Extremist Israeli politician banned from Britain

A politician from Israel's rightist Likud party is the
latest Israeli figure to be banned from travel
to the UK while he plans on travelling to Canada
to support the JDL.

Moshe Feiglin, leader of the hardline-theological Jewish
Leadership faction within Likud, received a letter from
the UK's Home Office in December warning him he would
not be permitted to enter the country.
The Border and Immigration Agency he uses his position
"to propagate views which foment and provoke others
to serious criminal acts and also foster hatred which
might lead to inter-community violence in the UK."

Mr Feiglin, a settler who lives in the northern
West Bank, served six months in prison in the
mid-1990s for sedition for his role in protests
against the Oslo Accords. Other members of
Likud have lobbied for his removal from the party,
for extremist views that include the need for a
'holy war' against Muslims and the construction
of a synagogue on the Temple Mount, known
to Muslims as al Haram al Sharif.

He is not the first Israeli to be warned against
travelling to the UK.

Cabinet minister Avi Dichter cancelled a speech at
a counter-terrorism conference in December 2007
for fear of arrest after human-rights campaigners
begun legal action against him on allegations of
war crimes; the former head of Israeli forces in
Gaza, Major-General Doron Almog, narrowly
avoided arrest in 2005 by staying on an El Al
flight until it left London again.