February 03, 2005
THE SPIRIT OF NAZISM LIVES AT THE MADRASSA ON MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS
(Hattip to Ruth King)
The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia will host a talk on Feb. 10 by Tom Paulin, the Irish poet notorious for telling the Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram that what Paulin described as "Brooklyn-born" Jewish settlers should be "shot dead." He said: "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."
Hamid Dabashi is Co-Chair of the Hayman Center.
Thursday, February 10th
Tom Paulin, 10-12, "Burke's Prejudices"
Paulin, who has regularly declared that Israel has no right to exist, and recently resigned from Britain's ruling Labour party on the grounds that Tony Blair was heading a "Zionist government," is no doubt entitled to his opinion, what is in question is not Paulin’s right to spout hatred, support for suicide bombers, and anti-Semitism, but the judgment of the Columbia faculty that invites such a man to campus.
For more on Paulin, see Edward Alexander's essay: Tom Paulin Poetaster of Murder
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