Most curious of all—and perhaps more extreme than anywhere else—was the response in the US, where there were street protests against Israel from the moment that October 7 happened. Like Britain, Sweden, Australia, and Canada, these protests sprang up on the streets of major cities. But one of the most curious things about the response in America was that the focal point for the anti-Israel protests turned out to be not among Islamist rabble-rousers on the streets, but at nearly every elite educational institution in the country. If the protests in Britain seemed to be taking place from the
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