Knesset Introduces Bill to Ban Palestinian Flag
CrossFireArabia- November 14, 2024
The Israeli government is seeking to pass a bill that would ban the raising of the Palestinian flag in Israeli universities and institutions supported by the occupation state.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation in the Knesset is expected to discuss this law in its next session next Sunday.
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The Anadolu Agency quoted KAN, Israeli official broadcaster, Thursday, as stating that the new law will apply to institutions funded by the budget of the government, including universities, and will stipulate a fine of about 10,000 new shekels ($2,700) and imprisonment for up to one year on violators.
It added that according to the proposal submitted by Knesset member Nissim Vitori, from the Likud party of the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it will be possible to disperse gatherings and even punish demonstrators waving flags with imprisonment for up to one year and a fine of no less than 10,000 shekels.
It pointed out that among the state-funded bodies are universities, which from time to time witness protests during which male and female students raise Palestinian flags.
Palestinian students in the occupied territories often organize protests in Israeli universities against Israeli policies, during which the Palestinian flag is raised.
This is not the first time that a Likud MP has proposed banning the raising of the Palestinian flag in state institutions or universities, and imposing fines or imprisonment on anyone who raises the Palestinian flag.
With American support, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza since 7 October, 2023, leaving more than 147,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that has killed dozens of children and elderly people, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world according to the Palestine Information Center.
