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...decision as a stand for freedom of speech. As a poet and a public agitator against Israel, Paulin has always enjoyed complete freedom of speech. He was free to publish and publicize his poem about a Palestinian child who, he alleges, was “gunned down by the Zionist SS” (the boy in question was probably killed by a Palestinian bullet and mendaciously turned into a poster-child of the Intifada). Paulin was free to to boast, “I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all,” to advertise...
Paulin, who has received criticism for reportedly saying that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank in Israel “should be shot dead” and referring in one of his poems to “Zionist SS” who shot “another little Palestinian boy,” has said his quotations were taken out of context...
Consider Harvard’s illustrious English department, which offered the Morris Gray Lectureship to Tom Paulin, a poet who has said that Brooklyn-born Jews who move to Israeli settlements should be shot dead and who refers to the “Zionist S.S.” in one of his poems. Having come under fire for its choice, the department cancelled Paulin’s invitation...
...come under fire for statements he has made regarding conflict in the Middle East. He said that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank in Israel “should be shot dead,” according to one Egyptian newspaper. And he wrote of “Zionist SS” who shot “another little Palestinian boy” in one of his poems...
...Just because I am anti-Zionist does not mean I am anti-Semitic,” added Bernstein, who is Jewish...