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Penn Students' Lawsuit Shows Campus Antisemitism Uproar Is A Manufactured Crisis

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  Penn Students' Lawsuit Shows Campus Antisemitism Uproar Is A Manufactured Crisis Vast majority of “incidents” are merely expressions of unwelcome political views BRIAN MCGLINCHEY Pro-Palestinian protesters at the University of Pennsylvania  (Ethan Young/ The Daily Pennsylvanian ) Saturday’s resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill came after months of controversy — and a viral-video grilling of Magill in a congressional hearing — over allegations the school has become a hotbed of antisemitism. While those allegations have been given widespread credence, a  Stark Realities  analysis of dozens of claimed antisemitic incidents at Penn finds that, apart from a small handful of cases, the great majority are merely instances in which Penn students, professors and guest speakers engage in political expression that proponents of the State of Israel strongly disagree with. Conveniently, a catalogue of supposed examples of anti-Jew bigotry at Penn is laid out in a fed