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Tom Paulin barred from Harvard for his anti-settler remarks national |
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 Friday November 15, 2002 20:48 by Phuq Hedd
 Bastion of 'free speech' and 'academic freedom' caves to 'ZioNazi' demands Oxford poet Tom Paulin was invited to talk at Harvard. He had expressed the view that Jewish "settlers" were "Nazis" an anit-freespeech pressure group at Harvard has succeeded in having him his invitation withdrawn. This is the latest in a long line of pro-Zionist campaigns to censor critics of their genocidal and illegal actions against the Palestinian people.http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,801695,00.html You can mail the English department at Harvard university to let them know what you think of their pusillanimous and partisan actions at: Lawrence Buell (chair): lbuell@fas.harvard.edu
A quote from the article from an anti-censorship Zionist: "I say this as somebody who is a Zionist, who teaches Jewish studies, who has opposed petitions on my campus for the university to divest from Israel," he said. "The idea of rescinding an invitation because someone has not passed a political litmus test establishes a very dangerous precedent.
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