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Ramallah protesters demand release of Palestinian BDS activist

2020-08-12

[IsraelTimes] Israeli sources say Mahmoud Nawajaa was arrested for ’security offenses,’ not over his role in boycott movement, but don’t reveal allegations against him.

Paleostinians rallied in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday, urging EU pressure on Israel to free a local leader of the global campaign to boycott the Jewish state.

Mahmoud Nawajaa, coordinator of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in the Paleostinian territories, was arrested at his home in Ramallah on July 30.

Several rights groups, including ~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International, have called for his release.

"He has been detained solely for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and association and is therefore a prisoner of conscience," Amnesty said in an August 7 blurb.

More than 100 protesters gathered outside the German delegation office in Ramallah

...an entire century? Golly.

urging the country, which currently holds the European body’s rotating presidency, to lobby Israel.

Because that will matter? But the EU long since made its preferences clear, and to do more could threaten the lucrative EU-Israel trade.

"Our main message to the European Union

...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
and to Germany is that you need to intervene with the Israelis, force them to uphold human rights
One man's rights are another man's existential threat.
and those who defend them," said Omar Barghouti, a co-founder of BDS.

The movement calls for a wide-ranging embargo of Israel over its treatment of the Paleostinians.

Israeli sources familiar with Nawajaa’s case who requested anonymity told AFP that he was arrested for "security offenses," not over his role in BDS.

They did not detail the nature of the allegations against him and Nawajaa has not been charged in court.

Israel sees BDS as a strategic threat and accuses it of anti-Semitism.

Activists strongly deny the charge, comparing the embargo to the economic isolation that helped bring down apartheid in South Africa.

Last year, Israel rejected a visa extension request of the country director of Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, after accusing him of supporting BDS — a claim he denied.

Posted by:trailing wife

#3 Give in, release him from 20k feet sans parachute. Make sure he lands in their general vicinity.

Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-08-12 11:20

#2 Maybe Israel can demand that in return the BDS movement can disband.

Posted by: gorb 2020-08-12 06:04

#1 "Palestinians DEMAND" = STFU

Posted by: Frank G 2020-08-12 04:58

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