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...recent attack on the person of Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel Lawrence Stager by Martin Peretz is too full of calumny, whether uttered out of ignorance or malice, to let pass without a public response on my part...
...Peretz begins with a history of the Museum laden with an encrustation of folklore and plain errors in fact. Among other things he speaks of the "forty-year exile" of the Semitic Museum. At the opening of the Museum to the public on April 4, 1982, I began with the following remarks, "The Harvard Gazette announced this week that the Semitic Museum was reopening after forty years. I found this notice of interest. In fact the Museum was forced underground twenty-five years ago. However, the Gazette [or rather its source] preferred the biblical and Semitic round number forty...
Furthermore, the opinion piece by Martin Peretz of The New Republic on Nov. 28 was purely offensive. His not-so-subtle implications that Professor Stager is an anti-Semite are absolutely unfounded. Professor Stager has dedicated his life to the study of the ancient Semitic world and in the year that we have known him he has never in any way indicated signs of anti-Semitic thought or action...
...worked with him detected the slightest whiff of anti-Semitism in Larry's conduct in Israel or in the states. He is, in fact, admired and loved by Israelis from Teddy Kollek to the late Yigael Yadin, who helped Professor Stager obtain the permit to excavate at Ashkelon. Martin Peretz's implied comparison of Larry Stager with President Lowell and his hostility to Jewish students would have been worthy of the late well-known senator from Wisconsin. Marty's creativity is justly known and admired, but never has his imagination soared to greater heights than in the destructive innuendo directed...
...longtime subscriber to The New Republic, I have always enjoyed reading Martin Peretz, even when I found his positions outrageous, but in the guest commentary in the November 29 Crimson, entitled The Sabotage of the Semitic Museum, Mr. Peretz outdid himself...