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Can a Jew Be Trusted to Prosecute Campus Protesters?
Nearly eight decades after his father was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen has been yanked from a high-profile case for being anti-antisemitism.
By Peter Savodnik
05.18.26 — California
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To Rosen, whose father was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a baby, there was something “mystifying about the ruling. (All photos by Scott Chernis for The Free Press)
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Earlier this month, a judge declared that Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeffrey Rosen could not be trusted to do his job because he is Jewish.

That was not how she put it, but that seemed to be the unavoidable implication of her ruling.

To Rosen, whose father was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as a baby, there was something “mystifying” about the whole thing.

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is a senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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