Felicia Langer (Hebrew: פליציה לנגר; 9 December 1930 – 21 June 2018) was a German-Israeli attorney and human rights activist known for her defence of Palestinian political prisoners in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

After the 1967 Six-Day War, she was opposed to the conduct of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, and so established a private practice in Jerusalem defending Palestinian political detainees.

Langer was the first lawyer to assist Palestinians in cases involving land confiscation, house demolition, deportation, and torture before Israeli military courts.

Shaka had been a PLO supporter and outspoken critic of the Camp David accords, was subsequently accused of inciting terrorism by his public statements and was issued an expulsion order.

The Palestinian scholar Sami Hadawi said of Langer that "much credit and gratitude is due for her defence, at great personal risk, of Arab detainees and prisoners.

[citation needed] In her writings, lectures and interviews she criticized Israeli policy in the occupied Palestinian territories, which she considered equivalent to an annexation.

Langer furthermore considered the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank as undermining the possibility of a two-state solution and demanded the complete and unconditional retreat of Israel from the territories conquered in 1967 and a right to return for any descendant of the Palestinian refugees.

[citation needed] Langer headed a legal team to defend the journalists who had been arrested following the closure of the Israeli newspaper Derekh Hanitzotz in February 1988.

Within this context, she adopted the opinion of the deputy chairman of the German Liberal Party (FDP) Jürgen Möllemann, who had called the targeted killings of Palestinian subjects by Israeli security forces an act of state terror.

[13] Langer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, First class, by the President of Germany Horst Köhler following the nomination by the government of Baden-Württemberg, itself based on suggestions by the publicist Evelyn Hecht-Galinski and the city of Tübingen.

Polish-German journalist and author Henryk Broder assumed that Köhler had made the decision, ignoring Langer's statements criticizing Israel.

[20] Federal Cross of Merit holder Ralph Giordano said: "No one in the last 25 years, with a one-sidedness bordering on blindness, has done Israel more damage than this supposed human-rights lawyer.

The letter expresses an "astonishment at the decision to honour an individual who for many years was an apologist for a regime which brought untold fear and misery upon the citizens of eastern Germany", and refers to her membership of the Israeli Communist Party.