#Palestine / Israeli police confiscated hundreds of books and arrested the owner of a bookstore in occupied East Jerusalem on suspicion of 'incitement and support for terrorism'
Police raided the Educational Bookshop in East Jerusalem, confiscating books and arresting the owner, Mahmoud Muna, and his brother, on suspicion of "incitement and support for terrorism". The police reportedly used Google Translate to identify materials, even citing a children's coloring book with the title "From the River to the Sea" as evidence.
Dozens of Israeli writers and cultural figures signed a petition condemning the raid and arrests, calling for the release of the Muna brothers. The petition stated that the bookstore is a cultural center for meetings between Palestinians and Israelis and expressed concern that the raid was a police provocation designed to erase the Palestinian cultural narrative.
[…] From our history, we know that 'Where they burn books, they will eventually burn people,' wrote Heinrich Heine, and where they confiscate books and ban their sellers – the path to violating the rights of expression and freedom, the right to property, and the right to life is very short. The Educational Bookshop chain, and its flagship store, are a cultural center for Palestinian and Israeli encounters, and we fear that the raid on the store, the confiscation of books from it, and the arrest of its owners under the pretext of 'disturbing public order' came as a police provocation, designed to erase the Palestinian cultural narrative and harass those involved in it.
Hebrew https://zoha.org.il/135318/
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