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Avoiding Victimhood: A Lesson From Our Jewish Peers
Avoiding Victimhood: A Lesson From Our Jewish Peers
More than six months have passed since the deadly attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. Yet it seems like every day I wake up to new reports of antisemitic conduct, particularly among America’s most elite young adults, Ivy League students. The latest has been a series of violent protests at Columbia and Yale where Jewish students were harassed and even attacked. At Penn, I have been reporting on the ground while protesters chanted “Israelis are pigs,” and “Al-Qassam make us proud, take another soldier down.” Our famous Ben Franklin statue was even vandalized with the KKK slur “Zios get fuckt.” How did the…
More than six months have passed since the deadly attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. Yet it seems like every day I wake up to new reports of antisemitic conduct, particularly among America’s most elite young adults, Ivy League students. The latest has been a series of violent protests at Columbia and Yale where Jewish students were harassed and even attacked. At Penn, I have been reporting on the ground while protesters chanted “Israelis are pigs,” and “Al-Qassam make us proud, take another soldier down.” Our famous Ben Franklin statue was even vandalized with the KKK slur “Zios get fuckt.” How did the…
More than six months have passed since the deadly attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. Yet it seems like every day I wake up to new reports of antisemitic conduct, particularly among America’s most elite young adults, Ivy League students. The latest has been a series of violent protests at Columbia and Yale where Jewish students were harassed and even attacked. At Penn, I have been reporting on the ground while protesters chanted “Israelis are pigs,” and “Al-Qassam make us proud, take another soldier down.” Our famous Ben Franklin statue was even vandalized with the KKK slur “Zios get fuckt.” How did the…
