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“If you said to most people we should get a bunch of Muslim students from an Islamic school and a bunch of Jewish students together and sit them down to debate Israel and Palestine,” said Michael Davies, “I think there would be a very sharp intake of breath.”
Since founding Parallel Histories, an online resource which teaches children the history of the Israel-Arab conflict from both viewpoints, he had yet to bring pupils of both faiths together in the same classroom.
But on Monday, a group of boys from the Abrar Academy, an independent Islamic school in Preston, Lancashire, came face-to-face with their Jewish counterparts at JCoSS in North London.