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...would cause, in the words of English department chair Lawrence Buell, “consternation and divisiveness.” We are justly proud that our legal system insisted that the American Nazi Party be allowed to march through the heavily Jewish town of Skokie, Illinois. If Paulin had spoken, we are sure we would have found ways to tell him and each other what we think of him. Now he will be able to lurk smugly in his Oxford lair and sneer at America’s vaunted traditions of free speech. There are some mistakes which are only...
Summers has spoken publicly against anti-Semitism, including a statement at Morning Prayers two months ago when he called divestment movements “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent...
Once again the Staff erroneously conflates anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Although Paulin’s comments and poetry may seem rather direct (and even offensive), they must be put into the context of his long history of combatting bigotry and intolerance. He has, for example, repeatedly spoken out against the literary establishment’s tolerance of T. S. Eliot’s anti-Semitism...
Buell wrote that he also conferred with Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and many other colleagues about how to handle the situation, adding that he does not know which other English department faculty members Summers may have spoken with...
...concern of faculty and outsiders seems to be compromise to the principle of free speech within the academy,” Buell wrote. “Some have also noted that figures much more consistently identified with advocacy of violence, figures indeed responsible for perpetrating crimes of violence, have spoken at Harvard and other leading universities in the past...