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Protesters gather in support of detained Jerusalem booksellers accused of stocking texts containing incitement

By Charlie Summers 10 February 2025, 11:55 am 43 Edit
Protesters demonstrate against the detention of Palestinian booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna in Jerusalem on February 10, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)
Protesters demonstrate against the detention of Palestinian booksellers Mahmoud and Ahmad Muna in Jerusalem on February 10, 2025. (Charlie Summers/Times of Israel)

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.

“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.”

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