«Israel» to Deport Foreign Pro-Boycott Activists

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New taskforce will gather intelligence in order to mark activists who support the boycott, collect evidence to support their deportation. 'Certain groups have already been marked,' senior Zionist official said.

Minister of so-called Public Security and Strategic Affairs Gilad Erdan and Interior Minister Arye Dery decided at a meeting on Sunday to establish a joint taskforce that will work to prevent the entry into the "Israeli"-occupied lands of foreign activists from organizations that support the boycott of "Israel." The team will also work to deport those who have already entered the country.

The team will not seek the passage of new legislation or to tighten provisions of existing legislation. Instead it will primarily be aimed at gathering intelligence making it possible identify the foreign activists who are in the occupied territories and to collect evidence in support of their deportation.

A senior official told Haaretz on the condition of anonymity that staff from the Strategic Affairs Ministry, which is responsible for coordinating the fight against the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment Movement, also known as BDS, said in the meeting that dozens of organizations are operating in the West Bank, in various capacities, to collect information about the "Israeli" Occupation Forces [IOFs] activities in the territories and to use it to promote the boycott of "Israel" and isolate the entity.

The senior official noted that the new task force will define the criteria by which a foreign activist will be marked for deportation or barred from entry. The task force will also determine what legal grounds will be required for such a move.

In further positions, Dery said in a statement that "Israel" must do everything in order to "dissolve the boycott against it." Erdan said that stopping boycott supporters from entering "Israel" is an obvious step "considering the malicious intentions of those de-legitimization activists who act to disseminate lies and distort reality in our region. The boycott of "Israel" must carry a price."

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