Since The Harvard Crimson’s endorsement of the anti-Israel BDS movement two weeks ago, a group of more than 70 prominent members of Harvard’s faculty has begun a petition to condemn and correct the misinformation in the editorial.
Organized by the Academic Engagement Network (AEN), it includes among its signatories professor Gabriella Blum, Dr. Amy Comander, attorney and emeritus law professor Alan Dershowitz, Dr. Gary R. Fleisher, law professor Jesse Fried, professor and art historian Jeffrey Hamburger, Jewish-studies professor Jon D. Levenson, law professor Robert Mnookin, professor Eric Nelson, professor Elisa New, psychologist Steven Pinker, law and economics professor Steven Shavell, Jewish and Hebrew literature professor David Stern, Yiddish literature professor Ruth Wisse and economist Richard Zeckhauser.