Omar Shakir
Omar Shakir, who has been accused of anti-Semitism and ties with terrorism, penned a report in April that accused Israel of committing “crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution.”
“In short, this report is tantamount to an anti-Semitic ‘blood libel’ against the Jewish state,” said Arsen Ostrovsky, an international human-rights lawyer and CEO of the International Legal Forum, of the 217-page 2021 Human Rights Watch report.
An American citizen, he was ordered to leave the country after Israel’s Supreme Court upheld an expulsion order under a 2017 law that allows Israel to deport foreigners who support the boycott movement, which has been accused of anti-Semitism and ties with terrorism.
Human Rights Watch Israel director Omar Shakir must now leave the country within 20 days, after justices uphold earlier ruling finding him guilty of promoting BDS.
The court agreed to the delay after Human Rights Watch Israel/Palestine director Omar Shakir’s attorney argued that a new government coalition might interpret Israel’s 2017 anti-BDS law differently.
