Graffiti in France urging Khalida’s release. Photo: Coup Pour Coup 31

International support for detained Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar is continuing to grow. The leftist, feminist Palestinian leader and advocate for political prisoners has been jailed by Israel without charge or trial for a year. The Israeli military recently ordered her to another four months of administrative detention, an extension awaiting approval by an occupation military court.

275 international political parties, feminist organizations, solidarity groups, student organizations, social justice movements and others have signed on to the campaign to free Khalida Jarrar, coming together in a common statement to demand her release. Since the statement was announced last week, over 90 organizations have added their endorsements, including the third-largest party in the Turkish parliament, the HDP (People’s Democratic Party).

In France, anti-imperialist collective Coup Pour Coup 31 – a member of the Samidoun network – noted the appearance of “Free Khalida Jarrar” graffiti in the Toulouse area, demanding the release of all Palestinian prisoners.

New Yorkers demonstrated outside the offices of the “Friends of the IDF,” an organization that raises money for the Israeli occupation army, demanding Jarrar’s release, on 30 June. Samidoun activists and others distributed information and material about her case and the situation of Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails.

In Berlin, a Samidoun delegation visited the South African ambassador, with information about the situation in Palestine and the case of Khalida Jarrar. The South African government has officially called for Jarrar’s release, from the time of her arrest in 2017.

And in Gaza, Palestinians took to the streets to call for freedom for Khalida Jarrar and Hassan Shokeh, a fellow administrative detainee who has been on hunger strike for nearly a month. Gathering outside the offices of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza, demonstrators demanded the abolition of administrative detention and the freedom of Palestinian prisoners.

It is more important than ever that our voices are heard and our actions are visible to demand freedom for Khalida Jarrar and all Palestinian prisoners. 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,

1. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
2. Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
3. Al-Awda, The Palestine Right of Return Movement
4. Action Antifasciste NP2C
5. Actions4Palestine
6. Alkarama Movement of Palestinian Women
7. Al-Quds Day Committee of New York
8. American Muslims for Palestine – NY/NJ
9. American Party of Labor
10. Anticapitalistas
11. Anti-Imperialist Action Ireland
12. Anti Internment Group London
13. Anti-Zionist and Anti-Imperialist Friends of Palestine
14. ArbeiterInnenmacht (Germany)
15. Arbeiter*innenstandpunkt (Austria)
16. Asociación Palestina BILADI
17. Association Belgo-Palestinienne
18. Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine (AURDIP)
19. Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR), India
20. Association France-Palestine Solidarité
21. Association France-Palestine Solidarité — Groupe du Pays de Cornouaille
22. AFPS 63 (Association France Palestine Solidarité 63)
23. AFPS 59/62
24. AFPS Albertville
25. AFPS Alès-Cévennes
26. AFPS Paris 14-6
27. Associazione Amicizia Sardegna Palestina
28. Assopace Palestina – Italy
29. ATIK – Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe
30. BAF – Brigade Antifasciste de Strasbourg
31. Balfour Declaration Centenary Campaign
32. BDS Berlin
33. BDS France Saint-Étienne
34. BDS France Toulouse
35. BDS Italia
36. BDS Turkey
37. BDS UChile (Universidad de Chile)
38. BDS Vancouver-Coast Salish
39. BDS Zürich
40. Belgian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (BACBI)
41. Biellesi per la Palestina Libera Committee
42. Black Alliance for Peace
43. Boycott! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (aka Boycott from Within – Israeli citizens for BDS)
44. Bruxelles Panthéres
45. Cafe Palestina of the Southern Berkshires
46. California Coalition for Women Prisoners
47. Campagne BDS France
48. Campagne unitaire pour la libération de Georges Ibahim Abdallah (Paris)
49. Campaign to Boycott Supporters of “Israel” in Lebanon
50. Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat
51. Canada Palestine Association
52. Canadian BDS Coalition
53. Canadian Friends of Sabeel
54. Centre de la Communauté Démocratique Kurde de Toulouse
55. Cercle de Silence – Amiens
56. Christchurch Progressive Network
57. Coalition for Justice – Blacksburg
58. Coalition of Women for Peace
59. CODEPINK – Women for Peace
60. Colectivo Contraimpunidad
61. Collectif 69 de soutien au peuple palestinien
62. Collectif de Soutien à la Résistance Palestinienne 59-62
63. Collectif Judéo Arabe et Citoyen pour la Palestine
64. Collectif Justice pour la Palestine Annecy
65. Collectif pour la Libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
66. Colletivo Palestina Rossa
67. Comité Internacional Paz,Justicia y Dignidad a los Pueblos
68. Comité de Vigilance pour la Démocratie en Tunisie
69. Comité Poitevin Palestine
70. Comite pour le Respect des Libetés et des Droits de l Homme en Tunisie CRLDHT
71. Committee to Stop FBI Repression – National
72. Committee to Stop FBI Repression – NY
73. Committees for a Democratic Palestine – Europe
74. Communist Party, Sweden
75. Coordinamento Napoli Palestin
76. Coordinamento di Solidarietà con la Palestina – Sicilia
77. Corsica Internaziunalista
78. Corvallis Palestine Solidarity
79. Coup Pour Coup 31
80. Dones x Dones
81. Dun Padraig Friends of Palestine
82. Egitim Sen Istanbul 6 Nolu Üniversiteler Subesi
83. EH Bildu municipal group of Donostia
84. Eye On Palestine Arts and Film Festival
85. Familles de prisonniers pour la Justice – Belgique
86. Femmes en lutte 93
87. Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! Manchester
88. F.O.R. Palestine (Berlin)
89. Free Gaza Movement
90. Free Palestine Movement
91. Freedom Archives
92. Freedom Road Socialist Organization
93. Friends of Palestine Network
94. Friends of Sabeel North America
95. Frihet åt Ahed Tamimi Göteborg
96. Fronte Palestina
97. Gaza Action Ireland
98. General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS Aix-Marseille)
99. General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS France)
100. Gents Actieplatform Palestina
101. Global Campaign for Palestinian Political Prisoners (GCPPP)
102. Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
103. Greek Front of Resistance and Solidarity with Palestine “Ghassan Kanafani”
104. Green Mountain Solidarity with Palestine
105. Greenville for Gaza
106. Groupe Non-Violent LOUIS LECOIN
107. Handala Center for Prisoners and Former Prisoners – Palestine
108. Harakat Shaab – Lebanon
109. HDP Peoples’ Democratic Party
110. HDP (Peoples’ Democratic Party) Central Women’s Assembly
111. Hilombé Solidaridad
112. Human Rights Defenders
113. ICAHD
114. If Americans Knew
115. Independent Jewish Voices – Canada
116. Indivisible Midlands
117. Inminds Human Rights Group
118. intal
119. International Action Center
120. International Association of Democratic Lawyers
121. International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
122. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) Spain
123. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network – Canada
124. International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS)
125. International Red Help
126. International Women’s Alliance
127. Internationalt Forum – Denmark
128. Invictapalestina – Documentation Center
129. Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
130. Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association (IRPWA)
131. Irish Socialist Republicans
132. ISM France
133. Izquierda Unida – Spain
134. Jacksonville Community Action Committee
135. Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network
136. Jericho Movement – National
137. Jericho Movement – New York City
138. Jersey City Peace Movement
139. Jeune Garde Lyon
140. Jeunes Révolutionnaires Genève
141. Jeunes Révolutionnaires Vaud
142. Jewish Liberation Theology Institute
143. Jewish People’s Liberation Organization
144. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
145. Jewish Women for Justice in Israel/ Palestine
146. Jews Against Genocide (JAG)
147. Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
148. Justice For Palestinians, Calgary
149. Justice for Palestinians – San Jose
150. Karapatan Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights – Philippines
151. Katie Miranda Studios
152. Kia Ora Gaza (New Zealand)
153. Kickapoo Peace Circle
154. LA4Palestine
155. Labor for Palestine
156. Laura Wells for Congress, District 13
157. La Voix des Prisonnier.ère.s Politiques de Turquie et Kurdistan
158. Le Collectif Rouge Internationaliste pour la libération des prisonniers révolutionnaires (Paris)
159. Le Comité d’action et de soutien aux luttes du peuple marocain (Paris)
160. League for the Fifth International
161. Liga Argentina por los Derechos del Hombre
162. Links Ecologisch Forum/Forum Gauche Ecologie – LEF-FGE
163. Libérons-les
164. London Palestine Action
165. Madison-Rafah Sister City Project
166. MADRE
167. Manchester Boycott Israel Group
168. Manchester Palestine Action
169. Mouvement Citoyens Palestine
170. National Campaign to Free Georges Abdallah – Lebanon
171. National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy
172. National Lawyers Guild International Committee
173. National Lawyers Guild- Massachusetts Chapter
174. National Student Federation (Pa
175. New Orleans Workers Group
176. Newry Palestinian Support Group
177. NION (Not In Our Name)
178. No One Is Illegal – Vancouver Coast Salish Territories
179. NY4Palestine
180. NYU Disorientation Guide
181. NYU Jewish Voice for Peace
182. NZ Palestine Solidarity Network
183. Palbox
184. Palestine Democratic Forum
185. Palestine International Network – Lebanon
186. Palestine Solidarity Committee – Austin, TX
187. Palestine Solidarity Network – Edmonton
188. Palestinian Child and Youth Institute (PCYI)
189. Palestinian Cultural Club – American University of Beirut
190. Palestinian Cultural Club – Beirut
191. Palestinian Progressive Student Bloc
192. Palestinian Refugee Portal
193. Palestinian Support Centre- Kingston ON
194. Palestinians and Jews Decolonize
195. Palestina Toma La Calle
196. Palestinian Youth Movement – USA
197. Partido Comunista de España
198. Party for Socialism and Liberation
199. Paz con Dignidad
200. People Power Assembly Queens
201. People’s Power Assembly
202. Pittsburgh Palestine Solidarity Committee
203. Plate-Forme Charleroi-Palestine
204. Popular Resistance
205. Potere al popolo Biella e Valsesia Party
206. Progetto Palestina
207. Progressive Palestinian Youth Union
208. Progressive Scouts Group – Gaza
209. Progressive Student Labor Front (Palestine)
210. Project South
211. Queer Palestinian Empowerment Network
212. RAGE – Réseau d’Agitation Genève
213. RedMed Web Network
214. Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP
215. Republican Network for Unity
216. Revolutionary Socialist Movement (Pakistan)
217. Revolutionary Workers Party (DİP) (Turkey)
218. REVOLUTION (youth movement)
219. Rifondazione Comunista Biellese Party
220. Right of Return Coalition – Baddawi Camp, Lebanon (composed of 22 organizations)
221. Saoradh
222. Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
223. Secours Rouge Belgique / Red Help Belgium
224. Secours Rouge Canada
225. Secours Rouge Genève
226. Sheffield Hallam Palestine Society
227. Sheffield Labour Friends of Palestine
228. Sheffield Labour Students
229. Sheffield Palestine Education Network
230. Sodepaz Euskadi
231. Solidarity with Palestine St. John’s
232. Studenten voor Rechtvaardigheid in Palestina (SRP-NL)
233. Students Against Israeli Apartheid at York University
234. Students for Justice in Palestine – CCNY
235. Students for Justice in Palestine – College of Staten Island
236. Students for Justice in Palestine – Houston
237. Students for Justice in Palestine – NYU
238. Students for Justice in Palestine – Temple University
239. Students for Justice in Palestine at University of South Carolina
240. Syria Solidarity Movement
241. Taqadomy Media Team
242. TJA (Tevgera Jinên Azad)  – Free Women Movement
243. The Bronx Green Party
244. The Palestine Project
245. The Red Nation
246. Toronto BDS Action
247. UNADIKUM Association
248. United National Antiwar Campaign (UNAC)
249. Union of Palestinian Communities and Institutions – Europe
250. Unión de Juventudes Comunistas de España
251. Unione Democratica Arabe Palestina (UDAP)
252. Union des consommateurs musulmans de la région parisienne
253. Union juive française pour la paix (UJFP)
254. United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network
255. United for Palestine Toronto/GTA
256. University of Leeds – Palestine Solidarity Group
257. University of Sheffield Palestine Society
258. UGEP (Unión General de Estudiantes Palestinos Chile)
259. US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI)
260. US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN)
261. Vermonters for Justice in Palestine
262. Victoria Coalition against Israeli Apartheid
263. Victory to the Intifada Manchester
264. Vlaams-Socialistische Beweging (Flanders)
265. Vrede vzw
266. WESPAC Foundation
267. Within Our Lifetime • United for Palestine
268. Women Against Military Madness
269. Women In Solidarity With Palestine
270. Women for Women’s Humans Rights – New Ways
271. Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners (WOFPP)
272. Women’s Solidarity Foundation (KADAV)-Turkey
273. Workers World Party
274. YECHOUROUN-Judaisme contre sionisme
275. Young Democratic Socialists – University of South Carolina