[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Dershowitz v Tutu; Finkelstein v Dershowitz

[Patrick Bond]

(In mid-August, we'll have Norman Finkelstein at CCS. See below for his 
unveiling of the wicked Harvard lawyer, who goes way beyond chutzpah in 
attacking Tutu today.)

Tutu slammed at racism conference

April 20 2009 at 08:26PM

Geneva - US attorney Alan Dershowitz said on Monday on the sidelines of 
the Durban Review Conference on racism in Geneva that Switzerland's 
president was supportive of "hate mongering" and that the anti-apartheid 
activist Desmond Tutu was a "racist and bigot".

He said he would urge the administration of US President Barack Obama to 
cease using Switzerland's services as its representative in Iran.

The US and Tehran have not had diplomatic relations since the Islamic 
revolution in Iran and the subsequent hostage taking at the embassy there.

Swiss President Hans Rudolph Mertz met Sunday with the Iranian President 
Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, who later in a speech before the conference was 
derisive of Israel.

"Tutu is a bigot and a racist," said Derschowitz about the Nobel Peace 
Prize winning South African archbishop. He is "blind, deaf and dumb when 
it comes to issues of Israel".

Tutu has voiced support for the Palestinians and headed a fact finding 
mission to the Gaza Strip for the UN's human rights bodies.

The lawyer, who has defended OJ Simpson and written books backing 
Israeli military policy in the Palestinian territories, said that Norway 
was "one of the biggest offenders against Israel."

Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Store followed Ahmedenjad at the 
conference and condemned the Iranian leader's speech but stayed on at 
the event.

European Union delegates walked out of the plenary in middle of the 
Iranian leader's speech.

Dershowitz called the Durban review a "conference of hate".

Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel said the Iranian president should 
"be arrested and charged with incitement for genocide, which is a crime 
against humanity".

Ahmedinejad's "place is not in the UN, his place is in an international 
court", said Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor. - Sapa-dpa

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The Dershowitz-Finkelstein affair was a public controversy involving 
academics Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein and their scholarship 
on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in 2005.

Shortly after the publication of the book The Case for Israel, by Alan 
Dershowitz, Norman Finkelstein alleged that it was "a collection of 
fraud, falsification, plagiarism and nonsense".[1] Finkelstein charged 
that Dershowitz had engaged in plagiarism in his use of Joan Peters' 
book From Time Immemorial.[2] Finkelstein expanded his claims in a book 
entitled Beyond Chutzpah and has received support from some other 
academics. Dershowitz has denied the charges. Former Harvard president 
Derek Bok, following a review requested by Harvard Law School Dean Elena 
Kagan, determined that no plagiarism had occurred.[3][4]

In Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of 
History, published by University of California Press on August 28, 2005, 
Norman Finkelstein attempted to debunk The Case for Israel. Dershowitz 
had written letters to both the New Press and to the University of 
California Press, to prevent its publication, claiming it contained 
massive libel and stating that the book should not be published.[5] 
Dershowitz also asked California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to 
intervene in order to prevent the University of California Press from 
publishing the book.[6] Schwarzenegger's legal advisor responded, 
however, that the governor would not intervene in issues of academic 
freedom.[5] Dershowitz responded in his book The Case for Peace and 
alleged a politically motivated campaign of vilification spearheaded by 
Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, and Alexander Cockburn against several 
pro-Israel academics.[7]
Contents
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* 1 Finkelstein's criticisms of Dershowitz
* 2 Dershowitz's response
* 3 Additional responses by Finkelstein and Dershowitz
* 4 Dershowitz's involvement in Finkelstein's denial of tenure
* 5 Others on the plagiarism controversy
o 5.1 Support for Finkelstein
o 5.2 Support for Dershowitz
* 6 Additional points of dispute between Finkelstein and Dershowitz
* 7 The $10,000 challenge
* 8 Notes & References
* 9 Other References
* 10 External links

[edit] Finkelstein's criticisms of Dershowitz

The bulk of Beyond Chutzpah consisted of an essay critiquing the "new 
antisemitism" and longer chapters contrasting Dershowitz's arguments in 
The Case for Israel with the findings of mainstream human rights 
organisations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, 
asserting that Dershowitz had lied, misrepresented and fabricated many 
of his points in order to protect Israel and hide its record of alleged 
human rights violations.[citations needed]. Finkelstein has maintained 
that "the real issue is Israel's human rights record".[8]

In addition, Finkelstein provided what he claimed is evidence of 
plagiarism in instances where Dershowitz reproduced the exact errors 
found in Peters' citation of original sources, and thus argues that 
Dershowitz did not check the original sources he cited, a claim that 
Dershowitz adamantly denied.[9]

Finkelstein noted that in twenty instances that all occur within about 
as many pages, Dershowitz's used some of the same words from the same 
sources that Joan Peters used, largely in the same order. Several 
paragraph-long quotations that the two books share have ellipses in the 
same position, Finkelstein pointed out; in one instance, he claimed, 
Dershowitz refers to the same page number as Peters, although he is 
citing a different (1996) edition of the same source, in which the words 
appear on a different page.[10]

Finkelstein stated: "It is left to readers to decide whether Dershowitz 
committed plagiarism as defined by Harvard University -- "passing off a 
source's information, ideas, or words as your own by omitting to cite 
them."[11] According to a book review of Beyond Chutzpah, written by 
Prof. Michael C. Desch in The American Conservative, "Finkelstein does 
not accuse Dershowitz of the wholesale lifting of someone else's words, 
but he does make a very strong case that Dershowitz has violated the 
spirit, if not the exact letter, of Harvard's prohibitions of the first 
three forms of plagiarism."[12]

Noting his perception of Dershowitz's lack of knowledge about specific 
contents of his own book during an interview of the two men by Amy 
Goodman broadcast on Democracy Now!, Finkelstein also charged that 
Dershowitz could not have written the book and may not have even read 
it.[1] Later, he cited such allegedly "unserious" references as the Sony 
Pictures website for Kevin Macdonald's documentary film One Day in 
September[13] and an online high-school syllabus from "Teaching the 
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Unit for High School Students," by 
Ronald Stockton, Professor of Political Science, University of 
Michigan–Dearborn[14] in criticism of the book.

[edit] Dershowitz's response

Dershowitz threatened to bring a legal action against the University of 
California Press in response to the charges in Finkelstein's book.[15] 
Dershowitz claims to have written every word of "The Case for Israel" by 
hand and to have sent UCP his handwritten manuscript. He says there is 
not a single phrase or sentence in it that was "plagiarized" and accuses 
Finkelstein of knowing this, making the charges in order to garner 
publicity.[16] Dershowitz offered to produce his handwritten drafts (he 
does not type) to debunk the claim that The Case for Israel was 
ghostwritten and claims Finkelstein has not asked to see them.[17] 
Finkelstein claims to have asked for the drafts and that Dershowitz's 
has not produced them.

As a result, when the book was published, it no longer used the word 
"plagiarize" in its argument that Dershowitz inappropriately borrowed 
from another work, nor did it include the claim that Dershowitz did not 
write The Case for Israel,[3] because, the publisher said, "he couldn’t 
document that."[18] "Dershowitz has said he cited sources properly, 
attempting to check all primary sources and citing Peters when she was 
his only source."[19]

James O. Freedman, the former president of Dartmouth College, the 
University of Iowa, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has 
defended Dershowitz: "I do not understand [Finkelstein’s] charge of 
plagiarism against Alan Dershowitz. There is no claim that Dershowitz 
used the words of others without attribution. When he uses the words of 
others, he quotes them properly and generally cites them to the original 
sources." He noted that this practice is recommended by the 
authoritative Chicago Manual of Style, (rule 17.274), and "is simply not 
plagiarism, under any reasonable definition of that word."[20]

Dershowitz said that Finkelstein has invented false charges in order to 
discredit supporters of Israel: "The mode of attack is consistent. 
Chomsky selects the target and directs Finkelstein to probe the writings 
in minute detail and conclude that the writer didn’t actually write the 
work, that it is plagiarized, that it is a hoax and a fraud," noting 
that Finkelstein has leveled the same kind of charges against many 
others, calling at least 10 "distinguished Jews 'hucksters,' 'hoaxters,' 
'thieves,' 'extortionists,' and worse."[20]

Dershowitz's recent book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, The Case 
for Peace, contains a chapter rebutting Finkelstein's charges, which 
Dershowitz has made available on his web site.[7]

[edit] Additional responses by Finkelstein and Dershowitz

Finkelstein argued in a letter to the Harvard Crimson published on 
October 3, 2003, that Dershowitz reproduced exactly two of Peters' 
mistakes, and made one relevant mistake of his own.[21] In quoting Mark 
Twain, Finkelstein argued, "Dershowitz cites two paragraphs from Twain 
as continuous text, just as Peters cites them as continuous text, but in 
Twain’s book the two paragraphs are separated by 87 pages."[21] While 
still quoting Twain, although Dershowitz cited a different edition of 
Twain's Innocents Abroad than Joan Peters cites, Finkelstein continues, 
"the relevant quotes do not appear on these pages in the edition of 
Twain’s book that Dershowitz cites." Finkelstein points out that these 
quotations do, however, appear on the pages that Joan Peters cites for 
her edition of Innocents Abroad. Finkelstein asserted: "Quoting a 
statement depicting the miserable fate of Jews in mid-19th century 
Jerusalem, Peters cites a British consular letter from 'Wm. T. Young to 
Viscount Canning.' Dershowitz cites the same statement as Peters, 
reporting that Young 'attributed the plight of the Jew in Jerusalem' to 
pervasive anti-Semitism. Turning to the original, however, we find that 
the relevant statement did not come from Young but, as is unmistakably 
clear to anyone who actually consulted the original, from an enclosed 
memorandum written by an 'A. Benisch' that Young was forwarding to 
Canning." He concluded: "It would be impossible for anyone who checked 
the original source[s] to make th[ese] error[s]."[21]

In response to the general charge of plagiarism, Dershowitz had 
characterized the excerpts as quotations that historians and scholars of 
the region cite routinely, such as Mark Twain and the reports of 
government commissions.[citation needed]

Finkelstein's conclusion from the passages that he cited is that 
Dershowitz did not research his sources directly, but instead in twenty 
instances had used Peters' book without crediting her.[citations needed]

Finkelstein argued that he has found a mis-attribution that he says 
supports his conclusion. He asserted that, in his book, Dershowitz 
attributes an Orwellian neologism to Orwell himself, when actually 
Peters coined it in her book in an allusion to Orwell, in which she 
mentioned him by name: her neologism "turnspeak" alluded to Orwell's 
famous Newspeak in his novel 1984. This alleged mistake by Dershowitz, 
Finkelstein argued, fits a pattern of cribbing from Peters while not 
crediting her. Academic propriety demands that she be credited, he argued.

In "Statement of Alan M. Dershowitz" featured on a faculty webpage at 
Harvard Law School, Dershowitz writes:

I will no longer participate in this transparent ploy to gather media 
attention for Finkelstein and his publisher. I answer all of his charges 
fully in Chapter 16 of my forthcoming book The Case For Peace, to be 
published by Wiley in August. My book deals with important and current 
issues, such as the prospects for peace in the immediate future. 
Finkelstein’s deals with the irrelevant past that both Israelis and 
Palestinians are trying to put behind them. Let the marketplace judge 
our books. As far as I’m concerned, the public controversy is over and I 
will comment no further on the false charges leveled by Finkelstein and 
the UCP. Let them henceforth pay for their own publicity, instead of 
trying to get it on the cheap by launching phony attacks against me. I 
will not debate Finkelstein. I have a longstanding policy against 
debating Holocaust deniers, revisionists, trivializers or minimizers. 
Nor is a serious debate about Israel possible with someone who 
acknowledges that he knows “very little” about that country. I will be 
happy to debate any legitimate experts from Amnesty International or any 
other human rights organization. Indeed, I have a debate scheduled with 
Noam Chomsky about these issues in the fall [2005].[7]

Dershowitz strenuously denied that he did not credit Peters' book 
adequately in his own book, and Harvard University supported him in that 
position in exonerating him against Finkelstein's charges that he 
committed "plagiarism".[7][22][23]

In their joint interview aired on Amy Goodman's radio program Democracy 
Now!, Dershowitz responded to Finkelstein's various arguments.[1]

[edit] Dershowitz's involvement in Finkelstein's denial of tenure

In early 2007 the DePaul University Political Science department voted 9 
to 3, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Personnel Committee 5 
to 0, in favor of giving Finkelstein tenure. The three opposing faculty 
members subsequently filed a minority report opposing tenure, supported 
by the Dean of the College, Chuck Suchar. Suchar stated he opposed 
tenure because Finkelstein’s "personal and reputation demeaning attacks 
on Alan Dershowitz, Benny Morris, and the holocaust authors Eli Wiesel 
and Jerzy Kosinski" were inconsistent with DePaul’s “Vincentian” 
values.[24] In June 2007 a 4-3 vote by DePaul University's Board on 
Promotion and Tenure (a faculty board), affirmed by the university's 
president, the Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, denied Finkelstein 
tenure.[25][26] Finkelstein has been placed on administrative leave for 
the 2007-2008 academic year, the remainder of his contract with DePaul, 
his sole course having been cancelled.[27]

In September 2006, Dershowitz had sent members of DePaul’s law and 
political science faculties what he described as “a dossier of Norman 
Finkelstein’s most egregious academic sins, and especially his outright 
lies, misquotations, and distortions”, and in April 2007 the De Paul 
University Liberal Arts and Sciences' Faculty Governance Council had 
voted unanimously to send a letter to Harvard University expressing "the 
council's dismay at Professor Dershowitz's interference in Finkelstein's 
tenure and promotion case."[28] However, in announcing his decision, 
Holtschneider said the outside attention "was unwelcome and 
inappropriate and had no impact on either the process or the outcome of 
this case.” On September 5, 2007, Finkelstein resigned after he and the 
university reached a settlement; they released a joint statement on the 
resolution of the conflict.[29][30][31][32]

[edit] Others on the plagiarism controversy

[edit] Support for Finkelstein

In his book review of Beyond Chutzpah, echoing Finkelstein's criticisms, 
Michael Desch observed:

"Not only did Dershowitz improperly present Peters's ideas, he may not 
even have bothered to read the original sources she used to come up with 
them. Finkelstein somehow managed to get uncorrected page proofs of The 
Case for Israel in which Dershowitz appears to direct his research 
assistant to go to certain pages and notes in Peters's book and place 
them in his footnotes directly" (32, col. 3).[12] Desch concluded with 
an important caveat then qualified it by emphasizing his own point of view:

Even if Finkelstein's most serious charges are not true, it is 
nonetheless a scandal that Dershowitz's sloppy book was widely and 
favorably reviewed in many prominent places, including the New York 
Times, and became a national bestseller. (Its bestseller status probably 
should include an asterisk because, as Finkelstein notes, some American 
Jewish organizations and the Israeli government bought bulk orders of 
the book to use as part of their efforts to advance Israel's case.) 
Nothing could be better evidence, in my opinion, of the corrosive 
influence of the Israel lobby on the intellectual climate of our country 
than how the nation's leading university allowed such a book to pollute 
our national discourse on one of the most important issues facing 
American foreign policy."
This is not to say that Finkelstein is always the best advocate for his 
case. As with his previous books, it is clear that his muse is his 
spleen. Outrage drips from nearly every page of Beyond Chutzpah when 
facts alone would have made a more effective case. Indeed, I had a 
similar reaction when I heard Finkelstein speak at Harvard about the 
Goldhagen book [Hitler's Willing Executioners]: the facts were clearly 
in his corner but his strident presentation undermined his case.
Still, I hesitate to be too critical of Finkelstein. Much of his outrage 
is justified. Moreover, he has been on the frontline of a brutal war 
with the Israel lobby, which gives no quarter to its enemies, and so it 
may be unreasonable to. ..expect him to write on this topic with 
clinical detachment.
The story Finkelstein tells in Beyond Chutzpah is hard to believe, but 
it needs to be told. My hat is off to him for having the courage to tell 
it.[12]

On the basis of Finkelstein's comparisons of Dershowitz's sources, 
Alexander Cockburn supported Finkelstein's conclusions that Dershowitz 
was guilty of "wholesale, unacknowledged looting of Peters' research" 
and mocked Dershowitz's intellectual integrity.[33] Noting a footnote in 
which Dershowitz referred to the controversial status of Peters' book 
and stated that he did not "rely" on it for "conclusions or data," 
Cockburn charges that Dershowitz was in effect—if not 
intention—lying.[33] In echoing Finkelstein's charge of plagiarism, 
Cockburn called on Harvard to take action against their professor, 
Dershowitz.[33]

Oxford academic Avi Shlaim had also been critical of Dershowitz, saying 
he believed that the charge of plagiarism "is proved in a manner that 
would stand up in court."[34]

See the independent analysis of the Dershowitz Dossier of allegations 
against Finkelstein, by Dr Frank J Menetrez Phd, JD (UCLA): [2] and the 
email correspondence between Menetrez, Finkelstein and Dershowitz during 
Menetrez's study: [3] In a longer follow-up analysis Menetrez concluded 
that he can find 'no way of avoiding the inference that Dershowitz 
copied the quotation from Twain from Peters' From Time Immemorial, and 
not from the original source', as Dershowitz claimed.[35] Dershowitz has 
replied briefly to this charge, in an exchange with Menetrez[36]

[edit] Support for Dershowitz

As Desch acknowledges in his book review of Beyond Chutzpah, "In the 
wake of a number of similar complaints against Dershowitz and two of his 
Harvard Law School colleagues Laurence Tribe and Charles Ogletree, 
former Harvard President Derek Bok conducted an investigation—the 
details of which were not made public—that...vindicated Dershowitz" (32, 
col. 3).[12]

Several student research assistants who worked for Dershowitz at Harvard 
University criticized Jon Wiener's review, supporting their professor:

It is one thing for Jon Wiener to launch a tendentious attack against 
Alan Dershowitz.... It is another matter altogether for Wiener to 
insinuate--without any substantiation at all--that Professor 
Dershowitz's research assistants are guilty of academic dishonesty. We 
are deeply offended by Wiener's implications that we would not check the 
original sources cited in Professor Dershowitz's books. For as long as 
any of us can remember, the standard operating procedure in Professor 
Dershowitz's office has always been for us to check out or request the 
original sources from the Harvard libraries. It was journalistically 
inappropriate for Wiener not to interview any of Professor Dershowitz's 
research assistants, who would have firsthand knowledge of what his 
instructions to "cite" a source actually mean.[37]

[edit] Additional points of dispute between Finkelstein and Dershowitz

In The Holocaust Industry, Finkelstein called Elie Wiesel a liar for 
claiming to have read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason in Yiddish: 
according to Finkelstein, no translation of the work existed in Yiddish 
at the time. Dershowitz responded that this was not so: he alleged that 
one had been published in Warsaw in 1929, and claimed that he had seen a 
copy at the Harvard Library.[38]

Finkelstein described this latter claim as false and inept, arguing that 
the only work by Kant in Yiddish owned by the library was a partial 
translation of the Critique of Practical Reason, a completely different 
work than the one referred to by Wiesel and Dershowitz.[39]

[edit] The $10,000 challenge

During the joint interview of Dershowitz and Finkelstein broadcast on 
Democracy Now!, the host Amy Goodman alluded to an appearance on MSNBC's 
Scarborough Country in which Dershowitz made a challenge to "give 
$10,000 to the PLO," playing a clip from the other program. In the 
headnote to the transcript, Goodman wrote:

On MSNBC’s Scarborough Country on September 8, 2003, renowned appellate 
lawyer, Harvard Law professor and author Alan Dershowitz says: “I will 
give $10,000 to the PLO...if you can find a historical fact in my book 
that you can prove to be false.” The book Dershowitz refers to is his 
latest work The Case For Israel. Today author and professor Norman 
Finkelstein takes him on and charges that Dershowitz makes numerous 
factual errors in his book. Dershowitz denies the charges. Finkelstein 
teaches at DePaul University and is the author of four books including 
The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.

The segment of Democracy Now! appears in the included transcript of the 
program:

Amy Goodman: ...we were intrigued on watching Scarborough Country when 
you debated, the offer that you made[....] just play it for a moment.
Alan Dershowitz: Tell you what, I will give $10,000 to the P.L.O. in 
your name if you can find historical fact in my book that you can prove 
to be false. I issue that challenge, I issue it to you, I issue it to 
the Palestinian Authority, I issue it to Noam Chomsky to Edward Said, 
every word in my book is accurate and you can't just simply say it's 
false without documenting it. Tell me one thing in the book now that is 
false?
Amy Goodman: Okay. Let's go to the book. The Case for Israel $10,000.[1]

On Democracy Now! Finkelstein replied to that specific challenge for 
errors found in his book overall, and Dershowitz upped it to $25,000 for 
another particular "issue" that they disputed.[1]

Finkelstein referred to "concrete facts which are not particularly 
controversial," stating that in The Case for Israel Dershowitz 
attributes to Israeli historian Benny Morris the figure of between 2,000 
and 3,000 Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes from April to June, 
1948, when, he said, the range in the figures presented by Morris is 
200,000 to 300,000.[1]

Dershowitz responded to Finkelstein's reply by stating that such a 
mistake could not have been intentional – he was attempting to refute 
the claim that no Arabs at all had left their homes on the orders of 
Arab officials during the relevant time period. By misstating the 
numbers by a factor of 100, he actually undermines his own argument, 
making the numerical mistake most likely a simple typo. "Obviously, the 
phrase '2,000 to 3,000 Arabs' refers either to a sub-phase [of the 
flight] or is a typographical error."[1]

In his book review of Finkelstein's Beyond Chutzpah, summarizing 
Finkelstein's case against Dershowitz for "torturing the evidence", 
particularly Finkelstein's argument relating to Dershowitz's citations 
of Morris, Desch observed:

There are two problems with Dershowitz's heavy reliance on Morris. The 
first is that Morris is hardly the left-wing peacenik that Dershowitz 
makes him out to be, which means that calling him as a witness in 
Israel's defense is not very helpful to the case. The more important 
problem is that many of the points Dershowitz cites Morris as 
supporting—that the early Zionists wanted peaceful coexistence with the 
Arabs, that the Arabs began the 1948 War to destroy Israel, that the 
Arabs were guilty of many massacres while the Israelis were scrupulous 
about protecting human rights, and that the Arabs fled at the behest of 
their leaders rather than being ethnically cleansed by the Israel 
Defense Forces—turn out to be based on a partial reading or misreading 
of Morris's books. Finkelstein documents these charges in exhaustive 
detail in Appendix II of his book and the preponderance of evidence he 
provides is conclusive." (30-31)[12][40]

[edit] Notes & References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Amy Goodman, "Scholar Norman Finkelstein Calls 
Professor Alan Dershowitz's New Book On Israel a 'Hoax'," Democracy Now! 
24 September 2003, accessed February 10, 2007. (Incl. links to full 
transcript and audio clip and MP3 podcast.)
2. ^ Norman G. Finkelstein, The Dershowitz Hoax, normanfinkelstein.com 
(passim), accessed 11 February 2007.
3. ^ a b Marcella Bombardieri, "Academic Fight Heads to Print: 
Authorship Challenge Dropped from Text," Boston Globe 9 July 2005, 
accessed 12 February 2007.
4. ^ "Mercy of the Court of Public Opinion" Harvard Crimson September 
27, 2006]
5. ^ a b Gary Younge, "J'accuse," The Guardian 10 August 2005, accessed 
11 February 2007.
6. ^ See the reproduction of four letters from Dershowitz as posted on 
normanfinkelstein.com with a headnote.
7. ^ a b c d "Statement of Alan M. Dershowitz."
8. ^ Norman G. Finkelstein, The Real Issue is Israel's Human Rights 
Record, accessed 6 July 2007].
9. ^ Norman G. Finkelstein, Speech presented at Vancouver Public 
Library, link to Part 7, webcasts posted at workingtv.com, n.d., 
accessed 11 February 2007.
10. ^ Norman G. Finkelstein, "Alan Dershowitz Exposed: What if a Harvard 
Student Did This?" normanfinkelstein.com n.d., accessed 12 February 2007.
11. ^ Norman G. Finkelstein, "The Real Issue Is Israel's Human Rights 
Record: A Statement by Norman G. Finkelstein upon Publication of Beyond 
Chutzpah, 25 August 2005, accessed 13 February 2007.
12. ^ a b c d e Michael C. Desch, "The Chutzpah of Alan Dershowitz," The 
American Conservative 5 December 2005, online posting, 
normanfinkelstein.com, accessed 10 February 2007.
13. ^ One Day in September Sony Pictures Classics official website, 
accessed 13 February 2007.
14. ^ "Some Key Dates in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," rev. 2nd 
ed., University of Michigan–Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, November 1993, 
archived September 2, 2005.
15. ^ June 1, 2005 letter to University of California Press from 
Dershowitz's lawyer reads: "...your appendix -- if it is not removed 
before publication -- is going to lead to painful surgery for the 
Press.". Verified 31 October 2007.
16. ^ STATEMENT OF ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ, Harvard Law web-site. Verified 30 
October 2007.
17. ^ Plagiarism Accusations Unfairly Characterized, Harvard Crimson, 3 
October 2003. Verified 30 October 2007.
18. ^ Daniel J. T. Schuker, "Accusations Fly in Academic Feud: Harvard 
Law Prof Tries to Prevent Publication of Book about Israel," The Harvard 
Crimson 8 July 2005, accessed 12 February 2007.
19. ^ Lauren A. E. Schuker, "Dershowitz Accused Of Plagiarism: Law 
School Professor Denies He Relied on Another’s Work," The Harvard 
Crimson 29 September 2003, and "Dershowitz Defends Book. Professor Calls 
Plagiarism Accusation 'funny'." The Harvard Crimson 2 October 2003, both 
accessed 11 February 2007.
20. ^ a b Alan M. Dershowitz,"The Hazards of Making The Case for 
Israel," jbooks.com n.d., accessed 11 February 2007.
21. ^ a b c Norman Finkelstein, "Finkelstein Proclaims 'The Glove Does 
Fit'," Letter to the editors, The Harvard Crimson October 3, 2003, 
accessed February 10, 2007.
22. ^ Alan M. Dershowitz, "Professor Dershowitz 'Rests His Case'," The 
Harvard Crimson 3 October 2003, Letter to the Editors (Opinion), 
accessed 11 February 2007.
23. ^ Alan Dershowitz, "Plagiarism Accusations Unfairly Characterized," 
The Harvard Crimson 5 May 2006, Letter to the Editors (Opinion) dated 1 
May 2006 (appended correction), accessed 12 February 2007.
24. ^ The Suchar Memorandum March 22, 2007
25. ^ "DePaul denies tenure to controversial professor", CNN, June 11, 2007.
26. ^ DePaul University Statement on the Tenure and Promotion Decision 
Concerning Professor Norman Finkelstein 6 June 2007
27. ^ 
http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,,2158192,00.html 
Holocaust academic vows to fight axe of university class
28. ^ Chronicle of Higher Education Thursday, April 5, 2007 "Harvard Law 
Professor Works to Disrupt Tenure Bid of Longtime Nemesis at DePaul U."
29. ^ "DePaul Rejects Tenure Bid by Finkelstein and Says Dershowitz 
Pressure Played No Role", The Chronicle of Higher Education, * June 
2007, http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=2462
30. ^ Zhou, Kevin. "Feud Weakens Prof's Tenure Bid" Harvard Crimson 
April 4, 2007
31. ^ Flow, Christian B. "Dershowitz Foes Face Scrutiny" Harvard Crimson 
June 22, 2007
32. ^ "Joint statement of Norman Finkelstein and DePaul University on 
their tenure controversy and its resolution." September 5, 2007
33. ^ a b c "Alan Dershowitz, Plagiarist?". 
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn09262003.html.
34. ^ Mandy Garner,"The Good Jewish Boys Go into Battle,"] Times Higher 
Education Supplement, 16 December 2005 [1]
35. ^ Frank J. Menetrez, 'The Case Against Alan Dershowitz’, 
CounterPunch February 12, 2008
36. ^ http://www.counterpunch.org/dershowitz02262008.html Alan M. 
Dershowitz, Frank J. Menetrez, ‘Debating Norman Finkelstein,’ 
CounterPunch February 26, 2008
37. ^ Alan Dershowitz, "Tsuris Over Chutzpah," The Nation 29 August 
2005, rpt. in normanfinkelstein.com n.d., accessed 11 February 2007; 
incl. this article by Dershowitz, followed by a letter from Dershowitz's 
research assistants: Holly Beth Billington (2002-2004), Alexander J. 
Blenkinsopp (2004-2005), Eric Citron (2003-2004), C. Wallace DeWitt 
(2004-2005), Aaron Voloj Dessauer (2004-2005), and Mitch Webber (2005); 
a reply by Jon Wiener; followed by comment by Finkelstein.
38. ^ Alan M. Dershowitz, ""Professor Dershowitz 'Rests His Case'." The 
Harvard Crimson 2 October 2003, Letter to the Editors (Opinion), 
accessed 11 February 2007.
39. ^ Norman G. Finkelstein, "Dershowitz Exposed Yet Again: The Critique 
of Pure Cant," online posting in "The Dershowitz Hoax", 
normanfinkelstein.com December 2003, accessed 11 February 2007.
40. ^ See Appendix II in Beyond Chutzpah, where Finkelstein says that 
Morris attributes nearly all of the flight of Palestinians which 
occurred during that phase of the 1948 war to fear of Jewish military 
actions, not to any orders from Arab leaders or expulsion.

[edit] Other References

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* Chrucky, Andrew "Norman Finkelstein, DePaul, and U.S. Academia: 
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* Cockburn, Alexander. "Alan Dershowitz, Plagiarist." CounterPunch 26 
September 2003. Accessed 11 February 2007. (Commentary on Dershowitz's 
book The Case for Israel.) [Reproduces comparisons of passages from the 
book and its alleged sources as examples of "plagiarism" which may come 
from Finkelstein, as well as others, but without attribution to 
Finkelstein.]
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Alexander J. Blenkinsopp (2004-2005), Eric Citron (2003-2004), C. 
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[edit] External links

* Alan M. Dershowitz's Faculty Bibliography at Harvard Law School and 
Alan M. Dershowitz's own commercial website (alandershowitz.com) with 
links to publications by Alan M. Dershowitz and responses to some 
comments and publications by Norman Finkelstein.
o "Statement of Alan M. Dershowitz".
* Norman Finkelstein's website
o "The Dershowitz Hoax" (2003-2006) at the "official website of Norman 
G. Finkelstein" (normanfinkelstein.com), an in depth collection of 
materials relating to the affair from Finkelstein's point of view.
* The Case Against Alan Dershowitz By FRANK J. MENETREZ
* Dershowitz v. Finkelstein: Who's Right and Who's Wrong? By FRANK J. 
MENETREZ