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PHOTOS: Israel begins crackdown on foreign workers and their children
Israeli immigration authorities begin summer-long deportations of at least 50 foreign workers and their Israeli-born children. Text by +972 Magazine Staff, photos by Oren Ziv/Activestills.org Israeli immigration authorities have begun immigration raids targeting foreign workers from the Philippines and their children, in a crackdown that is expected to snare at least 50 adults and their…
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July 24, 2019
Hundreds of academics, Jewish leaders demand Israel release U.S. student
Lara Alqasem got permission from the Israeli consulate to study at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. Upon landing, she was detained and ordered deported. She has been held for six days. Over 100 academics and Jewish professionals signed a petition demanding that Israeli authorities release a Palestinian-American student they have been detaining for nearly a week and let her enter…
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Edo Konrad
October 8, 2018
Israel denies entry to Palestinian American over alleged BDS support
Israeli border authorities stopped 22-year-old Lara Alqasem from entering the country, despite the fact that she has a one-year student visa. An American woman with a valid student visa was denied entry to Israel upon landing on Tuesday at Ben Gurion Airport. Lara Alqasem, the 22-year-old granddaughter of Palestinian refugees from Haifa and a recent graduate…
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Edo Konrad
October 3, 2018
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Israel aims to deport French photographer with ‘Arab-sounding’ name
Following Washington’s admission that Israel is being kept out of its visa-waiver program due to discrimination against Arab-Americans, a French citizen is detained for three days under similar circumstances. French Embassy: ‘We’re regularly in touch with the Israeli authorities about these issues.’ A French citizen has been held by Israeli authorities at Ben-Gurion Airport for three…
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Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man
April 30, 2014
The ‘smaller’ indignities of occupation
I teach writing at a Palestinian university in the West Bank. Several of my students have been gracious enough to share their experiences with +972, albeit anonymously. This is the third of four short essays. Read parts one and two. As my siblings and I sat alone in an unfamiliar place waiting for my mother,…
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Mya Guarnieri Jaradat
April 28, 2014
When it comes to racist border policies, Israel has no leg to stand on
The fuss ‘The Jerusalem Post’ made about its correspondent being denied entry to Saudi Arabia on religious, racial or national grounds is too much for one Arab-American journalist who was denied entry to Israel. By Anna Lekas Miller On Friday, United States President Barack Obama landed in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It was a…
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+972 Magazine
March 31, 2014
British activist detained entering Israel, facing 10-year ban
Gary Spedding was detained after landing in Tel Aviv ahead of meetings with parliamentarians and activists. He says his phone was hacked and contacts extracted. A high-profile member of Northern Ireland’s Alliance Party and a long-standing activist for human rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories, Gary Spedding, was detained on arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport on…
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Dimi Reider
January 10, 2014
How Israel’s security services turned me into a ‘potential terrorist’
When Yoav Haifawi joined radical left organizations in Israel, he had no idea that the airport security services would begin searching him for explosives. A true story about the security services’ modus operandi. By: Yoav Haifawi (*) The following story is 100% true. It tells us a lot about the modus operandi of the security…
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Haokets
November 17, 2013
‘No Falasteen for you!’ Shin Bet banned me from Israel for 10 years
‘My suspicious ethnic identity coupled with my criticisms of Israel were enough to get me banned from Israel and more importantly, barred from being able to tell stories from the West Bank.’ By Anna Lekas Miller “Do you think we are some kind of joke? Do you think you can start over with us?” The…
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+972 Magazine
August 31, 2013
PHOTO: Israel proudly displays separation fence to arriving tourists
The very first thing visitors to Israel see when they walk through Ben-Gurion International Airport’s arrivals hall is an illuminated, panoramic landscape photo showing an area where the West Bank meets Israel. Right smack dab in the middle of it is none other than Israel’s separation barrier. (The road can be seen in the center, with…
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Mairav Zonszein
August 12, 2013
When racial profiling is a national policy
Palestinian citizens have many rights in Israel, but they are not equal citizens. Only by removing all discriminatory elements from the legal system will Israel cease to be a democracy of racial profiling. Following one of his visits to Israel, Jewish-American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg praised last year the ease with which he underwent the security procedures at…
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Noam Sheizaf
April 25, 2013
Young Israeli boy, non-citizen mother arrested ahead of deportation
We wrote in January [Hebrew] about Supreme Court Justice Yoram Denzinger permitting the deportation of an Israeli boy and his Polish mother. Yesterday at 5 a.m., the mother and her son were arrested ahead of their deportation. This time again, Justice Denzinger refused to get involved. The boy was born in Israel in 2005 to…
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Laissez Passer
December 13, 2012
Testimony: One filmmaker’s struggle against deportation at Ben Gurion Airport
‘As soon as I got my passport stamped, the Airport Authority employee demanded I sign a commitment not to enter the occupied Palestinian territories. The document stated that should I breach this ‘order,’ I could be deported and not allowed back into Israel for another 10 years. I refused to sign it…the document was torn…
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+972 Magazine
October 19, 2012
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