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...esteemed Professor of Psychology Elizabeth S. Spelke and Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama called in a recent op-ed (“For Human Rights,” Sept. 23) for Harvard to divest from “military aid and investments in Israel.” Their divestment petition itself calls on Harvard, “to divest from Israel, and from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel...
...irresponsibly one-sided and misguided, is also quite disingenuous. “Divestment from military occupation,” a reader might muse, “Well, now, that might sound reasonable.” The reader would do well to examine the list of companies slated by Nakayama, Spelke and their colleagues for divestment, available at the petition website. The list includes such military giants as McDonald’s, IBM, International Paper and Lehmann Brothers. Are our faculty urging Harvard to pull its funds away from the infamous “Cheeseburger of Death to Palestinians?...
...piece “For Human Rights,” Professors Spelke and Nakayama give little credit to the Palestinian people when they write that “much of the danger Israel now faces comes from the misery and hopelessness of three million people...
...think we’re not having a reasoned debate on Iraq,” said Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama, who signed the online letter. “There seems to be the mechanisms in place to just go to war, we’re amassing troops and there doesn’t seem to be any way to stop it. I think we need to discuss and find evidence for the war and that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction...
...Walt and Nakayama said that taking up Hussein’s recent offer to return weapons inspectors to the region was the logical next step despite Iraq’s past violations of U.N. regulations on inspection...