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ISM Reports: ISM Activist Wins Libel Suit Against Right Wing Israeli Journalist

ISM Media Office | 14.02.2004 15:16 | Social Struggles | World

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT

February 13, 2004

For Immediate Release


ISM ACTIVIST WINS LIBEL SUIT AGAINST RIGHT-WING JOURNALIST!



Israeli Judge Awards Radhika Sainath $23,000





Early Tuesday, February 10, ISM human rights activist Radhika Sainath received notice of a Bet Shean Israeli Court verdict against journalist Judy Lash Balint. The judge’s decision forces Balint to pay Sainath a sum of 105,000NIS ($23,400) plus all court and lawyer fees amounting to 11,787NIS ($2,600) for a November 2003 article.



Ms. Sainath, represented by Attorney Shamai Leibowitz, filed the libel suit over a particularly defamatory article Balint published on her website. Upon receiving the official decision Leibowitz commented, “We welcome this verdict which defends the name and integrity of ISM volunteers in general and Ms. Sainath in particular. This verdict serves as a warning signal to pundits who loosely bandy about defamatory remarks aimed at human rights activists.”



The article—riddled with unsubstantiated and fabricated information about Sainath and the ISM—was ordered to be removed from Balint’s website. Although Balint’s article is not the first article in the Israeli press misrepresenting the ISM’s nonviolent work against the Occupation, this is the first time an ISM volunteer has sued for libel.



Radhika Sainath has spent nearly a year in the West Bank with the ISM conducting advocacy against the Wall, and supporting Palestinian nonviolent resistance against the Occupation. During that period she was arrested three times by Israeli authorities for supporting Palestinian human rights and self-determination, most recently in December after testifying against the State of Israel.



The judge ordered Balint to pay the entire suit amount after she failed to submit a defense.

For more information:
Adv. Shamai Leibowitz: +972-3-670-4170
ISM Office: +972-2-277-4602

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INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT
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Anyone got any more links for this?

15.02.2004 13:16

Does anybody have any other links for this story? Can't find anything about it in Google News or on Balint's website.

Joeboy


yahoo search

15.02.2004 15:18

I found a few anti-ISM versions of events here including what looks like the libel article i thought was meant to be removed


 http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Radhika+Sainath+Balint&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt

The israeli press seem to have avoided the story. Probably because they are a little worried about lies they have been spreading about ISM costing them more money in new libel cases.

If anyone finds more coverage please post here.

c.


sieg heil for the mintes ISM jihadinazis

17.02.2004 13:56

Yay! She can go and buy some guns and explosives with the money given to her by the 'zionist state'.

ISM = neonazi terror helpers


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