Finkelstein vs. Dershowitz, cont'd

DePaul's Norman G. Finkelstein, who has been called a "holocaust denier" by the Anti-Defamation League, yesterday invaded the turf of his arch foe, Harvard law professor and noted author Alan M. Dershowitz. Finkelstein is an assistant political science professor at DePaul and author of several books, including the one he's hawking now, Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History.

From the Harvard Crimson:

A large portion of the book also directly refutes the arguments made in Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz’s book The Case for Israel. In his speech, Finkelstein called the book “a flat out fraud from beginning to end.”

Dershowitz of course disagrees, as he explains in this Huffington Post article.

Back to Finkelstein at Harvard. More from the Crimson:

Unleashing a new accusation, (Finkelstein) also claimed that Dershowitz recently flew to Israel to advise their government on how to suppress the free speech of Israeli pilots. The pilots, he said, would not engage in targeted killings.

But Dershowitz, who did not attend the lecture, contacted The Crimson to state that there is no truth to the claim and to refute the statement.

“I’d give $1,000 to [U.S.-designated terrorist group] Hezbollah, Finkelstein’s favorite organization, if he can prove that the story is true,” he declared.

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