MIKE KELLY
Cornell University
At Cornell, how did the debate on the Israel-Hamas war nearly turn violent? | Mike Kelly
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NorthJersey.com
ITHACA, New York — Marty Levine and Malak Abuhashim come from different worlds.
Levine is a Jewish American, the son of an Israeli mother and close friends to a Long Island man held hostage by Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Abuhashim is a Palestinian American Muslim, with more than a dozen relatives trapped in the Gaza Strip amid Israeli attacks.