(Times of Israel) A pro-Palestinian conference in Denmark has withdrawn the participation of an organization dedicated to prosecuting Israeli soldiers abroad, seemingly due to its founder’s past Hezbollah membership.
The Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF) blamed “false information circulated by the Israeli press” for the withdrawal of Haroon Raza, an attorney for the group, from a panel at the European Palestinian Network Conference held in Copenhagen on Saturday.
It is unclear what reports HRF, named after a six-year-old Palestinian girl allegedly killed by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza last year, was referring to.
A 2003 New York Times profile of Dyab Abou Jahjah, who went on to found HRF, quotes the Lebanese-Belgian activist as saying he’d joined the Hezbollah terror group before immigrating to Belgium at age 19. “I had some military training, I’m still very proud of that,” he said.
