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The filing coincided with the third anniversary of the Oct 7 Hamas attacks in Israel."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The lawsuit contends that The New School did not protect Shabot from a campaign of antisemitic harassment. The complaint lists verbal abuse, being chased, pushed, spat on, blocked from entering buildings and vandalism of her desk as examples of the conduct she endured. It also describes an incident in which protesters prevented her from reaching a sewing studio and shouted hostile slogans."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Ziporah Reich, director of litigation at the Lawfare Project, is listed as Shabot’s attorney. 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