the Palestinian people.
This dissolution is a new step in the authoritarian, anti-freedom actions of the French government.
Previously, several Muslim and anti-racist associations were dissolved. Today it is the movement of solidarity with Palestine which is attacked, but also the trade union Sud Éducation 93 and the Anti-Fascist Group of Lyon and Surroundings (GALE) which are targeted by dissolution procedures and threats.
These attacks concern everyone: anti-racists, anti-colonialists, anti-fascists, trade unionists, community activists, progressives. In Toulouse, a Committee against the dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra is being set up, bringing together numerous trade union, political and associative organizations in order to prepare a week of mobilization against the dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and against the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine on the eve of the collective’s appeal to the Council of State against the dissolution.
Join the mobilization!
An attack on one of us is an attack on all!
Palestine will live, Palestine will win!
Call the French embassy or consulate in your area and speak up about the targeting of CPV! Find the closest French embassy or consulate in your area: https://www.embassy-worldwide.com/country/france/ For easy reference, the French embassy in the US can be reached at +1 (202) 944 6000, the French embassy in Canada at +1 (613) 789-1795, and the French embassy to the UK at [+44] (0) 207 073 1000. Find the embassy near you: https://www.embassy-worldwide.com/country/franceWhen you call, say, “My name is _____ and I am calling from _____. I am calling about the Interior Minister’s statement today that he will dissolve and ban two pro-Palestine organizations. This is an outrageous attack on freedom of expression. I stand with Palestine and with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, and France should stop these attacks immediately.”
Take an individual or group photo or video with the campaign posters (below), make your own sign and share on social media! Tag us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and use the hashtag: #SolidaritéCollectifPalestineVaincra
Organizations and activists gathered at the call of the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah for a rally in Paris on Friday, 18 March at the Ménilmontant metro station. They expressed their support for the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and the Comité Action Palestine, two Palestine solidarity groups recently ordered dissolved, or banned, by the French government.
Various organizations, including the Unitary Campaign for the Liberation of Georges Abdallah, Palestine Action Committee, Popular Front of Turkey, DIP, OCML VP, PCRF/UJC, NPA, Rete dei Comunisti, and Chile and Algeria support committees, took to the microphone to express their outrage at the government’s actions and show solidarity with the targeted organizations. Many speakers particularly linked the Palestinian people’s struggle with various struggles inside France and outside confronting imperialism and colonialism and expressing solidarity with political prisoners around the world, from Palestine to Chile to Turkey. Speakers also urged the immediate release of Georges Abdallah, the Lebanese Arab Communist struggler for Palestine imprisoned in France for over 37 years despite being eligible for release since 1999.
Samidoun Région Parisienne participated in the action and displayed banners in solidarity with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra.
Following the demonstration, people were appalled to learn that the French government’s drive to dissolve and ban leftist, antifascist and anti-Zionist organizations is continuing. The Antifascist Group of Lyon and Surroundings was informed on 17 March that a procedure to dissolve their work had begun, after originally being threatened with dissolution in December 2021. Once again, this clearly indicates the French government’s desire to repress and silence progressive forces confronting their reactionary and anti-social policies.
In order to confront these attacks and offenses carried out against our social movements, we must strengthen our ties and reaffirm once more that solidarity is our weapon to achieve victory!
⚠️"Ce jeudi 17 Mars des documents de déclenchement de la procédure de dissolution ont été notifiés à des individus considérés par la préfecture comme appartenant à notre groupe." Notre communiqué sur notre site. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/3MVL1QZdVTpic.twitter.com/jL7fSUwf59
Samidoun is joining with the Canada Palestine Association, BDS Vancouver Coast Salish, the Canadian BDS Coalition and Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA) Victoria to call on BC officials to stop marketing Israeli apartheid wine in public liquor stores.
The Israeli wines currently carried in BC liquor stores are linked to the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise.
Major international and Israeli human right groups, including Amnesty International, have determined that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid. Yet the BC government insists to carry Israeli wines in publicly owned BC liquor stores, even though most are linked to the illegal Israeli settlement enterprise.
Activists in BC have sustained an on-going campaign for 14 years to have Israeli wines removed from liquor store shelves. But successive BC governments have refused to do that, claiming it was “consumer choice”.
However, it was demonstrated handily on Feb. 25, 2022, that the government can indeed pull whatever product they chose. In just 2 days, the BC NDP government joined other Canadian provinces in putting a “…halt to the importing and sale of Russian liquor products from our BC Liquor Stores and provincial liquor distribution centres”.
Canada Palestine Association, who has been part of the Boycott Israeli Wines campaign, were outraged: “So it can be done and done quickly, it seems. It just depends on who you are and what political agenda is being served. And clearly, the ‘consumer choice’ argument was nothing but a big lie.”
The wines in question are either from the Golan Heights Winery and its joint venture the Galil Winery; or from the Israeli Teperberg Winery, which proudly displays a map on its website showing vineyards in occupied Palestinian territory. According to the progressive Israeli research group “Who Profits”, Teperberg Winery “owns and sources from vineyards in the occupied West Bank, including in the Ezion Bloc settlement and in Mevo Horon.”
Israeli settlements are illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law. They are part and parcel of the systematic targeting of the Palestinian people for dispossession, occupation and apartheid for over 73 years. Consecutive BC governments have also been aiding and abetting the pillage of Palestinian and Arab property and resources, expressly forbidden in Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Last year, the New Democratic Party NDP of Canada passed a resolution that committed in part to end “all trade and economic cooperation with illegal settlements in Israel-Palestine”. The Canadian government also acknowledges the illegality of Israeli settlements in its official policy.
So, why this double-standard? If the BC government still refuses to de-shelve Israeli apartheid wines, then we can only conclude that their commitment to international law and human rights is highly selective, politically motivated and racist.
Ten years have passed since Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network was founded to be a voice for the Palestinian prisoners’ movement everywhere and to broadcast their struggle for freedom to the world.
Help Samidoun Deutschland today to keep their voice loud and clear! To make sure we fill the cities of Germany and Europe with the messages of the Palestinian resistance leadership behind bars.
Your contribution supports our actions for the freedom of the prisoners’ movement! Our goal is to raise 1.600 euros to get a sound system for our various activities and events, which you can learn about in detail on our Instagram page.
To be a part of the prisoners’ movement voice and learn about our work, explore the Samidoun website (including the German website, curated by Samidoun Deutschland) and join us to continue the journey together towards liberation and return.
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ساعدونا اليوم ليبقى صوتهم عالياً ومسموعاً، كونوا معنا لنملأ الساحات والمدن الألمانية والأوروبية بصوت قيادة المقاومة الفلسطينية خلف القضبان.
عطاؤكم سيدعم فعالياتنا من أجل حرية الحركة الأسيرة! هدفنا هو جمع 1600 يورو من أجل توفير معدات صوت تساعدنا في أنشطتنا وفعالياتنا المختلفة في ألمانيا والتي يمكنكم التعرف عليها بالتفصيل عبر صفحتنا على تطبيق إنستاغرام
ولتكونوا جزء من صوت الحركة الأسيرة حول العالم زوروا موقع شبكة صامدون (بما في ذلك الموقع باللغة الألمانية) وتعرفوا على عملنا وانضموا إلينا لنكمل المسير سوياً نحو التحرير والعودة.
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Zehn Jahre sind vergangen, seitdem das Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network gegründet wurde, um der palästinensischen Gefangenenbewegung überall eine Stimme zu geben und ihren Kampf um Freiheit in die Welt zu tragen.
Helft Samidoun Deutschland heute, ihre Stimme laut und deutlich zu machen! Sorgt dafür, dass wir die deutsche und europäische Städte mit den Botschaften der palästinensischen Widerstandsführung hinter Gittern füllen.
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Um Teil der Stimme der Gefangenenbewegung zu werden und mehr über unsere Arbeit zu erfahren, besucht die Website von Samidoun und schließt euch uns an, um gemeinsam den Weg zur Befreiung und Rückkehr fortzusetzen.
Less than one week after French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced via Twitter that he had officially dissolved, or banned, two Palestinian liberation advocacy groups, the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and the Comite Action Palestine, international outrage at French repression and solidarity with the groups is on the rise.
While the Israeli embassy in France lauds the interior minister for repressing political expression in support of Palestine in France on Twitter, popular movements are organizing to resist this silencing of Palestinian and pro-Palestinian organizing.
Nous félicitions la décision ferme et courageuse du gouvernement français et du ministre de l’Intérieur, M. @GDarmanin, d’avoir dissous les organisations « Collectif Palestine vaincra » et « Comité action Palestine ». (1/2)
— Ambassade d'Israël en France (@IsraelenFrance) March 14, 2022
Demonstrations and statements in support of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra have brought out a range of organizations and left political parties, including the Campagne BDS France Toulouse and the Association France Palestine Solidarité, Action Antifasciste Paris-Banlieue, the Parti de Gauche, France Insoumise, the NPA, Révolution Permanente, Parti Ouvrier and the Mouvement de la Paix, and labour unions, such as UD CGT 31, Solidaires 31 and FSU 31.
Organizers of the Toulouse rally against the dissolutions on 5 March included Act Up Sud Ouest, AFA Tolosa, ATTAC Toulouse, Couserans-Palestine Association, BRIC, BDS Toulouse Campaign, Center of the Kurdish Democratic Community of Toulouse, CLRR 31, Palestine Vaincra Collective, Truth and Justice Committee 31, CNT 31, Popular Collective Against the Far Right, CREA, Together! 31, France Insoumise 31, FSU 31, Libertad Group of the Anarchist Federation, LDH Toulouse, Peace Movement 31, NPA 31, PCOF 31, POI 31, Permanent Revolution 31, Sud Education 31/65, Secours Rouge Toulouse, Solidaires 31 , Sud Santé Sociaux 31, Survie Toulouse, Union of Lawyers of France – Toulouse, Toulouse Anti-CRA, UCL Toulouse and Surroundings, Departmental Union of CGT unions of Haute-Garonne, Union of Students of Toulouse.
Meanwhile, organizations and activists around the world have continued to speak out against France’s attacks on Palestinian rights. In Turkey, the SOL (LEFT) Party issued a statement of solidarity to the Collectif Palestine Vaincra.
In Switzerland, the Revolutionäre Jugend Zürich took the the streets in Zurich and Bâle, challenging the French state’s banning and dissolution of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and other pro-Palestinian organizations.
At the 11 March demo marking International Working Women’s Day in Zurich and at the 12 March demo in Bâle against war in Ukraine, marchers denounced the dissolution and supported the Palestinian liberation struggle.
This came alongside several other actions and events in Paris over the weekend to denounce the French government’s attack on campaigners for justice in Palestine. CAPJPO-EuroPalestine called for a demonstration in Paris on 12 March to denounce the dissolutions:
Earlier on that day, tabling and discussion at the Anti-Racist and Anti-Colonial Salon in Montreuil highlighted the attacks and called for solidarity.
On 12 March in Brussels, Belgium, Secours Rouge gathered outside the French embassy to denounce the dissolutions and call for solidarity with Palestine:
Meanwhile, in Gothenburg, Sweden, comrades from Samidoun Gothenburg distributed leaflets and taped a letter to the door of the French consulate in solidarity with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, demanding that their ban on the organizations be immediately rescinded.
In Spain, Jaldia Abubakra of Samidoun, Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Mobilization and the Masar Badil (Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path) delivered a letter of protest to the French embassy in Madrid signed by an array of organizations: Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Mobilization, Alyudur Palestinian Youth organization, Samidoun, IJAN (International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network), Unadikum Association, Masar Badil, Partido Anticpitalists, Colectivo Plaza de los pueblos, Los yayo flautas, Colectivo Palestina libre de Murcia, Comite de Solidaridad con los Pueblos Interpueblos – Cantabria, PRUNE (Partido Renacimiento y Union de Europa), UMDF (Union Musulmane Democratique Francaise), Colectivo Nueva Semilla, Junts (Association Catalana de Jueus | {Palestins), Asociacion de Mujeres Emprendedoras Brasil Espana, Comite de Lta Popular De Espanha, Collectiu Intifada, Lucha Internacionalista UIT-CI, Asociacion Al Quds Andalucia de Solidaridad con los Pueblos del Mundo Arabe, Asociacion Intercultural Saladillo, del Algeciras, and BDS Almeria
Students at the University of Mirail in Toulouse came out on campus to express their solidarity with the Collectif on the day the dissolution was officially announced, 9 March:
Also at the university, organizers displayed a banner declaring that Darmanin would not be able to silence the movement and showing solidarity with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra.
In Vancouver, Canada, activists from Samidoun Vancouver, Canada Palestine Association, BDS Vancouver – Coast Salish and the International League of Peoples’ Struggle delivered a strong letter of protest to the French consulate on Wednesday, 9 March. They hand-delivered the letter to the Vice-Consul despite police interference, carrying banners and signs of solidarity with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra and targeted organizations. They also delivered a letter to the German consulate in solidarity with Palestinian writer Khaled Barakat, currently appealing a political ban imposed upon him by German immigration officials.
On March 8 in Naples, Italy, demonstrators joined the International Women’s Day march with a banner against the dissolution of Collectif Palestine Vaincra.
On 6 March, representatives of the Collectif Palestine Vaincra joined with Khaled Barakat and Palestine Action, the movement confronting Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit systems with direct action, for a discussion on confronting repression against Palestine and Palestinians in Europe. Watch the recording:
In parallel with the demonstration in Toulouse on 5 March, activists in Paris hung a banner against the dissolution:
Anasse Kazib, the presidential candidate of Révolution Permanente, expressed his support for the Collectif in a video:
In Marseille, demonstrators denounced Darmanin’s actions:
While activists in Nantes organized a solidarity evening:
The Rete Dei Communisti in Italy organized banner displays and solidarity photos across the country.
In Toulouse itself, Secours Rouge showed solidarity on the walls:
While both rugby clubs and labour unions took a stand against anti-Palestinian repression:
In Paris, the Unitary Campaign to free Georges Abdallah and other activists showed their support against the dissolutions:
A BDS action in Paris highlighted the need to boycott Israeli goods and resist anti-Palestinian repression in France.
More than 150 local, national and international organizations have joined our press release by co-signing it:
ACTA
Act up Sud Ouest
Action Antifasciste 79
AFA TOLOSA
AFPS – Association France Palestine Solidarité
AFPS 63
AFPS Albertville
AFPS Morlaix
AFPS Nîmes
AFPS Paris 14e-6e
Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Alkarama
Anti Imperialist Action Ireland
Anti-impérialiste Front France
Arab Lawyers Association (UK)
Arab Palestinian Cultural Club Palestine
Association Car t’y libre (Istres)
Association couserans – palestine
Association Nationale des Communistes
ATTAC Toulouse
Aveg-kon
BACBI – Belgian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Bahrain Palestine Society
Bahraini Society Against Normalization
BDS Toulouse
BDS Vancouver Coast Salish Territories
Bokcafet i Jönköping
BRIC
Brighton & Hove Trades Council
Bryn Mawr Peace Coalition
Campagne libanaise pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
Campagne Unitaire pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon
Canada Palestine Association – Vancouver
Canadian BDS Coalition
CAPJPO – Europalestine
CASA Tolosa
Center for Freedom and Justice – Colorado
CGT Mecahers
Charente Palestine
Citizens for justice in the Middle East CJME
Classe Contre Classe
CLRR31
CNT 31
Coalition for Peace in the Middle East
Collectif 65 pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
Collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien
Collectif de soutien à la résistance palestinienne CSRP59
Collectif Horizon Palestine Rennes
Collectif Populaire Contre l’Extrême Droite
Collectif pour la libération de Georges Abdallah
Collectif Sud Global
Collectif Urgence Palestine – Vaud, Lausanne
Comité de Liberté Pour Ali Osman Köse France
Comité de Liberté Pour Musa Aşoğlu
Comité Montreuil Palestine
Comité Palestine 81
Comité Vérité et Justice 31
Committee for Democratic Palestine
Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran
Communist Youth of Sweden, SKU
Corsica -Palestina
CREA
Dutch Scholars for Palestine
Ensemble ! 31
France Insoumise 31
Free Palestine Maastricht
Freedom Road Socialist Organizaion
Friends of Palestine Against Imperialism and Zionism Platform
Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle – Vancouver, Coast Salish territories
Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle (FFPS)
Front Populaire Belgique (Turquie)
Front Populaire France (Turquie)
FSU 31
Groupe Libertad de la Fédération Anarchiste
IFI Europe Chaplaincy
IJAN-INTERNATIONAL JEWISH ANTIZIONIST NETWORK
Independent Advocate
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Internationalt Forum
Jeunes Communistes 13
Jeunes pour la Palestine – Nantes
Jewish Network for Palestine
Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
JOC Belgique
Just Peace Advocates/Mouvement Pour Une Paix Juste
La Forge
La Fronde
Labor for Palestine
LDH Toulouse
Ligue de la jeunesse révolutionnaire
Local Sacco-Vanzetti
L’Offensive
Marseille Gaza Palestine
Masar Badil – Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
Modey Amerey
Mouvement de la Paix 31
Mouvement des jeunes pour le changement
Nantes Révoltée
National Lawyers Guild International
Nederlands Palestina Komitee
New York Boricua Resistance
Niagara Movement for Justice in Palestine-Israel (NMJPI)
NPA
NPA 31
NYC Jericho Movement
OCML-VP
Ongd AFRICANDO
Palästina Antikolonial
Palestine 13
Palestinian and Jewish Unity
Parti Populaire Démocratique (Lebanon)
PAS
PCOF 31
Peoples Power Assembly
Plateforme Charleroi Palestine
POI 31
Proletari Torinesi Per Il Soccorso Rosso Internazionale
RADICAAL
Radical Solidarity
Rete dei Comunisti (Italie)
Révolution Permanente 31
Revolutionaire Eenheid
Revolutionäre Jugend Zürich (RJZ)
Revolutionary Workers’ Party (DIP) of Turkey
Rote Hilfe Schweiz
Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Secours Rouge Arabe
Secours Rouge Bruxelles/Belgique
Secours Rouge Genève
Secours Rouge International
Secours Rouge Montréal
Secours Rouge Toulouse
SELFOP
Sodepau
Solidaires 31
Solidaires Tarn
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights – University of Washington
Sud Education 31-65
Sud Santé sociaux 31
SUF Göteborg
Survie Toulouse
Syndicat des Avocats de France – Toulouse
Tabbara Dentistry
The Brighton Trust
Toulouse Anti CRA
UCL Tarbes
UCL Toulouse et alentours
Union Départementale des syndicats CGT de la Haute-Garonne
Union des Étudiant·e·s de Toulouse
Union Juive Française pour la Paix
Union Locale CNT Drome
Unité Communiste
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
Call the French embassy or consulate in your area and speak up about the targeting of CPV! Find the closest French embassy or consulate in your area: https://www.embassy-worldwide.com/country/france/ For easy reference, the French embassy in the US can be reached at +1 (202) 944 6000, the French embassy in Canada at +1 (613) 789-1795, and the French embassy to the UK at [+44] (0) 207 073 1000. Find the embassy near you: https://www.embassy-worldwide.com/country/franceWhen you call, say, “My name is _____ and I am calling from _____. I am calling about the Interior Minister’s statement today that he will dissolve and ban two pro-Palestine organizations. This is an outrageous attack on freedom of expression. I stand with Palestine and with the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, and France should stop these attacks immediately.”
Take an individual or group photo or video with the campaign posters (below), make your own sign and share on social media! Tag us on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram and use the hashtag: #SolidaritéCollectifPalestineVaincra
Emergency rally this Friday at 6 pm in front of the French consulate in Manhattan
Two weeks ago, under specious pretenses, the French state announced it’s intention to dissolve the Collectif Palestine Vaincra, a secular palestinian organization they accused of fomenting islamic terrorism. Last week the state went through with it’s undemocratic dissolution meaning the Collectif can no longer speak in public, use organizational imagery or run social media accounts in their name.
In ‘free and democratic’ France the president can simply decide to ban a political group for having opposing views.
Come out to the French consulate this friday and demand the French government respect the Collectif’s right to free speech and political expression
Participants in the protest spoke out against the French state’s escalation of attacks on the Palestine movement as well as its ongoing imprisonment of 
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