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Justifying Segregation in the New York Times?

Not Amused

Mairav Zonszein and Lisa Goldman on an Israeli writer's justification for segregating Arabs and Jews at an Israeli amusement park.

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Imagine that Six Flags Great Adventure, a New Jersey adventure park, quietly instituted separate days for black and white schoolchildren. Exposed by the media, the management claimed they had acted in response to complaints from some white parents about the behavior of the black children, saying they behaved badly and...

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