On the busiest shopping day of the year, protesters in New York City – hailing from Manhattan to Gaza – joined in the Black Friday kick-off of the International Week of Action against HP’s complicity with Israeli attacks on Palestinian rights, protesting outside Best Buy in Union Square. Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network organized the […]

Nurhan Awad, 17, has been sentenced to 13 and half years in prison, a year after she allegedly tried to stab an Israeli soldier with a pair of scissors. The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society stated that the prison sentence given to Nurhan was the highest penalty demanded by the prosecution in comparison with similar cases. The […]

Protesters in New York City gathered outside the offices of multinational security corporation G4S on Friday, 18 November to denounce G4S’ role in providing private security for the Dakota Access Pipeline against the water protectors’ camp led by the Standing Rock Sioux, and to demand the corporation get out of Palestine and end its profiteering […]

Leading Palestinian BDS activist and organizer Salah Khawaja was ordered to an additional eight days of interrogation at a hearing at the Israeli military court in Petah Tikva on Wednesday, 9 November, where he was kept blindfolded throughout the hearing. Khawaja, 45, the Secretary of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee (BNC) and a leader of the Palestinian Grassroots […]

Three Palestinian brothers, identified as Abed al-Salam, Nidal and Noor al-Din Omar, all of whom are being held in Israeli prison, entered the 10th day of an open hunger strike in protest of the continued holding of Noor al-Din in solitary confinement in Israel’s Eshel prison for more than three years. The brothers’ family, from […]

Palestinian child prisoner Ahmad Manasrah, 14, was sentenced in Israeli courts on Monday, 7 November to 12 years in Israeli prison as well as fines of 180,000 NIS ($47,200 USD). Palestinian lawyer Jamil Saadeh noted upon Ahmad’s conviction in May that “the occupation deliberately kept the child Ahmad Manasrah imprisoned inside a reform center until he […]

A federal court admitted Odeh’s conviction from an Israeli military court while excluding evidence that interrogators obtained it through physical and sexual torture. DETROIT — A federal hearing on Nov. 29 could determine whether the details of Israel’s torture of Palestinian prisoners will be aired in an American courtroom. Rasmea Odeh, a 69-year-old leader of […]

New York, New York – A group of activists gathered in front of the French Consulate on Oct. 21, to stand in solidarity with Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese Arab freedom fighter for Palestine, and demand his immediate release. The picket was part of the International Week of Action (Oct. 15-22) in support of Abdallah […]

Hundreds of supporters mobilized during an international week of actions to free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a Lebanese revolutionary imprisoned by France since Oct. 24, 1984. Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network activists held the first demonstration, a protest outside the French mission to the United Nations on Oct. 14. Officers from the New York Police Department’s […]

New Yorkers gathered for their second protest in two weeks to free Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, imprisoned Lebanese Arab struggler for Palestine held in French prisons since 1984. The protest by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network came as part of an international week of solidarity with Abdallah, marking the 32nd anniversary of his arrest by French […]