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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."
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.
"Signing a petition is always some kind of approximation or a compromise in some sort, because you aren’t the person who originated the statement," said Herschbach, who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986.
Still, Harvard Students for Israel said in an e-mailed statement that the group would like to see Faust sign the petition. Terming the proposed boycott "a blatant attack on intellectual freedom," the group called Faust's letter a "first step."