U.S. denies entrance to BDS owner Omar Barghouti

April 12, 2019

The U.S. supervision denied entrance to co-founder of the b oycott, divestment and sanctions movement Omar Barghouti on Thursday.

Airline staff during Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport sensitive Barghouti that he could not fly to a United States, notwithstanding holding current transport documents. He was told that U.S. immigration officials systematic a American consul in Tel Aviv to repudiate him accede to house a flight.

Barghouti was told that it is an “immigration matter,” according to a matter by a Arab American Institute, a Washington-based advocacy group. They combined that Barghouti mostly faces transport restrictions from Israel, though not from a United States.

Barghouti was set to attend his daughter’s wedding, who lives in a United States. He was also set to pronounce during Harvard, New York University and a Philidelphia bookstore owned by Marc Lemont Hill, whose contract during CNN was terminated final year over his support for Palestinian rights.

Barghouti is a permanent proprietor of Israel. He was innate in Qater and his mother is an Arab citizen of Israel. Barghouti binds a master’s grade from Columbia University, a truth grade from Tel Aviv university and had lived in a United States for a decade in 1980s. In 2017, Israel arrested Barghouti on guess of taxation evasion.

In February, a U.S. Senate voted to upheld anti-BDS legislation encouraging states to not pointer contracts with supporters of protest of Israel.

The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem pronounced that it does not criticism on particular visa cases.