How do you handle the Middle East conflict on campus? How do you handle the Middle East conflict, period? This is an issue central to RONIT AND JAMIL. At Tufts University, this is being handled differently, particularly because the environment between Israel and Palestine is increasingly more hostile. Some students say they are ostracized when they show support for Israel, while Palestinian activists talk of being labeled "terrorists" and are accused of being anti-Semitic and anti-American. Now leaders from Hillel and Muslim Students Association teamed to organize a dialogue, which resulted, in April, attending each other's religious services and a talk by a Palestinian activist and a Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank. They are also organizing a Jewish-Muslim women's retreat.
This joint effort speaks the mission of my book: there must be peace, somehow, someway!
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