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Eugene

(62,660 posts)
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 01:37 PM Jan 2018

Israel imposes travel ban on 20 foreign NGOs over boycott movement

Source: The Guardian

Israel imposes travel ban on 20 foreign NGOs over boycott movement

British groups War on Want and Palestine Solidarity Campaign among those whose staff are barred from visiting Israel

Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem
Sun 7 Jan ‘18 17.36 GMT

The prominent British campaign group War on Want has been listed as one of 20 foreign NGOs whose representatives are banned from visiting Israel over their support of the pro-Palestinian boycott, sanctions and divestment (BDS) movement.

The publication of the list, which also includes a well-known Jewish anti-occupation group and a Nobel peace prize-winning US Quaker group, had been threatened for months by Israel.

The organisations were singled out by Israel’s rightwing strategic affairs and public security minister, Gilad Erdan, for advocating boycotts of Israel over its treatment of Palestinians.

Erdan said on Sunday that the groups “operate consistently and continuously” against Israel using a “campaign of incitement and lies”.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/07/israel-imposes-travel-ban-on-20-foreign-ngos-over-boycott-movement
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Seems reasonable. aranthus Jan 2018 #2

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aranthus

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2. Seems reasonable.
Sun Jan 7, 2018, 04:01 PM
Jan 2018

You can't support the destruction of a state, and expect that the state won't respond.

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