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...encouraging the cancellation of Irish poet Tom Paulin??s poetry reading, University President Lawrence H. Summers has again moved to suppress the free exchange of ideas at Harvard (News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture,” Nov. 13). Free speech is meaningless if it only holds for the politically correct. As a concerned individual, Summers could have personally joined the protesters planning to boycott Paulin??s reading. By acting as president of the University, however, he exposes antidemocratic impulses inappropriate for a university president. For “Ayatollah?...
...such an obvious call for killing was not cause enough to cancel Paulin??s lecture, he also published a poem in London’s Observer newspaper calling the Israeli military “the Zionist SS.” To say such a comparison is offensive does not do it justice; ghastly, repulsive and sickening are more appropriate descriptions of the moral bankruptcy of anyone who equates the Israeli Defense Force to an organization that killed six million Jews...
...freedom of speech is a crucial value to be continually defended, but it does not require Harvard to host a poet who preaches hate. It is unfortunate that the banner of free speech has been raised in Paulin??s defense; that standard is being sullied by his name...
Once again the Staff erroneously conflates anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Although Paulin??s comments and poetry may seem rather direct (and even offensive), they must be put into the context of his long history of combatting bigotry and intolerance. He has, for example, repeatedly spoken out against the literary establishment’s tolerance of T. S. Eliot’s anti-Semitism...
...suggested cancellation when it became fully clear to us that Mr. Paulin??s visit was likely to produce undue consternation and divisiveness,” Buell said. “Let me add that Mr. Paulin readily and graciously agreed...