The Joke Backfired, the Surprise Awaiting the Antisemitic Journalist at Ben Gurion Airport

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The joke backfired, the surprise awaiting the antisemitic journalist at Ben Gurion Airport

Rebecca Shorek, 10 minutes ago

Israel stops staying silent: journalist Alice Froussard, one of the most prominent antisemitic voices in the French media, was expelled from the country following a campaign of delegitimization and support for terrorism. Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli said, "Anyone who supports Hamas and the boycott movement against the State of Israel will not enter it. Bon Voyage!"

Israel is no longer turning the other cheek: this morning, Monday, the State of Israel made clear that the era in which foreign journalists could smear it, support terrorism, and seek work visas through a revolving-door approach has ended. The French journalist Alice Froussard, known as one of the most antisemitic voices in the French media, was expelled from the country after attempting to enter Israel and regularize a permanent work visa.

Froussard, who has operated in recent years from Jerusalem and Ramallah and reports for far-left French media outlets such as Mediapart, has not hidden her views. In an in-depth review conducted by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, her true face was exposed, statements legitimizing the October 7 massacre under the sanitized guise of "examining the context," false accusations of an IDF "massacre" in Gaza, and an ongoing delegitimization campaign portraying Israel as an "apartheid" state.

Amichai Chikli, Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, said, "Like Linda Sarsour and other agitators before her, Alice Froussard has also learned that we have changed the rules of the game, anyone who supports Hamas and the boycott movement against the State of Israel will not enter it. Bon Voyage!"

The Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism minister also sent a message to French President Emmanuel Macron: "As for the expected criticism from Macron and Jean-Noel Barrot, who granted Hamas recognition of a Palestinian state while our hostages were languishing in captivity, and who are imposing sanctions on Israeli ministers and citizens, you made this decision very easy."

Avi Cohen Scali, Director-General of the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, said, "Anyone who smears the State of Israel will not work in it. We will continue to denounce antisemitic statements within Israel and beyond its borders."

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