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US Palestinian activist defeats Israeli “defamation” lawsuit

In a significant victory for free speech, a California court has ruled in favor of a Palestinian American activist who was sued for defamation by a former Israeli soldier over a Facebook post.

The suit was explicitly meant to bully, silence and smear activists for Palestinian rights.


The soldier was represented by Shurat HaDin, an Israeli lawfare group with ties to Mossad, Israel’s spying and assassination agency – and whose co-founder led an extremist cell that carried out attacks on Palestinian civilians in the 1980s.


As part of the lawsuit, the group requested that the California court apply Israeli defamation laws in order to attach criminal penalties to their claim.

 

On 1 March, the court not only rebuked the request to apply Israeli law, but entirely dismissed the lawsuit and upheld the activist’s speech as a matter of public interest.




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