Over 200 organizations have joined together to call for the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar, the imprisoned Palestinian feminist, leftist parliamentarian. Jarrar, a leading advocate for Palestinian prisoners’ rights, has been jailed without charge or trial under Israeli administrative detention for nearly a year.

The organizations who have expressed their support for Jarrar’s freedom include political parties, feminist groups, Palestinian community and Palestine solidarity groups, Indigenous justice, prison abolition and prison justice organizations, human rights organizations, legal groups and more from over 20 countries.

Jarrar has been jailed since 2 July 2017, when she was seized in a night raid on her home in El-Bireh by Israeli occupation forces. On 14 June 2018, she was informed that her detention would be extended for another four months, a sentence that is scheduled to be confirmed in an Israeli military court on 2 July 2018.

We are calling for days of action for the freedom of Khalida Jarrar between 30 June and 2 July. It is more important than ever that our voices are heard and our actions are visible. Protests are already being organized in New York and elsewhere around the world. You can download flyers, materials and visit petitions to join the campaign here: http://samidoun.net/2018/06/take-action-to-free-khalida-jarrar-june-30-july-2-organize-for-freedom/

You are invited to add your organization’s name to the following statement to demand freedom for imprisoned Palestinian leader Khalida Jarrar! We will continue to update this statement and re-release with additional signatories. To endorse, please use the form or email samidoun@samidoun.net with your group’s name.

Freedom for Khalida Jarrar! End administrative detention!

We, the undersigned organizations, come together to demand freedom for Palestinian political leader Khalida Jarrar, prominent leftist, feminist, prisoners’ rights advocate and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council. She has been imprisoned without charge and without trial since July 2017 – and now the Israeli military occupation has declared that her imprisonment will be extended for an additional four months.

On July 2, 2017, Khalida Jarrar’s home was raided by Israeli occupation soldiers in a pre-dawn raid. She was ordered shortly thereafter to administrative detention, imprisonment without charge or trial. She is one of approximately 450 Palestinians held under administrative detention, a relic of the British colonial mandate that has been used by the Israeli occupation to jail thousands of Palestinian community and political leaders, and one of approximately 6,100 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails.

In December 2017, her detention was renewed for another six months. Now, another military order declares that she will be imprisoned for four more months. Administrative detention orders can be issued for up to six months at a time and are indefinitely renewable. Palestinians can spend years at a time jailed under these orders, never knowing when they could be released, if ever.

As Addameer notes, “This practice of arbitrary detention is a grave violation of international laws and human rights standards, particularly articles 78 and 72 of the Fourth Geneva Convention which state that an accused individual has the right to defend him/herself. This also violates Article 66 of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the basic standards of fair trial.”

On July 2, an Israeli military court is scheduled to approve the detention order. Jarrar, like all administrative detainees, has boycotted these hearings since February, as they are mere rubber-stamp sessions used as a fig leaf to “legitimize” the arbitrary imprisonment of Palestinians.

Jarrar is a Palestinian political leader, representing the Abu Ali Mustafa Bloc, allied with the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in the Palestinian Legislative Council. She is a frequent leader and participant in demonstrations and popular actions for Palestinian freedom, a a long-time Palestinian political prisoners’ advocate and former executive director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association and now a member of its board, and chair of the Prisoners’ Committee of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

She has also been active in the Palestinian women’s movement since her earliest days as a university student organizing with other female students to challenge the occupation. She is a leading organizer of International Women’s Day events in Palestine and coordinates closely with Palestinian women’s organizations. “Palestinian women are full partners in the Palestinian struggle,” she emphasizes.

Khalida Jarrar is heavily involved in the fight to hold Israeli officials accountable for war crimes in the International Criminal Court. She is a member of a Palestinian commission charged with bringing complaints and files before the international court about ongoing Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people, from attacks on Gaza to land confiscation and settlement construction to mass arrests and imprisonment.

Since 1998, she has been forbidden to travel outside occupied Palestine. When she needed medical treatment in Jordan in 2010, she struggled for months in a public campaign before finally receiving it. The Israeli occupation attempted to forcibly displace her from her home to Jericho in 2014, and in 2015, arrested and jailed her 14 months for her political activities.

The extended administrative detention of Khalida Jarrar is an attempt to remove an effective, grassroots leader from the Palestinian national movement. Especially now, when people are taking to the streets throughout occupied Palestine and thousands are marching in Gaza for the Great Return March, leaders like her are targeted for arrest and imprisonment in an attempt to defuse the Palestinian struggle.

Khalida Jarrar is being targeted as a Palestinian leader, a Palestinian voice for justice, and an active Palestinian woman. Her imprisonment is yet another attack by the Israeli colonial state against the Palestinian people struggling for freedom, and administrative detention and the mass imprisonment of Palestinians are two of the weapons used in an attempt to break the Palestinian liberation movement.

We come together today to demand the immediate release of Khalida Jarrar, an end to the policy and practice of administrative detention and freedom for Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails. We pledge to struggle for justice through protests, actions, organizing and escalating boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) actions against Israel, in Khalida’s own spirit of resistance.

Signed,

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition Al-Awda, The Palestine Right of Return Movement Action Antifasciste NP2C Actions4Palestine Alkarama Movement of Palestinian Women Al-Quds Day Committee of New York American Muslims for Palestine – NY/NJ American Party of Labor Anticapitalistas Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland Anti Internment Group London Anti-Zionist and Anti-Imperialist Friends of Palestine ArbeiterInnenmacht (Germany) Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt (Austria) Asociación Palestina BILADI Association Belgo-Palestinienne Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine (AURDIP) Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), India Association France-Palestine Solidarité Association France-Palestine Solidarité — Groupe du Pays de Cornouaille AFPS 63 (Association France Palestine Solidarité 63) AFPS 59/62 AFPS Albertville AFPS Alès-Cévennes AFPS Paris 14-6 Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina Assopace Palestina – Italy ATIK – Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe BAF – Brigade Antifasciste de Strasbourg Balfour Declaration Centenary Campaign BDS Berlin BDS France Saint-Étienne BDS France Toulouse BDS Italia BDS Turkey BDS UChile (Universidad de Chile) BDS Vancouver-Coast Salish BDS Zürich Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI) Biellesi per la Palestina Libera Committee Black Alliance for Peace Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (aka Boycott from Within – Israeli citizens for BDS) Bruxelles Panthéres Cafe Palestina of the Southern Berkshires California Coalition for Women Prisoners Campagne BDS France Campagne unitaire pour la libération de Georges Ibahim Abdallah (Paris) Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat Canada Palestine Association Canadian BDS Coalition Canadian Friends of Sabeel Centre de la Communauté Démocratique Kurde de Toulouse Cercle de Silence – Amiens Christchurch Progressive Network Coalition for Justice – Blacksburg Coalition of Women for Peace CODEPINK – Women for Peace Colectivo Contraimpunidad Collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien Collectif de Soutien à la Résistance Palestinienne 59-62 Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine Collectif Justice pour la Palestine Annecy Collectif pour la Libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah Colletivo Palestina Rossa Comité Internacional Paz,Justicia y Dignidad a los Pueblos Comité de Vigilance pour la Démocratie en Tunisie Comité Poitevin Palestine Comite pour le Respect des Libetés et des Droits de l Homme en Tunisie CRLDHT Committee to Stop FBI Repression – National Committee to Stop FBI Repression – NY Committees for a Democratic Palestine – Europe Communist Party, Sweden Coordinamento Napoli Palestin Coordinamento di Solidarietà con la Palestina – Sicilia Corsica Internaziunalista Corvallis Palestine Solidarity Coup Pour Coup 31 Dones x Dones Dun Padraig Friends of Palestine Egitim Sen Istanbul 6 Nolu Üniversiteler Subesi EH Bildu municipal group of Donostia Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival Familles de prisonniers pour la Justice – Belgique Femmes en lutte 93 Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Manchester F.O.R. 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International Action Center International Association of Democratic Lawyers International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) Spain International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network – Canada International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) International Red Help International Women’s Alliance Internationalt Forum – Denmark Invictapalestina – Documentation Center Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA) Irish Socialist Republicans ISM France Izquierda Unida – Spain Jacksonville Community Action Committee Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network Jericho Movement – National Jericho Movement – New York City Jersey City Peace Movement Jeune Garde Lyon Jeunes Révolutionnaires Genève Jeunes Révolutionnaires Vaud Jewish Liberation Theology Institute Jewish People’s Liberation Organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/ Palestine Jews Against Genocide (JAG) Jews for Palestinian Right of Return Justice For Palestinians, Calgary Justice for Palestinians – San Jose Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines Katie Miranda Studios Kia Ora Gaza (New Zealand) Kickapoo Peace Circle LA4Palestine Labor for Palestine Laura Wells for Congress, District 13 La Voix des Prisonnier.ère.s Politiques de Turquie et Kurdistan Le Collectif Rouge Internationaliste pour la libération des prisonniers révolutionnaires (Paris) Le Comité d’action et de soutien aux luttes du peuple marocain (Paris) League for the Fifth International Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre Links Ecologisch Forum/Forum Gauche Ecologie – LEF-FGE Libérons-les London Palestine Action Madison-Rafah Sister City Project MADRE Manchester Boycott Israel Group Manchester Palestine Action Mouvement Citoyens Palestine National Campaign to Free Georges Abdallah – Lebanon National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy National Lawyers Guild International Committee National Lawyers Guild- Massachusetts Chapter National Student Federation (Pa New Orleans Workers Group Newry Palestinian Support Group NION (Not In Our Name) No One Is Illegal – Vancouver Coast Salish Territories NY4Palestine NYU Disorientation Guide NYU Jewish Voice for Peace NZ Palestine Solidarity Network Palbox Palestine Democratic Forum Palestine International Network – Lebanon Palestine Solidarity Committee – Austin, TX Palestine Solidarity Network – Edmonton Palestinian Child and Youth Institute (PCYI) Palestinian Cultural Club – American University of Beirut Palestinian Cultural Club – Beirut Palestinian Progressive Student Bloc Palestinian Refugee Portal Palestinian Support Centre- Kingston ON Palestinians and Jews Decolonize Palestina Toma La Calle Palestinian Youth Movement – USA Partido Comunista de España Party for Socialism and Liberation Paz con Dignidad People Power Assembly Queens People’s Power Assembly Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine Popular Resistance Potere al popolo Biella e Valsesia Party Progetto Palestina Progressive Palestinian Youth Union Progressive Scouts Group – Gaza Progressive Student Labor Front (Palestine) Project South Queer Palestinian Empowerment Network RAGE – Réseau d’Agitation Genève RedMed Web Network Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Republican Network for Unity Revolutionary Socialist Movement (Pakistan) Revolutionary Workers Party (DİP) (Turkey) REVOLUTION (youth movement) Rifondazione Comunista Biellese Party Right of Return Coalition – Baddawi Camp, Lebanon (composed of 22 organizations) Saoradh Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign Secours Rouge Belgique / Red Help Belgium Secours Rouge Canada Secours Rouge Genève Sheffield Hallam Palestine Society Sheffield Labour Friends of Palestine Sheffield Labour Students Sheffield Palestine Education Network Sodepaz Euskadi Solidarity with Palestine St. John’s Studenten voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina (SRP-NL) Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University Students for Justice in Palestine – CCNY Students for Justice in Palestine – College of Staten Island Students for Justice in Palestine – Houston Students for Justice in Palestine – NYU Students for Justice in Palestine – Temple University Students for Justice in Palestine at University of South Carolina Syria Solidarity Movement Taqadomy Media Team TJA (Tevgera Jinên Azad) – Free Women Movement The Bronx Green Party The Palestine Project The Red Nation Toronto BDS Action UNADIKUM Association United National Antiwar Campaign (UNAC) Union of Palestinian Communities and Institutions – Europe Unión de Juventudes Comunistas de España Unione Democratica Arabe Palestina (UDAP) Union des consommateurs musulmans de la région parisienne Union juive française pour la paix (UJFP) United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network United for Palestine Toronto/GTA University of Leeds – Palestine Solidarity Group University of Sheffield Palestine Society UGEP (Unión General de Estudiantes Palestinos Chile) US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) Vermonters for Justice in Palestine Victoria Coalition against Israeli Apartheid Victory to the Intifada Manchester Vlaams-Socialistische Beweging (Flanders) Vrede vzw WESPAC Foundation Within Our Lifetime • United for Palestine Women Against Military Madness Women In Solidarity With Palestine Women for Women’s Humans Rights – New Ways Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP) Women’s Solidarity Foundation (KADAV)-Turkey Workers World Party YECHOUROUN-Judaisme contre sionisme Young Democratic Socialists – University of South Carolina

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