[Reader-list] endorsement request for khalida jarar palestnian mp and feminist activist

Asit Das asit1917 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 03:06:21 CDT 2014


I am writing today to ask for
 ​your organization's or
your individual
​ ​
endorsement for a campaign in solidarity with Palestinian parliamentarian
Khalida Jarrar
<http://samidoun.ca/2014/08/sign-on-endorse-the-khalida-jarrar-solidarity-statement/>,
whose Ramallah home was raided by 50 Israeli occupation soldiers at 1:30 am
on August 20, where she was prevented with a "special supervision order"
expelling her from Ramallah to Jericho and mandating that she remain within
the Jericho city limits for at least six months.

The Khalida Jarrar Solidarity Campaign site is here:
http://samidoun.ca/khalidajarrar - hosted at the site of Samidoun
Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network.

Khalida Jarrar is an elected Palestinian parliamentarian and a well-known
leftist, feminist and organizer. She refused to sign the order and is now
working from a protest tent outside the PLC office in Ramallah. The former
executive director of Addameer, she is well-known for her advocacy for
Palestinian political prisoners.

The forced transfer of Khalida Jarrar violates international law and the
Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits so-called “assigned residence”
unless it is “absolutely necessary” and forbids forced collective or
individual transfer of protected persons from one area of occupied
territory to another. The military order for Jarrar’s forced expulsion
contains only vaguely worded references to “intelligence information” and
“protecting the security of the region.”

The sign on statement for the campaign is below and I hope that you and
your organization will be able to endorse and share with your members and
supporters.

The campaign website, http://samidoun.ca/khalidajarrar, has
flyers/factsheets, posters, an individual letter-writing action, an
English-subtitled video interview with Khalida, and an unofficial
translation of the military order against Khalida, as well as links to
important statements from Addameer
<http://addameer.org/etemplate.php?id=716> and PCHR
<http://www.pchrgaza.org/portal/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10594:plc-member-khaleda-jarrar-illegally-transferred-to-jericho&catid=36:pchrpressreleases&Itemid=194>
.

Because this is an emerging issue, your timely consideration is requested
and if possible, please send your signatures by Tuesday, August 26. To
endorse, reply to my email, or email standwithkhalida at samidoun.ca, or use
the online form:
http://samidoun.ca/2014/08/sign-on-endorse-the-khalida-jarrar-solidarity-statement/

Thank you!

Solidarity,

​Suzanne Samera Adely
Al-Awda (Palestine Right to Return Coalition) NY
International Association of Democratic Lawyers, IADL

​Statement

*The Khalida Jarrar Solidarity Campaign welcomes organizational and
individual endorsements on the following sign-on statement. Please sign the
statement below – the stronger the visibility of  international support for
Khalida, the stronger our call will be to cancel the expulsion order!
Please use the form below
<http://samidoun.ca/2014/08/sign-on-endorse-the-khalida-jarrar-solidarity-statement/#form>
or
email standwithkhalida at samidoun.ca <%20standwithkhalida at samidoun.ca>.*

[image: khalidacampaign]
<http://samidoun.ca/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/khalidacampaign.jpg>We,
the undersigned organizations and individuals, write to demand the
immediate cancellation of the expulsion order against Khalida Jarrar,
Palestinian Legislative Council member, prisoners’ rights activist and
political leader.

On August 20 at 1:30 AM, Ms. Jarrar’s Ramallah home was raided by 50
Israeli occupation soldiers who presented her with a “special supervision
order,” written in Hebrew and read aloud in Arabic. This military order,
signed off by an Israeli military court on the basis of unspecified and
secret evidence, orders Jarrar expelled from her Ramallah home and forcibly
transferred and confined within the city limits of Jericho for an initial
period of six months; it was deemed effective within 24 hours.

This order is a blatant injustice and is part and parcel of the ongoing
Israeli occupation attempt to silence the voices of Palestinian political
leaders and to confine and expel Palestinians. From the expulsion of over
750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 – including members of
Khalida Jarrar’s family – and the denial of their right to return for over
66 years; to the attempted deportation of Palestinian mayors outside
Palestine; to the stripping of the Jerusalem ID’s of elected PLC members
Mohammad Abu Tir, Ahmad Atoun, Mohammed Totah and Khaled Abu Arafah; to
this expulsion order, there is a long line of Israeli attempts to threaten
Palestinian life through displacement and expulsion.

Khalida Jarrar has refused to sign the expulsion order, saying “you, the
occupation, are killing our Palestinian people. You practice mass arests,
demolish homes, kidnap people from their homes and deport them. It is you
who must leave our home.” She has moved to stay in a “protest tent” outside
the legislative council building in Ramallah. She announced that she is
going to stay and continue her work from there until the decision is
revoked.

Jarrar is a Palestinian political leader in the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine, a Palestinian Leftist party; she is a frequent
leader and participant in demonstrations and popular actions for
Palestinian freedom. She is a long-time Palestinian political prisoners’
advocate, former executive director of Addameer Prisoner Support and Human
Rights Association and a member of its board; she chairs the Prisoners’
Committee of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

She is also active in the Palestinian women’s movement from her earliest
days as a university student organizing with other women students to
challenge the occupation. A feminist and prominent voice for the defense
and expansion of women’s rights, she is a leading organizer of
International Women’s Day events in Palestine and coordinates closely with
Palestinian women’s organization. “Palestinian women are full partners in
the Palestinian struggle,” she emphasizes.

Since 1998, she has been forbidden to travel outside occupied Palestine;
when she needed medical treatment in Jordan in 2010, she struggled for
months in a public campaign before finally receiving her treatment.

The forced transfer of Khalida Jarrar violates international law and the
Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits so-called “assigned residence”
unless it is “absolutely necessary” and forbids forced collective or
individual transfer of protected persons from one area of occupied
territory to another. The military order for Jarrar’s forced expulsion
contains only vaguely worded references to “intelligence information” and
“protecting the security of the region.”

It is clear that Khalida Jarrar is being targeted in order to suppress
Palestinian political organizing – particularly as she has been a visible
and prominent participant in the West Bank demonstrations in support of
Palestinians in Gaza, denouncing the occupation military’s killing of over
2,000 Palestinians.

The invasion of Jarrar’s home and the delivery of the expulsion “special
supervision order” took place within so-called “Area A,” allegedly under
the complete security control of the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo
Agreements. Despite this, Israeli occupying forces were allowed to enter
Ramallah and invade Jarrar’s home; as Addameer notes, “the so-called
‘security co-ordination’ between Palestinian Authority security forces and
Israeli occupying forces allowed for the expulsion of an elected
representative of the Palestinian people, an elected representative who has
continuously called for an end to such ‘coordination.’”

Khalida Jarrar has been targeted for an expulsion order because she is a
Palestinian woman, a Palestinian parliamentarian, and a Palestinian leader.
Today, we stand with justice, we stand with Palestine, and we stand with
Khalida to demand the immediate cancellation of the “special supervision”
expulsion order.
Signed,--


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