The Chronicle News Blog: Report Assails Israeli Policy That Keeps Palestinian Students From Leaving Gaza
Jerusalem — An Israeli human-rights group says that new restrictions imposed by Israel on Palestinian students trying to leave the Gaza Strip to study abroad include a demand that they be personally escorted by foreign diplomats.
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Tagged Gaza, Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Worcester Telegram: Gaza talk rescheduled at Clark U.
WORCESTER — Acknowledging “the process could have been better,” Clark University President John Bassett has approved rescheduling the appearance of a controversial scholar and author whose talk he had canceled two weeks ago.
After learning earlier this month that the Students for Palestinian Rights planned to bring Norman Finkelstein to campus Thursday, the first night of a university-sponsored Holocaust and genocide studies conference, Mr. Bassett nixed the student organization’s plans.
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Jerusalem Post: Hamas wins teachers union elections for UN schools in Gaza
Hamas supporters scored a victory in elections for the school teachers’ union of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that were held in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
Palestinians pick up bags of…
Palestinians pick up bags of flour at a United Nations food aid distribution center in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip.
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However, the rival PLO list won a majority of votes for two other UNRWA workers groups: the employees’ and the services’ unions.
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