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Rita Hamad ’03, public relations officer for the Society of Arab Students, questioned the scope of the petition.
Summers declined to comment on his thoughts about the petition, but he pointed to his Sept. 17 Morning Prayers address at Memorial Church—in which he described efforts to encourage divestment from Israel as “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent?...
Though he refrained from joining many of his peers in signing the petition, Summers said Harvard frequently collaborates with other universities on issues that are common across higher education, such as financial aid, student visas and academic freedom.
“I would generally anticipate, as my predecessors have, stating my views in the context of this community rather than joining others in a petition,” he said.
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse praised the petition as an important effort to combat hatred.