Collective punishment is what this is:

“This could be interpreted as collective punishment,” complained Rabbi Michael Melchior, chairman of the Parliament’s education committee, during the hearing. “This policy is not in keeping with international standards or with the moral standards of Jews, who have been subjected to the deprivation of higher education in the past. Even in war, there are rules.”

The life of one woman who had been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship:

Hadeel Abukwaik, a 23-year-old engineering software instructor in Gaza, had hoped to do graduate work in the United States this fall on the Fulbright that she thought was hers. She had stayed in Gaza this past winter when its metal border fence was destroyed and tens of thousands of Gazans poured into Egypt, including her sister, because the agency administering the Fulbright told her she would get the grant only if she stayed put. She lives alone in Gaza where she was sent to study because the cost is low; her parents, Palestinian refugees, live in Dubai.

“I stayed to get my scholarship,” she said. “Now I am desperate.”

She, like her six colleagues, was in disbelief. Mr. Abdullah, who called the consulate in Jerusalem for further explanation after receiving his letter, said to the official on the other end, “I still cannot believe that the American administration is not able to convince the Israelis to let seven Palestinians out of Gaza.”

I read Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman's biography, "Genius", a passage in which there was a Jewish woman talking about the fact that she had a successful dinner when Feynman and several prominet politicians, generals came to have a lively intellectual discussion.  It is shocking that  Palestinians from Gaza who are Fulbright Scholarship winners would not be given the right to visit the United States for attaining their fullest intellectual attainment because of where they live.

There could be hope:

But when a query about the canceled Fulbrights was made to the prime minister’s office on Thursday, senior officials expressed surprise. They said they did, in fact, consider study abroad to be a humanitarian necessity and that when cases were appealed to them, they would facilitate them.

It surely wouldn't hurt to have our elected Representatives and Senators know about this situation and to have those scholarships restored this academic yer to those seven Palestinians who live in the prison called Gaza- Perlmutter, DeGette, Udall, and the Salazars (even Allard, Tancredo, Musgrave, and Lamborn) will you listen?