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ADC Press Release:
Israel Refuses to Allow Arab Americans to Come Home
Washington, D.C., June 5 - On June 4 over 40 American citizens of
Palestinian origin were denied the right to leave Israel and return home
to the United States. The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
(ADC) has learned that Israeli security officials are cancelling all
exit visas of U.S. citizens of Palestinian origin, and are thus keeping
them in Israel against their will.
ADC President Hala Maksoud called on the State Department and the rest
of the Administration to intervene immediately with Israel to stop this
abuse and insist that all Americans are treated equally by Israel
regardless of their ethnicity. She said that �this blatant abuse of
Arab Americans, holding them in Israel against their will and in spite
of advice from our government that Americans avoid being in that
country, cannot be tolerated. To allow Israel to extend its systematic
discrimination against Arabs and modes of collective punishment to Arab
Americans, especially given the massive aid which the American tax
payers provide that country is an intolerable outrage.�
These scores of Arab Americans were turned back upon their arrival to
Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv as they were attempting to
leave Israel and return home to the United States in accordance with a
recent U.S. Travel Advisory. The Advisory states that, �The Department
of State warns U.S. citizens to defer travel to Israel, the West Bank
and Gaza. The U.S. Government has indications that there is a
heightened threat of terrorist incidents in Israel, the West Bank and
Gaza. In light of several recent terrorist bombings in Israel and
continuing violence in Gaza and the West Bank, American citizens should
exercise extreme caution.�
The Israeli practice of discriminating against Arab Americans because of
their ethnicity is contrary to international law. It also violates
Israeli law, specifically Article 6(a) of the Basic Law: Human Dignity and
Liberty, which states, "every person is free to get out of Israel."
For several months ADC has been raising concerns with Secretary of State
Colin Powell and the State Department about Israel's racist treatment of
American citizens of Arab origin. Numerous cases have come to light
since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising of Arab Americans being
denied use of their U.S. passports and forced to obtain Palestinian
travel documents in order to leave Israel and the Palestinian
territories it occupies. However, the extremely large number of reports
ADC received regarding this abuse of Arab Americans by Israel on June 4
suggests that such discrimination is becoming systematic and pervasive.
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