I wasn't able to find much. Here's a topic-heavy board (a small bit about Weitzman is halfway down the page): Human Rights 1st. It looks like she was arrested in Nablus, which is in the disputed territory of the West Bank. What's strange is that she is now on trial for obstruction of police activity, under US law, even though she wasn't on US soil. I'm pretty sure this isn't officially about freedom of speech, but about refusing to leave a house that was designated by Israel as a target of military or police action.
My first guess would be that the First Amendment has nothing to do with the trial proceedings (though I couldn't find anything that details the charges against her). As I said, she is probably on trial for obstruction and she will likely get the full sentence. The way I understand these things, Israel probably sent her back to the US because the US didn't want one of its citizens to be tried in Israel (where the punishment would likely have a bit firmer than a year in prison). As far as the law is concerned, this probably isn't about freedom of speech--no matter what the e-mail says--because these people were likely in a place they should not have been, and they likely refused to move to a place they could go.
On the other hand, I'm aware that there are LOTS of places that people "should not be" in the West Bank. I'm not saying that the situation is completely fair to Erica, but I am saying that this seems to be in no way an attack on anybody's right to free speech.
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My first guess would be that the First Amendment has nothing to do with the trial proceedings (though I couldn't find anything that details the charges against her). As I said, she is probably on trial for obstruction and she will likely get the full sentence. The way I understand these things, Israel probably sent her back to the US because the US didn't want one of its citizens to be tried in Israel (where the punishment would likely have a bit firmer than a year in prison). As far as the law is concerned, this probably isn't about freedom of speech--no matter what the e-mail says--because these people were likely in a place they should not have been, and they likely refused to move to a place they could go.
On the other hand, I'm aware that there are LOTS of places that people "should not be" in the West Bank. I'm not saying that the situation is completely fair to Erica, but I am saying that this seems to be in no way an attack on anybody's right to free speech.