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While in the past Arafat has drawn sharp rebukes from pro-Israel Harvard faculty and students, Sarafa said that “you don’t criticize someone during his death...It would be tactless at this time...
Meanwhile, Ruth R. Wisse, the Peretz professor of Yiddish literature, lambasted Arafat for his ties to terrorism yesterday...
...Yasser Arafat is if he’s still alive—was, if it’s in the past tense—the world’s most notorious terrorist, a man who not only practiced but preached killing as a way of life,” Wisse said...
Khairi said he does not support Arafat politically, but that the Palestinian leader “deserves to be remembered... He has done for peace as much as [Yitzhak] Rabin has done,” Khairi said, referring to the Israeli prime minister who was assassinated exactly nine years ago yesterday...
...memorial service would seriously alienate a lot of people who thought Arafat was a terrorist,” Marglin said...