March 10th, 2021
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA A Palestinian-American activist has vowed to continue fighting Apartheid after winning a court case brought against her in the U.S. by a former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier.
Suhair Nafal was facing a defamation suit over a 2018 Facebook post condemning the murder that summer of Palestinian
The case was brought by Israeli-American Rebecca Rumshiskaya, who was seeking $6 million in damages after Nafal described her as “evil” for joining the Israeli military.
Rumshiskaya was also attempting to convince the California court to try Nafal under Israeli law.
The attempt backfired as Orange County Superior Court J
US Palestinian activist defeats Israeli defamation lawsuit
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Judge Rejects Application of Israeli Law in Landmark Defamation Case Against Palestinian Activist Comments
SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA A Palestinian-American activist has vowed to continue fighting Apartheid after winning a court case brought against her in the U.S. by a former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldier. Suhair Nafal was facing a defamation suit over a 2018 Facebook post condemning the murder that summer of Palestinian nurse Razan al-Najjar during the Great March of Return. The case was brought by Israeli-American Rebecca Rumshiskaya, who was seeking $6 million in damages after Nafal described her as “evil” for joining the Israeli military.
Bizarrely, Rumshiskaya was also attempting to convince the California court to try Nafal under Israeli law. The attempt backfired, however, as Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig Griffin rejected the suit, even ordering Rumshiskaya to pay Nafal’s legal costs under anti-SLAPP laws, effec
March 8, 2021 at 9:30 am
An Israeli soldier who launched a $6 million defamation action in America against a Palestinian Christian has seen her legal efforts backfire spectacularly. Although her lawyer urged the US judge to apply Israeli defamation law, which punishes criticism of the Zionist State by up to one year in prison, Rebecca Rumshiskaya lost her case.
Californian Judge Craig Griffin rejected and dismissed the lawsuit as well as the attempt to apply Israeli laws in his Orange County Superior Court. In his ruling, the judge also granted Palestinian Suhair Nafal s anti-SLAPP motion and said that Rumshiskaya must pay the defendant s legal costs. The anti-SLAPP laws are designed to deter people from using the US courts, and potential threats of a lawsuit, to intimidate people who are exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech. A strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP) is one intended to deter freedom of speech, and which the plaintiff usually doe
Newspaper Review: Dailies highlight high number of coronavirus infections, deaths
RAMALLAH, Sunday, March 07, 2021 (WAFA) – Palestinian Arabic dailies focused today on the persisting high number of daily coronavirus infections and deaths registered in Palestine yesterday.
Al-Hayat al-Jadida and al-Ayyam said 2011 new infections, 19 deaths and 1430 recoveries were registered in Palestine yesterday.
Al-Quds said the Palestinian Government has decided a number of precautionary measures in an effort to curb the spread of the pandemic.
Al-Ayyam said a full lockdown was imposed on the central West Bank district of Ramallah for one week starting today morning. The district has registered the highest number of infections across the West Bank for nearly a month.
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