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Czech pro-Palestinian activist returns home after expelled by Israel

Posted on: January 12, 2010

Ha’aretz

12 January 2010

A Czech pro-Palestinian activist returned to Prague on Tuesday after she was expelled from Israel, officials said.

Israel Defense Forces soldiers and immigration police detained Eva Novakova, 28, in a raid on her home in Ramallah in the West Bank on early Monday, said the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group where she worked before her expulsion.

The group said in a statement posted on its website that Novakova became its media coordinator three weeks earlier.

The activist was expelled for “breaching the rules of her stay,” the spokesman for the Czech Republic’s Foreign Ministry, Milan Repka, said. He said … Continue reading


Updated on January 18, 2010
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Israel stages night-time Ramallah raid to arrest an international solidarity activist

Posted on: January 11, 2010

UPDATE: Eva has now been deported. She was forced on a plane back to Prague at 6am this morning (Tuesday the 12th).

11 January 2009

For immediate release:

A raid was conducted in Ramallah’s city centre tonight to apprehend Eva Nováková, a Czech citizen, who took on the role of the International Solidarity Movement’s media coordinator three weeks ago.

Israeli soldiers raided the Ramallah home of Eva Nováková tonight at 3 am near the Manara square. The operation to apprehend Nováková, the ISM’s new media coordinator since three weeks ago, was carried out by a force of both soldiers and members of the “Oz” … Continue reading


Updated on January 14, 2010
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Trapped in the land of Oz

Posted on: January 3, 2010

Ofra Edelman | Haaretz

3 January 2010

A complaint to the court ombudsman against Jerusalem District Court Judge Yitzhak Milanov reveals cooperation of questionable legality between the police and Oz, the Interior Ministry unit that deals with illegal foreigners, in the treatment of foreigners who took part in recent demonstrations in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarra neighborhood.

According to the complaint – which was submitted to the ombudsman, former Supreme Court justice Eliezer Goldberg, on December 17 – the police misused their authority by handing the left-wing foreign activists they arrested over to Oz, even though the foreigners were present in Israel … Continue reading


Updated on January 4, 2010
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Freedom for Ryan Olander, justice for Sheikh Jarrah: US citizen held in Israeli prisons for over two weeks

Posted on: January 2, 2010
Freedom for Ryan Olander, justice for Sheikh Jarrah: US citizen held in Israeli prisons for over two weeks

2 January 2010

For immediate release:

Israeli authorities continue to detain Ryan Olander, US citizen and solidarity activist, who was illegally arrested on 18 December 2009 for his support of Palestinian families evicted from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah.

Minnesota resident Ryan Olander is facing deportation after being held in Israeli prisons for over two weeks. He spent his Christmas and New Year at a deportation facility in Ramle, where his request for release has been rejected by the prison judge. His lawyer submitted … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Stop the deportation of Ryan Olander; American citizen arrested in Sheikh Jarrah

Posted on: December 25, 2009
Stop the deportation of Ryan Olander; American citizen arrested in Sheikh Jarrah

24 December 2009

Ryan Olander is due to be deported by the Israeli state, after being illegally arrested and detained in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah, in Occupied East Jerusalem. Please contact the Embassy of the United States in Tel Aviv, the Israeli Minister of Interior, or consider donating towards Ryan’s legal costs.

Ryan is currently being held at a deportation facility in Ramle, where his request for release has been rejected by the prison judge. … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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American citizen to be deported following his arrest in Sheikh Jarrah

Posted on: December 21, 2009
American citizen to be deported following his arrest in Sheikh Jarrah

21 December 2009

Imprisoned American citizen and Minnesota resident Ryan Olander to be deported to the US after being arrested in Sheikh Jarrah, Occupied East Jerusalem, whilst visiting Palestinian family whose house has been taken over by Israeli settlers.

Ryan was visiting the al-Kurds in the tent the Palestinian family built in their own backyard, after the recent setter take-over of a section of their house. At 1.15pm, 6 Israeli police walked into the tent, where Ryan … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Michigan woman imprisoned by Israel following settler takeover of Palestinian home

Posted on: November 6, 2009

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Imprisoned American citizen and Michigan resident Ahlam Mohsen to be deported to the US after being arrested in a Palestinian home taken over by Israeli settlers in Occupied East Jerusalem.

Ahlam was a guest of the al-Kurd family when on the morning of 3 November 2009 Israeli settlers burst in and seized part of the building. Contrary to eyewitness accounts, the police claim the 21-year-old attacked them.

From the Givon prison in Ramle where Ms. Mohsen is currently awaiting deportation she reported that:
“The Israeli police were violently pushing an elderly Palestinian woman. So I stepped in front of them. They … Continue reading


Updated on March 20, 2012
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Fmr. Congressmember Cynthia McKinney back in U.S. after being detained and deported from Israel

Posted on: July 8, 2009

Democracy Now

8 July 2009

Guests:

Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman and the 2008 Green Party presidential candidate.

Adam Shapiro, documentary filmmaker, human rights activist and Palestinian rights activist. Adam was a co-founder of the ISM in Palestine. He was filming the voyage of the Arion for the Free Gaza Movement last week.

AMY GOODMAN: Former Congress member Cynthia McKinney arrived back in the United States Tuesday following her deportation from Israel. McKinney was one of 21 activists seized by the Israeli military in international waters last week as they tried to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza. Also aboard the Free Gaza boat … Continue reading


Updated on July 8, 2009
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Israel to deport peace activists sailing to Gaza

Posted on: July 1, 2009

Efrat Weiss | YNet News

1 July 2009

Israel is planning to deport within the next few days the 21 peace activists who arrived on a boat from Cyprus with the intention of entering the Gaza Strip. An Israeli Navy unit boarded their boat and escorted it to Ashdod port. Immigration police will transport the detained activists to Ben Gurion Airport, and from there they will be deported out of the country.

Among the peace activists are two Israeli-American citizens, and 19 others, including five from Ireland, three from Britain, five from Bahrain, three Americans, and Danish, Jordan, and Yemenite … Continue reading


Updated on July 1, 2009
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