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Several arrested after lighting fires, attacking police outside Justice Minister’s home; Demonstrators pledge that “the struggle will intensify.”
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
Anti-judicial reform protesters held a rare daytime protest outside of the home of Justice Minister Yariv Levin on Tuesday morning, culminating in physical clashes with police officers, roads being blocked off, and fires lit in the middle of the residential street.
Several hundred protesters gathered in front of Levin’s residence in the central Israel city of Modi’in, as lawmakers confirmed that a bill aimed at ending the so-called “reasonableness clause” is currently on the Knesset agenda.
Demonstrators burned multiple tires in the heart of the normally quiet residential neighborhood, placed barbed wire on roadways, physically blocked cars attempting to enter and exit the area, and refused to allow police to reach the scene.
In pictures and videos from the scene, protesters can be seen shoving and scuffling with police, triggering officers to physically restrain some demonstrators and deploy pepper spray.
After interfering with the police’s ability to operate, six protesters were arrested.
“Today, it’s already clear to everyone who really rules this country and is leading it to devastation, but we’ll liberate it from him,” said the demonstration’s organizers, the Brothers in Arms group, which is composed of IDF veterans.
“In the coming weeks we’ll intensify the struggle for the country’s character, and the nation of Israel must in all its might join the efforts to safeguard democracy.”
Levin released his own statement slamming the police for what he said was a sluggish response to the chaos, and criticizing the left-wing opposition parties and attorney general for staying silent regarding the violence at anti-judicial overhaul protests.
“The violent incidents, the open calls for rebellion, the threats and incitement to violence… have up to now not earned a single word of public comment on the part of the attorney general or her team,” Levin noted.
“The attorney general and the law enforcement system under her are ignoring the violence, if not winking at the instigators, and allowing the lawlessness to run wild,” he continued.
Levin said that it was a “miracle” that demonstrators did not burn a residential home or apartment building while they set multiple tires alight in the neighborhood.
The protest only strengthens Levin’s will to pass judicial reform legislation, he said.
“I’m determined. They won’t succeed in deterring me. I will not budge from my path. I will perform the mission the public entrusted me with. The reform must pass.”
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Two days before the mayoral elections of Albania on May 14, Dionysis-Fredi Beleri, a Greek candidate for Mayor of the southern municipality of Himara, was arrested by Albanian special forces on May 12. The arrest was based on charges of allegedly “buying of votes.”
The arrest, however, did not stop Beleri from winning the election from behind bars. He is now the elected mayor of Himara – a town with a significant Greek community presence. Beleri represents the Unity for Human Rights Party (KEAD) of the ethnic Greek minority and was supported by the opposition coalition.
The Greek minority makes up Albania’s largest ethnic minority. It is an indigenous minority and recognized by Albania as a national minority.
The Omonia organization, the “Union for Human Rights Party” (KEAD) and the “National Greek Minority for the Future” party (MEGA) are the main representatives of Albania’s Greek community. Beleri also serves as the president of Omonia’s local branch.
KEAD and Omonia have called the arrests an “attack against the Hellenism of Albania.”
Albania’s decision to arrest Beleri “is scandalous if the evidence is not fully substantiated,” the Greek Foreign Affairs Ministry said on May 13.
“The arrest of a mayoral candidate two days before the elections is not within the Rule of Law. The decision to detain the mayoral candidate in custody induces a full reversal of the rules of equality in the municipal elections in Himare, a significant center of the Greek National Minority in Albania,” the Ministry added.
The Greek ministry warned that the decision will affect Albania’s relations with the European Union as the country needs to ensure the prerequisites of European rules and the principles of the rule of law for accession.
In response, on May 13, Albanian Foreign Minister Olta Xhacka issued a statement on her Twitter account:
[It is] nearly impossible to understand how our friends have the right to dispute a court decision in our country, when the hard evidence they were looking for couldn’t be any harder – Fredi Beleri has been caught engaging in criminal activity against free and fair elections.
Albania is a majority Muslim country in the Balkans and a candidate for European Union membership. Albania applied for EU membership in 2009 and was granted candidate status in 2014. The EU held its first intergovernmental conference with Albania in 2022.
On May 22, Greece’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the “extension of the detention of Himare’s elected Mayor Fredi Beleri is contrary to the common sense of justice and the European perception of the Rule of Law.”
On May 29, Beleri was transferred to a prison hospital after he became unwell due to heart-related health problems. “It is the second time that Beleri has shown these symptoms in the last two days, and he will undergo specific tests,” according to Greek media.
When the appeal lodged by Beleri against the continuation of his pre-trial detention was rejected on June 1, the Greek Foreign Ministry issued another statement noting that even though there were many similar allegations of electoral offenses against others, Beleri was the only one arrested.
Today’s rejection of the appeal lodged by Himara’s elected Mayor, Fredi Beleri, against the continuation of his pre-trial detention, does not turn out to be in line with the provisions of the rule of law; also, it does not constitute fair treatment of an elected representative of Local Government, given that, according to a statement issued by the Special Prosecutor’s Office of Albania, Fredi Beleri is the only person detained out of a total of 31 criminal reports for electoral offenses.
Furthermore, the rejection of his appeal raises questions as to the existence of political expediency for continuing his detention, since it essentially obstructs F. Beleri’s assumption of duties as Mayor.
According to a Greek media outlet, “On the way to the ballot box, Beleri was reportedly harshly attacked by a section of the Albanian press and also by Prime Minister Edi Rama himself.
Just a few hours before Beleri’s arrest, Rama allegedly declared to a television station that the day after the elections he would ‘account personally’ with Beleri.
Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou, a European Parliament Member, brought the arrest to the attention of the European Commission:
The timing of the arrest just two days before the local elections, as well as the absence of any evidence against Mr Beleri, are giving cause for particular concern.
Such actions merely serve to undermine the principles of the rule of law and democracy and fly in the face of the 2022 Commission Report on Albania, which received European Parliament endorsement, as well as Albania’s commitments as a candidate country.
In view of this, can the Commission state its position regarding the arrest by the Albanian police of mayoral candidate Fredi Beleri and say what its response has been? And how does it intend to uphold the rule of law and democracy, as well as the rights of the Greek national minority in Albania, while ensuring fair elections in that country?
The European Commission has yet to respond.
Feredi is not the first Greek political leader persecuted by the government of Albania. For decades Albania has repressed the rights of ethnic Greeks, who live primarily in the south.
In 1991, for instance, Omonia was banned after winning five seats in the parliamentary election for allegedly violating Law 7501 (1991) which forbade “formation of parties on a religious, ethnic and regional basis.”
In 1994, five prominent political leaders of the Greek minority – who were all leaders of Omonia – were arrested and later convicted of “espionage and illegal possession of weapons” despite massive protests from Greece and international human rights organizations. The trial was widely regarded as unfair. The details of the trial were reported by the Human Rights Watch/Helsinki (HRW) members who visited Albania to observe the human rights situation of the Greek community between 1993 and 1995.
The report by the HRW said they believed “that there is evidence that the five Omonia activists were denied due process protections, and that decisions related to the prosecution, trial and sentencing were motivated by bias.”
The 1995 HRW report also detailed how Albanian authorities subjected the Greek minority citizens to police harassment and violence, as well as restrictions on religious freedom, restrictions on freedom of assembly and restrictions on minority access to the media.
The report noted:
The organization representing the Greek minority, Omonia, and the predominantly Greek political party, Union of Human Rights, experienced some obstacles to fair participation in the 1992 national elections. There have also been restrictions on freedom of assembly, religion and expression for ethnic Greeks.
More serious, however, are the actions of the Albanian police and secret service in the south of Albania, where most ethnic Greeks live. Particularly before the trial of the five Omonia leaders charged with espionage, many people were improperly detained and interrogated, creating an atmosphere of fear among the Greek minority.
The trial itself, which began in August 1994, contained many violations of Albanian and international law regarding the conditions of arrest and treatment under detention, inadequate due process guarantees and denial of a fair and public trial. These violations lend credibility to the claim that the trial was a targeted attack against a legal organization representing the Greek minority.
The increased tensions between the Albanian government and the ethnic Greek minority are especially evident in areas of cultural and educational policies, particularly as they impact on education in the Greek language. While Human Rights Watch/Helsinki does not take a position on the specific remedies that the government must provide for minority language education, it is incumbent upon the Albanian government to address the concerns of the Greek minority in consultation with the Greek community, in order to reduce tensions in the region and to fulfill its obligations to promote and preserve the Greek minority’s culture.
In 2019, Member of European Parliament Ioannis Lagos presented a written question to the Commission regarding the persecution of native Greeks in Northern Epirus, a region in today’s southern Albania:
While the Greek government is making concerted efforts to secure the accession of Albania to the European Union, the rights of the Greek ethnic minority of Northern Epirus are being brutally violated by the Rama regime. The Albanian authorities have been mercilessly persecuting Greeks in the area by pillaging their homes, demolishing their churches and intimidating them, and even the Albanian courts are consistently biased against them. This has led to the killing of two Greeks from Northern Epirus, Konstantinos Katsifas and Aristotle Gouma. The oppression of the Greeks of Northern Epirus is so intense that even speaking Greek is a reason to be abused or even murdered, as was the case with Aristotle Gouma. This situation which successive Greek governments have met with cool indifference has caused the Greek minority to emigrate en masse to Greece rather than endure such conditions.
In response to this question, the Commission must explain how will it defend the rights of the Greeks of Northern Epirus and why Albania’s accession negotiations haven’t been suspended until it complies with the terms of the European Convention on Human Rights.
A democratic way to resolve these issues in Albania is for the Greeks to be represented in politics at both the local and national level. Albania’s targeting of Beleri resembles Turkey’s targeting and arresting minority citizens for requesting wider human rights and equal political representation. But Albania and Turkey (on a far larger scale) choose to oppress their ethnic and religious minorities, which means neither nation is ready or fit to be apart of the Western coalitions yet. The European Union should thus freeze talks with Albania on the country’s future EU membership until Albania releases Beleri and takes concrete action to help meet the needs of the country’s largest ethnic minority.
In Turkey today, the indigenous Greek community is almost extinct. Turkey’s decades-long persecution against the Greek community (which includes a genocide, pogrom as well as many other crimes and abuses) has led to the death or flight of the community. There are currently only 1,200 Greeks left in Constantinople (Istanbul), a city established by Greeks.
Albania, an ally of Turkey, should not be allowed by the civilized world to wipe out its Greek community just like Turkey did.
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“The Iranians want their Palestinian agents to extend their control from the Gaza Strip to” Judea and Samaria, Palestinian source says.
By World Israel News Staff
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group is strengthening its presence in Judea and Samaria and ramping up its efforts to recruit new operatives and launch deadly attacks against Jewish Israelis, thanks in large part due to generous funding from Iran.
According to a Jerusalem Post report, Iran views investing in the Islamic Jihad terror group as an effective strategy for weakening Israel, and the organization has now evolved into serving essentially as a proxy for the Islamic Republic.
“Islamic Jihad is using Iranian money to buy weapons and loyalty in” areas of Judea and Samaria which are formally controlled by the Palestinian Authority, a Palestinian security source told the Post. “The organization is paying high salaries to its members.”
“Iran is already here,” another Palestinian official in Ramallah told the Post. “The Iranians want their Palestinian agents to extend their control from the Gaza Strip to [Judea and Samaria].”
Considering that the PA and its president, octogenarian Mahmoud Abbas, are wildly unpopular, Islamic Jihad is positioning itself to quickly gain control in the power vacuum that will likely occur after the longtime PA leader’s death.
Due to rampant corruption within the PA, along with what many Palestinians view as a lack of progress in achieving a Palestinian state or improving economic and living conditions for their political constituents, the political body is widely losing legitimacy in the eyes of most Palestinians.
When Abbas, who is reportedly in poor health and has failed to name a successor, eventually dies, it’s unclear if the PA will be able to retain any semblance of control over its territory in Judea and Samaria.
In a recent statement, Islamic Jihad confirmed that it acknowledged the importance of “building alliances [with foreign powers] on the basis of resistance,” meaning that the terror group values partnering with countries that share their goal of destroying Israel.
Iran has long supported Palestinian terror groups. Senior members of Hamas were recently warmly welcomed in Tehran by the Iranian government’s most important officials.
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“My friend’s blood is on your hands, you murderer,” a friend of terror victim Harel Masoud shouted at the IDF commander responsible for the area in which the terror attack occurred.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
A senior Israeli army commander responsible for security in Judea and Samaria was verbally assaulted by friends of a terror victim as he paid a condolence visit, sparking condemnation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Col. Eliav Elbaz, the commander of the Binyamin Regional Brigade and whose troops are currently stationed in the Ramallah area, was verbally assaulted as he left the home of Harel Masoud on Monday evening.
Elbaz had traveled to Masoud’s family home in the central Israel town of Yad Binyamin in order to pay his respects to the slain man, who was killed along with three others in a shooting terror attack earlier in June near Eli.
But Elbaz’s presence, along with that of another officer, was not welcomed by friends of Masoud.
“Shame on you, get out of here traitor, you murderer,” a group of young men can be heard shouting at Elbaz in clips circulating on social media. “My friend’s blood is on your hands, you murderer. Get out of here, murderer.”
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מח״ט בנימין אל״ם אליאב אלבז הגיע הערב לניחום אבלים בבית משפחתו של הראל מסעוד ז״ל ביד בנימין, וגורש משם בידי חבריו.
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An additional clip depicts another young man yelling at Elbaz, “You murdered Harel.”
Elbaz and the other officer who accompanied him on the video do not engage with the crowd shouting at them; rather, they continue walking to their vehicle without responding, as the young men continue to follow them down the street hurling abuse.
It’s unclear if the men specifically targeted Elbaz because they were aware of his role as a commander of the area in which their friend was killed, or if they were attacking him simply because he was a uniformed member of the Israeli army.
In a statement, Netanyahu praised Elbaz and slammed the young men for their verbal abuse of the commander.
“The assault and cursing against IDF Binyamin Regional Brigade Commander Col. Eliav Elbaz, who commands the IDF forces that safeguard Israeli citizens, are a disgrace and I strongly condemn them,” Netanyahu said.
“We will neither tolerate nor accept any kind of violence against IDF officers and soldiers.”
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Romerian Logan, a 19-year-old pregnant cook at a Panda Express in New Jersey, has recently filed a lawsuit claiming her supervisor, BiQing Liu, told her to get an abortion and physically assaulted her after she informed him of her pregnancy.
The expectant mother began working at the franchise located in the Newport Centre mall in Jersey City in 2019. Last July, Logan shared her news with Liu, who responded by making “negative comments” and suggesting she terminate the pregnancy.
In October, Logan accused Liu of restraining her from leaving the workplace after her shift. When she reported the incident to human resources, no action was taken. Logan also stated she was assigned labor-intensive tasks that she was unable to perform due to her pregnancy, and she was terminated in December.
It is reported that Liu has since been transferred to a different Panda Express in New York City. The lawsuit names several co-defendants, and Logan has accused Panda Express of negligent hiring and training, creating a hostile work environment, and recklessness.
The chain employs 47,000 people in 2,300 locations across the US, many of which are situated on college campuses.
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