New Report on Gazan Fulbright Scholars

Followup: Report on Gazan Fulbright Scholars
Followup: Gazan Fulbright Scholar at Columbia

I received the following news yesterday.

Fidaa [Abed] got his visa from Jerusalem consulate last week and was finally given the Israeli permit to leave to Amman. His flight was booked on August 1st, and he actually flew from Amman to Washington DC, through Frankfurt. We thought that was the happy end of the story, and we were all waiting for Fidaa to call us from California late yesterday.. not in a bizarro world.

 

Fidaa was returned back to Frankfurt airport, and now he is waiting for the next flight back to Amman (like 17 hours of waiting at Frankfurt's airport). The visa officer told him that the consulate sent them a fax to cancel Fidaa's visa. We don't know yet why was that. The visa officer was astonished himself and said he'd never seen a case like that. Fidaa was not notified by the consulate about that, and he knew only in Washington DC. It must be a last minute decision. I don't know what it is. If it is intended to be a joke, it is a very poor one. It is not funny at all.

I wish I knew which consulate sent the fax to cancel Fidaa's visa.

 

Philip Weiss has discussed Journalism's Old-Boy-Network and Zionism. The phenomenon is not unique to the news industry, and similar Jewish networks exist throughout the business world, academia and government. The ongoing refusal of OSI to apply its mandate equally to Jews and to gentiles by including possible Jewish violators of the law in its investigations and prosecutions is probably an example of the power of Jewish networking within the US government.

 

With knowledge of the specific consulate where the visa cancellation originated, identification of the specific local facilitators and gatekeepers in the case of Gaza Fulbright scholars might be possible.

 

If we take Condeleeza Rice's reported position at face value, the hassle that Gaza Fulbright scholars have been experiencing is originating at lower bureaucratic levels and possibly in collusion with the Israeli government. (See Jewish Dominance Ohio, Subversion KSG and in particular the section that discusses the Harvard Wexner Israel Fellowship.)

 

 

 

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