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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.
A special form for Arab passengers to warn airport ahead of their arrival
As the Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) events of March come to a close, a number of leading gay and non-gay activists have come out swinging to defend the Jewish state.
Gay opposition rises against Israel Apartheid Week
MKs discuss France-like burka ban
Israeli lawmakers and women’s rights activists weighed in Thursday over a bill which passed one house of the French parliament on Tuesday banning face-covering Islamic veils in France. A similar bill was presented to the Knesset this week but is regarded as highly unlikely to become law. MK Ahmed Tibi (United Arab List- Ta’al) told The Jerusalem Post he opposed the measure on legal grounds and said he suspected French lawmakers had an ulterior motive in advancing their version.
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Matthew Yglesias » What’s Hebrew for Chutzpah?
It seems that Yossi Peled, a retired general-turned-politician currently serving as Minister Without Portfolio in the Netanyahu cabinet, wants to sanction the United States in order to force Barack Obama to back down from his commitment to a settlement freeze. His specific proposals include “selling sensitive equipment that the Washington opposes distributing internationally, and allowing other countries that compete with the US to get involved with the peace process and be given a foothold for their military forces and intelligence agencies” moves that would be certain to backfire by depriving Israel of its valuable political capital inside the United States.
A Jerusalem magistrate court ruled last week that a Hebron settler who shouted "Heil Sharon" - a reference to then-prime minister Ariel Sharon - at a police officer while making a stiff-armed Nazi salute should not be tried for insulting a public sector worker.