US students interrupt as Dichter takes podium

[ 06/04/2011 - 06:42 PM ]

NEW YORK, (PIC)-- Dozens of students at the Brandeis University near Boston shouted that former Shin Bet director Avi Dichter is a war criminal in English and Hebrew as the now Knesset member took the podium to give a lecture there.

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, many of those protesters were affiliated with a student organization that works for Palestinian justice. When Dichter began talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they shouted they would meet him in the International Criminal Court to be prosecuted for inhumane crimes and torture.

The demonstrators prior to that distributed false arrest warrants saying Dichter is wanted for breaking Geneva treaties and committing crimes against humanity, as he ordered that Palestinians be tortured during the 2002 Palestinian intifada when he served as director of the Israeli Shin Bet security service.

The incident referred to was the massacre he ordered against civilians in a hit operation against Salah Shahada.

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