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This piece offers the strongest argument yet that Batya Ungar-Sargon either lied about being deplatformed at Bard or was mistaken about what happened. It joins a similar piece by Kenneth Stern, as well as numerous testimonials by others at the event. forward.com/opinion/letter…
Lying about being deplatformed is (probably) very uncommon, but it does happen. Here’s one likely example. Considering the currency that it can get you in the Campus Free Speech game, no doubt there are others as well.

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But the damage in this case is done. Ungar-Sargon’s account has been widely spread, and the people who are typically quite eager to debunk alleged incidents of campus hate now seem strangely uncurious.
Jeez. Reading this makes me more convinced than ever that she flat-out lied. The discrepancies are just too big. Shame that she had to slam so many other people in the process.

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Republican lawmakers and conservative lobbyists, working in conjunction with ALEC, have launched a multi-state campaign to ban anti-Israeli rhetoric and activism in public schools and universities.

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/o…
The point man in this campaign is Randy Fine, a Florida Republican representative and the man who sponsored HB 741, which banned anti-Israeli speech in Florida's schools last May.

Wait...were you not aware that Florida banned anti-Israeli speech?

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Yeah, Florida added religion to the list of protected characteristics in its ed anti-discrimination law. Good! But in doing so, it uses the IHRA definition anti-Semitism (e.g. "Applying a double standard to Israel", "Delegitimizing Israel").

flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2…
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This needs to end. None of these "Renaissance Paintings" look like Renaissance paintings. None of them. At best, they look like warmed over Jacques-Louis David paintings, and even then not really. I will die on this hill.
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Yet ANOTHER Title VI complaint has been lodged by a Jewish student alleging anti-Semitism due to anti-Israel/anti-Zionist speech. One more example of why adopting the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism is a problem for free speech on campus.

standwithus.com/ucla-titlevi-c…
You can read the complaint here. A UCLA student says that she was verbally attacked in class by a guest lecturer for her Zionism, which she insists is a core component of her Jewish identity. To attack Zionism, she argues, is inherently anti-Semitic.

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This is the flip side of what Batya Ungar-Sargon says she experienced at Bard last week. As much as Ungar-Sargon insists (correctly) that being Jewish does not necessitate being a Zionist, many supporters of Israel insist otherwise. And it's infuriating.
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Here is my report in @JewishCurrents on what happened at Bard, from the perspectives of the organizer, fellow panelists, protesters, audience members
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“What it sounds like in this piece was that I was actually egging on the protest and encouraging the group in a way that simply did not happen. And I’m shocked by this misrepresentation and with the criticisms that are now coming my way." @ShahannaMB a Black Jewish educator.
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"I believe Batya Ungar-Sargon’s take on the student protest at the conference cheapens the term; I was there, and I disagree with both her description and interpretation of what happened." From Ken Stern, director of the Bard Center for the Study of Hate forward.com/opinion/letter…
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ICYMI: Transcript of Batya trying to establish her left-wing bona fides at Bard College: "I, the No. 1 publisher of Palestinian voices in America...The Forward...where I am the opinion editor, publishes more op-eds by Palestinians than the NYT, The Nation and WaPo combined...
...I, who have spent my entire career embedded in the Palestinian community, who have convinced more Israelis to vote for the Joint Arab List than you will meet in your life...I am worthy of protesting when I try to talk not about Israel but about anti-semitism?!?"
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