(Dutch News) A controversial Palestinian activist who had been invited to give a lecture at Radboud University in Nijmegen next week has been banned from entering the Netherlands.
Mohammed Khatib, who had been asked to talk about Palestinian prisoners and the Israeli prison system for an informal course, will not be allowed to enter the country, justice minister David van Weel and immigration minister Marjolein Faber said in a statement on Friday morning.
Van Weel said earlier this week he was looking into the option of a ban.
Khatib “legitimises, condones and glorifies violence against the state of Israel, including violence by organisations on the European Union’s terrorism list,” van Weel and Faber said in a statement. “He also actively expresses support for terrorist organisations. These statements may have a radicalising effect.”
