Legal Affairs
Sara Coodin, of the AJC, told JNS that such claims “hew closely to the classic antisemitic canards of Jewish power, malicious influence and control.”
Phoebe Okowa, newly elected to the International Court of Justice, has also said that Israel’s entry into the United Nations was based on creating a Palestinian state.
The U.S. president called the Israeli prime minister’s corruption trial a “political prosecution.”
Arnon Bar-David allegedly appointed one of his close associates to a fictitious paid position, in addition to the other suspicions against him.
“Guardian” reports effort aimed to discredit Karim Khan’s alleged victim and tie her to Israel.
Gerard Filitti, of The Lawfare Project, told JNS that the suit is “another example of the lawfare being waged against American Jews at a time of record Jew-hatred.”
The Ariel Municipality “has no decision-making power or veto over this issue, only an advisory role,” the appeals court ruled.
The legislation is expected to be brought before the Knesset plenum for a preliminary vote this week.
Over 350 people were reportedly questioned Monday following a raid on the Histadrut’s Tel Aviv offices.
The ongoing criminal cases against the Israeli prime minister are “a bleeding wound in the body of Israeli society,” states the letter, initiated by Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman.
“It’s the right thing to do, it’s moral and it will prevent them from taking hostages,” said the leader of the right-wing Otzma Yehudit Party.
A wider challenge of the international court’s jurisdiction over the State of Israel is still being weighed.
