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Dershowitz’s book is replete with absurd falsifications. The Mufti of Jerusalem during the British mandate years, Haj Amin al-Husseini, was undoubtedly a despicable human being. But rather than sticking to the facts, he copies mostly from a single newspaper column by an obscure right-wing Zionist ideologue. Dershowitz avows that “Adolf Eichmann visited Husseini in Palestine;” the mufti was “taken on a tour of Auschwitz by Himmler;” “The grand mufti of Jerusalem was personally responsible for the concentration camp slaughter...
Dershowitz told the crowd of about 200 that he only mentioned Finkelstein’s accusation “to show the absurd lengths that [Finkelstein and others] are going to delegitimate” him because of his political and ideological views...
...first came upon the Mark Twain quote in 1970 (14 years before the Peters’ book was published) when I was doing research for a TV debate about Israel on The Advocates. I have quoted it repeatedly in speeches and debates since then. It would be absurd for me to cite it to Peters rather than to its original source. I also read the Royal Commission report on Palestine (The Peel Report) from cover to cover before Peters published her book, and I rely on it much more than she does. I cite it numerous times, quote it repeatedly...
...training Tarantino expected his leading lady--three months removed from childbirth--to endure. "Three styles of kung fu, two styles of sword fighting"--Thurman says this through pursed lips, as if she's going to spit--"knife throwing, knife fighting, hand-to-hand combat, Japanese speaking. It was literally absurd...
...seems absurd to suppose that undergraduates cannot cross the Charles River, the most picturesque scene on campus. It has been done before: thousands of undergraduate athletes cross the river every day, and, although this is another story, some of the best streaking when I was an undergraduate took place on the shady side of the river. Let’s not be too stodgy; let’s entertain the possibility that the Allston campus might be used not merely for the University but also for the College...