"My office has received new reports of shameful treatment meted out to Arab Americans on their arrival in Israel"

"In the past year Israel has continued to demonstrate that it has no intention of ending their practice of discriminating against persons of Arab descent. My office has received new reports of shameful treatment meted out to Arab Americans on their arrival in Israel. Two cases, in particular, deserve to be noted." "George's case is especially instructive. When the Israeli border control agent told him that he could not enter Israel, George attempted to engage the agent saying, "I'm coming as an American citizen." To which the agent replied "No, no, you belong with the Palestinian people. This is our Israel, this is for the Jews. No Palestinian should come to Israel. You should have gone through the Allenby Bridge." "