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Samidoun Denounces the Detention of Asier and Youssef and the Escalation of Criminalization Targeting Palestine Solidarity: Spain

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces the detention of Asier and Youssef, two internationalist activists from the Basque Country committed to the defense of the Palestinian people, by the Spanish National Police in yet another episode of the growing repressive offensive targeting those who organize, inform, and act in defense of Palestine and its legitimate right to resistance.

These detentions cannot be understood as isolated incidents. They form part of an increasingly evident strategy of political persecution directed against organizations, collectives, alternative media outlets, activists, and individuals committed to the struggle for the liberation of Palestine. While the Zionist regime continues carrying out a genocidal campaign against Gaza, intensifies its aggressions against the Palestinian people throughout occupied Palestine, from the river to the sea, and expands its attacks against the peoples of the region, it is those who denounce these crimes who end up being persecuted, monitored, interrogated, or detained.

In this process, the apparatuses of the Spanish state are playing an increasingly active role in the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine, aligning themselves with the policies promoted by the United States, the European Union, and the Zionist regime in an attempt to isolate and silence the international solidarity movement. The persecution of activists, journalists, communicators, and solidarity organizations is not aimed at combating any real crime; rather, it seeks to generate fear, discourage mobilization, and send a warning to those who refuse to remain silent in the face of genocide.

It is revealing that, in the face of one of the most thoroughly documented processes of genocidal extermination of our time, police, judicial, and media resources are directed not against those who finance, arm, justify, or conceal these crimes, but against those who raise their voices to denounce them. Solidarity with Palestine is being portrayed as a threat, while those responsible for occupation, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide continue to act with complete impunity.

Nor can the role played by certain media outlets and propaganda platforms be ignored. For months, they have publicly targeted Asier and Youssef, spreading unsubstantiated accusations, promoting smear campaigns, and helping to create a climate of political persecution. These media outlets do not act as neutral observers or defenders of freedom of information; they function as instruments of a broader operation aimed at criminalizing any expression of solidarity with Palestine and stigmatizing those who denounce the crimes of Zionism and imperialism.

Asier and Youssef carried out public work involving information, analysis, and dissemination concerning the Palestinian cause and the political and geopolitical realities of West Asia. Their work consisted of bringing facts, events, and perspectives to society that are often silenced or distorted by the mainstream media. The persecution of those who inform, investigate, analyze, or disseminate content related to Palestine constitutes a direct attack on the right of peoples to receive truthful, pluralistic, and critical information.

When informing becomes grounds for persecution, it is not only the rights of communicators that are violated; the right of society to understand international developments and to form its own opinions is also undermined. The right to information, freedom of expression, and open political debate are fundamental pillars of any society that claims to be democratic.

Recent actions against activists, communicators, and analysts raise an issue of enormous democratic significance. What happens when informing about Palestine, analyzing international political developments, or giving a voice to actors involved in regional conflicts comes to be treated as a security problem? What happens when the exercise of freedom of expression and the right to information cease to be protected and begin to be persecuted? When certain political positions are no longer challenged politically but instead become the target of police, judicial, and media operations, what is at stake is not only solidarity with Palestine, but the most basic democratic freedoms.

The accusation of “terrorism” has become a political tool designed to delegitimize inconvenient positions and restrict public debate. Under this logic, internationalist solidarity, anti-imperialism, support for national liberation movements, and the defense of the right of peoples to resist are presented as crimes, when they form part of a legitimate historical and political tradition recognized even by international law.

We recall that the United Nations General Assembly, through Resolution 3070 (XXVIII), reaffirmed the legitimacy of the struggle of peoples subjected to colonial domination, foreign occupation, and subjugation by all means available to them. The Palestinian people are no exception. Attempts to criminalize support for their national and collective rights constitute a direct attack on internationally recognized fundamental principles.

This concerns the right of peoples to resist occupation, colonialism, and aggression; the right of societies to inform themselves, debate, and show solidarity without fear of reprisals; and the right of popular organizations to act without being persecuted for political reasons.

The detention of our comrades is not merely an attack against two solidarity activists. It is an attack against the entire Palestine solidarity movement, against freedom of expression, against the right to information, against the right to political organization, and against the right of peoples to stand with those who resist occupation, colonialism, and genocide.

The persecution of Asier and Youssef is intended to send a message to the entire Palestine solidarity movement: that informing, organizing, and taking a stand against genocide may have consequences. Our response must be exactly the opposite: more organization, more solidarity, and a deeper commitment to the struggle for the liberation of Palestine.

On behalf of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, we express our full solidarity with Asier and Youssef, with their families, friends, and comrades, as well as with the entire Palestine solidarity movement in the Basque Country. We reject any attempt at intimidation directed against those who organize against genocide and reaffirm that repression will not succeed in isolating the Palestinian cause or breaking the internationalist commitment of peoples in struggle.

We will not ask permission to be in solidarity, nor will we accept that those who justify, finance, or conceal the destruction of a people decide which forms of solidarity are legitimate and which deserve punishment.

We will not renounce denouncing genocide, occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing; identifying those responsible; or defending the Palestinian people’s right to resistance, liberation, and return. The detention of our comrades also constitutes an attack on the right to inform and to be informed, on freedom of expression, and on the right of peoples to know the reality of Palestine and West Asia beyond the narratives imposed by centers of political, military, and media power.

Because silence in the face of injustice is a form of complicity. Because when human rights become the object of persecution, defending them ceases to be an option and becomes an obligation. Because the criminalization of solidarity is not confronted by retreating, but by expanding networks of support, denunciation, and resistance. Because in the face of the fear they seek to impose, our response must be more organization, greater awareness, and stronger internationalist solidarity.

Freedom for Asier and Youssef.

End the criminalization of solidarity with Palestine.

Defending Palestine is not a crime. Reporting is not a crime.

Long live internationalist solidarity.

Long live the Palestinian resistance.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

source: Samidoun

Internetsperren für verbotenes Samidoun-Netzwerk greifen allmählich

Die israelfeindliche Organisation Samidoun ist in Deutschland seit November 2023 verboten. Doch erst seit wenigen Monaten verschwindet deren Website teilweise - auf Initiative der Landesmedienanstalten. Von E. Beres, J. Röhmel und S. Wolf.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/swr/samidoun-netzwerk-verbot-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Samidoun #Verbot

Internetsperren für verbotenes Samidoun-Netzwerk greifen allmählich

Die israelfeindliche Organisation Samidoun ist in Deutschland seit November 2023 verboten. Doch erst seit wenigen Monaten verschwindet deren Website teilweise - auf Initiative der Landesmedienanstalten. Von E. Beres, J. Röhmel und S. Wolf.

➡️ https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/swr/samidoun-netzwerk-verbot-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

#Samidoun #Verbot

Samidoun Warns Against Zionist Attempts to Use “Red Cross visits” to Silence Palestinian Prisoners’ Voices

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network warned of the dangers of the Zionist occupation’s announcement purporting to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to enter the prisons and detention centers where Palestinian prisoners are held captive, without allowing it to conduct direct, face-to-face meetings with them. This purported announcement of ICRC visits is nothing but a sham; it does not represent the restoration of the Red Cross’s humanitarian role in relation to the Palestinian prisoners, but rather an attempt to restrict it and transform it into a witness of only what the jailer wishes to be seen.

The issue of the denial of Red Cross visits to the Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners is not merely whether an international institution can enter prison buildings, but whether it can access the truth from its primary source, the prisoners themselves, who constitute the most important party in any humanitarian or human rights monitoring process. The network added that excluding them from the visit means that the occupation seeks to manage the scene rather than expose reality.

The network stated that the occupation is attempting, at this stage, to produce a political and media outlet that reduces the growing pressure against it amid wide-scale international condemnation and rejection, despite the ongoing support and cover provided by the United States, Canada, Germany, France, Britain and other imperialist powers, without paying any real price or making any serious commitment to stop the assaults and violations taking place inside the prisons. On the contrary, the occupation boasts about its crimes against the prisoners, with notorious fascist Itamar Ben-Gvir marking his birthday with a cake featuring a noose, as war minister Israel Katz openly celebrates occupation soldiers who raped Palestinian prisoners.

The announced step includes neither clear guarantees nor independent oversight, nor does it genuinely enable international bodies to know what is happening to imprisoned Palestinians — it is only the prisoners themselves who can accurately convey their experiences and reveal the truth of their suffering.

Any purported role for the ICRC that lacks independence, confidentiality, and the ability to listen to prisoners becomes a role stripped of impact, not merely unhelpful but actively harmful. In practice, this serves the occupation’s desire to manage the crisis instead of ending it, and containing international outrage while actively continuing and escalating the very genocidal actions that are the spark for that outrage.

The network added that treating prisoners as invisible people, unheard by anyone and unable to have their testimonies reach the world, is a direct extension of the occupation’s policy of isolation imposed upon them, a policy that extends beyond walls and prisons to silencing their voices and preventing their families and international institutions from learning the truth about their conditions.

Accepting any incomplete or restricted visits for the ICRC constitutes a dangerous precedent, allowing the occupation to impose new rules on international humanitarian work, whereby it determines who the Red Cross may see and who it may not see, what may be documented and what must be concealed. This represents a direct assault on the very concept of humanitarian oversight itself as represented by the ICRC.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network urges the International Committee of the Red Cross to reject any arrangement that does not guarantee its full right to meet Palestinian prisoners directly and confidentially. This issue is a fundamental test of the credibility of its humanitarian role, rather than merely an administrative procedure or a protocol visit.

We also call upon all human rights forces, solidarity movements, and international institutions not to give the occupation an opportunity to use this step as a false message of reassurance. It stressed that what is required is real pressure to force the opening of the prisons to genuine oversight, expose the fate of the prisoners and the conditions of their detention, and put an end to policies of abuse, isolation, and deprivation – on the road to the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea.

The freedom and dignity of prisoners cannot be reduced to arrangements determined by the occupation according to its own interests, and that any international action that does not begin with the voice of the prisoner and end with protecting them and holding their torturers accountable will remain incapable of fulfilling even the bare minimum of its humanitarian and human rights obligations.

source: Samidoun

The Cause of Palestinian Prisoners is at the Heart of the Struggle for Liberation

To mark Palestinian Prisoner’s Day, an international discussion was held, organized by Masar Badil: Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, Alkarama, Tariq el-Tahrir, and Samidoun, bringing together dozens of participants in Madrid, Budapest, and online. The event, dedicated to the released prisoner Nael Barghouti, focused on the struggle of Palestinian prisoners as a fundamental pillar of the national liberation process.

An international call for the prisoners’ cause

The event was attended in person by approximately 50 people in Madrid and nearly 30 in Budapest, in addition to numerous participants connecting via Zoom. The talk was recorded in its entirety in Arabic, Spanish, and English, reflecting its internationalist character and its commitment to broadening the reach of the denunciation and mobilization.

The meeting was jointly convened by Masar Badil – Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Route Movement, Alkarama , Tariq El-Tahrir and Samidoun , within the framework of a day of political action and global awareness.

Nael Barghouti: a testament to resistance and dignity

The main guest was the released and deported prisoner Nael Barghouti , known as Abu al-Nour, who spent more than 45 years in occupation prisons.

During his presentation, he shared his direct experiences in prison, offering a political and human testimony about the conditions of incarceration, the daily resistance of the prisoners, and the central role they play within the Palestinian national movement.

He stressed that the prisoners are not only victims of repression, but living symbols of resistance and the struggle for return and liberation .

The current situation: repression, isolation, and new threats

The debate addressed the current grave situation of Palestinian prisoners, marked by:

• The intensification of repression in the prisons of the occupation
• The suspension of visits by international organizations such as the Red Cross since October 7th
• The legal difficulties and limitations of the judicial system regarding squatting
• The growing criminalization of journalists and humanitarian workers

The approval of the so-called “execution law” in the prisons of the occupation was also analyzed, noting that it responds to political objectives and that, far from weakening the resistance, it has historically contributed to strengthening it.

Deported prisoners: an invisible humanitarian crisis

One of the central themes of the meeting was the situation of Palestinian prisoners deported to third countries, especially Egypt.

The following were reported:

• Forced separation from their families
• Inability to receive visitors
• Legal insecurity and lack of rights in host countries

The participants stressed that this situation constitutes a flagrant violation of human rights and is part of a systematic policy of collective punishment.

Attempts at criminalization and media attacks

The holding of this meeting was not without attacks from media outlets linked to the Zionist movement, which attempted to criminalize the initiative and obstruct the dissemination of the voices of Palestinian prisoners beyond occupied Palestine and the Arab world. These attempts demonstrate the extent to which it is uncomfortable for the public in Europe and other Western countries to hear directly—and without intermediaries—the testimonies of those who have endured decades in the prisons of the occupation.

The role of the organizing groups as a bridge, translating and disseminating these voices in different languages, breaks the information blockade imposed by the dominant narrative. Precisely for this reason, campaigns of pressure, censorship, and criminalization are intensifying.

Given this situation, it is essential to denounce the fact that countries that present themselves as guarantors of democracy, freedom of expression, and freedom of opinion allow the persecution of activists and solidarity organizations. These practices must be combated politically and socially, defending the right to inform, to organize, and to give voice to the struggle of Palestinian prisoners without intimidation or restrictions.

The international role: responsibility and active solidarity

The meeting stressed the need to strengthen international pressure, especially in Europe, to respond to the systematic violations against Palestinian prisoners.

The role of peoples and movements in building effective solidarity campaigns, capable of breaking the isolation imposed by the occupation, was also highlighted.

Next steps: campaign for family reunification

As a result of the meeting, it was agreed to launch an international campaign focused on:

• The reunification of the families of deported Palestinian prisoners
• Pressure on European institutions, including the European Parliament
• A direct call to the Spanish State Government to raise this issue at an institutional level

An appeal was made to activists, organizations and movements in Europe to adopt and promote this campaign in their respective contexts.

The struggle of the prisoners is the struggle for Palestine

The talk concluded by reaffirming that the issue of Palestinian prisoners is not a secondary matter, but a central axis of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine .

As Nael Barghouti emphasized, the resistance in prisons is an inseparable part of the liberation movement, and its cause demands an international response commensurate with its sacrifice.

From Masar Badil and the convening organizations, we reiterate our commitment to continue strengthening the international mobilization until we achieve the freedom of all Palestinian prisoners, the end of deportations, and the right of all families to reunite.

 Freedom for all Palestinian prisoners!
 For the return and liberation of Palestine!

Link to the video of the talk  (Arabic with English Subtitles)

source: Masar Badil

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=31757 #gaza #palestine #samidoun #Solidarity #westAsia #westBank

Europe ramps up repression of Palestine's refugees

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/content/europe-ramps-repression-palestines-refugees/51238

Europe ramps up repression of Palestine's refugees

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://electronicintifada.net/content/europe-ramps-repression-palestines-refugees/51238

19/02/26 Cinema dijous – Cinema Palestí projectrà Children of Shatila, Dir. Mai Masri, VOSE (1998)

La Cinètika, dijous, 19 de febrer, a les 20:00 CET

19/02/26 Cinema dijous – Cinema Palestí projectrà Children of Shatila, Dir. Mai Masri, VOSE (1998)

El dijous 19 de febrer a les 20h, com cada tercer dijous de mes, Cinema dijous amb Samidoun projectem cinema palestí. En aquesta ocasió, “Children of Shatila” de 46 minuts de durada, dirigida per la cineasta palestina Mai Masri, directora de “3000 nits”, VOSE (1998).

Sinopsi:

Children of Shatila és un documental que narra la vida de Farah i Issa, dos nens palestins que viuen en el camp de refugiats de Shatila, Beirut. Cinquanta anys després de l’exili dels seus avis, els nens utilitzen càmeres de vídeo per a explorar la seva realitat, marcada per la pobresa, el trauma de la guerra i la memòria de la massacre de 1982.

https://bcn.convoca.la/event/190226-cinema-dijous-cinema-palesti-projectra-children-of-shatila-dir-mai-masri-vose-1998

19/02/26 Cinema dijous – Cinema Palestí projectrà Children of Shatila, Dir. Mai Masri, VOSE (1998)

La Cinètika, dijous, 19 de febrer, a les 20:00 CET

19/02/26 Cinema dijous – Cinema Palestí projectrà Children of Shatila, Dir. Mai Masri, VOSE (1998)

El dijous 19 de febrer a les 20h, com cada tercer dijous de mes, Cinema dijous amb Samidoun projectem cinema palestí. En aquesta ocasió, “Children of Shatila” de 46 minuts de durada, dirigida per la cineasta palestina Mai Masri, directora de “3000 nits”, VOSE (1998).

Sinopsi:

Children of Shatila és un documental que narra la vida de Farah i Issa, dos nens palestins que viuen en el camp de refugiats de Shatila, Beirut. Cinquanta anys després de l’exili dels seus avis, els nens utilitzen càmeres de vídeo per a explorar la seva realitat, marcada per la pobresa, el trauma de la guerra i la memòria de la massacre de 1982.

https://bcn.convoca.la/event/190226-cinema-dijous-cinema-palesti-projectra-children-of-shatila-dir-mai-masri-vose-1998

Mohammed Khatib Speaks Out Upon His Release From Greek Detention, Calls for Action and Mobilization

In the late afternoon hours of Wednesday, 11 February 2026, Mohammed Khatib — coordinator of Samidoun in Europe — was finally released from detention in Heraklion, Crete, after an order was issued by the Administrative Court of the First Instance. He had been detained since his arrest on Saturday, 7 February, when he arrived in Heraklion to speak at an event being organized by the Assembly of Solidarity to the Palestinian People on the Palestinian prisoners, together with liberated prisoner Abdel-Nasser Issa.

His release came after wide-scale support in Greece and across Europe from the movement for justice in Palestine, with statements in France and Catalonia signed by dozens of organizations, protests in Athens and Brussels, visits from local activists and parliamentarians, and the mobilization of progressive and radical lawyers to engage with his case. Mohammed remains banned from Greece and was ordered to “self-deport” to Belgium — where he is also facing serious repression, including an order to withdraw his asylum status, currently under appeal; he was ordered banned from the country on 24 December 2025, only two days after the Greek and Cypriot tripartite summit with the Zionist entity on military, security and economic cooperation.

During his time in detention, he was held in dangerous and unsafe conditions, rife with bedbugs and infectious diseases such as scabies (also common among Palestinian prisoners in Zionist jails denied hygiene supplies and medical care, particularly after Al-Aqsa Flood and during the ongoing escalated genocide). His release came only one day after police had indicated their intention to continue to arbitrarily detain him.

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes all of the efforts undertaken by people in Crete, throughout Greece, and internationally to win the release of comrade Mohammed Khatib. It is highly likely that without this attention and mobilization he would still be in detention now. We urge all supporters of Palestine to escalate attention, activity and organizing to free all Palestinian prisoners and prisoners for Palestine in imperialist prisons, including those held in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Britain and the United States — as well as, centrally, the over 9,300 suffering, struggling and resisting inside the Zionist dungeons, facing torture, medical abuse, enforced disappearance, and the “execution” plan of Ben-Gvir and the Zionist regime. The liberation of the prisoners is an essential part of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea.

Mohammed Khatib’s statement, issued upon his release, is below: 

I am free, after 5 days of imprisonment in what they call “detention centres” but in reality are laboratories of torture and humiliation, where dozens of minors, youth, elders, refugees, migrants and poor Greek people are all facing the same inhumane conditions. I am thankful for all your solidarity and grateful for all your support. We must also remember those who are forgotten behind bars without any rights or justice. The systemic abuse and torture in Greece reminds us of the same methods used by the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people, and these are the same methods used by the colonialist and imperialist powers in this world. I call on everyone to stand in unconditional solidarity with the migrants and refugees in Greece and elsewhere and to intensify the struggle against prisons and detention centres throughout the imperial core.

During my five days of detention, I received strength and power from my people, the Palestinian people, from Mahmoud Farajallah, who passed away as a martyr in the detention centre at Brussels airport several months ago, from the long history of struggle of the Palestinian political prisoners’ movement in the occupation prisons, from our people in Gaza fighting for life and humanity against the genocidal occupier

Once again, the Greek right wing government has shown its real face and its position as a tool for Israel and the so-called United States of America, not only against us as refugees and migrants, but also against the popular masses and working class and poor Greek people who stand in solidarity with Palestine.

It is no coincidence to face this repression on the island of Crete, that is hosting one of the biggest NATO military bases and another Israeli Zionist base, it is not spontaneous to be arrested in a country led by a right-wing government that is selling its land and resources to private Zionist companies that are exploiting the Greek masses who are losing their rights, land, and sovereignty. As the Zionist regime sees the current Greek government as its strategic alliance, we also, as Palestinians and revolutionary forces, should rebuild and connect with all the progressive forces in Greece and our historical and strategic alliance for liberation, justice and sovereignty.

Regardless of my treatment, the injustice and the inhuman conditions of detention, I am honestly very grateful for the experience of being with those who are forgotten and marginalized, and to experience a very little of what they face for months or years. I know that the experience in Greece is not isolated, but that there are Palestinian prisoners and prisoners for Palestine not only in the Zionist dungeons but in the jails of Germany, Italy, Britain and the U.S. and in Belgium’s detention centers, that need all of our support and solidarity.

My final words to those criminals in “Israel” or elsewhere, you can detain us, torture us, assassinate us, but you will never ever manage to stop us from talking, acting and struggling for Free Palestine, for Free Sudan, for Free Congo; against the imperialist assaults on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran; for the liberation of all oppressed people in the world.

Free all political prisoners!
Free Palestine from the River to the Sea!

Source: Samidoun

🔴 Mohammed #Khatib arrêté en Grèce : liberté pour le militant pro-palestinien réprimé par #Mitsotákis !

Dans un communiqué publié le 7 février, #Samidoun, réseau international pour la libération des prisonniers palestiniens, dénonce l’arrestation et la menace de déportation à l’encontre de Mohammed Khatib, coordinateur Samidoun en Europe. Nous exigeons sa libération immédiate. ⤵️

https://www.revolutionpermanente.fr/Mohammed-Khatib-arrete-en-Grece-liberte-pour-le-militant-pro-palestinien-reprime-par-Mitsotakis

Der #KSTA berichtet über die Kritik linker Gruppen an der Untätigkeit der @UniCologne und @Koeln gegenüber dem #Intifada Camp an der Uni. Das die „neue Leitung“ aus extremistischen Gruppen aus dem #Samidoun Umfeld besteht und sich mit der verbotenen #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg

Achtung #Köln!Die antisemitische #PalästinensischeGemeindeDeutschland veranstaltet am 2.6. eine Pro #Hamas Kundgebung vor dem Hbf. Die Organisation unterstützt Terrororganisationen wie #Hamas und #PFLP und kooperierte mit der verbotenen #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg und #Samidoun

Die extremistische #Samidoun Proxi #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg beteiligte sich mit antisemitischen Parolen an einer #Israel feindlichen Demonstration in #Bochum. Gefordert wurde die Auslöschung Israels und von einem männlichen Aktivisten ein „ antikolonialer Feminismus“

#Köln die extremistischen #Samidoun Unterstützer #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg beteiligten sich an einer Kundgebung der #PalästinensischeGemeindeKöln. Die Gruppe macht kein Hehl aus ihrer Unterstützung der #Hamas. - Rotes Dreieck - Auf der Kundgebung Angriffe auf den Gegenprotest

Die extremistische #Samidoun Unterstützergruppe #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg dokumentiert ihre Beteiligung an der rechtsoffenen Kundgebung der islamistischen #Intergeneration in #Ddorf und der rechtsextremen #Putinknechte um #MarkusBeisicht und #BernhardFalk in #Leverkusen

Achtung #Bremen am 8.3. will die antisemitische Hasskappe #LeonWystrychowsky von #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg über seine Freunde von der Terrorgruppe #PFLP referieren- bis zum Verbot kooperierte die Gruppe er mit #Samidoun

#Köln - am 10.12. beteiligten sich Anhänger des verbotenen Netzwerks #Samidoun der einschlägig bekannten #PalästinaSolidaritätDuisburg an einem „kreativen Statement“ für #Hamas und #PFLP

Achtung #Duisburg: die Umfeldorganisation der verbotenen Gruppe #Samidoun #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg will am 24.11. vor der Redaktion der #WAZ offenbar die Redaktion einschüchtern. Gegenprotest nicht bekannt.

Die antisemitischen #Samidoun Supporter #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg hatten wohl schon ihre Stellungnahme zum Verbot ihrer Führungsgruppe in der Schublade! Inhaltlich Lügen und unbedingte Loyalität gegenüber der Mordbande #Hamas und den Terrorunterstützern #Samidoun.

Der antisemitischen #Samidoun Unterstützergruppe #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg wurden für ihre Demonstration in #Duisburg Parolen die die Vernichtung #Israels fordern untersagt. Auf #Instagram bekräftigt sie erneut den Vernichtungswillen und beschönigt die #Massaker als Operation

#Duisburg - gewaltbereite #Samidoun Unterstützergruppe #PalästinaSolidaritätDuisburg plant für Samstag 28.10 wieder eine Demonstration in Duisburg. Es mit mit antisemitischen Hassparolen und Vernichtungsparolen zu rechnen

In #Duisburg marodierte ein antisemitischer Mob von #Samidoun und #PalästinaSolidaritätDuisburg Leuten, forderte die Auslöschung #Israels und griff den Gegenprotest an. Morgen dann das Gejammer über #Repression und antipalästinensischen Rassismus. Alles mit Ansage und #Reul mal ganz zahm

Mit Ansage: in #Duisburg versuchte der antisemitische Mob von #Samidoun und #PalästinaSolidaritätDuisburg Anhängern den israelsolidarischen Gegenprotest anzugreifen! Wieder wurde die Vernichtung #Israels gefordert, Terror verherrlicht! https://x.com/chefreporternrw/status/1711444605453939001?s=46&t=IGe7FvrV-0vQ-A6GwlZqbQ

Achtung #Duisburg! Protest gegen die Terrorfreunde von #Samidoun und #PalästinasolidaritätDuisburg
19Uhr30 Wannheimer Strasse/ Ecke Karl-Jahres-Straße

Gegen jeden Antisemitismus!

#FuckAntisemitismus - stabile #Antifa haben das Veranstaltungslokal der Terrofans von #Samidoun und #PalästinaSolidaritätDuisburg in #Duisburg verschönert!
Antisemit*innen dürfen nicht ungestört hetzen!
Gegen jeden #Antisemitismus!
#StandwithIsrael

Heute #Antisemitenauflauf in #Duisburg #Samidoun und #PalästinaSolidaritätDuisburg wollen den Terror der #Hamas in #Israel feiern.
Eine kurze Hintergrund Information!

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Achtung #Duisburg: um 19Uhr auf dem #Brückenplatz antisemitische Demonstration von #Samidoun und #PalästinaSolidaritätDuisburg zur Unterstützung der Mordbanden der #Hamas in #Israel

Achtung #Duisburg! Die #Antisemiten von #Samidoun und #PalästinaSolidaritätDuisburg wollen heute die Morde der #Hamas in #Israel feiern. Gegenprotest?
Ort wird ergänzt

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the CUNY 27, the detainees in New York who were seized by the New York Police Department as part of their violent assault on the campus encampment in solidarity with Gaza and the Palestinian liberation struggle on 30 April 2024, the same night of the violent raid on the Columbia University encampment.

The NYPD’s record of extreme brutality and repression targeting the Palestine liberation movement and Arab, Palestinian and Muslim communities in New York has been extensively documented. The attacks on protesters and the broader solidarity movement have come hand in hand with the NYPD’s ongoing violent repression and occupation of Black communities and have strikingly illustrated the alliance between imperialism and Zionism and the role of militarized policing in protecting genocide. It has also exposed the role of universities in research and development, study abroad programs, and joint initiatives with Zionist institutions, as well as their function in service of US imperialism.

At the same time, the growing student movement — the Student Intifada — has sparked panic in the governing halls and corridors of empire. From members of Congress to Genocide Joe Biden to New York Mayor Eric Adams to a seemingly endless parade of politicians, the student movement has been met with threats, violent police raids, beatings, and thousands of arrests across the United States, Canada and Europe. Students and community members at public universities, often working-class students and students of colour, have been hit particularly hard; for example, the CUNY 22 were hit with felony charges. Columbia students refused to take favourable agreements because the CUNY 22 were being hit with far more severe charges. Now, the CUNY 22 have learned of five more defendants arrested outside and facing even heavier allegations at the hands of the NYPD — meaning that they are now the CUNY 27.

We join the mass movement demanding the immediate withdrawal of all charges against the CUNY 27 and all arrestees, detainees and prisoners facing charges or jailed due to their involvement in the movement for the liberation of Palestine. As over 9700 Palestinian prisoners are held captive in Zionist jails, hostages for freedom, thousands detained with no charge or trial, organizing amid severe torture, abuse and forced starvation, building and leading a resistance movement from behind bars, we must take inspiration in their leadership and advance our struggle for their complete liberation and to bring down the systems of repression targeting the global intifada.

Escalating to end a genocide is not a crime — indeed, it is a duty, particularly in the heart of the imperial core, at a moment when the resistance forces of the region, from Palestine to Yemen to Lebanon to Iraq and beyond, are on the front lines sacrificing and fighting for the protection and liberation of humanity. We must all make clear that the raids and arrests will not intimidate our movement nor cause us to de-escalate our tactics and methods of struggle, but will only lead us to greater unity, resistance and confrontation, to end the genocide and for a free Palestine from the river to the sea.

As the CUNY 22 say:

We are not just fighting for a Free Palestine but for the liberation of all. The fight for liberation requires sacrifice. We fight for ourselves and our communities. Palestine is everywhere, we cannot free Palestine until we free ourselves, and we cannot free ourselves until we free Palestine. The city of New York and their pigs are going to keep brutalizing and escalating, and so will we. Remember, “we are all outside agitators”.  Whether we are fighting in Atlanta, New York City, Sudan, or Palestine, the enemy remains the same. The zionist entity escalates, so does the Palestinian Resistance. The pigs and institutions escalate, so do the agitators of the world!

source: Samidoun

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/07/27/solidarity-with-the-cuny-27-drop-the-charges-now-build-the-global-intifada/

#cuny #northAmerica #nyc #palestine #repression #samidoun #Solidarity #us

Die @koeantifa161 mit einem Nachschlag zur Duisburger #samidoun Party (mein Video hatte ich noch vorgestern Nacht gepostet)

Guter Thread.
» Uns ist Leon Wystrychowski aber vor allem bekannt durch seine Vernetzung mit dem extrem rechten „Friedensbündnis NRW“ «
ff.

» Was haben das #FriedensbündnisNRW und der #Terror der #Hamas gemeinsam? «
https://koeantifa.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/die-verbindung-zum-islamistischen-terror/
#AfD #Hunko

Die @koeantifa161 mit einem Nachschlag zur Duisburger #samidoun Party (mein Video hatte ich noch vorgestern Nacht gepostet)

Guter Thread.
» Uns ist Leon Wystrychowski aber vor allem bekannt durch seine Vernetzung mit dem extrem rechten „Friedensbündnis NRW“ «
ff.

» Was haben das #FriedensbündnisNRW und der #Terror der #Hamas gemeinsam? «
https://koeantifa.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/die-verbindung-zum-islamistischen-terror/
#AfD #Hunko

Achtung #Bonn: Heute findet erneut eine Pro #Hamas Kundgebung der #PalästinensischeGemeinde statt. Diese Gruppe arbeitet sowohl mit der #Samidoun nahen #Palästinasolidarität wie mit Faschisten wie #MarkusBeisicht und #Erdogan Unterstützern der #BIG zusammen

International Workers’ Day 2025: The Workers’ Flood for Palestine, Against Genocide and Imperialism

“The sons and daughters of the popular classes of Palestine, the workers, the farmers in the villages, the refugees of the camps, have always been the leaders and the driving force of our Palestinian national liberation movement. The Palestinian popular classes have been the freedom fighters, the strugglers and the resisters on the front lines, confronting the occupation and Zionist colonization in Palestine. And so it is the case that the popular classes of Palestine fill the ranks of the Israeli prisons, the builders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement continuing on the front lines of resistance, building the ongoing Palestinian revolution.” – Kamil Abu Hanish, imprisoned Palestinian struggler, 2017

This International Workers’ Day, 1 May 2025, is a day of workers’ struggle that comes amid the ongoing imperialist-Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, as the war machine of capitalism and imperialism aims to grind the flesh and blood of the Palestinian people to fuel its plunder and profits around the world. International Workers’ Day also comes this year amid Al-Aqsa Flood and the ongoing resistance to Zionist-imperialist colonialism and genocide; let this day be a day for the workers of the world to join the people’s great flood against the common enemies of humanity.

On this International Workers’ Day, we salute the Palestinian workers, and the working people and popular masses of the region, who are those who create the ranks of the resistance, who form its popular cradle, who are imprisoned in the dungeons and torture camps of the occupier, and who are targeted for assassination, imprisonment and massacre for carrying out their work: civil defense workers, doctors, nurses and health workers, farmers, fishers, construction workers, aid workers, journalists and media workers, electricians, technicians, security workers, the teachers and domestic workers — all of those whose labor creates the structure of Palestinian society. We salute the workers of the resistance who toil with love and faith below the ground to manufacture the weapons that allow Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and all of the forces of the resistance to defend themselves against the occupier, the imperialist and the genocidaire.

We salute the workers of Yemen, who set an example for the workers in the world in their popular, national and military mobilization that is shutting down the supply lines of genocide in the Red Sea. Today, Yemen, whose workers live under the bombs of the U.S. war machine, presents the greatest example to the world of the implementation of the boycott of the Zionist project and of upholding international law and its absolute prohibition against genocide.

We salute the dockworkers of Morocco, who despite the normalization regime, refused to load and unload the Maersk ships carrying the products of the U.S. war machine to arm the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people. We salute the strugglers of Palestine Action, who put their bodies and freedom on the line to shut down, damage and impose a cost upon the factories that manufacture the weapons of the imperialist-Zionist war machine, particularly Elbit Systems. We salute the tech workers who raise their voices and refuse to participate in the AI and surveillance products being used to target and massacre the Palestinian people and direct the bombs of death and destruction. We salute the Palestinian workers of UNRWA, who are fighting internal repression, criminalization, assassination and destruction to aid their people and defend their right to return. We salute all of those workers of the world who continue to strike and boycott, to confront normalization, to ensure their labour unions and international federations exclude the genocidal “Histadrut,” boycott Zionist bonds, and stand with the Palestinian people and their just cause. We salute the workers who face firing, repression and imprisonment around the world for standing up for Palestine and confronting the genocide.

We echo the call of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, to the Palestinian workers of the world: “We, the Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora, are part and parcel of the workers of the world. It is long past time to escalate our participation in this struggle to a material level that can shut down the trade routes of genocide, occupation and colonialism, cutting off the flow of weaponry, bombs and artillery that allows the Israeli regime to slaughter Palestinian men, women and children,” and that of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza to workers in the United States: “Your struggle for workers’ rights in the United States is inseparable from our struggle against occupation and colonialism. True labor solidarity is demonstrated through actions, not just words, and we count on your awareness and determination to take concrete steps to end this tragedy.”

This International Workers’ Day, we call upon the workers of the world to manifest their material solidarity with the imprisoned, massacred, targeted Palestinian workers under genocide, occupation and colonization, to confront the war machine of imperialism and capitalism, and to constitute an international popular cradle of the Resistance defending humanity by taking real, serious and meaningful collective action to shut down the workplaces, ports and factories that continue to fuel genocide. Examples already exist of the dockworkers in Morocco, South Africa, India, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Italy, Belgium and even the ILWU on the United States West Coast refusing to handle the occupier’s cargo, shipped by ZIM, Maersk and other complicit profiteers of genocide.

The Zionist entity is an advanced base of U.S. and Western imperialism in the region, and it targets not only Palestinian workers, but the workers of the world. The road to the liberation of the international working class, the defeat of imperialism and capitalism, runs now, centrally and clearly, through ending the genocide, the victory of the Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. 

We know that the Palestinian workers in Gaza, with their minds and hands, will rebuild all that has been destroyed by the occupation, as they have many times over the years and indeed, the centuries. It is our responsibility to act now to bring about that new day.

On 1 May 2025, we call upon workers and labour organizations around the world to affirm clearly their position against genocide and with the Palestinian people through:

• General strikes, wildcat strikes and widespread workplace and civil disobedience against genocide and imperialist war crimes. Demand a complete end to the genocide in Gaza, the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and full boycott and divestment from all Zionist corporations and imperialist war profiteers complicit in genocide.
• Enforce and impose grassroots and popular sanctions — in the example of Yemeni workers — by refusing to handle the weapons shipments and cargo of ZIM, Maersk and their fellow war profiteers
• Boycotting the Zionist “labour” federation, the Histadrut, “Israel Bonds,” and complicit corporations and organizations
• Acting collectively to defend workers and students targeted for repression, firing, silencing and imprisonment for their action, organizing and speech for Palestine

(We have revised and updated the following text for International Workers’ Day 2025. All images are classic posters of the Palestinian revolution via the Palestine Poster Project.)

Palestinian workers and the popular classes have always played the key, leading role as the force of the Palestinian liberation movement, inside and outside Palestine. The prisoners’ movement is no exception; indeed, the vast majority of Palestinian prisoners come from the working and popular classes, the refugee camps and the villages, and it is these workers who put their bodies and lives on the line for freedom. Today, it is Palestinian workers and popular classes on the front lines confronting a genocidal assault for over 18 months, after 77 years of ongoing genocide.

Palestinian workers: A history of leadership in struggle

Palestinians have engaged in labor organizing from the early days of the 20th century, organizing unions, defending their work against Zionist attempts to exclude Palestinian labor from Palestinian land, and taking action to defend their rights as workers and as indigenous Palestinians.

General strikes have always been a key mechanism of Palestinian resistance, from the earliest revolts of the Palestinian people against British and then Zionist colonialism. In the 1936 revolution, Palestinian workers’ six-month general strike was at that time the longest in the world. This continued over the years, as Palestinian workers in exile built the Palestinian liberation movement and its organizations, and as Palestinian workers and labor unions led in the organizing of the first intifada. UNRWA workers and others in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon paved the way for the modern revolution, as revolutionary leaders like Abu Maher al-Yamani organized refugees for liberation and return on the basis of their trade union work before the Nakba in Palestine.

In the 1950s, Palestinian labor organizers in occupied Palestine ’48 were jailed as they attempted to keep their organizations intact under martial law. At least seven Palestinian trade union leaders were deported from the West Bank between 1969 and 1979. These attacks happened as Palestinians inside Israeli jails fought to end forced labor, a victory that was achieved only through great sacrifice. Omar Shalabi, a Syrian prisoner, was killed under torture in October 1973 during the protests against Israeli forced labor.

Targeting and imprisonment of Palestinian workers

Palestinian workers are regularly subject to colonial forms of imprisonment, from the political targeting of workers’ organizations to the mass criminalization of Palestinians seeking employment inside occupied Palestine ’48. Palestinian workers are frequently arrested for “entering Israel without a permit,” despite the fact that many of these same workers are Palestinian refugees denied their right to return to their original homes and lands for the past 74 years. The systematic siege and subjugation of the Palestinian economy, from the texts of the Paris Protocols to the so-called “Abraham Accords” promoted by U.S. imperialism through their sponsorship of reactionary Arab regimes, has forced thousands of Palestinians to seek work with or without permits as day laborers, often in construction.

At any given time, there are approximately 1000 Palestinians arrested, detained or fined for seeking to work in their own homeland; they are not classified in the Israeli colonial system as “security” prisoners and are thus missing from the statistics related to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. However, it is clear that everything about these workers’ situation is deeply political – they are imprisoned for their Palestinian existence on Palestinian land, specifically as Palestinian workers. Palestinian workers from Gaza working in the West Bank — as well as those abducted from Gaza — have been subjected to the most extreme and severe forms of torture and abuse, from beating to rape and sexual assault to starvation and sleep deprivation — in the notorious prison and torture camps like Sde Teiman and Anatot.

Palestinian workers are subjected to ongoing abuse at checkpoints, systemic discrimination on the job from the river to the sea, and economic isolation, starvation and siege meant to compel workers into becoming construction workers and servants in illegal settlements. For over 18 years, the siege on Gaza has served as yet another attack on Palestinian workers. Even before the escalated genocide, the Gaza Strip had the highest levels of unemployment in Palestine due to the deliberate targeting of the Palestinian economy and its productive basis, including workers, fishers and farmers. Today, hundreds of thousands more have been forced into unemployment and are targeted daily for death and destruction.

There are currently over 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners jailed by the Zionist regime, including over 3,600 jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. Confronting torture, abuse and starvation inside the Zionist jails, which has led to the martyrdom of over 65 prisoners over the past 18 months, the Palestinian prisoners are on the front lines of Palestinian resistance on a daily basis. They are leaders in the Palestinian, Arab and international camp of resistance — and like the freedom fighters and martyrs of Palestine, they represent the workers and popular classes of Palestine, those who face multiple forms of exploitation and oppression at the hands of the Zionist regime. The liberation of the prisoners is so precious to the Palestinian people and their resistance that it was a central goal of Al-Aqsa Flood and the great crossing of struggle. Freedom for Palestinian prisoners is essential to the liberation of the Palestinian working class and popular masses — the central feature of the liberation of Palestine from imperialism and Zionism, from the river to the sea.

The Histadrut: A colonialist entity that must be boycotted

The drive to exclude Palestinian workers has always been part of the Zionist colonial project. This has been reflected in the founding principles and continued operation of the Israeli Histadrut, a trade union federation founded with the explicit purpose of promoting Zionist colonization of Palestinian land and excluding Palestinian labor. Despite having a fraternal relationship with the AFL-CIO and other major labor unions worldwide, it actually exploits Palestinian workers inside “Israel” by deducting fees from their salaries while denying them benefits, let alone its ongoing and systematic role as part of the Zionist-imperialist machine of genocide. Its role predates the Nakba and continues to reflect this colonial relationship. Today, it must be more clear than ever: any relationship with the Histadrut is complicity in genocide, and those responsible for complicity in genocide must be held accountable — first and foremost, by the workers.

Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora fight back

Palestinian workers in exile also continue to struggle against exploitation and oppression. In Lebanon, amid the targeting of Lebanon, its people and its Resistance by the Zionist attacks that daily violate the ceasefire, the imperialist powers and financial exploiters, Palestinian refugees continue to be denied access to numerous professions, leading to massive unemployment and frequent despair among the working class. Palestinian refugees forced to flee to Europe, North America and elsewhere from Lebanon, Syria and occupied Palestine confront racist, repressive policies that inhibit their right to work and threaten them with deportation, detention and exclusion.

They confront the racism of “Fortress Europe” and criminalization of refugee workers alongside fellow migrants and workers seeking safety and refuge from the military, social, environmental and economic disasters forced upon their home countries by the very imperialist states that then deny their rights. They face severe exploitation in black market labor. Still, these workers continue to struggle despite all odds not only to confront racism and exclusion in the imperialist countries but also to organize to confront imperialism and win their liberation. Palestinian workers are marching in, leading and organizing the demonstrations that took massively to the streets of the world to confront the genocide and stand with the Palestinian people, and are the first to be targeted for these actions by police and state repression. Workers around the world, and particularly in the imperial core, have been fired, dismissed and imprisoned because they speak out for Palestine, and Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora have been among the foremost examples. Inside and outside Palestine, the workers and popular masses are protecting Palestine and pushing the struggle forward, without compromise.

Confronting imperialism, Arab reactionary regimes and the Oslo Palestinian Authority 

Zionist genocidal colonialism reflects the sharpest edge of capitalist exploitation for the Palestinian working class, backed up fully by the most powerful and dangerous imperialist powers, especially the United States. However, they also face Arab reactionary regimes, such as Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, that are complicit with the exploitation and marginalization of Palestinian workers even as they are complicit with the genocide of the Zionist regime through normalization and direct participation. Palestinian workers are exploited by the ruling class of these states directly in exile and diaspora as well as through their direct engagement with and promotion of the colonial economy of Zionism, and Arab workers are themselves threatened with imprisonment and harsh repression when they take action to defend the Palestinian people.

Palestinian workers also confront Palestinian capitalists and the Palestinian Authority, formed as a security subcontractor to the Israeli occupation. The Jordanian monarchy acted in the 1970s and 1980s to repress union organizing in the interests of Palestinian capitalists, while ultra-wealthy Palestinian capitalists like Bashar al-Masri are on the first lines promoting normalization and undermining the boycott of Israel.

Imperialism is on the attack around the world, using its military might and its weapons of siege and sanctions against peoples around the world. As always, it is workers and the impoverished classes who bear the heaviest brunt of these assaults. Fighting back against imperialism, including U.S., Canadian and EU sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and indeed, nearly one-third of the world, in addition to its direct involvement and armament of genocide, its bombing of Yemen, its military interventions, warmongering and ongoing violent attacks on all forms of resistance to imperial domination, is essential to building the movement for Palestine.

A call to the workers’ movements of the world

On International Workers’ Day, we once again amplify the words of Kamil Abu Hanish, speaking from Israeli prison, urging the escalation of the boycott movement: “Today, we call upon you, the fighters for freedom and justice in the world, the workers’ movements, the strugglers for socialism, the movements of revolution, to escalate your support for our struggle, for the Palestinian people and for the Palestinian prisoners. We urge you to act to isolate the occupation state, to hold it accountable for 70 years of crimes against the Palestinian people…The workers’ movements, the movements of the popular classes, the movements of the oppressed, can and must take part in this battle around the world, as part and parcel of the struggle against racism, imperialism and capitalism.”

International workers’ solidarity with Palestine has a long and proud history, including in the heart of the imperial core. See, for example, in the United States — the leading sponsor of the Zionist regime, together with its imperialist partners in Britain, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and elsewhere — the important role of Black and Arab autoworkers who struck in 1973 in Detroit against their union’s purchase of “Israel Bonds.” Today, amid the ongoing genocide in Palestine, as the bombs create belts of fire, as dozens of Palestinian workers are martyred daily, this moment is perhaps more urgent than ever.

We also express our solidarity with the struggling workers of the world, including the imprisoned labor union and workers’ movement leaders who are held behind bars or face death threats and repression for their role in defending oppressed workers. From India to the Philippines to France, from Colombia to Egypt and Morocco, we stand with these labor movements targeted for repression. The liberation of Palestine is fundamentally linked to the liberation of all from imperialism, exploitation and capitalism.

On International Workers’ Day, these struggles must become an occasion to escalate our work to support Palestinian workers, end the genocide, uphold the resistance, free the prisoners, and liberate Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Source: https://samidoun.net/2025/05/international-workers-day-2025-the-workers-flood-for-palestine-against-genocide-and-imperialism/

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=18848

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Three Hunger Strikers End Their Strike After Elbit Denied British Contract; Umer Khalid Continues Strike for 6th Day

On 14 January 2026, three of the Prisoners for Palestine — Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmad and Lewie C. — announced that they were ending their hunger strike (as they approached imminent death), following the announcement by the British government that Elbit Systems had been denied a £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, after widespread reporting that Elbit would receive the contract. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the Prisoners for Palestine and all of the hunger strikers on this important achievement and upon their sacrifice in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

At the same time, Umer Khalid, another Prisoner for Palestine and one of the Brize Norton 5, has resumed his hunger strike. He has been repeatedly held in solitary confinement and denied his religious rights, while being held on remand for a trial that is not scheduled until January 2027. Umer says, “We must now continue to crush the protective skull of Zionism, which is the UK’s political and military support, under the weight of our collective mobilisation and action. Are you on the outside afraid of consequences when this life is so short? So let them keep us here as long as they want, because you can’t imprison resistance and you can’t kill a revolution. Liberation is a promise and victory is coming insha’Allah.” Umer previously conducted a hunger strike from 4-16 December 2025. It is urgent that we continue to support Umer Khalid and all of the prisoners for Palestine in British and other imperialist jails, imprisoned as part and parcel of imperialist complicity with Zionist genocide in Palestine.

STATEMENT – PRISONERS 4 PALESTINE – 14 JANUARY 2026

After 73 days of hunger strikes which began on Balfour Day, 2 November 2025, as some prisoners are facing imminent death, Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, and Lewie have ended their hunger strikes.

The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the hunger strikers.

The contract, which would have seen Elbit Systems provide training to the British Army over ten years, was lost despite the best efforts of officials in both the Ministry of Defence and the British Army, who it was revealed had been colluding with both Elbit Systems UK and its parent company Elbit Systems in backroom meetings and ‘tours’ to the capital of Palestine, Jerusalem, in a desperate attempt to further entrench their genocidal alliance and help them win the contract.

The abrupt cancellation of this deal is a resounding victory for the hunger strikers, who resisted with their incarcerated bodies in order to shed light on the role of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, in the colonization and occupation of Palestine. Since 2012, Elbit has won 25 public contracts in the UK totaling more than £333 million; the loss of this £2 billion contract marks a significant shift in this sordid “strategic alliance.” With this victory, it has never been clearer that Elbit’s days in Britain are numbered.

In addition to this key demand being met, we want to take this opportunity to celebrate the various victories achieved throughout the duration of the hunger strike:

In the past few weeks alone, hundreds of people have signed up to take action against the genocidal military-industrial complex, more than the number of people who took action with Palestine Action over its five-year campaign. During that five-year campaign, Israeli weapons factories were shut down. Elbit Systems is living on stolen time—we will see it shut down for good, not because of the government, but because of the people.

Heba Muraisi’s transfer to HMP Bronzefield has been accepted by HMP New Hall, where she is currently being held in intentional isolation from her family and friends.

T. Hoxha has been offered a meeting with the head of JEXU (Joint Extremism Unit) at her prison, the very same organization that orchestrates the prisoners’ treatment as ‘terrorists’.

Despite the cruel and constant medical neglect of the hunger strikers, including not logging food refusals, refusal of ambulances in life-threatening emergencies, and degrading treatment in hospitals, the national heads of prison healthcare have met with us at the behest of the Ministry of Justice.

During the hunger strike, some of the prisoners started receiving bulk packages of withelped mail, and in one case received an apology from prison staff for a letter that was delayed by six months. Books on topics of Gaza and feminism have also been given after months of waiting.

In pursuit of a fair trial, the hunger strikers demanded disclosure of export licenses for the last 5 years from Elbit Systems. After repeated requests, this information was disclosed to an independent researcher by the Department of Trade during the hunger strike.

The continued printing of the blood will remain on the stain on Britain’s facade of being a “democratic” country, with no sliver of law and order.

This pathetic and cowardly British government cannot resist authoritarianism; it uses fear to deter rightful protest and dissent, echoing the use of administrative detention against the Palestinian people.

The hunger strike has cemented this fact to the country, and across the world: Britain has political prisoners in service of a foreign genocidal regime. In a time of worsening political repression and widespread propaganda about a non-existent ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, the hunger strike stands as a testament to continued defiance.

The hunger strikers have allowed those of us who were fearful of state repression to be brave—to go out once again onto the streets and fight for justice. The government should know they cannot ban a concept. Cowardly banning one group cannot stop a belief, a movement, a people. This is only the start of our collective fight to free us all, and the road to freedom runs through Palestine.

At the end of his hunger strike, on Elbit losing the £2 billion contract, Lewie said:

It is definitely a time for celebration. A time to rejoice and to embrace our joy as revolution and as liberation… We do this because of Palestine, because we’ve been inspired, because we’ve been tempted to take action and to try to realize our dreams for a free Palestine, for an emancipated world.

As these victories are declared, we turn our efforts and attention to Umer Khalid, the last remaining hunger striker, who continues to use his body as a weapon against the state in pursuit of justice.

source: Samidoun

Three Hunger Strikers End Their Strike After Elbit Denied British Contract; Umer Khalid Continues Strike for 6th Day

On 14 January 2026, three of the Prisoners for Palestine — Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmad and Lewie C. — announced that they were ending their hunger strike (as they approached imminent death), following the announcement by the British government that Elbit Systems had been denied a £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, after widespread reporting that Elbit would receive the contract. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the Prisoners for Palestine and all of the hunger strikers on this important achievement and upon their sacrifice in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

At the same time, Umer Khalid, another Prisoner for Palestine and one of the Brize Norton 5, has resumed his hunger strike. He has been repeatedly held in solitary confinement and denied his religious rights, while being held on remand for a trial that is not scheduled until January 2027. Umer says, “We must now continue to crush the protective skull of Zionism, which is the UK’s political and military support, under the weight of our collective mobilisation and action. Are you on the outside afraid of consequences when this life is so short? So let them keep us here as long as they want, because you can’t imprison resistance and you can’t kill a revolution. Liberation is a promise and victory is coming insha’Allah.” Umer previously conducted a hunger strike from 4-16 December 2025. It is urgent that we continue to support Umer Khalid and all of the prisoners for Palestine in British and other imperialist jails, imprisoned as part and parcel of imperialist complicity with Zionist genocide in Palestine.

STATEMENT – PRISONERS 4 PALESTINE – 14 JANUARY 2026

After 73 days of hunger strikes which began on Balfour Day, 2 November 2025, as some prisoners are facing imminent death, Heba Muraisi, Kamran Ahmed, and Lewie have ended their hunger strikes.

The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the hunger strikers.

The contract, which would have seen Elbit Systems provide training to the British Army over ten years, was lost despite the best efforts of officials in both the Ministry of Defence and the British Army, who it was revealed had been colluding with both Elbit Systems UK and its parent company Elbit Systems in backroom meetings and ‘tours’ to the capital of Palestine, Jerusalem, in a desperate attempt to further entrench their genocidal alliance and help them win the contract.

The abrupt cancellation of this deal is a resounding victory for the hunger strikers, who resisted with their incarcerated bodies in order to shed light on the role of Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, in the colonization and occupation of Palestine. Since 2012, Elbit has won 25 public contracts in the UK totaling more than £333 million; the loss of this £2 billion contract marks a significant shift in this sordid “strategic alliance.” With this victory, it has never been clearer that Elbit’s days in Britain are numbered.

In addition to this key demand being met, we want to take this opportunity to celebrate the various victories achieved throughout the duration of the hunger strike:

In the past few weeks alone, hundreds of people have signed up to take action against the genocidal military-industrial complex, more than the number of people who took action with Palestine Action over its five-year campaign. During that five-year campaign, Israeli weapons factories were shut down. Elbit Systems is living on stolen time—we will see it shut down for good, not because of the government, but because of the people.

Heba Muraisi’s transfer to HMP Bronzefield has been accepted by HMP New Hall, where she is currently being held in intentional isolation from her family and friends.

T. Hoxha has been offered a meeting with the head of JEXU (Joint Extremism Unit) at her prison, the very same organization that orchestrates the prisoners’ treatment as ‘terrorists’.

Despite the cruel and constant medical neglect of the hunger strikers, including not logging food refusals, refusal of ambulances in life-threatening emergencies, and degrading treatment in hospitals, the national heads of prison healthcare have met with us at the behest of the Ministry of Justice.

During the hunger strike, some of the prisoners started receiving bulk packages of withelped mail, and in one case received an apology from prison staff for a letter that was delayed by six months. Books on topics of Gaza and feminism have also been given after months of waiting.

In pursuit of a fair trial, the hunger strikers demanded disclosure of export licenses for the last 5 years from Elbit Systems. After repeated requests, this information was disclosed to an independent researcher by the Department of Trade during the hunger strike.

The continued printing of the blood will remain on the stain on Britain’s facade of being a “democratic” country, with no sliver of law and order.

This pathetic and cowardly British government cannot resist authoritarianism; it uses fear to deter rightful protest and dissent, echoing the use of administrative detention against the Palestinian people.

The hunger strike has cemented this fact to the country, and across the world: Britain has political prisoners in service of a foreign genocidal regime. In a time of worsening political repression and widespread propaganda about a non-existent ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, the hunger strike stands as a testament to continued defiance.

The hunger strikers have allowed those of us who were fearful of state repression to be brave—to go out once again onto the streets and fight for justice. The government should know they cannot ban a concept. Cowardly banning one group cannot stop a belief, a movement, a people. This is only the start of our collective fight to free us all, and the road to freedom runs through Palestine.

At the end of his hunger strike, on Elbit losing the £2 billion contract, Lewie said:

It is definitely a time for celebration. A time to rejoice and to embrace our joy as revolution and as liberation… We do this because of Palestine, because we’ve been inspired, because we’ve been tempted to take action and to try to realize our dreams for a free Palestine, for an emancipated world.

As these victories are declared, we turn our efforts and attention to Umer Khalid, the last remaining hunger striker, who continues to use his body as a weapon against the state in pursuit of justice.

source: Samidoun

International Workers’ Day 2025: The Workers’ Flood for Palestine, Against Genocide and Imperialism

“The sons and daughters of the popular classes of Palestine, the workers, the farmers in the villages, the refugees of the camps, have always been the leaders and the driving force of our Palestinian national liberation movement. The Palestinian popular classes have been the freedom fighters, the strugglers and the resisters on the front lines, confronting the occupation and Zionist colonization in Palestine. And so it is the case that the popular classes of Palestine fill the ranks of the Israeli prisons, the builders of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement continuing on the front lines of resistance, building the ongoing Palestinian revolution.” – Kamil Abu Hanish, imprisoned Palestinian struggler, 2017

This International Workers’ Day, 1 May 2025, is a day of workers’ struggle that comes amid the ongoing imperialist-Zionist genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, as the war machine of capitalism and imperialism aims to grind the flesh and blood of the Palestinian people to fuel its plunder and profits around the world. International Workers’ Day also comes this year amid Al-Aqsa Flood and the ongoing resistance to Zionist-imperialist colonialism and genocide; let this day be a day for the workers of the world to join the people’s great flood against the common enemies of humanity.

On this International Workers’ Day, we salute the Palestinian workers, and the working people and popular masses of the region, who are those who create the ranks of the resistance, who form its popular cradle, who are imprisoned in the dungeons and torture camps of the occupier, and who are targeted for assassination, imprisonment and massacre for carrying out their work: civil defense workers, doctors, nurses and health workers, farmers, fishers, construction workers, aid workers, journalists and media workers, electricians, technicians, security workers, the teachers and domestic workers — all of those whose labor creates the structure of Palestinian society. We salute the workers of the resistance who toil with love and faith below the ground to manufacture the weapons that allow Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and all of the forces of the resistance to defend themselves against the occupier, the imperialist and the genocidaire.

We salute the workers of Yemen, who set an example for the workers in the world in their popular, national and military mobilization that is shutting down the supply lines of genocide in the Red Sea. Today, Yemen, whose workers live under the bombs of the U.S. war machine, presents the greatest example to the world of the implementation of the boycott of the Zionist project and of upholding international law and its absolute prohibition against genocide.

We salute the dockworkers of Morocco, who despite the normalization regime, refused to load and unload the Maersk ships carrying the products of the U.S. war machine to arm the Zionist entity against the Palestinian people. We salute the strugglers of Palestine Action, who put their bodies and freedom on the line to shut down, damage and impose a cost upon the factories that manufacture the weapons of the imperialist-Zionist war machine, particularly Elbit Systems. We salute the tech workers who raise their voices and refuse to participate in the AI and surveillance products being used to target and massacre the Palestinian people and direct the bombs of death and destruction. We salute the Palestinian workers of UNRWA, who are fighting internal repression, criminalization, assassination and destruction to aid their people and defend their right to return. We salute all of those workers of the world who continue to strike and boycott, to confront normalization, to ensure their labour unions and international federations exclude the genocidal “Histadrut,” boycott Zionist bonds, and stand with the Palestinian people and their just cause. We salute the workers who face firing, repression and imprisonment around the world for standing up for Palestine and confronting the genocide.

We echo the call of the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, to the Palestinian workers of the world: “We, the Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora, are part and parcel of the workers of the world. It is long past time to escalate our participation in this struggle to a material level that can shut down the trade routes of genocide, occupation and colonialism, cutting off the flow of weaponry, bombs and artillery that allows the Israeli regime to slaughter Palestinian men, women and children,” and that of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions in Gaza to workers in the United States: “Your struggle for workers’ rights in the United States is inseparable from our struggle against occupation and colonialism. True labor solidarity is demonstrated through actions, not just words, and we count on your awareness and determination to take concrete steps to end this tragedy.”

This International Workers’ Day, we call upon the workers of the world to manifest their material solidarity with the imprisoned, massacred, targeted Palestinian workers under genocide, occupation and colonization, to confront the war machine of imperialism and capitalism, and to constitute an international popular cradle of the Resistance defending humanity by taking real, serious and meaningful collective action to shut down the workplaces, ports and factories that continue to fuel genocide. Examples already exist of the dockworkers in Morocco, South Africa, India, Sweden, Norway, Turkey, Italy, Belgium and even the ILWU on the United States West Coast refusing to handle the occupier’s cargo, shipped by ZIM, Maersk and other complicit profiteers of genocide.

The Zionist entity is an advanced base of U.S. and Western imperialism in the region, and it targets not only Palestinian workers, but the workers of the world. The road to the liberation of the international working class, the defeat of imperialism and capitalism, runs now, centrally and clearly, through ending the genocide, the victory of the Resistance, and the liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea. 

We know that the Palestinian workers in Gaza, with their minds and hands, will rebuild all that has been destroyed by the occupation, as they have many times over the years and indeed, the centuries. It is our responsibility to act now to bring about that new day.

On 1 May 2025, we call upon workers and labour organizations around the world to affirm clearly their position against genocide and with the Palestinian people through:

• General strikes, wildcat strikes and widespread workplace and civil disobedience against genocide and imperialist war crimes. Demand a complete end to the genocide in Gaza, the liberation of all Palestinian prisoners, and full boycott and divestment from all Zionist corporations and imperialist war profiteers complicit in genocide.
• Enforce and impose grassroots and popular sanctions — in the example of Yemeni workers — by refusing to handle the weapons shipments and cargo of ZIM, Maersk and their fellow war profiteers
• Boycotting the Zionist “labour” federation, the Histadrut, “Israel Bonds,” and complicit corporations and organizations
• Acting collectively to defend workers and students targeted for repression, firing, silencing and imprisonment for their action, organizing and speech for Palestine

(We have revised and updated the following text for International Workers’ Day 2025. All images are classic posters of the Palestinian revolution via the Palestine Poster Project.)

Palestinian workers and the popular classes have always played the key, leading role as the force of the Palestinian liberation movement, inside and outside Palestine. The prisoners’ movement is no exception; indeed, the vast majority of Palestinian prisoners come from the working and popular classes, the refugee camps and the villages, and it is these workers who put their bodies and lives on the line for freedom. Today, it is Palestinian workers and popular classes on the front lines confronting a genocidal assault for over 18 months, after 77 years of ongoing genocide.

Palestinian workers: A history of leadership in struggle

Palestinians have engaged in labor organizing from the early days of the 20th century, organizing unions, defending their work against Zionist attempts to exclude Palestinian labor from Palestinian land, and taking action to defend their rights as workers and as indigenous Palestinians.

General strikes have always been a key mechanism of Palestinian resistance, from the earliest revolts of the Palestinian people against British and then Zionist colonialism. In the 1936 revolution, Palestinian workers’ six-month general strike was at that time the longest in the world. This continued over the years, as Palestinian workers in exile built the Palestinian liberation movement and its organizations, and as Palestinian workers and labor unions led in the organizing of the first intifada. UNRWA workers and others in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon paved the way for the modern revolution, as revolutionary leaders like Abu Maher al-Yamani organized refugees for liberation and return on the basis of their trade union work before the Nakba in Palestine.

In the 1950s, Palestinian labor organizers in occupied Palestine ’48 were jailed as they attempted to keep their organizations intact under martial law. At least seven Palestinian trade union leaders were deported from the West Bank between 1969 and 1979. These attacks happened as Palestinians inside Israeli jails fought to end forced labor, a victory that was achieved only through great sacrifice. Omar Shalabi, a Syrian prisoner, was killed under torture in October 1973 during the protests against Israeli forced labor.

Targeting and imprisonment of Palestinian workers

Palestinian workers are regularly subject to colonial forms of imprisonment, from the political targeting of workers’ organizations to the mass criminalization of Palestinians seeking employment inside occupied Palestine ’48. Palestinian workers are frequently arrested for “entering Israel without a permit,” despite the fact that many of these same workers are Palestinian refugees denied their right to return to their original homes and lands for the past 74 years. The systematic siege and subjugation of the Palestinian economy, from the texts of the Paris Protocols to the so-called “Abraham Accords” promoted by U.S. imperialism through their sponsorship of reactionary Arab regimes, has forced thousands of Palestinians to seek work with or without permits as day laborers, often in construction.

At any given time, there are approximately 1000 Palestinians arrested, detained or fined for seeking to work in their own homeland; they are not classified in the Israeli colonial system as “security” prisoners and are thus missing from the statistics related to Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. However, it is clear that everything about these workers’ situation is deeply political – they are imprisoned for their Palestinian existence on Palestinian land, specifically as Palestinian workers. Palestinian workers from Gaza working in the West Bank — as well as those abducted from Gaza — have been subjected to the most extreme and severe forms of torture and abuse, from beating to rape and sexual assault to starvation and sleep deprivation — in the notorious prison and torture camps like Sde Teiman and Anatot.

Palestinian workers are subjected to ongoing abuse at checkpoints, systemic discrimination on the job from the river to the sea, and economic isolation, starvation and siege meant to compel workers into becoming construction workers and servants in illegal settlements. For over 18 years, the siege on Gaza has served as yet another attack on Palestinian workers. Even before the escalated genocide, the Gaza Strip had the highest levels of unemployment in Palestine due to the deliberate targeting of the Palestinian economy and its productive basis, including workers, fishers and farmers. Today, hundreds of thousands more have been forced into unemployment and are targeted daily for death and destruction.

There are currently over 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners jailed by the Zionist regime, including over 3,600 jailed without charge or trial under administrative detention. Confronting torture, abuse and starvation inside the Zionist jails, which has led to the martyrdom of over 65 prisoners over the past 18 months, the Palestinian prisoners are on the front lines of Palestinian resistance on a daily basis. They are leaders in the Palestinian, Arab and international camp of resistance — and like the freedom fighters and martyrs of Palestine, they represent the workers and popular classes of Palestine, those who face multiple forms of exploitation and oppression at the hands of the Zionist regime. The liberation of the prisoners is so precious to the Palestinian people and their resistance that it was a central goal of Al-Aqsa Flood and the great crossing of struggle. Freedom for Palestinian prisoners is essential to the liberation of the Palestinian working class and popular masses — the central feature of the liberation of Palestine from imperialism and Zionism, from the river to the sea.

The Histadrut: A colonialist entity that must be boycotted

The drive to exclude Palestinian workers has always been part of the Zionist colonial project. This has been reflected in the founding principles and continued operation of the Israeli Histadrut, a trade union federation founded with the explicit purpose of promoting Zionist colonization of Palestinian land and excluding Palestinian labor. Despite having a fraternal relationship with the AFL-CIO and other major labor unions worldwide, it actually exploits Palestinian workers inside “Israel” by deducting fees from their salaries while denying them benefits, let alone its ongoing and systematic role as part of the Zionist-imperialist machine of genocide. Its role predates the Nakba and continues to reflect this colonial relationship. Today, it must be more clear than ever: any relationship with the Histadrut is complicity in genocide, and those responsible for complicity in genocide must be held accountable — first and foremost, by the workers.

Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora fight back

Palestinian workers in exile also continue to struggle against exploitation and oppression. In Lebanon, amid the targeting of Lebanon, its people and its Resistance by the Zionist attacks that daily violate the ceasefire, the imperialist powers and financial exploiters, Palestinian refugees continue to be denied access to numerous professions, leading to massive unemployment and frequent despair among the working class. Palestinian refugees forced to flee to Europe, North America and elsewhere from Lebanon, Syria and occupied Palestine confront racist, repressive policies that inhibit their right to work and threaten them with deportation, detention and exclusion.

They confront the racism of “Fortress Europe” and criminalization of refugee workers alongside fellow migrants and workers seeking safety and refuge from the military, social, environmental and economic disasters forced upon their home countries by the very imperialist states that then deny their rights. They face severe exploitation in black market labor. Still, these workers continue to struggle despite all odds not only to confront racism and exclusion in the imperialist countries but also to organize to confront imperialism and win their liberation. Palestinian workers are marching in, leading and organizing the demonstrations that took massively to the streets of the world to confront the genocide and stand with the Palestinian people, and are the first to be targeted for these actions by police and state repression. Workers around the world, and particularly in the imperial core, have been fired, dismissed and imprisoned because they speak out for Palestine, and Palestinian workers in exile and diaspora have been among the foremost examples. Inside and outside Palestine, the workers and popular masses are protecting Palestine and pushing the struggle forward, without compromise.

Confronting imperialism, Arab reactionary regimes and the Oslo Palestinian Authority 

Zionist genocidal colonialism reflects the sharpest edge of capitalist exploitation for the Palestinian working class, backed up fully by the most powerful and dangerous imperialist powers, especially the United States. However, they also face Arab reactionary regimes, such as Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, that are complicit with the exploitation and marginalization of Palestinian workers even as they are complicit with the genocide of the Zionist regime through normalization and direct participation. Palestinian workers are exploited by the ruling class of these states directly in exile and diaspora as well as through their direct engagement with and promotion of the colonial economy of Zionism, and Arab workers are themselves threatened with imprisonment and harsh repression when they take action to defend the Palestinian people.

Palestinian workers also confront Palestinian capitalists and the Palestinian Authority, formed as a security subcontractor to the Israeli occupation. The Jordanian monarchy acted in the 1970s and 1980s to repress union organizing in the interests of Palestinian capitalists, while ultra-wealthy Palestinian capitalists like Bashar al-Masri are on the first lines promoting normalization and undermining the boycott of Israel.

Imperialism is on the attack around the world, using its military might and its weapons of siege and sanctions against peoples around the world. As always, it is workers and the impoverished classes who bear the heaviest brunt of these assaults. Fighting back against imperialism, including U.S., Canadian and EU sanctions on Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and indeed, nearly one-third of the world, in addition to its direct involvement and armament of genocide, its bombing of Yemen, its military interventions, warmongering and ongoing violent attacks on all forms of resistance to imperial domination, is essential to building the movement for Palestine.

A call to the workers’ movements of the world

On International Workers’ Day, we once again amplify the words of Kamil Abu Hanish, speaking from Israeli prison, urging the escalation of the boycott movement: “Today, we call upon you, the fighters for freedom and justice in the world, the workers’ movements, the strugglers for socialism, the movements of revolution, to escalate your support for our struggle, for the Palestinian people and for the Palestinian prisoners. We urge you to act to isolate the occupation state, to hold it accountable for 70 years of crimes against the Palestinian people…The workers’ movements, the movements of the popular classes, the movements of the oppressed, can and must take part in this battle around the world, as part and parcel of the struggle against racism, imperialism and capitalism.”

International workers’ solidarity with Palestine has a long and proud history, including in the heart of the imperial core. See, for example, in the United States — the leading sponsor of the Zionist regime, together with its imperialist partners in Britain, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and elsewhere — the important role of Black and Arab autoworkers who struck in 1973 in Detroit against their union’s purchase of “Israel Bonds.” Today, amid the ongoing genocide in Palestine, as the bombs create belts of fire, as dozens of Palestinian workers are martyred daily, this moment is perhaps more urgent than ever.

We also express our solidarity with the struggling workers of the world, including the imprisoned labor union and workers’ movement leaders who are held behind bars or face death threats and repression for their role in defending oppressed workers. From India to the Philippines to France, from Colombia to Egypt and Morocco, we stand with these labor movements targeted for repression. The liberation of Palestine is fundamentally linked to the liberation of all from imperialism, exploitation and capitalism.

On International Workers’ Day, these struggles must become an occasion to escalate our work to support Palestinian workers, end the genocide, uphold the resistance, free the prisoners, and liberate Palestine, from the river to the sea.

Source: https://samidoun.net/2025/05/international-workers-day-2025-the-workers-flood-for-palestine-against-genocide-and-imperialism/

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On 17 October: Palestinian Resistance Confronts Colonial Assassinations, Imprisonment and Genocide

On 17 October 2025, we mark 24 years since the operation planned and executed by the Martyr Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine: at the Regency Hotel in “Tel Aviv”, fascist Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi was executed by four freedom fighters: Majdi al-Rimawi, Hamdi Qu’ran, Basil Al-Asmar, and Ahed Abu Ghoulmeh. This operation was the fulfillment of a promise made a few weeks before by the new PFLP General Secretary, Ahmad Sa’adat: that the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, PFLP General Secretary, on 27 August 2001 would be avenged: “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a head for a head”.

Throughout Palestine and in the diaspora, masses celebrated this historic operation which marked the highest level “Israeli” official ever successfully targeted by the Resistance. Specifically, the operation marked an important effort to impose parity — and meaningful consequences and accountability — against the long-running assassination policy of the occupation, which has targeted — and continues to target — Palestinian, Lebanese, Yemeni, Iranian and other political and military leaders, writers, theoreticians, scientists, government officials, and revolutionaries.

This is one of the reasons that the occupation continues to refuse to release Sa’adat and the 17 October revolutionaries as a part of a prisoner exchange — Sa’adat, al-Rimawi, Qu’ran, al-Asmar, Abu Ghoulmeh, as well as Mohammed al-Rimawi and Mohammed Sa’adat, Ahmad Sa’adat’s brother, now martyred, are, like fellow imprisoned Resistance leaders Abdullah Barghouti, Ibrahim Hamed, Hassan Salameh, Abbas al-Sayyed, Jamal Abu al-Haija, Anas Jaradat, Muhannad Shreim, Mohammed Arman and Marwan Barghouti, both active leaders as well as symbols to the occupation that reflect the strength, power, and innovation of the armed and popular resistance of the Palestinian people.

Sa’adat, born in 1953 in al-Bireh, Palestine, the son of refugees expelled from their home in Deir Tarif in 1948,  joined the student league of  the PFLP in 1967 and officially joined the PFLP ranks in 1969.  He is married to Abla Sa’adat, herself an activist, liberated by the Resistance and by the steadfastness of the people of Gaza in the Toufan Al-Ahrar prisoner exchange in January 2025, and is the father of four children. A lifelong revolutionary and militant of the Front, he has been arrested and detained multiple times for his militancy: 1969, 1970, 1973, 1975, 1976, 1989, 1992, 1995 and 1996. After being elected to the Central Committee of the PFLP in 1981 and to the Politburo in 1993, he was elected as secretary-general after the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa in August 2001.

After the 17 October operation, and amid the burgeoning Al-Aqsa Intifada, the Palestinian Authority, who had previously detained Sa’adat in 1995 and 1996, and which had engaged in a series of campaigns of persecution, arrest and even assassination targeting resistance organizers in Hamas and Islamic Jihad, once again enforced its policy of security collaboration with the Zionist entity and conducted a ferocious arrest campaign targeted at PFLP members throughout the West Bank and Gaza. “Security coordination” is a mandatory requirement of the PA under the Oslo Accords that created it, ensuring that the PA, and especially its security services, serve as guards for the occupation and pursuers of the Resistance rather than protectors of the security of the Palestinian people from occupation soldier and settler violence.

More than 60 PFLP members were arrested and detained by the PA, including Abu Ghoulmeh, al-Rimawi, Qu’ran and al-Asmar. On 15 January 2002, under the pretext of negotiating for the release of his detained comrades, Sa’adat was lured to a meeting with Tawfiq Tirawi, where security forces of the PA arrested Ahmad Sa’adat. He has remained imprisoned since that time, first in the presidential compound of the PA in Ramallah before he and his comrades were transferred to the PA ‘s Jericho prison in May 2002. There, they were detained in Jericho ostensibly guarded by PA security forces — but under the direction and authority of American, Canadian and British guards.

When the Change and Reform Bloc, the electoral slate associated with Hamas, won the Palestinian Legislative Council elections in 2006, one of their key promises made was to free Ahmad Sa’adat, his comrades, and all of the Palestinian political prisoners held as part of “security coordination” with the Zionist entity. Zionists therefore moved quickly to avoid any potential such outcome. Less than 10 days before Ismail Haniyeh, later the martyred chair of the Hamas Political Bureau, was to be sworn in as the Prime Minister, on 14 March 2006, IOF started a siege of Jericho prison. The American, Canadian and British guards left their posts to clear the path for the occupation, and most of the PA guards surrendered very quickly, although two were martyred by the occupation.

Ahmad Sa’adat and 200 other political prisoners where then kidnapped and taken to zionist jails. Sa’adat was sentenced to 30 years in prison in an occupation court in December 2008. At his trial, he stated: “I do not stand to defend myself in front of your court… I stand to defend my people and their legitimate right to national independence and self-determination and return”. In every key moment, Sa’adat showed great moral integrity and revolutionary commitment to the cause to which he has dedicated his life, the liberation of Palestine and its people. Inside the prisons, he has been a leader in the prisoners’ movement, participating in multiple hunger strikes and collective protests, including the 2015 hunger strike against administrative detention, the 2017 Karameh, or dignity, strike and the 2019 hunger strike.

Throughout the years, Sa’adat has been subjected to particularly difficult conditions of detention and was held in isolation for years. In the past two years, following 7 October 2023 and Al-Aqsa Flood, and amid the genocide in Gaza, leaders of the prisoners’ movement have been particularly targeted for isolation and mistreatment. Both Sa’adat and Abu Ghoulmeh have been repeatedly isolated, denied medical care and abused inside the occupation prisons, with little access to expose the reality of their suffering. In January 2025, it was revealed that Sa’adat had been transferred and held in isolation in Megiddo prison, and that he was assaulted and brutally beaten during his transfer, while he faced dangerous health conditions and denial of medical care. In April 2025, released prisoners also reported that Abu Ghoulmeh had been beaten by occupation jailers while being transferred to Gilboa prison.

The liberated prisoners in the Toufan al-Ahrar exchange have testified to the horrific conditions inside the Zionist prisons and the routine and systematic use of torture, violence, sexual assault, medical abuse, and starvation against the imprisoned Palestinians, while the occupation has returned the bodies of imprisoned martyrs to Gaza in horrific condition, revealing visible signs of torture, blindfolding, handcuffing and hanging.

The assaults against Sa’adat illustrate the larger context of zionists’ attempts to isolate and particularly mistreat the leaders of the prisoners’ movement. This was also illustrated recently during the visit of notorious fascist Itamar Ben Gvir — often compared to Rehavam Ze’evi — to Marwan Barghouti, after which Barghouti was beaten by eight jailers until he lost consciousness; as liberated prisoner Ayman al-Sharabati revealed, they broke four of his ribs in the attack. Throughout the years of captivity, torture, crimes against humanity and abuse by the occupation and its jailers, the leaders of the prisoners’ movement, including Sa’adat and his comrades of the 17 October operation, have remained steadfast.

While we have been celebrating the liberation of 1968 prisoners in the Toufan al-Ahrar exchange’s third stage, obtained through the struggle and leadership of the Resistance and the sacrifice of the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, Sa’adat, his fellow leaders of the prisoners’ movement, including Abu Ghoulmeh, Rimawi, al-Ahmar and Qur’an, and nearly 9,000 more remain in zionist jails. However, despite the severity of the suffering to which they have been subjected, especially in the past two years, the prisoners’ movement remains strong, as it can trust in the Resistance’s strong and sincere commitment to the objective of liberating all prisoners.

This date, 17 October, reminds us that, despite the full-scale impunity provided to the genocidaires by the United States, Britain, Canada, the European Union countries and other imperialist powers, at the hands of the Resistance, Zionist crimes do not go unpunished. As the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades successfully avenged the assassination of Abu Ali Mustafa, national leader and symbol of the Palestinian people, on 17 October 2001, the Palestinian resistance, led by the Izz el-Din al-Qassam Brigades, exposed the illusions of the impenetrability of the Zionist military on the day of the great crossing, 7 October 2023, with the launch of the Al-Aqsa Flood operation and the beginning of the new era of the Palestinian Revolution, and indeed, the global intifada.

Today, the Palestinian Resistance today remains unified, active and committed to the struggle. The recent targeted assassination campaigns against leaders of the Resistance, in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine, in Lebanon, in Yemen, in Qatar, in Iran, have taken the lives of great leaders: from Yahya Sinwar, Ismail Haniyeh and Mohammed Deif, to Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Sayyed Hashem Safieddine and Fouad al-Shukr, to Ahmed al-Rawhi and Mohammed Abdul-Karim al-Ghamari, to Mohammed Bagheri and Mohammed Saeed Izadi.

These crimes must also not remain unpunished. It is not the responsibility of the Resistance alone, but of all international institutions and those who seek justice, to hold the war criminals of the Zionist entity and the imperialist powers, responsible for their genocide, starvation, deliberate murder — and their assassination policy. When the international system fails utterly and instead provides impunity, the example of 17 October is a clear demonstration that the Resistance will not accept the ongoing targeting of their leaders and their people for destruction.

The imprisoned leaders and strugglers, including Sa’adat and the heroes of 17 October, have remained steadfast throughout the years of captivity, torture, mistreatment and crimes. Their stories, alongside the countless stories of Palestinian strugglers in zionist jails, leaders of the Resistance, serve as a call to action for all free people in the world to fight for the liberation of the imprisoned leaders and to impose it upon the Zionist regime.

As Sa’adat has written, “The Palestinian struggle for national liberation is part and parcel of the international movement of peoples for national liberation, international racial and economic justice, and an end to occupation, colonialism and imperialism”.

We urge all supporters of freedom, of Palestine and the Palestinian cause to speak out actively and take action through demonstrations, mass actions and direct actions to demand freedom for all prisoners in Zionist jails. The imperialist powers like the US, France, Canada, the United Kingdom, and their treacherous Arab reactionary allies, continue to arm, support and provide cover for the Zionist project, while pretending to celebrate “peace.” While the Resistance works to put an end to the threat of collaboration and restore life from the ashes of genocide in the Gaza Strip, they seek to threaten further genocide and international foreign occupations of Gaza and all of Palestine. The Palestinian prisoners will not be forgotten, and they will never be isolated from the Palestinian people, the Arab and regional liberation causes, and the international movement for justice. The struggle for the liberation of the prisoners is part and parcel of the struggle for the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine — and the global struggle for liberation, sovereignty and self-determination confronting imperialism, led by the United States.

Glory to the martyrs!

Long Live the Resistance!

Freedom for Ahmad Sa’adat and all prisoners!

Palestine will be free, from the river to the see!

source: Samidoun

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The following statement was written by Samidoun Toronto:

As we enter a new month, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network would like to commemorate Black August. Samidoun’s Toronto chapter honoured the decades-long tradition of calling for the release of all political prisoners and uplifting the Black Liberation struggle through our August 10th Prisoners’ Justice Day event and in attending a Black August art build with our comrades at A Dutty Boukman Book Club.

The first Black August was held in 1979 by the Black Guerrilla Family to commemorate the martyrdoms of revolutionary bothers Jonathan and George Jackson. Both of their lives were taken by the criminal injustice system in the United States. 45 years later, Samidoun honours their legacies by demanding: Free Them All, From Palestine to “Canada”.

Prisons in “Canada” and “Israel” function as an arm of imperialist white supremacy. They quell the people’s dissent against their oppressor and maintain status quo settler-colonial rule. Just like Canadian prisons are designed to capture Black and Indigenous peoples, in “Israel” the Zionist prison system is designed to detain, torture, and martyr Palestinians. In December 2023 in Milton, ON’s Maplehurst Correctional Complex, prisoners were, too, tortured by guards and Canada also has a decades-long history of deaths in custody that is on the rise.

The Palestinian Resistance’s commencement of Al-Aqsa Flood Battle on October 7th was not only a prison break out of besieged Gaza, but also an act to liberate Palestinian prisoners from the clutches of Zionism through a prisoner exchange. We must continue to learn from the Resistance’s steadfastness both within and outside of prison walls and how we can apply these learnings here to join hands with the Black Liberation struggle and beyond.

As September begins, we will continue to uphold and honour the legacies of Black revolutionaries– both past and living. From our solidarity with Stop Cop City in Atlanta to demanding justice for Tylor Coore in Tkaronto to paying tribute to the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising. All prison walls have got to fall! In the words of Black revolutionary Assata Shakur: “And, If I know anything at all/Its that a wall is just a wall/And nothing more at all/It can be broken down”

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Georges Abdallah Will be Free; Palestine Will be Free!

On 25 July 2025, after 40 years in prison and an entire life in struggle, Georges Abdallah will be free! 

Today, Thursday, July 17, 2025, the Paris Court of Appeal has ordered the release of our comrade, Lebanese communist and resistance fighter in the Palestinian liberation struggle, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, who has been imprisoned for over 40 years.

After more than four decades of relentless political and judicial persecution and imprisonment by the French authorities and successive governments, after a life of struggle and steadfast resistance, after decades of mobilization by his supporters to liberate Georges Abdallah from French colonial and imperialist prisons, our comrade is finally set to be released from French custody on July 25.

Our immense joy at the announcement of this decision cannot be complete, however, until he has arrived in Lebanon—on his land, surrounded by comrades, loved ones, and family—he, whose flame of resistance has never been extinguished despite the efforts of France and its allies. Throughout these more than 40 years of imprisonment, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah has stood as a symbol of struggle and determination for entire generations of activists, who have come of age in political engagement with his name in their hearts and have mobilized to demand his release. Even today, from his prison cell, Georges Abdallah remains a living symbol of the resistance of peoples against imperialism, colonialism, and Zionism—an uncompromising resistance that refuses to yield in the face of its enemies. His example has proven vital for the movement in support of the Palestinian people and their resistance over the past decades.

The political responsibility taken on by Georges Abdallah from his prison cell over the past 40 years exemplifies the unique role and mission borne by all revolutionary prisoners— including and particularly the more than 10,800 Palestinian prisoners, and especially the imprisoned leaders of the Palestinian resistance. Those who confront the repressive, colonial, and imperialist prison systems, by virtue of their role before and during their incarceration, embody the advanced front of their people’s resistance to oppression.

As we celebrate the upcoming liberation of our comrade, our hearts and minds remain torn, and our thoughts turn to the more than 10,800 Palestinian prisoners enduring starvation, illness, isolation, violence, sexual assault, and targeted killings in Zionist prisons. We extend our deepest solidarity to the imprisoned leadership of the resistance—those sentenced to dozens, hundreds, even thousands of years, accumulating life sentences, yet whose certainty of being freed through the struggle of their comrades remains unshaken. We think of the fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, loved ones and comrades, in the hands of the enemy, far from those they love, far from the warmth of their communities—yet who, through resistance and struggle, have built a school of struggle and a community of resistance within the Zionist prisons. Our thoughts are with the 73 prisoners who have been martyred in Zionist prisons since October 7, and with the families of the martyrs held in the morgues and “cemeteries of numbers” of the Zionist regime, where over 700 bodies of Palestinian martyrs are being held, stolen from their families, denied a dignified burial—leaving behind a gaping wound no amount of love from their people can fill. We think of all prisoners of the Palestinian cause and all revolutionary prisoners torn from their comrades and loved ones, in Zionist, imperialist, and reactionary prisons around the world. The upcoming liberation of our comrade Georges Ibrahim Abdallah will be their victory, and we will continue to mobilize until we can celebrate theirs as well.

As our comrade Georges Ibrahim Abdallah receives the news of his imminent release in his cramped cell in Lannemezan, and shares it with his fellow detainees, our hearts bleed in the face of the current situation in Gaza and the region more broadly, in the face of the genocide the Palestinian people have endured for over 21 months now. Every liberation of prisoners torn from imperialist and Zionist prisons—especially those who, like Georges, have refused any compromise or betrayal despite decades of incarceration—is a promise of future victory, of better days ahead, and of justice for the lives and futures torn apart by colonial violence.

We extend our most heartfelt and sincere greetings and thanks to the successive generations of comrades who have fought this battle with determination—to those who passed away before seeing this moment, to all those whose hearts beat in unison with our comrade, to the organizations and individuals who dedicated years of their lives, sleepless nights, and months of mobilization to build events and demonstrations; to those who chanted our comrade’s name in the streets, on university campuses, and wherever their steps led them. This is a collective victory—a victory for an entire movement—which must serve as a foundation to continue the struggle and win further victories, until the liberation of Palestine, from the River to the Sea.

Let’s continue mobilizing until July 25 and the arrival of our comrade in Lebanon!
Freedom for all our prisoners!
Glory to the Palestinian resistance!
From the River to the Sea: Palestine will Win

source: Samidoun

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=20409

#France #georgesAbdallah #lebanon #palestine #repression #resistance #samidoun

MANIFESTACIÓ: En la Víspera del Juicio de Georges Abdallah

Plaça Universitat, dimecres, 16 de juliol, a les 19:00 CEST

MANIFESTACIÓN EN LA VÍSPERA DEL JUICIO DE GEORGES ABDALLAH

El pasado 19 de junio, el tribunal francés aplazó su decisión una vez más sobre la liberación del militante internacionalista libanés Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, encarcelado desde hace más de 40 años, hasta el 17 de julio.

Respondemos al llamamiento de la campaña unitaria por la liberación de Georges Abdallah y intensificamos nuestras acciones para que Georges sea finalmente liberado el 17 de julio. No pararemos hasta su liberación!

¡Georges debe ser liberado el 17 de julio! ¡Palestina vivirá y vencerá!

Para mas información, sigue nuestro canal de telegram: https://t.me/samidounbarcelona

Donde: Plaça Universitat (Barcelona)

Cuando: miércoles 16 de julio a las 19

https://bcn.convoca.la/event/manifestacio-en-la-vispera-del-juicio-de-georges-abdallah

Achtung #Münster! Für heute 18Uhr und Samstag 14Uhr kündigt die aggressiv antisemitische Gruppe #PalästinaKolonial zwei Veranstaltungen an, die zur Solidarität mit der #Hamas aufrufen. Es ist damit zu rechnen, dass neben #Israelhass die verbotene #Samidoun unterstützt wird.

Achtung #Berlin: die #Solidaritätskundgebung „Aufstehen gegen #Israelhass und #Antisemitismus“ in #Neukölln ist abgesagt aus Sicherheitsgründen. Zuvor war die antisemitische Demonstration der #Hamas
Freunde #Samidoun verboten worden.

www.rbb24.de/politik/beit...

Nachtrag zu „Palästina Solidarität Duisburg“:
#samidoun #du0910
mein video
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/111207021562641130
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/111207168486744699

#NRW hat die Israelhasser aus #Duisburg verboten
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/durchsuchung-duisburg-verein-verbot-hamas-100.html

Razzia läuft.

#Antisemitismus #FuckAntisemitism #Wystrychowski

Nachtrag zu „Palästina Solidarität Duisburg“:
#samidoun #du0910
mein video
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/111207021562641130
https://digitalcourage.social/@sl007/111207168486744699

#NRW hat die Israelhasser aus #Duisburg verboten
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/durchsuchung-duisburg-verein-verbot-hamas-100.html

Razzia läuft.

#Antisemitismus #FuckAntisemitism #Wystrychowski

#du0910 #duisburg #samidoun
#palästinenser

unkommentierte Videozusammenfassung von eben:
https://youtu.be/eJJ1AeoS1BU

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Bundespräsident Steinmeier

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