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...English department’s decision to re-extend its initial invitation to controversial poet Tom Paulin is a positive step toward maintaining a free and open exchange of ideas at Harvard. The invitation’s prior rescinding, under administrative and student pressure, only contributed to a climate of institutional hostility to a particular side in this political debate over Israel—a thoroughly destructive force to the health of an academic community...
...English department’s decision to re-extend an invitation to Oxford poet and Columbia visiting lecturer Tom Paulin sets a disturbing precendent of allowing speakers who promulgate hate speech and religiously based violence to address this campus under the Harvard imprimatur...
...context and reaffirmed that he has consistently fought racism in all forms in all places. But his political views on Israel, perhaps offensive to many, were never a fair justification for uninviting Paulin in the first place. His lecture concerns an entirely unrelated body of work as a poet. The Staff’s assertion that this particular lecture amounts to an intellectual honor, which Paulin does not deserve in light of his views, ignores that the College “honors” anti-Semitic poets regularly in the classroom, including poets Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. Indeed...
...past week, I have witnessed many supporters of the state of Israel come out in opposition to Tom Paulin, the poet whose invitation to speak at Harvard was recently rescinded because of comments he has made in the past equating Zionists with Nazis, or saying that some Israeli settlers should be shot for their illegal occupation of Palestinian territories ( News, “Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture,” Nov. 13). They have berated him for his comments, saying that his invitation should be rescinded because his statements promoted violence and were potentially racist...
According to a colleague of Paulin, the poet is likely to accept the reinvitation...