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Noura Erakat On Why She Was Arrested for Protesting Israeli Bond Investments
When US-Palestinian academic and human rights lawyer **Noura Erakat** went to a budget hearing in Florida’s Palm Beach County, she was not expecting to leave in handcuffs, but she did. The author and friend of **Zeteo** attended the hearing to protest the county’s massive investments in Israeli bonds (the [largest globally][1]), a matter the county’s mayor, Sarah Baxter, had no appetite for.
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**“I wanted the comment on the budget. It was my constitutional right,”** Erakat tells Mehdi, **“I was told I need to leave the room. I was never told I was arrested before I was rough-handled by two officers who placed handcuffs on me, on purpose, very tight, who began to rough-handle me, to spread my legs to search me, and to explain that this is what happens when you don’t listen.”**
Erakat was [charged][3] with trespass and obstruction after the mayor prohibited discussion of Israeli bonds during the hearing. Joining Erakat on the show is **Lydia Ghuman**, executive director of the Internationalist Law Center, who organized the effort to protest the county’s investments in Israeli bonds.
**“No other foreign country can get investment of local taxpayer dollars, but Israel can,”** she says. **“Florida is in many ways an experiment, a lab for Zionist influence, and uses Florida as a test case to see what policies, what they can push, due to the relationships they’ve been able to form with local politicians.”**
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Watch the full interview above to hear the details of the hearing that led to Erakat’s arrest, and how a county in Florida became the world’s largest government investor in Israeli bonds.
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