Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian feminist, lawyer, educator, elected parliamentarian, has been a human rights activist for many years.
Her activism in support of Palestinian prisoners, as the director of Addameer, a Prisoners’ Support and Human Rights NGO in Ramallah West bank, draws the ire of the Israeli regime.
But it’s her efforts over the years to take Israel to the International Criminal Court (ICC) that especially angers the regime.
Her first of several arrests began on 8 March 1989 when she was detained for participating in a demonstration on International Women’s Day.
A few days ago, on 01 March, she was sentenced to 2 years imprisonment..just in time for International Women’s Day 2021.
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY KHALIDA JARRAR
Khalida has been arrested many times.
The current ‘legal’ situation began on 2 July 2017, when she was detained by the Israeli regime for an alleged offense related to national security.
In June, 2018, her detention was extended for another four months, then renewed until 28 February 2019. She was released on 28 February 2019 after 20 months in ‘administrative detention’, ie without any charge or trial made against her.
But the Occupation regime was not through with her.
Khalida Jarrar was rearrested on October 2019, by over 70 armed Israeli soldiers who invaded her Ramallah home. She is currently held, as usual, under an Israeli law known as ‘administrative detention’. This law, used frequently against Palestinians, is inconsistent with international law, inconsistent with the most basic requirements of fair trial in democratic countries, as prisoners are incarcerated for prolonged periods, without charge or due process.
The recent sentence means that the 57-year old lawyer, human rights activist, with serious health problems, will not be released until the end of October 2021.
Isn’t it long past time for the West to stop ignoring the many atrocities committed by the Israeli regime? Silence is complicity.
International Women’s Day 2021 should be the day that Kiwi women demanded that Khalida Jarrar be released..demanded too that our women MPs showed some backbone and passion too, by demanding that the Israeli regime release this woman.
International Women’s Day..international women’s solidarity ..freedom and justice for all women ..everywhere.
FREE KHALIDA JARRAR
ps You can learn more about this amazing woman in Ramzy Baroud’s latest book These Chains will Be Broken and also in a Nov 2018 Scoop article by Ramzy Baroud
Lois Griffiths is a Human Rights Activist.
Khalida Jarrar is a member of the terrorist group, PFLP, and has been implicated in the murder of Israeli teenager, Rina Shnerb, among other nefarious activities. She admitted to three meetings with the men who carried out the attack that took Rina’s life while she was out hiking with members of her family. Jarrar is lucky to get only 2 years and a fine and is not a suitable icon for IWD. More unbalanced obfuscation from Griffiths.
Do you mean the PFLP are a poor imitation of he IDF terror group who have murdered hundreds of Palestinians? The IDF victims belonged the almost two million people Israel confines to an area that is marginally smaller than Lower Hutt. You probably know people who have met criminals at some stage during their lives. Are they also guilty of the crimes of the person or people they met? More irrational obfuscation from Gaby the perennial propagandist.
Perhaps Lois could give us an article on how Palestinian men oppress their women and treat them like second class citizens: honour killings, FGM, child marriage, beatings, marital rape etc. That would make interesting reading.
Talk sense Gaby,
You should know better than to be an apologist for a racist regime.
The Griffiths have been many times to Palestine and understand well the situation.
So have I. And Griffiths’ views are hopelessly biased and a reflection of her deep antisemitism. She has no compassion whatsoever for Jewish suffering at the hands of vicious Arab terrorists and has made the victims into the oppressors.
https://worldisraelnews.com/pa-doesnt-care-about-us-israel-steps-in-to-vaccinate-palestinian-workers/
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/09/19/deadly-toll-palestinian-women
Give up the unproven bullshit about Ms Griffiths (especially the anti-semitic slur) and if you must make such outlandish accusations, provide evidence.
As for your links, the deadly toll from domestic violence is not race specific and of concern internationally Gaby: https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/domestic-violence/
Having studied the 54 cases, would you then like to tell us about the one in six women in the IDF who are sexually abused or raped by their male colleagues in what you have claimed is the most moral army in the world?
Please note – your usual childish name-calling and unsubstantiated accusations are no substitute for a measured intelligent reply.
Your desperation, as evidenced by your unsubstantiated lashing out in the face of irrefutable evidence, is truly pitiful. When it comes to bullshit you are the master unparalleled. Time to give up on your comical flounderings. Must be galling to know you and Griffiths etc are on the losing side always.
WTF? So now even the Times of Israel is a lying anti-semitic rag that prints unparalleled bullshit? Get real! this is really about the most naive attempted deflection you have used to date.
If the Times of Israel is discredited in your eyes, perhaps these reports from Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post might more acceptably demonstrate that domestic violence is not exclusively a Palestinian issue in Israel as you implied with your earlier comment:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-domestic-violence-reports-triple-amid-israel-s-second-covid-lockdown-1.9212019
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/dramatic-rise-in-number-of-idf-soldiers-reporting-sexual-assault-572369
Nice try, ant, but it won’t wash. Every country has domestic violence, including our own, but in Islam it’s ideologically reinforced and condoned. Liberals like you typically ignore that, especially western feminists.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/why-feminism-awol-islam-12395.html
God you are full of it! What the hell does feminism have to do with violence in partner relationships? Most commonly, it is aggressive male attitudes that foment domestic violence, you know, the attribute that you praise with your winners and losers crap in support of Zionism.
from Samidoun Palestine Prisoners solidarity Network
“As we commemorate International Working Women’s Day around the world this 8 March, there are 35 Palestinian women in Israeli jails, representing all facets of Palestinian society: students, activists, organizers, parliamentarians, journalists, health workers, mothers, sisters, daughters, aunts, strugglers, freedom fighters. Palestinian women have always been at the center of the liberation movement through all aspects of struggle and have led within the prisoners’ movement, organizing hunger strikes and standing on the front lines of struggle even behind bars.
On International Working Women’s Day, Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network salutes the leading role of Palestinian women in struggle and urges the immediate release of all Palestinian women prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons.”
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