Published: 2 August 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Israeli Arab poet’s arrest proves Israel has separate laws for Arabs and Jews (Haaretz)
There will always be disagreement over whether her words could in fact lead to violence or terrorism, the standard of proof for criminal incitement to violence. But her sentencing, the policies of the prosecutor’s office and the connection between government policy and violence and terrorism can be debated. The judicial system must be just.
It cannot discriminate among offenders who commit similar offenses, based on their ethnicity or religion. Indeed, representatives of the state repeatedly stress their commitment to the principle of equality before the law. That makes it hard to reconcile Tatour’s prosecution with the systematic closure of similar cases against rabbis.
Arab Israeli poet given 5-month sentence for poems deemed incitement (Times of Israel)
Galilee resident Dareen Tatour, who says her 'Resist My People, Resist' is not a call to violence, ascribes her arrest to the fact that she is a Palestinian
Photo: Arab-Israeli poet Dareen Tatour, 35, poses for a picture during an interview at her house in Reineh, northern Israel September 26, 2017 (Reuters/Ammar Awad)
