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Supporters of anti-Zionist Israeli conscientious objector outside Manchester Tribunal Hearing Centre this morning
AN ANTI-ZIONIST Jewish student who fled Israel in 2017 was harassed and intimidated outside a court today where an appeal on his asylum claim was due to be heard.
The 21-year-old rabbinical student, who has been granted an anonymity order, claimed asylum in Britain after receiving a letter requiring him to report for military service in Israel.
An immigration appeals court in Manchester had been due to hear an appeal against the Home Office’s rejection of his asylum claim last year, but the hearing was adjourned after the court failed to find a Yiddish interpreter. It will resume later in the year.
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