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Monday, February 10, 2025
Protesters gather in support of detained Jerusalem booksellers accused of stocking texts containing incitement
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Outside the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court, a small group of demonstrators protests the arrest of Palestinian booksellers Ahmad and Mahmoud Muna, detained last night by Jerusalem police.
Inside, a hearing is to be held on the police request to keep the two men in custody for a further eight days
Among those demonstrating are MK Ayman Odeh and author Nathan Thrall. Representatives from the UK, the European Union and several of its member states, Switzerland, and Brazil are waiting for the hearing.
Knesset MK Ayman Odeh and author Nathan Thrall among those protesting the arrest of Ahmad and Mahmoud Muna, owners of the Educational Bookshop, this morning in Jerusalem pic.twitter.com/xGuvyswuos
— charlie summers (@cbsu03) February 10, 2025
“There is a Palestinian nation, and they want to deny that idea, so it has now gotten to the point where they are raiding bookstores,” Odeh says to The Times of Israel.
Police accuse the booksellers, who own the Educational Bookshop, of selling texts containing incitement and support for terrorism, including a children’s coloring book titled “From the River to the Sea.”
נציגים דיפלומטים של המדינות הבאות נמצאים במסדרון המעצרים בבית משפט השלום בירושלים בהמתנה לדיון בבקשת המעצר של מוכרי הספרים: הולנד, בריטניה, בלגיה, ברזיל, האיחוד האירופאי, צרפת, שוויץ, אירלנד, שבדיה. pic.twitter.com/losRl3X6rB
— نير حسون Nir Hasson ניר חסון (@nirhasson) February 10, 2025
The Times of Israel Community.