[lbo-talk] a new low for Dershowitz

Seth Kulick skulick at linc.cis.upenn.edu
Wed Jul 6 21:07:06 PDT 2005


http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=29

Dershowitz writes:

Youve probably never heard of the author, unless you travel in

neo-Nazi, radical Islamic or hard left circles. His name is Norman

Finkelstein. Yes he is a Jew. His parents were even Holocaust

survivors, though he suspects his mother of having been a kapo

(really, how else would she have survived? he asks rhetorically).

This is just revolting beyond belief. Finkelstein recently posted an excerpt from a "political memoir in progress", from which Dershowitz took the "how else would she have survived?" quote. To say it's taken out of context is an understatement. This is disgusting. The man has no sense of shame at all.

And most unfortunately, it appears that University of California Press might not publish Beyond Chutzpah after all.



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