Word: dershowitz
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...interviews shortly after the essay was published, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz repeatedly called the authors “liars” and “bigots,” adding later, in a published rebuttal, that Belfer Professor of International Affairs Walt and Mearsheimer’s essay was “filled with distortions...
...that paper, Dershowitz focused his criticisms on discrediting the sourcing and scholarship of the paper rather than addressing its core thesis...
...Dershowitz predicted in an interview that the essay would be a “career-ending move,” adding that in one particular case where a quotation was allegedly taken out of context, the authors had “probably drawn the quotation from neo-Nazi sources.” And if they “had mangled the quotation themselves,” he said, they had “committed a fireable offense...
Both Ross and Ben-Ami seemed more concerned with refuting Walt and Mearsheimer’s claims about the Israel lobby’s power than discrediting them by punching individual holes in their arguments. In his rebuttal, by contrast, Dershowitz had selected individual quotations that Walt and Mearsheimer had used and attempted to show how they had taken them out of context...
...Bell Curve” that African-Americans and Hispanics are inherently less intelligent than whites. In 2001, government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 speculated that the presence of black students was the cause of grade inflation at Harvard, and in 2002 law professor Alan M. Dershowitz conditionally endorsed torture by the Israeli and U.S. governments. Those who detect laziness and complacency in the Harvard Faculty willfully ignore the rigor of the University’s hiring process. Harvard assembles a staggering array of data and specialists’ opinions before conferring tenure, making it the most sought...