2025-05-13 Time: 20:18:09 (Jerusalem)
Tayseer Khaled , member of the Executive Committee and Head of the Palestinian Expatriate Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organization, expressed his solidarity with Mr. Anwar Makhlouf, the Executive Director of the Palestinian Federation in Chile, who was prevented by the Israeli occupation authorities from entering the Palestinian Territories through Al-Karama crossing , under the pretext of participation in International BDS Campaign,
Khaled condemns this arbitrary action, which violates all international norms and conventions that prohibit the restriction of movement of citizens and deprives them of free entry into their homeland.
During a telephone conversation with Anwar Makhlouf , Khaled asserted , that such arbitrary measures taken by the occupation authorities to prevent the entry of the Executive Director of the Palestinian Federation in Chile and his accompanying delegation to the Palestinian territories, coming from the Republic of Chile to celebrate with his people and with millions of believers in the world Christianity in the holiest places of Christians in Bethlehem, Nazareth and Jerusalem will not dissuade our people and the free world from continuing struggle against the occupation and the apartheid policy of the state of Israel
That after Israel also denied entry to the chairman of the London-based Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) Hugh Lanning last month, just one week after Israel passed the controversial “BDS ban” law.
Right-wing Israeli lawmaker and Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan said at the time that “whoever acts against Israel should understand that the rules of the game have changed. No sane country would allow entry to key boycott activists working to harm the country’s core interests and lead to its isolation.”
The BDS movement was founded in July 2005 by a swath of Palestinian civil society as a peaceful movement to restore Palestinian rights in accordance with international law through strategies of boycotting Israeli products and cultural institutions, divesting from companies complicit in violations against Palestinians, and implementing state sanctions against the Israeli government.
BDS has gained momentum over the years, with activists targeting companies that act in compliance with Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank including East Jerusalem. Israel’s ban applies to foreigners who call for a boycott of Israeli institutions and illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories .
