August 24, 2006

Dershowitz's deceptions

A new low in depravity?

No not a description of Israel's latest assault on Palestinians or Lebanon but Chomsky's description of Alan Dershowitz's grotesque smears against Norman Finkelstein's mother; his late mother.
The incident demonstrated conclusively that Dershowitz is not only a remarkable liar and slanderer, but also an extreme opponent of elementary civil rights. That is crystal clear from the correspondence, reproduced below. Dershowitz flew into a fury over the exposure, and ever since has produced a series of hysterical tirades and lies concerning some entity in his fantasy world named "Chomsky," who lives on "planet Chomsky." That is his standard style when he is exposed, reaching truly grotesque levels in his efforts to discredit Norman Finkelstein (and even his mother, probably a new low in depravity) after Finkelstein's meticulous documentation of Dershowitz's astonishing lies in his vulgar apologetics for Israeli crimes (Beyond Chutzpah).
Read the whole thing on Finkelstein's site here.

This latest spat follows publication and circulation of a letter signed by Chomsky, Finkelstein and several others, protesting Israel's recent conduct in Gaza.

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