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Singaporean students in Ivy League shaken but wiser after campus furore over anti-Semitism

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Ms Althea Lee, 19, a sophomore at Harvard, is majoring in Government and East Asian Studies.

Ms Althea Lee, 19, a sophomore at Harvard, is majoring in government and East Asian studies.

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For Singaporeans studying at elite American universities, the tumult on campuses following congressional testimony by three university presidents has been a somewhat fraught though eye-opening experience.

After pro-Palestinian demonstrations broke out across college campuses in the aftermath of the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, school administrators came under growing pressure for their handling of protests.

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