Posted on 12/07/2016 10:19:24 AM PST by rktman
TEL AVIV – In a first, Israel denied entry to a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement activist who arrived at Ben-Gurion airport Monday on a tourist visa.
Dr. Isabel Phiri, Associate General Secretary for the World Council of Churches (WCC) for Public Witness and Diakonia, was stopped at the airport at the behest of Interior Minister Aryeh Deri – the first case of its kind since a Knesset bill was introduced allowing authorities to bar supporters of the boycott Israel movement from visiting the country.
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Excellent move. It’s nice to maximize freedom, and Israel should do just that for their citizens. But visiting another country is a privilege, not a right. Israel is correct to deny that privilege to its terrorist-supporting enemies.
They were just helping him boycott.
Israel's leading the way... We need to block radial Mexicans too...
I had a conversation with a Freeper recently, and he told me that people here on a visa had constitutional protections.
I understand possibly for criminal activity, they are treated under our laws, but if someone is here as a refugee, legal immigrant non-citizen, or under a visa and not a citizen, I have always understood a host country can deny entry or ask them to leave at ANY time regardless of a reason, which does not have to be provided.
That is my understanding of how it works everywhere in the world. You are not a citizen...you can be politely or forcibly asked to leave at any time.
I like that the Israelis did that.
years too late!
good for Isarel!
WHY SHOULD ENEMY AGENTS BENT ON DESTROYING YOU BE PERMITTED FREE REIGN INTO YOUR COUNTRY AND COMMUNITY?
(now we just have to repatriate all the enemy agents Obama’s imported into USA)
Israel has finally come to its senses. Why open the door to rabid wolves whose goal is to destroy you?
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