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To: LindyBill who wrote (46387)	9/23/2002 2:41:30 PM
From: jcky	Read Replies (3) of 281500

When Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nancy Kanwisher helped launch a spring petition calling on Harvard and MIT to cut their financial ties to Israel, she saw it as a political protest against Israel's alleged violation of Palestinians' human rights. But in the months since she helped gather signatures on the two campuses, her effort has become the target of a much larger counterpetition - and, this week, a high-profile denunciation by Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers, who declared her group's actions ''anti-Semitic in effect, if not intent.'' Summers is turning into the thought police in the heart land of the academic community. Organizing a petition to divest from Israel as a political protest of Israel's treatment of the Palestinian civilian population is not anti-Semitic; it is an American right. It is the same right exercised by many Jewish Americans that have boycotted the NY Time for writing anti-Israeli foreign policy stories. I suspect wealthy pro-Israeli financial contributors to Harvard are exerting tremendous pressure on Summers to reign in on freedom of speech and expression.

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