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Summers’ Judaism entered the spotlight a year into his tenure, when he famously said a petition urging the University to divest from Israel was one of several actions that were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.”
A few of Summers’ supporters—most notably Wisse and law professor Alan M. Dershowitz—have claimed that the divestment petition was an important factor fueling the Faculty’s anger with its president.
In an interview Wednesday, Wisse said, “Of course, the divestment petition was anti-Semitic.” And so, she said, anti-Semitism helped turn some professors against Summers.
But it was the memory of the Israel divestment petition that led Wisse to indict some of Summers’ opponents with anti-Semitic motives.
Citing University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation in face of faculty pressure, a Case Western Reserve University professor called for a vote of no confidence in the Cleveland university’s own president last week. Physics professor and renowned author Lawrence M. Krauss e-mailed the faculty...