Samer Issawi

Samer Issawi’s Victory Letter – English and Arabic

(translation by Tariq Shadid – see Arabic original below) God is Great, Praise be to GodGod is Great, Praise be to GodGod is Great, Praise be to God I thank God above all for this victory, and for his generosity in granting it to me. To start this letter, I would like to offer my apology to all who supported...

Samer Issawi Wins !

Samer Issawi Wins! Thank you Twitterstormers! Overview of your hard work

You must have heard it by now: Samer Issawi, in an incredible victory over his Zionist oppressors, has managed to force the Israeli military occupation on its knees with nothing but an empty stomach, and make them accept a deal to release him. He will be released on December 23, 2013, and has agreed to end his 278 day hunger...

Samer Issawi

Issawi continues hunger strike, stops supplements, rejects negotiations

  About one hour ago, Shireen Issawi – Samer’s sister – posted the following on her Facebook page – on day 276 of Samer Issawi’s hunger strike:   “The head of the Legal Unit of the Prisoners Society, the lawyer Jawad Boulos, declared today from Kaplan Medical Center that political prisoner Samer Issawi has decided to stop taking nutritional supplements...

That Damned Fourth Reich – does ‘Israel’ qualify?

“Tariq Shadid’s music video Hungry is a great political rap song, reiterating and expanding the notion of hunger and the first to rhyme people with sheeple. It is marred by a refrain ’never charged, never tried by the damned fourth reich’. Israel is not comparable to the Third Reich. The Third Reich was powered by an annihilatory drive that began...