You cannot make this stuff up, and you cannot, ever, go wrong predicting that Israel will do something even more stupid and self-destructive than it did the last time it did something stupid and self-destructive:
This is not how she imagined her visit to Israel. Prof. Donna Shalala, who served as the US Secretary of Health and Human Services for eight years under Clinton and is currently the president of the University of Miami, was held for two-and-a-half hours at Ben Gurion Airport during which she underwent a humiliating security debriefing because of her Arab last name – all this despite the fact that her hosts notified the airport ahead of time that she is a VIP.
The fact that Shalala arrived in Israel as part of an official delegation of the heads of universities fighting against the academic boycott against the Jewish State also seemed not to help her.
Perhaps now she’ll come to her senses and support the academic boycott. Since that seems to be what Israeli officials want her to do, maybe they will treat her with greater respect.
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