Was that the next Palestinian president you just banned, Mr Trump?
NOVANEWS
Grandma Ashrawi is more than a match for Israel’s stooges in the White House and whatever “deal of the century” they have cooked up for the Holy Land
By Stuart Littlewood
So, the Trump administration will no longer allow Hanan Ashrawi into the US, even though she’s a top diplomat, has family there and visits regularly. Why?
A US State Department spokesperson told Haaretz that “visa records are confidential under US law; therefore, we cannot discuss the details of individual visa cases”, adding that the law “does not authorise the refusal of visas based solely on political statements or views if those statements or views would be lawful in the United States”.
“Pettiness and vindictiveness”
Ashrawi is reported as saying, in her forthright way, that refusal to let her in was a poli...