We Won’t Stop Filming, We Won’t Stop Writing
NOVANEWS
GIDEON LEVY
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, August/September 2018, pp. 50, 52
Special Report
By Gideon Levy
WE WILL VIOLATE this law proudly. We have an obligation to violate this law, like any law with a black flag waving over it. We will not stop documenting. We will not stop photographing. We will not stop writing—with all our might.
Human rights organizations will do the same too and like them, we hope, Palestinian eyewitnesses, who will of course be punished more than anyone. According to the proposed law passed June 17 by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation [but also calling for some of the wording to be changed], individuals documenting the actions of Israel Defense Forces soldiers in the West Bank may be sent to jail for as much as five years, under ce...