Tomorrow evening Norman Finkelstein speaks on the Goldstone report at Harvard Law. Notice that NO Harvard human rights group has co-sponsored the event. Remember that Judge Richard Goldstone was a fixture on the Harvard Law School and Harvard human rights landscape. I’m not sure if everyone is now afraid to touch him.
*This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion
A Talk by Dr. Norman Finkelstein
Moderated by Duncan Kennedy
Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School
Thursday, March 25th , 7:15 – 9:00 p.m., Langdell South, Harvard Law School
Co-sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild HLS Chapter, Alliance for Justice in the Middle East at Harvard University, and the Palestine Caucus at Harvard Kennedy School.
Now look at this: On the same day, a preemptive strike? A session of the Middle East Seminar, jointly sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs–which houses Martin Kramer, who wants the west to reduce the Palestinian birthrate–and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Speaker: Nadav Tamir, consul general of Israel to New England at the Consulate General of Israel in Boston.
Thursday, March 25, 2010, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM.Bowie Vernon Room (K-262), CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St.
[Note from Mondo editor: With this post we present a longtime and once-strictly-anonymous contributor to this site, a Muslim at Harvard, under the name of a great Islamic humanist of the 12th century. "I am admiring of Ibn Tufayl (I prefer this spelling) who some argue influenced Spinoza and early Enlightenment thinkers (one of the Mills)," our Ibn Tufayl writes. We’re honored.]
