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...Oxford’s Tom Paulin, DePaul’s Norman Finkelstein, and Rutgers’ Robert Trivers—have been invited to speak at Harvard and then disinvited after complaints that they had spoken critically of Israel or disagreed sharply with Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz regarding Israel’s military conduct...
...conversation full of respect and free of intimidation, one that presumes no monopolies on suffering, one in which all racism and anti-Semitism—whether against Semitic Jews, Semitic Christians, Semitic Druzes or Semitic Muslims—is equally impermissible. I am troubled that Dershowitz escaped former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ criticism when he endorsed Israel’s torture of Palestinian prisoners. And Wisse’s ghastly 1988 description of Palestinian refugees as “people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery” elicited no demand for retraction...
...publication of the essay prompted an unusually vitriolic debate in academic circles worldwide. The professors drew criticism from high-profile scholars including Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz and MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, while earning praise from others, like New York University historian Tony Judt...
...First, the authors no longer assert that Israeli “citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship,” a charge that had prompted Harvard’s Dershowitz to declare that the “mendacious emphasis on Jewish ‘blood’ “might indicate that the professors had used “neo-Nazi propaganda” in their sourcing...
...Harvard, Dershowitz, Professor of Public Service David R. Gergen, and Murrow Professor of Practice Emeritus Marvin Kalb all criticized the original article but have not yet said anything publicly about the book...