"Flight France-Palestine," 2011. (Image: DOM)
Three European airlines have canceled the flights of passengers from the Airflotilla2, or flytilla, the campaign in which activists challenge Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories by flying into Tel Aviv and announcing to customs their intent to travel to the West Bank. The campaign started last year with a similar "Welcome to Palestine" fly-in, where some were also refused entry onto their purchased departure flights, at the behest of Israeli security.
Again, this year based on "Israel's orders," Lufthansa Airlines, Brussels Airlines and EasyJet all have canceled flytilla passenger tickets. As of today, European airlines have canceled up to 40 passenger tickets.
Campaign organizers with Bienvenue Palestine also found the tickets of two passengers unaffiliated with the flytilla were included in the mass cancellations.
Screen shot of organizer flytilla organizer, the Bienvenue Palestine campaign. Tweet on the bottom translates: "@Lufthansa @FlyingBrussels @Jet2Offers prefer to support Israeli apartheid in lieu of their humanitarian clients. "
After arriving in-country, activists are expected to tour the West Bank with Bienvenue Palestine. I translated from French Bienvenue Palestine’s full statement on flight cancellations:
Several dozen passengers who bought plane tickets to travel to Tel Aviv Sunday, April 15 were notified Thursday by Lufthansa airlines that their reservations were canceled, "by Israel's orders."
"Israel produced a list of names of persons to whom this country denies entry. Yours is on it, which brings us to cancel your ticket and we will immediately refund your credit card," said Lufthansa employees to the passengers.
Unable to distinguish between those who intended to participate in the Welcome to Palestine mission and those who were not involved, the Israeli government, long accustomed to mass "collateral damage," apparently decided to blacklist passengers in bulk. As of Thursday evening we had reports of at least two people who are not connected to the campaign and were planning to travel to Israel whose tickets were also canceled.
Passengers on Lufthansa flights have not committed any infractions, and do not accept the mafia-methods, favored by governments complicit in the imprisonment of the Palestinian people, starting with the French government.
Therefore, with the support of many friends, passengers with the campaign will arrive at their departing airports as scheduled this weekend, as a reminder that the West Bank and the rest of Palestine do not belong to Israel, and to demand respect of international law.
Passengers also received cancellation notices from the other European airlines, stating "Israel Immigration Authorities have informed us that you will be refused entry to Israel and instructed us to refuse you carriage." Bienvenue Palestine posted the text of the notices. Below is one from EasyJet:
Dear DUPONT,
We regret to inform you that Israel Immigration Authorities have informed us that you will be refused entry to Israel and instructed us to refuse you carriage. We have therefore had no choice but to cancel your reservation on easyJet flight to Tel Aviv on 15/04/2012. You will receive a full refund of your booking….
Please do not go to the airport as the Israeli Immigration Authorities have instructed us to refuse you carriage.
If you require further information relating to the refusal of travel may we suggest that you make contact with the Israeli Embassy in Bern. Their contact details are noted below for your information.
Embassy of Israel
Chancellery
Alpenstrasse 32
P.O.Box
3006 Bern
Phone number : +41(0)31 356 35 00 – Fax : +41(0)31 356 35 65
We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause you and please be assured we are working under the instruction of the Israeli Immigration Authorities and will be unable to accept you for travel until so advised by the authorities.
Yours Sincerely
easyJet Customer Services
The notices indicate airlines received a master "back list" from Israeli authorities, which was used to select the passengers that were kept from boarding flights. Though the methods used to compile the list are unclear, yesterday Ynet News confirmed Israeli border security did send airlines companies both a passenger black list, along with a letter advising the companies to bar those listed from boarding their flights.
Lufthansa [complaint] here @ link to lufthansa.com
Brussels Airways [complaint] here @ link to brusselsairlines.com
Easyjet [contact] @ link to easyjet.custhelp.com
I sent the following [feel free to copy and paste it].
Dear Sir or Madam,
In light of your cancellation of legitimate flights booked by individuals who are neither listed terrorists or convicted criminals on behalf of the Israeli government, the international community hereby asks you to halt all flights to and from the apartheid state Israel.
The international community has taken note of your actions and shall and will act accordingly.
Most cordially,
Daniel Rich
Thanks for the links, Daniel.
Brussels Airways correct link @ link to brusselsairlines.com
Gideon Levy from link to haaretz.com :
“The last time, about a year ago, it ended with 127 detainees who were immediately expelled, as they deserved, and the danger was nipped in the bud.”
Note the part of the quote in bold.
Are we supposed to be sorry for the contingent of provocative Israel bashers, who will now have to find something else to do with themselves on the weekend?
There is nothing constructive in this action – it is intended to intimidate and harass Israeli authorities as much as possible, cause mayhem (sic) and get the trigger happy left wing media to come barking.
The highlighted phrase as they deserved is employed ironically. One Haaretz commentator also fails to appreciate it so you are not alone. However, you cannot really expect Levy to write exclusively for kindergarten minds.
@ NickJOCW
Q: However, you cannot really expect Levy to write exclusively for kindergarten minds.
R: Thanks for a good laugh. I needed that.
If you actually read Levy’s piece, it is a hilarious deconstruction of Israeli paranoid bully mentality, and its consequences. Result: a state that is ridiculed and loathed in equal measure.
I have just read the Gideon Levy piece; YOU obviously haven’t! What an utter fool you are! EVERYONE knows Gideon Levy is 100% pro Palestinian, except you, it seems. Do you live in a cave!? I never thought I’d see the day when I’d find something to laugh about regards isra-hel: you’ve just proved me wrong!
“I never thought I’d see the day when I’d find something to laugh about regards isra-hel:”
Stick around, Miss Costello! When the Ziocaine flows like stolen Palestinian water into a settlement swimming pool around here the laughs come fast and furious.
Like I’ve said many times, the writings of the hasbaratchniks are a lot like the WTC towers; they don’t need to be deconstructed, they just sort of demolish themselves on their own.
I don’t see what the point of saying that the passengers had committed no infractions is. So what? Entering a country is a privilege, not a right. If they don’t want you, they have the right to keep you out, for any reason or for no reason at all.
not if they control who is allowed to visit the area they occupy it isn’t. not if they bomb palestines own airport and block all their borders.
They bomb the airport and control the borders to keep out weapons.
according to liars and thieves, we’ve all heard that excuse.
@ Fredblogs,
Your comprehension of ‘innocent until proven guilty’ is quite staggering.
L’égalité, Fraternité et Liberté, bonne nuit, mon petit bijou.
My conception of innocent until proven guilty is just fine. Yours needs work. Guilt applies to criminal trials, as opposed to liability which applies to civil trials and persona non grata, which is the absolute right of a country to apply to any non-citizen, regardless of reason.
You idiot, they are trying to enter Palestine. That is their right. They are not interested in a diddly squat country called Israel.
Fredblogs
“if they don´t want you, they have the right to keep you out….”
So, according to your opinion, the nazis all over Europe had the right to get read of the jews, because they were unwanted!!!???
No. What he means is that America had a right to keep all Jewish settlers (aka “refugees”) out of America in the 1930s for whatever reason it chose. If you don’t like it go make a movie about it and try to guilt-trip the Jews in Israel.
“…America had a right to keep all Jewish settlers (aka “refugees”) out of America in the 1930s for whatever reason it chose”
The reason was, mainly if not entirely, very intense lobbying by the Zionist organizations of America, headed by a certain Rabbi Wise.
@bigbill
The U.S. had that right, but should not have exercised it. AFAIK, none of the “flytilla” people are going to be murdered if they aren’t allowed into Israel, so your analogy, while not as poor as Theo’s, is still missing the point.
“none of the “flytilla” people are going to be murdered if they aren’t allowed into Israel”. That’s true: what is ALSO true is too many of the indigenous peoples, i.e. THOSE WHO THE LAND BELONGS TO – HAVE been murdered: (AND the rest) – which is why the ‘flytilla people’ are doing what they are doing. Make no mistake – they WILL go on doing it, till the whole rotten, stinking, inhuman cesspit of an illegal, immoral occupation ENDS.
“is still missing the point.”
ROTFL! Uh, sorry, no, Fred, bubele I think you are missing the point about Rabbi Wise.
@Theo
The Jews were citizens and were murdered, not kept from entering a country. Your analogy is a poor one.
“The Jews were citizens ”
No they were not. Legally, Jews under Nazi control were not citizens of the states which controlled their lives, by legal edict. In the same way that the Palestinians in the post-1967-occupied areas of Palestine are, by Israeli legal edict, not citizens of the state that controls their lives.
Christians have no right to visit the holy sites in Palestine, and can be refused entry for no reason at all?
>> Three European airlines have canceled the flights of passengers from the Airflotilla2, or flytilla, the campaign in which activists challenge Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories by flying into Tel Aviv and announcing to customs their intent to travel to the West Bank.
Makes sense. Every one of those passengers is an Israel-hating, Jew-hating, freedom-hating, Holocaust-denying, non-Jewish / self-loathing, map-wiping terrrrrrrist.
You know, if it weren’t sarcastic, you’d have something there. Every single one of them is an enemy of the existence of Israel as a homeland for the Jews.
“an enemy of the existence of Israel as a homeland for the Jews”
False. They just hate judeo-fascism.
as the canadian government is quick to remind citizens traveling abroad: “It is the sole prerogative of each country or region to determine who is allowed to enter.” that is true of every country. if you want, you can go ahead and test it with canada or the european nations. when gangs of hippy protesters stream in to riot for G8 meetings and the like people get rejected at the border too. or try your hand at any of the decrepit and dysfunctional nations of the muslim world. i’m sure they’ll be thrilled to host you guys.
a G8 meeting is not an occupation.
“It is the sole prerogative of each country or region to determine who is allowed to enter.”
then why doesn’t palestine have the prerogative to determine who is allowed to enter? are you going to claim it’s not even a region now?
because there is a war, an unresolved conflict going on. the middle east is up in flames, didn’t you notice? you can cross to gaza from egypt if the authorities there let you so you can start there for now. and lots of activists are in the west bank, which is pretty good for the current state of affairs, and after all the trauma and insanity.
why start with israel? after all this time of the international left myopically focusing on israel while the rest of the middle east goes crazy, the left has lost the credibility it once had in israel. why not go to another middle eastern country fraught with ethnic conflict and start there? say lebanon or iraq? you could go protest the islamic under pinnings of the egyptian legal system, or you could take your crusade of justice to iraq and use your wonderful ideals to turn it into a safe place for minorities.
the occupation is still there because after all of the insanity we witness in the arab / muslim world, and the suicide bombings and rockets from hamas and the religious craziness no one in israel believes leaving will bring peace. so if you want to change it, and sway things in israel back to the left you can start by creating a working model for respect for minority communities in other places that have seen ethnic conflict. you’ll have some authority behind you then, a working example with which to assuage israelis justified concerns. fact is nobody wants to be flooded with hostile enemies who did suicide bombings and incite against you all day, especially not when they can look with their eyes and see how screwed the rest of the middle east is.
the left has lost the credibility it once had in israel
everyone knows israel has become a pit of racist righwingers, so what else is new. i’m over trying to change israel. my focus is on world opinion and especially the opinion of fellow americans. israel cannot exist as an oppressive state without our support.
because there is a war
uh huh, how convinient. all israel has to do is claim a constant state of war and then it is excused from all norm/NOT. so thanks for decimating your own argument. obviously is is NOT the sole prerogative of each country or region to determine who is allowed to enter, not if israel is your occupier oppressor.
myopically focusing on israel myopically focusing on israel myopically focusing on israel myopically focusing on israel myopically focusing on israel myopically focusing on israel myopically focusing on israel.
divert troll alert.
@ smndoerksen,
Where do you live? I have the right to occupy your house, because it came to me in a dream. Given your above explanation, you’ll fully understand and move away, no?
smndoerksen,
Of course Israel can stop anyone from entering. That is self-evident since it happens all the time. It is not, however, the point. The point is what is happening now in this particular place and time and the impressions it evokes, profoundly negative impressions that tend to be filed with other negative impressions evoked in the past. If you don’t give a damn what others think perhaps it doesn’t matter to you but, whether it matters of not, you can’t stop others drawing conclusions from your actions which is exactly what they are doing here and elsewhere right now.
“the occupation is still there because after all of the insanity we witness in the arab / muslim world.”
Shure, if there wasn’t any insanity in the Arabs/Muslikms, Israel would immediately give up occupation and colonializing the West Bank. The sanity we all witness in the Zionist/Jewish world is prove enough.
“Israel” controls who or what enters/exits Gaza
“why start with israel?
.
If someone has cancer (i.e., other problems in the world)
and is choking on a chicken bone (i.e., Israel),
which needs to be addressed first?
>> the occupation is still there because after all of the insanity we witness in the arab / muslim world, and the suicide bombings and rockets from hamas and the religious craziness no one in israel believes leaving will bring peace.
Exactly. The rapist continues to rape because the crazy victim keeps slapping and punching him and trying to gouge his eyes out. The rapist does not believe that halting the rape will bring peace.
What a shallow and hateful person you are.
Have you ever met anyone who has been choking on a chicken bone for 64 years?
@smndoerksen :
Dont say war. War is a wrong terminology in this case.
Why not ?
And occupation somehow solves all the problems…..LOL
Ending that is usually in the world considered good reason to make peace with others. But thanks anyway to pointing out why in Israel this matter is upside down. And your rest message confirms this insanity.
Thanks to visiting, leave keys to table when you go. Bye.
Smndoersken: your Lamentations on why Israel receives all of this negative attention when other countries of the world community have far worse records is that the occupation has not been a short term aberration but one that has lasted more than 50 years which considerably weakens your moral equivalence argument.
To justify the Occupation because Israel is “at war” is an assertion based on the false premise that because it is at war, it can do whatever it must do to subdue their attackers. Hence, check points, walls, night time home raids …….are necessary. Not to understand that illegally occupying another’s land will naturally result in violence is not using intelligent reasoning.
talkback, suicide bombers destroyed the israeli left. the israeli left used to have the power to withdraw, but they had to provide an end to terrorism, which they couldn’t do, and neither can you people. they promised it and they got attacks instead. if you feel that you can, by all means hop on the next plane to iraq and start working with the militias there. once you’ve convinced them that planting car bombs in the street to kill members of another tribe you’ll have the experience you need to stabilize the situation between hamas and israel.
Apartheid South Africa was choking on a chicken bone for at least the 45 years since the National Party came to power (and, if you include the pre-apartheid segregationist measures that antedated the National Party’s government, for quite a bit longer than that).
you understand very well that israel is the only place in the region where you can indulge in this, and at the end of the day that’s why people like you are so unwelcome in israel. the tone of the activist left immediately shifts when the personal safety level is reduced like in most of the muslim countries. you can try protesting against the deeply held beliefs, convictions and communal challenges of people there, but it would be a stupid idea.
besides, you can’t catch the same feeling of a glorious crusade for justice when you’re fearing for your physical well being. what would be the point?
rhetorical argument fail. you understand very well that israel is an oppressive apartheid state. see how easy that is?
safe as in tom, rachel, emily, et al..
smndoerken,
Bad hasbara alert.
Maybe this fascist terror state supporting, hate spewing individual should be put on a No Fly list to any country other than a certain garrison state in the ME?
i’m not a facist, and i support an end to the occupation, but not at any cost and not without adressing israeli concerns as well. but not this circus of “million man marches to jerusalem”, or any of the other incidences in this self absorbed crusade. this isn’t a productive way of relating to conflict. israelis have legitimate concerns that come from looking around the region. you’ll never accept it, but there it is.
@ smndoerksen
Q: israelis have legitimate concerns that come from looking around the region.
R: I’m glad to hear you’ll provide a burglar with some B&B style hospitality. Good for you.
msndoerksen
i’m not a facist, and i support an end to the occupation, but not at any cost
If you support Israel you support fascism. Israel is an apartheid garrison state committed to the obliteration of the palestinians. Not yet fully fascist, but well on its way (to something actually worse – a theocratic/ethnic fascism is what’s in its future, given current directions). The occupation is on because Israel and it’s fascist regime supporters outside support it. Sure they would like it to end, with as many palestinians transfered as possible and the rest cowed into total submission.
What the Israelis really want is to find a way of ridding themselves from the natives, rather than continue to occupy them. They don’t use more drastic means only because they can’t get away with it. If you don’t know this then you don’t know israelis (and I mean the “people” of israel, not just the government they elected).
and not without adressing israeli concerns as well
Israel’s concern as in – how the heck do we get rid of 1.5 M people for the least cost?
Face it hasbara-man/woman: if you support the horror show they put on, then you know what you are.
Boycvott/Divest/Sanction Israel AND its supporters. All of them. because they all know, and they don’t care.
this circus of “million man marches to jerusalem”
That’s next year, BTW. This year may be we could start with a thousand men march on the Washington enclave of the apartheid state, cf. congress? how about Wall Street? how about the local synagod/hillel/havura?
Israelis have legitimate concerns that come from looking around the region.
Their one concern we know of, based on their actions, is that they want to somehow disappear the natives, who the true descendents of the Jewish people (unlike you, for example?). Maybe it’s jealousy, maybe just triumphalism of conquerors, who can’t stand the obvious fact that the ones who always lived in the land now known as Israel/palestine are its legitimate owners by right of continued residence.
IF you are going to imply I am trying to delegitimize Israel, I may have to admit you are right. Maybe the “legitimacy” of the country was that which marauders claim, as they always do, from the time of the Huns and through the conquistadors. It just was never so obvious just how deeply illegitimate the entire enterprise of zionism was. Or maybe they had a chance to legitimize the conquest and chose not to do so.
Ahi you are wasting your breath here
they aren’t interested in listening
only in reaffirming their own preconceptions and beliefs.
“i’m not a facist”
Gosh, you sure coulda fooled me! Good job!
This is a reminder that to this day the West Wall of Israel’s Gaza Concentration Camp is guarded by Egypt. Israel could never carryout the occupation and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians without such obvious support by Europe as well as the US.
Alison Bodine, for example, was recently barred from canada for being a hippy protester. check out her website and you’ll see what i mean. no problem, it’s not so shocking as you guys are making it out to be.
A bit more
link to londonbds.org
Has anybody thought of the practical thing of demanding a ticket to Amman instead? Passengers can then reach the Allenby bridge, an hour’s bud ride away, and be refused entry to the West Bank [NOT ISRAEL] by the Israeli occupation authorities in front of the world’s cameras. It also make a much clearer point that the travellers want to reach the Occupied Palestinian Territories and not Israel. They are not even interested in transit through Israel.
The problem with Allenby bridge is that there are no world’s camera’s there.
They aren’t interested in reaching the PA it’s just an excuse.
They are interested in making a provocation at the airport in front of the press.
That’s all there is to it.
“AIPAC rules the world”
“Jews control the airlines”
“Netanyahu runs the global economy”
All unprovable.
All non-refutable either…
I especially remember Netanyahu manging to get the Greek government to stop the second flotilla from even leaving Greek harbors a year ago.
It was amidst riots against the Greek govt’ accepting the “bailout” proposed by the EU.
Israeli papers recently told of Israel buying 3% of the land in Greece as well as some national services.
Jewish Empire, here we come.
Ya. Jews controlling the world has always been a real problem. 2,000 years of getting kicked out of everywhere and killed was just a smokescreen for the real plan.
Were you being sarcastic or are you really such an idiotic antisemite. And no, being Jewish does not make you less of either – an idiot or an antisemite.
“2,000 years of getting kicked out of everywhere and killed was just a smokescreen for the real plan”
Or maybe just an indication that we weren’t really doing very well at it, at the time. But Jews (well, not necessarily me) are quick learners. You don’t get all those Nobel prizes just for being quiet on Sunday mornings! (Get it, Judith? No bells on Sunday mornings?) If it were me (and gee, I guess it sorta’ is!) I would definitely try and get my own country to start with, and once I arranged matters there to my liking, only then do we get to the uber alles part.
So don’t worry, Judith. The rewards of the Greater Middle East Co-prosperity Sphere will be equally shared among all of us.
BTW, Judith, does “Too” sound like a Jewish name to you?
“Greater Middle East Co-prosperity Sphere”
For semi-obscure historical reference, Mooser wins one internet.
What is an “anti Semite?” I mean really. You know what is a Semite ? And the story of 2000 years of being kicked out from every where also just does not meet the facts . Learn real history. Jews have no monopoly being the persecuted or even (yet) as persecutors.
Did you know that some of the first senators in the us were Jews, the first land owners in the South — at a time whe not even Catholics were allowed to hold property or public office. When an entire people, not of a white race were in slavery.
Doesn’t fit the narrative of exceptional persecution, right?
“Jewish Empire, here we come.”
The Jewish Empire is the only thing which can defeat the Four Angels on Horseback of the Apocalypse.
All this is positive ONLY in the sense that Israel (which either has NO requirement of a VISA or else issues them without much inspection of the applicant) might instead have [a] issued a visa to all these folks, [b] asked them upon arrival their proposed business, [c] turned them back on hearing, WITH THE RESULT of much money and time wasted. (Of course, the protesters may have desired to waste money and time. In such a case, this result is NOT positive.)
The Allenby bridge alternative seems desirable. And, if chosen, be sure to GET SOME CAMERAS THERE,
Link to Trip Advisor below; I know these people personally. They are 100% good, decent, brave, solid as a rock individuals, a credit to the human race. Unlike the scum preventing them from the right to travel freely from their own land. On the other hand, we all know how deadly dangerous a 73 years old lady with cancer can be, don’t we?
link to tripadvisor.co.uk
Please save us from this sob story. What is the relevance of a potential provocateur having cancer?
Israel is perfectly entitled to keep out a motley bunch of shit stirrers (known pro-Palestinian activists) who are ‘dying’ to embarrass it.
Many people may not like, many may not agree with it, but ultimately Israel is perfectly entitled to take whatever steps it deems necessary to prevent any trouble.
mayhem,
Israel is indeed entitled to be anything it wants to be, except perhaps a threat to the entire civilized world.
It is high time to expand BDS to any and every israel related product, establishment and organization. It is time to boycott all Israeli institutions including their universities and “cultural” bastions like their habima. And it is time to personally let the citizens of that place – and their fascism promoters everywhere else know how the rest of us feel.
Why should we continue to let any person get away with supporting the evil occupation? because some ancestors of theirs suffered in a past long gone? there’s no human being currently on earth who does not have ancestors that gravely suffered in the past. That’s human history – it’s full of suffering. The task now is to help stop the suffering now, and make clear what we think of those who support ethnic cleansing and oppression. Yes, it happened to the indians. All the more reason to stop it from happening to Palestinians. A very good place to start if humanity is to lay any claims of civilization.
It is time to stop letting people off the hook and let get away with spewing garbage like tribalist mayhem here.
Boycott Israel!!
Divest from all Israeli symbols!
Sanction Israel supporters (or just turn back on them)!
>> Please save us from this sob story.
Yes, please do save us from the sob story of an oppressive, colonialist, expansionist, religion-supremacist state whinig because it’s being made to look bad by people who expose it as the oppressive, colonialist, expansionist, religion-supremacist state it is.
Poor little Jewish state. All it wants to do is to be left alone so that it can continue being immoral and unjust. But those mean ol’ activists just won’t stay away! :-(
Why has Israel got any ‘right’ to prevent people coming and going to Palestine, including Palestinians themselves?
Israel has that right because the Palestinians are at war with Israel and let’s just say the war isn’t going well for the Palestinians.
“Israel has that right because the Palestinians are at war with Israel”
You might also mention Fredblogs, how damned ungrateful those Palestinians are! I mean, the Israelis came from all over Europe and the rest of the world to Palestine just to make it easier for the Palestinians to make war on them. But are the Palestinians appreciative of this generous action on the part of the Israelis? Nooooo!!
And after all the Israelis did to make the Palestinian supply-lines shorter and their logistics easier! Why, if the Zionists hadn’t established Israel, the Palestinians war on them would never even have gotten off the ground.
I’d say the war isn’t going well for the Israelis.
“What is the relevance of a potential provocateur having cancer”?
A 73 YEARS OLD LADY, IF YOU PLEASE. NOT A ‘PROVOCATEUR’.
What a revolting specimen of a ‘human being’ YOU are. Quite frankly, if you’re so dense to ask the above question, you’re hardly likely to understand the answer, are you? So I won’t bother.
37 or 73, cancer or perfect health; if you choose to help an enemy of a country, that country isn’t going to be happy to see you.
israhel’s own worst enemy is itself. Fact.
“motley bunch of shit stirrers (known pro-Palestinian activists) who are ‘dying’ to embarrass it”.
And here’s one of them. Don’t be fooled by that quietly dignified English gent speaking of that which he believes in passionately – and has campaigned tirelessly, for many years. I know him personally, right dodgepot!
link to youtube.com
“motley bunch of shit stirrers (known pro-Palestinian activists)”
Here’s another! You’ve got to hand it to them. They’re good. Who would have thought this sweet lady is actually a known ‘shit stirrer’ and major security risk to isra-hel? Fooled me!
link to youtube.com
Miss Costello – I wonder if you ever saw the great footage of British Pippa Bartolotti during the last flotilla in 2011. You can see she’s another very threatening lady in this first interview with RT:
link to youtube.com
So i said that tongue in cheek but in fact she is a bit bolshy as you can see in this footage of her captured by an Israeli TV network:
link to youtube.com
Hello! just spotted your message now. Thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to send me the link. I ‘ll watch it tomorrow, when I’m a bit more awake. Been a long day! Best regards.
“potential provocateur”
Wow, when you put it like that, I can see just how scary that lady really is to Israel.
Does anybody know where we can see a copy of the list? If it’s gone out to all airlines that fly into Ben Gurion it should be available somewhere. Would love to see it (since I’m probably on it)
My guess would be that anyone who has previously been deported from Israel is on the list. Up until this article, I wondered how Israel knew who was in this “flytilla”. Now it is clear that they are keeping out habitual troublemakers, probably not any first time troublemakers.
By your definition I guess a troublemaker is anyone who supports human rights? Everyone who marched with Dr King? Everyone who participated in the boycott against apartheid in South Africa? Every woman who chained herself to an iron gate in London so that women would be allowed to vote? The man in Tiananmen Square who stood before the tank? If that’s who are are, I am proud to be a troublemaker. Israel is embarrassing itself every time it uses storm troopers to brutalize unarmed civilians who have never committed any crime anywhere but want just to visit friends in Bethlehem. Or when it attacks and murders unarmed passengers on boats to Gaza, far out in international waters. Israel is Israel’s worst enemy.
Fredblogs is a fascist.
What you just wrote does not compute with him.
The protesters are troublemakers to him. That’s something fascists say.
What a cartoony thing to say. LOL
“Fredblogs is a fascist.”
Yeah, and I’m Bullwinkle! What Fredblogs is much more common, and commonplace then a genuine facist (well, outside of Israel, anyway). He is a sad little guy who, for some reason which I would get terminally depressed if I thought about too much, thinks it’s wonderful to put on the pretense of being a facist.
And you do nothing but reward him by validating his pretense.
Hey Freddy? Yeah, you in the saggy blue and white boxing trunks two-sizes-too-big, facist this!
I’ll give the Zionist wannabe facists one thing: I have never seen anybody who could so easily break my life-long committment to not insulting people’s mother’s. Assuming, of course, they had one, and weren’t raised on a Kibbutz.
Freddyblogs:
The enemy of israel is obviously non-Jewish Humans with Rights. Must be since pro-human rights is what the “habitual trouble makers” are, in Israelis’ eyes.
But then again, Palestinians are not really human in Israel’s and Freddy’s eyes, hence the point of “rights” is moot. To Israel and fascist supporters’, the “war” is really a cross-species war, is that it?
“Now it is clear that they are keeping out habitual troublemakers, probably not any first time troublemakers.”
ROTFLMSJAO!!!! Hey Freddybabes, would you go as far as “incorrigible troublemakers”. Now think carefully before replying! I mean you wouldn’t want anybody to think you were intemperate or unfair or anything.
You could clear up one thing for me, pal. Oh c’mon Freddy, one small favor for a fellow Jew-person. Now tell me, is a “habitual troublemaker” better or worse than an “outside agitator”?
Related news.
link to haaretz.com
Update as of 17.30 15th April: Manchester Airport UK.
link to youtube.com
Having just watched above video, I can see why israhel’s worried. Right bunch of dodgepot’s, especially the lady with the silver hair!
Is 78 too old to be a shit-stirrer? I hope not because there’s an awful lot of zionist shit out there that needs to be stirred.
link to haaretz.com