Published: 3 October 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
ON SEPTEMBER 26, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition by the state to review a ruling by a district court that partially acquitted the Israeli Arab poet Dareen Tatour of incitement. The justices refused to even discuss the matter on the grounds that there were no new arguments or new evidence to justify an appeal. The Supreme Court's decision brought Tatour's legal journey to a close.
Tatour, who lives in Reniah, a village in northern Israel, had been a rather anonymous poet until her arrest in October 2015, when a wave of attacks by individuals erupted on the West Bank and on the other side of the Green Line, in Israel.
A month later, Tatour was brought to court in Nazareth and accused of inciting violence and suspicion of terrorism, for a total of three counts.
The main complaint against Tatour was that she had posted to her Facebook page a photo of Israa Abed, a woman from Nazareth whom Border Police wounded with gunfire after she waved a knife in Afula at the central bus station.
The police claimed that her erratic behaviour had been grounds for suspicion of terrorism.
FULL STORY Incitement and the poet: Dareen Tatour's legal victory (Al-Monitor)
Photo: Dareen Tatour recites one of her works at the Oslo Art Festival, Norway, March 6, 2019 (Facebook)
