Urgent issue at Harvard University Thursday the 14th

Submitted by David Hirsch (United States), Nov 12, 2002 at 17:43

To all people, especially Mr. Pipes, who care about morality, I urge you to "rain protest" upon Harvard University for their despicable decision to provide a forum for an international racist and hate monger, Tom Paulin of Oxford University. This lowlife of a professor has publicly called for the "slaughter of US Jews on the West Bank...Furthermore, he stated that "Brooklyn-born Jewish settlers should be shot dead" as follows: "they should be shot dead. I think they are Nazis, racists, I feel nothing but hatred for them. " He added: "I can understand how suicide bombers feel...I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale".

I am not going to argue, at this juncture, whether "settlers" are moral, immoral, legally justified, or anything of the sort. I am going to argue that irrespective of their politics: People occupying internationally disputed territory (even acknowledged by the anti-Israel UN) do not deserve to be massacred!

I personally do not care for the Palestinians nor do I want to see a Palestinian state given that the PA/PLO is the primary sponsor of terror in the world (in all due respect to the Bin Ladens, Syrians and Iranians...maybe they are a tad more henious, but that discussion is for another time). I DO NOT, however, preach for the destruction of innocent Palestinians. I disagree with their politics, principles and methodology.

Permitting Mr. Paulin to speak at Harvard is a disgrace and I'm urging every patron of Harvard University to withhold any further contributions until the University stops advocating genocide.

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