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HAMMER: Yes, The United States Was Right To Deny Entry To BDS Co-Founder Omar Barghouti

Josh Hammer

As I reported last week, the United States recently denied entry to Omar Barghouti — the co-founder and leader of the inherently anti-Semitic “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” movement that incites economic warfare and sundry other forms of “lawfare” against the world’s only Jewish state. Barghouti, born in the Muslim Brotherhood-cozy state of Qatar and hailing from a prominent Hamas-linked Palestinian-Arab clan, was scheduled to make stops at various northeastern U.S. universities, meet with lawmakers in Washington, D.C., and also attend his daughter’s wedding in Texas.

Some on the Left — buttressed by some of the usual suspects on the virtue-signaling Right — have seen fit to condemn the United States’ denial of entry for Barghouti. Consider far-left New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg:

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