It’s not every day you have an 18 year old army reservist poking a machine gun at you and barking orders — but it happened to me. My colleagues MPs Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang being denied entry to Israel then booted back to Blighty brought back my brush at the same Ben Gurion airport, long before this present Gaza war.
As someone who has experienced similar I know it’s not a pleasant experience to be subjected to extra questioning then hauled aside. But at least it happened to me on the way out, not in. Given we are in the midst of a bloody war unfolding in real time there are wider implications too. The incident which happened to two young women has rightly outraged David Lammy.
