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An example of just how misguided faculty initiatives can get was the 2002 petition circulated by a group of Harvard and MIT faculty, students, and other affiliates, urging divestment from Israel and from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel. This call for divestment was part of a much broader...
Instead of admitting their desire to join this oppressive boycott, the signatories to the petition blamed Jews for oppressing and displacing the Palestinian Arabs. The petitioners’ offense was thus three-fold: they joined the war against Israel, they absolved Arab leaders of their historical and ongoing role in...
Sept. 17, 2002: Sixty-five professors sign a petition calling for the University to divest from Israel. President Summers rejects the petition, saying in a speech that any calls for divestment from Israel are “anti-Semitic in their effect if not in their intent.?...
In 2002, President Lawrence H. Summers infamously remarked that a petition for divestment from companies operating in Israel was “anti-Semitic in effect, if not intent.” Outrageous as many, myself included, found the accusation to be, what was most surprising was that an immensely...
As a signatory to that petition, I think none of us expected Harvard to divest from companies doing business in Israel. The petition represented the loosest kind of divestment demand: a blanket statement of general responsibility and a request to take a strong but vague moral stance. Historically, Harvard does...