On this day, France’s national holiday, Palestinian and Jewish Unity highlights a truth that is a mark against the festivities of the French Republic: the four-decade-long incarceration of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. The country of the Declaration of the Rights of Man denies the rights of Georges Abdallah, “the Arab Nelson Mandela.”
If we call Georges the Arab Nelson Mandela, it is precisely to emphasize that Georges is a political prisoner, as Nelson Mandela once was. Georges is not a terrorist! Moreover, under apartheid, South Africa considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist!
Like Mandela, Georges is a freedom fighter!
“I am a fighter, not a criminal,” says Georges. “The path I have followed was forced upon me by the human rights abuses perpetrated against Palestinians.” This is why, on this national holiday of the country of human rights, PAJU says loudly and clearly:
FREE GEORGE ABDALLAH! FREE PALESTINE!