Is Israel showing contempt for human rights groups with its decision to deport Human Rights Watch’s top Israel and Palestine official?
An Israeli court approved the government’s decision to deport Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch. Shakir is seen at his hearing at the district court in Jerusalem on March 11 2019.
“When Israeli government originally ordered me to deport over my peaceful advocacy, it was disappointing. But it was a larger pattern that included denying entry of other international rights activists and squeezing Israeli right defenders accusing them slander, discrediting state and army,” he said. Shakir, an American citizen, was the group’s director in the region.
HRW has recommended that companies like Airbnb and Booking.com cease their operations in the illegal West Bank settlements. “Israel portrays itself as the region’s only democracy, but is set to deport a rights defender over his peaceful advocacy,”“The decision sends the chilling message that those who criticise the involvement of businesses in serious abuses in Israeli settlements risk being barred from Israel and the Israeli-occupied West Bank,” Porteous said.
The decision came despite the fact that Israel’s interior minister had conceded in a letter that “no information” had surfaced to prove Shakir promoted boycotts during his tenure at the HRW.
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