{"id":68927,"date":"2015-05-26T07:03:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68927"},"modified":"2015-05-26T07:07:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T15:07:15","slug":"lat-op-ed-wrongfully-treating-academic-debate-as-anti-semitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=68927","title":{"rendered":"LAT: Op-Ed Wrongfully treating academic debate as anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love Israel. I think it is the most free and most dynamic country in the Middle East. I also see nothing sinister in non-Jews such as Arabs and Muslims frequently having conflicting interests with the Jewish state and therefore opposing it. 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