France bars Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan from entering country
French immigration authorities questioned him at passport control and cited his settlement work as the reason for the ban, his office said.
- Samaria Regional Council Head Yossi Dagan was denied entry into France last week when immigration authorities stopped him at a Paris airport and prevented him from crossing the border.
- According to Dagan's office, a French official presented documents citing his role in establishing 35 Jewish communities in the West Bank and his efforts to promote an Israeli return to Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip.
- "I am proud to be Jewish and a Zionist," Dagan said in response, while continuing to campaign for Israeli settlement support among European officials.
- Following the refusal, Dagan traveled to Prague for a three-day visit, meeting representatives of the Czech government and both houses of Parliament.
- "We stand with you," Czech Senate Vice President JiY Oberfalzer said. Dagan responded that "we will fight together" to form a united front with his Czech counterparts.
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France Condemns Israel’s Ban On Leftist Presidential Candidate Amid Gaza Dispute (Worthy News Focus)
France has condemned Israel’s decision to ban French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon and another senior left-wing politician from entering the Jewish state, escalating diplomatic tensions over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, also known as Judea and Samaria.
France has criticized Israel's decision to ban the entry into the country of the leader of the opposition party "Unyielding France" (La France Insoumise), Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and the head of the parliamentary group of this political force, Mathilde Panot. Paris's reaction came on Thursday evening, through French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, who described the decision of the Israeli authorities as "demagogic", writes Al Jazeera. Israel anno…
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs accuses the candidate for the Elysée and another exponent of France Insoumise Mathilde Panot of having spread the anti-Semitic slanders. The reaction: "I am forbidden to enter a territory in which I had not asked to enter"
Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Mathilde Panot will no longer be able to lay their foot on Israeli territory. The Hebrew state decided on Thursday 12 November to "prohibit entry into Israel" both of the two... The article "Virulent anti-Israeli positions": the Hebrew state banned its territory to Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Mathilde Panot appeared first on Current Values.
France rebukes Israel for banning opposition leaders Mélenchon, Panot
France has condemned Israel's entry ban on Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the far-left La France Insoumise, LFI, and Mathilde Panot, chair of the party’s parliamentary group in the French National Assembly Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot called the action by Benjamin Netanyahu's caretaker government a "demagogic decision," a remarkable defense of Mélenchon and Panot, staunch critics […] France rebukes Israel for banning opposition leaders Mélen…
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