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🚨🇵🇸TAKE ACTION: With Ramadan days away, we call on our community not to break your fast with dates that support the ongoing genocide in Gaza, annexation of the West Bank & torture of our prisoners. Join the campaign to #BoycottZionistDates & share widely:
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Yesterday U.S. Palestinian political prisoner Leqaa Kordia released a statement (full text below) days after suffering a seizure & being disappeared by ICE for 3 days while chained to a hospital bed. In her words, “The best medicine for me and everyone else here is our freedom.”
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“Whether it is my family in Palestine, or the other women unjustly confined by ICE alongside me, I will continue to use my voice to speak up for the freedom and dignity of others.”
—Leqaa Kordia, U.S. Palestinian political prisoner in ICE detention since March 2025
FREE LEQAA! FREE THEM ALL!
—Leqaa Kordia, U.S. Palestinian political prisoner in ICE detention since March 2025
FREE LEQAA! FREE THEM ALL!
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FULL TEXT OF STATEMENT
DALLAS, TX – After several days of family and counsel searching for her whereabouts, Leqaa Kordia was discharged from hospitalization and returned to immigration confinement at Prairieland Detention Facility in North Texas, where she has been held for nearly a year in retaliation for speaking out for Palestinian rights. Her experiences while receiving medical treatment were plagued by the involvement of immigration officers. The following statement is attributed to Leqaa Kordia:
“On February 6th, I woke up in the Prairieland Detention Facility’s medical unit terrified and confused after having experienced the first seizure of my life. Not until enduring nearly a year of cruel confinement in inhumane conditions had I ever suffered one before. All I felt was fear, not knowing what was happening to me. Witnesses told me that I fell down twice after going to the bathroom. My head opened the door with the first fall. After the second fall, I started to twitch, experiencing a seizure. They tell me I asked for my hijab to cover myself. I was dizzy, nauseous, and in pain as an ambulance drove me to the hospital.
The entire time I was chained. For three days in the emergency room, my hands and legs were weighed down by heavy chains as they drew my blood and gave me medications. It was terrifying. I felt like an animal. My hands are still full of marks from the heavy metal. They even refused to remove the chains when I went to the bathroom or took a shower. On the third day, I asked the lieutenant, “Why am I chained like this?” Her response was “because I said so.”
The only difference between the food at Prairieland and the food at the hospital was a bit of fruit. Otherwise, it was difficult to eat or keep any food down.
My experience at the hospital was dehumanizing from start to finish. While I believe the nurses and doctors did their best, the guards didn’t treat me like a human being. They wouldn’t let me speak to my family. When one of my attorneys came to see me, they refused to let them in. I worried that if something happened to me, no one would know.
The hospital told me I was more prone to seizures because of poor sleep, inadequate nutrition, and stress. The doctor advised me to reduce my stress and eat food to avoid a future seizure. I don’t know how I can do that while I’m confined. At Prairieland, your daily life — whether you can have access to the food or medicine you need or even a good night’s sleep — is controlled by the private, for-profit business that runs this facility. I’ve been here for 11 months, and the food is so bad it makes me sick. We live in filthy conditions. The best medicine for me and everyone else here is our freedom.
ICE detention facilities are built to break people and destroy their health and hope. I want everyone to know what happened to me because the same things are happening to other women who are locked up here. There are women who have terminal cancer, disabled women, pregnant women. They are all suffering, and none of us deserves to be here. No one deserves this.
The only reason ICE targeted me in the first place is because I protested against the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza. Even now, U.S.-made bombs continue to destroy Palestinian homes and kill Palestinian families. Whether it is my family in Palestine, or the other women unjustly confined by ICE alongside me, I will continue to use my voice to speak up for the freedom and dignity of others.”
— Leqaa Kordia
DALLAS, TX – After several days of family and counsel searching for her whereabouts, Leqaa Kordia was discharged from hospitalization and returned to immigration confinement at Prairieland Detention Facility in North Texas, where she has been held for nearly a year in retaliation for speaking out for Palestinian rights. Her experiences while receiving medical treatment were plagued by the involvement of immigration officers. The following statement is attributed to Leqaa Kordia:
“On February 6th, I woke up in the Prairieland Detention Facility’s medical unit terrified and confused after having experienced the first seizure of my life. Not until enduring nearly a year of cruel confinement in inhumane conditions had I ever suffered one before. All I felt was fear, not knowing what was happening to me. Witnesses told me that I fell down twice after going to the bathroom. My head opened the door with the first fall. After the second fall, I started to twitch, experiencing a seizure. They tell me I asked for my hijab to cover myself. I was dizzy, nauseous, and in pain as an ambulance drove me to the hospital.
The entire time I was chained. For three days in the emergency room, my hands and legs were weighed down by heavy chains as they drew my blood and gave me medications. It was terrifying. I felt like an animal. My hands are still full of marks from the heavy metal. They even refused to remove the chains when I went to the bathroom or took a shower. On the third day, I asked the lieutenant, “Why am I chained like this?” Her response was “because I said so.”
The only difference between the food at Prairieland and the food at the hospital was a bit of fruit. Otherwise, it was difficult to eat or keep any food down.
My experience at the hospital was dehumanizing from start to finish. While I believe the nurses and doctors did their best, the guards didn’t treat me like a human being. They wouldn’t let me speak to my family. When one of my attorneys came to see me, they refused to let them in. I worried that if something happened to me, no one would know.
The hospital told me I was more prone to seizures because of poor sleep, inadequate nutrition, and stress. The doctor advised me to reduce my stress and eat food to avoid a future seizure. I don’t know how I can do that while I’m confined. At Prairieland, your daily life — whether you can have access to the food or medicine you need or even a good night’s sleep — is controlled by the private, for-profit business that runs this facility. I’ve been here for 11 months, and the food is so bad it makes me sick. We live in filthy conditions. The best medicine for me and everyone else here is our freedom.
ICE detention facilities are built to break people and destroy their health and hope. I want everyone to know what happened to me because the same things are happening to other women who are locked up here. There are women who have terminal cancer, disabled women, pregnant women. They are all suffering, and none of us deserves to be here. No one deserves this.
The only reason ICE targeted me in the first place is because I protested against the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza. Even now, U.S.-made bombs continue to destroy Palestinian homes and kill Palestinian families. Whether it is my family in Palestine, or the other women unjustly confined by ICE alongside me, I will continue to use my voice to speak up for the freedom and dignity of others.”
— Leqaa Kordia
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This victory belongs to the hunger strikers, the Filton 24, to all the current & former political prisoners and to every heroic actionist who resisted the ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people. We said after the ban and we say today, proudly: WE ARE ALL PALESTINE ACTION!🇵🇸
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Ramadan Mubarak from Gaza, where Palestinian children lift their lanterns over the rubble of their homes for the third Ramadan in a row during the ongoing genocide. Where families set the table with empty chairs, both honoring and mourning the martyrs who are missing. Where, even beneath the roar of fighter jets, tanks and bombs, our people show the world that Palestinian steadfastness, faith, and resistance are stronger than any weapon. This Ramadan, we pray not only for patience, but for freedom for our prisoners, justice for our martyrs, liberation and return for our people, and for an end to the U.S.-backed occupation and genocide.
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Honoring The Martyrs Of The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre (Part 1)
Thirty-two years ago on February 25th, 1994, zionist terror bred in Brooklyn spilled Palestinian blood in Al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank. On that day Baruch Goldstein, a Brooklyn-born settler, entered the Ibrahimi Mosque with an assault rifle and murdered twenty-nine Palestinians in cold blood as they prayed during Ramadan, wounding over one hundred more. Goldstein was subsequently overpowered, disarmed and beaten to death by the surviving Palestinians in an act of self-defense and collective resistance.
In the aftermath of the massacre, Palestinians in Al-Khalil estimated that as many as 70 people were martyred that day, with more than 250 injured.
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Thirty-two years ago on February 25th, 1994, zionist terror bred in Brooklyn spilled Palestinian blood in Al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank. On that day Baruch Goldstein, a Brooklyn-born settler, entered the Ibrahimi Mosque with an assault rifle and murdered twenty-nine Palestinians in cold blood as they prayed during Ramadan, wounding over one hundred more. Goldstein was subsequently overpowered, disarmed and beaten to death by the surviving Palestinians in an act of self-defense and collective resistance.
In the aftermath of the massacre, Palestinians in Al-Khalil estimated that as many as 70 people were martyred that day, with more than 250 injured.
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Before he settled in Palestine in 1983, Goldstein’s anti-Palestinian hate was molded by his membership in the Jewish Defense League, a zionist vigilante group founded in New York City in 1968 by Meir Kahane, who was also born and raised in Brooklyn. The JDL was notorious for carrying out multiple bombings and terrorist attacks throughout the 1970s & 80s, and most infamously the assassination of Palestinian-American community activist Alex Odeh in 1985 in Santa Ana, California.
Although the JDL was investigated and surveilled for its terrorist activities by the FBI for decades, it has remained active in recent years after rebranding as Yad Yamin and later as Herut, and collaborating with other violent zionist organizations in New York City, including Betar.
Emboldened by active protection from the NYPD and more “mainstream” entities like the Zionist Organization of America, these groups have increased their physical violence and intimidation against the Palestinian community and allies in New York City.
Recent examples of this violence include former JDL members macing pro-Palestine youth including members of WOL, Betar offering $1,800 to anyone who hands WOL’s chair and founder Nerdeen Kiswani a beeper (a reference to the occupation’s terrorist attacks in Lebanon in 2024), and JDL-adjacent Councilwoman Inna Vernikov bringing a gun to threaten high school and college students at a pro-Palestine demonstration at Brooklyn College in October 2023.
Meir Kahane & Baruch Goldstein’s Legacies Today: Palestinian Resistance In The Face Of Zionist Violence (Part 2)
The actions outlined above in part one are not isolated incidents. Inna Vernikov’s political mentor, Dov Hikind, a former New York State Assemblyman, was also formerly a member of the JDL. In 2008 he declared, “I’m proud of every single moment, let me make that very clear. Rabbi Kahane had a great influence on me.” In the 1980s, according to journalists Michael Karpin and Ina Friedman, Hikind was suspected by the FBI of “involvement in planning a string of six bombings against Arab targets in NY, Massachusetts and California—in which one man was killed and seven were injured.”
Before being elected to the New York City Council, Vernikov served as an aide to Hikind, and during her election bid in 2021 held a campaign event inviting supporters to “Meet Assemblyman Dov Hikind & His Wife Shani!” Shani Hikind, as of 2024, was the Executive Vice President of American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, a zionist organization funding illegal settlements in the West Bank and Al-Quds. Between 2020-2023, Dov and Shani Hikind contributed $2,550 to Inna Vernikov's City Council campaigns, according to public records.
In 1990 following his death, supporters of Meir Kahane lined the streets of Brooklyn during his funeral procession with israeli flags and signs that read “Death To Arabs.” Kahane’s grandson, Meir Ettinger, who carries both his name and his violent legacy, is one of the leaders of the Hilltop Youth, a zionist vigilante group in the West Bank that carried out the 2015 murder of the Dawabsheh family in the village of Duma, in which 18-month old Ali Dawabsheh and his two parents were burned to death.
The forces that molded and enabled Goldstein’s terror continue to fuel violence against Palestinians today, both in Palestine and here in New York City. And it's no coincidence that those that found inspiration in Goldstein's genocidal violence, like Itamar Ben-Gvir who had a portrait of him hanging on his living room wall for years, are the most vocal champions of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, annexation of the West Bank and push to legalize the execution of Palestinian prisoners.
In April 2025, Itamar Ben-Gvir was hosted by Chabad-Lubavitch in Crown Heights, where a violent mob his supporters of brutally attacked multiple pro-Palestine protestors. His visit, which was widely condemned, was a full circle moment for the ongoing legacy of zionist terror bred in Brooklyn - from Baruch Goldstein to the present.
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Although the JDL was investigated and surveilled for its terrorist activities by the FBI for decades, it has remained active in recent years after rebranding as Yad Yamin and later as Herut, and collaborating with other violent zionist organizations in New York City, including Betar.
Emboldened by active protection from the NYPD and more “mainstream” entities like the Zionist Organization of America, these groups have increased their physical violence and intimidation against the Palestinian community and allies in New York City.
Recent examples of this violence include former JDL members macing pro-Palestine youth including members of WOL, Betar offering $1,800 to anyone who hands WOL’s chair and founder Nerdeen Kiswani a beeper (a reference to the occupation’s terrorist attacks in Lebanon in 2024), and JDL-adjacent Councilwoman Inna Vernikov bringing a gun to threaten high school and college students at a pro-Palestine demonstration at Brooklyn College in October 2023.
Meir Kahane & Baruch Goldstein’s Legacies Today: Palestinian Resistance In The Face Of Zionist Violence (Part 2)
The actions outlined above in part one are not isolated incidents. Inna Vernikov’s political mentor, Dov Hikind, a former New York State Assemblyman, was also formerly a member of the JDL. In 2008 he declared, “I’m proud of every single moment, let me make that very clear. Rabbi Kahane had a great influence on me.” In the 1980s, according to journalists Michael Karpin and Ina Friedman, Hikind was suspected by the FBI of “involvement in planning a string of six bombings against Arab targets in NY, Massachusetts and California—in which one man was killed and seven were injured.”
Before being elected to the New York City Council, Vernikov served as an aide to Hikind, and during her election bid in 2021 held a campaign event inviting supporters to “Meet Assemblyman Dov Hikind & His Wife Shani!” Shani Hikind, as of 2024, was the Executive Vice President of American Friends of Ateret Cohanim, a zionist organization funding illegal settlements in the West Bank and Al-Quds. Between 2020-2023, Dov and Shani Hikind contributed $2,550 to Inna Vernikov's City Council campaigns, according to public records.
In 1990 following his death, supporters of Meir Kahane lined the streets of Brooklyn during his funeral procession with israeli flags and signs that read “Death To Arabs.” Kahane’s grandson, Meir Ettinger, who carries both his name and his violent legacy, is one of the leaders of the Hilltop Youth, a zionist vigilante group in the West Bank that carried out the 2015 murder of the Dawabsheh family in the village of Duma, in which 18-month old Ali Dawabsheh and his two parents were burned to death.
The forces that molded and enabled Goldstein’s terror continue to fuel violence against Palestinians today, both in Palestine and here in New York City. And it's no coincidence that those that found inspiration in Goldstein's genocidal violence, like Itamar Ben-Gvir who had a portrait of him hanging on his living room wall for years, are the most vocal champions of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, annexation of the West Bank and push to legalize the execution of Palestinian prisoners.
In April 2025, Itamar Ben-Gvir was hosted by Chabad-Lubavitch in Crown Heights, where a violent mob his supporters of brutally attacked multiple pro-Palestine protestors. His visit, which was widely condemned, was a full circle moment for the ongoing legacy of zionist terror bred in Brooklyn - from Baruch Goldstein to the present.
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As we honor the martyrs of the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre and all of Palestine's martyrs, we renew our commitment to resisting zionism and colonialism in all its forms and fighting for Palestinian liberation and return within our lifetime.🇵🇸
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WOL’s Chair & founder Nerdeen Kiswani is suing Betar, the Zionist org whose members have been targeting her with harassment and death threats for years. In her own words, “This lawsuit is about more than me. It is about ensuring that Zionist organizations cannot stalk, threaten, and attempt to physically intimidate Palestinians and our allies with impunity.”
Take action to support Nerdeen’s fight for justice and protect Palestinian activists:
➡️Donate: https://chuffed.org/project/171422-protect-palestinian-activists-support-legal-action-against-betar-usa
➡️Read the legal complaint: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/685dfa8fbc984d79927642b0/t/699f90fb4df85d2b2f9cfffa/1772065020145/01+Kiswani+Complaint.pdf
“Litigation of this magnitude is expensive and time-intensive. All contributions go directly toward legal costs, filings, experts, and the work required to hold this organization accountable in court. If we do not challenge this conduct, it continues unchecked.”
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Take action to support Nerdeen’s fight for justice and protect Palestinian activists:
➡️Donate: https://chuffed.org/project/171422-protect-palestinian-activists-support-legal-action-against-betar-usa
➡️Read the legal complaint: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/685dfa8fbc984d79927642b0/t/699f90fb4df85d2b2f9cfffa/1772065020145/01+Kiswani+Complaint.pdf
“Litigation of this magnitude is expensive and time-intensive. All contributions go directly toward legal costs, filings, experts, and the work required to hold this organization accountable in court. If we do not challenge this conduct, it continues unchecked.”
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Read more about Nerdeen Kiswani’s lawsuit against Betar in her thread here: https://x.com/nerdeenkiswani/status/2026814592450703572?s=46
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Nerdeen Kiswani (@NerdeenKiswani) on X
For years, Betar USA stalked & harassed me even offering $1,800 for someone to hand me a beeper while I was pregnant.
Last month, the NY AG found they engaged in bias-motivated harassment and threats. Still they faced no real consequences.
So I’m filing…
Last month, the NY AG found they engaged in bias-motivated harassment and threats. Still they faced no real consequences.
So I’m filing…
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