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Originally Posted by liberaldevil
I quite fancy Alan D. I saw a lecture from him at University College London. He is quite clever I might add.
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I would love to see Norm Finkelstien debate Alan!
Norman Finkelstein
{{MainMain|Dershowitz-Finkelstein affair} Shortly after the publication of Dershowitz's
The Case for Israel (2003),
Norman Finkelstein of DePaul University said the book contained plagiarism.
[38] He offered several examples, one of which was a quote from
Mark Twain appearing on pages 23–24 of
The Case for Israel, which he said was the same as one on pages 159–160 of
From Time Immemorial by
Joan Peters, including with the ellipses in the same place.
[39] Dershowitz said the quote was taken from Mark Twain, to whom he gave credit. Harvard's president,
Derek Bok, investigated the allegation and determined that no plagiarism had occurred.
[40]
In early 2004 it was announced that Dr Finkelstein would publish a study rebutting Professor Alan Dershowitz’s
The Case for Israel and documenting that extensive passages in his book had been plagiarized. Dershowitz and his attorneys entered into a protracted correspondence with the publisher, originally New Press and subsequently University of California Press also involving Governor Schwarzenegger.
[41] Dershowitz had pressured the publishers suppressing the release of
Beyond Chutzpah, yet refused to release his correspondence – indeed, falsely claiming that he had released it. Later in 2007 a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request was made to the University of California Press and the letters were released.
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In October 2006, Dershowitz wrote to DePaul University faculty members to lobby against Finkelstein's application for tenure. The university's Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty voted to send a letter of complaint to Harvard University.
[44] In June 2007, DePaul University denied Finkelstein tenure.
[45]
[edit] Mearsheimer and Walt
{{MainMain|The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy} In March 2006,
John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and
Stephen Walt, Professor of International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, co-wrote a paper entitled "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," published in
The London Review of Books.
[46] Mearsheimer and Walt criticized what they described as "the Israel lobby" for influencing U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East in a direction away from U.S. interests and toward Israel's interests. They referred to Dershowitz specifically as an "apologist" for the
Israel lobby. In an interview in March 2006 for
The Harvard Crimson, Dershowitz called the article "one-sided" and its authors "liars" and "bigots."
[47] The following day on MSNBC's
Scarborough Country, he suggested the paper had been taken from various hate sites: "every paragraph virtually is copied from a neo-Nazi Web site, from a radical Islamic Web site, from David Duke’s Web site."
[48] Dershowitz subsequently wrote a report challenging the paper, arguing that it contained "three types of major errors: quotations are wrenched out of context, important facts are misstated or omitted, and embarrassingly weak logic is employed."
[49] In a letter in the
London Review of Books in May 2006, Mearsheimer and Walt denied that they had used any racist sources for their article, writing that Dershowitz had offered no evidence to support what they said was his false claim.
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Harvard Law Prof Alan Dershowitz, on Zimmerman's arrest
