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Cornell Professor Who Called Hamas Attacks ‘Exhilarating’ Takes Leave of Absence

OUT OF OFFICE

The university previously called Russell Rickford’s words “reprehensible.”

Dan Ladden-Hall
Dan Ladden-Hall 

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Bailey Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
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Dan Ladden-Hall

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