Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday agreed to hear the appeal of an American graduate student who is fighting an expulsion order over her involvement in the boycott movement against Israel.
Lara Alqasem has been held in detention since arriving in the country on Oct. 2 with a valid student visa. She will be allowed to remain the country pending the Supreme Court appeal, scheduled to take place on Wednesday, her lawyers said.
Alqasem, 22, turned to the high court after a lower court on Friday rejected her appeal to stay in the country. She will remain in detention pending her appeal, her lawyers said.
Israel says the Florida native, a former boycott activist at the University of Florida, continues to promote the boycott movement against Israel. She has argued that she is no longer active.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his government’s handling of the case, saying every country has the right to decide who enters its borders.
Asked about the case Sunday, he said it was now in the hands of the court. “They’ll decide whether they handle it or not,” he told a gathering of foreign Christian journalists. “If they handle it, we’ll see how it will develop, so if they don’t handle it, she’ll be deported.”
Alqasem had been registered to pursue a master’s degree in human rights at Israel’s Hebrew University. The first day of classes was Sunday.
(AP)
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ISRAEL’S SUPREME COURT – THE LAST REFUGE FOR TERRORISTS AND TRAITORS
the Israeli supreme court is a haven for the loonie liberal leftist who are afraid to be openly Jewish and feel that they have to be pro-Arab to show that they are just.
Time to get rid of this phoonie loonie justices and put some one who believe in true justice and not being like the loonie liberal left American (who Trump is getting rid of).
Typical. They are the kapos of this century.
Expelling an American citizen who is not doing anything too annoying (she’s a graduate student, not a professional activist) is probably unwise. While a country is within its rights to kick out aliens engaged in politicial activities, Israel has to remember “who is buttering their bread”, and kicking out an American citizen is not a good way to stay on good terms with the USA. It makes the Israelis look petty and insecure, which is not the image the zionists want to project.
Akuperma,
So someone is n the terrorist watch list that happens to be an American citizen should stay in Israel?
Highly doubtful