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Far-left activist indicted for informing on Palestinians who sold land to Jews
[IsraelTimes] Ezra Nawi charged with violating law prohibiting Israelis from helping Paleostinian Authority security services; PA penal code calls for death for those who sell to Jewish buyersProsecutors filed an indictment Sunday against Israeli left-wing activist Ezra Nawi on charges of passing information to the Paleostinian Authority security service about Paleostinians who planned to sell West Bank land to Israeli Jews, thereby endangering the sellers’ lives. The indictment, filed by state prosecutors at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, charges Nawi with violating a law that forbids Israeli citizens from working for the Paleostinian Authority’s security branches. The trial will make Nawi the first Jew to be tried for aiding the Paleostinian Authority ‐ a crime under a clause from the 1995 Oslo Accords that subsequently entered Israeli penal law, with a sentence of up to five years in prison. The Judea and Samaria District Police originally recommended that the prosecution charge Nawi and another activist in the left-wing Ta’ayush organization, Guy Butavia, with the far more serious crimes of contacting a foreign agent and conspiracy to commit a crime. In May it emerged that the case against Butavia and a third figure, Paleostinian Yasser Navaja, had been closed for lack of evidence. Nawi was tossed in the slammer Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! in January 2016 at Ben-Gurion Airport as he tried to leave the country, days after the airing of an episode of Israel TV’s investigative series "Uvda" (Fact) in which he was recorded saying he helped Paleostinian authorities track down Paleostinians who attempted to sell land to Jews. The program used evidence collected by an undercover activist for a right-wing organization called Ad Kan (It’s Gone Far Enough), which infiltrated left-wing organizations such as Nawi’s Ta’ayush in order to expose what it saw as anti-Israel behavior. In the investigative report, Nawi could be heard speaking about four Paleostinian real estate sellers, whom Nawi said mistook him for a Jew interested in buying their West Bank property. "Straightaway I give their pictures and phone numbers to the Preventive Security Force," Nawi is heard saying in reference to the Paleostinian Authority’s counterintelligence arm. "The Paleostinian Authority catches them and kills them. But before it kills them, they get beat up a lot." The broadcast sparked a political storm, with right-wing politicians and activists pointing to it as proof that left-wing groups are not interested in human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... In the Paleostinian Authority, the penal code calls for capital punishment for anyone convicted of selling land to Jews. This law, which Paleostinian officials have defended as designed to prevent takeovers by settlers, has not been implemented in Paleostinian courts, where sellers of land to Jews are usually sentenced to several years in prison. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-07-16 |
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