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By Susan Crabtree
Real Clear Wire
When discontent started to roil university schools throughout the United States in the weeks after Hamas’ dreadful Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, lots of professors and administrators believed it was just short-lived and would likely diminish by Thanksgiving.
When demonstrations continued, and Jewish trainees and professors grumbled about a wave of antisemitic events and rhetoric, some administrators presumed the chaos would decline after winter season break. The acts of discrimination, intimidation, and harassment versus Jewish trainees have not just continued, they have actually metastasized into a systemic level of abuse that threatens the universities’ core scholastic and research study objectives.
At a few of the most prominent universities in the nation, the level of vitriol and large volume of anti-Jewish hate postures brand-new hazards to university leaders permitting the hostility to pervade school life.
Early this year, Sally Kornbluth, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, seemed the only survivor of a devastating congressional hearing in December in which she and the presidents of Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania all declined to clearly state that requires the genocide of Jewish individuals breach school guidelines of harassment.
Penn President Liz Magill resigned within days of her testament in the middle of a reaction of extreme criticism from donors and alums. A couple of weeks later on, a plagiarism scandal swallowed up Harvard President Claudine Gay, growing out of control with outrage over her congressional efficiency to fall Gay from her post.
MIT graduates and present professors spoke with for this short article quality Kornbluth’s survival a minimum of in part to the university’s concentrate on tough sciences. MIT’s alumni, these sources state, tend to take a more soft method to voicing their grievances compared to other Ivy League schools understood more for their social science strength. Harvard’s and Penn’s popular donors, numerous with big social networks followings, openly unloaded their outrage and required Magill’s and Gay’s elimination.
But Kornbluth has her share of singing critics who compete that the MIT Corporation’s recommendation of her handling of the post-Oct. 7 trainee discontent is based upon its obligation to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion dogma. The university administration’s persistence that the demonstrations and anti-Israel advocacy are under control stands at chances with the experiences of numerous Jewish MIT trainees and professors.
” In regards to the scenario at MIT, I do not believe it’s any much better than Harvard or Penn,” Retsef Levi, an operations management MIT teacher, informed RealClearPolitics.
” These prevalent hostile and harassing conditions have actually ravaged the Jewish and Israeli trainees, professors and personnel, basically making it unsustainable for a number of them to feel safe on school to do their research study and pursue the instructional activities they concerned MIT to do,” Levi regreted. “It’s a failure to secure the core objective of MIT.”
Much of the animosity comes down to what lots of in the Jewish neighborhood consider as a double requirement. Kornbluth, they argue, can’t square the university’s established DEI culture and its anti-hate speech policies and restrictions versus discrimination with its tolerance of an extremely singing faction of the trainee body requiring “Intifada” and the straight-out damage of Israel.
Some pro-Palestinian trainees and professors at MIT argue they can require the removal of Israel and the Zionist motion without targeting the Jewish individuals as a whole. Jewish trainees and professors state that’s difficult– calls to end Zionism struck them at their core and make up an attack on their heritage and identity.
While the dispute raves on, MIT is having a hard time to keep order and enable Jewish trainees and professors to pursue their university research studies and work. Kornbluth and the MIT Corporation have actually been enabling the attacks versus Israel and requires the killing of Jews in the name of complimentary speech as long as they do not target people or intensify into violence.
Like other universities throughout the nation, MIT plainly never ever expected needing to referee this existential clash and was woefully unprepared to manage it. After almost 6 months of demonstrations and a series of antisemitic events, upset Jewish professors and trainees argue MIT’s policies aren’t adjusting, and the university is stopping working to safeguard Jewish trainees and professors under near-constant attack.
The preamble to MIT’s trainee handbook governing habits states, “In order to develop a considerate, inviting, and efficient neighborhood, the Institute is dedicated to offering a living, working, and discovering environment that is devoid of discrimination and prejudiced harassment.”
Anti-harassment training needed of all MIT trainees and professors stated the university would think about “deadnaming” somebody, i.e., utilizing any LGBTQ+ individual’s previous name, would be thought about a “violent act,” according to a slide identified “LGBTQ+ 101: Education, Allyship and Self-Advocacy.”
So far, Kornbluth has actually promoted the story that “things are not as bad at MIT, and ‘most’ individuals feel ‘safe,'” Levi stated. “But that’s simply gaslighting what the [Jewish] neighborhood is talking and reporting about.”
When the discontent on college schools appeared last fall, prominent Jewish leaders in Wall Street and political arenas looked for to move the DEI design to make Jewish individuals part of the marginalized secured class. Billionaire hedge-fund supervisor Bill Ackman and his fans rapidly turned on the variety programs themselves, arguing that the efforts, while promoting noble-sounding objectives, have actually gone off the rails and are being utilized to stabilize attacks versus Jewish trainees and professors.
Some in the MIT neighborhood differ with DEI’s dominant function in admissions and specific departments’ focus and curricula. The distinguished science and engineering organization had actually traditionally run as a meritocracy. They likewise blame DEI for promoting a simple” oppressor vs. oppressed” design that casts Jews as individuals of white European origins and the oppressor versus maltreated Palestinians. That framing is not just traditionally incorrect, these critics state, however reasons dislike speech versus Jews.
Kornbluth indicate her suspension of a trainee group took part in anti-Israeli demonstrations for breaking school demonstration guidelines as proof of her desire to do something about it. Critics state the members of the group, the Coalition Against Apartheid, or CAA, were never ever suspended from school and rapidly reconstituted into in a different way entitled groups with the exact same activities and objectives, while basically ridiculing the administration.
Talia Khan, a college student and president of the MIT Israel Alliance, affirmed before Congress in December that the school has actually ended up being “overrun with hazardous antisemitism.” Khan, the child of a Jewish mom and an Afghan Muslim daddy, stated MIT management has actually not done anything to discipline the trainees accountable, consisting of CAA members who arranged the demonstrations that breached school guidelines and have actually formed brand-new companies under various names.
” They have actually been sending out e-mails signed, ‘Yours Truly, the CAA,’ with the CAA struck through and the group Reading for Revolution noted under it,” Khan informed RCP.
Yet Kornbluth continues to mention the CAA suspension as proof that she is acting to make sure a safe scholastic and research study environment. “We have clear, affordable ‘time, location, and way’ policies in location for an excellent factor,” Kornbluth stated in a video describing CAA’s suspension launched to the trainees and professors. “The point of these policies is to ensure that members of the MIT neighborhood can work, find out, and do their deal with school without interruption.”
” We likewise require to keep the neighborhood safe– and we can’t do that without sufficient advance notification to arrange personnel and cops resources,” she continued. “That’s why we have the guidelines.”
Kornbluth concluded her declaration by prompting trainees and professors to discover a method to reveal their political views with “a standard sense of regard and compassion for other members of our neighborhood,” keeping in mind that “we do not endure risks to physical security.”
” In a time of remarkable chaos and polarization, I do not see how we can do the crucial work of MIT if we can’t discover a method to talk to what’s essential to us without harming the material of our neighborhood,” she stated. ” We should discover a method to live and interact.”
Khan and other critics see such declarations as bit more than gaslighting. The university honored Isa Liggans, a recognized CAA member who arranged a November demonstration that obstructed a lobby in a primary university structure, with an undergraduate MLK management award. They likewise provided Austin Cole, a college student CAA member, a speaking function at the Feb. 17 MLK Celebration Gala. Cole then utilized his speech to welcome guests to the phase and perform an anti-Israel demonstration at the gala as Kornbluth searched in silence.
” Unfortunately, a few of the significant activists in CAA not just suffer no individual effects however were just recently granted with speaking honors and rewards, which I truly discover outrageous,” Levi stated.
Now, Kornbluth faces her greatest obstacle. 2 pro-Hamas trainee groups just recently targeted numerous Israeli and Jewish MIT teachers and the trainees who deal with them in an effort to interfere with and end their scholastic research study jobs. The effort weakens Kornbluth’s guarantee simply a couple of weeks ago when suspending the CAA to enable scholastic and research study work to continue undisturbed.
On March 8, a trainee group called the MIT Coalition for Palestine sent out e-mails to a number of teachers and trainees dealing with them. The letters slammed their research study work because a minimum of some or all of it was sponsored by or connected with Israel’s Ministry of Defense.
” We think that to team up straight with a militant force actively dedicating genocide is to be complicit in their criminal offenses versus mankind,” Safiyyah Ogundipe, trainee leader of the group, composed to a number of teachers in e-mails acquired by RealClearPolitics.
The group’s trainee leader asked the teachers for remark by midday Tuesday of the following week and urged them to “right away stop these tasks.”
Another leader of the MIT Coalition for Palestine sent out other more nuanced e-mails to a number of trainees dealing with the targeted teachers. The messages prompted the trainees to do something about it, pushing them to ask for the source of their research study financing and to resign from the jobs if they felt comfy doing so.
” We were stunned to discover such direct complicity on MIT’s school, a location of knowing and expedition, and now, we feel it is our responsibility to expose these abuses of clinical work for outright militarism, especially throughout an active genocide,” Aaliya Hussain, a member of the MIT Coalition for Palestine, composed in an e-mail to those trainees.
It’s uncertain if any of the teachers or trainees reacted to the e-mails or took any action associated to them. The MIT Coalition for Palestine’s Ogundipe and Hussain did not react to an RCP questions.
On Tuesday, the pro-Palestinian group shared their findings on Instagram by means of the CAA’s and MIT Graduates for Palestine’s accounts. In a post with a picture of MIT’s renowned Great Dome leaking in blood, the groups composed, “Hey MIT, why are you studying for the IOF?” (The IOF referral is a pejorative term describing the Israel Defense Forces as the Israel Occupation Forces or the Israel Offensive Forces.)
” Breaking down MIT’s decade-long complicity in offering innovation for genocide of the Palestinians,” the groups advanced the Instagram slides, keeping in mind that the university has actually gotten countless dollars in research study financing from the Ministry of Defense of Israel.
One experienced MIT source, nevertheless, states the U.S. Congress supplied the cash with the research study sponsored by the IDF. The post notes its sources as “MIT VPF Brown Book,” audit reports, and “an internal grant management tool,” which is just readily available to MIT professors, not trainees. For some members of MIT’s Jewish neighborhood, it was the final stroke– and a clear offense of Kornbluth’s promise to secure the university’s scholastic and research study work.
” These trainees are utilizing peer pressure to attempt to tear apart research study groups,” one MIT teacher who asked for privacy informed RCP. “They’re beginning to blacklist professors.” The teacher likewise mentioned that a minimum of one professor most likely assisted the MIT Coalition for Palestine group gain access to the internal grant management tool.
MIT spokesperson Kimberly Allen did not react to a concern on whether Kornbluth excuses the efforts to blacklist teachers and their research study. She likewise did not state whether anybody in the university management has actually stepped in and disciplined the trainees for sending out the e-mails condemning particular research study tasks as adding to Palestinian “genocide.”
She didn’t react to a concern about the sources of the research study financing.
” We highlight that MIT supports the exceptional work of its professors and laboratories,” Allen stated in a declaration. “As with all sponsored research study at MIT, the tasks pointed out include work that is open and publishable which adds to understanding that is easily readily available to researchers worldwide.”
” MIT professors and scientists routinely deal with researchers and entities in other nations, consisting of Israel, following needed due diligence for worldwide tasks. MIT highly supports the concepts of scholastic liberty that allow our professors to engage with a large variety of partners in the pursuit of understanding.”
To Khan and others, the administration’s failure to openly condemn and penalize trainees trying to interrupt scholastic research study is just pushing them. “Nothing’s occurred,” Khan informed RCP. “They’re continuing to do precisely what they’ve been doing the entire time, which is to bother Jews and Israelis on school, in their dormitories.”
” MIT believes that it can keep putting little band-aids on and stopping the spill, however the dam is going to break,” she anticipated. The targeting of teachers and efforts to close down research study tasks is simply the current flashpoint in a long list, and there are indications that a larger reaction is developing. Throughout a Nov. 9 demonstration, the CAA totally obstructed MIT’s Lobby 7, the primary entryway to the university, an offense of the university’s policies versus indoor demonstrations and obstructing trainees’ access to class and workplaces. When Jewish trainees reacted with their own counter-protest, MIT management released a composed caution given out to trainees that anybody staying in Lobby 7 after 12: 15 pm would undergo suspension.
The Jewish protesters left, however CAA selected to remain and defy the president’s orders. Later on in the day, following info distributing on social networks about the demonstration, various protestors unaffiliated with the university got here. Cautions were then released by the MIT Police and Hillel Center for Jewish Life, a Jewish college company, to prevent Lobby 7.
” MIT Hillel suggests that you do not straight engage the protestors for your physical security and health and wellbeing,” a notification checks out. “You might wish to pick courses around school that prevent Lobby 7.”
Roughly a month later on, CAA hosted Miko Peled, a popular Israeli who has compassion with the Palestinian cause. Trainees who went to reported that Peled motivated trainees to go to the Hillel Center and need responses from Jewish trainees.
” You go to Hillel and whatever the mascot exists and inform them they require to respond to how they do not condemn the genocide in Gaza,” Peled stated, according to an account in the list of occurrences.
The very same day Peled made those declarations, a guy unaffiliated with the university approached trainees at Hillel and implicated them of being Mossad representatives. He then peered through a Hillel lounge window and peed on it while the trainees viewed, according to the list.
One non-Jewish trainee was so delayed by the hostility towards Jewish trainees occurring in her bulk pro-Palestinian dormitory that the trainee penned an e-mail to a pro-Jewish group sharing her issues about the antisemitic dormitory rhetoric.
” They state that Israeli Jews, consisting of kids, ‘be worthy of’ the violence perpetuated versus them for living in Israel while Palestine is inhabited, which Jews as an entire ‘be worthy of’ the treatment offered to them at MIT and other universities if they support Israel,” the trainee composed, keeping in mind that some trainees reported they were needed to reveal their assistance for Palestinians and/or condemn Israel or run the risk of being identified a “genocide advocate.”
At a Dec. 14 demonstration at MIT’s Hockfield Court, crowds cheered for require “armed resistance” and others to “hold a knife to their throats,” according to the collection of protest-related occurrences flowing amongst the university’s Jewish neighborhood. The collection keeps in mind the possibility of the expressions having metaphorical instead of actual significance, however still considers them deeply worrying in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre. An MIT advisory sent out midday notified trainees that “due to a presentation anticipated to happen” that afternoon, MIT structures would be available just through an “MIT ID-reader system.”
” Please bring your MIT ID card or Mobile ID for developing gain access to.” David French, an attorney who has actually safeguarded complimentary speech on school, consisting of the speech of Muslim trainees and employee, penned an editorial for the New York Times in early March entitled, “Harvard, M.I.T. and Systemic Antisemitism.”
In it, he called the list of antisemitic occurrences, consisting of “acts of violence and physical intimidation,” on both schools “terrible.”
The university is likewise dealing with a claim submitted on March 8 by numerous MIT trainees and the StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice, or SCLJ. The match implicates Kornbluth and other MIT leaders of enabling antisemitism to grow on school by enduring the intimidation and harassment of Jewish trainees and professors.
The claim argues that MIT management is disregarding to a growing list of events that break Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which needs universities that get public financing to secure Jewish trainees from discrimination and harassment.
Colombia University, Harvard University, New York University, and the University of Pennsylvania have actually dealt with comparable fits over the last couple of months.
The suit asserts that Jewish and Israeli MIT trainees have actually delayed graduation dates or examinations as an outcome of antisemitism at the university. At the exact same time, some teachers and professors have actually left MIT since of the discrimination they dealt with or the hostile workplace developed because the Hamas attacks on Israel.
It likewise declares that Jewish teachers reported occurrences in which MIT trainees interrupted the scholastic environment and daunted professors by screaming outdoors workplaces of MIT’s Israel internship program while rattling the doors. One teacher explained a pro-Hamas and anti-Israel demonstration that took control of the lobby of a structure and physically obstructed trainees from participating in a class.
Rather than distributing the demonstrations, the suit asserts that MIT cautioned Jewish trainees to prevent particular locations of the university, efficiently sending out the trainees “underground at their own university” without any effects for the protesters, producing a hostile environment for Jewish trainees.
The legal grievance declares that protesters used an $800 bounty for anybody who might determine a Jewish trainee who pushed his method through a location of a foundation by protesters and ripped up a few of the protesters’ product. The trainee was rapidly recognized after the X.com page “Stop Zionist Hate” shared a video of the run-in and used the bounty.
A various post specified that the trainee “is desired all over school and the city.”
” Zionism and Israel are the scourge of mankind,” the post by @mehemmmmed stated. “His head must be crushed anywhere he is seen.”
According to the grievance, “The trainee remained secured in their dormitory for weeks with their good friends bringing food, check-ins from cops, and their household horrified for [the trainee’s] security.”
” While less severe, there are sadly a lot more cases of doxxing, promoted by MIT trainees,” keeps in mind a list of campus-related antisemitic events distributing amongst MIT’s Jewish neighborhood. The suit asks the court to stop MIT from developing, preserving, or carrying out policies that punish or victimize Jewish trainees, asking for the shooting of personnel and the expelling of trainees “who take part in antisemitic habits.”
On March 8, the very same day the suit was submitted, the GOP-led House Education and Workforce Committee released an antisemitism examination into MIT.
” We have serious issues relating to the insufficiency of MITs action to antisemitism on its school,” Foxx composed.
In her letter, Foxx comprehensive many antisemitic occurrences at MIT that have actually raised issues, consisting of events and demonstrations in which the CAA has actually interrupted class, bugged Jewish trainees, promoted violence, and broke other MIT guidelines in “the course of carrying out anti-Israel presentations and other activities.”
The committee likewise disagreed with MIT’s choice to welcome Dalia Mogahed, who backed Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel, to a lecture on Islamophobia. Mogahed composed that “resistance, consisting of resist a colonial profession force, is not just acknowledged under worldwide law however clearly backed” which” [a] s an occupied population, Palestinians naturally have the right to withstand.”
It wasn’t the very first time MIT professors invited virulent antisemites who excuse terrorism to speak on school.
The MIT trainees’ and SCLJ’s claim disagrees with an MIT CAA-hosted occasion, “Allyship, Art, and Apartheid.” Held Oct. 22, 2022, almost a year before the Hamas attacks, it included 3 speakers, consisting of Mohammed El-Kurd, a pro-Hamas Palestinian understood for unhinged anti-Jewish hate speech and protecting terrorism. El-Kurd has actually implicated Israelis of consuming the organs of Palestinians, proclaims hijacking of guest airliners, and at a January rally in London gotten in touch with Palestinian fans to “stabilize the [Oct. 7] massacres as the status quo.”
Not just did MIT enable El-Kurd to speak on school, however a number of other departments, consisting of the MIT Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, MIT Libraries, MIT Center for International Studies, and MIT Department of Anthropology, co-sponsored the occasion.
On April 18, 2023, MIT CAA’s Instagram included a post about a Holocaust screen on Yom HaShoah. The post revealed that the Holocaust memorial had actually been ruined with “Free Palestine” mottos. Rep. Foxx likewise accentuated ” virulently” antisemitic remarks on social networks made by numerous MIT professors and personnel, consisting of MIT postdoctoral partner Afif Aqrabawi.
A self-identified Palestinian-Canadian, Aqrabawi has actually called Zionism “a mental disorder” and rejected well-documented reports of sexual violence by Hamas terrorists versus Israeli females, dismissing them as “perverted rape dreams.” (Postdocs are both trainees and workers of the university.)
Aqrabawi likewise described members of the Israeli military as “savage and perverted Nazis,” all Israelis as “parasites,” and mocked Jewish MIT trainees’ worry for their security. In among his social networks posts, the postdoctoral partner basically attempted MIT’s leaders to stop him, describing himself as a test case for flexibility of speech. “I do not understand how MIT will react,” he composed “I might lose my task, perhaps not. I think I am the base test of whether liberty of totally free speech genuinely exists in America.”
When trainees grumbled about Aqrabawi’s social networks remarks, an MIT professor working as the partner department head for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Justice for Aqrabawi’s department rejected that the postdoctoral partner’s public remarks were antisemitic, according to the Education and Workforce Committee’s account
Instead, the representative cautioned the trainees: “I would be extremely mindful before implicating any among our associates, personnel, or students of hate speech.”
Meanwhile, Sophia Hasenfus, an MIT Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging officer, a position of DEI management on school, “liked” numerous severe anti-Israeli social networks posts, consisting of one specifying, “Israel does not have a right to exist, it’s an invalid settler-colony like the U.S.”
During the Feb. 13 CAA demonstration that led to the group’s suspension, the group obstructed a university structure’s lobby, and speakers implicated Jews and those supporting them of participating in “white supremacy.” The protesters stated they required to have an “emergency situation” demonstration versus the Israeli armed force’s possible ground intrusion of Rafah, the city on the southern Gaza border where 1.4 million Palestinians have actually gotten away to leave battling somewhere else in the war. The IDF objective resulted in the rescue of 2 Hamas-held captives.
” Our security is threatened by white supremacy, and the unsafe formula of Zionism,” trainees screamed, arguing that the Jewish custom is utilized to validate Israel’s “colonialist, capitalist, white-supremacist program.” Other trainees screamed, “Hear us loud, hear us clear, IOF not invite here.”
All Israeli males and females are needed to serve time in Israel’s obligatory military service program, so the declaration uses to all Israeli trainees and professors on school. The following day, Kornbluth suspended the CAA’s advantages as “an acknowledged trainee company” for holding the unapproved demonstration however explained that “suspending CAA is not associated with the material of their speech.”
She likewise chastised members participated in damning or avoiding Jewish trainees while all at once alerting versus casting “supporters for the Palestinian individuals as supporting Hamas.”
Kornbluth’s persistence on utilizing parallel language for the 2 sides of the argument, these critics argue, is planned to camouflage the unpleasant truth: While there have actually been anti-Muslim events, one group of trainees is methodically prompting hatred of another.
In December, Mauricio Karchmer, a computer system researcher who was born in Mexico to a Jewish household and immigrated to the United States in the 1980 s, resigned his position as an MIT speaker after 5 years. He composed an op-ed entitled “Why I Quit My Dream Job at MIT,” blaming “prevalent antisemitism” on MIT’s school for his departure.
In the piece, he kept in mind that a number of MIT professor, consisting of those in the DEI department, backed antisemitic declarations and mottos requiring the removal of Israel.
Karchmer now has a brand-new function mentor at Yeshiva University, a personal Orthodox Jewish university with 4 schools in New York City. In November, he stated, the MIT professors newsletter was practically “totally devoted” to the demonstrations, with a number of teachers parroting anti-Israel propaganda. In one editorial entitled, “Standing Together Against Hate: From the River to the Sea, from Gaza to MIT,” linguistics teacher Michel DeGraff composed that the protesters requiring Intifada “have actually provided me wish for the future.”
Karchmer isn’t requiring censorship however, rather, an administration-led recommendation that what the pro-Palestinian protesters are screaming about Israel is both despiteful and incorrect. He stated that Kornbluth should not simply set down unclear guidelines about the procedure and weakly state that some things should not be stated. She should specify and describe why these declarations are factually incorrect and based in bigotry, he argued.
” If they arrange a rally 3 days beforehand, can they then state, ‘Gas the Jews’?” he asked in an interview. “In my view, the issue is that demonizing Israel and rejecting Israel’s right to exist is thought about within the appropriate standards of what a trainee is allowed to reveal. It’s not just that they are enabled to voice such views, however in lots of scholastic circles, doing so is viewed as a method to signify one’s virtues.”
The university likewise seems acting to safeguard its own DEI personnel from protesters while stopping working to offer the exact same level of defense for Jewish trainees and professors.
CAA affiliates dispersed a pamphlet entitled “Written Revolution,” that includes an open letter to Kornbluth. In the letter, a trainee remembers a CAA demonstration held outside the Institute Discrimination and Harassment Response, or IDHR, workplace. According to the handout’s author, the IDHR released no-contact orders after the occasion, avoiding all CAA members from calling IDHR personnel “straight as members of CAA.”
Khan and other MIT critics state the no-contact policy reveals that administrators understand the challenging habits of CAA members and are acting to secure professor however are stopping working to carry out campus-wide policies to protect Jewish trainees and professors.
” The trainees are more pushed by the reality that they have not been penalized at all,” Khan stated. “Now the IDHR does not desire anything to do with them.”
” It’s exceptionally discouraging to see that actually absolutely nothing has actually been done,” she regreted. “The [school administrators] do not look us in the eyes any longer.”
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