Andrew Lapin
By Andrew Lapin
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Fast Forward Claudine Gay resigns from Harvard, weeks after contentious antisemitism hearing
Gay had faced weeks of criticism and pressure from Jewish groups
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Politics Shenna Bellows, who blocked Trump from Maine’s primary ballot, used to run the state’s Holocaust center
In her decision, Maine’s first woman secretary of state echoed her own words about her work at the Holocaust center: that she was primarily concerned with protecting democracy
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Fast Forward Feds to probe University of North Carolina’s response to harsh anti-Israel speech
George Mason University and Newark Public Schools are also targets of investigations by the Department of Education
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Culture A new ‘Color Purple’ adaptation hits theaters, returning author Alice Walker’s history of antisemitism to spotlight
The acclaimed author has endorsed antisemitic conspiracy theorists while working with Steven Spielberg
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Books Florida district pulls many Jewish and Holocaust books, including Saul Bellow’s ‘Herzog’ and ‘Black, White and Jewish’
The Orlando-area district was the latest to purge Jewish- and Holocaust-themed books from the shelves in fear of a state law forbidding explicit content
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News At Stanford, a committee to address antisemitism is roiled by Jewish infighting
A Jewish studies professor with a history of fighting antisemitism at Stanford resigned after being accused of not being pro-Israel enough
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Fast Forward MIT joins Harvard and Penn on list of schools facing federal civil rights investigations
MIT was one of six universities and districts to join the growing list this week; all have faced antisemitism or Israel-related controversies
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Fast Forward Suspect arrested in antisemitic attack outside Washington, DC synagogue
The suspect sprayed an unknown substance on two people while reportedly yelling “Gas the Jews"
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