The National Jericho Movement expresses its support for the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network’s right to exist and its human rights obligation to build solidarity with Palestinian Prisoners and with all Political Prisoners in the United States and other countries. Every Palestinian arrested or kidnapped and incarcerated under the apartheid regime called Israel is a Political Prisoner. When a people enter a country already occupied and self-governed and usurps that land, continues to encroach upon and oppress the inhabitants, bulldozes their homes and forces them to live in increasingly smaller areas – globally now recognized as outdoor prisons – and over the 76+ years of its colonial rule has incarcerated millions, with thousands being children, every prisoner becomes a Political Prisoner because of the injustice inherent in the system itself.
Since 2011 Samidoun has made the world aware of the injustice, torture, deaths, and gross human rights violations of Palestinian Prisoners. As of October 15, 2024, the United States Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Samidoun, baselessly accusing it of acting as an international fundraiser for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and thus designating it as a “specially designated terrorist” organization. Jericho also condemns the listing of Palestinian writer and organizer Khaled Barakat as part of the same attack.
According to international law, the Palestinian people have the right to resist occupation, including through armed struggle.
Jericho will continue to support Samidoun’s work in uplifting and supporting Palestinian Prisoners, as it will support all efforts to shed light on political cases, prisoners, and campaign for their freedom in the United States as well as abroad. And Jericho asks that all movement organizations that champion the rights of the oppressed do the same.
Jihad Abdulmumit
source: National Jericho Movement