After quite some debate and resistance, I was pleased to find out today that the student council of one of the largest universities in Palestine recently signed a twinning agreement with my own grad school, the LSE's Student Union. An-Najah University is based in Nablus, and was founded 30 years ago in Northern West Bank region. There are about 10,000 students that go to An-Najah, compared to 8,000 students that attend the LSE (and of course, the LSE prides itself on the diversity of its student population - from 152 countries).

By doing so, the LSE Student Union is sending a strong message across - that the right to education is a universal one, and the world should not tolerate any violation of that right. When the motion for the twinning was first put forth, amendements were proposed so that LSE would twin with both a Palestinian and an Israeli university. The amendements failed to gain a majority vote, and the original motion passed without any changes or additions.