The schizophrenic reality of Palestinian students on Israeli campus

“I would rather be born a Jew in Israel or a Palestinian in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. This in-between existence is impossible — it kills me.” 

These were the words of a fellow Palestinian student at Ben-Gurion University, spoken to me during a coffee break on campus about a year ago. They have stayed with me ever since: in their exaggerated simplicity and sense of…