{"id":980982,"date":"2026-05-24T01:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/980982\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:53:37","slug":"france-bans-israels-ben-gvir-from-entry-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/980982\/","title":{"rendered":"France bans Israel\u2019s Ben-Gvir from entry \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The activists have since said they have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/22\/flotilla-activists-describe-beatings-tasers-and-mistreatment-by-israeli-forces-00934638\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mistreated<\/a> at the hands of Israeli soldiers, describing beatings, tasers and attack dogs. Israel has denied mistreatment, calling the allegations \u201cfalse and entirely without factual basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With his statement, Barrot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-sanctions-itamar-ben-gvir-gaza-flotilla-video-backlash\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined a growing chorus of European leaders<\/a> who are calling for EU sanctions against Ben-Gvir. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike my Italian colleague, I call on the European Union to also impose sanctions on Itamar Ben-Gvir,\u201d Barrot said in the social media post.<\/p>\n<p>But Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka on Wednesday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seznamzpravy.cz\/clanek\/domaci-zivot-v-cesku-cesko-nepripusti-dalsi-obchodni-sankce-eu-vuci-izraeli-rekl-macinka-306595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">vowed to block<\/a>\u00a0sanctions on Israeli government ministers, which require unanimity among the EU\u2019s 27 member states.<\/p>\n<p>Last year Ben-Gvir was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-lammy-sanction-israel-ministers-gaza-comments-ben-gvir-smotrich\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sanctioned<\/a>\u00a0by the U.K., Canada, Australia, Norway and New Zealand over what those governments described as his repeated incitement of violence against Palestinians. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The activists have since said they have been mistreated at the hands of Israeli soldiers, describing beatings, tasers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":980983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[12915,2000,299,5187,2816,36,38,2194,837,13302,839,1814,2663,811],"class_list":["post-980982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-aid-and-development","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-politics","tag-france","tag-french-politics","tag-gaza","tag-israel","tag-jean-noel-barrot","tag-middle-east","tag-palestine","tag-sanctions","tag-security"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116627059655786154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}