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...that, with the passing of the Summers administration in 2006, these threats to free speech about Israel have ended. However, in 2007, long after Summers’ departure, Martin A. Nowak—Professor of Mathematics and Biology and Director of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) —invited Rutgers biologist Robert L. Trivers to speak on the occasion of his receipt of the prestigious Crafoord Prize in biosciences from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Hours before the scheduled speech and party, according to Trivers, Nowak abruptly rescinded the invitation and said that...
...Dershowitz, who is also a Faculty Affiliate of PED, had complained of a letter to the Wall Street Journal in which Trivers described Israel’s attacks on Lebanese civilians during the 2006 invasion as “butchery.” He also called Dershowitz a “Nazi-like apologist” for justifying it, and told Dershowitz to “look forward to a visit” from him if his public justifications continued. Trivers denied any intent to threaten or harm Dershowitz physically. In 2008, it was a professor from outside of PED...
...feud between the two professors boiled over last May when Trivers was scheduled to give a talk at Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED...
...Trivers has said that he suspects that either Dershowitz, one of the few non-scientists who is a PED faculty affiliate, or Jeffrey E. Epstein—who donated $6.5 million for the creation of PED in 2003 and has retained Dershowitz as a defense attorney to battle an indictment for soliciting prostitution—were responsible for the cancellation of the speech...
...PED Director Martin A. Nowak, a mathematical biologist, did not respond to repeated phone and e-mail requests for comment over the past several months. Epstein’s attorney refused to allow questions to be directed to his client when contacted on Monday...