Brandeis remained true to its emerging credo of liberal intolerance -– increasingly toward Israel. In 1973 a chapter of Breira, the antecedent of J-Street, emerged to demand territorial concessions for a Palestinian state in the biblical homeland of the Jewish people. Among its student leaders was a young man named Thomas Friedman, who would subsequently develop his ideas as Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the New York Times. Two years ago the Brandeis chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine launched its first Israel Apartheid Week.
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