Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 04:19:19 -0700 (MST)
From: Muhammad Deeb <mdeeb-AT-gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: On Tom Paulin




    Tom Paulin, currently professor of English at Hartford College,
Oxford, is widely known for his intellectual integrity, and outspoken
criticism of Israel's holocaust of the Palestine and the Palestinians.
Not long ago, he defended Edward Said against the Guardian columnist, Ian
Buruma.

    Mr. Paulin's poem, "Killed in the Crossfire," on the Palestinian
child, Muhammad ad-Durrah, gunned down with his father by the Israelis,
was published in _The Observer_ (18/02/01).  It has been since causing
furore among Zionists.  For interested colleagues, I'll excerpt, if I
may, this section:

	        We are fed this inert
        	This lying phrase
	        Like comfort food
        	As another little Palestinian boy
	        In trainers jeans and a white teeshirt
        	Is gunned down by the Zionist SS
	        Whose initials we should
        	- but we don't - dumb goys
	        Clock in that weasel word
	        Crossfire.

    I hope this background and _The Guardian_ material below will address
the earlier query.
                                                        M. Deeb

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 http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,839653,00.html

PS:
--    	Growing witchhunt intimidates academics. Read further in the
	Guardian about two other lecturers who are smeared by the
	contrived stigma of anti-Semitism.







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