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Days after cancelling and then re-offering a prestigious speaking engagement to Irish poet Tom Paulin, Harvard’s English department will hold a forum on controversial speech and the power of literary expression...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: English Forum Will Explore Flap | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

...Paulin, an award-winning Irish poet and a lecturer at Oxford, has been castigated for making comments perceived as anti-Israeli and hateful, including one statement that that Brooklyn-born settlers in the West Bank in Israel “should be shot dead...

Author: By Alexander J. Blenkinsopp, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: English Forum Will Explore Flap | 11/22/2002 | See Source »

...what his antagonists have to say about them, and second, my own right to hear a speaker and make my own judgment has been abridged by those who would “protect” our tender sensibilities from an encounter with the controversial. It is not Paulin who is deprived; it is we who are denied the right of a University citizenship to decide for ourselves. No argument of analogy, moral or otherwise, is a sufficiently acceptable substitute for participation in a real argument. I associate myself with the views on this particular point of Professors Dershowitz, Fried...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes, | Title: Paulin’s Absence Denies Our Chance To Decide | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

Like many of my fellow students at the College, I categorically disagree with the sentiment expressed by poet Tom Paulin regarding the state of Israel and its citizens. However, I applaud the decision of the English department to extend anew its invitation for him to speak at Harvard ( News, “In About-Face, English Dept. Re-Invites Anti-Israeli Poet,” Nov. 20). Paulin had been invited to Cambridge in his capacity as a poet, not as a political thinker. He did not come here to impart an anti-Semitic manifesto...

Author: By Ian R. Mackenzie, | Title: Paulin’s Cancellation Constitutes Blacklisting | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

...akin to the blacklisting of the 1950s when screenwriters in Hollywood could not find work because of their supposed political affiliations. I only fear that at this point, what was intended to be a poetry reading will become a political fracas, and that those who want only to hear Paulin read a few of his poems will not, after all, have that chance...

Author: By Ian R. Mackenzie, | Title: Paulin’s Cancellation Constitutes Blacklisting | 11/21/2002 | See Source »

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