Dany Bahar is a contributing columnist for the Forward and an associate professor of practice of international and public affairs at Brown University’s Watson Institute. An Israeli and Venezuelan economist, he also is affiliated to The Growth Lab at Harvard Center for International Development, the Brookings Institution and the Center for Global Development.
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The Israeli government is dysfunctional and utterly confused about its priorities in fighting Hamas
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To suggest that antisemitic hate speech is problematic only when it violates university policy is a profound failure of leadership
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