Solidarity with Palestine

Israel, and their agents around the world, are trying to make the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement 'illegal' around the world.  Good luck - you can't lock us all up.

Keep resisting Israeli apartheid!

Solidarity forever with the tortured Palestinian people!

No more genocide in Palestine!

Over 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails are now on their 39th day of hunger strike.

Addameer reports that they're experiencing alarming deteriorating health conditions, including weight loss, weakness, difficulty speaking, standing & walking, high-blood pressure, kidney & chest pain, and vomiting of blood. Some have lost consciousness and have been transported to hospitals for immediate care.

Since the Israeli occupation began in 1967, Israeli forces have arrested more than 800,000 Palestinians, almost 20% of the total Palestinian population in the occupied territories.

More than one in three Palestinian men have been imprisoned by Israel. They are sentenced by a court system run by the Israeli military, and 99.74% of the cases heard there end in conviction. 

Some Palestinians are held indefinitely without charges or trial. Palestinians have even been jailed for posting about their own oppression on Facebook.

The hunger strikers have a range of basic demands, but Israel still refuses to negotiate with them and has inflicted various forms of punishment on those participating, including:

• Subjecting them to dehumanizing strip searches
• Confiscating salt supplements and forcing them to drink unsanitary tap water
• Placing them in solitary confinement
• Providing insufficient medical examinations
• Forcing them to stand to be counted or face severe fines
• Transferring them from prison to prison
• Confiscating their personal items
• Banning them from shaving their beards, cutting their nails, and washing their clothes

While American media is quick to report violence coming from the Palestinian resistance to Israel's occupation, they are astoundingly quiet when it comes to nonviolent resistance. The largest collective hunger strike in the world should be headline news.

These hunger strikers need us to act now to amplify their voices. Here are things you can do:

1) Call, write, and tweet your Congressional rep and ask them to: 

• Pressure Israel to meet the prisoners' demands
• Write a letter of support for the hunger strike 

2) Call the International Red Cross at 202-587-4600 and demand that it fulfill its obligation to examine the prisoners' cells

3) Call Amnesty International USA at 212-807-8400 and urge it to pressure Israel to meet the prisoners' demands

4) Post about the hunger strike on social media:

• Post facts about Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners using #DignityStrike
• Change your profile picture to this
• Post a photo of yourself holding a sign of support
• Post a video of yourself taking the #SaltwaterChallenge (initiated by Marwan Barghouti's son)