The Anti-Defamation League called on officials at Sarah Lawrence College to speak out against a mock concentration camp that was set up on the campus as part of a protest against Israel’s treatment of Lebanese citizens. Students at the Bronxville, N.Y., school have the right “to air their views on the complex situation in the Middle East,” the ADL wrote to the school’s president, but comparing that situation to the Holocaust is “highly offensive.”
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