"I originally tried to reserve this room as a place for Palestinian students to mourn, but the school delayed and delayed," said Mahdawi, co-president of the Palestinian Students Union. "Finally, they gave it to us for a few hours tonight."
"Shame on him! Shame on him!" Still, hours later as he sat in the student center, the interaction vexed Mahdawi. He worried the outburst would reinforce the perception that protesting Israel's military campaign was antisemitic. "I wanted to say, 'This guy does not belong to us. This guy is confused. We condemn this,' he said, his voice tired and raspy, 'and we reassure you that we are against anybody who is antisemitic.'"
Mahdawi's condemnation did little to mollify campus administrators. The next day, Gerald Rosberg
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