[News] We keep resisting: US and Canada sanction Samidoun

Wed Oct 16 12:18:13 EDT 2024

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  We keep resisting: US and Canada sanction Samidoun
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By *Samidoun Netherlands* on 16 October 2024

*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. In the US, the Department of the 
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced the 
sanctions, while the Canadian governmenthas listed Samidoun as a 
“terrorist entity” under its criminal code.*

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 US, 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.

Besides sending weapons and money to the Zionist entity, imperialist 
powers are repressing the Palestinian diaspora, Arab community and 
international activists for Palestine that are resisting these 
countries’ support for the occupation. Thousands of activists in 
North-America and Europe have been arrested, their houses raided or 
imprisoned. Palestinians in various countries have received deportation 
orders for their political activism. In Germany, a ban has been 
implemented against the slogan “from the river to sea, Palestine will be 
free”.

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.

We also express our strongest solidarity with Khaled Barakat, 
Palestinian writer and executive committee member of the Masar Badil, 
the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, who was 
targeted by the US in the same order as a “specially designated global 
terrorist.” This is meant to silence his effective work and activity in 
organizing Palestinians in exile and diaspora in the struggle for return 
and liberation for Palestine.

The repression of Samidoun is part of a larger attack against the 
Palestinian diaspora, the Arab community and all internationalists that 
struggle for Palestine. 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 US 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.

It is part of the global struggle against colonialism and imperialism 
that will continue until the liberation of Palestine from the river to 
the sea, the right of return for all Palestinian refugees and the 
liberation of all oppressed peoples and nations.

Like the Zionist entity fears the Palestinian resistance, so do the 
imperialist powers fear the Palestinian diaspora and their supporters 
that have been rising up again and again, especially since the start of 
operation Al-Aqsa Flood and the Zionist genocide. They fear a strong, 
popular movement that threatens their economic and political interests 
in Palestine and the region.

The repression is a sign of strength for the Palestinian movement and 
the international solidarity movement. This movement has mobilized the 
largest demonstrations for Palestine in history, has costed Israeli and 
Zionist companies billions of dollars in losses, it has united millions 
of people from across the world, and it has united virtually all social 
movements in every country for the Palestinian liberation struggle.

Samidoun is particularly targeted because of our political and vocal 
support for the Palestinian prisoners movement and the Palestinian 
people’s right to resistance. While the US 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 US 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 our words upon German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’ announcement 
of the demand to ban Samidoun: 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.

Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network © 2024.
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