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My journey from BDS activist to Israel educator

If someone had come to me over six years ago and told me that in my final year of university, I would be graduating from a fellowship programme run by StandWithUs UK, I would have probably called them deluded, maybe even insane.


Yet here I am, over a year later, reflecting on every aspect of what I encountered and experienced as a StandWithUs Emerson fellow.


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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ali Drabu, is a Muslim student and a graduate of the StandWithUs Emerson Fellowship program 2019/20. A recent graduate from the University of St Andrews in International Relations, he is undertaking a master's degree in International Security at King's College London. Ali is a former Member of Youth Parliament, with his work focusing on campaigning against Antisemitism and Islamophobia.

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