• Archive for October, 2003

    Dershowitz vs. Cockburn (including exchange of letters)

    Alexander Cockburn Alan Dershowitz, Plagiarist Let’s start with a passage from Alan Dershowitz’s latest book, The Case for Israel, now slithering into the upper tier of Amazon’s sales charts. On page 213 we meet Dershowitz, occupant of the Felix Frankfurter Chair at Harvard Law School, happily walloping a French prof called Faurisson, charged by the [...]

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    “A case of plagiarism?” from Globe and Mail (Toronto)

    by Nomi Morris p. D20 How do you take a free-flowing debate of the type common at dinner tables and on TV talk shows and translate it into a book-length essay? If you are a journalist, you weave quotations and examples through the text to bolster your case. If you are a Harvard law professor [...]

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    The Boston Globe on Finkelstein vs. Dershowitz

    ANOTHER MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT Boston Globe October 2, 2003 ALEX BEAM It might be best not to invite DePaul University professor Norman Finkelstein and Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law School to the same dinner party anytime soon. Finkelstein, the author of several controversial books on the Middle East and the Holocaust, has baldly accused the [...]

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