Reply #49: Well, the one in America...

[LeftishBrit]

hasn't stopped your government from restricting the entry of members or sympathizers or even former members of organizations which they consider as subversive - at the time when it affected my ex-communist colleague it was the Communist Party; but now there must be many others.

While I think most of these restrictions - by many countries - often end up being rather ridiculous, 'first amendment rights' and their equivalents elsewhere do not generally apply to the admission of foreigners for visits. (And Finkelstein is definitely a foreigner - just because he's Jewish does not make him an Israeli citizen.)

I would say that internally, Israel, whatever its other faults, is very good on freedom-of-speech issues. For example, Ha'aretz publishes lots of articles that are very critical of Israel.