The US Embassy refused a visa to MK Ben Ari, allegedly because of a four-year-old criminal investigation against him for opposing police during the Gush Katif evictions.
Even Peres has admitted that the eviction was wrong; thus, Ben Ari should have been right to oppose the police.
Scores of freedom fighters from around the world have had no trouble obtaining US visas despite criminal cases against them.
In truth, Ben Ari couldn’t get a visa for the same reason his mentor Rabbi Kahane was banned from the United States, Canada, and Britain, the same reason that Moshe Feiglin recently encountered a similar ban: the freedom of speech is reserved for the politically correct.
Free speech stops its existence when the US don’t like a person for this or that reason. Free speech stops also when you are of the wrong nationality, too. It’s democracy, you know.
Michael Behenna was a person (in a long list) that the US have a very effective filtration system of who allowed what.
US free speech stops for Israel. Americans have forgot the main principles of the state their their ancestors have founded. That is why US free speech stops for Israel as well as for Americans themselves. There’s no freedom any more.
But some organs like USHSD demonstrate quite a lot of tolerance and give the criminals an opportunity to enjoy a number of liberties.
News on freedom of speech are getting more and more depressing all over the world. The news on freedom of speech shows that this notion has already become extinct in some countries and is very likely to suffer the same in others.
It’s very problematic for a politician to “believe his own words” and as a result they say something and do nothing out of this.