US student Lara Alqasem claims victory in Israel boycott case
Al JazeeraLara Alqasem, who was barred from studying in Israel, wins Supreme Court appeal over her alleged support for BDS. Lara Alqasem’s legal team says Israel’s Supreme Court has overturned the US student’s deportation order, allowing her to study in Israel. Yotam Ben-Hillel, Alqasem’s second lawyer, said the defence team argued that the law, which denies the entry of a wide variety of people into Israel, is “wrong and harms a lot of basic rights”. A group of some 300 international academics published a statement in the Guardian decrying Israel’s action as “an attack on academic freedom” and calling for Alqasem to be allowed to pursue her studies at the Hebrew University. J Street, a US advocacy group working to promote a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, published an open letter to Gilad Erdan saying the action taken against Alqasem showed the “deeply counterproductive and anti-democratic nature” of the Israeli government’s approach to BDS and to criticism of its policies.
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