Word: notting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps most disturbing to me were the letters that attributed sinister motives to my criticism of Israel. One reader informed me that he could not brook criticism from anyone "whose political purpose goes beyond that of Palestinian nationalism and human rights."
In retrospect, the choice of the word "defend" was poor. But I stand by my accusation that Dershowitz is an inveterate apologist for Israel. My point was not whether Dershowitz approves of human rights violations, but whether he rationalizes them. And indeed he does.
"For what mysterious reasons may your works not be discussed without taking away humanity's reasons for living? By what miracle are objections to you suddenly transformed, within the hour, into sacrilege?"
On behalf of the staff of the Harvard Independent, I wish to express my strongest displeasure with the gratuitous and obnoxious Reporter's Notebook entry which ran in your publication last Saturday. Not only do such digs read as the product of a self-important but grossly insecure Crimson editorial...
I submit, perhaps naively, that the Crimson editors would not claim to be running a perfect newspaper. It is puzzling, therefore, that the Crimson has taken unto itself the liberty to play ombudsman for the Indy; there is daily evidence that their work at Plympton Street is far from complete...