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What do we really mean by ‘campus antisemitism’? Harvard explains

JL;DR SUMMARY Campus antisemitism is often framed as a complex issue involving both political disagreements over Israel and more subtle forms of social alienation among Jewish students, as highlighted by a recent report from Harvard's antisemitism task force. 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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Jewish StudentsCampus LifeAnti ZionismHarvardSocial IsolationPolitical ControversyPluralismTask Force Report

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"One Jewish graduate student told the task force about a gathering where a few of his friends said that they felt unsafe around an Israeli student on campus because of his nationality."

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