UK Jews, Muslims form rare alliance | Jerusalem Post

UK Jews, Muslims form rare alliance | Jerusalem Post: "When a new student organization tried to push six anti-Israel bills through the student union at London's Kingston University over the weekend, Muslim and Jewish students banded together to vote them down.

In a rare alliance, they argued that if their campus supported one political position over another, the university's ideal of diversity would be damaged.

British universities have become increasingly known for taking action against Israel, either in student unions or through academic boycotts, and it seemed last week that Kingston would become yet another school on the growing list of anti-Israel institutions.

When the freshly-founded Friends of Palestine (FOP) set out a package of six anti-Israel resolutions for the student union to adopt, the 15 members of the university's Jewish society thought they had no chance at fighting the legislation on a campus with thousands of Muslim students." Read complete post here.