Overview
- Israeli authorities implemented a formal ban on Linda Sarsour’s entry after accepting a Diaspora Affairs and Population and Immigration Authority recommendation.
- The ministry said its probe found Sarsour had promoted boycott campaigns and supported protest activity against Israel, which it presented as grounds for exclusion.
- Director-general Avi Cohen-Scali recommended using Amendment 40 to Israel’s Entry Law to deny Sarsour entry under interagency procedures.
- Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli framed the move as enforcement of a policy to block people who he says seek to isolate or harm Israel and noted past campus and tech-targeting activism cited by the ministry.
- The ban removes a previously approved entry notice and may heighten tensions over how Israel uses immigration rules to limit foreign political advocacy directed at the state.