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Olivia at the Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting last month.
How did our universities become hotbeds of hate? Olivia Reingold set out to investigate.
By Olivia Reingold
01.31.24 — Education
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For the last ninety years, New Yorkers have come together for the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center. But this past December, a thousand anti-Israel protesters showed up, determined to disrupt the celebratory spirit. 

“There is only one solution,” organizers shouted into megaphones, “Intifada, revolution.”

Within the hour, punch…

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Olivia Reingold
Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press. She co-created and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes. She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities in Montana. She previously produced podcasts at Politico, where she shaped conversations with world leaders like Jens Stoltenberg.
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