The Wire

Living as a Palestinian in Israel has many problems…. but one of the more subtle is just getting a decent education, according to a new study by group of female Palestinian academics.They say Palestinian schools are run down, and are often raided by the military or converted into detention facilities. As a new academic year starts in that part of the world these women have begun an international petition to get the plight of Palestinian students, particularly girls, noticed by the rest of the world .Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian says that the Gender Studies project showed clear discrimination by the Israeli government.