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Was the ouster of Harvard’s first Jewish president anti-Semitic in its effect if not its intent?
Summers’ Judaism entered the spotlight a year into his tenure, when he famously said a petition urging the University to divest from Israel was one of several actions that were “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.”
In an interview Wednesday, Wisse said, “Of course, the divestment petition was anti-Semitic.” And so, she said, anti-Semitism helped turn some professors against Summers.
But it was the memory of the Israel divestment petition that led Wisse to indict some of Summers’ opponents with anti-Semitic motives.
Dershowitz said that Summers’ speech on divestment from Israel was “among the three or four original reasons” that emboldened the president’s critics on the Faculty. But, he said, “I do not believe that that was anti-Semitic...