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...wish I could claim people of that stature as my friends,” Finkelstein said. “But…how could we be friends? I have no idea what he’s talking about [in his work]. We might as well be talking from Earth to Mars...
Sept. 24, 2003—Finkelstein accuses Dershowitz of committing plagiarism in his bestselling book “The Case for Israel.” The accusation surfaces on a talk show called “Democracy Now!” in which both professors appeared to debate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as in an article published in the October edition of The Nation...
...2005—Finkelstein tells an audience of Harvard Law School students that Dershowitz’s book “The Case for Israel” represents a work of plagiarism, and adds a new charge—that Dershowitz has recently flown to Israel to advise the Israeli government on how to suppress the free speech of the nation’s pilots. Dershowitz denies the charge...
...2007—In comments published in the Wall Street Journal under the title “Finkelstein’s Bigotry,” Dershowitz alleges that Finkelstein has “encouraged radical goons to email threatening messages.” He then quotes from a letter of award-winning biologist Robert Trivers, in which his views of the Israeli-Lebanese conflict are criticized, and he is compared to a “Nazi-like apologist...
June 8, 2007—Assistant professor of political science at DePaul University Norman G. Finkelstein is informed that he has been denied tenure. Finkelstein identifies Dershowitz in remarks to The Crimson as having “played the leading role in creating an atmosphere of hysteria” that resulted in his failure to attain job security at DePaul...