Critic of Israel Leaves Harvard for Duke

The Harvard Crimson reports that J. Lorand Matory, a harsh critic of Israel and of the former president Lawrence Summers, is out at Harvard, and on to Duke. Matory said that Harvard didn't match Duke's offer. Earlier this year I noted Matory's bluntly eloquent piece about the suppression of pro-Palestinian voices, also in the Crimson, in which he talked about the denial of money and media resources to pro-Pals. I suppose this is yet another example. Alan Dershowitz is quoted in the Crimson in a typically vicious manner as saying that people are privately exhilarated by the departure of a "blot" on the Harvard community, and it's the best thing that's happened to Harvard in a long time. Ah, tolerance. Looks like Matory will join John Dugard at Duke, Dugard the South African lawyer who wrote the famous U.N. report on the occupied territories, likening them to apartheid.