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Consider Cavanagh’s bewildering syllogism: Summers doesn’t like Tom Paulin. Paulin supports Palestinian causes. Therefore, Summers doesn’t like, as a friend put it, “anyone who supports Palestinian causes.” I don’t believe that Cavanagh supports killing Brooklyn Jews, but if we buy his faulty logic...
Cavanagh does himself, his reputation and his cause a profound disservice when he strings out a letter based on a fetid, flight or fight response. There are plenty of folks who support Palestinian rights and think poet Paulin is a nincompoop...
...writing in order to address a wrong impression that some have drawn from your front-page articles about the decision, mutually agreed upon with the noted Irish poet Tom Paulin, not to hold his poetry reading under the Morris Gray lectureship originally scheduled for Nov. 14 (News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture” and “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 13 and 14). The Crimson coverage can easily be read as giving the impression of a unanimous department position on the subject. Such was not the case...
...accounts this Paulin fellow the English Department invited to lecture here is a despicable example of the anti-Semitic and/or anti-Israel posturing unfortunately quite widespread among European intellectuals (News, “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 14). We think he probably should not have been invited. But Harvard has had its share of cranks, monsters, scoundrels and charlatans lecture here and has survived...
...speaker would cause, in the words of English department chair Lawrence Buell, “consternation and divisiveness.” We are justly proud that our legal system insisted that the American Nazi Party be allowed to march through the heavily Jewish town of Skokie, Illinois. If Paulin had spoken, we are sure we would have found ways to tell him and each other what we think of him. Now he will be able to lurk smugly in his Oxford lair and sneer at America’s vaunted traditions of free speech. There are some mistakes which...