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Pete Newbon

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “british jewish academic and campaigner against antisemitism”. Today it says “british academic”.
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Peter Jonathan Hewitt Newbon (1983 – 15 January 2022) was a British Jewish academic and campaigner against antisemitism .1 At the time of his death, he was a lecturer in Romantic and Victorian literature at Northumbria University and a director of Labour Against Antisemitism.

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british jewish academic and campaigner against antisemitism

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british academic

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