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Fein charges that MIT Professor Noam Chomsky "has long denied the right of Israel to exist," and is "known for anti-Zionism bordering on Anti-Semitism." The first claim is dead wrong; the second is libelous. Chomsky has long called for a Palestinian state alongside Israel. This is the position of most of the world, a growing number of U.S. Jews and of the Israeli peace movement. Chomsky opposes Israeli policies, many based on mainstream Zionism (not the Zionism of Martin Buber and Albert Einstein), which deny Palestinians basic human and national rights. Chomsky believes in a single standard, condemning...
Fein complains that Chomsky and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi of Haifa University were not addressing their "area of expertise." What are Chomsky, a linguistics professor, and Beit-Hallahmi, a psychologist, doing talking about foreign affairs? This ad hominem reasoning would disqualify many of the leading critics of the Vietnam War, including Chomsky, and, for that matter, many leading supporters of Israel. Beit-Hallahmi, who appeared on WBGH's "Public Television Evening News" as an expert (along with Harvard's Nadav Safran), has written and lectured extensively on Israel's odious ties with South Africa...
...University will host a memorial service for Francis M. Rogers. Smith professor of the language and literature of Portugal emeritus and former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, on December 9 at Memorial Church...
...experience in the military made Rogers legalistic and "rather straight as a person," said Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Nicolae Iliescu, a colleague and close friend...
Such were the words of a professor I greatly respect, two days prior to my departure for Beijing. He was, at my request, expressing his opinion on continuing academic exchange with China in light of the events of June...