Earlier this week, I was denied entry into Israel while on a humanitarian parliamentary delegation organised by the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding (CAABU). The NGO is one of the most active and respected bodies working on the Middle East in the British parliament. It promotes conflict resolution, human rights and civil society. (Peter Prinsley writes in the Guardian today).
He was denied entry, alongside his parliamentary colleague Simon Opher, and goes on to explain that The official Israeli document denying my entry cited “public security or public safety or public order considerations”, without providing any explanation as to how I, a 67-year-old former ear, nose and throat surgeon from Suffolk, might pose any threat at all.
Israel once represented hope for a generation of Jews. It pains me greatly to say that the friendships that we in the Jewish community once thought eternal are now being undermined by the present Israeli government.
He was denied entry, alongside his parliamentary colleague Simon Opher, and goes on to explain that The official Israeli document denying my entry cited “public security or public safety or public order considerations”, without providing any explanation as to how I, a 67-year-old former ear, nose and throat surgeon from Suffolk, might pose any threat at all.
Israel once represented hope for a generation of Jews. It pains me greatly to say that the friendships that we in the Jewish community once thought eternal are now being undermined by the present Israeli government.
