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JERUSALEM (AP/The Blaze) — Israel‘s parliamentary speaker called off a legislative delegation’s visit to the U.S. after Washington denied an ultranationalist lawmaker a visa, citing his links to a terror group.
Three lawmakers were to attend a women’s empowerment conference in the U.S. capital in late March. But Knesset speaker Reuven Rivlin said he canceled the trip because the unrelated visa denial was “an affront to the entire Knesset.”
The State Department won’t let Michael Ben-Ari of the National Union Party enter the United States because he once belonged to the Kach Party of the slain extremist rabbi, Meir Kahane.
Kahane, who was assassinated in New York 20 years ago, preached expelling Arabs from Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel banned Kach from parliament in 1988 on the grounds that it was racist and Washington designates Kach a terror organization.
On that basis, the U.S. State Department rejected Ben-Ari’s visa application two weeks ago.
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No problem with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad coming to the U.N.
Do you smell a rat or the old saying a -igger in the wood pile.
We let every world dictator come here like Putin.Chavez,Ahmadinejad and the chink leaders come but we won't give visa to some jewish person because he wants to expel ragheads from Isreal.This goes to show you whose side Obozo is on.So all you American Jews vote for him so he can help annihialate Isreal.