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...because Paulin is so very outspoken, no literate person could doubt what he stood for. The question at issue is therefore not free speech, but the faculty’s cultural taste and political priorities. Members of the English department decided to invite a speaker known for slandering the Jewish homeland: Had they not wanted a person so known, they would have invited someone else. If they then regretted their decision, they could have said so when they withdrew their invitation. Instead, they bowed first to one form of pressure and then to an evidently much greater one, trying...
...their endorsement follow them to the grave. But those who love freedom may also exercise their rights of free speech. All the hatred and calumny in the world cannot obscure the achievement of the state of Israel. The more others try to smear the citizens and aspirations of the Jewish state, the more its admirers are bound to proclaim its accomplishments. Israel has withstood thousands of terrorist attacks in the last two years—a situation Americans can hardly imagine—yet it sustains a democratic culture under conditions of siege that would long since have crushed...
Representatives of the Land of Israel Committee at the Boston Jewish Russian Center in Brighton distributed anti-Chomsky materials at the door and the Harvard Students for Israel sat against the back wall holding Israeli flags...
...most frequent interruptions came from a group of Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union...
...appalled by the tactics of some of the characters sitting in the audience who tried to shout down Professor Chomsky and several verbally assaulted me, calling me a Jewish self-hater,” said Judith Koffler, a graduate of Harvard Law School...