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Incitement and the poet: Dareen Tatour's legal victory

The Israeli Supreme Court recently declined to review a district court ruling that a poem by Dareen Tatour did not constitute incitement.
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On Sept. 26, the Israeli Supreme Court rejected a petition by the state to review a ruling by a district court that partially acquitted the Israeli Arab poet Dareen Tatour of incitement. The justices refused to even discuss the matter on the grounds that there were no new arguments or new evidence to justify an appeal. The Supreme Court's decision brought Tatour's legal journey to a close.

Tatour, who lives in Reniah, a village in northern Israel, had been a rather anonymous poet until her arrest in October 2015, when a wave of attacks by individuals erupted on the West Bank and on the other side of the Green Line, in Israel. A month later, Tatour was brought to court in Nazareth and accused of inciting violence and suspicion of terrorism, for a total of three counts.

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