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The spokesperson of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Yigal Palmor, was asked in a phone interview on Monday afternoon in Jerusalem why Princeton Professor Emeritus of International Law Richard Falk, the UNHRC’s Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territory, was denied entry into Israel on Sunday upon his arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport, and detained overnight pending deportation. Palmor said, “the fact that he believes in conspiracy theories” is enough to discredit him. Palmor was referring to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center’s twin towers in New York City and on the Pentagon building outside Washington D.C. — and Palmor acknowledged that Falk has not been accused of backing all the conspiracy theories that have been developed around this attack (particularly the more anti-Semitic versions). But, Palmor said, “the fact that he believes that the CIA is directly responsible is enough.”
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