The Jerusalem Post on the Finkelstein--Dershowitz tenure battle

Amazingly, the Chicago mainstream media is still not covering the heated battle between Alan Dershowitz and Norman Finkelstein over whether Finkelstein, a DePaul University political science professor, should receive tenure from the Chicago Catholic college.

Now the Jerusalem Post, a former sister paper of the Chicago Sun-Times, joins the discussion.

Finkelstein sums it up well, "I have evoked the wrath of Dershowitz, and he is tenacious."

Here's what Dershowitz says:

He would be the first person in modern history to get tenure based on admittedly fraudulent scholarship. This is about a man about to get tenure, not because of scholarship, but because of ideological ad hominem attacks.

Finkelstein, on his part, needs to work on his diplomatic skills regarding his employer:

I am 53 years old, I am struggling for a simple tenure track position at a relatively modest university.

Ouch!

Finkelstein is the author of The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, and Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History. The titles should explain enough, Finkelstein is a Holocaust minimizer and like his friend Noam Chomsky, an anti-Semitic Jew.

Hat tip to Dr. Steven Plaut for the story.

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