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...complaint filed with the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers, the MLDEF said Dershowitz??s proposal would violate an article of the Geneva Convention that innocent people cannot be punished for a crime they did not commit...
Matthew Bunn, a specialist in nuclear weapons at the Kennedy School disputed Dershowitz?? claims...
There are two contentions to Dershowitz??s argument: First, that singling out Israel rather than any other nation in the region for criticism using the divestment petition (and hence, delegitimization) is unfair. And second, delegitimizing the Jewish state is anti-Semitic in effect...
Furthermore, as several letter-writers from Harvard to The Crimson and the New York Times have pointed out, Dershowitz??s statement is argued as if there are no other differences in how we view Israel and other countries in West Asia. In actual fact, however, Israel is considered to be the strongest U.S. ally in the region. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the U.S. taxpayers who signed the divestment petition feel more of a responsibility for Israel’s actions than those of, say, the Sudan. Israel is “singled out” for criticism...
...Professor of Latin and Greek Richard F. Thomas to imply that Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz??s criticism of Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson is akin to a McCarthy-era witch hunt is both inaccurate and insulting (Letters, “Dershowitz Devises One-Sided Debate,” Sept. 27). Thomas ignores a key distinction: Dershowitz has proposed a debate between tenured equals in an academic forum, whereas the McCarthy investigations were inherently unequal and backed up by the coercive power...