Demand the unconditional release of Ghassan Najjar.

On October 27th Israeli forces imprisoned Ghassan Najjar, co-director of the Burin Land and Farming Cooperative, and now the military has issued an official order to detain him without charge until at least February 26th. His family is calling for communities around the world to mobilize for his release, organize emergency demonstrations, and call on elected officials to intervene.

Ghassan is 36 and the father of a three-year-old daughter. He co-founded the Burin Land and Farming Cooperative, where farmers practice agroecology, food sovereignty, and mutual aid as they steward their lands in the face of military occupation. He started a library and a youth center in Burin, and coaches the football club. Over the last years he helped found support networks for communities facing settler violence and displacement throughout the West Bank.

Ghassan has been subjected to repeated harassment and intimidation by the Israeli secret police, the Shin Bet, over his activism. In recent months, as preparations for the olive harvest season were underway, Shin Bet agents explicitly threatened to detain him if he continued organizing the harvest. Now he is being detained without charge only for harvesting olives on his own land, and helping other Palestinian farmers do the same. We call on people around the world to host solidarity events, demonstrations, and protests demanding the immediate and unconditional release of Ghassan Najjar!