Israeli author and historian Ilan Pappe, known for his pro-Palestine views, said he was interrogated at Detroit airport by the FBI late Wednesday over Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza.
The author of ‘The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine’, which examines the violent events during the 1948 creation of Israel, wrote on Facebook that he was hauled in for questioning for two hours by the FBI, who also took his phone.
Pappe was asked if he supported Hamas, if he regards Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide and what he thinks the solution to the “conflict” was, he wrote.
He added the investigators also quizzed him on who his Arab and Muslim friends were in the US, as well as how long he knew them, and what his relationship was with them.
Pappe, who is a professor at the UK’s University of Exeter, said he had just ended an eight-hour flight and that the exhausting questioning after the long journey was intentional…..more