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Gaza protest slogans amounted to ‘racial slurs’ toward Jews, Trump administration alleges in new Harvard lawsuit

JL;DR SUMMARY The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, claiming that the institution permitted an antisemitic environment on campus by being too lenient with student protests advocating for Palestinian issues. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Trump AdministrationJewish StudentsHarvard UniversityCivil RightsIntifadaPalestinian ProtestsFederal FundingDepartment Of JusticeFrom The River To The Sea

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Supporters of Palestine gather at Harvard University to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza at a rally in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on October 14, 2023."
Israel
"After summarizing the Hamas attack against Israel including a graphic allegation that Hamas terrorists cut open a pregnant womans womb and stabbed her fetus the lawsuit said that the violence was representative of what is meant by intifada."
Washington DC, United States
"And some courts elsewhere in the country have reached the conclusions the Trump administration seeks. A federal judge in Washington, D.C. ruled in August that stealing an Israeli flag could be a hate crime because targeting the Star of David is as racially motivated as the highly offensive racial slur, n."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"And the judge overseeing a lawsuit against the University of California, Los Angeles, that was ultimately settled ruled that anti-Zionist demonstrations required Jewish students to denounce their faith, declaring this unimaginable and so abhorrent to our constitutional guarantee of religious freedom."

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