PALESTINIAN activists have issued a call to socialists in Britain to support detainees arrested for participating in Palestine’s uprising earlier this year. 

Thousands of Palestinians from across their historic homeland united to protest against Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, culminating in a historic strike on May 18. 

Israeli authorities responded by arresting more than 2,000 people, including children, in a bid to quell the uprising.

Speaking to The World Transformed yesterday, Riya al-Sanah, a Palestinian activist and researcher for Who Profits, urged the British public to donate to a fund set up to support those arrested b y covering legal fees: the Detainee and Dignity Support fund (dignityfund-baladna.com).

“Support the fund because … it’s not about charity, it’s about political solidarity, because Israel uses mass incarceration as a discipline mechanism,” she said. 

“Go back to your institutions, go back to your trade unions, make collections, organise over the question of detention and mass incarceration in Palestine.”