New poster Samer Issawi

New poster/drawing by Doc Jazz: Free Samer Issawi

We are spending a lot of time campaigning for the freedom of Samer Issawi and all other Palestinian prisoners, so no wonder his image is on my mind a lot.   Samer Issawi has given our struggle new inspiration, with his courageous defiance of the horrors of the dungeons of the Zionist occupation. In fact, the Palestinian people need Samer....

Samer Issawi : “I refused water not for love of death but for freedom and dignity”

Shireen Issawi, the sister of Palestinian detainee Samer Issawi who is on a months-long hunger strike against his imprisonment by the Israeli occupation forces, reported on Wednesday that her brother had successfully thwarted Israeli attempts to coerce him to end his hunger strike.   According to Shireen,  an intelligence officer of the Occupation forces on Tuesday threatened Samer inside the...

Barack Obama

Palestinians for Dignity reject Obama’s visit to Palestine

STATEMENT ISSUED March 10 by PALESTINIANS FOR DIGNITY – President Obama’s visit to the occupied Palestinian territory comes at a time when our prisoners are waging a hunger strike battle in the face of Israeli government obstinacy, and in the face of US silence towards the slow murder these heroes are being subjected to. Most recently Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat died during...

Samer Issawi

Twitterstorms continue: an end to misunderstandings about time zones

Yesterday, the Twitter actions initiated by the Free Samer Issawi Campaign met with some unforeseen confusion. In the USA, the clock was turned back to summer time, so the Campaign which is based in the United States went online to tweet one hour earlier in comparison to other time zones.   To avoid a repeat of this confusion, it has...