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...Robert Trivers??the Rutgers evolutionary biologist who had some less-than-loving things to say about Harvard after being disinvited from a speaking engagement last spring—will be making a Valentine’s Day visit that may prove no less controversial than his last appearance in Cambridge...
...visit by the former Harvard graduate student marks the next chapter in Trivers?? bitter feud over Israeli policy with Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, whose influence, Trivers alleges, was instrumental in preventing Trivers from speaking at the University in the past...
...Israel alliance, became the subject of insinuations that he was anti-Semitic—insinuations that were likely fatal to his candidacy. In recent years, at least three professors—Oxford’s Tom Paulin, DePaul’s Norman Finkelstein, and Rutgers’ Robert Trivers??have been invited to speak at Harvard and then disinvited after complaints that they had spoken critically of Israel or disagreed sharply with Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz regarding Israel’s military conduct...
...just say that if there is a repeat of Israeli butchery towards Lebanon and if you decide once again to rationalize it publicly, look forward to a visit from me,” reads Trivers?? transcription of the offending portion of the message...
Dershowitz said he believed that the message’s promise of a confrontation signaled a physical threat and that he had given it to the Harvard University Police Department upon receipt. He added that while he had not played a direct role in the cancellation of Trivers?? event, he thought that the decision had been made properly...