{"id":262687,"date":"2026-08-24T15:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/262687\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:02:11","slug":"israel-blocks-entry-of-swedish-meps-over-false-accusations-of-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/262687\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel blocks entry of Swedish MEPs over \u2018false accusations\u2019 of \u2018genocide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0Entry into Israel Law has, since 2017, allowed the government to deny visas to foreign nationals who have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/world\/irish-chief-rabbi-condemns-frisbee-teams-boycott-of-israeli-side-dv1u199n\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called for boycotts<\/a> against the Jewish State.<\/p>\n<p>It also allows ministers to bar visitors from entry if they are reasonably believed to be working against Israel\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<p>Last\u00a0April, two British Labour MPs, Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang,\u00a0were prevented from entering Israel for a planned trip to the West Bank and were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/politics\/israel-blocks-two-labour-mps-from-entry-and-deports-them-v45hfgi2\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deported from Ben Gurion Airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then-Foreign Secretary David Lammy called the decision \u201cunacceptable, counterproductive, and deeply concerning,\u201d but an embassy spokesperson said: \u201cThese individuals had accused Israel of false claims, were actively involved in promoting sanctions against Israeli ministers, and supported campaigns aimed at boycotting the State of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several months later, two more Labour MPs, including Dr Peter Prinsley, who is Jewish and a member of the Jewish Labour Movement, were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejc.com\/news\/israel\/jewish-mp-blocked-entering-israel-xb3yu5nv\" data-tracking-context=\"In article link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">similarly blocked<\/a>, though Israel did not confirm the reason for the decision publicly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Entry into Israel Law has, since 2017, allowed the government to deny visas to foreign nationals who have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[43936,64365,1092,37,2742,2248],"class_list":["post-262687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-boycotts","tag-editors-pick","tag-european-union","tag-israel","tag-israeli-politics","tag-sweden"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117151094686785239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}