Clare Short
British newspaper The Independent has reported that former
British International Development Secretary Clare Short could be arrested the
next time she lands in Tel Aviv, after the pro-terrorist organization she is a
director of was declared an "illicit organisation" by Israel's
Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon on Tuesday.
Yaalon, a former IDF chief of staff, outlawed the Council
for European Palestinian Relations (CEPR) – a Belgian non-profit organization
that lobbies on behalf of the Hamas-led Gaza government – using emergency
defense regulations.
CEPR Members also include Labor MEP Richard Howitt, a member
of the House of Lords and two other European MPs who are now in danger of
prosecution if they land at Ben Gurion International Airport.
Short, who chairs CEPR's Board of Trustees, said she was
unsurprised by the decision.
She told The Independent: “As CEPR is Palestinian
led, and given Israel’s track record, the Defense Minister’s action is not
surprising, but it is yet more evidence that Israel’s claim to be a democracy
is eroding very fast.”
In 2009, Yaalon turned down an invitation to visit Britain
after he was warned he might face arrest on suspicion of war crimes.
He had been invited by the Jewish National Fund to an event
in London to raise money for a group that supports Israeli lone soldiers – who
have no family in Israel.
Israeli subversive groups and other global leftist
organizations cooperate in an ongoing campaign to put Israeli officers and
politicians on trial if they visit abroad.
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