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Let Finkelstein enter Israel
Oded Feller
Published: 03.06.08, 00:26
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31. Finkelstein
bar ,   Israel   (06.03.08)
But there is a difference , the Chinese opponents don't visit people whom only aim is to destroy China . Finkelstein did .
32. Oded you are "O! ded" wrong
Andras Bereny ,   Kfar Tapuah, Ephraim   (06.03.08)
Anti-Semitism is not a view: it's a crime. Let first Israel enter Finkelstein and only then let Finkelstein enter Israel. By the way Oded, why is it that you "civil rights" people never fight for the civil right of Jews not to be bombed on buses, caffes, in their homes or on the street? Why don't you wright articles with titles like: Let Shalit enter Israel! or Let the Red Cross or Red Diamond or Red whatever visit Shalit! Hmmm? Aren't missing Israeli soldiers humans with rights? No, for you not I guess. Ynet, you have to assume responsability on this and apologize to the Jewish people.
33. He speaks freely enough from the US
Shai   (06.03.08)
Anybody who wants to hear what he's got to say has no problem finding out - you can buy his books, look at his internet site, etc. The issue is our freedom to know, not his freedom to speak. - and as a sovereign nation we are free to keep him out.
34. WHY CIVIL RIGHT MORONS DEFEND ALWAYS TERRORISTS ?
(06.03.08)
35. KICK OUT FROM ISRAEL ODED FELLER
(06.03.08)
36. Feller - the burger bar awaits you.
Talula ,   Israel   (06.03.08)
Yeah! let's allow them all into Israel, on the context of not breaking human rights violations. Finkelstein, the self hating venomous Jew, has his eye on becoming the next savior of the Palestinians. Thing is, they don't need another one, each Palestinian is vying for a place in the hall of Shahids. You don't need to carry two tons of explosive to be dangerous in the Middle East. Finkelstein Senior must be so proud. Where does it stop? Should we allow him in to spew his venom? Hey! let's welcome Osama Bin Ladin as well, we wouldn't want to undermine his freedom of movement either would we? Oded Feller won't be getting any notoriety for this garbage. What an Idiot. He should either try and write articles that cause less offense, or if he can’t do that, may be should be working in a burger bar flipping burgers.
37. a professional slanderer is not necessarily a terrorist
Jorge Costa ,   Lisboa, Portugal   (06.03.08)
Security services should know how to tell the difference.
38. He was expelled for security reasons
Meir Weinstein ,   Toronto, Canada   (06.03.08)
As a Jew, I am outraged that another Jew would support the Hamas and Hezbollah's desire to murder Jews. Finkelstein stated 'Israel must suffer a loss'. Many Countries also expell people that pose security threats. This action by the security force in Israel was a proud action.
39. Oded, you are missing the point
Jay3 ,   Israel   (06.03.08)
What is Finklesteins reasons for coming here? Why would someone that hates this country so much want to come here in the first place? He only came to undermine us. Thats his job. He didnt come here to visit Sderot, he only came to cause trouble. Why let someone like that in when you know his intentions? Also, by him visiting enemy states, surely it would be a security risk to let him in Israel. He could easily be spying for them. Personally, i would of liked him to be allowed in so i could find him and give him what he deserves!
40. PC is killing Europe and democracy is dying ..
redmiike ,   TA - LA - London   (06.03.08)
Writers like Oded Feller seem totally oblivious to the fact that political correctness is destroying Europe and that other countries are stuggling to bridge the gap between democracy and death. Many countries in Europe will be under Sharia law within twenty years if they keep their democracies. It's OK to say "no" to people and things! Australia has grapsed the nettle and Canada is waking up but not Oded Feller or members of his ilk. Mike
41. Oded Feller is Vanunu's lawyer ...
redmiike ,   TA - LA - London   (06.03.08)
42.  Norman Finkelstein Traitor to Israel and the Jewish People
Spencer ,   Israel   (06.03.08)
Top marks to the Immigration authorities at Ben Gurion! Of course this piece of drek should be prohibited from entering Israel. His only motive for wanting to enter Israel is to further besmirch Israel's name.
43. It is NOT a right but a Priviledge to Enter our Country.
steve ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (06.03.08)
Mr. Oded Feller, Finkestein is not Israeli and therefore we do not have to allow him to enter. If he was an Israeli and then visited enemy countries so be it. At least he chose to live here and fight for his views to be heard. Fair enough. Freedom of Civil Rights does not mean any non-citizen has a right enter Israel and be heard. This is simply nonsense and it does NOT take any civil liberties away from any citizen living here.
44. LET THE TRAITOR IN AND JAIL HIM FOR LIFE.
Ben Avraham ,   Tel Aviv   (06.03.08)
45. Still Not a Free Speech Issue
(06.03.08)
When the US refused to issue a visa to an India politician, accused of sitting idly by while Muslim were being killed in the Gujarat riots, not one American lawyer or citizens saw this as anti-free speech. We don't have civil liberty attorneys to point out that he wasn't bringing bombs into the country. Everyone understood that had the US issued this man a visa, it would have insulted millions of Americans so he was told he would not be welcome here. Correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Felder but did Britain complain when Louis Farrakhan was not admitted into their country? Did the public worry that this could be a loss of their freedoms? No. Their government simply didn't welcome a race-baiting bigot into their country - even though he wasn't carrying bombs either. Israeli society is at no loss for not allowinging this loser to enter their country. Finklestein cannot get any of his former professors to back him and he can't hold a job because no university offers a course in Jew-baiting. He's a fine example of one who got his degrees simply because he paid the tuition.
46. His mouth is mind are more lethal than explosives
David ,   USA ISRAEL   (06.03.08)
If this is your philosophy Mr Feller I wish they expel you as well. You can always join your hypocrite budies in the UK
47. No Democracy in Israel
Rich ,   Toronto, Canada   (06.03.08)
Whatever happen to free speech? Are all Jews suppose to be like robots with only one opinion - that of the "Mafia" leadership? If they had all of the answers, there would be peace in Israel, and the Messiah would be there.
48. Israel vs. other democracies
Meir ,   Toronto   (06.03.08)
Democracies, including my own Canada, have and continue to block entrance to the country to people who it feels incite or spew intolerance etc. No democracy faces an existential threat as Israel does. It is not necessary for Israel to allow him in on the basis of freedom of speech when other democracies have no problem in saying no under similiar circumstances.
49. Finkelstein,
Meir ,   Arad   (06.03.08)
a Jew who is the son of Holocaust survivors. What holocaust are you talking about, the one that Finkelstein denies that ever was?
50. there is not freedom of speech
Ivan ,   Haifa   (06.03.08)
Universities should be the first place where the right to freedom of expression is respected, therefore universities are the first places repressed by israel{s "security" intelligence. A state can't be jewish and democratic, just as a state can't be islamic and democratic...
51. Fact twisters
Igor ,   Germany   (06.03.08)
Amazing, how self-styled "liberty advocates" twist facts and logic to promote their real goals. 1. Finkelstein has not been denied the right to say anything he pleases (and he excercises this right excessively). He has been denied entry to a foreign country. This is NOT a freedom of SPEECH issue! 2. It is a soverign right of every country in the world to freely decide whether to let aliens in or not, at their own discretion. This is a question of SOVEREIGNITY! BTW, can anyone point me to ACRI's position on Britain's decision to deny entry to MK Moshe Feiglin?
52. double standards
Sane Israeli ,   Poleg   (06.03.08)
Whilst I despise the self-hating views of this man it does seem ridiculous that he is not allowed to visit Israel, however there are Israeli Arab terrorist supporters such as Ahmed Tibi and Barakah who are living on tax payers money and free to expound thier evil views in the Knesset!!!
53. NOT Free Speech issue!!!!!!!!
ben yaacov ,   herzliya   (06.03.08)
This is NOT free Speech issue!!!!!!!! Never was! Every sovereign state has the right to refuse entry to a non citizen! This is a most basic and fundamental right of every state! It is one that is exercised across the Globe by every sovereign nation every day. Mr. Finkelstein is not a citizen or resident of Israel. He has no right to enter! End of story. Mr. Finkelstein has in no way had any of rights to speech abridged. He is free to continue speaking and publish his noxious and hateful ideas which if any one not Jewish were to say would be correctly understood as antisemitic. It seems Oded Feller would be equally comfortable insisting Neo-Nazis, Hamas or Hizbollah be free enter Israel. Mr. Feller are you retarded? You state that as a criteria of entry "... not carry explosive materials on him, but rather, only his views" You mean like the Pakistani-Brits and others who carried no explovises on themselves upon entry but later blew themselves up or tried.
54. Is Israel so small...
Wanda ,   Montreal   (06.03.08)
...that it needs such rabid support? Or has that image been engineered? Can it be that a 'nation-at-war-since-the-beginning' needs to hear its genealogy from the observer's POV? Is Israel worried that it is a Goliath trying to squeeze into David-sized sandals? No? So then what is there to lose from F-stein's presence? Deporting him is tacit acknowledgment that his views are threatening. Staging a fiery symposium would do no less. You can't kill him, because he is Jewish. This guy turns the short rope into a fuse, right? What to do? WHAT TO DO? Accept that the criticism of a nation state is a right afforded to everyone observing, ESPECIALLY to those of whom it claims to represent. And if not, why not?
55. CIVIL RIGHTS? READ #26 Again.
DAVID ,   JUDEA   (06.03.08)
It seems very unlikly that Mr. O Feller has ever read any talkbacks and suffers the same arrogance and disconnection from decency as many of of his media buddies and the so-called Israeli elite. The rights that he pretends to protect having nothing to with civility , but with political correctness according to his views. Like so many wrote in all these TB's he has no interest in the rights of the civilians living here , because we do not belong to his elite. Were are Mr Feller and his buddies when teenage girls get put into jail for months at the time without due process? The self hatred that is growing stronger among this elite , stops them from any clear vision and action.
56. If anything, my friend you are wromg
Anon ,   JHB   (06.03.08)
you say "the usage that is being made of the memory of the Holocaust in order to justify Israel’s policy" let me just tell you that any other nation would of wiped the Pal off the face of the earth by now and ended this problem. However, because of the holocast, and the huge value for life we inherited from it, is the only reason the Pal are here today. Israeli public will not accepet harsher treatment of the Pal. moreover, the Pal are in this situation not because we (Jews) are bad, but rather because they refused peace at every occasion (which we offered them over and over). any other country, would of gone to war and wiped them off the face of the earth. we let them into our hospitals, give them food & water - and all they do is point their guns at us (on a full stomech)
57. Smart people keep the enemies and rats out
Keep him out ,   USA   (06.03.08)
Finkelstein is both.
58. DO NOT LET THAT SKUNK IN!
Don ,   USA   (06.03.08)
59. The Israeli democracy has NOTHING to be ashamed of
Lisa ,   USA   (06.03.08)
60. If Oded represents Vanunu then he is also an enemy of Israel
Frank ,   USA   (06.03.08)
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