{"id":2758,"date":"2008-03-20T03:19:12","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T03:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/human-rights\/israels-airport-security-questioned\/2758\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T03:25:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T03:25:28","slug":"israels-airport-security-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/human-rights\/israels-airport-security-questioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s airport security questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM &#8211; A civil rights group is challenging Israeli airport security practices. The group says Israel singles out Arabs for closer inspection, and that&#8217;s racisim. <\/p>\n<p>But experts say the practice, which is known as profiling, is vital to security and saves lives. They say attackers aiming at Israeli aircraft are most likely to be Arabs.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli civil rights group challenged the practice before the Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday. Israeli-Arabs complain frequently that they are taken aside for unpleasant security checks. But the Israeli government isn&#8217;t prepared to admit that it practices profiling. Government lawyers are refusing to disclose details of security policy in open court sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM &#8211; A civil rights group is challenging Israeli airport security practices. The group says Israel singles out Arabs for closer inspection, and that&#8217;s racisim. But experts say the practice, which is known as profiling, is vital to security and saves lives. They say attackers aiming at Israeli aircraft are most likely to be Arabs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,1614],"tags":[67],"class_list":{"0":"post-2758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-human-rights","7":"category-surveillance-big-brother","8":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}