In France, police on Thursday detained European Parliament member Rima Hassan on suspicion of “apology for terrorism” over a social media post about a former member of the Japanese Red Army who participated in an attack on an Israeli airport in 1972. Hassan was born stateless in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria and is a member of the leftist France Unbowed party. She was a leader of a Gaza Freedom Flotilla mission that was intercepted by Israeli forces in international waters last June as they attempted to deliver food and aid to Gaza. Critics have condemned her arrest as “judicial harassment” aimed at silencing her outspoken criticism.