University of Leicester criticised for event with Israeli Supreme Court justice

The University of Leicester’s Palestine Society has criticised the Global South Network’s invitation to Israeli Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ronnen to address an online event hosted at the university.

Ronen is one of 15 justices in Israel’s Supreme Court and has been involved in a number of rulings that entrench the illegal occupation of Palestinian land, as well as human rights violations against Palestinians.

Last year, Palestinian farmers in the occupied West Bank village of Anin requestedthat the gate in the Israeli-built separation wall between their farmland and their village be opened daily instead of twice a week. Ronnen rejected their petition. 

She also ruled along with other judges this January in support of the Israeli military barring foreign journalists from entering the Gaza Strip. 

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