French Israelis attempted to block aid

French judges have issued ‘arrest summonses’ for two French-Israeli women who travelled to Israel to block aid to Gaza.

Nili Kupfer-Naouri founded and runs the ‘charity’ ‘Israel Is Forever’. The group says it exists to foster the “mobilisation of French-speaking Zionist forces”. Another women, known so far only as ‘Rachel T’, acts as spokesperson for the far-right extremist ‘Tsav9’ group, which regularly attacks aid trucks at the Gaza border. Even the US has sanctioned it. The ‘charity’ called for volunteers to support Tsav9’s blockade. Both women were born in France but now live in Israel.

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Israel has repeatedly used settler groups and other civilians as a human shield to distance itself from accusations of directly blocking aid. However, the mobs enjoy access to military-only roads and occupation forces supposedly ‘escorting’ aid trucks do nothing to prevent the attacks.

Kupfer-Naouri confirmed that a summons had been issued for her in an interview with a pro-Israel ‘news’ site. She complained that it meant she wouldn’t be able to visit France any more because she doesn’t want to go to prison:

The risk is that I won’t be able to set foot in France anymore because I have no intention of going to French jail, whether in police custody or otherwise.

She described the arrest orders as “antisemitic madness” and said that three other members of her ‘charity’ had been interrogated by French police. And, she also complained that the summonses would mean French occupation war criminals would be unable to visit family in France:

What’s serious is that it would set an unfortunate precedent for all our Franco-Israeli soldiers who participated in the ‘war of redemption’ [extremist language for the Gaza genocide] and who want to visit their families in France.

Yes, that’s what’s ‘serious’.

More whining

‘Rachel T’ whined that the judges had acted for “radical pro-Palestinian” complainants than for the demand of Zionist groups for an apology from left-wing MPs from the La France Insoumise (France Unbowed) party, which has vocally opposed Israel’s genocide in Gaza:

I note that French justice is quicker to deal with a complaint filed by a radical pro-Palestinian organization than with those filed by Avocats Sans Frontières and the OJE [European Jewish Organization] against apologies for terrorism made by LFI [La France Insoumise, radical left] MPs.

‘Avocats Sans Frontières’ translates as ‘lawyers without borders’, but the French group is unconnected to the international human rights group Lawyers without Borders. The French group sent a delegation to Israel in December and told French media that Israel is not an apartheid country.

The summonses were issued after formal complaints were filed by a number of pro-Palestine and anti-genocide groups. While arrest warrants have to be approved by the French ‘National Anti-terrorism Prosecutor’, ‘investigating judges’ can issue arrest summonses directly. Unlike warrants, they do not automatically mean provisional detention of the suspect. In principle, these summonses apply throughout the EU.

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