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...fall 2002 after Tom Paulin allegedly made anti-Israel comments to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram, the English department withdrew an invitation to controversial poet’s just days before he was slated to speak at the lecture...
...While Israelis and Palestinians battle with tanks and bombs, their supporters at Harvard are waging their fight by luring hot-button lecturers to campus. Last fall English department members, who had asked Irish poet Tom Paulin to receive an award at Harvard, rescinded the invitation amidst uproar over an interview with an Egyptian newspaper, in which Paulin said that Brooklyn-born settlers on the West Bank “should be shot dead.” Although the department later reinstated the offer, Paulin has yet to speak here...
...wake of the Paulin and Jubran spats, Suskewicz says that the student-led dialogues provide “a means of communication to ensure that we [pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian activists] are not being offensive to one another...
...unlike the West debacle, both the anti-Semitism and Paulin debates faded into the background as the year progressed, allowing Summers to turn his attention to other areas...
Professor of Psychology Patrick Cavanagh, who wrote of “Ayatollah Summers” in a November letter to the editor in The Crimson about Paulin, has since eased his public criticism...