Brian Eno’s daughter banned from Israel

Former Roxy Music star Brian Eno’s daughter was once refused entry to Israel because of her involvement in the Palestinian peace movement.
As a result, the revered musician and producer, who has been at the forefront of a celebrity-heavy effort to boycott Israel as a protest against the war on Palestine, was fully prepared to be turned away at the Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv in April (18), when he arrived ahead of the Palestinian Music Expo on the West Bank.
“I thought that they wouldn’t let me in,” Eno tells CelebrityAccess contributor Larry LeBlanc. “But if they didn’t, that would be a story. I was prepared to do it (go there) for that reason.
“My daughter, Irial, who was 26 at the time, was refused entry to Israel and banned for 10 years about two years ago. She was a medical student, and in her last year… she decided to go and work in the Arab hospital in Jerusalem.
“Everything was sorted out between her university and the (Israeli) government. All of the papers were in order. She went and they questioned her for a long time and sent her home, and told her that she wouldn’t be allowed into Israel for 10 years.
“I think that may have been because when she was at university, she was chairman of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign.”
In 2006, Eno was one of more than 100 artists and writers who signed an open letter calling for an international boycott of Israeli political and cultural institutions, amid the long-standing conflict between the nation and Palestine, and in January, 2009 he spoke out against Israel’s military action on the Gaza Strip and participated in a large-scale protest in London.
He was also a co-signatory to a letter that labelled the conflict an “inhumane and illegal act of military aggression”.