NGOs to be banned from taking High Court actions on behalf of Palestinians?


May 21, 2017
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Palestinians watch Israeli bulldozers inside of the West Bank settlement of Beit El, July 29, 2015. The building was ordered for demolition after the Israeli legal rights group Yesh Din petitioned Israel’s high court on behalf of the Palestinian owners (Mondoweiss). Photo: Mohamad Torokman Source/Reuters

Netanyahu gov’t mulls bill to ban Israeli rights groups from bringing legal cases on behalf of Palestinians

Mondoweiss, 12 May 2017

Haaretz 12 May by Jonathan Lis – A bill that would bar nongovernmental organizations from petitioning the High Court of Justice on behalf of Palestinians will be debated by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday.  The bill is being proposed following the wave of court petitions filed seeking the evacuation of settlements built on privately owned Palestinian land in the West Bank, notably Migron, and more recently, in February of this year, the outpost of Amona.

The bill would bar Knesset members from petitioning the court to challenge cabinet decisions and laws passed by the Knesset and would provide that no individual, organization or public agency could petition the court to challenge a government action unless that action directly and personally harmed either the individual petitioner, members of the petitioning organization or an interest that a public agency is entrusted to upholding … The bill’s sponsors include members of almost all the parties in the government coalition … The bill is aimed primarily at left-wing organizations such as Yesh Din, Peace Now and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which routinely petition the court on behalf of Palestinians. It was prompted partly by the fact that such petitions have repeatedly led to the evacuation of neighborhoods of West Bank settlements and illegal outposts that were built on privately owned Palestinian land.

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