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Israel Allows Gaza Athletes to Cross Into West Bank, but Bars Outstanding Academics

Loujain, Mohammed and Said are not soccer players in whom FIFA, the international soccer federation, takes any interest. No international academic association has stood up for their basic right to choose where they will study.

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Amira Hass

Ihab (the subject of last week's column ) was allowed by Israel to enter the West Bank for a specified period of time in order to get engaged. Students from Gaza are not allowed to study in the West Bank. The universities there are, after all, a hotbed for love affairs, raising the fear that young people will move to Judea and Samaria to settle.

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