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Panel hosted by the Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network

Jacksonville, FL – On Dec. 2, over 45 people gathered at the University of North Florida in the Student Union Building for a panel hosted by the Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network (JPSN). The panel was focused on explaining the Balfour declaration and its ramifications. The Balfour declaration was a statement the British government issued in 1917 announcing support for building a Zionist state in Palestine.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Frontfor the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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Saint Paul, MN – Trump’s announcement to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and recognize it as Israel’s capital is widely opposed internationally, including by the 57-member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Palestinians are calling for three days of rage and people of conscience across the world are joining in. Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) will protest Trump’s unjust, illegal action on Friday Dec. 8, 4:30 p.m., at Summit and Snelling Avenues in Saint Paul.

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By Joe Iosbaker

Thousands march in Chicago to oppose Trump’s move on Jerusalem

Chicago, IL – “This is unacceptable – Jerusalem is our capital!” was the chant led by Muhammad Sankari of the U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), as over 500 people protested in the Federal Plaza in Chicago’s Loop, Dec. 7. An hour later, by the time the crowd arrived at the Israeli Consulate, the march had swelled to 2000 people – in a sea of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs, the traditional Palestinian scarves.

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Dave Schneider

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Jacksonville, FL – On Dec. 4, Yemen’s Houthi movement reported they had killed former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh in a military operation just outside of Sanaa, the capital. Both Saleh’s own party – the General People’s Congress – and Saudi media confirmed Saleh’s death.

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Nov. 20 statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Dave Schneider

U.S. and Saudi forces purposely target civilians in Yemen.

On Nov. 5, 2017, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri appeared in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and abruptly announced his resignation. In his resignation speech, Hariri denounced the Islamic Republic of Iran for supposedly interfering in Lebanese politics through Hezbollah, which makes up part of Hariri’s own coalition government.

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Protest slams visit of grandson of Zionist war criminal David Ben-Gurion.

Jacksonville, FL – On Thursday night, Nov. 9, the Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network (JPSN) protested in Jacksonville outside of an event celebrating the creation of the apartheid state of Israel, and which hosted the grandson of the first prime minister of Israel, Alon Ben-Gurion.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following Oct. 6 statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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Gaza march marks anniversary of the assassination PFLP leader Abu Ali Mustafa.

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following August 27 statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Tom Burke

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Detroit, MI – Palestinian American icon Rasmea Odeh made her final court appearance in Detroit on August 17. Odeh knew the sentence before she arrived. The defense and prosecution agreed to a sentence of removal from the U.S., and Judge Gerswhin Drain approved. Odeh was looking forward to making her public statement before the court.

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By Fern

Protesters at a Jacksonville rally for Palestine.

Jacksonville, FL — Three dozen gathered in front of the Duval County Courthouse on August 11 in support of Palestine. The call for a protest came after reports began circulating on social media that Israel had bombed neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip on August 8. Israeli bombs targeted areas filled with Palestinian civilians and four were injured, one very seriously.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

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By Freedom Road Socialist Organization

Khalida Jarrar

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization demands that the Israeli occupation immediately release Khalida Jarrar, a parliamentarian and longtime leader in the fight to liberate Palestine, along with Khitam Saafin, president of the Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees. These steadfast women are both being held under an administrative detention order that can be extended indefinitely.

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By Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

_Fight Back News Service is circulating this important statement issued by prisoners of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in the prisons of the Israeli occupation. _

May the Jerusalem uprising spread throughout the nation and confront the next stage

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Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)

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