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      <title>Legacy organizations skittish on confronting the scourge of anti-Zionism on campus</title>
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      <title>Three failed strategies of ‘inward advocacy’</title>
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      <title>Plots, libels, accusations: Fingers pointed at Jews go back centuries</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Professor Hatem Bazian at the University of California, Berkeley has advanced a modernized libel claiming that Israel seeks to conquer Mecca.]]></description>
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      <title>Higher education vs. the Jews</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Are colleges and universities squeezing the Jews out?]]></description>
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      <title>Israel does not need anyone’s permission to exist</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[We must hold our heads up high and say ‘hinenu,’ we are here.]]></description>
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      <title>We are Jews because we are Zionists, we are Zionists because we are Jews</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The struggle against anti-Zionism is the struggle for the freedom to be our true, authentic selves.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2022 11:55:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jewish teens are already targets, ethnic studies offers better aim</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Language from the unit on “Teach Palestine” in the “liberated” curriculum links Zionism to right-wing politics, vilifies Zionism as being anti-inclusion and demonizes Israel. How will teaching these concepts not contribute to the hounding of pro-Zionist students?]]></description>
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      <title>The ‘Israel Question’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Just as the stateless Jew was an affront to the European race, so Israel today is an affront to the world’s sensibilities.]]></description>
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