Editing Jacques Vergès (section)

===Israel and the Palestinians===
In 1965, Vergès arrived in [[Israel]], seeking to represent Mahmud Hijazi ([[:he:מחמוד חיג'אזי|מחמוד חיג'אזי]]), a Palestinian member of the [[Fatah]] movement who had at the time been sentenced to death by an Israeli military court on charges of terrorism, for crossing into Israel and setting a small demolition charge near the National Water Conduit in the Galilee.<ref name="ICT">{{cite web |last1=Yaffe |first1=Aharon |title=Dr. |url=https://www.ict.org.il/Article/1030/palestinian-terrorism-1968-1978#gsc.tab=0 |website=International Institute on Counter-Terrorism |publisher=Interdisciplinary Centre Herzliya |access-date=5 August 2020 |date=15 April 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805181020/https://www.ict.org.il/Article/1030/palestinian-terrorism-1968-1978 |archive-date=5 August 2020 |url-status=live |quote=The Palestinian Liberation Organization, commonly known as the PLO, was founded on January 1st 1965, marking its first operation. On that day, the terrorist Mahmud Hijazi was caught having placed a small demolition charge at the National Water Carrier conduit in the Galilee.}}</ref> Israel's Justice Minister [[Dov Yosef]] forbade Hijazi's being represented by a foreign lawyer. Vergès was detained at the airport and deported.<ref>[https://www.jta.org/archive/israel-refuges-entry-to-algerian-who-came-to-defend-arab-terrorist Israel Refuges Entry to Algerian Who Came to Defend Arab Terrorist]</ref> Nevertheless, though Vergès did not succeed in getting to represent Hijazi in court, his initiative generated considerable publicity and controversy which were influential in Hijazi's death sentence being eventually commuted by an appeals court. (Hijazi was later released in a 1971 [[List of Israeli prisoner exchanges|prisoner exchange]].)