A number of students from Wayne State University in Michigan went out to Israel and Palestine to study the issue. This article doesn’t say how many, but one got turned back, guess who?
One of the students, U.S.-born Abeer Afana, 20, said she was interrogated by security for several hours and placed on a plane back home because her parents are from the Gaza Strip and she once held a Palestinian passport.
The U.S. State Department warns that U.S. travelers with Arab or Muslim origin may face additional questioning "or may even be denied entry into Israel."
Monday, as her classmates began their monthlong study in Israel, Afana was home in Novi [MI] — frustrated and exhausted