A Message to Princeton: The Calls for the Genocide of Jews Are Real
As a Princeton student, I have personally witnessed many calls for genocide on campus, calls that my university president appears to deny.
Alexandra Orbuch is a Freshman at Princeton University from Los Angeles, California hoping to study Politics. On campus, she writes for The Princeton Tory, the university’s journal for conservative thought, and the Princeton Legal Journal, the university’s undergraduate Law review.
As a Princeton student, I have personally witnessed many calls for genocide on campus, calls that my university president appears to deny.
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