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Paulin is certainly entitled to express his own opinions—and of course, extremely critical views of Israel should not preclude him from speaking at Harvard, on that subject or any other. Whether or not he believes in the right of a Jewish state to exist is irrelevant to a discussion of epic poetry, the original subject of his lecture. But when the English department learned that he advocated killing civilians and considered the Israeli military a modern-day incarnation of the SS, the content of his poetry became immaterial...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers, who expressed his concerns about Paulin directly to members of the English department, according to the Boston Globe. A poet more than anyone should recognize the power of words. If Paulin is going to advocate killing civilians, whether Brooklyn-born Jewish settlers or ardent Palestinian nationalists, he should find no welcome at this University...
Kentridge is an unusually versatile artist, with a background ranging from opera to politics. He was born into a Jewish family in Johannesburg in 1955. In an interview with writer bell hooks in the September 1998 issue of Interview magazine, he noted that “a central irony exists for South African Jews. To be Jewish was to be other…But in the present, we are absolutely not part of those most oppressed.” Kentridge’s fascination with otherness and the divisions within South African society led him to earn...
...Merchant of Venice—in which a Jewish moneylender seeks retribution against oppressive Venetian society through the law, the only resource available to him, only to be trounced and condemned to Christian conversion by a supposedly impartial judge—has elicited extraordinarily varied critical and dramatic interpretations over the past century. Shakespeare wrote the play as a comedy, compelling some critics to categorize it as anti-Semitic, particularly in the heightened awareness of post-Holocaust scholarship...
...Laura P. Perry ’04, director of the Athena production, does not consider Shakespeare’s portrayal of the Jewish moneylender Shylock as a heartless businessman to be anti-Semitic. If so, she said, the play is equally anti-Christian, for its Christian characters appear equally cruel and far more deceitful...