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'Biden Is Willing to Sacrifice Reelection for Israel. That's Shocking, Heartbreaking and Dangerous’
03:40 PM - May 08, 2024
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“Journalist and public intellectual Masha Gessen is dismayed that the Biden White House has been condemning, not supporting, the numerous tent protests against Israel's war in Gaza on American campuses and worried that this decision will hand the 2024 presidential election to Donald Trump.”
03:41 PM - May 08, 2024
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“In a wide-ranging conversation, Gessen recounted experiences on their recent reporting trip to Israel – including a visit to relatives living in a West Bank settlement – discussed the recent controversy over their comparison between the Gaza and Nazi-era Jewish ghettos and their views”
03:43 PM - May 08, 2024
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“on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who they described as "very much in the mold of all contemporary autocrats.

While they expressed "empathy" for the "fear, pain and terror" elicited by their Holocaust analogy, they said "I'm very critical of the way that [the Holocaust] “
03:45 PM - May 08, 2024
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“is being used politically," especially by "creating a sort of blindness to everything but that experience of fear and victimhood."

“Gessen is emphatic that the current wave of campus protests are "not in any way or shape" antisemitic, calling that claim "misguided and counterfactual" and based”
03:46 PM - May 08, 2024
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“on media "overreporting isolated incidents" by a minority of protesters, some of whom "are assholes and some of them antisemites."

“They said that they had personally witnessed a young man "staging an antisemitic incident" on the campus where they work. While they understand that many Jewish”
03:48 PM - May 08, 2024
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“students confronting the protests feel "rattled" by messages that "threaten their core identity," they said this "doesn't mean they are surrounded by antisemitism." Similarly, Jewish Americans' fear may be real, "but that doesn't mean it's justified."
03:49 PM - May 08, 2024
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