Court nixes Jerusalem’s attempt to cancel Israeli-Palestinian remembrance event

12 April 2018, 6:13 pm

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The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court rejects a petition by the municipality to deny a group of Israeli and Palestinian bereaved families the use of city-owned location for a controversial joint remembrance ceremony on Memorial Day next week.

The group of families of Israelis and Palestinians killed in fighting gathers each year to express a desire for coexistence alongside the commemoration.

Some 110 Palestinians invited to the ceremony were denied entry permits into Israel from the West Bank by Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.

In its ruling Thursday, the court says the city does not have the right to deny the group a space to conduct its ceremony, noting that it was open to the public.