Israel bars US pollies

ISRAEL has banned American Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from entering the country, hours after US President Donald Trump tweeted the women “hate Israel & all Jewish people”.

“The decision is not to allow them to enter,” Israel’s deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely said. The reason cited was “suspected provocations and promotion of BDS”, the antiIsrael boycott movement.

The politicians are the first two Muslim women elected to Congress and are strongly critical of Israel.