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Noah Hertz-Bunzl '08, the vice chair for education of Harvard's Progressive Jewish Alliance, called the boycott "terrible," but added that "there is something to be said for a Harvard president staying out of the fray and not jumping into petty politics...
...Still, Harvard Students for Israel said in an e-mailed statement that the group would like to see Faust sign the petition. Terming the proposed boycott "a blatant attack on intellectual freedom," the group called Faust's letter a "first step...
...group, the Harvard Society of Arab Students, pointed out the positive results of the proposed boycott, noting that it "has already prompted the presidents of four major Israeli universities to push for Palestinian rights to travel from Gaza to the West Bank to study...
...added, the boycott seemed "misguided" because "Israeli academics are often among the most stringent critics" of Israel's human rights record...
...last May, when the 67,000-strong Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education passed a resolution urging its members to boycott Israeli universities, Summers, who was in London at the time, said that the resolution was "anti-Semitic in both effect and in intent...