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Israeli law bans former soldiers and critics of the occupation from speaking in schools

• https://mondoweiss.net, by Yumna Patel

The bill was submitted by the right-wing Education Minister Naftali Bennett's party and states individuals and groups that seek to "inflict harm upon IDF soldiers" are barred from entering educational institutions "when this activity is of a nature that undermines state education goals, or is such that endeavors to inflict harm upon IDF soldiers who are a consensus in Israeli society."

The legislation specifically targets the the left-wing Israeli group Breaking the Silence (the organization's name was in the official working title of the bill) which collects and publishes testimony from former Israeli army soldiers about the military's human rights abuses against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip.


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