Two weeks ago the scholar Norman Finkelstein held an expert’s forum on Reddit about the Israeli election and related matters. SputtleTuts asked him:
Do you have any opinion/observations on the recent sex-slave allegations against Alan Dershowitz?
Finkelstein:
It’s caused me to doubt my atheism.
The back story, for those who do not know it, is that the two commentators engaged in a bitter dispute ten years ago over Dershowitz’s sourcing for his book, The Case for Israel. Dershowitz sought to have the University of California Press censor Finkelstein’s book on the matter. Then in 2007 Dershowitz interceded at DePaul University, where Finkelstein was on tenure track, to argue that he should be denied tenure. Finkelstein lost his job at the school.
Finkelstein’s latest book is, Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza.
Laugh of the day! Thanks Norman
“It’s caused me to doubt my atheism”~ lololol!
Norman Finkelstein~ a treasure for all time!
I feel really sorry for all the students who never got the privilege of having this man as their Professor. I feel even more sorry that Dershowitz had access to young people who revered him, and that he is still ” professor emeritus” @- Harvard.
Thanks Phil and Annie.
“She’s going to jail,” a pair of partygoers at the Midtown shindig say Dershowitz predicted, before he added, “Now she’s put herself on the record under oath.” Meaning Virginia Roberts. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/alan-dershowitz-sees-break-underage-sex-case-article-1.2163848 Dershowitz quote.. I will try, by every fair and legal means, to get my client off–without regard to the consequences.” In his memoir The Best Defense, Dershowitz noted that “almost all of my clients have been guilty.” I hope that’s true in his case.
“It’s caused me to doubt my atheism”
Brilliant! Thank you Norman Finkelstein. Great quote from a great man
Fully agree with your comment Just!
Thanks for this Phil and Annie.
What a funny response. Norm Finkelstein has a brilliant mind, and I have heard him speak, and was very impressed with his grasp of the Palestinian situation, and this was just after the massacre in Gaza last year. He made excellent points.
Dershowitz was a very arrogant man but apparently with a lot of dirty secrets.
Menendez is yet another staunch supporter of Israel, who has been found to be morally bankrupt. It must be in that koolaid.