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...will consider creating a committee to investigate free speech at Harvard. Faust’s announcement at the meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences came in the midst of an ongoing clash between anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82 and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz. Matory has claimed that critics of Israel like himself “tremble in fear” from repercussions for their views and urged his colleagues to pass a one-sentence affirmation of “civil dialogue.” While that motion was postponed indefinitely yesterday, the debate...
...Samantha J. Perry ’09, the student president of Harvard Chabad. Perry also emphasized that the event allowed non-Jewish people to learn more about the holiday. The menorah lighting has become an annual event, with professors participating on each night. This year law professor Alan M. Dershowitz and Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard’s first Jewish president, have also participated in the lighting ceremony. At the end of the lighting, the group broke out into a Hebrew song. And when a member of the crowd requested a song in English, the revelry continued with...
...suppose I should be flattered that so distinguished a personage as Professor Alan M. Dershowitz devoted so much attention to me in a piece in The Crimson. According to him, I am an enemy of free speech because I criticized Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger’s remarks in introducing the president of Iran when he spoke at our University. My real agenda, according to Dershowitz, is that I am “against Israel,” by which he evidently means anyone who criticizes any Israeli policy...
...don’t know what the standards of proof among law professors are, but among historians it is customary to present facts to bolster an argument. I defy Professor Dershowitz to cite any statement of mine that is “against Israel.” My criticism of President Bollinger revolved around the part of his speech that seemed to commit Columbia University to support of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq, and to blame Iran for the violence there. When introducing a foreign head of state, the president of a university is not simply...
Lest anyone actually believe Dershowitz’s misrepresentation, I am categorically in favor of the broadest possible freedom of speech for everyone, whether I agree with them or not. If Dershowitz had taken the time to study my writings and actions, he would have realized this. Criticizing the content of speech—as I did with President Bollinger—is not the same thing as trying to deprive him of the right to speak, a distinction a law professor ought to understand...