isto em : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dershowitz
The debate with Finkelstein
Shortly after the publication of Dershowitz's book The Case for Israel, Norman Finkelstein accused Dershowitz, of "fraud, falsification, plagiarism and nonsense." Saying that Dershowitz lacked knowledge about specific contents of his own book during a radio debate, Finkelstein also claimed that Dershowitz could not have written the book, and may not have even read it.[2] Finkelstein later expanded on his charges in a book, Beyond Chutzpah. The book also contains chapters contrasting Dershowitz's arguments in The Case for Israel with the views of some human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International .
Dershowitz asked Harvard to investigate the charge of plagiarism and was exonerated. [3] Dershowitz and some prominent supporters say that Finkelstein is simply accusing him of good scholarly practice: citing references he learned of in Peters' book after first consulting them.[4] Dershowitz threatened libel action over the charges in Finkelstein's book, and produced his handwritten book manuscript to rebut the claim that The Case for Israel was ghostwritten. Finkelstein switched publishers and removed all uses of the word "plagiarism" in favor of less actionable language like "lifted from." [5]
Dershowitz responded to Finkelstein's charges at length in chapter 16 of his 2005 The Case for Peace. In that chapter, titled "A Case Study in Hate and Intimidation," Dershowitz alleges that the plagiarism charges are the latest manifestation of an ongoing conspiracy masterminded by Noam Chomsky, who "selects the target and directs Finkelstein to probe the writings in minute detail and conclude that the writer didn't actually write the work." In the process, according to Dershowitz, Finkelstein "makes up quotes" in order to defame the victim selected by Chomsky.
The chapter's epigraph is a quotation, attributed to Chomsky, arguing that "[T]he Jews do not merit a 'second homeland' because they already have New York, with a huge Jewish population, Jewish-run media, a Jewish mayor, and a domination of cultural and economic life." [6] In the original source, these words appear as part of a reductio ad absurdum: responding to a New York Times op-ed which had argued in parallel terms that the Palestinians didn't merit "another Palestinian state, in addition to Jordan," [2] Chomsky wrote, "We might ask how the Times would react to an Arab claim that the Jews do not merit a 'second homeland' because they already have New York," etc. [3] In The Case for Peace, Dershowitz excised the first thirteen words from Chomsky's formulation, making the sentence appear to advance a line of reasoning that it in fact holds up for ridicule. The doctored quotation is attributed to Chomsky without explanation. [7] See also: Norman Finkelstein, Dershowitz-Finkelstein affair .
Mearsheimer and Walt Paper
University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt of Harvard, both political scientists, published in March 2006 a paper which criticizes what they describe as the "Israel Lobby" for influencing U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East away from U.S. interests and towards Israel's interests. Mearsheimer and Walt describe Dershowitz in the paper as an "apologist" for the Israel lobby. Dershowitz in turn described Walt and Mearsheimer as "liars" and "bigots,"[8] and suggested the paper was plagiarized from various hate sites: "every paragraph virtually is copied from a neo-Nazi Web site, from a radical Islamic Web site, from David Duke's Web site."[9] Dershowitz then wrote an extensive report that challenged both the factual basis of the report, the motivations of the authors and their scholarship. In it he claimed that the "paper contains three types of major errors: quotations are wrenched out of context, important facts are misstated or omitted, and embarrasingly weak logic is employed."[4] Mearsheimer and Walt responded in the London Review of Books to Dershowitz's contention that they used racist sources for their article: "Dershowitz offers no evidence to support this false claim."[10] In reference to the movement to divest from Israel, the Harvard Crimson quoted Dershowitz as telling students "Your House master is a bigot and you ought to know that. Everyone else who signed that petition is also a bigot." [11]
Bulger controversies
During the time period that former Massachusetts Senate President Billy Bulger still held office (and afterwards), Alan Dershowitz was well known for his pointed criticisms of Bulger. [12] [13] To some observers, Bulger earned Dershowitz's enmity in part from Bulger having made antisemitic remarks against Dershowitz at a Governor's Council hearing. [14] While Bulger held office, he was by many accounts the most powerful politician in Massachusetts and Dershowitz was one of his highest profile critics.
In 1990, Dershowitz sued the Boston Globe regarding an alleged quote that Mike Barnicle had attributed to him and won a $75,000 in an out-of-court settlement. [15] The ombudsman for the Globe sided with Dershowitz and questioned Barnicle's credibility.
2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict
In July 2006, Dershowitz wrote a series of articles critiquing the media response to and international outcry against civilian deaths resulting from Israel's campaign to weaken or destroy Hezbollah. After the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour indicated that Israeli officials might be investigated and indicted for war crimes, Dershowitz dismissed her statement as "bizarre" in a op-ed which not only called for Arbour's dismissal, but inveighed more generally against the "absurdity and counterproductive nature of current international law"[Alan Dershowitz, "Arbour Must Go," National Post (Toronto), July 21 2006]. Dershowitz argued in the Los Angeles Times that "civilian" was an "increasingly meaningless word" which should be replaced by a new phrase, "the continuum of civilianality." "There is a vast difference — both moral and legal — between a 2-year-old who is killed by an enemy rocket and a 30-year-old civilian who has allowed his house to be used to store Katyusha rockets. Both are technically civilians, but the former is far more innocent than the latter. There is also a difference between a civilian who merely favors or even votes for a terrorist group and one who provides financial or other material support for terrorism." wrote Dershowitz with reference to Lebanese casualties. In a piece for the Boston Globe several days later, Dershowitz argued that "the international community, the anti-Israel segment of the media, and human rights organizations" should not blame Israel for any dead civilians. "Israel has every self-interest in minimizing civilian casualties, whereas the terrorists have every self-interest in maximizing them—on both sides. Israel should not be condemned for doing what every democracy would and should do: taking every reasonable military step to stop the killing of their own civilians." [16]
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