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Two weeks into the surge of pro-Palestine protests that swept college campuses across the United States, a new, heroic archetype captured the imagination of right-wing media influencers: throngs of casually attired “frat bros” who jeered and laughed at activists, and in one case, a solitary Black woman.

Fraternities — whose reputations have taken repeated hits for sexual assault, hazing deaths, drug dealing and alcohol abuse — are being lionized by prominent conservatives who celebrate them as a cultural counter-force to liberals whose anti-Israel protests and encampments have roiled dozens of American college campuses this spring.

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