George Abdallah: A Symbol of Resistance Against Four Decades of Injustice

Fidaa Abdel Fattah

From his French prison cell, Georges Abdallah recently spoke to L’Humanité, describing his release decision as “a minor detail compared to the global assault on people’s rights and freedoms.” The 72-year-old Lebanese revolutionary communist and Europe’s longest-serving political prisoner vowed, “I will never abandon the commitments I made in my youth and will adhere to my convictions for life.” Reflecting on his lifelong activism, he recalled witnessing the Sabra and Shatila massacre in 1982, when “France and the US guaranteed the safety of the Palestinian refugee camps, yet 4,000 were executed,” and now, he added, they are ignoring the genocide by “Israel” in Gaza and Lebanon.

The decision to review Abdallah’s 11th parole application was scheduled on October 7, coinciding with the anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood. On October 15, a French court approved his “conditional” release and ordered his deportation from France by December 6. His lawyer, Jean-Louis Chalanset, hailed the ruling as a “judicial and political victory,” noting it bypassed government approval.

However, fears of obstruction remain. France’s Anti-Terror Prosecutor’s office plans to appeal, replicating the 2013 intervention when US and Israeli pressure overturned a court ruling in favour of Abdallah’s release. Despite being eligible for parole since 1999, his freedom has been denied repeatedly—turning his case into a “stain on France’s judicial system,” with several officials admitting there has been tampered evidence and foreign interference.

The question remains: will France finally defy US and Israeli pressure to deliver justice to George Abdallah, or will it continue to perpetuate 40 years of injustice against a man whose steadfastness has become a global symbol of resistance against oppression?

Full article in Arabic: https://www.al-akhbar.com/Lebanon/387787

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=12591

#georgesAbdallah #lebanon #palestine #repression

George Abdallah: A Symbol of Resistance Against Four Decades of Injustice

Fidaa Abdel Fattah

From his French prison cell, Georges Abdallah recently spoke to L’Humanité, describing his release decision as “a minor detail compared to the global assault on people’s rights and freedoms.” The 72-year-old Lebanese revolutionary communist and Europe’s longest-serving political prisoner

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/12591/

#Analysis #GeorgesAbdallah #lebanon #palestine #repression

Green Scared #Zine

"At the end of 2005, the #FBI opened a new phase of its assault on earth and animal liberation movements—known as the Green Scare—with the arrests and indictments of a large number of activists. This offensive, which they dubbed Operation Backfire, was intended to obtain convictions for many of the unsolved #Earth Liberation Front arsons of the preceding ten years—but more so, to have a chilling effect on all ecological direct action.

In this analysis, originally published in Rolling Thunder in 2008, we review everything we can learn from the Operation Backfire cases, with the intention of passing on the lessons for the next generation of #environmental activists."

https://crimethinc.com/zines/green-scared

#Repression #ClimateChange #AbolishThePolice #USA #Repression #Activism

Iran installs cameras in public places to identify, penalise unveiled women

"In a further attempt to rein in the increasing number of women defying Iran's compulsory dress code, authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalise unveiled women, the police announced on Saturday.
After they have been identified, violators will receive “warning text messages as to the consequences”, police said in a statement."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-installs-cameras-public-places-identify-penalise-unveiled-women-police-2023-04-08/

#Iran #Repression #videosurveillance #Surveillance #socialcontroll #Biometrie #Gesichtserkennung #WomanLifeFreedom #Antireport #faceID #reclaimyourface

#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #protest / #armsindustry / #elbit/ #repression

„Sophie Ross, Bridget Shergalis and Calla Walsh approached the Elbit factory, chained the doors shut, broke windows, marked graffiti & ascended to the roof of the building. Standing on the roof, they poured red paint down the front wall & held aloft colorful theatrical smoke flares (…).
“Our action was to show solidarity with the people of Gaza in a material, not abstract, way (…).“

http://www.nukeresister.org/2024/11/13/60-days-for-new-hampshire-direct-action-at-arms-factory/

#Athens, #Greece: In the context of the basketball game between #Panathinaikos and the zionist team, a gathering was called in Viktoria square to go as a collective body to the stadium to show our resistance to the genocidal politics of #zionism on the streets.

Six comrades were arrested on Viktoria square, three others in Attiki metro station, and 7 others outside the venue of OAKA (Olympic Stadium) in Maroussi.
https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1632699/
#zionistsnotwelcome
#IsraelTerroristState #FreePalestine #palestine #repression #EuComplicity

Normally I don't share Left Laser, because Bob is a bloody Maoist, but for this I make an exception. Strange days, strange exceptions. 😉

Left Laser: *How Zionist hooligans provoked chaos in Amsterdam*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moPFJD3L16k

#Amsterdam #repression #Zionism #fascism #Haccabi #TelAviv #Israel #Halsema #Palestine #Gaza #FreePalestine

Probably shared by many, but another great video by @owenpeterjones!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=pTFovHpft5M

I've studied #journalism and what now is happening (worldwide, not only .nl) is completely the opposite what journalists were trained for. What is going on!? I'm not a conspiracy person, but why does that happen all at once? Why exactly days after the re-election of #Trump? Why while Israel is finishing their ethnic cleansing of North-Gaza? Is this all related or just by accident? I don't know what to think anymore. Only that the capitalist #media overlords are completely claiming their influence now and that many journalists are complicit in this road to an authoritarian clusterfuck!

#Amsterdam #repression #Zionism #fascism #Haccabi #Israel #policeViolence #ManufacturedConsent #Halsema

#palestine
#israel #repression

Israel upholds extended ban on Al Jazeera broadcasts

So the "only democracy in the Middle East" does not allow foreign journalists or UN inspectors and suppresses media who reports on what they actually do in Gaza and the West Bank.
Israeli official: “We will not allow the Al Jazeera terrorist channel to broadcast in Israel and endanger our soldiers,” and "...the channel's broadcasts are a real threat to the security of the state"

https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/israel-upholds-extended-ban-on-al-jazeera-broadcasts-18171426