Israel

Protect and promote international academic travel to the West Bank

Scholars at Risk has issued the below letter expressing concern over an Israeli government directive that will severely restrict international scholars’ and students’ travel to and work in the West Bank. Set to go into effect in May 2022, the

Scholar Detained at Israeli Border and Deported

On April 29, 2018, Katherine Franke, a professor of law, gender and sexuality from Columbia University Law School, was detained, interrogated, and ultimately deported after arriving in Israel, as part of a 20-person delegation of civil rights leaders.