Israel bars activist as ‘terrorist’ for refusal to open e-mail
June 05, 2012 06:23
An American peace activist entering Israel has been ordered by airport security officers to open her e-mail account. When she refused, they alleged she is a terrorist and sent her back to the US the next day. Her experience is not unique.
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lydia (unregistered)05.06.2012 22:34
What you fail to realise is that Israel is an illegal occupation in violation of some 250UN resolutions.
The Palestinian Airport was bombed by Israel hindering the movement Palestinian goods and the movement of Palestine visitors.
Isr ael has no legitimate grounds to lay siege to Palestinian land nor to hinder the movements of the Palestinians who must suffer daily Israel racist and aparatheid policies. Israel is allowed to continue its entrenched illegal occupation and is disgusting behavior only because of the ONE US veto.
I personally would not encourage, advise , or sympathise with anybody who visits that Gomora of a country, for whatever reason. Let's admit it, Israel was a big mistake! And the whole world is being made to pay for, but is not trying hard enough to correct, that mistake: it's not just the Palestinians who bear the brunt of the injustices flowing from the creation of Israel, now even Americans, the defenders of that Sodom have become the victims. Why was Israel not carved out of Germany which was responsible for the so-called holocaust?
I was shocked several years ago when I went to Petra. We were returning through
the Aqaba crossing & the Israeli guards questioned 2 people right behind me.
It basically went like this "What is your purpose in Israel?" Tourism,
they said. "You 2 didn't enter Israel together 10 days ago. Are you touring
separately?" Yes, they replied. They just happened to meet up in Israel. "Yet
you were both members of the same activist group when you visited Israel 4 years
ago & entered the country together then." The look on their faces was
priceless! They were nailed and they knew it. The 2 were pulled out of
the line, separated from their bags & led away. I thought it was really cool
that the security forces put all that together. They profiled me when I entered
the country via Ben Gurion & I didn't mind a bit. All you complaining about
the profiling being "fascist" should consider that you don't have bombs going
off in your civilian pizza shops & buses.
She was not yet admitted to the country, she was positioned in the transit area
and she is not an Israeli citizen. Thus there is no legal requirement for search
warrants. She has no automatic right to enter the country, after all, neither
have Israelis an automatic right to an unconditional entry visa to the US.
Instead of supporting measures that keep Israel successfully secure and travel
safe, she prefers to engage in Israel hate activities. If she wants to visit
Ramallah so badly, she should take the flea bite camel route via Jordan.
=> Rehman (unregistered) wrote:
//The term is "Zionist", not jew.//The doctrine of "Zionism" has two legs: one the belief in Holocaust and the other Israel's right to exist. When you brought me a "Jew" that has a problem with these two legs, I will start differentiating "Jews" from "Zioists". Zionism is a "doctrine" not a rogue political sect that Jewish fake anit-Zionist activists have fooled many gentile intellectuals to believe.
//Its unfair to vote against a religious community.//First of all Judaism is not a religion since it is not proffered to humanity but a small "chosenites". You cannot convert to Judaism. Some 16-18 million "Jews" are converts, who are considered by one million "Judeans" as "heretics" (since they played god to "choose" themselves to be Judaics) and largely stay away from them. Most people who use the word and concept of "Jew" have never seen or talked to an authentic Judean.
I know you have good intentions for your comment, but teaching requires learning first.
Americans For Justice (unregistered)05.06.2012 14:52
Since Israel has decided to treat American Christians in
this manner, it’s time to cut off aid to Israel and to boycott all Israeli
products. Do not purchase Israel products. Call the White House and tell Obama, “No more
American aid to Israel!”
BOYCOTT ISRAEL!
Is it possible that Israel has not understood that the writing is on the wall ? That the change to two nations is nigh ? Or Israel thinks that they have any relevance in the world scene ? Little pawns , little pawns !
Google is an Israeli company. If you are using Chrome/Chromium or Google search on your browser and you are an "initiated" individual, most likely Mossad already has a copy of your "favorites" and of course marked your Gmail communications.
Asking such ridiculous questions from particular individuals in the airport cannot be but an excuse to deny entry: if you refuse or comply (which they already know they can find something for an excuse), either way they get what they want.
The term is "Zionist", not jew. Its unfair to vote against a religious community. Because if you use the word jew, you are targeting all the jews irrespective of those who oppose zionism. Its like blaming the entire muslim community for bunch of thug terrorists in middle east. To me terrorism has no religion. Terrorism is a symptom of brainwash, greed, poverty and extremism.
The Arab American "Quaker acivist" is a rather strange combination is
she really a Quaker? The ADL I believe a few years ago placed the
Quakers as one of the "religious" groups it suspects of Anti Semitic
activities and not just anti Israel activites. Time the country stopped
allowing these inciters into the country with no consequences. other
countries do it. What's good for the goose is OK for Israel too.
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lydia (unregistered) 05.06.2012 22:34
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art 05.06.2012 14:30
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