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Concerned about the message it was sending on free speech, the English department yesterday renewed the invitation it cancelled just one week ago to Tom Paulin, an award-winning Irish poet who has expressed violently anti-Israeli views...
Paulin, a renowned poet and Oxford lecturer who is currently teaching at Columbia University, has said that Brooklyn-born Jews who move to Israeli settlements in disputed territories “should be shot...
Cavanagh does himself, his reputation and his cause a profound disservice when he strings out a letter based on a fetid, flight or fight response. There are plenty of folks who support Palestinian rights and think poet Paulin is a nincompoop...
...writing in order to address a wrong impression that some have drawn from your front-page articles about the decision, mutually agreed upon with the noted Irish poet Tom Paulin, not to hold his poetry reading under the Morris Gray lectureship originally scheduled for Nov. 14 (News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture” and “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 13 and 14). The Crimson coverage can easily be read as giving the impression of a unanimous department position on the subject. Such was not the case...
...dismayed by the convenient suspension of “free speech” to suit a self-determined prejudice against its practice, however justified (News, “Poet Flap Drew Summers’ Input,” Nov. 14). One cannot have a polarized and politically determined segment of the society, even with a seeming righteousness, proscribe for the body politic—in this case, the whole social body of Harvard’s community—what is fit for their ears and what not. As a poet and teacher I protest entirely this self-ordained presumption...