Almost Freedom of Assembly in Israel

Extreme right-wing activist Noam Federman and six other protestors were detained for questioning by the police Saturday night on suspicion of causing a
disturbance outside the home of Judea and Samaria Division Commander Brigadier-General Noam Tibon in north Tel Aviv.

The rightists arrived at the house as they had done last week. At a certain stage, they began rioting [that's a very loaded word] and clashing with Tibon's neighbors.

Police officers were dispatched to the area and detained seven protestors for questioning. Three of them – Federman and two others – were released on bail and ordered to stay away from the house. Four young girls who refused to cooperate were to be brought before a Juvenile Court judge later Sunday.

Federman told Ynet in response, "Noam Tibon is a human monster. A person who was defined by a District Court judge as one of the people of Sodom who abused Lot and his family members, and who the court ruled was responsible for violating international treaties by harming children.

"We shall continue to harass him as he harassed us," he added.

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Federman Saved

The Jerusalem Supreme Court [that's a mistake; it's the Jerusalem Magistrate Court and her name is Shulmait Dotan] rejected on Monday a petition filed by the State Prosecutor's Office to bar right-wing activist Noam Federman from the West Bank until the end of his trial over charges of aggravated assault.

...[District Court] Judge Moshe Drori had not only ruled [last week] that the state had no right to prevent Federman from returning to the West Bank, but also leveled harsh criticism at the police and the army for their conduct on the night that the Federman family were forcibly evicted from their home, and even questioned the legality of the entire procedure.

Another fuller and more correct version here.

Oops. Israel Acted Unlawfully Against...a Jew

...the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the state acted unlawfully in removing far-right settler Noam Federman from the outpost he has set up - the so-called "Federman Farm" - near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba.

In his ruling, Judge Moshe Drori criticized the state for violating international law, insisting that the forced evacuation of the outpost was "disproportionate and unreasonable."

"It is unclear why the state needed 100 policemen to remove one individual from a closed military zone that was sealed for 10 months without any prior warning, without any attempt at negotiation, and without checking on the claims of the other party in this case," the judge ruled.

"The petitioner (Federman) is not suspected of carrying out terrorist attacks against Israeli towns, which is one of the purposes of the order, and the closure of the area is certainly not intended to apply to the petitioner, since the pretext for the evictin was to prevent 'terrorist infiltration,' and it is inconceivable that the petitioner can be placed into this category.

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And more:-

Court rules: Federman can stay in Hebron

Meanwhile, the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the injunction to close the Federman farm near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba does not apply to Noam Federman and his family.

...The ruling came after the State appealed the Jerusalem Magistrate Court's refusal to have Federman removed from the West Bank. Judge Moshe Drori rejected the appeal, and said it should not have been filed in the first place.

In the 42-page verdict, Judge Drori harshly criticized the State and the police, and wrote:

"There is no justification to prohibit the defendant (Federman) from living in the West Bank. It was not proven at all that there is any evidence in the case, and there are no grounds for arrest. Even if the State did prove the existence of the so-called evidence, the case still does not justify arrest".

Following the ruling, Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that his office would appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.

Hebron Cont'd

Arutz 7:-

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court ordered the police Sunday evening to release Hevron community activist Noam Federman from custody. Federman was arrested on Sunday morning on charges of attacking and injuring policemen who were destroying his family's home on an unauthorized outpost. During the hearing, several policemen testified that Federman was hand-cuffed at the time he was accused of assaulting the officers.

Hundreds are taking part in efforts to rebuild the Federman home. The Attorney General has ordered an investigation into vocal responses by eyewitnesses to the demolition.

Haaretz:-

Settlers, for their part, argued that security forces carried out the evacuation without a preliminary order and that they did not give the outpost's residents time to pack up their belongings...

...The Yesha settlement council, for its part, also issued a condemnation of the verbal attacks, branding those responsible for them "troublemakers."

The settler leaders said: "The defamatory words that were spoken by troublemakers this morning against IDF soldiers are particularly grave, and deserve every condemnation. But there is nothing in this to lessen the gravity of the acts the government has initiated in Hebron including the evacuation of a farm in which Jews have live for two years and the insertion of Palestinian police in the city."

...Attorney General Meni Mazuz on Sunday called for an incitement investigation against right wing activists, hours after rioting by settlers in the West Bank that included the desecration of headstones at a Muslim cemetery near Kiryat Arba.

During the rioting, settlers hurled abuse at security forces personnel, and called for a "revenge attack" against them in response to the evacuation of an illegal outpost built by Right-wing activist Noam Federman near Kiryat Arba.

"We hope they will be defeated by their enemies, that they will all be [kidnapped IDF soldier] Gilad Shalit, that they will all be killed and all slaughtered because this is what they deserve," they said.

In a letter released Sunday, Mazuz said that statements made by right-wing activists during the rioting "crossed a red line", and are not protected under freedom of speech.

JPost:-

...Police in the West Bank confirmed on Sunday morning that they arrested Noam Federman - a well-known right wing activist whose family resided in the outpost - during the eviction for assaulting and injuring police officers and causing one officer a broken leg. Two minors thought to be Federman's daughters were also arrested for damaging the police vehicle which came to evacuate them from the area.

The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on Sunday evening, however, ordered the police to release Federman from custody without preliminary terms.

The decision was made after several policemen testified that Federman was hand-cuffed at the time when he allegedly assaulted and injured their colleagues...

...Extreme right activists on Sunday afternoon began to rebuild a small unauthorized outpost which was evacuated by security forces earlier in the day. The IDF, according to reports, stood by idly as the settlers sorted through the debris on the outskirts of Hebron and Kiryat Arba...