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Consider Harvard’s illustrious English department, which offered the Morris Gray Lectureship to Tom Paulin, a poet who has said that Brooklyn-born Jews who move to Israeli settlements should be shot dead and who refers to the “Zionist S.S.” in one of his poems. Having come under fire for its choice, the department cancelled Paulin’s invitation...
...unable to attend the English department meeting at which the faculty voted to again honor Tom Paulin with the Morris Gray Lectureship, and so have, by my own doing, forfeited my right to have my opposition to renewing that honor formally counted. With respect to that decision, I acknowledge that principled people can disagree about precisely what principle—free speech or the exercise of judgement—is applicable in this case...
...clear what Tom Paulin thinks of my first point. It has been reported that, in addition to his other views on the illegitimacy of states and the worthlessness of persons, Paulin supports the Boycott Israeli Goods (BIG) Campaign, which also calls upon artists and intellectuals to boycott any cultural exchange—political or otherwise—with Israelis. If this is correct, and if Paulin accepts our invitation, I would like to inform him that I, a professor of poetry and an Israeli citizen, will be a participant in the event. We have announced our commitment to unfettered speech...
...Crimson Staff bases its critique of the reinvitation of Tom Paulin on points irrelevant to the current debate (Editorial, “Bestowing an Undue Honor,” Nov. 21). Paulin’s statements were not based upon any “racial or ethnic bias” but were directed towards specific people in Israel, and not Jews in general. The Staff claims Paulin has not retracted his statements, but in another Crimson article (News, "Paulin Likely to Speak in Spring,” Nov. 21), Paulin is quoted as saying...
Your editorial (“Bestowing An Undue Honor,” Nov. 21) was a compelling and sensible refutation of the reborn invitation to poet Tom Paulin. Claims that Paulin’s remarks, advocating violence and murder against Israelis, were misconstrued or taken out of context are unpersuasive. Let’s hear Paulin say, without ambiguity or wiggle-wobble, what he thinks should be done to bring peace to the Middle East...