But all of this pales to Dersh's underlying "crimes." The reason Dersh is in trouble is because he has lied and plagiarized. But this trouble is analogous to the trouble that a perjurer gets in when he lies to cover up fraud and murder. It is the underlying crime that the perjurer is covering for and it is that we are most concerned with.
Dersh's underlying "crimes" is that he is a major propagandist for terrorism, war crimes, and torture committed by U.S. imperialism. Dersh is a major apologist for Israeli extreme nationalism. He advocates torture, with a veneer of "rule of law." It is because he is a propagandist for war crimes that he is brought to lie and plagiarize. Like Al Capone punished for tax evasion Dersh should be punished for plagiarism, but plagiarism can be forgiven. Propaganda for the new barbarity of "liberalism" should not be forgiven.
Jerry Monaco
On Feb 12, 2008 6:32 PM, S K <worldviewsblog at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://counterpunch.com/menetrez02122008.html
>
> Plagiarism, Cover Up and Misrepresentations
> The Case Against Alan Dershowitz
> cOUNTERPUNCH
>
> By FRANK J. MENETREZ
>
> In June 2007, DePaul University denied tenure to Norman Finkelstein, an
> assistant professor of political science. The decision ignited a firestorm
> of protest from DePaul students and faculty, as well as from faculty
> across
> the country and abroad. Finkelstein's department had voted 9-3 in favor of
> tenure, and a college-level committee unanimously joined that
> recommendation, 5-0. But the University Board on Promotion and Tenure
> (UBPT)
> voted 4-3 against tenure, and DePaul's president claimed to "find no
> compelling reasons to overturn the UBPT's decision."
>
> The tenure denial was a great victory for Harvard Law School's Professor
> Alan Dershowitz, who had been campaigning vigorously against Finkelstein
> at
> least since the fall of 2006. The feud between Dershowitz and Finkelstein
> began when Finkelstein claimed that Dershowitz's book The Case for Israel
> (2003) was partially plagiarized and wholly false. Finkelstein eventually
> published his critique as part of a book of his own, entitled Beyond
> Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History (2005).
> Dershowitz responded to Finkelstein's charges in his book The Case for
> Peace
> (2005).
>
> In September 2006, as Finkelstein's tenure review got underway, Dershowitz
> sent a 7-page, single-spaced letter, plus 14 single-spaced pages of
> supporting materials, to the former chairman of Finkelstein's department,
> arguing that Finkelstein's "purported scholarship" consists of nothing but
> "ugly and false assertions" and "preposterous and discredited ad hominem
> attack[s]." Dershowitz sent a similar but even larger packet of
> materials-totaling over 60 pages-to a large but unknown number of members
> of
> DePaul's faculty and administration, including every professor at the law
> school.
>
> Those basic facts about the dispute are now fairly well known. What is not
> so well known is that there is compelling evidence that Dershowitz himself
> committed academic misconduct both before and in the course of his
> intervention in Finkelstein's tenure case. I present that evidence below,
> along with some reflections on its ramifications for both DePaul and
> Harvard. In the end, this is not merely a story about two professors who
> dislike each other. It is a scandal implicating the leading institution of
> higher learning in the United States.
>
> CONTINUED:
> http://counterpunch.com/menetrez02122008.html
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