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- Trump's vicious and deranged lawyer at his vilest, back in 2005 - Morrissey March 17, 2023, 7:35 pm
Posted by Morrissey
on March 17, 2023, 7:41 pm, in reply to "Trump's vicious and deranged lawyer at his vilest, back in 2005"
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FINKELSTEIN REPLIES: Alan Dershowitz dismisses Beyond Chutzpah as “anachronistic,” “unlikely to be [of] much interest,” “uninteresting,” and “irrelevant.” It is a wonder, then, that he invested so much effort to suppress publication of it. Dershowitz denies this. There’s a simple way to determine who’s telling the truth. He should make available for public inspection the full correspondence beginning with his first letters to New Press in April 2004 and including the correspondence written on Cravath, Swaine and Moore letterhead. I would agree to post this correspondence on my website without comment. Dershowitz says he won’t debate me because he claims that I am a Holocaust denier. Instead he will debate Noam Chomsky. These two statements pose problems: (1) Dershowitz never cites a single statement of mine documenting that I am a Holocaust denier. I have written two books on the Nazi holocaust. The first, A Nation on Trial (co-authored with Ruth Bettina Birn), received glowing praise from the world’s leading authorities on the Nazi holocaust, including Raul Hilberg, Christopher Browning, and Istvan Deak, and was named a “notable book of the year” by the New York Times Sunday Book Review. The second, The Holocaust Industry, was blurbed by Hilberg, the undisputed dean of Nazi holocaust historians. Referring explicitly to my findings on Holocaust compensation, which Dershowitz finds so distasteful, Hilberg wrote: “He is a well-trained political scientist, has the ability to do the research, did it carefully, and has come up with the right results. I am by no means the only one who, in the coming months or years, will totally agree with Finkelstein’s breakthrough”; (2) For many years Dershowitz has pilloried Professor Chomsky for Holocaust denial. To cite the most recent examples, in The Case for Israel, he deplores “Chomsky’s flirtation with Holocaust denial,” and in his new book, The Case for Peace, he deplores Chomsky for “supporting, praising and working with Holocaust deniers.” It would appear that Dershowitz’s avowed reasons for refusing to publicly debate me are spurious. I suspect readers will have no trouble figuring out his real reason. https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/dershowitz-in-super-panic-mode/ https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/the-total-and-shameless-chutzpah-of-alan-dershowitz/ https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/the-new-york-times-weighs-in/ https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/opposition-raised-to-uc-press-publication-alan-dershowitz-questions-release-of-book-on-israel-palestine-conflict/ https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/chronicle-of-higher-education-tells-the-truth/ |
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