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...editors: Re: “Dershowitz Lambastes Former President,” news Feb. 28. I am deeply disappointed with your coverage of recent lectures on campus about Jimmy Carter??s book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” and the conflict in Palestine and Israel. On Tuesday, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz gave a talk in Emerson Hall criticizing the former president and his book. The next day his picture graced your front page and an article detailed the event and some responses to it. Last Thursday, Feb. 22, Norman Finkelstein gave...
...into Jimmy Carter last night with all his hallmark bluster, excoriating the former President for refusing to engage in a debate and calling his latest book an “ahistorical” work. In a 90-minute solo appearance at Emerson Hall, Dershowitz extended his public assault on Carter??s book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” which was released in November. He criticized the book’s argument and called Carter??s writing irresponsible, saying that the situation in Israel could not be compared with state-sponsored racism...
...Michael Segal ’09, also a Crimson editorial editor, was the only HSI member passing out fliers in front of the Coop building on Harvard Square. One of the fliers, produced by the pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs, included a grid of point-by-point rebuttals against Carter??s assertions. It claimed, for example, that the description in “Palestine” of the security barrier as an “imprisonment wall” is unfair because it was created to prevent terrorists from entering the country during the second Intifada when...
...President Carter??s book has been met with controversy and criticism by top scholars who consider it to lack objectivity and to contain factual errors, omissions, and plagiarism,” Stern said in an e-mailed statement. “Writing a book which omits facts and contains incorrect information is detrimental to the goal of achieving peace and understanding between the Israelis and Palestinians...
Despite the controversy surrounding Carter??s latest book, Murphy, the Coop’s president, said that most visitors today had only kind words for the former president and that “several people called him courageous...