Human rights watch is research regarding the activities of businesses and settlements and the court just in april affirmed that the deportation was legally valid and gave me 2 weeks to leave and weve now appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court i know that the are now waiting this is Supreme Courts decision on whether or not there should be allowed to stand work within the country but it comes at a time when politically israelis say quite at a crossroads especially considering Benjamin Netanyahu is future political future do you think this Political Uncertainty in israel will have any bearing on the case absolutely i mean i think its not a coincidence that the Supreme Court a scheduled our hearing for november 11th these really israelis will go to elections on september 17th the process to form a government usually takes around 6 weeks so by the time were sitting in the courtroom will likely have unless theres some hiccups like law. Time with Coalition Negotiations a new Israeli Governmen
Remarkable what got you in trouble with the israeli leadership Israeli Government going back several years now has been restricting Human Rights Watch as access to both israel and the west bank it began actually several years ago in february of 2017 when the Israeli Government denied Human Rights Watch a permit to have a foreign employee at the time they allege that Human Rights Watch was engaged in propaganda for palestinians we went public it generated pressure the government relented and then last year the government accused me as the israel palestine director of Human Rights Watch of promoting boycotts in israel we sued a court froze the deportation order and in court the government cited as evidence Human Rights Watch is research regarding the activities of businesses in settlements and the court just in april affirmed that the deportation was legally valid and gave me 2 weeks to leave and weve now appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court i know that the are now waiting this is Supre
Going back several years now has been restricting Human Rights Watch as access to both israel and the west bank it began actually several years ago in february of 2017 when the Israeli Government denied Human Rights Watch a permit to have a foreign employee at the time they allege that Human Rights Watch was engaged in propaganda for palestinians we went public it generated pressure the government relented and then last year the government accused me as the israel palestine director of Human Rights Watch of promoting boycotts in israel we sued a court froze the deportation order and in court the government cited as evidence Human Rights Watch is research regarding the activities of businesses and settlements and the court just in april affirmed that the deportation was legally valid and gave me 2 weeks to leave and weve now appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court i know that the are now waiting this is Supreme Courts decision on whether or not there should be allowed to stand work within
Coalition negotiations a new Israeli Government and the Israeli Supreme Court and the Israeli Government will have important decisions to make about the extent to which israel today welcomes criticism of its human rights policies and particularly with regards to palestinians now the reason im asking this question is because i think. The the lower courts have interpreted the charges against you in a very broad political way essentially youve been found guilty of war can you guess the state of israel for simply saying that business businesses that operate in the all clear by the west bank how being too entrenched occupation just when did it become controversial to say that thats absolutely right and 2017 the Israeli Knesset passed a law that bans entry to those who call for boycotts of israel of course the outlawed self is problematic it essentially imposes a political litmus test who can enter it. Israel but what the court has done in this decision is interpretive valid law to call to i