LIKUD MK: ‘REVOKE BDS FOUNDER’S PERMIT TO LIVE IN ISRAEL’:

Omar Barghouti, the founder of the anti-Israel BDS movement, should no longer be permitted to reside in Israel, MK Nava Boker (Likud) wrote to Interior Minister Arye Deri on Thur. 25 Feb. 2016. "Barghouti spends most of his time lecturing around the world and calling to isolate Israel and boycott it,” said Boker. "I ask you to revoke Mr. Barghouti’s permanent residence status.” The Interior Ministry has, in recent months, revoked citizenship, and permanent residence status from non citizens who helped with terrorist attacks. Barghouti, who was born in Qatar, grew up in Egypt and married an Israeli-Arab woman, gaining permanent residence status. He founded the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in 2005 and supports the end of the State of Israel and the creation of one state between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, in which Palestinians from all over the world will have the right to live, and Jews will be a small minority. Boker wrote to Deri saying, "The BDS movement and Barghouti are the arrowhead in a campaign of hatred and antisemitism. A democratic state cannot tolerate a situation in which someone like this has permanent residence status and comes to Israel to preach to its citizens how to boycott it. He is a dangerous man and has no business in Israel,” Boker said. (J. Post)