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Article: Coalition asks State Department to downgrade travel warning to Israel
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- Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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- March 9, 2005
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Pomerance, Rachel
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
03-09-2005
NEW YORK, March 8 (JTA) -- In a new campaign, a group called Caravan for
Democracy is asking the U.S. State Department to reconsider its warning
against travel to Israel. As a result of the warning to Americans planning
trips to Israel, updated with more severe language in the spring of 2002,
nearly all of the more than 100 U.S. colleges with study abroad programs in
Israel suspended those programs or established barriers that deterred
prospective students.
As a result, Jewish and Zionist identity experiences for many college
students are at risk, Jewish officials have argued.
That rationale forms the basis for the latest campaign for ...