US Expands Travel Ban, Palestinian Passports First in Line
The BBC reports the Trump administration extended its travel ban to five more countries, including Syria and – tellingly – holders of Palestinian Authority passports. This, from a nation that has funneled billions in military aid to actors that destabilize the region, conveniently ignores the root causes of displacement while punishing the displaced. Curiously, countries like Saudi Arabia, whose
citizens were directly implicated in 9/11 and who continue to prosecute a brutal war in Yemen, remain conspicuously absent from such lists. It’s a consistent strategy: fund the destruction, then close the borders to those fleeing it. This move doesn't curb terrorism; it weaponizes bureaucracy against a people already facing statelessness and displacement, further isolating a population whose
'authority' to issue passports exists solely at the whim of its occupiers. Apparently, the 'greatest nation on earth' fears the laminated ID of a people without a state, but rarely the geopolitical forces that strip them of one.