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...University President Lawrence H. Summers and others on campus continue to trade blows over a recent petition calling on Harvard to divest from Israel, faculty have begun to publicly line up on another controversial Middle East issue—whether the U.S. should invade Iraq...
University President Lawrence H. Summers’ treatment of anti-Semitism within Harvard’s divestment movement at last Tuesday’s Morning Prayers was both disingenuous and divisive. Addressing a small audience in the intimate setting of Appleton Chapel, he offered a list of examples of “actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent” advocated by “serious and thoughtful people.” He capped off this list with a dismissive attack on those who have lobbied Harvard to divest from Israel...
Calls for the University to divest from Israel and a Harvard student group’s fundraising activities are examples of developments on campus in the last year that are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent,” Summers said to students and faculty attending the first Morning Prayers of the term...
...petition that circulated last spring advocating that the University divest from Israel, Summers said, is an example of anti-Semitism’s spread. While aspects of Israel’s foreign policy “should be vigorously challenged,” the calls for divestment seek to unfairly “single out Israel,” he said...
...international Student Global AIDS Campaign (SGAC), the Harvard-founded international parent organization of the Harvard AIDS Coalition, has instructed its campus chapters to call for a divestment from Coke, and HAC intends to call on Harvard to divest, said Florence T. Twu ’05, a rally organizer...