Summers has energetically defended Israel in the past. In a 2002 address at Memorial Church, he responded to what he said were movements against Israel on Harvard’s campus and in academia, calling such actions “anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent.”
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—Staff writer Mariel A. Klein can be reached at mariel.klein@thecrimson.com. Follow her on Twitter @mariel_klein.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
CORRECTION: February 3, 2015
Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this article miscontextualized a statement of former University President Lawrence H. Summers regarding criticisms of Israel. In fact, Summers wrote that he does not take issue with all criticisms of the state.