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When the victims are Jewish, the rules suddenly change.

JL;DR SUMMARY Karen Cyphers' essay explores the double standards in addressing antisemitism on college campuses, specifically focusing on how the identity of aggressors and victims affects public reaction and disciplinary measures. 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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Hate SpeechPalestinian Israeli ConflictJewish StudentsIdentity PoliticsPublic OpinionCampus ProtestsDouble StandardsBiasDisciplinary Actions

Places mentioned

Florida, United States
"To begin to answer these questions, we ran a randomized experiment with over 1,000 Florida voters"
Channel Islands, California, United States
"I ran these results past Bryan Tomlin, an economics professor at California State University Channel Islands"
Palestinian Territories
"Indeed, the thought of returning a student to Palestine, an active war zone, might feel proportionally more punishing than returning a student to Poland."
Poland
"might feel proportionally more punishing than returning a student to Poland."
Haiti
"Would people be equally hesitant to deport a student from a country such as Haiti, which has similar levels of health, development, and upheaval, as they are for a Palestinian student?"

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