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Federal scrutiny over anti-semitism has deepened campus divisions
Federal scrutiny over anti-semitism has deepened campus divisions

President Trump’s latest executive order aligns with his Education Department’s previous action against a Middle East studies program at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As advocates in different corners of the Israel-Palestine and anti-semitism debates gird themselves for more legal fights, those who’ve experienced the aftermath of the one launched in September say discord has worsened.

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News, North America, Politics, Middle EastLiza Vandenboom and Micah DanneyIsrael Palestine conflict, Israel, Palestinian rights, Tzipi Livni, The Lawfare Project, Duke University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Chronicle, Betsy DeVos, Kenneth L. Markus, Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies, Jewish, Anti-Semitism, Students for Justice in Palestine, North Carolina Hillel, Pew Research Center, Druze, Zoroastrianism, BDS, Boycott Divestment Sanctions, Judaism, Dru Johnson, The King's College, secondary feature, Secondary feature, Secondary Feature, Islam, Muslim, Christianity, Judiasm, Elizabeth Vandenboom, Micah DanneyComment
Keeping up: Transgender challenges ahead for news media and 'mainline' Protestants
Keeping up: Transgender challenges ahead for news media and 'mainline' Protestants

(COMMENTARY) The New York Times reported this week that the Donald Trump Administration is considering, for federal purposes, a definition that a person is male or female “based on immutable biological traits identified by or before birth,” supplemented if necessary by genetic testing. That would overturn a policy under President Barack Obama to recognize transgender identities.

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Analysis, Society, Opinion, North America, PoliticsRichard OstlingRichard Ostling, The New York Times, Donald Trump, Millennials, Ligoinier Ministries, Teresa Berger, Duke University, Jill Soloway, Kwame Appiah, Pronouns, Angel Collie, Kate Ott, Yale Divinity School, Drew Theological School, Barack Obama, Transgender, Yale, Protestants, Christianity