This article describes the exeperience, often difficult, of the Olive Tree Scholars (mentioned by Paul Anderson a few days ago) - a group of Palestinian and Israeli students studying together at City University, London. It reports, amongst other things:
The questions the students are grappling with are painful, and they all clearly feel there is a long way for them to go in the next three years. But they are deeply committed to the project's ideals. Miller [Steve Miller, deputy vice-chancellor of City University] says the project is the antithesis of the Israeli boycott recently agreed by the Association of University Teachers. It has links with both Bar Ilan and Haifa University, which it will not be severing as a result of the AUT's policy, he says.