"Palestinian activist Suhair Nafal has won a defamation lawsuit brought against her by a former Israeli soldier who claimed Nafal’s Facebook post objecting to Israeli war crimes defamed and slandered her.
The former Israeli soldier, Rebecca Rumshiskaya, sued Nafal in September over a viral Facebook post she published in 2018 regarding the killing of Palestinian nurse Rouzan al-Najjar at the hands of the Israeli army at a protest at the border in the Gaza Strip.
Though Rumshiskaya was not involved in that shooting, the Israeli army had used her image as an apparent recruitment tool. Nafal included the army ad in her post as a point of comparison between the American Rumshiskaya and the Palestinian al-Najjar. Rumshiskaya filed the defamation suit against Nafal two years after that original post.
Rumshiskaya had hired an Israeli/Zionist law firm to represent her. She asked a California court to apply Israeli defamation law, which punishes criticism of Israel by up to one year in prison, a request the court rejected.
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Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig Griffin rejected and dismissed the lawsuit, ruling against Rumshiskaya, with an opinion published on March 2. The judge granted Nafal’s anti-SLAPP motion, awarding her legal fees, which Rumshiskaya must pay. Anti-SLAPP laws are intended to prevent people from using courts, and potential threats of a lawsuit, to intimidate people who are exercising their First Amendment rights."
https://www.arabamericannews.com/2021/03/05/activist-wins-defamation-suit-brought-against-her-by-israeli-soldier-over-fb-post/
The former Israeli soldier, Rebecca Rumshiskaya, sued Nafal in September over a viral Facebook post she published in 2018 regarding the killing of Palestinian nurse Rouzan al-Najjar at the hands of the Israeli army at a protest at the border in the Gaza Strip.
Though Rumshiskaya was not involved in that shooting, the Israeli army had used her image as an apparent recruitment tool. Nafal included the army ad in her post as a point of comparison between the American Rumshiskaya and the Palestinian al-Najjar. Rumshiskaya filed the defamation suit against Nafal two years after that original post.
Rumshiskaya had hired an Israeli/Zionist law firm to represent her. She asked a California court to apply Israeli defamation law, which punishes criticism of Israel by up to one year in prison, a request the court rejected.
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Orange County Superior Court Judge Craig Griffin rejected and dismissed the lawsuit, ruling against Rumshiskaya, with an opinion published on March 2. The judge granted Nafal’s anti-SLAPP motion, awarding her legal fees, which Rumshiskaya must pay. Anti-SLAPP laws are intended to prevent people from using courts, and potential threats of a lawsuit, to intimidate people who are exercising their First Amendment rights."
https://www.arabamericannews.com/2021/03/05/activist-wins-defamation-suit-brought-against-her-by-israeli-soldier-over-fb-post/