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Last update - 00:00 10/08/2008 Arab lawyer detained after refusing to remove pants during airport check By Ruth Sinai and Roni Singer-Heruti Tags: Israeli Arabs, Khalid Dukhi  An Israeli Arab lawyer for the workers rights group Kav La'Oved was handcuffed and briefly detained by police this week when he refused to take his pants off during an airport security check. It was the second time in two months that local airport officials had asked Khalid Dukhi to remove his pants as part of a pre-flight security check. Dukhi was flying from Tel Aviv to Eilat on Monday to provide legal assistance to Sudanese refugees working in hotels in the southern city when security officials at the Sde Dov airport asked him to remove his pants after a hand-held metal detector beeped when it was waved over them. When he said he would rather leave the airport, the officials called the police, who informed Dukhi he was under arrest, handcuffed him, and removed his pants to complete the search. The authorities found no irregularities and released Dukhi, three hours after his flight was scheduled. Advertisement "We take a grave view of this incident, which contradicts promises made by the [Israel Airports] Authority and El Al to treat Arab citizens in an appropriate and humane manner," said the Mossawa Israeli Arab advocacy center. The airports authority said Dukhi was examined closely "in light of a specific alert that was revealed during the search," and said the security officials called the police "to help them convince the passenger to be examined and refute the suspicion." Authority officials said they did not know whether there had been a specific warning when Dukhi was searched the first time. Police said Dukhi was released as soon as the search was completed. "Police got a call from the security officials in the Sde Dov airport, saying there was a man there who was refusing to be checked and was becoming unruly," police said. "Patrol officers arrived at the scene and told the suspect that since he was refusing to be searched, he would have to be arrested. Since the suspect refused, the police officers arrested him, searched him, and when the search was completed, he was released on the spot." Bookmark to del.icio.us   Israel's KKK The desire to march in Umm al-Fahm has nothing to do with protest. A courageous throw Gadhafi's daughter awards the reporter who threw his shoes at President Bush.   1.   Israel has become quite sick indeed... 02:38  |  BBSNews 08/10/08   2.   What a lovely bunch of humans.... 03:15  |  jc 08/10/08   3.   Dukhi is always welcome in any Arab`s state - they will 03:23  |  treat him better 08/10/08   4.   Sick indeed 03:26  |  Try Chechnya 08/10/08   5.   "Try Chechnya" says Israel should follow HR violators... 04:04  |  BBSNews 08/10/08   6.   Okay, got the message 04:41  |  Montrealer 08/10/08   7.   HOW MANY ARABS 05:13  |  judith 08/10/08   8.   humiliating but reasonable treatment 05:22  |  jb 08/10/08   9.   Search was warranted 05:27  |  Gili 08/10/08   10.   You can´t have it both ways 05:34  |  Mr. Underpants 08/10/08   11.   health 06:37  |  Ethan 08/10/08   12.   Never happened to me as a Saudi 07:05  |  Mohammed 08/10/08   13.   these are the portenders of fascism 07:05  |  KMS 08/10/08   14.   Unnecessary provocation 07:27  |  Esther 08/10/08   15.   #1 08:14  |  mike 08/10/08   16.   You`re guilty ... 08:30  |  Indiginous 08/10/08   17.   Don`t keep metal in your pants 08:35  |  JD 08/10/08   18.   If the Arabs didn`t want airport searches 08:38  |  x-ray 08/10/08   19.   Detained passenger 08:40  |  Raanana 08/10/08   20.   Esther imagine it was a settler, now can you see it? 08:46  |  Settler Babe 08/10/08   21.   When security is not security 08:59  |  Antony 08/10/08   22.   THE ACT OF DESPERATION FROM RACIST ZIONISTS 09:04  |  indrajaya 08/10/08   23.   Israel`s tourists to UK should be strip searched 09:10  |  Chanalau, Tova 08/10/08   24.   was the second time in two months ?? 09:26  |  long search ?? 08/10/08   25.   Airport Check 09:40  |  Ribi 08/10/08   26.   Disgusted 09:42  |  Shmuel 08/10/08   27.   Did they also make him take off his shoes? 09:51  |  Ilan 08/10/08   28.   I would not like to take my cloths of either 10:37  |  Edith 08/10/08   29.   #14 Shmuel, I am flabbergasted 10:50  |  Edith 08/10/08   30.   The so caled Light unto Nations sinks further into Darkness 11:00  |  Labhras 08/10/08   31.   Babe#9...totally irrelevant response... 11:23  |  Esther 08/10/08   32.   Tova #11 11:30  |  Esther 08/10/08   33.   This man is not humble 11:50  |  JP 08/10/08   34.   I know the feeling 12:03  |  Never again 08/10/08   35.   racism 12:13  |  D 08/10/08   36.   How to avoid further embarrassing situations 12:26  |  Alicia 08/10/08   37.   security is security if you dont like it dont fly 12:31  |  zionist forever 08/10/08   38.   this one made a headline..how about others 12:41  |  meir gush etzion 08/10/08   39.   security 12:51  |  Charles 08/10/08   40.   why don`t you take the car 13:13  |  Flightattendant 08/10/08   41.   #11 13:34  |  Alberto 08/10/08   42.   Thank you airport security for keeping us safe 13:47  |  Normal passengers 08/10/08   43.   The Sin of Racism... The sin of Denial 13:59  |  Louis 08/10/08   44.   bbs news your hatred and animosity 14:02  |  judah 08/10/08   45.   arab 14:12  |  logical 08/10/08   46.   Babe#9.... Imagine WHO was a settler...?! 14:14  |  Esther 08/10/08   47.   Inhumane treatment 14:34  |  Rami 08/10/08   48.   #1 BBSNews 14:35  |  Mike 08/10/08   49.   ABSOLUTELY the correct response (textbook). 14:41  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 08/10/08   50.   #10;indrajaya, the world will see your "act of desperation" 14:45  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 08/10/08   51.   Making a mountain out of a molehill 14:54  |  Murray of Montreal 08/10/08   52.   State sanctioned humiliation 15:03  |  Myles 08/10/08   53.   To take Humanity away 15:26  |  Ellen 08/10/08   54.   #1 In continuation to BBS comments 15:32  |  John Allen U.S.A. 08/10/08   55.   #19 Why is Israel always considered wrong. 15:43  |  John Allen U.S.A. 08/10/08   56.   bbsnews.net 15:45  |  Larry 08/10/08   57.   Where`s The Discrimination? 15:46  |  Jeff Northridge 08/10/08   58.   Rules applied equally? 15:53  |  Mark 08/10/08   59.   You must be kidding 16:20  |  peter 08/10/08   60.   misfir of qatar university 16:23  |  shadrack 08/10/08   61.   GET OVER IT 16:24  |  LM 08/10/08   62.   #22 Indonesia murders passengers on planes. 16:47  |  Liliane 08/10/08   63.   Bad News 16:49  |  Cynic 08/10/08   64.   Esther knows the man didn`t have bad intentions 16:50  |  Settler Babe 08/10/08   65.   judah, it is you who puts Israel on guard... 16:51  |  BBSNews 08/10/08   66.   57 Jeff Northridge- the point is 16:55  |  customs 08/10/08   67.   #57 - discrimination? 17:28  |  Iamashamed 08/10/08   68.   What did they find after they stripped him? 18:00  |  Jack 08/10/08   69.   Everybody agrees to search by buying air ticket 18:46  |  Aryeh 08/10/08   70.   Are Jews treated the same? 19:16  |  Janice 08/10/08   71.   Detention of Arab Lawyer to #68 19:22  |  David 08/10/08   72.   Hardly A Travesty.... 19:41  |  Gray 08/10/08   73.   Janice #70 one question 20:13  |  Gee 08/10/08   74.   Israeli Key Stone Cops 20:27  |  danite 08/10/08   75.   re #4 Try Chechnia 20:27  |  Ernst 08/10/08   76.   another opp to display hatred 20:43  |  Philippe 08/10/08   77.   #54 John Allen 20:54  |  Janice 08/10/08   78.   #57 Jeff Northridge 21:02  |  Janice 08/10/08   79.   Bayesian statistical inference and terrorist suspects 21:21  |  Aryeh 08/10/08   80.   Interesting 21:34  |  Gee 08/10/08   81.   Re: BBCNews 21:46  |  Aryeh 08/10/08   82.   Very, Very, Very Sick - - 21:55  |  Henry 08/10/08   83.   Thank you Gray... you are so serene and equalitarian 22:00  |  Israeli citizen 08/10/08   84.   JANICE, wake up 22:12  |  judith 08/10/08   85.   security checks 22:39  |  rm 08/10/08   86.   Janice # 78 "Uppity" 22:53  |  Jeff Northridge 08/10/08   87.   Aryeh re:BBS News 23:04  |  TonyL 08/10/08   88.   Common sense 23:13  |  James 08/10/08   89.   All Terrorist Sympathizers Should Be Suspect 23:56  |  UsedToPostHere 08/10/08   90.   TO Doc Holiday 00:11  |  Avi 09/10/08   91.   I`m not an Arab, but look Arabic to Westerners 00:30  |  Slibovitz 09/10/08   92.   I am a Jew and El Al searched me 00:52  |  Dan 09/10/08   93.   All Terrorist Sympathizers Should Be Suspect, Jews too? 01:15  |  American in NY 09/10/08   94.   "Usedtoposthere", that simply elevates hatred... 01:21  |  BBSNews 09/10/08   95.   Janice forgets 01:25  |  SDHD 09/10/08   96.   Sometimes security goes overboard 01:25  |  John 09/10/08   97.   Janice # 70That was a stupid question. 01:30  |  American in NY 09/10/08   98.   Judah # 44 your telepathic powers 01:33  |  American in NY 09/10/08   99.   Aryeh differance is we do not discriminate or use racial profili 01:36  |  American in NY 09/10/08   100.   #65 Good on you, BBS News 02:01  |  Ben Alofs 09/10/08   101.   Judith and Gee 02:31  |  Janice 09/10/08   102.   TonyL, unusually incomprehensible... - 2nd try 02:47  |  BBSNews 09/10/08   103.   Visit the Kav LaOved Web site... 03:11  |  BBSNews 09/10/08   104.   #83 "israeli citizen"....Show us once again.... 03:17  |  Gray 09/10/08   105.   re: BBSNews 04:39  |  Usedtoposthere 09/10/08   106.   I can see their point of view 05:00  |  sarah 09/10/08   107.   TonyL # 87 05:15  |  Philippe 09/10/08   108.   Thank you Ben Alofs, that means a lot 05:23  |  BBSNews 09/10/08   109.   Mohammed-#12-Jews aren`t even allowed on Saudi soil 05:37  |  Daniel Leopold 09/10/08   110.   To the anonymous "usedtoposthere"... 05:50  |  BBSNews 09/10/08   111.   What the anti-Israelis don`t know . . . 06:00  |  SDHD 09/10/08   112.   BBS` BS Nakba 06:02  |  SDHD 09/10/08   113.   Paranoic Israeli , To BBC 06:11  |  Dani 09/10/08   114.   Philippe 06:31  |  TonyL 09/10/08   115.   SDHD, do be so good as to explain The Nakba... 07:42  |  BBSNews 09/10/08   116.   3#90Avi, maybe that`s why you don`t work there anymore? 07:45  |  DOC HOLLIDAY 09/10/08   117.   SDHD on "old white women"... 07:54  |  BBSNews 09/10/08   118.   TonyL, talking to yourself does no good... 08:03  |  BBSNews 09/10/08   119.   SDHD # 111 _ Let Me Add That These Little Old 08:25  |  Eli 09/10/08   120.   BBS # 102 Re This Is The US 08:37  |  Eli 09/10/08   121.   Gray # 104 _ What A Nice Post. Now Go To Sleep 08:50  |  Eli 09/10/08   122.   BBS # 115 _ Let Me Explain The Nakba 09:00  |  Eli 09/10/08   123.   BBS News # 108 Re Tsali 09:21  |  Eli 09/10/08   124.   My Terrible Experience in Ben Gurion 09:46  |  Mark G. 09/10/08   125.   #101 Janice,wake up AT LAST! 09:55  |  Hastaroth 09/10/08   126.   #97 American in NY,your reply was stupid 09:58  |  Hastaroth 09/10/08   127.   BBSNews #118 10:15  |  TonyL 09/10/08   128.   For example, Gray see what American in NY writes... 11:41  |  Israeli citizen 09/10/08   129.   1: Yet, not as sick as BBS (2nd try) 12:00  |  David Teich 09/10/08   130.   For #115 BSNews ......... Nakba explained 12:07  |  Ari ben Yisrael 09/10/08   131.   BSNews again on searches at Supermarkets 12:15  |  Ari ben Yisrael 09/10/08   132.   BBS, "in a sane world". Do you have the formula? 12:18  |  Israeli citizen 09/10/08   133.   A serious question for BSNews 12:22  |  Joe Moer 09/10/08   134.   Pants means 2 different things in English 13:34  |  Ran 09/10/08   135.   SEARSHING FOR WHAT ! 13:54  |  SALAM 09/10/08   136.   #4.SICKINDEED, what would have been your reaction 14:15  |  Gordon 09/10/08   137.   #17,JD,NO METAL was found in his pants unlike your paperclip 14:21  |  Jenney 09/10/08   138.   #24.Looks like they wanted to seeWHAT is got 14:26  |  Raoul 09/10/08   139.   Janice #101 15:18  |  Gee 09/10/08   140.   Mark G. #124 15:25  |  Gee 09/10/08   141.   #77 Janice 15:41  |  John Allen U.S.A. 09/10/08   142.   you all miss the point ! 16:23  |  Robin 09/10/08   143.   So, What Do You "Human-Rights" People Want? 16:46  |  Jeff Northridge 09/10/08   144.   #135 SALAM 17:07  |  Robin 09/10/08   145.   #137 Jenney.... 17:18  |  Hastaroth 09/10/08   146.   132: Israeli, BBS has only one formula 17:30  |  David Teich 09/10/08   147.   #124 Mark G and his terrible experience 17:35  |  Hastaroth 09/10/08   148.   "israeli citizen" Enough Recpricol Rancor" 17:48  |  Gray 09/10/08   149.   Eli 122 18:37  |  Anthony 09/10/08   150.   Gray`s non-hostile approach 18:46  |  SDHD 09/10/08   151.   Anthony #150 18:51  |  SDHD 09/10/08   152.   STDH? #151 No, but I remember.... 19:15  |  Gray 09/10/08   153.   Gray`s memory problematic 19:37  |  SDHD 09/10/08   154.   Anthony # 150 _ Plenty Happened To The Jews Prior To 19:54  |  Eli 09/10/08   155.   SDHD believes a "warning" negates Jewish terrorism... 20:08  |  BBSNews 09/10/08   156.   AM in N Y Which part of "in light of a specific alert" ? 20:25  |  PETER SM 09/10/08   157.   BBSNews P3 20:26  |  TonyL 09/10/08   158.   BBSNews P4 20:28  |  TonyL 09/10/08   159.   BBS Are all Arabs strip searched in Israel?? 20:29  |  PETER SM 09/10/08   160.   MOHAMED @ 12 Any synagogues in Saudi Arabia? Churches? 20:32  |  PETER SM 09/10/08   161.   bbs news "eastern band cherokee" 20:40  |  judah 09/10/08   162.   bbs news you must be drinking fire water 20:48  |  judah 09/10/08   163.   151 20:53  |  Anthony 09/10/08   164.   bbs your casinos are scenes of depravity 21:01  |  judah 09/10/08   165.   bbs news when did the cherokee discover jew hatred? 21:10  |  sitting bull 09/10/08   166.   BBSNews #157 what about military HQs 21:14  |  Gee 09/10/08   167.   bbs news "i am real" 21:15  |  sittingbull 09/10/08   168.   bbs news you are like the egyptians in 1973 21:18  |  sittingbull 09/10/08   169.   Gray and propaganda 21:57  |  x-ray 09/10/08   170.   The Trail of Tears awaits, Tonto 22:01  |  AGM-142 09/10/08   171.   #158 TonyL, land thievery is just about the right term 22:18  |  Ben Alofs 09/10/08   172.   ben alofs the dutch were the biggest slave traders 22:38  |  judah 09/10/08   173.   Gray : my answer: you built your own discourse trap 22:52  |  Israeli citizen 09/10/08   174.   Ben Alofs and state lands 22:58  |  SDHD 09/10/08   175.   strip search 23:04  |  norman a blumberg 09/10/08   176.   re: American in NY 23:09  |  UsedToPostHere 09/10/08   177.   #160 PeterSM. Can`t you find one? 23:26  |  Maureen Ann 09/10/08   178.   eli 154 23:39  |  Anthony 09/10/08   179.   Maureen -- another one who spews 23:39  |  SDHD 09/10/08   180.   Maureen Ann #177 you lie 00:17  |  Gee 10/10/08   181.   israeli citizen; "The Jew is the object of history"??? 00:19  |  Gray 10/10/08   182.   #174 It came from the orifice of Joseph Weitz, SDHD 00:21  |  Ben Alofs 10/10/08   183.   Anthony`s aboriginees 01:24  |  SDHD 10/10/08   184.   BBS News 01:31  |  TonyL 10/10/08   185.   Ben Alofs #182 you lie too 01:31  |  Gee 10/10/08   186.   Ben Alof`s source is NOT Joseph Weitz 01:57  |  SDHD 10/10/08   187.   #185 The link between discrimination in law and petty humiliation 02:32  |  Ben Alofs 10/10/08   188.   to treat him better from haifa it is his country 03:11  |  gus 10/10/08   189.   STDH & "x=ray" Defending The Indefensible 04:34  |  Gray 10/10/08   190.   Hmmm, Who to believe? "Gee" or Ben Alofs 05:07  |  Gray 10/10/08   191.   BBS News; RE: Your Racist Detractors 05:37  |  Gray 10/10/08   192.   arab lawyer detained 05:41  |  Jacob Weiss 10/10/08   193.   x-ray & STD: Nakba Deniers & Hasbara Twins Never Stop 06:31  |  Gray 10/10/08   194.   B.ALOFFS The Arabs got 87% of the British mandate of Palestine 06:32  |  PETER SM 10/10/08   195.   the BEST SOLUTION to ben gurion`s security inequities 07:00  |  eric 10/10/08   196.   ERIC WHAT is the solution to Global Jihad,part of Hamas charter 07:13  |  PETER SM 10/10/08   197.   No Gray, I condemn Darfur, Chinese in Tibet 07:21  |  x-ray 10/10/08   198.   Good on you Gray... 07:42  |  BBSNews 10/10/08   199.   Gray`s version of "the Nakba" 07:47  |  SDHD 10/10/08   200.   SDHD, wiki is about your speed... 07:49  |  BBSNews 10/10/08   201.   GRAY no factual rebuttal so whine "Hasbara" instead 08:06  |  PETER SM 10/10/08   202.   ERIC What is the solution to the Global Jihad policy of Hamas 09:10  |  PETER SM 10/10/08   203.   Try USA!! SS stamp means randomly selected:) 09:19  |  lilly 10/10/08   204.   with all its technology why strip people? 09:29  |  mike 10/10/08   205.   Monreal Gili #9 09:29  |  mariapalestina 10/10/08   206.   Try not to follow instructions at US Airport ! 19:51  |  Michael 10/10/08   207.   #`s 196 & 202 to peters m re: solutions 08:43  |  eric 11/10/08   208.   148: Gray`s straight out of the Protocols 11:15  |  David Teich 11/10/08   209.   193: And Grey just supports my point 11:20  |  David Teich 11/10/08   210.   200: Poor BBS, can`t handle context 11:25  |  David Teich 11/10/08   211.   Gee #140 12:31  |  Mark G 11/10/08   212.   The Humilation of Palestinians is a Systematic Approach... 22:51  |  Monitor 12/10/08   213.   #!12 03:19  |  TOBIA 28/10/08   214.   #212 06:33  |  Alabama 01/11/08   215.   Bastards 01:37  |  Salah Al-din 16/12/08

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