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“It appears that the Jewish community is growing even more skeptical and critical of deploying antisemitism as the rationale” for federal funding cuts to universities, Fuller said.

The use of tariff threats as a cudgel to try to save an ally from legal peril also gives lie to the purported rationale behind tariffs: protecting U.S. manufacturers or correcting trade imbalances.

In August, Rayner had written to the Chinese side demanding they "explain the rationale and justification for each of the redactions".

Apologists for Israel’s genocide in Gaza have continued to invoke just such a rationale.

It said "the rationale for the former chief executive's retirement contributing to efficiencies was, at best, unclear".