Word: dershowitz
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With some Israel critics, however, Dershowitz says he feels that conversation is not an available option. After then-Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson signed a petition calling for divestment from Israel last year, Dershowitz challenged him to a debate. “The divestment petition treats Israel as the Jew among nations,” he says. “You can criticize Israel all you want, but don’t deny its right to exist, and don’t deny its right to defend itself...
...fact that Hanson did not agree to a debate did not faze Dershowitz, who debated an empty chair in Hanson’s place. He continues to challenge anyone who signed the petition to debate...
...book, as well as to last week’s standing room-only audience in the science center, Dershowitz urges students to take the reins of the debate. “Students are far more willing to speak their minds,” he says, adding that he wants to make the book as accessible to them as possible...
...this end, Dershowitz says he is donating royalties from the book to a campaign supporting Israel on college campuses. He says that he is also making free copies available, “particularly on campuses that would not usually receive them...
...Dershowitz says that the even now his book is incomplete. “I think of [it] as a work in progress,” he says. He plans to have a website for the book, and to add various articles whenever there’s a new development in the Arab-Israeli conflict...