Welcome Voice? Harvard invites academic who wants Jews 'shot dead', by Tom Gross, National Review, November 12, 2002 "Harvard University's English department has invited Tom Paulin — the Oxford poet who has called for the slaughter of U.S. Jews on the West Bank — to deliver 'The Morris Gray Lecture' this Thursday (November 14). The invitation was sent to other faculty heads last week, encouraging them to have their students attend, and an announcement was made on the English department's web page. Earlier this year Paulin, who lectures in 19th- and 20th-century English literature at Oxford University, told the influential Egyptian paper al-Ahram Weekly that what he 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.' 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 ... The [Jewish] president of Harvard, Larry Summers, who less than two months ago denounced the spread of anti-Semitism in the guise of anti-Zionism at American universities, is said in private to be 'horrified' by the invitation to Paulin, but has made no public comment."