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Detained leaving Gaza
By Maya Sela

Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein and her husband Avi Lewis, a documentary film director and a presenter on Al-Jazeera TV, were detained Monday while leaving Gaza for Israel. Yael Lerer, founder of the Andalus publishing house, said the two had been held for three and a half hours while she waited for them outside the crossing. Lewis said they were detained because their names sounded Jewish and Israeli to the soldiers; people with Israeli passports are forbidden from entering Gaza. They said Shin Bet security agents questioned Lewis while Klein stood by.

Klein, author of "No Logo" (published in Israel by Babel), is visiting here to promote her book "The Shock Doctrine," which Andalus is publishing in Hebrew. She arrived last Thursday night and took part in a demonstration against the separation fence near the West Bank village of Bil'in. She also had meetings at the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem, and spent two days in Gaza. Klein had called for a world-wide boycott of Israel during Operation Cast Lead last winter as a strategy to end the occupation. Last night she had a meeting at the Almidan Theater in Haifa.
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The Shin Beit confirmed that Klein was quetioned for 10 minutes, but that it was not responsible for detaining her.
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