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Editorial: Too much heated rhetoric on campus. Bring informed debate back to universities

A supporter of Israel carries a flag through a crowd of students rallying at UCLA in support of Palestinians in Gaza on Oct. 12, 2023.

At moments like this, when violence in the Middle East has reached a fever pitch that has left the world horrified, universities have an important role to play in convening open debate. Or at least they used to.

The past weeks could have been the perfect time for relevant learning on the Israel-Hamas conflict, an antidote to the extraordinary campus strife we are seeing at the and elsewhere

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