ACTION ALERT: Israel Arrests Outspoken Academic Norman Finkelstein
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ACT NOW: Flood the Israeli Ministry of Interior with faxes, emails, calls. DEMAND THAT DR. FINKELSTEIN BE PERMITTED TO ENTER ISRAEL IN ORDER TO REACH THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY!
Minister of Interior Mr. Meir SHEETRIT
Israeli Ministry of the Interior
2 Kaplan St., Qiryat Ben-Gurion
P.O. Box 6158, 91061 Jerusalem
Tel. +972-2-670-1411 / +972-2-629-4722
Fax: +972-2-670-1628
or
Mr. Meir SHEETRIT’s numbers at the Knesset
Telephone 1: +972-2-640-8410
Telephone 2: +972-2- 640-8409
Fax: +972-2- 640-8920
Email: mshitrit@knesset.gov.il
It is now Saturday and the Ministry is closed for the Jewish Sabbath. But no matter what, if you are in the US please call your congressman and senator NOW and advise them a Jewish American U.S. citizen is being denied access to Israel!!
Also, CALL the STATE DEPT’s Hotline for American Travelers: 202-647-5225 and let them know this is happening and is in violation of international law.
If you are an Israeli, please start working the phones…this denial of entry is all being done in your name!!
If you support peace, regardless where you live and what you do, spread the news. Email this to your friends and mailing list. Blog about it and send it to MSM.
The only ‘democracy‘ in the Middle East strikes again.
Israel Arrests Outspoken Academic Norman Finkelstein
And the American academic Norman Finkelstein has been arrested and ordered deported from Israel. Finkelstein arrived in Tel Aviv earlier today on his way to the Occupied Territories. He was immediately detained and told he is banned from Israel for ten years. He’s expected to be deported tomorrow. Finkelstein is known one of the most prominent academic critics of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
US political author Norman Finkelstein denied entry to Israel
Jerusalem - The US political author and critic of Israel Norman Finkelstein was denied entry to the Jewish state on Friday, his lawyer said.
Finkelstein landed at Ben Gurion international airport near Tel Aviv in the early morning and was told by a representative of the ministry of interior that he would not be allowed into the country on ’security’ grounds, attorney Michael Sfard told dpa.
‘This usually means a 10-year ban on entry,’ Sfard added.
Finkelstein, who is Jewish and the son of Holocaust survivors, has written critical books on Israeli policies in the Palestinian territories and on what he called ‘exploitation’ of the Jewish tragedy during World War II.
Finkelstein has received with the fierce disapproval of some authors and academics, while others have praised his controversial works.
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8 Comments on “ACTION ALERT: Israel Arrests Outspoken Academic Norman Finkelstein”
He might be a Jew and a son of a holocaust survivor, but he is not a Zionist!
Actually, he was sent back to Amsterdam.
its violation of democratic rights
pankaj sharma pankaj
spokesman
NATIONAL STUDENTS FEDERATION
journalistpankaj@asia.com
A good coverage of the story can be found here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=15&entry_id=26785
I always knew that the Israeli system was based on fascist methods. Please hands off Finkelstein. Let him free NOW!
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Israel’s neighbors want to extinguish it. Look at a map. It is a very narrow country in some spots. When you are living next door to a group who would wage war on you at the drop of a hat, who could sever your country in two in minutes, what are you supposed to do? Nuke them now and eliminate the problem? A more peaceful solution is to establish colonies throughout the region preventing it from unifying and attacking you. Not a pretty solution, and easy to criticize. But if you have some better answer, which does not require Israel to simply give up and go under, an answer that will allow Israel to survive that is not based on ignorance and fuzzy wishful thinking, let’s hear about it!
Yes, it is called Right of Return and ‘One State’ solution. But of course for Zionist it is it means one state for Zionists only.