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Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 3:28 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: <nettime> Israel used Facebook to stop European pro-Palestine activists<br>To: <a href="mailto:econowmix@googlegroups.com">econowmix@googlegroups.com</a><br><br><br>
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Date: Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:17 AM<br>Subject: <nettime> Israel used Facebook to stop European pro-Palestine activists<br>To: <a href="mailto:nettime-l@kein.org" target="_blank">nettime-l@kein.org</a><br><br><br><br>
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July 12, 2011 by intelNews<br>
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By JOSEPH FITSANAKIS | intelNews.org |<br>
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<a href="http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/01-760/" target="_blank">http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/01-760/</a><br>
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Israeli intelligence services managed to stop dozens of European pro-<br>
Palestine activists from flying to Israel, by gathering open-source<br>
intelligence about them on social media sites, such as Facebook.<br>
According to Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor,<br>
intelligence gathered on Facebook formed the basis of a blacklist<br>
containing over 300 names of European activists, who had signed up on<br>
an open-access Facebook page of a group planning nonviolent actions<br>
in Israel this summer. Israeli intelligence agencies forwarded the<br>
names on the lists to European airline carriers, asking them not to<br>
allow the activists onboard their flights, as they were not going to<br>
be allowed into the country. This action prompted airline carriers to<br>
prevent over 200 activists from boarding scheduled flights to Israel.<br>
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Israeli security officers detained over 310 other activists, who<br>
arrived in Israel on several European flights last week. Of those,<br>
almost 70 were denied entry to the country, while more detentions<br>
are expected to take place later this week, according [1] to Israeli<br>
Interior Ministry spokeswoman Sabine Hadad. During the detention<br>
operation, at least two flights into Israel, from Geneva, Switzerland,<br>
and Rome, Italy, were diverted to a secluded area of the Ben Gurion<br>
International Airport, which is located a few miles southeast of<br>
Tel Aviv. Once there, they were boarded by armed Israeli security<br>
officers, who detained several activists onboard the airplanes before<br>
allowing the remaining passengers to disembark. Witnesses also<br>
reported the presence of hundreds of police officers at Ben Gurion<br>
during the detention of the activists. Characteristically, only one of<br>
a 40-strong pro-Palestinian activist contingency onboard an EasyJet<br>
flight from London, UK, was able to enter Israel, while 39 were<br>
detained and sent back to the UK.<br>
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[1] AP Story: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3htobbz" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/3htobbz</a><br>
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