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Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, a vocal supporter of Israel who co-drafted a separate petition against the boycott, said that he thought Faust had "handled [the situation] superbly."
Harvard President Drew G. Faust was not among the 286 American university presidents who signed a petition last week condemning a boycott of Israeli universities, but she had criticized the boycott in a private letter she wrote early last month.
University presidents from across the country condemned the proposed boycott in an advertisement in The New York Times last week declaring, "Boycott Israeli Universities? Boycott Ours, Too!" The petition, organized by the American Jewish Committee, featured a statement by Columbia University President Lee C. Bollinger, a noted free speech scholar...
Faust added that while she was "most comfortable expressing my views on such matters directly in my own words" rather than through a petition, she "join[s] colleagues throughout the international academic community in denouncing unequivocally an action that would serve no purpose."
Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach, one of 32 Nobel laureates who signed Dershowitz' petition, said he thought that Faust's writing a letter meant more than simply signing a statement composed by someone else.