Amy Thomson said she was humiliated after hours of questioning by Israeli authorities. Photo / Graeme Brown
A peace activist was detained for 48 hours before being sent back to New Zealand for trying to enter Israel on a tourist visa.
Amy Thomson, 26, was held at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv on February 26. She tried to enter the country for a three-month voluntary internship at a non-government organisation promoting peace.
Thomson said the Israel Palestinian Centre for Research and Information told her she should claim to be a tourist.
Suspicions were raised when Israeli immigration authorities saw she had recently visited Lebanon…
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