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Submitted by gretavo on Fri, 2007-09-14 11:02.
With students beginning to pour in, and already showing inklings of 9/11 Truth, it's important that we strike early and often for the truth.  I have seeded the comments to the following op-ed by one of Harvard's rare outspoken faculty critics of Israel with some truth.  Why?  He invokes 9/11 without a hint of truthiness.  Please keep an eye on the comments and contribute to the discussion.  If 9/11 Truth can take off at Harvard the world will notice.  I've already spoken to more than a few people around here who are ready.  Please help us jump-start this incredibly important discussion!
Israel and Censorship at Harvard
Published On Friday, September 14, 2007  1:29 AM
By J. LORAND MATORY

Since Vietnam, Israel has become the heartbeat of U.S. foreign policy and a litmus test of what can be debated—and even of who will be allowed to speak—on university campuses. This year, the Congress of the University and College Union—the British lecturers’ union—proposed a boycott of Israeli universities and academics for what it regards as their complicity in 40 years of Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. This boycott has its counterpart in a decades-old U.S. practice of threatening, defaming, or censoring scholars who dare to criticize Israel.

Two years ago at Harvard, a social scientist who was the most widely cited in his area of study but who had, in a popular book, criticized the U.S.-Israel alliance, became the subject of insinuations that he was anti-Semitic—insinuations that were likely fatal to his candidacy. In recent years, at least three professors—Oxford’s Tom Paulin, DePaul’s Norman Finkelstein, and Rutgers’ Robert Trivers—have been invited to speak at Harvard and then disinvited after complaints that they had spoken critically of Israel or disagreed sharply with Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz regarding Israel’s military conduct.

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