Roxy

Israeli airport security has saved the life of an Irish citizen. In 1986, a then five-month pregnant Irish woman Anne-Marie Murphy was found with explosives in her bag by Israeli security while trying to board an El Al flight to Tel Aviv with 374 other passengers (roughly 395 total people on the flight including crew). It wasn’t her fault. She had been given the bag by her Jordanian fiancé, Nezar Hindawi, without knowing the contents. He sent her on the flight under the false premise of ‘meeting his parents before marriage’. His hatred of Jews surpassed any affection he may have had for his partner and unborn child who would, of course, have equally perished had his terror plot been successful. It is this context that makes the Irish Times amplifying false claims that Irish people are being profiled and discriminated against at Ben Gurion so egregious. Those security measures saved one of our own.