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...However, on no other issue at Harvard have I ever heard of the disinvitation of even one invited speaker, much less three. In 2002, Harvard’s Department of English invited Tom Paulin??Oxford professor and one of the finest living British poets—to speak, but promptly disinvited him after then-University President Lawrence H. Summers expressed disapproval of Paulin??s criticisms of Israel. Though the Department later voted to reverse the disinvitation, Paulin has never come to campus. In 2005, DePaul historian Norman G. Finkelstein, who has both sharply criticized Israeli military...
...publicly urged members of the Harvard community to “respect the rights of those who wish to hear the speaker,” an article in The New Yorker suggested that Summers was furious with the invitation and privately pushed the English Department to dissociate itself from Paulin??s views...
...English department’s decision to cancel Paulin??s lecture came less than two months after Summers had given a speech in Memorial Church warning about the rise of global anti-Semitism...
...English department cancels a poetry reading by poet Tom Paulin after over 100 students and faculty members expressed concerns over Paulin??s anti-Israeli views, but he is reinvited one week later. Paulin ultimately never comes to speak...
Summers, who according to The National Review had been privately “horrified” by Paulin??s invitation, issued a public statement affirming Harvard’s commitment to free speech...