Professor Kassem Criminal Trials
(Kana’an eBulletin - Volume IX - Issue 2106)
On Dec 23, 2009, Professor Abdul Sattar Kassem will appear in court in Nablus for a couple of trials. One has to do with an allegation of distorting the image of a Palestinian intelligence recruit by saying that he was the one who burned my car; and the other has to do with distorting a preventive security recruit by saying that the one who shot at sheikh al-Beetawi is an Israeli agent.
I appeared before the court before, but neither the alligator nor the witnesses showed up.
It is worth noting that I wrote to the European countries that are financing the Palestinian Authority demanding compensation for my cars because they are enabling the Authority to do harm to my property and family by financing it. The Europeans should deduct the compensation from the money they send to the authority.
It is worth noting that I spent my sabbatical in 2000 in jail for no declared reasons. It is the first example and the only one so far in history that an academic spends his sabbatical in jail.