Debate flared at a Northern California school over a student column that said the Jews’ own behavior was to blame for anti-Semitism. The furor at Santa Rosa Junior College in Sonoma County, north of San Francisco, ignited when the Oak Leaf student newspaper published a column in March titled, “Is anti-Semitism ever the result of Jewish behavior?”
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