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Reform leader condemns Khalil’s arrest, says campus crackdown risks greater antisemitism

JL;DR SUMMARY Rabbi David Saperstein, a prominent leader in the Reform movement, condemned the arrest and potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian protest leader at Columbia University, warning that such actions undermine civil liberties vital to American democracy and can fuel antisemitism. 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 AdministrationReform JudaismPro Palestinian ProtestsCampus ActivismColumbia UniversityCivil LibertiesDue ProcessMahmoud KhalilDavid Saperstein

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Washington D.C., Washington DC, United States
"The Thursday Senate hearing will also feature testimony from representatives of StandWithUs and the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, two pro-Israel groups, and from Kenneth Stern, author of a controversial definition of antisemitism that he has since declared has been used inappropriately to limit pro-Palestinian speech. Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Chabads representative in D.C., will also testify."
New York, United States
"Saperstein, a major leader in the Reform movement and the former United States Ambassador for international religious freedom, is scheduled to testify Thursday at a Senate hearing on campus antisemitism. He said in a 16-page prepared statement that while he is deeply opposed to the views of Khalil, a leader of the pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia, the Trump administrations crackdown on protesters was weakening tenets of American democracy that benefit Jews."

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