I think this is the first time in my 65 years of writing letters to the editor that one has been turned down.

And this one is from a professor who has been on the Harvard faculty for 60 years and has published numerous articles and letters in the Crimson.

It’s a telling irony the paper that reassured its readers “Free speech is the guiding principle of this Editorial Board” refuses to publish a letter calling for less censorship and viewpoint discrimination on campus.

That reflects Harvard’s double-standard approach to free speech: contextual free speech for the enemies of Jews and their state; censorship for supporters of Israel and critics of Harvard.

[It’s difficult to draw any conclusion *other* than this. Dersh wrote in response to a defense of Gay’s testimony by law professor Charles Fried, so it’s not as though the Crimson wanted to stay out of the debate. They just wanted to make sure there WAS no debate. Cowards. By the way, the New York Post also published this, so Dersh’s argument is still getting widely read — and the Crimson’s intellectual cowardice along with it. — Ed]