Adnan Muhammad Hasan Khalil, American citizen of Palestinian descent, emigrated from the West Bank as a youth in 1976 and returned ten years ago to get married. At that time, he applied to the Israeli authorities for Family Unification (FU) ...
Read More »MuzzleWatch: Archbishop Tutu barred by U. of St Thomas because of criticism of Israel
by Cecilie Surasky Rumors have been circulating for some time that Archbishop Desmond Tutu was banned by the University of St Thomas in Minnesota because of statements he made that some consider anti-Semitic. Now it’s official: winning the Nobel Peace ...
Read More »Right to Enter: Israeli Authorities Deny Entry to Clergyman
17 September 2007 In a continuing demonstration of Israel’s arbitrary denial of entry policy, and disregard for the Palestinian population’s right to practice their religion and worship freely, Father Faris Khaleifat, priest of Ramallah’s Greek Catholic Melkite Church was barred ...
Read More »Family Reunification
Date posted: August 06, 2007 By MIFTAH Since the beginning of Israeli occupation in 1967, all policies towards curbing the process of Palestinian family reunification have greatly threatened normal and stable family life for many. This has been especially true ...
Read More »Campaign for the Right of Entry/Re-Entry
A Grassroots Campaign for the Protection of Foreign Passport Holders Residing in and/or Visiting the oPt Position Statement To date, Israeli authorities have failed to provide a transparent policy on which foreign nationals wishing to enter or maintain their presence ...
Read More »Denial of Dignity, Denial of Entry
Eccerpts from by Nadia’s journal 3 May 2007 What happened to me yesterday is something I couldn’t imagine possible, not because I didn’t think I could be refused entrance into Israel. There always was a possibility I would be interrogated, ...
Read More »Diplomatic Mission intervention unites foreign passport holders with their families;
the Campaign for the Right to Enter/Re-enter April 26, 2007 (April 26, 2007 – Ramallah) –Israeli border control authorities continue arbitrarily denying entry to foreigners traveling to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). The pattern was first identified by the Campaign ...
Read More »Israel’s ‘new’ Procedures Change little at the Borders
Tens of thousands of families still face forced separation or de facto deportation Ramallah – 29 March, 2007 Israel’s various announcements regarding new procedures for entry and visa extensions have failed to address, even superficially, the humanitarian crisis caused by ...
Read More »Haaretz: “Quality time”
by Gideon Levy, The Jordanian MIRS chirps on the table. “Where’s Nur?” asks the woman on the line from Amman. “She’s standing next to me,” replies her husband in Azariyeh, east of Jerusalem. A chirp every few minutes. Yihye Bassa, ...
Read More »Haaretz: “A mother’s resistance”
by Ofri Ilani, February 14th Laila El-Haddad’s blog took shape in a very unusual way. Her son, Yousuf, was less than a year old when she returned to her Gaza home from a visit to the United States, where her ...
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