Saudi Arabia threatens to withdraw its students from Canada

In a diplomatic conflict associated with activists for women's rights, Saudi Arabia retaliated with multiple sanctions, one of which was to withdraw 7,000 Saudi students who are attending Canadian universities. It's sad to see students pursuing education opportunity caught in the cross-hairs of political action. There have been calls in Europe for support of Canada against Saudi Arabia but any country who has hosted Saudi students will be looking carefully at the potential of other punitive responses if Saudi is criticized.

Some U.S. institutions are reaching out to Saudi students who were studying in Canada with invitations to apply and waiver of application fees.