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Israel to deport UK journalist
via Al GuardianEwen MacAskill and Conal Urquhart in Ramallah - Thursday August 26, 2004 A British journalist, Ewa Jasiewicz, was ordered to be deported from Israel yesterday after a court ruled that her "naivety" could be exploited by Palestinian militants. Jasiewicz, 26, a freelance journalist who writes for the leftwing monthly Red Pepper, went to court after being refused entry to the country on August 11. She has been detained at Ben Gurion airport since then. I'm so sorry, young lady, but you're a tool. Best you run along home, now. As well as working as a journalist, Jasiewicz has also worked as a human rights activist in the West Bank. Can you say "cover"? I knew you could. She is to appeal against the decision. The court granted her a 48-hour reprieve to allow her to take the appeal to the supreme court. Sure, okay. Maybe they'll find your act a tad more worthy. No, no - don't thank us, we do this for all the lost causes and boneheads. The editor of Red Pepper, Hilary Wainwright, said the suggestion of naivety was absurd. "Anyone who cares about democracy and freedom of the press must urge the British government to intervene," she said. Red Pepper? Not Green? How curious. Yes, call in the government, their our tool, now. Yael Barda, Jasiewicz's lawyer, said: "Two judges in Israel have decided that Ms Jasiewicz is not a security threat, yet they have denied her entry into Israel because of her ideological beliefs." How, um, terminally embarassing to be declared too dense to recognize you're simply a tool. Publicly. By a Government. But of course the LLL has no shame, so it will be lost upon her - a mere wind passing aloft, unheard. Posted by: .com 2004-08-26 |
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