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Moshe Feiglin, Banned in Britain: "almost" a badge of honor
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| By Israel Insider staff March 12, 2008 |
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The government of Great Britain has placed Moshe Feiglin, the President of Manhigut Yehudit, on a list of people not allowed to enter the United Kingdom. Feiglin, who finished in 2nd place behind former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the most recent election for head of Israel's opposition Likud party, said he had no plans to visit England.
Feiglin was recently notified of his banning in a letter from British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that he has been banned from entering the U.K. The letter, written by an unnamed Border and Immigration Agency official on Smith's behalf, said the agency found that his "unacceptable activities" included: "writing, producing, publishing or distributing material; public speaking including preaching; running a Web site and using a position of responsibility" to "foment or justify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs; seek to provoke others to terrorist acts; foment other serious criminal activity or seek to provoke others to serious criminal acts and foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK.... In light of these factors, the Home Secretary is satisfied you should be excluded from the UK on the grounds that your exclusion is conducive to the public good. There is no right of appeal," the letter continued.
The British government dredged up quotes from articles written by Feiglin years ago. The articles, in which Feiglin spoke about the necessity to fight terror and to analyze the culture which breeds terrorists, appears to have upset the British government, which claimed that his views will "foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK." A statement by Manhigut Yehudit ridiculed that claim, saying that it was Feiglin who "is working tirelessly to combat those who would use violence against innocents throughout the world, and that the real "extremists" are the Israeli leaders (and other world leaders) who have provided and continue to provide guns, ammunition, funding and logistical help to the terrorists who have repeatedly killed Jews; the Israeli leaders who have released terrorists with Jewish blood on their hands, and also the Israeli leaders who have evicted Jews from their homes solely for being Jewish. This list includes but is not limited to every Israeli Prime Minister since the Oslo charade commenced in 1993. The Oslo "peace" process is a charade because of the direct correlation between the amount of land that Israel has ceded and the amount of Jews who have been murdered.
Feiglin said he was being targeted because he is "the lone voice in the Israeli political establishment fighting to save Jewish lives and the State of Israel." The Jewish Chronicle article quoted Feiglin as saying: "This is a British government problem, not mine. However, if somebody in Britain feels comfortable enough to do something like that, it should turn on some serious red lights in any British citizen who cares about democracy. Britain and America are letting in the real terrorists ... remember [Iranian] President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad was allowed to speak at an American university."
Feiglin "almost" took his exclusion as a badge of honor. "I almost feel honored, because of the way that the British government is behaving, to be marked as the bad guy by a government that supports terror. I see it almost as a compliment," he added. He was referring to Britain's decision to allow entry to Ibrahim Mousawi, the editor of a Hezbollah journal, who visited the country on a speaking tour.
Feiglin told the paper that the letter "came out of the blue," and at first, he thought it might be a hoax. "This is all very strange because I have no plans to visit Britain either in the short or long term. I have never been banned from anywhere else. In fact I am giving a lecture in Canada at the end of this month," Feiglin told the Jewish Chronicle.
No doubt the British will try to influence their former colony to "follow the crown." |
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