Originally Posted by prof
TLV is the most nakedly racist airport on the planet. Passengers are given stickers according in part to their ethnicity. Anyone with an Arabic or Muslim name (irrespective of nationality, profession, age etc) is plastered with red stickers and is subjected to an intimate search of his or her belongings in full view of all the other passengers, and then assigned a minder who will be attached like a limpet and only detach once the passenger is through passport control. The only people who can enjoy Tel Aviv and its beaches and restaurants are those who are willing and able to turn a blind eye to such violent racism, of which the airport security practices are only the mildest incarnation.
Rather over the top
prof. TLV and the flights departing from TLV are at particularly high risk due to racist terrorism that tries and sometimes succeeds to kill Jews just because they are Jews. It is not only a right, but also an obligation on the part of the security services in TLV to do whatever neccassary to block attempted acts of terrorism. Although I don't know if what you say is done at TLV is accurate or completely true, assuming it is I would suggest that it is a profiling system when leaving (not entering) the country and relates specifically to security. If the US Homeland Security had the ability to implement such a solution, I have no doubt they would. They cannot beacuse of its sheer complexity. TLV can as a a single international airport of a limited size and too right that it does!!!. I don't love the full searches I am regularly subjected to at US airports only because they take time, but I see them as neccassary without a profiling system. So, I live with it!!!