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Today, as student protests against Israel’s actions have grown in size and fervor, hawkish defenders of Israel have intensified efforts to quash them, often asserting, speciously, that protest rhetoric – even the mere sight of a keffiyeh – makes Jewish students unsafe. They then go further to claim that, therefore, Jews are being targeted and threatened. Apart from ignoring that many of the protesters are themselves Jewish these conclusions require two sleights of logic. Above: Columbia University President Minouche Shafik