The Jerusalem District Court acquitted Eyad Hallaq’s killer, and Hallaq’s family is now petitioning the Israeli Supreme Court in light of the State Attorney’s refusal to do so. But the Court has consistently justified the killing of Palestinians.

Ilhan Omar is leading a boycott of Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s speech to Congress this week, saying a country that banned her and Rashida Tlaib, both Muslims, from visiting should not get an audience from a joint session of Congress.

An Israeli district court acquitted the border police officer who shot and killed Eyad al-Hallaq, a Palestinian autistic man in 2020 who was unarmed and running away from police.

Israeli prosecutors filed an indictment for reckless manslaughter against a border police officer for his role in the fatal shooting of Eyad al-Hallaq in May 2020. Al-Hallaq family’s attorneys said that while this was “an important step,” the charge was “not sufficient to achieve even a small part of justice.”