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Women aren't the only group that has been alienated by Summers' rough-and-tumble manner. Soon after leaving his post as President Bill Clinton's Treasury Secretary and returning to the Cambridge campus where he earned his Ph.D. and taught economics in the 1980s, Summers questioned African-American studies...
The Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, both based in New York City, adopted anti-terrorism language in their grants agreements last year that critics claimed infringed on academic freedoms. Ford was prompted to do so by criticism that its money paid the bills for anti-Semitic organizations; Rockefeller soon followed suit...
In adopting the new language, Ford was responding to charges that its money had been used by some grantees to advance anti-Israel and anti-Semitic agendas. These charges focused largely on the actions of Ford grantees at the 2001 United Nations Conference Against Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance...
In October 2003, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., sent Ford President Susan V. Berresford a letter co-signed by 20 other congressmen urging her to ensure that Ford money was not supporting anti-Semitic activities. In a November 2003 meeting, Berresford promised Nadler that Ford would not fund anti...
More recently, Summers has drawn fire from faculty over comments denouncing the divestment from Israel movement as anti-Semitic.