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Summers’ statement came after 65 Harvard faculty members, including two House masters, signed a petition that called on Harvard and MIT to sell-off an estimated $614 million in investments in companies that do business in Israel.
The anti-divestment petition calls these demands “a one-sided attempt to delegitimize Israel” that ignores Israel’s right to respond to terrorist attacks.
“Reasonable people should work for a peacefully negotiated solution, and not single out Israel for partisan attack,” the petition reads.
Over 300 professors have signed a petition calling for the University to publicly state that it will not divest from Israel, as a group of faculty, students and staff have demanded.
Politically, too, the pressure is on. Longtime Latin American ally Mexico recently deserted Cuba to support a U.N. condemnation of Havana's repressive human rights record. Even more significant may have been an unprecedented domestic challenge to the government over the past week, in the form of the Varela initiative...