National Jericho Support Statement for the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
T he 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, to