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March 10, 2016

At Oberlin, Safe Spaces for All But Jews

Only one prejudice is not subject to condemnation.

When the anti-Semitic rantings of Joy Karega-Mason, a professor at Oberlin College, garnered public attention, Oberlin’s president admitted that “they caused pain for many people” before going on to defend academic freedom and to argue that the “essence” of a liberal-arts education is “interrogating assertions with facts and deep, critical thinking from multiple viewpoints.” Meanwhile, an email from an off-campus account was sent to all of Oberlin’s students claiming that the “state of Israel, Zionist Jews are pure evil. They did 9/11.” Jeffrey Salkin responds:

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