Israel refuses visa to South African cabinet minister en route to Palestinian Authority
Source: Haaretz
Minister of Higher Education Blade Nzimande says in response that he will call on all higher education institutions in his country to freeze their contacts with Israeli universities.
Israel has refused to grant an entry visa to the South African Minister of Higher Education and Training, Blade Nzimande, who intended to visit the Palestinian Authority next week.
A senior official in Jerusalem said that the reason that the minister's visa request was turned down was because he intended to pass through Ben-Gurion International Airport for the purposes of visiting the Palestinian Authority, rather than visiting Israel.
Another reason, the official said, was Nzimande's radically anti-Israel stance.
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