Still under detention in Israel after a failed attempt to visit, University of Florida student and US citizen Lara Alqasem’s tentative links to the BDS movement have made her a major target for Israel’s far-right government.
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan suggested that Alqasem could be released, and that he might even “consider” allowing her to visit Israel, if by Wednesday morning she publicly renouncing BDS in general as illegitimate and apologizes for “what she did.”
Enrolled as a master’s student at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, what Alqasem did was be the president of a sparsely attended chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, and one, according to Facebook, attend a rally of as many as 19 people calling to boycott an Israeli brand of hummus.
This was enough to detain her under the increasingly severe anti-BDS laws within Israel. Whether Erdan can even choose to let her in is unclear, as Strategic Affairs Minister is a position created in 2006 chiefly to allow Avigdor Lieberman to have a ministry solely focused on planning for a war against Iran.
Whatever Israel decides they can or can’t do to the 22-year-old is fine with the US, however, as the State Department got in front of the story on Tuesday, announcing that they are “aware” of the case, and that the decision is “up to Israel.“
Miss Alqasem will get no support from US Ambassador in Israel, and no support from Washington.
Any uncertainty the student may have had regarding BDS has been resolved by this point.
The law should be applied and she should be deported because every country has the right to have its own set of laws. Go ahead and put another brick in the wall of the apartheid state of Israel. The apartheid state of South Africa and the Nazi state of Germany had their laws too.
Before anyone accuses me of comparing Israel with Nazi Germany, understand that the examples are not to suggest equivalency. I am just trying to make the point that laws by themselves do not imply morality or even justice.
They are like Nazi Germany, just more subtle.
More subtle?
They’re not hauling the Palestinians off to gas chambers.
Just shooting babies and starving them and denying them medical attention, and trapping them in Gaza which they periodically bomb and drop WP on. Real subtle.
I wasn’t condoning their tactics but I still think it’s subtle in comparison. Especially when the blame for their brutality is blamed on Hamas and called “self defense”.
I repeat. You think the word subtle can be applied in any context to shooting babies, Medics, and Journalists;starving and denying medical attention to the people trapped in Gaza who are also bombed periodically? And that is very much a partial list.
What exactly is your problem? Are you that hung up on the word subtle or do just feel the need to start a senseless argument? I was waiting for the hasbara to jump all over me for saying Israel is indeed like Nazi Germany but instead I get $hit from someone who thinks just like me when it comes to Israel’s barbarism.
https://www.google.co.kr/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-hospitals-treat-gaza-residents-children/amp/
Not sure why you think atrocities committed by other people absolves Israel?
you said Israel = the Nazis
What the Nazis did was historically evil. If Israel is the Na zis then what does that make Khomeni or Saddam. They can’t all be N azis
I know why you do it. To make light of the mass killing of
je ws in WW2 since according to you it was not particularly horrible cause it is done all the time and also you do it to imply since Je ws do what the N azis did what was done to the J ew s in WW2 wasn’t so horrible.
This make you a disinformation artist and a bigot
No I didn’t. You need to try to be a bit more honest. Another poster said Israel was like the Nazis — only more subtle. I challenged his use of the word subtle arguing that shooting babies and starving people and denying them medical attention, and trapping them in Gaza which they periodically bomb and drop WP on is not generally categorized as subtle.
They are like the naz is
Then whst of Saddam and Khomeni?
Diinformation artist bigot
Yes, what of Saddam and Khomeini?
Are you suggesting that only one side of any given conflict can be like Nazis?
The Nazi killed 37 m and wanted jews who ran to Japan sent back
Saddam was more like the Nazis
But the Nazis were a special evil
Israel isnt
Saddam before israel
Now you are really losing it. Your language has become very confused and is now at the point it is impossible to determine what you are trying to say. Maybe you should just return to your mantra “show the tape”?
You said israel is like the Nazis
Then what of Saddam or Khomeni?
Show the comment were I said this. Seeing as how I never did as I just explained to you it may be a bit difficult
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Support pours in for UF graduate detained in Israel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-ne-alqasem-update-20181009-story.html
“Alqasem, a West Broward High School graduate, had obtained a student visa from the consulate in Miami and was set to get a master’s degree in human rights from Hebrew University in Jerusalem.”
Oh, the irony!!!
Imagine Iran doing something similar and then imagine our reaction. Exactly the same, right?
This is like hitler asking a jew to embrace nazism…
Whatever Israel decides they can or can’t do to the 22-year-old is fine with the US, however, as the State Department got in front of the story on Tuesday, announcing that they are “aware” of the case, and that the decision is “up to Israel.“
Just another example, the US is in the Israeli tank.
israelis are EXACTLY like the nazi’s.. their final solution for Palestinians is nothing but war crimes and crimes against humanity, without the ovens, YET!
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