An RT Arabic TV crew was attacked by Israeli police while covering the Jerusalem Day march in the Old City. Although the journalists had all documents permitting them to cover the event, the police prevented them from going live.
"After a terrible time we had to pass through check points that they erected everywhere along the Old City, they asked us to move away from the Damascus gate point. They didn't do it gently, they pushed us and broke our camera," RT Arabic reporter Dalia Nammari later told RT International.
The reporter added that other journalists covering the event were treated the same "brutal" way by the Israeli police.
الاعتداء على الفلسطينيين في القدس من قبل القوات الإسرائيلية قبيل مسيرة المستوطنين في ذكرى احتلال #القدس pic.twitter.com/apcQa0EUAk
— Dalia Nammari (@Dalianamari_rt) May 17, 2015
"They took away my earpiece ... they are demanding from everyone - even journalists, to evacuate the area. Even Palestinians who live in the city can't be present here because of the settlers' march," Nammari said.
كاميرا أر تي في محاولة تصليحها بعد كسرها والاعتداء على مصور أر تي من قبل القوات الإسرائيلية في #القدس pic.twitter.com/WtfztwBwvq
— Dalia Nammari (@Dalianamari_rt) May 17, 2015
Canada's plan to make boycotting Israel a 'hate crime' is stupid and counterproductive
The new law would put Jews and civil society groups on trial for anti-Semitism
........But in Canada – and I had to literally rub my eyes when I read this – the totally pro-Israeli Conservative government of Stephen Harper intends to list the boycotting of Israel as a “hate crime”. This is not only ludicrous, stupid, pointless and racist because it assumes that anyone opposed to Israel’s vicious and iniquitous policies of land-grabbing in the West Bank is an anti-Semite, but it is also anti-democratic. Those who believe in non-violence have always espoused boycott movements on the grounds that economic pressure rather than bombs is a moral way of putting pressure on a country that violates international law.
Yet Harper, who would surely be elected to the Knesset if he were an Israeli, ........continued