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High Court greenlights racial profiling at Israel’s airports
High Court rejects petition calling for an end to racial profiling against Arabs at Ben-Gurion Airport, yet refuses to make a principled ruling on the policy as a whole. Israel’s High Court of Justice rejected a petition by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI), demanding an end to racial profiling at Ben-Gurion Airport on…
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Edo Konrad
March 11, 2015
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
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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March 31, 2014
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Jeffrey Goldberg: TLV airport security should ask me if I’m Jewish
Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg just flew out of Israel and decided to write a post revering security at Israel’s Ben-Gurion airport, comparing it to the much less effective and what he considers more humiliating American airport security. (I do agree with him that Israeli security is way more effective than American security, since Israel is indeed…
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Mairav Zonszein
March 18, 2012
Airport security turns citizens into lumps
The following op ed in Haaretz [Hebrew only] revisits the theme of how unpleasant it can be for an Arab citizen, native-born in Israel, to use his or her national airport to travel freely. Many people have heard this theme before; my colleague Aziz Abu Sarah has written about it thoughtfully, and I reported on…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
March 3, 2012
A special form for Arab passengers to warn airport of their arrival
Israel responded to the “flytilla” with a wildly disproportionate deployment of police and extraordinary security checks. But Palestinian citizens of Israel are discriminated at the Ben Gurion Airport on an hourly basis – and are now able to racially profile themselves, using a specially provided form to warn the airport authorities of their arrival. In…
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Dimi Reider
July 9, 2011
Regularly confronting discrimination at Ben Gurion Airport
By Aziz Abu Sarah The recent Supreme Court rebuke of the Airport Authorities in Israel came as a shining light of hope. The treatment of Arabs at Ben Gurion Airport has caused many controversies over the last few years. For me, this is not something I simply read about in the newspaper — being a…
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March 24, 2011
Airport security and Arab citizens: change in sight?
This week, Israel’s Supreme Court chipped away at one of the most egregious Israeli practices: the infamous security examinations of Palestinian/Arab citizens at Israeli airports. The Court, responding to a 2007 petition by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel against the Israel Airports Authority, the General Security Services and the Ministry of Transportation, directed…
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Dahlia Scheindlin
March 10, 2011
Foreign press intimidated by Israeli and Egyptian security
Israeli airport security and Egyptian border control prevent Roee Ruttenberg and his cameraman from filming a simple assignment for an international media outlet in Sharm el Sheikh. It should have been a regular day and an easy assignment. I was asked by an international news broadcaster to travel from Tel Aviv with a cameraman to…
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Roee Ruttenberg
February 10, 2011
Waiting for H: 8 hours with no passport at TLV airport
My friend H is arriving from Sweden for a conference in Jerusalem. Though Palestinian by roots and Arab by name, H is a Swedish national and a proud subject to the three crowns. The conference deals with world history and its effects on the region. It features a three day seminar at the Yad Vashem…
By
Yuval Ben-Ami
December 15, 2010
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