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<h1 class="title" id="page-title">Palestinians express "solidarity
with the people of Ferguson" in Mike Brown statement</h1>
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<p>Palestinian groups and individuals inside and outside of
historic Palestine have signed the <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rana-baker/palestinians-express-solidarity-people-ferguson-mike-brown-statement#state">following
statement</a> in solidarity with their brethren in Ferguson,
Missouri.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, many of the police deployed to <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/israel-trained-police-occupy-missouri-after-killing-black-youth">crush
unarmed protesters demanding justice</a> for the brutal murder
of eighteen-year-old black American Mike Brown are
Israel-trained. Despotic tactics Palestinians largely associate
with Israel’s colonial military, such as teargassing protesters
and harassing journalists, have all been implemented in
Ferguson. </p>
<p>Although Ferguson and Palestine are two different contexts,
both places and their people are fighting against white
supremacist regimes of oppression which continue to view them as
“disposable others” and act accordingly. </p>
<p>The individuals who signed the statement below may not all know
or agree with each other. However, the undersigned all believe
that it is the moral responsibility of every Palestinian to
support and foster relations with the struggles of the oppressed
all over the world.</p>
<p>It is also worth noting that the Palestinian struggle for
freedom is not a copy of the struggle of our black brothers and
sisters both in the past and present. Neither is the black
struggle a homogeneous one. Finally, the struggle of our black
brethren is not a simple tool to “popularize” ours.</p>
<p>But the Civil Rights, <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/apartheid">anti-apartheid</a> and
anti-colonial movements in the United States, <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/south-africa">South
Africa</a> and foreign colonies across the African continent
in the past offer us various models from which we should learn.
In the present, Palestinians (though this does not apply to
sell-outs such as <a
href="http://electronicintifada.net/tags/mahmoud-abbas">Mahmoud
Abbas</a> and his minions) stand up against the despotism
which the US, the settler-colony known as Israel, and various
European and Arab governments embody.</p>
<h2 id="state">Full statement</h2>
<p>We the undersigned Palestinian individuals and groups express
our solidarity with the family of Michael Brown, a young unarmed
black man gunned down by police on August 9th in Ferguson,
Missouri. We wish to express our support and solidarity with the
people of Ferguson who have taken their struggle to the street,
facing a militarized police occupation.</p>
<p>From all factions and sectors of our dislocated society, we
send you our commitment to stand with you in your hour of pain
and time of struggle against the oppression that continues to
target our black brothers and sisters in nearly every aspect of
their lives.</p>
<p dir="LTR">We understand your moral outrage. We empathize with
your hurt and anger. We understand the impulse to rebel against
the infrastructure of a racist capitalist system that
systematically pushes you to the margins of humanity. </p>
<p dir="LTR">And we stand with you.</p>
<p dir="LTR">We recognize the disregard and disrespect for black
bodies and black life endemic to the supremacist system that
rules the land with wanton brutality. Your struggles through the
ages have been an inspiration to us as we fight our own battles
for basic human dignities. We continue to find inspiration and
strength from your struggles through the ages and your
revolutionary leaders, like Malcolm X, Huey Newton, Kwame Ture,
Angela Davis, Fred Hampton, Bobby Seale and others.</p>
<p dir="LTR">We honor the life of Michael Brown, cut short less
than a week before he was due to begin university. And we honor
the far too many more killed in similar circumstances, motivated
by racism and contempt for black life: Ezell Ford, John
Crawford, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Tarika Wilson, Malcolm
Ferguson, Renisha McBride, Amadou Diallo, Yvette Smith, Oscar
Grant, Sean Bell, Kathryn Johnston, Rekia Boyd and too many
others to count.</p>
<p dir="LTR">With a Black Power fist in the air, we salute the
people of Ferguson and join in your demands for justice.</p>
<h2 dir="LTR">Signatories</h2>
<ul dir="ltr">
<li>Susan Abulhawa, novelist and activist</li>
<li>Linah Alsaafin, graduate student, SOAS</li>
<li>Budour Hassan</li>
<li>Rinad Abdulla, Professor, Birzeit University</li>
<li>Ramzy Baroud, Managing Editor, Middle East Eye</li>
<li>Diana Buttu, Lawyer, Palestine</li>
<li>Rana Baker, graduate student, SOAS</li>
<li>Abbas Hamideh, activist and organizer</li>
<li>Abir Kopty</li>
<li>Ahlam Muhtaseb, Professor, CSU</li>
<li>Alaa Milbes, Ramallah, Palestine</li>
<li>Alaa Marwan, Ramallah, Palestine</li>
<li>Nour Joudah, Washington DC</li>
<li>Ali Zbeidat, Sakhnin, Palestine</li>
<li>Areej Alragabi , Jerusalem, Palestine</li>
<li>Areej Saeb, student, Jerusalem</li>
<li>Asma Jaber</li>
<li>Beesan Ramadan, Nablus</li>
<li>Dina Zbidat, Amsterdam, Netherlands</li>
<li>Dr Jess Ghannam, UCSF</li>
<li>Huwaida Arraf, Attorney, New York</li>
<li>Nejma Awad, Tetra Tech DPK</li>
<li>Monadel Herzallah, USPCN, San Francisco Bay Area</li>
<li>Ghassan Hussein</li>
<li>Dinna Omar</li>
<li>Randa C. Issa</li>
<li>Amal Khoury, MD MPH, Washington, DC</li>
<li>Amani Barakat Moorpark, California</li>
<li>Fadi Quran </li>
<li>Fajr Harb</li>
<li>Falastine Dwikat, PCACBI</li>
<li>Hala Gabriel</li>
<li>Khaled Jarrar</li>
<li>Osama Ahmad, AMP Bay Area director</li>
<li>Hala Turjman</li>
<li>Halla Shoaibi, Birzeit University</li>
<li>Harun Arsalai </li>
<li>Zaid Shuaibi</li>
<li>Hurriyah Ziada</li>
<li>Dima Eleiwa, Shujaiyah, Gaza, Palestine</li>
<li>Jamil Salem, Birzeit University</li>
<li>Karam Saleem, International Solidarity Movement, Palestine</li>
<li>Khaled Barakat</li>
<li>Khuzama Hanoon, Palestine</li>
<li>Laila Awartani, Ramallah, Palestine</li>
<li>Lana Habash, Let’s Go There Collective</li>
<li>Lana Khoury, Washington DC</li>
<li>Yousef Aljamal, University of Malaysia </li>
<li>Safwan Hamdi</li>
<li>Leena Barakat</li>
<li>Lema Nazeeh, lawyer</li>
<li>Yara Kayyali Abbas, Palestine</li>
<li>Mariam Barghouti, Birzeit University</li>
<li>Mohammad Ayyad, graduate student, SOAS</li>
<li>Nader Elkhuzundar</li>
<li>Nancy Mansour, Existence is Resistance, New York/Palestine</li>
<li>Mohammed Alkhader, Birzeit University</li>
<li>Nazik Hassan, attorney, Riverside, California</li>
<li>Nora Taha</li>
<li>Rena Zuabi</li>
<li>Roleen Tafakji-Haidami</li>
<li>Samera Sood</li>
<li>Sana Ibrahim</li>
<li>Sherene Seikaly, UCSB</li>
<li>Taher Herzallah</li>
<li>Tamara Reem, Washington DC</li>
<li>Ahmad Nimer, Palestine</li>
<li>Riya Al’sanah, journalist, London</li>
<li>Alaa Milbes, Ramallah</li>
<li>Belal Dabour, Gaza doctor</li>
<li>Huda Asfour, PhD, Durham NC</li>
<li>Iyad Afalqa, Irvine, CA</li>
<li>Ruba Leech, Portland, OR</li>
<li>Rashad Al-Dabbagh, Network of Arab American Professionals</li>
<li>Maysoon Suleiman-Khatib, Civil Rights Specialist</li>
<li>Diana Alzeer, Ramallah, Palestine</li>
<li>Mona Kadah, Boston MA</li>
<li>Lucy Garbett, Jerusalem, Palestine</li>
<li>Hadeel Assali, Columbia University, NYC</li>
<li>Magid Shihade, Oakland, CA</li>
<li>Tamara Tamimi, Palestine</li>
<li>Hammam Farah, psychotherapist and editor</li>
<li>Dina Elmuti, Treatment and Rehabilitation Center for Victims
of Torture</li>
<li>Laila Hamdan, Portland OR</li>
<li>Bushra Shamma, VA, USA</li>
<li>Rev. Fahed Abuakel, Presbyterian minister , Atlanta, GA</li>
<li>Rehab Nazzal, artist, Canada</li>
<li>Ezees Silwady, Palestine</li>
<li>Dua’ Nakhala, freelance researcher, Belgium</li>
<li>Amal Oweis, Palestine</li>
<li>Shaheen Nassar, UCR</li>
<li>Amin Dallal, youth counselor</li>
<li>Dr. Tariq Shadid, surgeon</li>
<li>Zaha Hassan, Esq</li>
<li>Randa Issa, PhD</li>
<li>Murad Saleh, GED</li>
<li>Lila Sharif, Ph.D</li>
<li>Sa’ed Atshan, Ph.D</li>
<li>Rasha Khoury, MD Jerusalem</li>
<li>Hadeel Assali, Columbia University, NYC</li>
<li>Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Race and
Resistance Studies, San Francisco University</li>
<li>Tanya Keilani</li>
<li>Shahd Abusalama</li>
</ul>
<h2 dir="LTR">Organizations</h2>
<ul dir="ltr">
<li>American Muslims for Palestine</li>
<li>Free Amer Jubran Campaign</li>
<li>International Solidarity Movement, Palestine</li>
<li>Let’s Go There Collective</li>
<li>Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network</li>
<li>Students for Justice in Palestine, University of New Mexico</li>
<li>The Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat</li>
<li>Bay Area Intifada, Bay Area</li>
<li>PAWA, Palestinian American Women Association</li>
<li>NSJP, National Students for Justice in Palestine</li>
<li>Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights</li>
<li>Mashjar Juthour, Palestine</li>
<li>Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee</li>
<li>Al-Awda NY, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition </li>
<li>Stop the Wall</li>
<li>The US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of
Israel</li>
</ul>
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