Israel ‘Facebooks’ to Bar Pro-Palestinian Protestors from Entry

In what seems to be among the most novel ways of social networking usages is the move taken by the Israeli government. So, what happens when a country, in today’s times receives a threat to its peace and sanctity? According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, a bunch of individuals were found to have declared on several internet sites that they were in plans of wreaking havoc in the country on arrival.

A detained Pro-Palestine

On learning about their plans, the government got down to action almost immediately. Using Facebook to their benefit, the officials put down a list of blacklisted pro-Palestinians, which came down to a long list. Since then, the government has been notifying foreign airlines to keep their passenger list free of the blacklisted names; many others were barred from boarding flights bound to Tel Aviv from Europe, several others had to undergo hours of questioning on their arrival at the main airport.

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Israel has been taking very strong preventive measures to avoid any more disturbances to the country and the internet, especially Facebook is being used in a most novel way.

Source: Agencies