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Founder of Jewish Institute for Liberal Values | Book: Woke Antisemitism - How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews | Buy on Amazon: https://t.co/NiYmOlFNLH
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Israel is conducting a war to obliterate Hamas and will use "disproportionate force" (meaning more force than Hamas used against Israel.) Civilians will be tragically killed but will not be targeted; Gazan women will not be raped and Gazan children will not be caged. Israeli.
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The deans involved in the Columbia University texting scandal stated that Jewish students were "coming from a place of privilege." This is not a case of a single university administrator caught speaking disparagingly to a friend. This is a group of administrators speaking to.
NEW: The deans at the center of the Columbia texting scandal said Jewish students were "coming from a place of privilege" and suggested they have more institutional support than their peers because of their supposed wealth, according to new messages reviewed by the Beacon.🧵
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@RaniaKhalek Many Muslims have engaged in mass murder of Jews (and others) yet I'm ok with Muslim symbols. That's because I'm not a raging bigot like you.
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Friends who have privately reached out to me and those who have not: I am not speaking up so that you don't have to. I am speaking up so that you can find the courage to do so as well.
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This quote from an IDF soldier is going around X today. It's from a study of Israeli soldiers conducted more than thirty years ago presented as if it was atrocity committed yesterday. The study looked at a small segment of soldiers who engage in cruelty, which, the article.
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"Israel has made over 70,000 direct phones calls, sent over 13 million text messages and left over 15 million pre-recorded voicemails to notify civilians that they should leave combat areas, where they should go, and what route they should take." .
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Ben Sasse: We cannot heal these declining institutions simply by recalculating the grid so that Jewish people are moved from the “powerful” square to a “powerless” slot. The problem is the tyranny of the power grid itself.
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The idea that the Israeli air force would intentionally kill aid workers is just so patently stupid. Israel is already navigating tensions with the US. The last thing it wanted was a PR catastrophe that further complicates its war effort. When the US accidentally bombed the.
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Don't call it "woke," that's pejorative. Don't call it "Critical Social Justice," that's a made up term. Don't call it "Critical Race Theory," that's inaccurate. What should we call it? Don't call it anything. That's the problem.
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I am super excited to announce my book Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews, with an amazing Foreword by my hero Natan Sharansky. Published by Post Hill Press, it will be initially released on Oct 18th in both digital & soft cover on demand.
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U of Illinois will require diversity statements for tenure. Can you imagine a greater threat to academic freedom than this? This is an utter purge of intellectual diversity.
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When I criticize DEI, I'm not criticizing diversity or inclusion or even equity (depending how it's defined), I'm criticizing a specific ideological framework that ultimately works against those values.
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The following quote is not from the book "Woke Antisemitism," but from a report by Columbia University Task Force on Antisemitism: . "Group identity is the way most of us think of and organize ourselves, but identities are complex: people can belong to multiple groups, and.
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Folks, this is striking. At what point are Dems going to get the memo?.
Youngkin leads by 15 points among voters who have children in a K-12 school.
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Poll: 81% of American Jews support Israel's military operation to “recover all Israeli hostages and remove Hamas from power.” Only 12% of respondents said they preferred “an immediate ceasefire." Only a quarter of young Jews prefer an immediate ceasefire.
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For the past several months Israel's critics have insisted Americans support an immediate ceasefire. Well, just out the latest Harvard-Harris poll:
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Maybe if the university hadn't indoctrinated students in a dogma that divides the world into oppressors v oppressed, they wouldn't have produced a bunch of violent idiots forcing their way into the President's office. You reap what you sow.
BREAKING: Clashes at the University of Michigan as pro-Palestinian protesters rush into an administrative building housing the office of the school’s president
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@mathaiaus This might be the dumbest single post I've seen on this site, and that's saying a lot.
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Friends of Israel wonder why Israel can't beat its adversaries in the court of public opinion. There's 1 Israel, 22 Arab states & 48 Muslim majority countries. They dominant the UN & NGO network. They have such a power advantage that they convince the world they're the underdog.
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I wrote Woke Antisemitism a year before Oct 7, warning of dangers of the ideology. Yet I never contemplated the ideology would condition elected officials & law enforcement not to see Jews as victims & refuse to protect them from violence. I actually understated the threat.
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The progressive imagination fantasizes that if Israel behaved like Sweden it would enjoy the same peace as Sweden. But it would not. It would be mercilessly dominated and eventually destroyed by its neighbors. Ironically, what might ultimately produce something akin to peace for.
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My fellow Jews: The statement of the 30 student groups at Harvard blaming the victims didn't come from no where. Neither did the mealy mouthed non-statements from university presidents and public school school superintendents. Can we now talk about the ideological underpinnings?.
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Dear Governor @GavinNewsom, . This image was shared by the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies. These are the people designing curriculum for California's children. Now would be a great time to vigorously enforce Guardrails against radical & hate-filled teaching.
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@AssalRad This is really a special kind of dumb:.-Israel occupied the Golan Heights because it was used to attack Israel .-Israel tried to return it in exchange for peace but Assad refused.-No one gives a crap about what "buffer zone" actually means as long as it prevents terrorists from.
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What’s worse: not allowing my kids to study Ibram X Kendi or requiring that they study him with no opposing view? While I oppose both, I think the second is worse. I’d rather them not learn something than be indoctrinated in it.
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@AjAqrabawi Oh I might have gotten it wrong. I thought that Hamas invaded Israel on Oct 7, 2023 and Hezbollah attacked Israel on Oct 8, 2023 and fired 8000 rockets into Northern Israel. And then the Syrian rebels violated the armistice agreement. Silly me.
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Former ADL, AJC leaders Abe Foxman and David Harris call for scrapping DEI
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George Orwell: “the further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
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@AlanRMacLeod It is 100 percent the case that Assad would still be in power if Israel hadn't put Iran and Hezbollah on the ropes.
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@ArnoRosenfeld Imagine if a small group of Palestinians started chanting vicious stuff about Jews at a soccer match (shouldn't be hard). Roving bands of Jews then attacked Palestinians leaving the match. Would that be remotely justifiable? . The Arab gangs didn't attack the Israeli hooligans.
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Critiquing DEI is legit and necessary. Calling a black mayor a "DEI mayor" is disgusting and racist.
This is Baltimore’s DEI mayor commenting on the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge. It’s going to get so, so much worse. Prepare accordingly.
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@thomaschattwill The winds changed in the public arena, to be sure. But it's as bad or worse in nearly every social institution. I invite you to spend some time at a school board meeting in any blue area.
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Radical students at Cornell take over a school building and conduct a mock trial of the Jewish university president for complicity in genocide. And the school paper's biggest concern is doxxing the students who did it?.
"The [Cornell] Sun is choosing to blur the faces of participants due to safety and doxxing concerns.". Incredible editorial decision for a campus newspaper.
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@mhdksafa These are horseshit figures. There have been nearly 600,000 casualties that vast majority of them civilian in Syria. Don't insult your readers intelligence.
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As the Israel Hamas war shows, Western progressives no longer have a separate moral category for war that allows a nation to defend itself against a military threat while causing tragic but necessary collateral damage. They may think such sensitivities protect human life (and, of.
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Left winger: Only the left should criticize the left's antisemitism . Me: I'm of the left. I support same sex marriage, immigrant rights, universal health care, criminal Justice reform etc. Left winger: No you are not of the left. Me: Why not?. Left winger: Because you criticize.
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This interview by @bariweiss of @jessesingal is superb. It both gives insight into the Rittenhouse trial and tells us what’s gone wrong with the mainstream media. We are losing what @jon_rauch calls our “reality based institutions.” Very concerning.
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I keep thinking that the behavior of college administrators cannot get more embarassing or more antithetical to free speech. I keep thinking that this time their absurd conduct will produce a backlash. I keep on being wrong.
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I'm not sure what's more dangerous to democracy in France, the triumph of the right or the left, but the triumph of the left is definitely worse for the French Jewish community.
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The lie about the hospital bombing has been extremely traumatizing and infuriating for Jews. First, there was the slaughter of Israelis. Second, there was celebration of that slaughter by segments of America. And then Israel was shamefully blamed for a slaughter it didn't commit.
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@emmma_camp_ Maybe it's also a product of a school system driven by test score results and believing that every kid needs to meet certain milestones and insists on drugging them into compliance.
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@JewishWarrior13 Hezbollah thought that Iran would save them. Little did they know that they were Iran's actual army.
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Let me get this straight:. 1. Hamas kidnaps Israelis.2. Israel finds out 4 of the people are being held in a densely populated refugee camp (as protection against a rescue operation).3. Israel attempts to rescue them, and during the extraction, Hamas engages Israeli troops in a.
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@JulianSayarer You seem oddly uninterested in women of Iran who are actually fighting oppression in their own country.
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@JoshuaParkhurst I agree that's what it means under international law and in just war theory but it's not how it's used in popular discourse.
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A personal essay on my failure to stand up for friends in the face of the imposition of critical social justice
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Universities have a choice between two spectacles: they can arrest the students issuing yellow wrist bands to the library (bad optics) or they can answer for footage of a Jewish student not being able to go to the library.
“Are you a zionist ?”.“Of course I am”. “So, u can’t enter.”.“I’m not allowed to enter the library,while paying tuition here?”.Just another Jewish student facing the disgusting antisemitism from the masked clowns “intellectuals”at UCLA. Bonus - Allahu Akbar in the background.
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Brace yourself for some serious campus craziness: This legal injunction will force many university presidents to protect access to Jewish students, which means doing something many have avoided--using law enforcement. So from the get go we will likely see major clashes between.
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@AP And there's no outrage at Hamas for setting up shop in Hospitals and using them as military basesThat's ok?.
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Trials are not plebiscites for your (or my) favorite social justice causes. They are proceedings meant to determine if a particular invidual broke the law based on reasonable doubt. I would not want to live in a country where that wasn't the case & I suspect you wouldn't either.
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The horribly oppressed Iranian Republican Guard Corp, out of sheer desperation, planned and coordinated with Hamas leaders to kidnap and murder toddlers and grandmothers.
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So much of the student activism strikes me as pro-Hamas cosplay. 20 year old white kids on their parents cell phone plans wearing keffiyehs pretending to be engaged in a "global intifada".
LIVE UPDATES: A pro-Palestinian legal group filed a civil lawsuit against #ColumbiaUniversity on Thursday, alleging an anti-Palestinian environment. The suit demands Columbia reverse students' suspensions, provide them scholarships, and pay for therapy.
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I get the strangest feeling when I hear people in the Jewish community proclaim that the oppressor-oppressed ideology fuels antisemitism who just months ago tried to shut me out of the conversation for saying the exact same thing.
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And they wonder why Israelis oppose a ceasefire?.
#BREAKING: Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar in his first publicized statements since launching Al Aqsa Floods campaign: . "The leaders of the Occupation should know, October 7th was just a rehearsal"
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An ideologically monolithic faculty produces an ideologically charged student body.
The massive faculty walkout at Columbia right now in solidarity with the student protesters is incredible. Faculty everywhere should follow suit.
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@havivrettiggur Bruh, I run an organization that monitors and responds to this stuff. It is worse than you think.
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@mhdksafa Interesting that you don't mention that Hamas attacked Israel, Hezbollah attacked Israel, and the rebels entered the DMZ, violating the 1974 armistice.
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Just because someone told you at some workshop that it’s the “harm” not the “intent” that matters, doesn’t mean that it’s so. Such a framework allows anyone to claim harm. It becomes completely arbitrary.
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@LucidIran bro this is not "liberal Islam." This is conservative Islam pretending to be liberal.
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The reason schools won't make strong statements for Israel is there's an ideological script running through their minds that Muslims, a perceived marginalized community, experience "harm." Jews, however, are not a marginalized community & hence can't experience harm.
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Islamist Antisemitism and Leftwing Antisemitism are two different things: Islamist Antisemitism justifies the murder of Jews, and Leftwing Antisemitism justifies the Islamist justification of the murder of Jews.
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When the average American hears that someone can take over a property and has the legal right to stay on the property, they think its insane because it's insane. If I were a Democratic governor or legislator, I'd jump on this and try to change the law. But they're clearly.
Ana Kasparian praises Ron DeSantis and Florida for passing an anti-squatter bill, and criticizes New York and California for "sitting on their asses and doing nothing about it". She undercuts the premise when she says "We don't know how widespread squatting really is".
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If you read one article on how a city gets taken over, anarchy sets in, and the city falls into disrepair, harming the most vulnerable, read this piece. @bariweiss
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@MACCMuslims @TorontoPolice Looks like he was just trying to take a video in a public setting.
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Again, these are the lamest protestors of all time.
Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:. "It seems like you're saying, 'we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food'."
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Wow:”While. sitting on a call with RDI Chairman Garry Kasparov & Executive Director Uriel Epshtein last month…a man peered through her windows & eventually returned to his car. Police pulled him over and found a loaded AK-47.” @UrielEpshtein @Kasparov63 .
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@AgnesCallamard @amnesty @thejournal_ie Amnesty is accused of such because the report states that is precisely what they did.
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I don't understand why it's so hard for people to agree on some things & disagree on other things with a political camp. I agree with progressives on universal healthcare & same sex marriage & disagree on support for DEI. I agree with Chris Rufo about ending DEI, but disagree.
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The latest nutty trope is that the exploding pagers constitute "terrorism." Terrorism is targeting civilians for political purposes. It didn't target civilians and it wasn't for political purposes.
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I wrote this article 21 years ago in the Washington Jewish Week. "One of the underlying reasons for this double standard is that some progressive ideologues believe that only people with power can be racists. Under this winner-take-all power paradigm, the formula is.
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Escorted to their classes through the back door? What's happening on college campuses is a national disgrace. MIT is a disgrace.
Heartbreaking. Courageous and authentic testimony by Israeli-American MIT PhD, Liyam Chitayat, about antisemitism at MIT. Commons in Boston, Nov 19, 2023. @BillAckman @MIT
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This is a remarkable article by @GSDeutch of the @J_Insider on how antisemitism pervades the reproductive rights movement and other progressive spaces. When, facing an increasingly hostile environment, Jewish women created their own fund for reproductive rights, dozens of.
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Witnessing Israel's military strikes in Gaza, Western journalists are prone to moral aestheticism--confusing what looks bad with what is bad. They have neither the intellectual and moral tools, nor the knowledge of military conflict, to make sense of what they are seeing and to.
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So @Jewish_studies has suspended advertising on @tabletmag because some members "feel direct harm from some of the views promulgated in Tablet." The idea that a magazine doesn't just piss you off, but "harms" you is a great way of obliterating viewpoint diversity.
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My argument is not that Jews (and other Americans) should become right wingers, it's that we should become politically independent minded. Dangers exist in both camps. And if you don't think those dangers exist for Jews on the right, just imagine if Tucker and Candace's recent.
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@ProfJoshuaA You badly underestimate the intellectual firepower of those with whom you disagree. But I understand. Being in an academic monoculture, how would you know?.
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I'll add: and if you do agree with your own political camp on everything, either there's a flaw in your intellectual reasoning for not detecting the inconsistencies, or you're afraid of being judged by your peers for disagreeing with the tribe. Both are bad.
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@PulaRJS Maybe because it's a politicized report that changed the definition of genocide so it could be applied against Israel?.
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This is a beautiful and powerful culture critique by @petersavodnik - Common Sense with @bariweiss. I wanted to offer a quote but there were too many gems to quote.
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All of these folks singing the praises of @jonstewart for his hostile interview with the Arkansas Attorney Gen who banned gender affirming care for minors. Unfortunately, they haven't actually looked at any of the science (or don't really want to know).
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A two state solution in which both states are Palestinian.
Hamas: We demand a 100 percent Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, a 100 percent Israeli withdrawal from half of Jerusalem – including the entire Old City and the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim holy sites – and a 100 percent "right of return" for five million Palestinians to
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This post by @jewishaction. is ridiculous. Whatever one thinks of Rittenhouse, there’s no evidence that he was a white supremacist attacking a multicultural movement. All his victims were white. What’s truly shocking is how far afield some Jewish orgs have gone from due process.
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21 years ago, I warned my colleagues at @AJCGlobal that a new radical discourse was undermining America's sense of cohesion. I argued that "our first obligation is to refuse to be party to America bashing and sensationalized claims of racism." Here's the memo.
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1-I write this thread as one who believes COVID is a dangerous pandemic and requires significant and ongoing government intervention. I’m a huge believer in the vaccine. Our public health enterprise has been exposed during the pandemic.
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