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New Brunswick, NJ
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October 18, 2011
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Hundreds Attend Program on Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
The Douglass Campus Center at Rutgers New Brunswick hosted a collaborative effort between School of Arts and Sciences (SAS) faculty working in Jewish Studies and those focusing on the Arab and Islamic world called "Going Viral: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and the Role of the Media” to draw parallels between contemporary conversations concerning these forms of prejudice in popular culture. Featuring professor emeritus at Southern Illinois University, Jack Shaheen and the American Jewish Committee’s specialist on anti-Semitism, Kenneth Stern, the event was designed to "inject reason, tolerance, and thoughtfulness into an increasingly rancorous conversation taking place on college campuses, in the media, and in the political arena."1
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