Omar Barghouti, one of the founders of anti-Israel BDS movement denied entry into the US from Israel's Ben Gurion Airport.

The US barred a leading member of the BDS movement from entering the country on Wednesday, ahead of planned speaking tour in the US.

Omar Barghouti, one of the founders of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement which works to delegitimize the Jewish state in an effort to force Israel to withdraw unilaterally from Judea and Samaria, was barred from boarding a US-bound flight Wednesday at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport.

The Qatari-born Barghouti has lived in Israel since the 1990s, and acquired legal residency status through his marriage to an Israeli-Arab woman.... Read More: Arutz-7