Statement of Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
On October 15, the United States and Canada sanctioned Samidoun in an
attempt to repress political organizing in support of the Palestinian
people's struggle against genocide, colonialism and occupation, and the
more than 10,000 Palestinian political prisoners that are being
tortured and killed
by the Zionist entity. [...]
These decisions come at a time when the Zionist entity continues its genocide and massacres in Gaza, all of Palestine and Lebanon with full support from the U.S., Canada and the European Union. It is a coordinated attempt by the enemies of the Palestinian people to stop every form of solidarity with the Palestinian people and political organizing efforts to end Israel's genocide, crimes against humanity and occupation.
Our response to this designation is clear: we will keep struggling to stop the genocide, stop imperialist support for Israel, until the liberation of Palestine from the river to the sea. [...]
This designation and sanctions should be of serious concern to all who carry out political work, especially for Palestinian liberation, just like the banning of Samidoun in Germany in November 2023. It is meant to introduce a norm in which organizations may be designated as "terrorist" for organizing demonstrations, lectures, publishing posters and engaging in entirely public and political work that challenges imperialist states' complicity in Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ongoing genocide in Gaza. It comes at a time when more people than ever are speaking out for justice and liberation in Palestine and is meant as an attack on the movement as a whole. [...]
All mainstream political parties, from Democrats to Republicans, and from social democrats to the extreme right-wing, have used the past year to propagate more racist, Islamophobic and repressive measures against the Palestinian people, Arabs, Muslims, refugees, migrants and activists. This repression reflects the interests of the U.S. and Canada, themselves settler-colonial states built on genocide, ethnic cleansing and continued oppression of the Indigenous Peoples, and Europe, the birthplace of the Zionist movement. [...]
Samidoun is particularly targeted because of our political and vocal support for the Palestinian prisoner movement and the Palestinian people's right to resistance. While the U.S. and Canada are two of Israel's biggest material supporters with weapons and money and repress the Palestinian movement in their own countries, their official outposts abroad have frequently sought to influence and direct Palestinian politics through conditional funding and similar colonial enterprises. Through these sanctions, the U.S. and Canada wish not only to support genocide but to criminalize even verbal resistance to that genocide. The Palestinian people, like all colonized and oppressed peoples, have the right to resist to liberate themselves and their land from colonialism and occupation, from the river to the sea. Those who resist occupation and oppression -- the Palestinian resistance -- are not only heroes of the Palestinian people, they are defenders of all of humanity.
As Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, we reiterate our support for the Palestinian people, the prisoners and the Palestinian, Arab and Islamic resistance, who are confronting the genocide and occupation on a daily basis.
At the same time, we want to stress that Samidoun does not have any material or organizational ties to entities listed on the terrorist lists of the United States, Canada or the European Union.
We reiterate: In Arabic, the word "Samidoun," means those who are steadfast. We use this name to refer to the Palestinian prisoners, who remain behind bars, struggling for freedom. Today we affirm that we shall remain steadfast and committed to the Palestinian people, until victory, return and liberation.
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This article was published in
October 17, 2024
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