France bars Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan from entering country
French authorities said the ban targeted his role in settlement policy, while Israel called the move politically motivated and demanded an explanation.
- 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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Jean-Luc Mélenchon, presidential candidate of the left in France, is no longer allowed to enter Israel. The reason is the "extreme anti-Israeli attitude of him and his party La France Insoumise (LFI), Israel's Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Thursday evening. The entry ban applies also to the group chairman Mathilde Panot.
Israel has banned the entry of Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the leader of the French Indomitable France party, and Mathilde Pannot, the chairwoman of the party’s parliamentary group. The decision was made by Foreign and Interior Minister Gideon Saar, who accused the two politicians of pursuing an extremely hostile policy towards Israel and incitement against its citizens. “Israel will respond firmly to those who seek to harm it and will not allow into th…
Israel announced on Thursday 12 November that it prohibited the entry into its territory of the leader of La France insoumise (LFI), a radical left-wing French party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, imputing to its formation a "position extremely hostile to Israel". The deputy and president of the parliamentary group of LFI Mathilde Panot is also subject to this ban.
Israel announced Thursday that it prohibits access to its territory to French politician Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the radical left-wing party of France Nesubusa (La France Insoumise, LFI) transmits AFP, taken over...
Because of »Ritual murder legends against Israel«, Foreign Minister Gideon Saear has forbidden French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon to enter the country. He reacts defiantly.
Israel announced on Thursday that it prohibits access to its territory to the French politician Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of the radical left-wing party of France Nesupusa (La France Insoumise, LFI), transmits AFP, quoted by Agerpres. Melenchon, who is again running for the presidency of France, runs a group that has an "extremely hostile position towards Israel," the ministry announced.
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