Word: paulinã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...defended in the name of “diversity” and tolerance? Surely not: speakers espousing such positions would never have been invited in the first place. Are some forms of hate speech more protected than others? Having suspended an unwise invitation, the English department inadvertently made Paulin??s presence into a free speech issue. But retreating behind a laudable commitment to the First Amendment does not absolve those who showed such poor judgment in the first place of their responsibility to condemn his anti-Semitic statements. To divorce poetry from politics would be to diminish...
...Consider Paulin??s response to those who characterize his statements as anti-Semitic, made in the same interview in which he declared that settlers “should be shot dead. I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them;” “I have utter contempt for them. They use this card of anti-Semitism. They fill newspapers with hate letters. They are useless people.” Those who dare to disagree with Paulin are “useless” and full of hatred? What is it that...
During a question-and-answer period after Pipes’ speech, an audience member asked him to comment on the controversy over Irish poet Tom Paulin??who was invited to speak last month by the Harvard English department, then uninvited after he drew criticism for violent anti-Israeli statements, then reinvited...
...Paulin??s words—hateful and incendiary as they were—came out in a flash of anger and rhetoric, and they directly contradict his longstanding and vocal support for the peace process and a two-state solution. Dershowitz’s words constitute a policy proposal, not a flash of rhetorical fury; disturbing as they are, they represent his considered opinion and are consistent with his views as we know them. This difference should be borne in mind when we hold each to account for his role in exacerbating this bloody conflict...
...Protocols of the Elders of Zion is currently primetime fare for much of the Arab and Muslim world, to the notable silence of the Harvard English department or any other Harvard department. Europe is enjoying a revival of the oldest hatred—though even some of Paulin??s British colleagues complain that he has gone somewhat overboard in his enthusiasm. And right here in America the latest form of campus protest is a unique petition campaign against Israel. No wonder inviting Paulin seemed like a safe call...