BOSTON (JTA) — Harvard University’s English Department reinvited a controversial Irish poet who once said West Bank settlers should be “shot dead.”
One week after his appearance was canceled because of his anti-Israel comments, members of the department met for two hours Nov. 20 and voted to reinvite Tom Paulin.
“Free speech was a principle that needed upholding here,” said English professor Peter Sacks.
Georgetown rallies against anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — More than 100 Georgetown University students rallied Monday against “intimidation and intolerance” on their campus.
The rally was a response to the invitation of Norman Finkelstein, a Holocaust revisionist author, to speak on campus last week.
The rally also came after Georgetown professor Hisham Sharabi made anti-Semitic comments last week at a university in Lebanon.
“These, my friends, are the ugly faces of hate and ignorance and they have succeeded in painting themselves blue and gray,” the school’s colors, said Dan Spector, president of the university’s Jewish Student Alliance.