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Paulin, an award-winning Irish poet and a lecturer at Oxford, has been castigated for making comments perceived as anti-Israeli and hateful, including one statement that that Brooklyn-born settlers in the West Bank in Israel “should be shot dead...
Paulin’s statements in Al-Aram newspaper make it perfectly clear that his vision of a solution to the Middle East conflict is one in which “Nazi, racist” Brooklyn-born settlers are “shot dead.” Despite Paulin’s claims that his views in Al-Aram were not fully reflective of his stance, he has not retracted his remarks. By inviting Paulin to speak, the English department has implicitly legitimized him as one worthy of recognition by the College and its students, poetry and politics alike. Regardless...
Paulin has come under fire for statements he has made regarding conflict in the Middle East. He said that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank in Israel “should be shot dead,” according to one Egyptian newspaper. And he wrote of “Zionist SS” who shot “another little Palestinian boy” in one of his poems...
Paulin, a renowned poet and Oxford lecturer who is currently teaching at Columbia University, has said that Brooklyn-born Jews who move to Israeli settlements in disputed territories “should be shot...
What happened with Tom Paulin is no different. Paulin is not simply someone who supports Palestinian rights, as you try to whitewash him. He is someone who has said that Brooklyn-born Jews living in the West Bank should be killed (infants too?), that they are all Nazis worthy of hatred. Such a person, whatever his accomplishments as a poet, has no place in a world of civilized discourse...