‘Discriminatory’: Democrats urge Israel to end West Bank travel restrictions

Israel should not join visa waiver scheme until it stops targeting Arab and Muslim US citizens based on their ethnicity', letter says

Twenty members of Congress have asked the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, to demand Israel end discriminatory" travel restrictions against Palestinian Americans visiting their families in the occupied territories and US citizens critical of Israeli government policies.

The letter comes as Israel is attempting to negotiate entry to the US visa waiver program, which would allow its citizens to join those of 40 other countries in traveling to the US with only online approval and without requiring an interview.