[Crsd] URGENT - Please support Susan Abulhawa's release from Israeli detention!

[Ryan Stray]

URGENT! This is a time-sensitive request!
Please sign the petition (
https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/release-susan-abulhawa
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Factionnetwork.org%2Fpetitions%2Frelease-susan-abulhawa%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR1qzOqO0vRe_4xMz30-B2Fp8VuCoKzwAE9pZvCu5ZNVllwZoPseIoVlxl4&h=AT0tH5pI3vIj4iJam5NKlgiYGJoLYupBsp6HLqldX0lzeno7O9ZE8z2fL4zz2fxuA5Mh10yZi132yGokWkgpeAoiZLQZTHveyeW2lK-8zSjB2qAczHiaFsDJfXX4aVUpB4MBdyzS4EzSVjbiBQ>
)
and share widely among your networks to ensure Susan's immediate and
unconditional release from Israeli detention!

#LetSusanIn <https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/letsusanin?source=feed_text>

Susan Abulhawa, the Palestinian novelist, has been denied entry at Tel Aviv
Airport on her way to the Kalimat Palestinian Literature Festival sponsored
in part by the British Council. Despite the help of a lawyer from the
British Council, the US Embassy and the festival organizers who have been
on hand to assist, she was been detained by border forces upon her arrival.

She is one of the most commercially successful Arab authors of all time.
Abulhawa’s 2010 debut novel Mornings in Jenin, a multigenerational family
epic spanning five countries and more than sixty years, looks unflinchingly
at the Palestinian question – and became an international bestseller
translated into twenty-eight languages. Susan was also a juror among a
panel of internationally recognized human rights activists at the recent
International People's Tribunal on US Colonial Crimes in Puerto Rico.

At this point, Susan is in detention awaiting a judicial decision regarding
her appeal to allow her entry. Festival organizers and the British Council
have stated that her participation is a cornerstone of the festival and
very much needed.

We demand the immediate release of Susan Abulhawa and a guarantee that she
will be able to travel and participate in the Kalimat Palestinian
Literature Festival without any further incident. As a prominent
Palestinian author, she deserves to be allowed to attend the Kalimat
Palestinian Literature Festival in her birthright county.

Below is the contact info for the US Embassy of Israel to ask that she be
allowed entry to participate. (https://www.science.co.il/Embassy.php
<https://www.science.co.il/Embassy.php?fbclid=IwAR1WnxXXFLyhbkJG-hpSD4JUOlzJN3VM_Tcldg9BNq9cyELYicZbo8N-VaA>
)

In addition to signing this petition, please contact these US officials to
demand they assist in assuring Abulhawa's speedy release and permission to
travel to the festival.

Ron Dermer, Israeli Ambassador to the United States

202-364-5500

David Friedman, US Ambassdor to Israel

Sen. Robert Casey, PA

866-892-2833

Sen. Patrick Toomey, PA

202-224-4254

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick

202-225-4257
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