The Harvard Crimson: Larence Summers denounces British Boycott
University President Lawrence H. Summers last week blasted a British boycott of Israeli academics—drawing flack from a familiar foe and applause from his allies.
Summers’ statement on the British boycott evokes echoes of his September 2002 Memorial Church address, in which he excoriated a group of Harvard and MIT professors who had called on the University to cut financial ties to Israel. “Serious and thoughtful people are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent,” Summers said at the time.
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