Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, executive director of Harvard Hillel, said he was “shocked” by the publication of a recent op-ed in the Harvard Crimson , a student paper, that stated it is “justifiable” to end friendships with Zionists.

“This is exactly the kind of shunning, ostracization, demonization” of “Zionist Jews and Israelis that we’ve been speaking out against, working against for the last two years,” Rubenstein said .

The op-ed , published on Nov. 6, was part of the paper’s “Amateur Ethicist” column, in which Andrés Muedano, a Crimson Editorial editor, responds to ethics questions submitted by members of the Harvard University community. The piece was written in response to an anonymous submission from someone claiming to be an anti-Zionist Jew, asking if he or she should end t

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