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##ANTISEMITISM: At Harvard University. Shabbos Kestenbaum-Shabbos Kestenbaum is a second year Master's student at Harvard University researching the intersections of public policy and contemporary American Jewish life. Shabbos is both passionate and invol

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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##ANTISEMITISM: At Harvard University. Shabbos Kestenbaum-Shabbos Kestenbaum is a second year Master's student at Harvard University researching the intersections of public policy and contemporary American Jewish life. Shabbos is both passionate and involved with the resurgence of Jewish life in Poland and is currently the lead plaintiff against Harvard, alleging severe and pervasive antisemitism.

https://nypost.com/2024/01/12/news/jewish-student-suing-harvard-claims-suit-is-their-last-recourse/
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/1/12/harvard-lawsuit-campus-antisemitism/

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There's only one. Magnum Classic.I in the world. I'm John Batsu with my colleague and friend and co-host

0:39.7

Malcolm Hone online Conference of Presidents major American Jewish organizations.

0:44.0

Anti-Semitism and brutality on the elite campuses of America.

0:51.0

Much in the news, we welcome Shabos Kestenbaum, a divinity student at the Harvard Divinity School.

0:58.0

He is also a member of the Harvard community, and one day I learned from the New York Post he was confronted by anti-Israeli

1:06.4

demonstrators calling quote globally expand the Intifada.

1:11.0

Shabas a very good evening to you.

1:13.0

Thank you for joining.

1:14.0

What happened that day?

1:15.0

Can you help us understand this unacceptable conduct?

1:19.0

Good evening to you.

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Good evening.

1:21.0

Thank you for having me.

1:22.0

So as is typical, unfortunately, of most universities and institutions of higher learning in the United States, I was walking to Widener Library, which is really the art and soul of Harvard University.

1:34.4

And I, along with other Jewish students, were exposed to chance globalize the Intifada,

1:41.0

free Palestine from the river to the sea. I'm someone who's visibly Jewish. I wear my skull cap, my keepa every day and it became so uncomfortable at best and threatening at worst to have fellow classmates

1:54.8

those who we share spaces with and in some cases professors who we learn from

1:58.7

chanting to globalize the Intifada one of the hardest periods for the Jewish

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