Israel imposes a 10-year ban on American critic of Israeli policies

On Friday, Israeli security forces, Shin Bet, detained Norman Finkelstein when he tried to enter Israel, kept him in an airport holding cell for 24 hours, ordered him deported from the country, and then imposed a 10-year ban on his entry. Finkelstein, the son of a Holocaust survivor, is a Jewish-American author and academic who has frequently criticized the Israeli Government and provoked extreme animosity among right-wing factions in the U.S. He had flown ... Full Story »

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Jim Lang
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by Jim Lang - Oct. 1, 2008

This blog post, though biased, provides a factual and well sourced discussion of Israeli and US actions to deny entry to individuals solely because their views are opposed by the current governments. It does so without the vitriol often present in Greenwald's writing.

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