The Freud Society of Vienna canceled a lecture by a leading Palestinian intellectual because a photograph showed him poised to throw a stone across the Israeli-Lebanese border last summer. The May 6 lecture by Edward Said, a professor at Columbia University, was canceled because several members of the society “can’t accept” a Palestinian who “throws stones at Israeli soldiers,” August Schulein, the president of the society, was quoted as telling The New York Times.
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