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We were, I suppose, the “continual military occupation” against which the now-infamous divestment petition rails (it would be five months before professors would polarize the campus by calling on Harvard to target the Israeli economy for destruction). We were twenty soldiers in five jeeps...
But several audience members interjected various comments throughout the panel discussion, causing Hanson to say the petition was “missing nuances.”
The petition also urges Israel to comply with a number of United Nations resolutions and put a stop to alleged human rights abuses.
Some members of the Harvard community, including Harvard Students for Israel (HSI), have opposed the divestment petition. University President Lawrence H. Summers has said that Harvard will not divest from Israel. In a speech last month, Summers said that supporters of ideas including divestment are “anti-Semitic...
There are, however, actions and words that clearly are anti-Semitic, some in intent, others in effect. For example, the malicious claim by New Jersey poet laureate Amiri Baraka that Israelis were warned in advance to stay away from the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 is plainly anti-Semitic...