While pro-Palestinian students at the University of Leeds want to make their encampment as inclusive as possible, Jewish students are finding it hard for their voices to be heard.
Opposite the student union at the University of Leeds, a growing number of tents on the lawn speak to a fault line opening up not just on campus, but in wider society. Some of the tents are covered in Palestinian flags, while the entrance is plastered with a piece of cardboard spelling out the group's demands.
When I ask whether he's tried to begin a dialogue with the group camped across the road, he says it's been a struggle. 'Every time I or my friends attempt to have an open dialogue with them, a group of them come and pull themselves away,' he says. 'Every time they are not able to answer your question they just walk away.
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