TRUMP AND NETANYAHU VIOLATE HUMAN RIGHTS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday decided to bar
Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) from entering Israel
ahead of a trip scheduled to begin Sunday. The two Muslim congresswomen had
planned to visit several West Bank towns and Jerusalem.
“Refusing entry to a human rights advocate because they work for an
organization that has criticized human rights violations by Israel would
constitute a blatant assault on freedom of expression,” Philip Luther, research
and advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty
International, said in a statement.
Wibisono, the U.N. investigator for human rights violations in the
Palestinian territories, resigned his post in January 2016 after Israel refused
to grant him access to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The WP says to-day that Israel to
allow Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib to enter to visit her 90-year-old
grandmother in West Bank
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