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Last fall, University President Lawrence H. Summers gave a speech in which he drew a link between divestment from Israel and anti-Semitism. Though many found the remarks controversial, I considered them courageous. Summers catapulted himself onto Ginsberg??€™s list of all-time favorite people. The divestment movement at Harvard (it is also a national academic movement) is an effort by a variety of faculty members to encourage the University to withdraw investments from companies that do business with Israel. Their notion is that Israel is run by an oppressive military regime whose human rights violations regarding Palestinians...