American student remains in Israeli detention

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American student remains in Israeli detention







A IsraelThe judge said on Thursday he would decide in the next few days if a US student, who allegedly supported a boycott of Israeli property and has been detained for more than a week, could enter Israel.



Lara Alqasem, 22, appeared this morning in the Tel Aviv district court to appeal an order to deport her. After an hour of deliberations, Judge Kobi Vardi announced that he would make his decision public in the coming days.



Alqasem smiled when he entered the courtroom, but did not speak to the many journalists present.





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A US citizen student, Lara Alqasem, 22, attends a hearing in the Tel Aviv District Court in Israel, on October 11, 2018. 

Alqasem, who is of Palestinian origin, was denied entry to Israel when he landed at Ben-Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on October 2.



The officials cited their alleged support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, known as BDS, which advocates boycott as a political tool to protest against Israeli policies related to the Palestinian territories. She is a past president of the University of Florida chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine and is from Ft. Florida Florida Area, according to the Associated Press.



Leora Bechor, one of Alqasem's lawyers, said after the hearing: "This case is not about a BDS activist, it is about the state abusing its power to misapply its own rules about who is an activist and who is not an activist. "



He added that there was nothing in the file to show that Alqasem was the kind of activist that prohibits Israeli law.





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A US citizen student, Lara Alqasem, 22, attends a hearing in the Tel Aviv District Court in Israel, on October 11, 2018. 

A recently approved Israeli law allows the authorities to prohibit anyone who considers that he has held a high-ranking position from an organization that publicly calls for a boycott of the State of Israel.



An assistant to Gilad Erdan, Israel's minister of strategic affairs who ordered border control officers to put Alqasem in detention, was present at the hearing this morning and told reporters that the alleged "actions" of the student They disqualified to enter Israel.



"It's not a question of opinions," said Asher Friedman. "We do not seek to decide on the prevention of entry based on opinions, we are considering actions of certain criteria and we believe that Ms. Alqasem meets those criteria, based on her actions and the actions of the organization of which she was senior. Leader for several years. "



Alqasem appealed the deportation order issued last week when he tried to enter Israel and remains in custody at a detention facility at Ben-Gurion airport for foreigners who were denied entry.



She was accepted at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was granted an Israeli student visa when she was in the United States. The Hebrew university has joined its appeal.





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Lara Alqasem, a 22-year-old American graduate student with Palestinian grandparents, who landed at Ben-Gurion Airport on October 2, 2018, with a valid student visa, appears in this undated family brochure.

Without a verdict on Thursday, Alqasem will remain detained at the facility until the court announces a decision. Officials have said he can return to the United States at any time.

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