2023 Freedom Flotilla people on the boat Handala
Robert Martin knew the only way to uncover the truth was to go to Palestine and see it for himself. What he witnessed changed him forever. Everything he’d been told by Western governments and the mainstream media was a lie — a calculated deception that masked Israel’s crimes and fostered global complicity. The Palestinians he […]
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Justine Kempf worked as a nurse for Doctors Without Borders during a mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Ituri. She is also involved with Doctors of the World on the French-Italian border. As a human being, she cannot remain silent in the face of the crimes suffered by the Palestinian people. She wishes
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Huwaida Arraf is a Palestinian-American civil/human rights attorney and social justice activist. She has been involved in legal, political, and grassroots initiatives for Palestinian rights for the last two decades, including co-founding the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and leading the Free Gaza Movement which, beginning in 2008, organized sea voyages to Gaza
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Christian Smalls is the founder of the Amazon Labor Union, the first independent, democratic, worker-led labor union in American History for Amazon in Staten Island, New York. He is also the founder of The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a nationwide collective of essential workers and allies fighting for better working conditions, better wages, and
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Ange Sahuquet is a French activist and engineer currently serving aboard the MV Handala, a ship sailing in solidarity with the Palestinian people. Deeply committed to justice and human rights, Ange has been actively protesting in France since the beginning of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza. His involvement is driven by a firm belief
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Passionate about video reporting and investigation, Yanis Mhamdi is a journalist-director at Blast, a French independent media outlet. He was in the West Bank where he shot his next film, “Alice in Settlerland.” Previously, Yanis directed the documentary “Netanyahu: Portrait of a War Criminal,” which screened in French theaters in 2024. Yanis Mhamdi is recognized
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Pilar Barrado Liesa, magistrada Juzgado de Primera Instancia 45 de Barcelona, Master en Derechos Fundamentales, Doctora en Derecho por la Universidad del País Vasco. Colaboro como profesora de ESADE (Barcelona), y Escuela Judicial. Madre de dos hijas y un hijo. He sido abogada, mediadora y asesora de Planta del Ministerio de Justicia español.
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Yasemin Acar, a 37 year-old activist from Germany, born and raised in the country to Kurdish parents from Turkey. She has been an activist since the age of 15, advocating for refugees, human rights, and against anti-Muslim racism. Yasemin has collaborated with several organizations to help refugees settle in Germany and has extensive experience working
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Thiago Ávila is a Brazilian, Latin American from the Global South, communicator, internationalist and socio-environmentalist, coordinator of Freedom Flotilla Brazil and member of the Steering Committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. Thiago is 37 years old, is the father of a 6-month-old daughter and organizes solidarity missions to several countries in the Global South in
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Jim Koenigsaecker is the Knight Fellow in the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University. He is also a documentary photographer and filmmaker specializing in pro-bono commissions for non-governmental organizations. Jim has also covered everything from the White House to the Olympic games for newspapers, magazines and wire services and television stations.
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