AAI: Zionist occupations racism towards Arab Americans strictly unaccepted
Source: Hizbollah Site Staff, 04-09-2009
The Arab American Institute (AAI) wrote Thursday to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to request a meeting with her to discuss how to stop "Israel's" alleged discrimination of Arab American travelers.
AAI President James Zogby and Chairman George Salem said in the letter that such travelers face "burdensome bureaucratic requirements, if not outright harassment and humiliation" during visits to "Israel" or the Palestinian territories.
In the letter, according to a copy released to the media, the pair said the treatment "indicates a clear pattern of discrimination and practices intended to deter and encumber visitors."
In requesting the meeting, both expressed their "deep concern" over the treatment given visitors trying to legally enter or exit "Israel", the West Bank, Al Quds (Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip.
Reports and accounts from this summer establish a clear pattern of discrimination and harassment based on ethnicity. While this has been a problem for more than three decades, the Institute has noted new and even more stringent travel restrictions implemented by the Zionist entity this year.
The letter mentioned what it said were documented cases of discrimination from the last eight months.
These include, it said, "Arab Americans trapped in Gaza and prohibited from exiting into "Israel"; American-born Palestinians forced to surrender their US passports on entry and receive, against their will, a Palestinian ID document."
It also referred to "numerous reports from American-born US citizens of Palestinian descent or Arab heritage being singled out for prolonged questioning on entry and departure, and burdensome and discriminatory visa requirements imposed upon Palestinian Americans severely impacting their families and businesses."
The Arab American Institute (AAI) wrote Thursday to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to request a meeting with her to discuss how to stop "Israel's" alleged discrimination of Arab American travelers.
AAI President James Zogby and Chairman George Salem said in the letter that such travelers face "burdensome bureaucratic requirements, if not outright harassment and humiliation" during visits to "Israel" or the Palestinian territories.
In the letter, according to a copy released to the media, the pair said the treatment "indicates a clear pattern of discrimination and practices intended to deter and encumber visitors."
In requesting the meeting, both expressed their "deep concern" over the treatment given visitors trying to legally enter or exit "Israel", the West Bank, Al Quds (Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip.
Reports and accounts from this summer establish a clear pattern of discrimination and harassment based on ethnicity. While this has been a problem for more than three decades, the Institute has noted new and even more stringent travel restrictions implemented by the Zionist entity this year.
The letter mentioned what it said were documented cases of discrimination from the last eight months.
These include, it said, "Arab Americans trapped in Gaza and prohibited from exiting into "Israel"; American-born Palestinians forced to surrender their US passports on entry and receive, against their will, a Palestinian ID document."
It also referred to "numerous reports from American-born US citizens of Palestinian descent or Arab heritage being singled out for prolonged questioning on entry and departure, and burdensome and discriminatory visa requirements imposed upon Palestinian Americans severely impacting their families and businesses."
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