Police arrest unnamed left-wing activist at Ben Gurion Airport

Police say they have arrested a left-wing activist at Ben Gurion International Airport who was trying to leave the country.

The man is being held on suspicion of conspiring to commit a crime.

Police would not identify the suspect, nor say whether the arrest is linked to the weekend exposé by the Uvda investigative news program about far-left activist Ezra Nawi, who was shown on video saying he had helped Palestinian security forces identify Palestinians who sold land to Jews. Nawi acknowledged in the video that this was likely to lead to the sellers’ torture and death.

The suspect was taken for questioning by the Judea and Samaria Police, the branch of the Israel Police that operates in the West Bank.

— Judah Ari Gross

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