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Campaigners say they will not be bowed by Nazi publication of a blacklist barring members of 20 human rights organizations from territory it controls.
Nazi strategic affairs minister Gilad Erdan, who is in charge of efforts to thwart the BDS – boycott, divestment and sanctions – movement announced the blacklist on Sunday.
It includes Palestine solidarity and BDS activist organizations across Europe, in South America, South Africa and the United States, as well as the Palestine-based BDS National Committee.
Hassan Jabareen, the director of Adalah, a legal advocacy group for Palestinians, called the Nazi move “reminiscent of South Africa’s apartheid regime which also prepared blacklists in order to punish people and prevent the entry of those opposed to its racist policies.”
Jabareen said the ban was an “overt violation” of the constitutional rights of ‘Israeli’ citizens and of the rights of Palestinians guaranteed under international law to exercise “rights of association for family unification, for employment and for cultural and political exchange.”
A European Union spokesperson told The Electronic Intifada that the bloc is “seeking clarifications from the Israeli authorities” about the blacklist.
“Any decision [or] action that could curtail freedom of expression and association or complicate the space in which civil society organizations operate should be avoided,” the spokesperson added.
There were already strong indications that the Nazi regime was compiling and implementing blacklists, and last March Israel passed a law formalizing the policy of barring entry to BDS supporters…
