Students at an-Najah University, the largest Palestinian university in the West Bank, on Monday blocked Palestinian official Sari Nusseibeh from speaking at a campus seminar. The students were angry that Nusseibeh has said Palestinian refugees must give up the “right of return” to homes they fled during Israel’s 1948 War of Independence.
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