Word: dershowitz
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...deprived; it is we who are denied the right of a University citizenship to decide for ourselves. No argument of analogy, moral or otherwise, is a sufficiently acceptable substitute for participation in a real argument. I associate myself with the views on this particular point of Professors Dershowitz, Fried and Tribe, and think it a sad day for our “Republic of Letters” when we cannot hear that which we are likely to disagree. Who next will be deemed to be “controversial,” and by whom? Surely we can and must...
...Alan M. Dershowitz, Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard and a graduate of Yale Law School, said that companies in the Yale investment portfolio do business in many nations with repressive regimes...
...can’t single out one country,” said Dershowitz, who is involved in Harvard’s anti-divestment petition, which has drawn nearly 6,000 signatures. “If you were to go through all of Yale’s investments in conflict-ridden countries, Israel would be the 107th worst on the list...
...Dershowitz predicted that no university would actually divest from Israel, and said he would resign his position if Harvard...
...petition was drafted by Francis A. Boyle, a law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who is said to have begun the divestment movement in November 2000 with a speech at Illinois State University. Boyle served as a lawyer for the Palestinian Liberation Organization, according to Dershowitz...