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    Israeli police question left-wing activist Jonathan Pollak on suspicion of incitement to terror
    Josh Breiner Feb 24, 2020 - Haaretz.com
    ▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israeli-police-question-leftist-jonathan-pollak-for-suspected-inci

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    Left-wing activist and Haaretz employee Jonathan Pollak was investigated Monday morning at the Tel Aviv District Police headquarters on suspicion of incitement to violence and terror, in the wake of an article he wrote that was published in the online edition of Haaretz in Hebrew.

    His investigation is taking place with the approval of the State Prosecutor’s Office, and after the attorney general had reported last week that he was launching a criminal probe against Pollak.

    The investigation was opened due to statements he wrote in a column entitled: “Why I refuse to cooperate with the court.” Acting Attorney General Raz Nazri decided that there is no reason to open an investigation against Haaretz or its editors.

    In an article that was erroneously posted on the Haaretz website in an unedited version, Pollak wrote, among other things: “Yes, we must cross the lines and break the law. Despite the price, we must join the children of the stones and firebombs. We must march in their footsteps.” These sentences were removed from the article shortly after its publication on the website, and did not appear in the print version of the newspaper.

    Pollak’s attorney, Gaby Lasky, said: “The unusual speed with which the Attorney General’s Office ordered an investigation of Jonathan Pollak, and his speedy summons by the police, arouse a strong suspicion that the investigative entities surrendered to the continued pressure of the right and are trying to ‘balance’ the attorney general’s decision to stay the proceedings in the criminal complaint filed by the extremist right-wing organization Ad Kan against Pollak and two other activists.”

    Pollak was released from custody last week, after the attorney general ordered a stay in the proceedings against him and two other activists, saying they were improper. He was arrested due to his refusal to report for hearings regarding the complaint filed against him by Ad Kan. The non-profit organization claims that since 2013, he and the other two activists against whom proceedings were brought – Kobi Snitz and Ilan Shalif – participated in violent demonstrations against Israeli security forces as part of the their activities on behalf of the Anarchists Against the Wall movement.

    Deputy Attorney General Amit Marari wrote in an official legal opinion that enforcing the law is the job of the authorities, and should not be done by representatives of the political camps. “The public interest is that the government authorities are those who will enforce the law in such cases, while taking into account all the relevant considerations, and that enforcement will not be in the hands of the parties to the political dispute that is at the basis of the protest,” she wrote.

    The opinion of the deputy attorney general indicates that the evidentiary basis for the crimes attributed to the three men is missing. In addition, Marari argued that it is not the business of the parties to the proceeding – the Ad Kan organization – since the proceeding is of public rather than private importance. “There is no place for enforcement to be carried out by a private organization. In light of the aforesaid, the request for a stay of proceedings should be accepted,” she wrote.

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    As a Palestinian rights defender, I’m proud to stand with Jonathan Pollak
    By Mohammed Khatib January 15, 2020 - +972 Magazine
    ▻https://www.972mag.com/khatib-pollak-rights-defenders

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    I was standing in the fields of the West Bank village of Bil’in 15 years ago when my phone rang from an Israeli number. On the line, someone was speaking in a mix of broken Arabic and Hebrew. At the time the Israeli military had just begun targeting Bil’in to build the apartheid wall, and while the bulldozers had started working in the nearby village of Budrus, activists were showing up at our village too.

    Among the first people to come to Bil’in was the person on the phone. I’ll admit, at first I found him odd, even a bit freakish: he looked like a punk teenager, wearing strange clothes and with a wild haircut dyed with different colors. Full of energy and spirit, he walked up to us and got right down to business.

    “We are a group of anarchists against the wall,” he said, “and we want to support you in your struggle.” (...)

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      Pour l’arrestation d’un militant de la gauche israélienne, le tribunal s’aligne sur la musique incitative des colons
      11 janvier | Michael Sfard pour Haaretz |Traduction J.Ch. pour l’AURDIP |Tribunes
      ▻https://www.aurdip.org/pour-l-arrestation-d-un-militant.html

      Le militant de gauche Jonathan Pollak a été arrêté lundi. Des agents infiltrés sont venus sur son lieu de travail, l’ont informé qu’il était en état d’arrestation, l’ont menotté et mis dans une voiture de police. Ils agissaient sur ordre du juge Dov Pllock du Tribunal de District de Jérusalem. Pollock a fait arrêter Pollak parce qu’il ne s’était pas présenté au tribunal pour y répondre à une plainte privée au pénal contre Pollak et deux camarades militants par l’organisation d’espionnage et d’infiltration Ad Kan. En signant ce mandat préjudiciable et inutile, le juge a offert à Ad Kan une victoire exceptionnelle et a à nouveau transformé le système judiciaire en collaborateur important de la droite antidémocratique dans sa persécution de la gauche idéologique, qui reste ferme dans son refus d’accepter le crime de l’occupation.
      Avant de poursuivre, je dois révéler : Jonathan Pollak est un refuge, un ami, au sens de camarade, un frère de combat, un homme que j’admire grandement et auprès duquel j’ai tant appris au long des années de notre militantisme, lui sur le terrain et moi dans les tribunaux.
      2ème révélation : Je méprise Ad Kan et m’active à repousser ses attaques contre mes clients, avec un succès notoire. Toute l’existence de cette organisation – connue pour implanter des espions dans des associations comme Ta’ayush et Breaking the Silence (Briser le Silence) et pour entraîner les journalistes dans des gros titres à sensation, qui se révèlent sans fondement, sur de supposées graves infractions à la sécurité par les militants anti-occupation – est dépendante de ses parrains politiques de droite qui sont en position de pouvoir.
      En d’autres termes, dès que le régime colonial de droite prendra fin, cette organisation tombera dans l’oubli : elle ne peut survivre sans accès aux centres du pouvoir gouvernemental qui lui fournissent une tribune et de l’influence. Ad Kan est l’une des organisations mutantes de la société civile qui ont récemment pris racine ici, qui agissent au nom du gouvernement et largement en coordination avec lui, pour rendre le fort plus fort et pour affaiblir et réduire au silence le faible et la minorité. C’est à cette organisation que l’honorable juge a confié l’arrestation de Pollak. (...)

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