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

JL;DR SUMMARY In addressing the complexities of campus antisemitism, a Harvard task force report highlights the social alienation Jewish students face due to their real or perceived associations with Israel. 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 CommunityJewish StudentsAnti ZionismHarvardCampusPluralismSocial Alienation

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Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
"Perhaps the best way to describe the existence of many Jewish and Israeli students at Harvard in the 2023-24 academic year is that their presence had become triggering, or the subject of political controversy, the authors wrote."
New York City, New York, United States
"The report avoided the dramatic yet often confusing, inconsistent, and isolated accounts in a similar report from Columbia University that described Jewish students chased out of dorms, spat on, and pinned against walls."

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