My name is Rachel, and Israel thinks I’m a security threat
Published on: Thursday 25 July 2019
College senior Rachel Marandett was set to leave New Jersey on an El Al flight to Tel Aviv to carry out research when Israeli security took her aside for interrogation. She was partially strip searched and questioned for an hour and a half about her about her family, her research, and specifically her Arab and Arab-American friends and relationships she made while studying in Morocco. They were thought policing. They were racially profiling my friends. They were afraid of the fact that I wasn’t afraid of the Middle East and the people who call it home, Marandett writes.
