Israel Turns Back American Student

Arab-American and civil rights groups are protesting the treatment by Israel of Abeer Afana, a student at Wayne State University who last week was refused entry into Israel at its main airport and was returned to the United States, the Associated Press reported. Afana is a U.S. citizen who was traveling for a study abroad program, using her U.S. passport. But Israeli officials said that because she once held a Palestinian passport, she would be permitted entry only via a land route from Jordan.