Banned by Israel From Traveling, Threatened With Worse

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  • Interview With BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti: Banned by Israel From Traveling, Threatened With Worse - Glenn Greenwald
    https://theintercept.com/2016/05/13/interview-with-bds-advocate-omar-barghouti-banned-by-israel-from-trave

    So it’s resorting to this new McCarthyism. In France it’s the worst, with government actually saying that calling for a boycott of Israeli products is now illegal in France. You can call for a boycott of French products in Paris and that’s okay, but not of Israeli products. Imagine the enormous hypocrisy.

    GREENWALD: And people have been arrested wearing pro-BDS t-shirts in Paris.

    BARGHOUTI: Exactly. The measure of repression in France is unprecedented. We have not seen anything like that. Paris has really become the capital of anti-Palestinian repression of late. Imagine – the city of freedoms, supposedly, has become the city of darkness for Palestinians.