PALESTINIAN rights activists celebrated “a political and moral victory” today when two of the so-called Humboldt three were acquitted of all charges after protesting against Israeli war crimes at a 2017 meeting.
Majed Abusalama, a Palestinian journalist from Gaza, Ronnie Barkan, an Israeli-Jewish human rights defender and Stavit Sinai, an Israeli-Jewish anti-colonial scholar and philosophy teacher, were charged with trespassing and assault after they challenged Aliza Lavie, a member of the Yesh Atid party and leader of the anti-BDS movement in the Knesset, during the event at Humboldt University.
The trio insisted it was their moral duty to protest against Israeli war crimes and that they had merely exercised their right to peaceful protest during the 2017 meeting.
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