Human Rights Watch‘s Israel director Omar Shakir leaves for Jordan under 2017 law
Israel is to deport the local director of Human Rights Watch for his alleged support for a boycott campaign, a move the advocacy group said placed the country in an “ugly club” of authoritarian regimes.
Omar Shakir, HRW’s Israel and Palestine representative, lost a landmark supreme court case this month that centred on Israel’s ability to expel its critics. The government had refused to renew Shakir’s visa, and Monday is the deadline for him to leave.
Source: ‘Israel is joining an ugly club,’ says rights group as director expelled
