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The Trump Effect: Reflections on how academic life has improved for a Jewish professor

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Senior counsel to Trump's assistant AG Leo Terrell discusses the goal of the Justice Department's new task force to combat antisemitism on 'Fox News Live.'

On October 10, 2023 — just three days after Hamas perpetrated the largest bloodletting of Jews since the Holocaust — I was preparing to teach my evening graduate seminar at Northeastern University on terrorism and counterterrorism, when a stranger accosted me in the hallway by my office. 

Wearing a keffiyeh, he pressed a flier into my hand to attend a "vigil" in Cambridge advocating Palestinian resistance. I quietly turned around, put the flier in my office and headed off to class, where I spotted the same intifada-enthusiast seated among my students. 

I politely asked him to leave so I could start teaching about international security as I had at Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins and Northeastern for the last decade. The class only met once a week, and I was eager to commence my lesson plan. But the intruder refused to leave, cutting into class time. He told me that he’s a student at the university and needed to ensure that my course, in which he was not enrolled, aligned with his anti-Israel views. After about 15 minutes of unsuccessfully negotiating with him to leave, he started pacing around the classroom, giving a diatribe........

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