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"The head of the NGO Monitor organization said that although he wasn’t familiar with activists posing as journalists in order to enter Israel, the proposed regulations would be consistent with government efforts to hinder the efforts of "quasi-journalistic organizations who are engaged in political propaganda." Prof. Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor and a professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan, added that a number of reporters entering Israel under no false pretenses are "waging political warfare against Israel" and using their role as journalists "to be a mouthpiece for Palestinian issues." Often with such journalists, "the line between journalism and propaganda becomes blurry," he said."