Israeli Arabs 'racially profiled'

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Israeli Arabs 'racially profiled'
By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth


The report says interrogations of Israeli Arabs are designed to gather intelligence information


A new report alleges that Israeli security officials are being given a free hand by airports around the world to use racial profiling against Arab passengers, in violation of international law and the host countries' domestic legislation.


Israeli media have for several years reported on suspicions that non-Jews, including Israel's more than one million Arab citizens, are being routinely subjected to lengthy interrogations, bag checks and invasive body searches at Israeli airports and land crossings.


The report, Suspected Citizens, collects for the first time personal testimony from Arab citizens to support claims of discriminatory and humiliating treatment by Israeli staff at Israeli airports.

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Fairuz Nasrallah, a nurse, says she was recently stopped by Israeli officials at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris and subjected to lengthy interrogation and a strip search after her name was revealed - she shares a common last name with the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah.


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Ibtisam Maranah, a film director who represented Israel at an international film festival in the Netherlands in 2005 along with several Jewish colleagues, reports that Israeli staff took her off alone to an underground section of the Dutch airport, away from the rest of her group and local airport staff, where she was made to undress.



http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/38D31621-3F07-4627-B76A-004BB5FB660B.htm

[UndertheOcean]

1. So whats new ?

Israel has some racist policies , old news.

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2. Well, it's in the news!

Gimme a break. I just posted for those not totally convinced yet. :hi:

[UndertheOcean]

3. ok

fair enough