Why did the U.S. turn away Gaza Fulbright scholars?

by E Wayne Ross on August 11, 2008

Haaretz: Why did the U.S. turn away Gaza Fulbright scholars?

WASHINGTON – “This is one of the oddest things we have encountered in recent years,” an Israeli official said of a long sequence of events that began with intense American pressure to allow two young Palestinian students to leave Gaza to study in the United States and ended with the U.S. barring their entry and canceling the visas it had granted them.