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Stefanik Uses Jews to Grandstand

Congresswoman Distorts Pro-Palestine Slogans to Attack the Academy

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The resignation of M. Elizabeth Magill, president of the University of Pennsylvania, is not a victory over antisemitism. Rather, the controversy over her statements earlier in the week — and the statements of leaders from Harvard and MIT — is a manufactured crisis constructed on a flimsy foundation of soundbites and legalese that has allowed misinformation to poison our politics.

Magill — and Scott L. Bok, chairman of the board of trustees — stepped down just days after a Congressional hearing that did nothing to get at questions of safety and discrimination on campus and everything to boost the stock of the Trumpist Republican leading the charge.

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At the center of the controversy is the word “intifada,” which New York Republican Elise Stefanik, the chief inquisitor and MAGA demagogue at the Dec. 5 hearing, defined as referring not just to violent rebellion. She defined it as “calling for the genocide of Jews,” a strategic conflation that none of the university presidents pushed back on…

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Sunday Poem: ‘White Fish’

A Memory Cast into Verse

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Still life with mackerel, lemon and tomato, Van Gogh, 1886
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Four Posts That Helped Explain the World to Me This Week

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I have tried periodically to share, sometimes with comment, some of the essays and reporting that has most affected my thinking over the last week or so. Here are five pieces from the past week (and prior) worth checking out:

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