A Palestinian human rights campaigner has had his visa to enter Australia cancelled.

Bassem Tamimi, an outspoken activist and opponent of Israeli settlement in the West Bank, was scheduled to speak in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth this month.

However documents addressed to the 50-year-old and viewed by AAP dated April 6, show Mr Tamimi's visa to enter the country was revoked by federal authorities based on information indicating "a risk members of the public will react adversely to your presence ... regarding your views of the ongoing political tensions in the Middle East".




The visa was granted on April 4 and cancelled the next day under section 128 of the Migration Act.

Mr Timimi said he was disappointed to learn that he would not be able to visit.

"I feel that not only Palestine is occupied, the Zionists and their allies dominate the decision in all the world," he said from Jordan where he expected to board his flight to Australia.

"We are not fighting the Israeli occupation, we are fighting the colonisation everywhere. For that we must unify our struggles for humanity."

Organisers of Mr Tamimi's visit have described the move as an act of extreme censorship and have called on Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to reverse the visa cancellation.

"It is clear that this decision is motivated to silence pro-Palestinian views rather than avoiding politically controversial views," speaking tour activist Vashti Kenway said.

An Australian Friends of Palestine Association event post said Mr Tamimi's Sydney event was scheduled for April 11 at Sydney University.

A change.org petition against the government's ruling was created on Friday night.

Mr Tamimi was convicted by an Israeli military court in 2011 for "sending people to throw stones and holding a march without a permit".

His lawyers denied the charges saying he believed in "passive resistance".

The Department of Immigration and Border Protection have been contacted for comment.

© AAP 2017

This is just the federal government kissing Trumps ass.

Why would we have our own opinion when we can just follow the lead of the US ?

Passive aggressive support of tyranny.

rhino wrote on Apr 8^th, 2017 at 4:20pm:
They wouldn't like that. How can they call Jews pigs and dogs with Australia watching?

Im all for free speech, but totally free. None of this by invite only businesss. Public forum, and only in English, no Arabic. Our country, our language, our rules.

And no disguises allowed at the meetings. i.e. nothing which prevents a persons face being easily recognised. We want this totally free.

The Muslims can suck on it as far as I'm concerned. That's payback for the Somali lady who got  death threats and had to abandon her tour.

cods wrote on Apr 8^th, 2017 at 5:01pm:
Stop trying to ARGUE with me cods. It brings the forum down.

Mr Hammer wrote on Apr 8^th, 2017 at 4:51pm:


Ahhj
But its not acceptable to the CULT to have anyone, let alone a female and
Even worse a female who shrugged of the shackes of primitive brutality, to speak against the CULT.

The CULT is so fragile that if people were to actually start to think and examine the CULT for what it is
It would crumble like the bones of their pedophile, sociopath, mentally ill, insane prophet.