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Lipstadt says Trump admin ‘weaponized’ antisemitism in higher ed policy

JL;DR SUMMARY Deborah Lipstadt, former U.S. special envoy to combat antisemitism, critiques the Trump administration's approach to tackling antisemitism on college campuses. 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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HamasTrump AdministrationJewish StudentsDeborah LipstadtUniversitiesHigher EducationCampus PoliticsForeign StudentsDue Process

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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
"or whatever it might be: research on AIDS, research on pneumonia, research on cancer, research on so many different things, said Lipstadt, who plans to return to her longtime academic home of Emory University as a distinguished professor this summer."
Turkey
"officials have not provided evidence to back up those claims for many of the students it detained, such as Turkish Tufts University graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was picked up by masked ICE agents outside her apartment on her way to an iftar dinner."

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