[News] Statement by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network on the 23 November 2023 raids in Germany

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Solidarity Network denounces in the strongest terms the raids carried 
out by German police in four federal states, with a particular focus in 
Berlin, targeting Palestinians labeled by the German state as members or 
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  Statement by Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network on the
  23 November 2023 raids in Germany
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samidoun

Nov 23

Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network denounces in the 
strongest terms the raids carried out by German police in four federal 
states, with a particular focus in Berlin, targeting Palestinians 
labeled by the German state as members or supporters of Samidoun or of 
the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas. We express our 
deepest solidarity with all of those subjected to these raids today, and 
we view these raids as a clear attempt by the German state to terrorize 
the Palestinian, Arab and Muslim communities in Germany and, more 
broadly, the popular sentiment in support of Palestinian liberation. 
These actions today build upon the ban of Samidoun several weeks ago 
<https://samidoun.net/2023/10/statement-germany-announces-ban-on-samidoun-network-we-remain-steadfast/>, 
the bans on demonstrations, police attacks on communities, racist media 
incitement and fascist political, social and cultural assaults on all 
members of these targeted communities.

Further, these raids are an attempt by the German state to advance the 
Zionist genocide being carried out at this moment in occupied Palestine, 
which has already taken the lives of over 14,000 Palestinians, displaced 
over half of the Palestinians of Gaza, destroyed dozens of hospitals, 
schools, mosques and churches, and wounded tens of thousands more. They 
are also an attempt to silence all voices who speak out for the 
liberation of Palestinian prisoners, particularly at this moment, when 
six prisoners have been martyred in occupation jails in the past month, 
when prisoners are subjected to daily torture and abuse, and when a 
prisoner exchange is potentially on the horizon and requires the support 
of all people of conscience.

Instead of acting as a responsible party – sanctioning the Israeli 
occupation regime, expelling its ambassador and invoking the Genocide 
Convention to protect Palestinians – the proper activities of any state 
that claims, as does Germany, to have learned its lessons from Germany’s 
role as a perpetrator of Nazi genocide – it instead has increased its 
military support and arms sales to the Israeli occupation tenfold in 
just the past two months while imposing a level of police repression 
unprecedented since German reunification on the Palestinian community 
and supporters of Palestine more broadly.

We assert that these attacks on people who were Samidoun members prior 
to the 2nd November ban on Samidoun in Germany 
<https://samidoun.net/2023/06/germanys-official-stand-against-the-palestinian-cause-submission-to-the-zionist-embassy-and-the-attempt-to-ban-samidoun/> 
as well on people who participate in demonstrations and mass actions in 
defense of Palestine will fail in the attempt to terrorize and silence 
the community and the rising voice of justice in Palestine. The tens of 
thousands of people who fill the streets for every call for Palestine 
will continue to do so, even as they face police assault and arrest for 
declaring such simple demands as, “End the genocide” and “From the river 
to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

Our energies and efforts around the world are focused on supporting the 
heroic Palestinian people in Gaza and throughout occupied Palestine and 
organizing everywhere in exile and diaspora, on the international, Arab 
and Palestinian levels, to bring an end to the genocide, to affirm the 
legitimacy and leadership of the Palestinian resistance, and to liberate 
Palestine, all of Palestine. The systemic racist abuse directed at the 
Palestinian people and the Arab and Muslim communities more broadly will 
not silence us nor will it suppress our work. Whether the repression is 
taking place in Germany, France, Britain, Canada or the United States, 
it is clear that these attacks on strugglers for justice in Palestine 
reflects only the desperation of the imperialist powers to defend their 
illegitimate Zionist settler colonial project planted in the heart of 
the Arab region by all means, including tearing apart all of their 
proclamations and pledges of democracy, human rights, freedom of 
expression and freedom of association. We express our clear solidarity 
with all people and organizations who have been targeted for arrest, 
detention, police raids, searches, harassment, employer retaliation, 
official silencing and other forms of persecution for their positions on 
Palestinian liberation.

Despite all the attacks, the reality is clear: the people stand with 
Palestine. From the tens, indeed hundreds of thousands that defy state 
repression in Germany to take to the streets for Palestine, to the 
masses in France that rise up against police bans on mobilization, to 
the millions in Britain marching despite attempts to ban the Palestinian 
flag, to the ongoing actions in Britain, Canada and the United States to 
materially confront and challenge the war machine through direct actions 
like those of Palestine Action – and this is just in the heart of the 
imperial core. In Latin America, Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Belize, 
Bolivia have cut ties, recalled their ambassadors or affirmed their 
rejection of the Israeli occupation regime, demanding an end to the 
genocide. South Africa’s parliament has voted to expel the Israeli 
ambassador. And of course, in the Arab region, the heroic and 
unparalleled role of the Lebanese, Yemeni and Iraqi resistance is 
unified with the clear sentiment and spirit of the people to shame every 
reactionary regime that is complicit in the genocide in Palestine and 
the imperialist plans for the region.

The images of hundreds of masked and heavily armed police invading the 
apartments of Palestinian students, workers and refugees in Germany 
today appears as an imitation of the daily invasions of the Israeli 
occupation forces in Palestinian homes in occupied Palestine, as well as 
a disturbing echo of Germany’s own Nazi fascist history. And as 
Palestinians in occupied Palestine have never stopped struggling despite 
over 75 years of Zionist occupation and 100 years of colonialism, these 
attacks will not silence the growing movement in Germany and every other 
imperialist power involved in attacking Palestine, as new generations 
refuse their involvement and complicity in genocide.

We affirm: No bans, police raids or criminalization will silence the 
spirit, the will and the organization of the Palestinian, Arab and 
internationalist voices confronting imperialism, Zionism and reaction. 
As Samidoun, we are committed to challenging the ban and these attacks 
by all legal means, and our eyes will not be turned away from our role 
in working urgently to end the genocide and free all Palestinian 
prisoners. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. Long live 
the Palestinian resistance. Victory, return, total liberation and 
decolonization for all of Palestine.



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