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Court Orders Peace Now to Apologize and Compensate Settlers

by Yated Ne'eman Staff

The Jerusalem Magistrate Court ruled Peace Now and two of its activists, Hagit Ofran and Dror Etkes, must apologize to the settlers they degraded and provide them monetary compensation.

The two organization members published a report two years ago under the headline "Aveiroh Goreires Aveiroh" that claimed to prove that most of the land where Judea and Samaria settlements are located was stolen from Palestinians. For example, the report states that 71.15 percent of the Revava settlement (in central Samaria) lies on stolen land.

The Foundation for Land Redemption, which fully owns the land Revava was built on, reacted by producing evidence to the contrary based on official land registry data on hundreds of dunams of land and state land grants, and demanded that Peace Now correct the report and issue an apology. Since the authors of the report refused to apologize and made only a partial correction (claiming 22 percent rather than 71 percent of the settlement was built on Palestinian land) the foundation sued Peace Now and the authors of the report for libel.

In its ruling the court ordered the defendants to pay a fine of NIS 20,000 + VAT and print a prominent apology in the news section of two mass circulation newspapers.

Following the decision, the petitioners' attorney said, "The time has come to put an end to the constant lies by various left-wing organizations frequently published in the media. The Israeli public should cast doubt on every report they issue. The settlers in Judea and Samaria have to learn to stand up for their reputation."

 

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