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Airline apologizes after strip-searching US professor
Ma'an News Agency ^ | Published Monday 08/11/2010 (updated) 08/11/2010 22:26

Posted on 11/22/2010 3:25:11 PM PST by Gondring

TEL AVIV, Israel (Ma'an) -- Israel's national airline El Al on Monday apologized to a visiting professor strip-searched on her way to conference in Jerusalem, an Israeli newspaper reported.

Heather Bradshaw, a neuroscientist, was travelling from the UK to Israel at the invitation of Hebrew University when she was subjected a physical examination in which she was asked to remove her bra.

She told the Israeli daily Haaretz that El Al security personnel detained her at Luton airport in London on 31 October, confiscated all of her belongings, and repeatedly questioned her. After nearly an hour of examinations, she was reportedly reprimanded for holding up the flight.

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(Excerpt) Read more at maannews.net ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: elal; israel; tsapervs
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To: Gondring
"Read the thread." ??????????????

If you mean the comments of FReepers not aware of the nature of your "news" source (Palestinian Propaganda) you will not get off that easy.

I read the website of your source(Ma'an New Agency) and I called you out on it. Deal with it!

41 posted on 11/22/2010 4:21:14 PM PST by drpix
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To: smokingfrog
I don’t think that’s the same Heather Bradshaw that was searched by El Al. It appears to be a case of mistaken identity.

So?

If you have the same name as a suspicious person, you should be strip-searched like one.

42 posted on 11/22/2010 4:24:15 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: drpix

Haaretz.com is not Palestinian.

If you want to see an earlier story on it, see http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/american-professor-invited-to-israel-humiliated-by-el-al-security-personnel-1.322099


43 posted on 11/22/2010 4:26:09 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
The FReeposphere is quite clear that El Al doesn't search people

El Al only conducts thorough searches of people who rouse their suspicion. ..which is very few people, percentage-wise. Unlike the TSA, they profile passengers -- psycholigcally, religiously, ideologically, ethnically, etc. Evidently this leftist prof (who spent her childhood all over the Muslim Middle East) somehow triggered their suspicion. Sure they make a mistake from time to time, but that's the nature of the war.

44 posted on 11/22/2010 4:26:42 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: drpix

Your attention span ran out before #6, eh?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2631531/posts?page=6#6


45 posted on 11/22/2010 4:28:00 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
Evidently this leftist prof (who spent her childhood all over the Muslim Middle East) [...]

Citation, please.



46 posted on 11/22/2010 4:29:50 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yeah, you never know when someone studying methods of preventing miscarriages might use that for evil.


47 posted on 11/22/2010 4:35:02 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
Citation, please.

Evidently you didn't read her bio in post #25 on this thread. (First paragraph). Or perhaps you did are are taking issue with my saying "middle east" when speaking of Iran, Libya, and Pakistan. If so, fine -- Iran's in the Middle East, Libya is in Arab No. Africa. ...and Pakistan is in So. Asia. Point is, they're all Muslim countries hostile to Israel.

48 posted on 11/22/2010 4:38:52 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Gondring
Citation, please.

Evidently you didn't read her bio in post #25 on this thread. (First paragraph). Or perhaps you did and are taking issue with my saying "middle east" when speaking of Iran, Libya, and Pakistan. If so, fine -- Iran's in the Middle East, Libya is in Arab No. Africa. ...and Pakistan is in So. Asia. Point is, they're all Muslim countries hostile to Israel.

49 posted on 11/22/2010 4:40:33 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Gondring
And I'm unclear on why they've let her in multiple times in the past without a hassle...are you saying that the war is new?

No, Peabrain.

You have no clue how this all works, do you? People with intelligence make quick judgments about hundreds of people each within 20 or 30 seconds. Anyone can forge entry stamps if they want to. They ask you if you've been to Israel before. They ask you when. Maybe they look at the stamps. I don't know. They probably ask why you came before and why you're coming now; or what you did if you are leaving. I don't know, because for me the whole thing has usually taken about the same amount of time as it does to be admitted to the screening area here.

Should it ever happen that I am stopped coming or going in Israel, I'll understand because I trust that they are not doing what they do for show. This is not the case here in the United States where the entire thing is a colossal charade.

ML/NJ

51 posted on 11/22/2010 4:41:49 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Gondring
Your attention span ran out before the 3rd paragraph of my 1st post?

"There's obvious more to the Professor's story, or she would not have garnered the sympathy {of} this Palestinian rag."

This would be true whatever Haaratz also chose to publish. Useful idiots are found in all societies.

52 posted on 11/22/2010 4:47:40 PM PST by drpix
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To: Mr. Mojo
Sure they make a mistake from time to time, but that's the nature of the war.

I assume you'll extend the same courtesy to the TSA officers who face far more passengers?


I'm not dissing the El Al security...I'm just suggesting that there's a lot of hypocrisy being shown by many these days.

I posted the Ma'an version rather than another because it didn't mention El Al in the headline, and I wanted people to have the opportunity to stop and ask themselves if their initial reaction was different before reading it was El Al.

53 posted on 11/22/2010 4:48:13 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: drpix
If you think that propaganda outlets can't use stories that have facts against them, then you don't understand the world very well.

Frankly, I wonder if this is a case of mistaken identity, or, IIANM, Dr. Bradshaw's husband has made pro-liberty comments online in the past, and that might be flagged, too.

54 posted on 11/22/2010 4:49:58 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring

This wasn’t TSA, it was the Israeli airline.


55 posted on 11/22/2010 4:51:15 PM PST by HollyB
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To: Yehuda
How about the Herald Times of Bloomington, Indiana, which also carried this story (even before the apology)?
56 posted on 11/22/2010 4:52:56 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: ml/nj

Well, then, you are at odds with El Al.


57 posted on 11/22/2010 4:59:33 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
Well, then, you are at odds with El Al.

Is that the best you can do? Why don't you just slink away and pretend you never made a comment on this thread?

ML/NJ

58 posted on 11/22/2010 5:07:23 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj
This is not the case here in the United States where the entire thing is a colossal charade.

Yes, the scanners are not even powered...there is no "back room viewing screen"...

And they sure aren't checking for contraband when they do a pat-down.

And you're sane.

</sarc>

59 posted on 11/22/2010 5:12:54 PM PST by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
"I'm just calling for calling a spade a spade. "

It's an honorable thing to do, but it angers people the most. Most people expect you just to take sides...

60 posted on 11/22/2010 5:14:56 PM PST by TopQuark
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