Polly Curtis, Guardian Unlimited education correspondent
The row over the academic boycott of Israeli rumbles on. Yesterday saw increasing questions over its legality and a handful of resignations from the union behind it in protest. Some students are now worried that they will get caught up in it; like the Olive Tree scholars, a group of a dozen Israeli and Palestinian students living and studying together at City University.
The idea is to build bridges, break down prejudices and, when they graduate, to go back home and work on joint Israeli-Palestinian projects for a year. The boycott is only against two universities, not individual students, so they shouldn't be affected. But there are nerves about the boycott, nevertheless. Two of the students, Yael Litmanovitz, an Israeli Jew, Firas Khalil, a Palestinian, have been keeping an online diary throughout their year in London at EducationGuardian.co.uk.
