Israel has had a Refugee Ban for 70 Years

The U.S. has begun banning people from entering the country on the basis of identity and origin, just as Israel has done for seventy years, strengthening the resemblance between the U.S. and Israel.

by Matthew DeMaio

This weekend, protests exploded in cities and at airports across the country against Donald Trump’s executive order banning immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries and halting the resettlement of Syrian refugees. As details of the ban’s content and enforcement have emerged, its similarity with long-extant Israeli policy has bee…