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...University’s mission. But Harvard has no obligation to encourage hate speech, speech that explicitly incites ethnic violence. Such speakers have no place in a community based on respect and tolerance, and for that reason, the English department was right to ask Irish poet Tom Paulin not to give the Morris Gray Lecture...
When the department invited Paulin to give the annual speech last winter, he had not yet told Egypt’s Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper that Brooklyn-born Jews who have settled in the West Bank “should be shot dead.” “I think they are Nazis, racists,” he said, “I feel nothing but hatred for them...
...Paulin is certainly entitled to express his own opinions—and of course, extremely critical views of Israel should not preclude him from speaking at Harvard, on that subject or any other. Whether or not he believes in the right of a Jewish state to exist is irrelevant to a discussion of epic poetry, the original subject of his lecture. But when the English department learned that he advocated killing civilians and considered the Israeli military a modern-day incarnation of the SS, the content of his poetry became immaterial...
...What he was saying was not part of intelligent debate about Israel,” Barro said. He added that Paulin was “not merely anti-Israel or anti-occupation of territories. What he was saying is settlers ought to be shot...
...Paulin is the recipient of several awards, including the Somerset Maugham award...