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Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Likud's Jewish Leadership faction. (Tess Scheflan/Jini)
Last update - 18:05 11/03/2008
Britain bans Likud's Moshe Feiglin from entering country
By Nadav Shragai, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: Feiglin, Israel, Britain 

Moshe Feiglin, leader of the Likud's Jewish Leadership faction, was recently notified in a letter from British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith that he has been banned from entering the U.K.

The letter, written by an unnamed Border and Immigration Agency official on Smith's behalf, said the agency "considered that you are seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the U.K. ... This has brought you within the scope of the list of unacceptable behaviors," it was reported in the London Jewish Chronicle last week.

"In light of these factors, the Home Secretary is satisfied you should be excluded from the U.K. on the grounds that your exclusion is conducive to the public good. There is no right of appeal," the letter continued.
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Smith based her decision on emergency laws introduced after a 2005 terrorist attack in London.

The Chronicle article quoted Feiglin as responding: "This is a British government problem, not mine. However, if somebody in Britain feels comfortable enough to do something like that, it should turn on some serious red lights in any British citizen who cares about democracy. Britain and America are letting in the real terrorists ... remember [Iranian] President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad was allowed to speak at an American university."

The U.K. letter did not allege Feiglin had ever engaged in armed activities, but listed several quotes from articles he wrote, including one in which he calls for a holy war, now against Arabs, and another referring to the Prophet Muhammad as strong, cruel and deceitful.

In another quote cited in the letter, Feiglin wrote, Arabs are not sons of the desert but its father. They created the desert - everywhere they come vegetation stops and the wind blows everything away.

Feiglin acknowledged he wrote the statements, but said the reference to Arabs being the desert's father came from a 1938 book by Sir Claude Jarvis, then the British High Commissioner of Sinai.

The MK also told the Jewish Chronicle: "I almost feel honored, because of the way that the British government is behaving, to be marked as the bad guy by a government that supports terror. I see it almost as a compliment." He was referring to Britain's decision to allow entry to Ibrahim Mousawi, the editor of a Hezbollah journal, who visited the country on a speaking tour.

Feiglin told the paper that the letter "came out of the blue," and at first, he thought it might be a hoax.

"This is all very strange because I have no plans to visit Britain either in the short or long term. I have never been banned from anywhere else. In fact I am giving a lecture in Canada at the end of this month," Feiglin told the Jewish Chronicle.

The Home Office did not comment on its reasons for banning Feiglin from Britain, but issued a statement saying that the home secretary can exclude people whether or not they have applied to enter the country, while considering relevant information from other government departments
and agencies.

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      1.   They punish a Jew for arab murders. 01:59  |  LK 11/03/08
      2.   Pitiful limeys,wetting appetite of terrorists like arab Docs 02:12  |  Absolute Sweden 11/03/08
      3.   Britain bans Likud`s Moshe Feiglin from entering country 02:31  |  Steven Randel 11/03/08
      4.   Kudos to the UK 02:34  |  POP 11/03/08
      5.   Britain pathetic. Ultimate dhimmi 02:43  |  Jon 11/03/08
      6.   Moshe Feiglin in Toronto, Canada 02:45  |  Meir Weinstein 11/03/08
      7.   Inter-community violence in the UK? What tosh. 02:46  |  Hannah 11/03/08
      8.   I am no fan of Feiglin 02:52  |  Bill 11/03/08
      9.   How many Jews have blown up British buses and subways? 03:11  |  Jon 11/03/08
      10.   A shame, Britain could use its own Feiglin 03:19  |  Efox 11/03/08
      11.   Britain and Europe are all alike 03:31  |  Irv 11/03/08
      12.   It should become a big scandal 03:39  |  Moishe Kadish 11/03/08
      13.   All in all it`s just another brick in the Wall 04:03  |  Polybios 11/03/08
      14.   Retaliate by banning BBC and Reuters propagandists from Israel 04:06  |  Dr. L. Brnd 11/03/08
      15.   Thank you UK 04:44  |  pal 11/03/08
      16.   Britain? 04:59  |  Michael 11/03/08
      17.   An aspect of UK anti-Semitism 05:07  |  US CITIZEN 11/03/08
      18.   jon 05:26  |  sam 11/03/08
      19.   Feiglin 05:33  |  Louis Fried 11/03/08
      20.   One thing about the Brits,they never cease to amaze 05:47  |  Gerald Stone 11/03/08
      21.   # 4 Moron, now Israel can exclude a lot of brits from entering... 05:52  |  Misha 11/03/08
      22.   British should have pursued Begin & Shamir 06:03  |  Bobby 11/03/08
      23.   Thanks Brits. Now I know who Moshe Feiglin is 06:08  |  Darren 11/03/08
      24.   Britain bans Sir Moshe Feiglin 06:18  |  David 11/03/08
      25.   Moshe Feiglin is no possible threat to UK 06:44  |  an Israeli 11/03/08
      26.   Judges of the world?? The Brits?? 06:56  |  Alain 11/03/08
      27.   FEIGLIN FOR PRIME MINISTER NOW!! 07:01  |  Rob 11/03/08
      28.   Ban all criminals! 07:33  |  Atoo 11/03/08
      29.   arabritain already applicating charia? 07:38  |  michel 11/03/08
      30.   Feigling is a terrorist, extremist and racist 07:42  |  Londoner 11/03/08
      31.   Yet the Brit`s object when their ISM terrorists are banned 07:43  |  Binyamin Dissen 11/03/08
      32.   UK banned Jews from Israel in WWII as well 07:58  |  ace 11/03/08
      33.   Eurabia has spoken - Gentile Joke 08:25  |  superswede 11/03/08
      34.   Good...They Need To Add To The List 08:27  |  MB 11/03/08
      35.   Israel bans people from entering... 08:29  |  Silvienne 11/03/08
      36.   Will the U.K. be the first Islamic country of West Europe ? 08:37  |  Jean Van Daem 11/03/08
      37.   UK Anti zionist policy.....WE DON"T WANT BRITANIA EITHER!!!! 08:41  |  Ben Uziel 11/03/08
      38.   UK is right, ban this Hate monger 08:42  |  SJ 11/03/08
      39.   EURABIA STRIKES AGAIN!!!! 08:54  |  Jason 11/03/08
      40.   brits still bitter over the trashing we gave them 08:56  |  don 11/03/08
      41.   Feiglin banned 08:58  |  I.Kemp 11/03/08
      42.   Eclipsed! 09:11  |  Vizier 11/03/08
      43.   is this the party of blair the "peacemaker" 09:12  |  v hardman 11/03/08
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      47.   Every other week a dozen or so Muslims are arrested in UK 09:33  |  SLAVO 11/03/08
      48.   An American idiot speaks # 15 09:38  |  Clickfool 11/03/08
      49.   God - are we going to get a jot of Jewish whining on this thread 09:41  |  Clickfool 11/03/08
      50.   Feiglin was calling for "HOLY WAR" against Arabs..... 09:43  |  Swiss (Dino) 11/03/08
      51.   congratulations 09:48  |  Pitcher 11/03/08
      52.   MAINTAIN A DEFIANT ATTITUDE 09:53  |  indrajaya 11/03/08
      53.   Go Moshe!! 09:56  |  Chai 11/03/08
      54.   The British can exclude me as well 09:56  |  Johnny Weintraub 11/03/08
      55.   Why can`t we emulate the British...? 10:01  |  Esther 11/03/08
      56.   If the UK is so unimportant 10:06  |  Paul Wood 11/03/08
      57.   Extract from Denis MacEoin`s letter to Jaqui Smith 10:20  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 11/03/08
      58.   #28 SWISS (DINO): BRITISH INTEL PROBIBLY 10:21  |  BigBadJohn 11/03/08
      59.   Quite mild considering European history of treatment of Jews... 10:29  |  17 11/03/08
      60.   Feiglin the innocent? 10:32  |  Sylvie 11/03/08
      61.   Esther shows her usual lack of brains 10:32  |  x-ray 11/03/08
      62.   Dino what about all the Arabs who call for holy war against Jews 10:33  |  x-ray 11/03/08
      63.   For Johnny Weintraub #32 10:38  |  Clickfool 11/03/08
      64.   Of course Israel allows 10:39  |  Paul Wood 11/03/08
      65.   re 15 antisemitism 10:39  |  proud english jew 11/03/08
      66.   Clickfool - Touched a raw nerve? 10:41  |  Chai 11/03/08
      67.   the empire of the damned bans feiglin 10:44  |  v hardman 11/03/08
      68.   And now a Canadian idiot joins us # 24 10:44  |  Clickfool 11/03/08
      69.   To Leftie Esther,a little story for your edification 10:48  |  Absolute Sweden 11/03/08
      70.   Esther #33 I`ll tell you "why can`t we emulate the British" 10:50  |  S