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Crimson opinion writer

Samuel P. N. Libenson

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President Gay ay Harvard Yard Shabbat Table Installation
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Gay’s Resignation Is Not a Win Against Antisemitism

If Gay’s resignation follows pressure from powerful figures who saw her support of Israel and protection of Jewish students as inadequate — which I fear will be how it will be remembered, regardless of whether that’s what really happened — it is not the win against antisemitism many may feel it to be.

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It Doesn’t Have to Be ‘Apartheid’

Aside from sacrificing honesty for the sake of provocation, these words alienate students who, like me, are genuinely upset about and disillusioned by Israel’s decades-long disenfranchisement, displacement, and oppression of the Palestinian people. I hate to get caught up in semantics, but with conversations that hit close to home, the words we use really do matter.

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