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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Israel jails Jewish anti-occupation activist

Ma'an
An Israeli court on Wednesday sentenced a prominent Jewish anti-occupation activist to one month in prison for allegedly assaulting a police officer during the demolition of Palestinian houses in the West Bank.

... also ordered activist Ezra Nawi to pay a fine of 750,000 shekels (roughly 203,114 US dollars), and an additional 500 shekels (135 US dollars) to each officer he supposedly struck.

... Nawi told Ynet, "The judge would rather take the word of two Border Guard officers who lied and coordinated their testimonies...”

...Nawi, a member of the pro-Palestinian organization Ta'ayush, was arrested after he objected to Israel’s demolition of tin huts belonging to Palestinian Bedouin in the village of Umm Al-Kheir, south of the city of Hebron, in 2007. Full story
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