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(Scroll down for video) A U.S. man was refused entry into the U.K. because his passport had a stamp from the Israel Border Patrol agency after a visit to Israel, the man said after landing in the United States.
The student of Kansas City, Missouri, was also detained for more than nine hours by customs officials in the U.K., before being put on a plane back to the U.S. He believes he was targeted because he was Jewish and had traveled to Israel, according to a report in JNS.org.
Louis Cantor, 23, arrived in the U.K. and waited in line to go through customs. He was arrested after a customs agent saw two pages in his passport had Israeli stamps. Cantor said he was never told why he was refused entry. He was told that his photo and fingerprints have already been placed in a database that will make it impossible for him to gain entry into the U.K. or any other European Union country, ever again.
Cantor's father, Chuck Cantor, said that during the time Cantor was detained, he was given only half a sandwich and a little water. When Cantor asked for more food and water, his request was denied, and he was told to "stop whining."
A U.K. man, Kevin Shilling, who had offered Cantor a summer job, said the when he spoke with the U.K. Border Agency in an attempt to get Cantor admitted into the country, he made more than one anti-Semitic remark.
Later, Cantor was escorted to a plane for a flight back to the U.S. "My only real goal now is to get my fingerprints and photo removed from the database, and get my black stamp on my passport removed as well," Cantor said.Mobile video not loading? Click here to view