'Fly In' Activists on Mass Deportation from Israel

Over the weekend hundreds of activists who participated in the "Flytilla" to
Israel were interrogated, refused entry, jailed, and are being deported in
stages.


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While the remaining boats in the Free Gaza Movement's flotilla are still
trying to leave the Greek ports, activists from around the world organized
a mass fly-in known as the Flytilla. The activists were invited by
Palestinian groups in a campaign called "Welcome to Palestine" and
intended to protest Israel's practice of frequently denying the entry of
activists and Diaspora Palestinians into the occupied Territories. The
Real News' Lia Tarachansky spoke with Laura Durkay, an American
activist, while she was being held in the Ben Gurion airport and with
Nadine Nasir, a Canadian of Palestinian origin who has been denied
entry into Israel multiple times about the experience of Palestinians trying
to enter Israel or the occupied Palestinian territories. Most of the hundreds
of activists who participated in the Fly-in never left their countries. 124
spent the weekend in an Israeli jail and are being deported in stages.
After extensive interrogation, four were allowed entry.

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[surfboardhacker]

You know what Israel Fears More Than Activists?

The Truth!

[surfboardhacker]

@Battlefield4Truth

Israel is a failed state. The world knows it, and so do you. Cry, post on youtube, nothing matters. Israel is the mad dog of the middle east that is about to be euthanized.

[Tafur444]

4:28 Ben Gurion Say. Bastard!!!

LOL

[Tafur444]

ok............Israel gift you the Palestines! Take to they in Canada 

[uatch]

good israel

[arishmarycanada]

this news is disgusting and we must take action all of us must speak up at every turn in public at every store, we must change the fuckin face of those fuckin dictators, erase their life from the face of the earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE HELP OUT ALL YOU CAN SPRREAD THE WORD AND SHARE THE EXPERIANCE - FIGHT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND FIGHT FOR THE ASYLUM SEEKERS EVERYWHERE... thank you for posting these videos I'll make sure people come here and spread the word. Without people like you we are nothing.

[freefreeisrael]

I wonder, why not sail to Syria??? For Assad?

Where Goldstone Syria

Israel with all the mudslinging is the only democratic and humane in the Middle East

[doritela2008]

and what the hell about not letting het in because she is jewish? Tourists enter all the time into israel whether Jewish or not.... Same lie with that question she was asked.... She was denied entry because Israel dont let decendents of Palestinians who once lived here to enter

[doritela2008]

every nation has a right to deny entry of anyone into its territory

[n8glenn]

@TheHabati This isn't about hamas, hamas is a very recent phenomenon, and very understandable given the situation palestinians are in in gaza. You need to understand the history correctly to know exactly what's going on, and you have to understand the fact that you can't have equality when you're building an ethnic state and colonizing people. We didn't have equality with native americans, and when they fought us, it was entirely understandable and justified.

[n8glenn]

@TheHabati No need to apologize, but thanks for the sentiment, and I respect your opinion too.  I don't want to ethnically cleanse you btw.