The lies of J. Lorand Matory
We have previously written about the unseemly preoccupation of Harvard's J. Lorand Matory in "A Faustian bargain" and in "The ordeal of J. Lorand Matory." Now comes Hillel Stavis, proprietor of the (now closed) WordsWorth bookstore, who was the victim of a recent sliming by Professor Matory. Unfortunately for Professor Matory, Stavis was in the audience and did not take kindly to Matory's liberties with the truth. Stavis tells the remarkable story in "Confrontation at Harvard: Defa-Matory and out to lunch" (complete with audio). Stavis writes:
[W]hat is most disturbing about Professor Matory’s apparent obsession with Israel and Jews (at one point he referred to "a moneyed and media connected American Israeli defense force" – I guess we can dispense with the usual coded language observation) is the unavoidable realization that for Professor Matory who was at the epicenter of ousting Larry Summers, ostensibly for sexist remarks, Israel was the primary trigger. It seems clear that for Professor Matory, Summers’ original sin was his opposition to the Harvard divestment - from - Israel campaign expressed long before his (in)famous speech on women in the sciences.Don't miss this one.It would seem that Professor Matory has a bad case of Jews-on-the brain. He is beset by Israeli colonizers and their minions on campus: Practitioners of "character assassination, dis-invitation, and other losses of career opportunities campaign contributions, income or friends, and, above all, the damage done by fervent Zionists to the process of intellectual inquiry and debate in this university". By dis-invitation, he was referring to the wide opposition to the Harvard English Department’s invitation to Tom Paulin, an Irish poet who has called for the murder of all Jewish settlers, including men, women and children (a position predictably skipped over by the Professor). Continuing his breathless rant he claimed that even his teaching compensation was not off limits for the vaporous cabal: "Even my annual salary is set by officials who appear to feel threatened by my bringing up this issue."
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