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2017 Humboldt University lecture incident
On June 20, 2017, BDS activists, including at least two Israeli Jews and at least one Palestinian, disrupted a lecture by Israeli politician Aliza Lavie taking place at Humboldt University of Berlin. Humboldt University was not the organizer of the lecture. The activists expressed accusations against Israel and Lavie, including accusations of war crimes and apartheid. The activists were then removed from the lecture hall.
On August 3, 2020, a Berlin court sentenced Stavit Sinai, one of the BDS activists, to a 450 euro fine for assault, related to the fact that she pounded on the door of the lecture hall, which reportedly caused injuries to two people. Her fellow activists claimed Sinai had been punched in the face while being ejected from the lecture hall, and tried to get back in to find out the identity of the person who had hit her. Two other BDS activists charged in relation to the incident, Ronnie Barkan and Majed Abusalama, were found not guilty.
The conviction of Stavit Sinai for assault was used as an argument for calling BDS a violent movement.
On June 20, 2017, an event was taking place in one of the lecture halls at Humboldt University in Berlin. The organizers were DIG (Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft) and Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin (the executive director of which is also a DIG member) The event took place in English. The title of the event was Leben in Israel - Terror, Voreingenommenheit und die Chancen für eine Friedenslösung (Life in Israel - Terror, Bias and the Chances for Peace).
The announcement of the event also mentioned BDS and their "questionable" purpose (boycott of Israel).
It was advertised as lecture and discussion with Aliza Lavie, Knesset MP, Yesh Atid, Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, and members of the delegation of Yesh Atid and Young Yesh Atid. Aliza Lavie was also the chair of the Knesset Caucus for the Struggle Against the Delegitimization of the State of Israel; one BDS activist characterized her as the "chair of anti-BDS lobby".
Besides members of Yesh Atid and the party's youth organization, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor, Dvora Weinstein, was also present (she was not speaking, at least at the time of the incident).
Among the audience were at least three BDS activists: Stavit Sinai (an Israeli Jewish university lecturer), Ronnie Barkan (an Israeli Jewish math teacher) and Majed Abusalama (a Gaza Palestinian born in the Jabalia refugee camp, shot in a leg by an Israeli soldier during a nonviolent protest).
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2017 Humboldt University lecture incident
On June 20, 2017, BDS activists, including at least two Israeli Jews and at least one Palestinian, disrupted a lecture by Israeli politician Aliza Lavie taking place at Humboldt University of Berlin. Humboldt University was not the organizer of the lecture. The activists expressed accusations against Israel and Lavie, including accusations of war crimes and apartheid. The activists were then removed from the lecture hall.
On August 3, 2020, a Berlin court sentenced Stavit Sinai, one of the BDS activists, to a 450 euro fine for assault, related to the fact that she pounded on the door of the lecture hall, which reportedly caused injuries to two people. Her fellow activists claimed Sinai had been punched in the face while being ejected from the lecture hall, and tried to get back in to find out the identity of the person who had hit her. Two other BDS activists charged in relation to the incident, Ronnie Barkan and Majed Abusalama, were found not guilty.
The conviction of Stavit Sinai for assault was used as an argument for calling BDS a violent movement.
On June 20, 2017, an event was taking place in one of the lecture halls at Humboldt University in Berlin. The organizers were DIG (Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft) and Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin (the executive director of which is also a DIG member) The event took place in English. The title of the event was Leben in Israel - Terror, Voreingenommenheit und die Chancen für eine Friedenslösung (Life in Israel - Terror, Bias and the Chances for Peace).
The announcement of the event also mentioned BDS and their "questionable" purpose (boycott of Israel).
It was advertised as lecture and discussion with Aliza Lavie, Knesset MP, Yesh Atid, Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defense, and members of the delegation of Yesh Atid and Young Yesh Atid. Aliza Lavie was also the chair of the Knesset Caucus for the Struggle Against the Delegitimization of the State of Israel; one BDS activist characterized her as the "chair of anti-BDS lobby".
Besides members of Yesh Atid and the party's youth organization, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor, Dvora Weinstein, was also present (she was not speaking, at least at the time of the incident).
Among the audience were at least three BDS activists: Stavit Sinai (an Israeli Jewish university lecturer), Ronnie Barkan (an Israeli Jewish math teacher) and Majed Abusalama (a Gaza Palestinian born in the Jabalia refugee camp, shot in a leg by an Israeli soldier during a nonviolent protest).